and everyone who heard them kept them in mind, and said, "What is this child going to be?" For the Lord's hand was with him.

And he went back with them to Nazareth and obeyed them. And his mother treasured all these things up in her mind.

If anyone comes to me and listens to this teaching of mine and acts upon it, I will show you whom he is like.

And the people came out to see what had happened, and they came to Jesus and found the man out of whom the demons had gone sitting there, at Jesus' feet, with his clothes on and in his right mind, and they were frightened.

He answered, " 'You must love the Lord your God with your whole heart, your whole soul, your whole strength, and your whole mind,' and 'your neighbor as you do yourself.' "

for a friend of mine has just come to my house after a journey, and I have nothing for him to eat,'

But alas for you Pharisees! For you pay tithes on mint, rue, and every tiny herb, and disregard justice and the love of God. But you should have observed these, without neglecting the others.

"If anyone comes to me without hating his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, and his very life too, he cannot be a disciple of mine.

For no one who does not take up his own cross and come after me can be a disciple of mine.

In just that way, no one of you who does not say goodbye to all he has can be a disciple of mine.

When Jesus heard this, he said to him, "There is one thing that you still lack. Sell all that you have, and divide the money among the poor, and then you will have riches in heaven; and come back and be a follower of mine."

But bring those enemies of mine here who did not want me made king over them, and slaughter them in my presence!' "