but the angel said to him, "Fear not, Zechariah, your prayer has been heard; your wife Elizabeth will bear a son to you, and you must call his name John.

You are to conceive and bear a son, and you must call his name Jesus.

He will be great, he will be called the Son of the Most High, and the Lord God will give him the throne of David his father;

The angel answered her, "The holy Spirit will come upon you, the power of the Most High will overshadow you; hence what is born will be called holy, Son of God.

And you, my child, shall be called a prophet of the Most High; for you shall go in front of the Lord to make his ways ready,

(as it is written in the law of the Lord: every male that opens the womb must be considered consecrated to the Lord)

Jesus answered him, "It is written, You must worship the Lord your God, and serve him alone."

He answered them, "I must preach the glad news of the Reign of God to the other towns as well, for that is what I was sent to do."

No, fresh wine must be poured into new wineskins.

No, you must love your enemies and help them, you must lend to them without expecting any return; then you will have a rich reward, you will be sons of the Most High for he is kind even to the ungrateful and the evil.

As they were unable to pay, he freely forgave them both. Tell me, now, which of them will love him most?"

"I suppose," said Simon, "the man who had most forgiven." "Quite right," he said.

On catching sight of Jesus he shrieked aloud and prayed him with a loud cry, "Jesus, son of God most High, what business have you with me? Do not torture me, I beg of you."

who appeared in a vision of glory and said he must go through with his death and departure at Jerusalem.

Jesus answered, "O faithless and perverse generation, how long must I still be with you and bear with you? Fetch your son here."

He replied, "You must love the Lord your God with your whole heart, with your whole soul, with your whole strength, and with your whole mind. Also your neighbour as yourself."

But I must journey on, to-day, to-morrow, and the next day; it would never do for a prophet to perish except in Jerusalem!

Even if he sins against you seven times in one day and turns to you seven times saying, 'I repent,' you must forgive him."

But he must first endure great suffering and be rejected by the present generation.

On that day, if a man is on the housetop and his goods inside the house, he must not go down to fetch them out; nor must a man in the field turn back

But when Jesus reached the spot he looked up and said to him, "Zacchaeus, come down at once, for I must stay at your house to-day."

not so with you. He who is greatest among you must be like the youngest, and he who is chief like a servant.

but I have prayed that your own faith may not fail. And you in turn must be a strength to your brothers."

Then he said to them, "But he who has a purse must take it now, and the same with a wallet; and he who has no sword must sell his coat and buy one.

For I tell you, this word of scripture must be fulfilled in me: he was classed among criminals. Yes, there is an end to all that refers to me."

Then he said to them, "When I was still with you, this is what I told you, that whatever is written about me in the law of Moses and the prophets and the psalms must be fulfilled."

and that repentance and the remission of sins must be preached in his name to all nations, beginning from Jerusalem.

To this you must bear testimony.