As it is written in the book of the prophet Isaiah. The voice of one crying in the desert, Prepare the way for God, make straight paths for him.

Then Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, came back from the Jordan, and was led by the Spirit into the desert for forty days, all the time tempted by the devil.

Then rolling up the papyrus, he gave it back to the attendant and sat down.

Give to every one who asks you; And do not demand your goods back from him who is taking them away.

"And if you lend to those from whom you are hoping to receive, what credit is that to you? Even sinners lend to sinners, so as to get as much back.

"Pardon, and you shall be pardoned; Give, and gifts shall be given to you; Full measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over, they shall pour into your bosom. For with what measure you measure, they will measure back to you."

And he said to them. "Take nothing for your journey, neither staff, nor bag, nor bread, nor money, and do not have two tunics.

and a man called out of the crowd saying. "Teacher, I beg you to look upon my son; for he is my only boy,

But while he was yet coming the demon dashed him down, and cruelly convulsed him. Then Jesus rebuked the unclean spirit, and cured the boy, and gave him back to his father.

But Jesus answered him, "No man who puts his hand to the plow and then looks back, is fit for the kingdom of God."

"Carry no purse, no bag, no shoes; and do not salute any one on your journey.

"The next day he took two silver pieces and gave them to the landlord and said, "'Take care of him, and whatever more you spend I will repay it to you on my way back.'

"Whenever a foul spirit is gone out of a man, it roams through waterless places, in search of rest; but when it can find none, it says, 'I will go back to the house which I have left.'

"Now the steward said to himself. 'What shall I do, now that my master is taking away my stewardship? I am not strong enough to dig, to beg I am ashamed.

"'I beg you then, father,' he said, 'send him to my fathers house. For I have five brothers.

Now one of them, as he saw that he was cured, came back, glorifying God in a loud voice,

"On that day, if a man is on the housetop and his goods inside, let him not go down to take them away; nor should a man in the field turn back.

"But the tax-gatherer, standing far back, would not lift up so much as his eyes to heaven, but kept beating his breast and saying, "'O God be merciful to me, the sinner!'

"'Then why did you not put my money into the bank, so that at my coming I might I might have gotten it back with interest?'

"for David himself say's in the book of the Psalms, "The Lord said to my Lord. Sit at my right hand,

Then Herod and his soldiers set him at naught, and mocked him, and throwing about him a gorgeous robe, sent him back to Pilate.

Neither does Herod; for he sent him back to us. You see that he has done nothing worthy of death.