But I say to you, there were certainly many widows in Israel in Elijah’s days, when the sky was shut up for three years and six months while a great famine came over all the land.

When the sun was setting, all those who had anyone sick with various diseases brought them to Him. As He laid His hands on each one of them, He would heal them.

Jesus replied to them, “The healthy don’t need a doctor, but the sick do.

A centurion’s slave, who was highly valued by him, was sick and about to die.

“A sower went out to sow his seed. As he was sowing, some fell along the path; it was trampled on, and the birds of the sky ate it up.

Then He sent them to proclaim the kingdom of God and to heal the sick.

“I beheaded John,” Herod said, “but who is this I hear such things about?” And he wanted to see Him.

Jesus told him, “Foxes have dens, and birds of the sky have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay His head.”

Heal the sick who are there, and tell them, ‘The kingdom of God has come near you.’

“But seek His kingdom, and these things will be provided for you.

Hypocrites! You know how to interpret the appearance of the earth and the sky, but why don’t you know how to interpret this time?

It’s like a mustard seed that a man took and sowed in his garden. It grew and became a tree, and the birds of the sky nested in its branches.”

For as the lightning flashes from horizon to horizon and lights up the sky, so the Son of Man will be in His day.

Jesus, however, invited them: “Let the little children come to Me, and don’t stop them, because the kingdom of God belongs to such as these.

For the Son of Man has come to seek and to save the lost.”

for I will give you such words and a wisdom that none of your adversaries will be able to resist or contradict.