How could this happen to me, that the mother of my Lord should come to me?

In those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that the whole empire should be registered.

“What then should we do?” the crowds were asking him.

Tax collectors also came to be baptized, and they asked him, “Teacher, what should we do?”

Some soldiers also questioned him: “What should we do?”

He said to them, “Don’t take money from anyone by force or false accusation; be satisfied with your wages.”

But new wine should be put into fresh wineskins.

and sent them to the Lord, asking, “Are You the One who is to come, or should we look for someone else?”

When the men reached Him, they said, “John the Baptist sent us to ask You, ‘Are You the One who is to come, or should we look for someone else?’”

“To what then should I compare the people of this generation, and what are they like?

Still other seed fell on good ground; when it sprang up, it produced a crop: 100 times what was sown.” As He said this, He called out, “Anyone who has ears to hear should listen!”

“But woe to you Pharisees! You give a tenth of mint, rue, and every kind of herb, and you bypass justice and love for God. These things you should have done without neglecting the others.

Whenever they bring you before synagogues and rulers and authorities, don’t worry about how you should defend yourselves or what you should say.

He thought to himself, ‘What should I do, since I don’t have anywhere to store my crops?

Don’t keep striving for what you should eat and what you should drink, and don’t be anxious.

He told the vineyard worker, ‘Listen, for three years I have come looking for fruit on this fig tree and haven’t found any. Cut it down! Why should it even waste the soil?’

But the leader of the synagogue, indignant because Jesus had healed on the Sabbath, responded by telling the crowd, “There are six days when work should be done; therefore come on those days and be healed and not on the Sabbath day.”

Satan has bound this woman, a daughter of Abraham, for 18 years—shouldn’t she be untied from this bondage on the Sabbath day?”

“Now, salt is good, but if salt should lose its taste, how will it be made salty?

It isn’t fit for the soil or for the manure pile; they throw it out. Anyone who has ears to hear should listen!”

“Then the manager said to himself, ‘What should I do, since my master is taking the management away from me? I’m not strong enough to dig; I’m ashamed to beg.

“But Abraham said, ‘They have Moses and the prophets; they should listen to them.’

In the same way, when you have done all that you were commanded, you should say, ‘We are good-for-nothing slaves; we’ve only done our duty.’”

“Then the owner of the vineyard said, ‘What should I do? I will send my beloved son. Perhaps they will respect him.’

“Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if a man’s brother has a wife, and dies childless, his brother should take the wife and produce offspring for his brother.

Then a dispute also arose among them about who should be considered the greatest.

Then He said to them, “But now, whoever has a money-bag should take it, and also a traveling bag. And whoever doesn’t have a sword should sell his robe and buy one.

When those around Him saw what was going to happen, they asked, “Lord, should we strike with the sword?”