In the days of Herod, king of Judea, there was a priest named Zacharias, of the division of Abijah; and he had a wife from the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elizabeth.

And blessed is she who believed that there would be a fulfillment of what had been spoken to her by the Lord.”

And they said to her, “There is no one among your relatives who is called by that name.”

While they were there, the days were completed for her to give birth.

And she gave birth to her firstborn son; and she wrapped Him in cloths, and laid Him in a manger, because there was no room for them in the inn.

In the same region there were some shepherds staying out in the fields and keeping watch over their flock by night.

for today in the city of David there has been born for you a Savior, who is Christ the Lord.

And suddenly there appeared with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God and saying,

And there was a man in Jerusalem whose name was Simeon; and this man was righteous and devout, looking for the consolation of Israel; and the Holy Spirit was upon him.

And there was a prophetess, Anna the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Asher. She was advanced in years and had lived with her husband seven years after her marriage,

And when He became twelve, they went up there according to the custom of the Feast;

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

And there were many lepers in Israel in the time of Elisha the prophet; and none of them was cleansed, but only Naaman the Syrian.”

In the synagogue there was a man possessed by the spirit of an unclean demon, and he cried out with a loud voice,

While He was in one of the cities, behold, there was a man covered with leprosy; and when he saw Jesus, he fell on his face and implored Him, saying, “Lord, if You are willing, You can make me clean.”

One day He was teaching; and there were some Pharisees and teachers of the law sitting there, who had come from every village of Galilee and Judea and from Jerusalem; and the power of the Lord was present for Him to perform healing.

And Levi gave a big reception for Him in his house; and there was a great crowd of tax collectors and other people who were reclining at the table with them.

On another Sabbath He entered the synagogue and was teaching; and there was a man there whose right hand was withered.

Jesus came down with them and stood on a level place; and there was a large crowd of His disciples, and a great throng of people from all Judea and Jerusalem and the coastal region of Tyre and Sidon,

For there is no good tree which produces bad fruit, nor, on the other hand, a bad tree which produces good fruit.

I say to you, among those born of women there is no one greater than John; yet he who is least in the kingdom of God is greater than he.”

And there was a woman in the city who was a sinner; and when she learned that He was reclining at the table in the Pharisee’s house, she brought an alabaster vial of perfume,

Now there was a herd of many swine feeding there on the mountain; and the demons implored Him to permit them to enter the swine. And He gave them permission.

And there came a man named Jairus, and he was an official of the synagogue; and he fell at Jesus’ feet, and began to implore Him to come to his house;

Whatever house you enter, stay there until you leave that city.

(For there were about five thousand men.) And He said to His disciples, “Have them sit down to eat in groups of about fifty each.”

But I say to you truthfully, there are some of those standing here who will not taste death until they see the kingdom of God.”

If a man of peace is there, your peace will rest on him; but if not, it will return to you.

Then it goes and takes along seven other spirits more evil than itself, and they go in and live there; and the last state of that man becomes worse than the first.”

When He left there, the scribes and the Pharisees began to be very hostile and to question Him closely on many subjects,

But there is nothing covered up that will not be revealed, and hidden that will not be known.

Then he said, ‘This is what I will do: I will tear down my barns and build larger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods.

For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

For while you are going with your opponent to appear before the magistrate, on your way there make an effort to settle with him, so that he may not drag you before the judge, and the judge turn you over to the officer, and the officer throw you into prison.

I say to you, you will not get out of there until you have paid the very last cent.”

Now on the same occasion there were some present who reported to Him about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mixed with their sacrifices.

And there was a woman who for eighteen years had had a sickness caused by a spirit; and she was bent double, and could not straighten up at all.

But the synagogue official, indignant because Jesus had healed on the Sabbath, began saying to the crowd in response, “There are six days in which work should be done; so come during them and get healed, and not on the Sabbath day.”

And someone said to Him, “Lord, are there just a few who are being saved?” And He said to them,

In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth when you see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets in the kingdom of God, but yourselves being thrown out.

And there in front of Him was a man suffering from dropsy.

And the slave said, ‘Master, what you commanded has been done, and still there is room.’

I tell you that in the same way, there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who need no repentance.

In the same way, I tell you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner who repents.”

And not many days later, the younger son gathered everything together and went on a journey into a distant country, and there he squandered his estate with loose living.

Now He was also saying to the disciples, “There was a rich man who had a manager, and this manager was reported to him as squandering his possessions.

“Now there was a rich man, and he habitually dressed in purple and fine linen, joyously living in splendor every day.

And besides all this, between us and you there is a great chasm fixed, so that those who wish to come over from here to you will not be able, and that none may cross over from there to us.’

Then Jesus answered and said, “Were there not ten cleansed? But the nine—where are they?

nor will they say, ‘Look, here it is!’ or, ‘There it is!’ For behold, the kingdom of God is in your midst.”

They will say to you, ‘Look there! Look here!’ Do not go away, and do not run after them.

I tell you, on that night there will be two in one bed; one will be taken and the other will be left.

There will be two women grinding at the same place; one will be taken and the other will be left.

And answering they *said to Him, “Where, Lord?” And He said to them, “Where the body is, there also the vultures will be gathered.”

saying, “In a certain city there was a judge who did not fear God and did not respect man.

There was a widow in that city, and she kept coming to him, saying, ‘Give me legal protection from my opponent.’

And He said to them, “Truly I say to you, there is no one who has left house or wife or brothers or parents or children, for the sake of the kingdom of God,

And there was a man called by the name of Zaccheus; he was a chief tax collector and he was rich.

saying, “Go into the village ahead of you; there, as you enter, you will find a colt tied on which no one yet has ever sat; untie it and bring it here.

Now there came to Him some of the Sadducees (who say that there is no resurrection),

Now there were seven brothers; and the first took a wife and died childless;

“As for these things which you are looking at, the days will come in which there will not be left one stone upon another which will not be torn down.”

and there will be great earthquakes, and in various places plagues and famines; and there will be terrors and great signs from heaven.

Woe to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing babies in those days; for there will be great distress upon the land and wrath to this people;

“There will be signs in sun and moon and stars, and on the earth dismay among nations, in perplexity at the roaring of the sea and the waves,

And he will show you a large, furnished upper room; prepare it there.”

And there arose also a dispute among them as to which one of them was regarded to be greatest.

And the chief priests and the scribes were standing there, accusing Him vehemently.

When they came to the place called The Skull, there they crucified Him and the criminals, one on the right and the other on the left.

Now there was also an inscription above Him, “THIS IS THE KING OF THE JEWS.”

One of the criminals who were hanged there was hurling abuse at Him, saying, “Are You not the Christ? Save Yourself and us!”