"This is what the Lord has done for me at the time when he has been gracious to me, to take away my disgrace among people."

In the sixth month of Elizabeth's pregnancy, the angel Gabriel was sent by God to a town of Galilee called Nazareth,

In those days Mary got up and went hurriedly into the hill country, to a town of Judah,

because he who is mighty has done great things for me, and holy is his name;

He has brought down the mighty from their thrones, and has lifted up those of lowly position;

He has done this to show mercy to our ancestors, and to remember his holy covenant --

Because of our God's tender mercy the dawn will break upon us from on high

Everyone went to his own town to be registered.

So Joseph also went up from the town of Nazareth in Galilee to Judea, to the city of David called Bethlehem, because he was of the house and family line of David.

So when Joseph and Mary had performed everything according to the law of the Lord, they returned to Galilee, to their own town of Nazareth.

Then he went down with them and came to Nazareth, and was obedient to them. But his mother kept all these things in her heart.

Therefore produce fruit that proves your repentance, and don't begin to say to yourselves, 'We have Abraham as our father.' For I tell you that God can raise up children for Abraham from these stones!

Even now the ax is laid at the root of the trees, and every tree that does not produce good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire."

But when John rebuked Herod the tetrarch because of Herodias, his brother's wife, and because of all the evil deeds that he had done,

Then the devil brought him to Jerusalem, had him stand on the highest point of the temple, and said to him, "If you are the Son of God, throw yourself down from here,

Then he rolled up the scroll, gave it back to the attendant, and sat down. The eyes of everyone in the synagogue were fixed on him.

They got up, forced him out of the town, and brought him to the brow of the hill on which their town was built, so that they could throw him down the cliff.

So he went down to Capernaum, a town in Galilee, and on the Sabbath he began to teach the people.

But Jesus rebuked him: "Silence! Come out of him!" Then, after the demon threw the man down in their midst, he came out of him without hurting him.

He got into one of the boats, which was Simon's, and asked him to put out a little way from the shore. Then Jesus sat down and taught the crowds from the boat.

When they had done this, they caught so many fish that their nets started to tear.

But when Simon Peter saw it, he fell down at Jesus' knees, saying, "Go away from me, Lord, for I am a sinful man!"

While Jesus was in one of the towns, a man came to him who was covered with leprosy. When he saw Jesus, he bowed down with his face to the ground and begged him, "Lord, if you are willing, you can make me clean."

But since they found no way to carry him in because of the crowd, they went up on the roof and let him down on the stretcher through the roof tiles right in front of Jesus.

Jesus answered them, "Those who are well don't need a physician, but those who are sick do.

Then he came down with them and stood on a level place. And a large number of his disciples had gathered along with a vast multitude from all over Judea, from Jerusalem, and from the seacoast of Tyre and Sidon. They came to hear him and to be healed of their diseases,

Give, and it will be given to you: A good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over, will be poured into your lap. For the measure you use will be the measure you receive."

How can you say to your brother, 'Brother, let me remove the speck from your eye,' while you yourself don't see the beam in your own? You hypocrite! First remove the beam from your own eye, and then you can see clearly to remove the speck from your brother's eye.

"Why do you call me 'Lord, Lord,' and don't do what I tell you?

He is like a man building a house, who dug down deep, and laid the foundation on bedrock. When a flood came, the river burst against that house but could not shake it, because it had been well built.

Soon afterward Jesus went to a town called Nain, and his disciples and a large crowd went with him.

As he approached the town gate, a man who had died was being carried out, the only son of his mother (who was a widow), and a large crowd from the town was with her.

Then when a woman of that town, who was a sinner, learned that Jesus was dining at the Pharisee's house, she brought an alabaster jar of perfumed oil.

While a large crowd was gathering and people were coming to Jesus from one town after another, he spoke to them in a parable:

and as they sailed he fell asleep. Now a violent windstorm came down on the lake, and the boat started filling up with water, and they were in danger.

They came and woke him, saying, "Master, Master, we are about to die!" So he got up and rebuked the wind and the raging waves; they died down, and it was calm.

As Jesus stepped ashore, a certain man from the town met him who was possessed by demons. For a long time this man had worn no clothes and had not lived in a house, but among the tombs.

When he saw Jesus, he cried out, fell down before him, and shouted with a loud voice, "Leave me alone, Jesus, Son of the Most High God! I beg you, do not torment me!"

So the demons came out of the man and went into the pigs, and the herd of pigs rushed down the steep slope into the lake and drowned.

When the herdsmen saw what had happened, they ran off and spread the news in the town and countryside.

"Return to your home, and declare what God has done for you." So he went away, proclaiming throughout the whole town what Jesus had done for him.

When the woman saw that she could not escape notice, she came trembling and fell down before him. In the presence of all the people, she explained why she had touched him and how she had been immediately healed.

Wherever they do not receive you, as you leave that town, shake the dust off your feet as a testimony against them."

When the apostles returned, they told Jesus everything they had done. Then he took them with him and they withdrew privately to a town called Bethsaida.

(Now about five thousand men were there.) Then he said to his disciples, "Have them sit down in groups of about fifty each."

So they did as Jesus directed, and the people all sat down.

Now on the next day, when they had come down from the mountain, a large crowd met him.

Now when his disciples James and John saw this, they said, "Lord, do you want us to call fire to come down from heaven and consume them?"

After this the Lord appointed seventy-two others and sent them on ahead of him two by two into every town and place where he himself was about to go.

Whenever you enter a town and the people welcome you, eat what is set before you.

Heal the sick in that town and say to them, 'The kingdom of God has come upon you!'

But whenever you enter a town and the people do not welcome you, go into its streets and say,

Even the dust of your town that clings to our feet we wipe off against you. Nevertheless know this: The kingdom of God has come.'

I tell you, it will be more bearable on that day for Sodom than for that town!

"Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the miracles done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago, sitting in sackcloth and ashes.

And you, Capernaum, will you be exalted to heaven? No, you will be thrown down to Hades!

Jesus replied, "A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell into the hands of robbers, who stripped him, beat him up, and went off, leaving him half dead.

Now by chance a priest was going down that road, but when he saw the injured man he passed by on the other side.

But Martha was distracted with all the preparations she had to make, so she came up to him and said, "Lord, don't you care that my sister has left me to do all the work alone? Tell her to help me."

"But woe to you Pharisees! You give a tenth of your mint, rue, and every herb, yet you neglect justice and love for God! But you should have done these things without neglecting the others.

But Jesus replied, "Woe to you experts in religious law as well! You load people down with burdens difficult to bear, yet you yourselves refuse to touch the burdens with even one of your fingers!

Then he said, 'I will do this: I will tear down my barns and build bigger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods.

"And why don't you judge for yourselves what is right?

So he said to the worker who tended the vineyard, 'For three years now, I have come looking for fruit on this fig tree, and each time I inspect it I find none. Cut it down! Why should it continue to deplete the soil?'

Then if it bears fruit next year, very well, but if not, you can cut it down.'"

But the president of the synagogue, indignant because Jesus had healed on the Sabbath, said to the crowd, "There are six days on which work should be done! So come and be healed on those days, and not on the Sabbath day."

Once the head of the house gets up and shuts the door, then you will stand outside and start to knock on the door and beg him, 'Lord, let us in!' But he will answer you, 'I don't know where you come from.'

But he will reply, 'I don't know where you come from! Go away from me, all you evildoers!'

Now one Sabbath when Jesus went to dine at the house of a leader of the Pharisees, they were watching him closely.

He said also to the man who had invited him, "When you host a dinner or a banquet, don't invite your friends or your brothers or your relatives or rich neighbors so you can be invited by them in return and get repaid.

Then the slave said, 'Sir, what you instructed has been done, and there is still room.'

For which of you, wanting to build a tower, doesn't sit down first and compute the cost to see if he has enough money to complete it?

Or what king, going out to confront another king in battle, will not sit down first and determine whether he is able with ten thousand to oppose the one coming against him with twenty thousand?

"Or what woman, if she has ten silver coins and loses one of them, does not light a lamp, sweep the house, and search thoroughly until she finds it?

The man replied, 'A hundred measures of olive oil.' The manager said to him, 'Take your bill, sit down quickly, and write fifty.'

(for I have five brothers) to warn them so that they don't come into this place of torment.'

"Would any one of you say to your slave who comes in from the field after plowing or shepherding sheep, 'Come at once and sit down for a meal'?

So you too, when you have done everything you were commanded to do, should say, 'We are slaves undeserving of special praise; we have only done what was our duty.'"

As he was entering a village, ten men with leprosy met him. They stood at a distance,

Then Jesus said, "Were not ten cleansed? Where are the other nine?

but on the day Lot went out from Sodom, fire and sulfur rained down from heaven and destroyed them all.

On that day, anyone who is on the roof, with his goods in the house, must not come down to take them away, and likewise the person in the field must not turn back.

Jesus also told this parable to some who were confident that they were righteous and looked down on everyone else.

I tell you that this man went down to his home justified rather than the Pharisee. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but he who humbles himself will be exalted."

And when Jesus came to that place, he looked up and said to him, "Zacchaeus, come down quickly, because I must stay at your house today."

So he came down quickly and welcomed Jesus joyfully.

And he summoned ten of his slaves, gave them ten minas, and said to them, 'Do business with these until I come back.'

So the first one came before him and said, 'Sir, your mina has made ten minas more.'

And the king said to him, 'Well done, good slave! Because you have been faithful in a very small matter, you will have authority over ten cities.'

And he said to his attendants, 'Take the mina from him, and give it to the one who has ten.'

But they said to him, 'Sir, he has ten minas already!'

As he approached the road leading down from the Mount of Olives, the whole crowd of his disciples began to rejoice and praise God with a loud voice for all the mighty works they had seen:

saying to them, "It is written, 'My house will be a house of prayer,' but you have turned it into a den of robbers!"

"As for these things that you are gazing at, the days will come when not one stone will be left on another. All will be torn down!"

They will fall by the edge of the sword and be led away as captives among all nations. Jerusalem will be trampled down by the Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.

"But be on your guard so that your hearts are not weighed down with dissipation and drunkenness and the worries of this life, and that day close down upon you suddenly like a trap.

He went away from them about a stone's throw, knelt down, and prayed,

"Father, if you are willing, take this cup away from me. Yet not my will but yours be done."

When they had made a fire in the middle of the courtyard and sat down together, Peter sat down among them.

But Peter denied it: "Woman, I don't know him!"