"Oh, no! What do you want with us, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are the Holy One of God!"

One day, while Jesus was in one of the cities, a man covered with leprosy saw Jesus and fell on his face, begging him, "Lord, if you want to, you can make me clean."

So Jesus reached out his hand and touched him, saying, "I do want to. Be clean!" Instantly the leprosy left him.

No one who has been drinking old wine wants new wine, because he says, "The old wine is good enough!'"

Whatever you want people to do for you, do the same for them.

Jesus was told, "Your mother and your brothers are standing outside and want to see you."

When he saw Jesus, he screamed, fell down in front of him, and cried out in a loud voice, "What do you want from me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I beg you not to torture me!"

Then he told all of them, "If anyone wants to come with me, he must deny himself, pick up his cross every day, and follow me continuously,

because whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will save it.

When his disciples James and John observed this rejection, they asked, "Lord, do you want us to call fire down from heaven to destroy them?"

I tell you, even though that man doesn't want to get up and give him anything because he is his friend, he will get up and give him whatever he needs because of his persistence.

At that hour some Pharisees came and told Jesus, "Leave and get away from here, because Herod wants to kill you!"

"Suppose one of you wants to build a tower. He will first sit down and estimate the cost to see whether he has enough money to finish it, won't he?

Besides all this, a wide chasm has been fixed between us, so that those who want to cross from this side to you cannot do so, nor can they cross from your side to us.'

"What do you want me to do for you?" He said, "Lord, I want to see again!"

But the citizens of his country hated him and sent a delegation to follow him and to announce, "We don't want this man to rule over us!'

But as for these enemies of mine who didn't want me to be their king bring them here and slaughter them in my presence!'"

They asked him, "Where do you want us to prepare it?"