Zechariah said to the angel, "How am I to know that this is so? For I am an old man, and my wife is advanced in life."

Who am I, To have the mother of my Lord come to me?

So he would say to the crowds that came out there to be baptized by him, "You brood of snakes! Who warned you to fly from the wrath that is coming?

The crowds would ask him, "Then what ought we to do?"

Even tax-collectors came to be baptized, and they said to him, "Master, what ought we to do?"

And soldiers would ask him, "And what ought we to do?" He said to them, "Do not extort money or make false charges against people, but be satisfied with your pay."

for the Scripture says, 'He will give his angels orders about you, to protect you,'

When it was day, he left the house and made his way to a lonely spot, and crowds of people went in search of him, and overtook him and tried to keep him from leaving them.

And as they could find no way to get him in, on account of the crowd, they went up on the roof and let him down with his mat through the tiles, among the people in front of Jesus.

And the men went to him and said, "John the Baptist sent us to you to ask, 'Are you the one who was to come, or should we look for someone else?' "

For he was commanding the foul spirit to get out of the man. For it had often seized him, and though he had been fastened with chains and fetters, and was closely watched, he would snap his bonds and the demon would drive him away to the desert.

When the day began to decline, the Twelve came up and said to him, "Send the crowd away to the villages and farms around to find food and shelter, for we are in a lonely place here."

And a man in the crowd shouted, "Master, I beg you to look at my son, for he is my only child,

And you, Capernaum! Are you to be exalted to the skies? You will go down among the dead!

But he knew what they were thinking, and he said to them, "Any kingdom that is disunited is on the way to destruction, and one house falls after another.

For when you are going before the magistrate with your opponent, do your best on the way to get rid of him, or he may hurry you off to the judge and the judge hand you over to the constable and the constable throw you into prison.

But the Master answered, "You hypocrites! Does not every one of you untie his ox or his donkey from the stall on the Sabbath and lead him away to water him?

Now I leave you to yourselves. And I tell you, you will never see me again until you say, 'Blessed be he who comes in the Lord's name!' "

"When someone invites you to a wedding supper, do not take the best place, for someone more distinguished than you are may have been invited,

Not many days later, the younger son gathered up all he had, and went away to a distant country, and there he squandered his property by fast living.

It happened that, on his way to Jerusalem, he passed through Samaria and Galilee.

With these words he went on ahead of them, on his way to Jerusalem.

and they will throw you and your children within you to the ground, and they will not leave one stone upon another within you because you did not know when God visited you!"

but they could not find any way to do it, for all the people hung upon his words.

You will be betrayed even by your parents and brothers and kinsmen and friends and they will put some of you to death,

And the high priests and the scribes were casting about for a way to put him to death, for they were afraid of the people.