Now you will keep silent and be unable to speak until the day when this happens, because you have not believed what I have said, for it will all be fulfilled in due time."

"This is what the Lord has done for me," she said, "now that he has deigned to remove the disgrace I have endured."

But she was startled at what he said, and wondered what this greeting meant.

Blessed is she who has believed, For what the Lord has promised her will be fulfilled!"

But they made signs to the child's father and asked him what he wished to have the child named.

and everyone who heard them kept them in mind, and said, "What is this child going to be?" For the Lord's hand was with him.

When they saw this, they told what had been said to them about this child.

And all who heard it were amazed at what the shepherds told them,

And the shepherds went back glorifying God and praising him for all that they had heard and seen in fulfilment of what they had been told.

And under the Spirit's influence he went into the Temple, and when Jesus' parents brought him there to do for him what the Law required,

The child's father and mother were astonished at what Symeon said.

But they did not understand what he told them.

Every hollow must be filled up, And every mountain and hill leveled. What is crooked is to be made straight, And the rough roads are to be made smooth,

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."

"Ha! What do you want of us, Jesus, you Nazarene? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are! You are God's Holy One!"

And they were all amazed and said to one another, "What is the meaning of this teaching? For he gives orders authoritatively and effectually to the foul spirits, and they come out."

But he said to them, "I must preach the good news of the Kingdom of God to the other towns also, for that is what I was sent to do."

But Jesus saw what they were discussing, and said to them, "What are you pondering over in your minds?

And he got up at once before them all, and picked up what he had been lying on, and went home, praising God.

And some of the Pharisees said, "Why do you do what it is against the Law to do on the Sabbath?"

Jesus answered, "Have you not read even what David did, when he and his companions were hungry?

But he knew what they were thinking, and he said to the man with the withered hand, "Get up and stand in front." And he got up and stood there.

But they were perfectly furious, and discussed with one another what they could do to Jesus.

Give to everyone that asks of you, and if anyone takes away what is yours, do not demand it back.

If you love only those who love you, what merit is there in that? For even godless people love those who love them.

And if you help only those who help you, what merit is there in that? Even godless people act in that way.

And if you lend only to people from whom you expect to get something, what merit is there in that? Even godless people lend to godless people, meaning to get it back again in full.

A good man, out of the good he has accumulated in his heart, produces good, and a bad man, out of what he has accumulated that is bad, produces what is bad. For his mouth says only what his heart is full of.

Why do you call me: 'Lord! Lord!' and not do what I tell you?

And he answered them, "Go and report to John what you have seen and heard. The blind are regaining their sight, the lame can walk, the lepers are being cured and the deaf can hear, the dead are being raised and good news is being preached to the poor.

When John's messengers were gone, he began to speak to the crowds about John. "What was it that you went out into the desert to look at? A reed swaying in the wind?

Then what did you go out there to see? A man luxuriously dressed? Men who wear fine clothes and live in luxury you find in palaces.

Then what did you go out there to see? A prophet? Yes, I tell you, and far more than a prophet!

So what is there to which I can compare the men of this age? What are they like?

When the Pharisee who had invited him saw this, he said to himself, "If this man were really a prophet, he would know who and what the woman is who is touching him, for she leads a wicked life."

As they could not pay him, he canceled what they owed him. Now which of them will be more attached to him?"

His disciples asked him what this figure meant.

This is what the figure means. The seed is God's message.

And what falls among the thorns means those who listen and pass on, and the worries and wealth and pleasures of life stifle them and they yield nothing.

So take care how you listen. For people who have will have more given to them, and from people who have nothing, even what they think they have will be taken away."

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

And Jesus asked him, "What is your name?" He said, "Legion!" For many demons had gone into him.

When the men who tended them saw what had happened, they ran away and spread the news in the town and in the country around.

And the people came out to see what had happened, and they came to Jesus and found the man out of whom the demons had gone sitting there, at Jesus' feet, with his clothes on and in his right mind, and they were frightened.

"Go back to your home, and tell all that God has done for you." And he went and told all over the town what Jesus had done for him.

And her parents were amazed, but he ordered them not to tell anyone what had happened.

Then the apostles came back and told Jesus what they had done. And he took them and quietly retired to a town called Bethsaida.

What good does it do a man to gain the whole world and lose or forfeit himself?

Just as they were parting from him, Peter said to Jesus, "Master, how good it is that we are here! Let us put up three huts, one for you and one for Moses and one for Elijah!" For he did not know what he was saying.

But they did not understand what he meant, indeed it was concealed from them, in order that they might not comprehend it, and they were afraid to ask him what he meant.

Stay at the same house, eating and drinking what they offer you, for the workman deserves his pay. Do not change from one house to another.

Whenever you come to a town and they welcome you, eat what is offered you,

And he turned to his disciples when they were alone, and said, "Blessed are the eyes that see what you see!

For I tell you, many prophets and kings have wished to see what you see, and could not see it, and to hear what you hear, and could not hear it!"

Then an expert in the Law got up to test him and said, "Master, what must I do to make sure of eternal life?"

Jesus said to him, "What does the Law say? How does it read?"

She had a sister named Mary, who seated herself at the Master's feet, and listened to what he was saying.

So I tell you, ask, and what you ask will be given you. Search, and you will find what you search for. Knock, and the door will open to you.

So if you, bad as you are, know enough to give your children what is good, how much more surely will your Father in heaven give the holy Spirit to those who ask him for it!"

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.

So you testify to what your fathers did and approve it, for they killed them and you build their monuments.

For what you say in the darkness will be heard in the light, and what you whisper in someone's ear, behind closed doors, will be proclaimed from the housetops.

When they bring you before the synagogues or the magistrates or the authorities, you must have no anxiety about how to defend yourselves or what to say,

for at the very moment the holy Spirit will teach you what you ought to say."

And he said to himself, 'What am I going to do, for I have nowhere to store my crops?'

Then he said, 'This is what I will do; I will tear down my barns and build larger ones, and in them I will store all my grain and my goods.

And he said to his disciples, "Therefore, I tell you, do not worry about life, wondering what you will have to eat, or about your body, wondering what you will have to wear.

So you must not ask what you are to have to eat or drink, and you must not be anxious about it.

Sell what belongs to you, and give away the money! Get yourselves purses that will never wear out, inexhaustible riches in heaven, where thieves cannot get near nor moths destroy.

But you may be sure of this, that if the master of the house had known what time the thief was coming, he would have been on the watch, and would not have let his house be broken into.

Why do you not decide what is right yourselves?

He said, therefore, "What is the Kingdom of God like, and to what can I compare it?

And he went on, "To what can I compare the Kingdom of God?

And the slave said, 'What you ordered, sir, has been done, and there is still room.'

What man among you if he wishes to build a tower does not first sit down and estimate the cost of it, to see whether he has enough to complete it?

Or what king, if he is going to meet another king in battle, does not sit down first and consider whether he is able with ten thousand men to meet the other who is coming against him with twenty thousand?

And if he cannot, while the other is still far away, he sends envoys to him and asks on what terms he will make peace.

Salt is good; but if salt loses its strength, what can it be seasoned with?

"What man among you, if he has a hundred sheep, and loses one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the wilderness, and go in search of the one that is lost, until he finds it?

Or what woman who has ten silver coins and loses one, does not light the lamp and sweep the house and look carefully until she finds it?

and he called one of the servants to him and asked him what it meant.

So he called him in and said to him, 'What is this that I hear about you? Make an accounting for your conduct of my affairs, for you cannot be manager any longer!'

Then the manager said to himself, 'What am I going to do, because my master is going to take my position away from me? I cannot dig; I am ashamed to beg.

I know what I will do, so that when I am removed from my position people will take me into their homes.'

And if you have been untrustworthy about what belonged to someone else, who will give you what belongs to you?

And he said to them, "You are the men who parade your uprightness before people, but God knows your hearts. For what men consider great is detestable in the sight of God.

and eager to satisfy his hunger with what was thrown away from the rich man's table. Why, the very dogs came and licked his sores.

"What man among you, if he has a servant ploughing or keeping sheep, will say to him when he comes in from the field, 'Come at once and sit down at the table,'

Is he grateful to the slave for doing what he has been ordered to do?

So you also, when you do all you have been ordered to do, must say, 'We are good-for-nothing slaves! We have done only what we ought to have done!' "

And the Master said, "Listen to what this dishonest judge said!

A member of the council asked him, "Good master, what must I do to make sure of eternal life?"

And they did not understand any of this; the words were obscure to them, and they did not know what he meant.

And hearing a crowd going by he asked what it meant.

"What do you want me to do for you?" He answered, "Master, let me regain my sight!"

For the Son of Man has come to search for what was lost and to save it."

for I was afraid of you, for you are a stern man. You pick up what you did not lay down, and reap what you did not sow.'

He said to him, 'Out of your own mouth I will convict you, you wretched slave! You knew, did you, that I was a stern man, and that I pick up what I did not lay down, and harvest what I did not sow?