And blessed is she who believed that the Lord's words to her would be fulfilled."

Then the shepherds went away back, glorifying and extolling God for all they had heard and seen as they had been told they would.

and the scribes and Pharisees watched to see if he would heal on the sabbath, so as to discover some charge against him.

As you would like men to do to you, so do to them.

Like children sitting in the marketplace and calling to one another, 'We piped to you and you would not dance, we lamented and you would not weep.'

When his host the Pharisee noticed this, he said to himself, "If he was a prophet he would know what sort of a woman this is who is touching him; for she is a sinner."

(For he had charged the unclean spirit to come out of the man. Many a time when it had seized hold of him, he had been fastened secure in fetters and chains, but he would snap his bonds and be driven by the daemon into the desert.)

When he reached the house he would not allow anyone to come in with him except Peter and James and John, and the child's father and mother.

but the people would not receive him because his face was turned in the direction of Jerusalem.

Woe to you, Khorazin! woe to you, Bethsaida! Had the miracles performed in you been performed in Tyre and Sidon, they would long ago have been sitting penitent in sackcloth and ashes.

Be sure that if the householder had known at what hour the thief was coming, he would not have allowed his house to be broken into.

I have come to throw fire on earth. Would it were kindled already!

But I must journey on, to-day, to-morrow, and the next day; it would never do for a prophet to perish except in Jerusalem!

O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, slaying the prophets and stoning those who have been sent to you! How often I would fain have gathered your children as a fowl gathers her brood under her wings! But you would not have it!

This angered him, and he would not go in. His father came out and tried to appease him,

it would be well for him to have a millstone hung round his neck and be flung into the sea, rather than prove a hindrance to one of these little ones!

The Lord said, "If you had faith the size of a grain of mustard-seed, you would say to this mulberry tree, 'Be uprooted and planted in the sea,' and it would obey you.

For a while he would not, but afterwards he said to himself, 'Though I have no reverence for God and no respect even for man,

But the taxgatherer stood far away and would not lift even his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, 'O God, have mercy on me for my sins!'

He went on to tell a parable in their hearing, as he was approaching Jerusalem and as they imagined God's Reign would instantly come into view.

But he replied, "I tell you, if they were to keep quiet, the very stones would shout."

saying, "Would that you too knew even to-day on what your peace depends! But no, it is hidden from you!

and raze you and your children within you to the ground, leaving not one stone upon another within you ??and all because you would not understand when God was visiting you."

but Jesus said to him, "Judas! would you betray the Son of man with a kiss?"

blindfolding him they would ask him, "Prophesy, tell us who struck you?"

But this story of the women seemed in their opinion to be nonsense; they would not believe them.

Our own hope was that he would be the redeemer of Israel; but he is dead, and that is three days ago!