Zechariah said to the angel, "How can I be sure of this? For I am an old man, and my wife is well advanced in years."

And look, Elizabeth, your relative, also has conceived a son in her old age; and this is the sixth month with her who was called barren.

It happened on the eighth day, that they came to circumcise the child; and they would have called him Zechariah, after the name of the father.

They made signs to his father, what he would have him called.

(as he spoke by the mouth of his holy prophets who have been from of old),

When he was twelve years old, they went up according to the custom of the feast,

Jesus himself, when he began to teach, was about thirty years old, being the son (as was supposed) of Joseph, the son of Eli,

When it was day, he departed and went into an uninhabited place, and the crowds looked for him, and came to him, and held on to him, so that he would not go away from them.

He also told a parable to them. "No one having torn a piece from a new garment puts it on an old garment, or else he will tear the new, and also the piece from the new will not match the old.

And no one puts new wine into old wineskins, or else the new wine will burst the skins, and it will be spilled, and the skins will be destroyed.

No man having drunk old wine desires new, for he says, 'The old is good.'"

The scribes and the Pharisees watched him, to see whether he would heal on the Sabbath, that they might find an accusation against him.

"And as you would like men to do to you, you also do the same to them.

Now when the Pharisee who had invited him saw it, he said to himself, "This man, if he were a prophet, would have perceived who and what kind of woman this is who touches him, that she is a sinner."

They begged him that he would not command them to go into the abyss.

Now there was there a herd of many pigs feeding on the mountain, and they begged him that he would allow them to enter into those. He allowed them.

He said to them, "Take nothing for your journey?neither staffs, nor wallet, nor bread, nor money; neither have two coats apiece.

and by some that Elijah had appeared, and by others that one of the old prophets had risen again.

They answered, "'John the Baptist,' but others say, 'Elijah,' and others, that one of the old prophets is risen again."

Carry no purse, nor wallet, nor sandals. Greet no one on the way.

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

Sell that which you have, and give gifts to the needy. Make for yourselves purses which do not grow old, a treasure in the heavens that does not fail, where no thief approaches, neither moth destroys.

But know this, that if the master of the house had known in what hour the thief was coming, he would not have allowed his house to be broken into.

He answered them, "Which of you, if your son or an ox fell into a well, would not immediately pull him out on a Sabbath day?"

and he who invited both of you would come and tell you, 'Make room for this person.' Then you would begin, with shame, to take the lowest place.

"Which of you men, if you had one hundred sheep, and lost one of them, would not leave the ninety-nine in the wilderness, and go after the one that was lost, until he found it?

Or what woman, if she had ten drachma coins, if she lost one drachma coin, would not light a lamp, sweep the house, and seek diligently until she found it?

But he was angry, and would not go in. Therefore his father came out, and begged him.

"He said, 'I ask you therefore, father, that you would send him to my father's house;

It would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck, and he were thrown into the sea, rather than that he should cause one of these little ones to stumble.

The Lord said, "If you had faith like a grain of mustard seed, you would tell this sycamore tree, 'Be uprooted, and be planted in the sea,' and it would obey you.

Being asked by the Pharisees when the Kingdom of God would come, he answered them, "The Kingdom of God does not come with observation;

He would not for a while, but afterward he said to himself, 'Though I neither fear God, nor respect man,

But the tax collector, standing far away, would not even lift up his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, 'God, be merciful to me, a sinner.'

As they heard these things, he went on and told a parable, because he was near Jerusalem, and they supposed that the Kingdom of God would be revealed immediately.

He answered them, "I tell you that if these were silent, the stones would cry out."

Every day Jesus was teaching in the temple, and every night he would go out and spend the night on the mountain that is called Olivet.

They began to question among themselves, which of them it was who would do this thing.

but I prayed for you, that your faith would not fail. You, when once you have turned again, establish your brothers."

He said to them, "When I sent you out without purse, and wallet, and shoes, did you lack anything?" They said, "Nothing."

Then he said to them, "But now, whoever has a purse must take it, and likewise a wallet. Whoever has none, must sell his cloak, and buy a sword.

But we were hoping that it was he who would redeem Israel. Yes, and besides all this, it is now the third day since these things happened.

They drew near to the village, where they were going, and he acted like he would go further.