Then the disciples came to Jesus privately, and said, "Why weren't we able to cast it out?"

"Then he said to his servants, 'The wedding is ready, but those who were invited weren't worthy.

and wherever it seizes him, it throws him down, and he foams at the mouth, and grinds his teeth, and wastes away. I asked your disciples to cast it out, and they weren't able."

There was in the days of Herod, the king of Judea, a certain priest named Zechariah, of the division of Abijah. He had a wife of the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elizabeth.

But I will warn you whom you should fear. Fear him, who after he has killed, has power to cast into hell. Yes, I tell you, fear him.

Jesus answered, "Weren't the ten cleansed? But where are the nine?

saying, "Go your way into the village on the other side, in which, as you enter, you will find a colt tied, whereon no man ever yet sat. Untie it, and bring it.

They weren't able to trap him in his words before the people. They marveled at his answer, and were silent.

They said one to another, "Weren't our hearts burning within us, while he spoke to us along the way, and while he opened the Scriptures to us?"

In my Father's house are many dwelling places. If it weren't so, I would have told you; for I go to prepare a place for you.

They answered him, "If this man weren't an evildoer, we would not have delivered him up to you."

He said to them, "Cast the net on the right side of the boat, and you will find some." They cast it therefore, and now they weren't able to draw it in for the multitude of fish.

They weren't able to withstand the wisdom and the Spirit by which he spoke.

saying to Aaron, 'Make us gods that will go before us, for as for this Moses, who led us out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.'

When they were past the first and the second guard, they came to the iron gate that leads into the city, which opened to them by itself. They went out, and went down one street, and immediately the angel departed from him.

Nevertheless death reigned from Adam until Moses, even over those whose sins weren't like Adam's disobedience, who is a foreshadowing of him who was to come.

I fed you with milk, not solid food, for you weren't yet ready. And even now you are still not ready,

while they themselves also, with supplication on your behalf, yearn for you by reason of the exceeding grace of God in you.

through the hypocrisy of men who speak lies, branded in their own conscience as with a hot iron;

Nobody takes this honor on himself, but he is called by God, just like Aaron was.

Now if there was perfection through the Levitical priesthood (for under it the people have received the law), what further need was there for another priest to arise after the order of Melchizedek, and not be called after the order of Aaron?

having a golden altar of incense, and the ark of the covenant overlaid on all sides with gold, in which was a golden pot holding the manna, Aaron's rod that budded, and the tablets of the covenant;

Wherein you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if necessary, you have been been grieved by various trials,

He will rule them with a rod of iron, shattering them like clay pots; as I also have received of my Father:

They had breastplates, like breastplates of iron. The sound of their wings was like the sound of chariots, or of many horses rushing to war.

She gave birth to a son, a male child, who is to rule all the nations with a rod of iron. Her child was caught up to God, and to his throne.

merchandise of gold, silver, precious stones, pearls, fine linen, purple, silk, scarlet, all expensive wood, every vessel of ivory, every vessel made of most precious wood, and of brass, and iron, and marble;

Out of his mouth proceeds a sharp sword, that with it he should strike the nations. He will rule them with an iron rod. He treads the winepress of the fierceness of the wrath of God, the Almighty.