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John responded, "Master, we saw someone driving out demons in Your name, and we tried to stop him because he does not follow us."

"Don't stop him," Jesus told him, "because whoever is not against you is for you."

But they did not welcome Him, because He determined to journey to Jerusalem.

In that same hour He rejoiced in the Holy Spirit and said, "I praise You, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because You have hidden these things from the wise and the learned and have revealed them to infants. Yes, Father, because this was Your good pleasure.

because a friend of mine on a journey has come to me, and I don't have anything to offer him.'

I tell you, even though he won't get up and give him anything because he is his friend, yet because of his friend's persistence, he will get up and give him as much as he needs.

The queen of the south will rise up at the judgment with the men of this generation and condemn them, because she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon, and look—something greater than Solomon is here!

The men of Nineveh will rise up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it, because they repented at Jonah's proclamation, and look—something greater than Jonah is here!

Because of this, the wisdom of God said, ‘I will send them prophets and apostles, and some of them they will kill and persecute,'

He then told them, "Watch out and be on guard against all greed because one's life is not in the abundance of his possessions."

Don't be afraid, little flock, because your Father delights to give you the kingdom.

You also be ready, because the Son of Man is coming at an hour that you do not expect."

And He responded to them, "Do you think that these Galileans were more sinful than all Galileans because they suffered these things?

But the leader of the synagogue, indignant because Jesus had healed on the Sabbath, responded by telling the crowd, "There are six days when work should be done; therefore come on those days and be healed and not on the Sabbath day."

"Make every effort to enter through the narrow door, because I tell you, many will try to enter and won't be able

Yet I must travel today, tomorrow, and the next day, because it is not possible for a prophet to perish outside of Jerusalem!

"When you are invited by someone to a wedding banquet, don't recline at the best place, because a more distinguished person than you may have been invited by your host.

He also said to the one who had invited Him, "When you give a lunch or a dinner, don't invite your friends, your brothers, your relatives, or your rich neighbors, because they might invite you back, and you would be repaid.

And you will be blessed, because they cannot repay you; for you will be repaid at the resurrection of the righteous."

At the time of the banquet, he sent his slave to tell those who were invited, ‘Come, because everything is now ready.'