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It is worth nothing for you to have the whole world if you yourself are destroyed or lost.

When Moses and Elijah were leaving, Peter said, "Master, it is good that we are here. We will put three tents here—one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah." (He did not know what he was saying.)

When the voice stopped, only Jesus was there. Peter, John, and James said nothing. And for a long time after that, they told no one about what they had seen.

Jesus said to him, "Don't stop him. Whoever is not against you is for you."

He sent some men ahead of him. They went into a town in Samaria to make everything ready for him.

But Jesus turned and criticized them for saying this.

Jesus said, "Anyone who begins to plow a field but looks back is not prepared for God's kingdom."

I tell you, on the judgment day it will be worse for the people of that town than for the people of Sodom.

"It will be bad for you, Chorazin! It will be bad for you, Bethsaida! I did many miracles in you. If those same miracles had happened in Tyre and Sidon, then the people in those cities would have changed their lives and stopped sinning a long time ago. They would have worn sackcloth and sat in ashes to show that they were sorry for their sins.

But on the judgment day it will be worse for you than for Tyre and Sidon.

Then Jesus turned to his followers. They were there alone with him. He said, "It is a great blessing for you to see what you now see!

"Then a Samaritan man traveled down that road. He came to the place where the hurt man was lying. He saw the man and felt very sorry for him.

The Samaritan went to him and poured olive oil and wine on his wounds. Then he covered the man's wounds with cloth. The Samaritan had a donkey. He put the hurt man on his donkey, and he took him to an inn. There he cared for him.

Give us the food we need for each day.

Then Jesus said to them, "Suppose one of you went to your friend's house very late at night and said to him, ‘A friend of mine has come into town to visit me. But I have nothing for him to eat. Please give me three loaves of bread.'

So I tell you, continue to ask, and God will give to you. Continue to search, and you will find. Continue to knock, and the door will open for you.

Yes, whoever continues to ask will receive. Whoever continues to look will find. And whoever continues to knock will have the door opened for them.

Do any of you have a son? What would you do if your son asked you for a fish? Would any father give him a snake?

Or, if he asked for an egg, would you give him a scorpion? Of course not!

"When an evil spirit comes out of someone, it travels through dry places, looking for a place to rest. But it finds no place to rest. So it says, ‘I will go back to the home I left.'