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But why am I so favored, that the mother of my Lord should come to me?

John answered them all, "I baptize you with water. But one who is more powerful than I will come, the straps of whose sandals I am not worthy to untie. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.

and the Holy Spirit descended on him in bodily form like a dove. And a voice came from heaven: "You are my Son, whom I love; with you I am well pleased."

When Simon Peter saw this, he fell at Jesus' knees and said, "Go away from me, Lord; I am a sinful man!"

Jesus reached out his hand and touched the man. "I am willing," he said. "Be clean!" And immediately the leprosy left him.

For I myself am a man under authority, with soldiers under me. I tell this one, ‘Go,' and he goes; and that one, ‘Come,' and he comes. I say to my servant, ‘Do this,' and he does it."

Once when Jesus was praying in private and his disciples were with him, he asked them, "Who do the crowds say I am?"

"But what about you?" he asked. "Who do you say I am?" Peter answered, "God's Messiah."

"Listen carefully to what I am about to tell you: The Son of Man is going to be delivered into the hands of men."

Go! I am sending you out like lambs among wolves.

But I have a baptism to undergo, and what constraint I am under until it is completed!

"When he came to his senses, he said, ‘How many of my father's hired servants have food to spare, and here I am starving to death!

I am no longer worthy to be called your son; make me like one of your hired servants.'

"The son said to him, ‘Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you. I am no longer worthy to be called your son.'

So he called to him, ‘Father Abraham, have pity on me and send Lazarus to dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue, because I am in agony in this fire.'

The Pharisee stood by himself and prayed: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like other people—robbers, evildoers, adulterers—or even like this tax collector.

"His master replied, ‘I will judge you by your own words, you wicked servant! You knew, did you, that I am a hard man, taking out what I did not put in, and reaping what I did not sow?

Jesus said, "Neither will I tell you by what authority I am doing these things."

He replied: "Watch out that you are not deceived. For many will come in my name, claiming, ‘I am he,' and, ‘The time is near.' Do not follow them.

For who is greater, the one who is at the table or the one who serves? Is it not the one who is at the table? But I am among you as one who serves.