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(And when all the people, including the tax collectors, heard this, they acknowledged God’s way of righteousness, because they had been baptized with John’s baptism.

Then his mother and brothers came to him, but they could not meet with him because of the crowd.

Then all the people of the Gerasene region asked him to leave them, because they were gripped by great fear. So getting into the boat, he returned.

because he had an only daughter about twelve years old, and she was dying.

Everyone was crying and mourning for her. But he said, “Stop crying, because she is not dead but asleep.”

They laughed at him, because they knew she was dead.

Herod the tetrarch heard about everything that was going on. He was perplexed, because some said that John had been raised from the dead,

Late in the day, the Twelve approached and said to him, “Send the crowd away, so that they can go into the surrounding villages and countryside to find food and lodging, because we are in a deserted place here.”

For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life because of me will save it.

Just then a man from the crowd cried out, “Teacher, I beg you to look at my son, because he’s my only child.

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

But they did not welcome him, because he determined to journey to Jerusalem.

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 shameless boldness,

The men of Nineveh will stand up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it, because they repented at Jonah’s preaching, and look—something greater than Jonah is here.

Because of this, the wisdom of God

And he responded to them, “Do you think that these Galileans were more sinful than all the other 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.”

“When you are invited by someone to a wedding banquet, don’t recline at the best place, because a more distinguished person

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 or sisters, your relatives, or your rich neighbors, because they might invite you back, and you would be repaid.