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Tongues, then, are a sign, not for believers but for unbelievers; prophecy, however, is not for unbelievers but for believers.

He will also keep you firm to the end, so that you will be blameless on the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

The seventy-two returned with joy and said, “Lord, even the demons submit to us in your name.”

However, do not rejoice that the spirits submit to you, but rejoice that your names are written in heaven.”

“All things have been committed to me by my Father. No one knows who the Son is except the Father, and no one knows who the Father is except the Son and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal him.”

On one occasion an expert in the law stood up to test Jesus. “Teacher,” he asked, “what must I do to inherit eternal life?”

“You have answered correctly,” Jesus replied. “Do this and you will live.”

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

A priest happened to be going down the same road, and when he saw the man, he passed by on the other side.

He went to him and bandaged his wounds, pouring on oil and wine. Then he put the man on his own donkey, brought him to an inn and took care of him.

She had a sister called Mary, who sat at the Lord’s feet listening to what he said.

Stay there, eating and drinking whatever they give you, for the worker deserves his wages. Do not move around from house to house.

Heal the sick who are there and tell them, ‘The kingdom of God has come near to you.’

And when the time for the burning of incense came, all the assembled worshipers were praying outside.

One day Jesus was praying in a certain place. When he finished, one of his disciples said to him, “Lord, teach us to pray, just as John taught his disciples.”

For everyone who asks receives; the one who seeks finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.

But some of them said, “By Beelzebul, the prince of demons, he is driving out demons.”

Jesus knew their thoughts and said to them: “Any kingdom divided against itself will be ruined, and a house divided against itself will fall.

But if I drive out demons by the finger of God, then the kingdom of God has come upon you.

“When an impure spirit comes out of a person, it goes through arid places seeking rest and does not find it. Then it says, ‘I will return to the house I left.’

He replied, “Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and obey it.”

As the crowds increased, Jesus said, “This is a wicked generation. It asks for a sign, but none will be given it except the sign of Jonah.

Your eye is the lamp of your body. When your eyes are healthy, your whole body also is full of light. But when they are unhealthy, your body also is full of darkness.

“Woe to you Pharisees, because you love the most important seats in the synagogues and respectful greetings in the marketplaces.

Jesus replied, “And you experts in the law, woe to you, because you load people down with burdens they can hardly carry, and you yourselves will not lift one finger to help them.

So you testify that you approve of what your ancestors did; they killed the prophets, and you build their tombs.

Because of this, God in his wisdom said, ‘I will send them prophets and apostles, some of whom they will kill and others they will persecute.’

The angel said to him, “I am Gabriel. I stand in the presence of God, and I have been sent to speak to you and to tell you this good news.

Indignant because Jesus had healed on the Sabbath, the synagogue leader said to the people, “There are six days for work. So come and be healed on those days, not on the Sabbath.”

When he said this, all his opponents were humiliated, but the people were delighted with all the wonderful things he was doing.

He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. The Lord God will give him the throne of his father David,

Once the owner of the house gets up and closes the door, you will stand outside knocking and pleading, ‘Sir, open the door for us.’
“But he will answer, ‘I don’t know you or where you come from.’

“There will be weeping there, and gnashing of teeth, when you see Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets in the kingdom of God, but you yourselves thrown out.

and he will reign over Jacob’s descendants forever; his kingdom will never end.”

In any case, I must press on today and tomorrow and the next day—for surely no prophet can die outside Jerusalem!

“I am the Lord’s servant,” Mary answered. “May your word to me be fulfilled.” Then the angel left her.

In a loud voice she exclaimed: “Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the child you will bear!

for he has been mindful
of the humble state of his servant.
From now on all generations will call me blessed,

He has filled the hungry with good things
but has sent the rich away empty.

Both of them were righteous in the sight of God, observing all the Lord’s commands and decrees blamelessly.

The Pharisees, who loved money, heard all this and were sneering at Jesus.

So he called him in and asked him, ‘What is this I hear about you? Give an account of your management, because you cannot be manager any longer.’

“The time came when the beggar died and the angels carried him to Abraham’s side. The rich man also died and was buried.

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.’

And besides all this, between us and you a great chasm has been set in place, so that those who want to go from here to you cannot, nor can anyone cross over from there to us.’

His father Zechariah was filled with the Holy Spirit and prophesied:

“Praise be to the Lord, the God of Israel,
because he has come to his people and redeemed them.

“The master commended the dishonest manager because he had acted shrewdly. For the people of this world are more shrewd in dealing with their own kind than are the people of the light.

He has raised up a horn of salvation for us
in the house of his servant David

I tell you, use worldly wealth to gain friends for yourselves, so that when it is gone, you will be welcomed into eternal dwellings.