Jesus went up to the mountain to pray, and he spent the night in prayer to God.

Jesus said to the crowds, “When you see a cloud rising in the west you say immediately that it is going to rain —and so it does; and when you notice that the wind is blowing from the south you say that it is going to be hot—and so it is.

Jesus said to his disciples: “I have come to set the earth on fire, and how I wish it were already blazing!

Jesus said to his disciples: “Be sure of this: if the master of the house had known the hour when the thief was coming, he would not have let his house be broken into.

Jesus said to his disciples: “Gird your loins and light your lamps and be like servants who await their master’s return from a wedding, ready to open immediately when he comes and knocks.

Then he told them a parable.

The Pharisees went off and plotted how they might entrap Jesus in speech.

Jesus said to his disciples: “I tell you, everyone who acknowledges me before others the Son of Man will acknowledge before the angels of God.

At that time: So many people were crowding together that they were trampling one another underfoot.

The Lord said: “Woe to you who build the memorials of the prophets whom your fathers killed.