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.

Jesus told his disciples a parable about the necessity for them to pray always without becoming weary.

The Lord Jesus appointed seventy-two disciples whom he sent ahead of him in pairs to every town and place he intended to visit.

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.

The Lord said: “Woe to you Pharisees!

After Jesus had spoken, a Pharisee invited him to dine at his home.

While still more people gathered in the crowd, Jesus said to them, “This generation is an evil generation; it seeks a sign, but no sign will be given it, except the sign of Jonah.

As Jesus continued his journey to Jerusalem, he traveled through Samaria and Galilee.