Jesus addressed this parable to those who were convinced of their own righteousness and despised everyone else.

Some people told Jesus about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mingled with the blood of their sacrifices.

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.

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.