[The Book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.

Great crowds were traveling with Jesus, and he turned and addressed them, “If anyone comes to me without hating his father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple.

While Jesus was going through a field of grain on a sabbath, his disciples were picking the heads of grain, rubbing them in their hands, and eating them.

The scribes and Pharisees said to Jesus, “The disciples of John the Baptist fast often and offer prayers, and the disciples of the Pharisees do the same; but yours eat and drink.” Jesus answered them, “Can you make the wedding guests fast while the bridegroom is with them?

While the crowd was pressing in on Jesus and listening to the word of God, he was standing by the Lake of Gennesaret.

After Jesus left the synagogue, he entered the house of Simon.

Jesus went down to Caper­naum, a town of Galilee.

Jesus came to Nazareth, where he had grown up, and went according to his custom into the synagogue on the sabbath day.

On a sabbath Jesus went to dine at the home of one of the leading Pharisees, and the people there were ­observing him carefully.

Jesus told his disciples this ­parable: “A man going on a journey called in his servants and entrusted his possessions to them.