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Ask a QuestionAs my life was slipping away, I remembered the Lord . And my earnest prayer went out to you in your holy Temple.
As for me, I look to the Lord for help. I wait confidently for God to save me, and my God will certainly hear me.
For as the waters fill the sea, the earth will be filled with an awareness of the glory of the Lord .
Then the angel who had been talking with me returned and woke me, as though I had been asleep.
“But now I will not treat the remnant of my people as I treated them before, says the Lord of Heaven’s Armies.
After his baptism, as Jesus came up out of the water, the heavens were opened and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and settling on him.
“Well,” they replied, “some say John the Baptist, some say Elijah, and others say Jeremiah or one of the other prophets.”
Jesus replied, “You are blessed, Simon son of John, because my Father in heaven has revealed this to you. You did not learn this from any human being.
Just as the gathering of vultures shows there is a carcass nearby, so these signs indicate that the end is near.
As the crowds gathered before Pilate’s house that morning, he asked them, “Which one do you want me to release to you - Barabbas, or Jesus who is called the Messiah?”
As the women were on their way, some of the guards went into the city and told the leading priests what had happened.
Later, Levi invited Jesus and his disciples to his home as dinner guests, along with many tax collectors and other disreputable sinners. (There were many people of this kind among Jesus’ followers.)
(The Jews, especially the Pharisees, do not eat until they have poured water over their cupped hands, as required by their ancient traditions.
As he talked about this openly with his disciples, Peter took him aside and began to reprimand him for saying such things.
As Jesus was leaving the Temple that day, one of his disciples said, “Teacher, look at these magnificent buildings! Look at the impressive stones in the walls.”
The shepherds went back to their flocks, glorifying and praising God for all they had heard and seen. It was just as the angel had told them.
Then she lived as a widow to the age of eighty-four. She never left the Temple but stayed there day and night, worshiping God with fasting and prayer.
One day Jesus left the crowds to pray alone. Only his disciples were with him, and he asked them, “Who do people say I am?”
As Jesus and the disciples continued on their way to Jerusalem, they came to a certain village where a woman named Martha welcomed him into her home.
If you are filled with light, with no dark corners, then your whole life will be radiant, as though a floodlight were filling you with light.”