and said to him, “To you I will give all this authority and their glory, for it has been delivered to me, and I give it to whom I will.

And Simon answered, “Master, we toiled all night and took nothing! But at your word I will let down the nets.”

And Jesus stretched out his hand and touched him, saying, “I will; be clean.” And immediately the leprosy left him.

Everyone who comes to me and hears my words and does them, I will show you what he is like:

The Cost of Following Jesus

As they were going along the road, someone said to him, “I will follow you wherever you go.”

Yet another said, “I will follow you, Lord, but let me first say farewell to those at my home.”

And the next day he took out two denarii and gave them to the innkeeper, saying, ‘Take care of him, and whatever more you spend, I will repay you when I come back.’

Return of an Unclean Spirit

“When the unclean spirit has gone out of a person, it passes through waterless places seeking rest, and finding none it says, ‘I will return to my house from which I came.’

Therefore also the Wisdom of God said, ‘I will send them prophets and apostles, some of whom they will kill and persecute,’

But I will warn you whom to fear: fear him who, after he has killed, has authority to cast into hell. Yes, I tell you, fear him!

And he said, ‘I will do this: I will tear down my barns and build larger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods.

And I will say to my soul, “Soul, you have ample goods laid up for many years; relax, eat, drink, be merry.”’

I will arise and go to my father, and I will say to him, “Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you.

yet because this widow keeps bothering me, I will give her justice, so that she will not beat me down by her continual coming.’”

He said to him, ‘I will condemn you with your own words, you wicked servant! You knew that I was a severe man, taking what I did not deposit and reaping what I did not sow?

Then the owner of the vineyard said, ‘What shall I do? I will send my beloved son; perhaps they will respect him.’

for I will give you a mouth and wisdom, which none of your adversaries will be able to withstand or contradict.

For I tell you I will not eat it until it is fulfilled in the kingdom of God.”

For I tell you that from now on I will not drink of the fruit of the vine until the kingdom of God comes.”

I will therefore punish and release him.”

A third time he said to them, “Why? What evil has he done? I have found in him no guilt deserving death. I will therefore punish and release him.”