because of the tender mercy of our God, whereby the sunrise shall visit us from on high

Jesus Rejected at Nazareth

And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up. And as was his custom, he went to the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and he stood up to read.

And the scroll of the prophet Isaiah was given to him. He unrolled the scroll and found the place where it was written,

He said to them, “Where is your faith?” And they were afraid, and they marveled, saying to one another, “Who then is this, that he commands even winds and water, and they obey him?”

And wherever they do not receive you, when you leave that town shake off the dust from your feet as a testimony against them.”

The Cost of Following Jesus

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

Jesus Sends Out the Seventy-Two

After this the Lord appointed seventy-two others and sent them on ahead of him, two by two, into every town and place where he himself was about to go.

But a Samaritan, as he journeyed, came to where he was, and when he saw him, he had compassion.

Sell your possessions, and give to the needy. Provide yourselves with moneybags that do not grow old, with a treasure in the heavens that does not fail, where no thief approaches and no moth destroys.

For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.

When once the master of the house has risen and shut the door, and you begin to stand outside and to knock at the door, saying, ‘Lord, open to us,’ then he will answer you, ‘I do not know where you come from.’

But he will say, ‘I tell you, I do not know where you come from. Depart from me, all you workers of evil!’

Then Jesus answered, “Were not ten cleansed? Where are the nine?

And they said to him, “Where, Lord?” He said to them, “Where the corpse is, there the vultures will gather.”

saying, “Go into the village in front of you, where on entering you will find a colt tied, on which no one has ever yet sat. Untie it and bring it here.

So they answered that they did not know where it came from.

But that the dead are raised, even Moses showed, in the passage about the bush, where he calls the Lord the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob.

They said to him, “Where will you have us prepare it?”

and tell the master of the house, ‘The Teacher says to you, Where is the guest room, where I may eat the Passover with my disciples?’

Then he took it down and wrapped it in a linen shroud and laid him in a tomb cut in stone, where no one had ever yet been laid.