He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. The Lord God will give him the throne of his father David,

On the eighth day they came to circumcise the child, and they were going to name him after his father Zechariah,

Then they made signs to his father, to find out what he would like to name the child.

Zechariah’s Song

His father Zechariah was filled with the Holy Spirit and prophesied:

the oath he swore to our father Abraham:

The child’s father and mother marveled at what was said about him.

When his parents saw him, they were astonished. His mother said to him, “Son, why have you treated us like this? Your father and I have been anxiously searching for you.”

“Why were you searching for me?” he asked. “Didn’t you know I had to be in my Father’s house?”

Produce fruit in keeping with repentance. And do not begin to say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father.’ For I tell you that out of these stones God can raise up children for Abraham.

Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful.

When he arrived at the house of Jairus, he did not let anyone go in with him except Peter, John and James, and the child’s father and mother.

Whoever is ashamed of me and my words, the Son of Man will be ashamed of them when he comes in his glory and in the glory of the Father and of the holy angels.

Even while the boy was coming, the demon threw him to the ground in a convulsion. But Jesus rebuked the impure spirit, healed the boy and gave him back to his father.

He said to another man, “Follow me.” But he replied, “Lord, first let me go and bury my father.”

At that time Jesus, full of joy through the Holy Spirit, said, “I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and learned, and revealed them to little children. Yes, Father, for this is what you were pleased to do.

“All things have been committed to me by my Father. No one knows who the Son is except the Father, and no one knows who the Father is except the Son and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal him.”

He said to them, “When you pray, say: “‘Father, hallowed be your name, your kingdom come.

“Which of you fathers, if your son asks for a fish, will give him a snake instead?

If you then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!”

For the pagan world runs after all such things, and your Father knows that you need them.

“Do not be afraid, little flock, for your Father has been pleased to give you the kingdom.

They will be divided, father against son and son against father, mother against daughter and daughter against mother, mother-in-law against daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law against mother-in-law.”

“If anyone comes to me and does not hate father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters—yes, even their own life—such a person cannot be my disciple.

The younger one said to his father, ‘Father, give me my share of the estate.’ So he divided his property between them.

“When he came to his senses, he said, ‘How many of my father’s hired servants have food to spare, and here I am starving to death!