For it is clear that our Lord is descended from Judah, yet Moses said nothing about priests in connection with that tribe.

a minister in the sanctuary and the true tabernacle that the Lord, not man, set up.

by the fresh and living way that he inaugurated for us ¹  through the curtain, that is, through his flesh, ² 

In fact, the scene ¹  was so terrifying that Moses said, “I shudder with fear.” ² 

Now this ¹  is the promise that he ²  himself made to ³  us: eternal life. ⁴ 

Whenever ¹  you enter a town or village, ²  find out who is worthy there ³  and stay with them ⁴  until you leave.

When it was full, they pulled it ashore, sat down, and put the good fish into containers and threw the bad away.

And after he sent the crowds away, he went up the mountain by himself to pray. When evening came, he was there alone.

Meanwhile the boat, already far from land, ¹  was taking a beating from the waves because the wind was against it.

And he replied, ¹  “Every plant that my heavenly Father did not plant will be uprooted.

When ¹  he went out to the gateway, another slave girl ²  saw him and said to the people there, “This man was with Jesus the Nazarene.”

Among them were Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James and Joseph, and the mother of the sons of Zebedee.

John wore a garment made of camel’s hair with a leather belt around his waist, and he ate locusts and wild honey. ¹ 

The people there ¹  were amazed by his teaching, because he taught them like one who had authority, ²  not like the experts in the law. ³ 

Each night and every day among the tombs and in the mountains, he would cry out and cut himself with stones.

When Jesus had crossed again in a boat to the other side, a large crowd gathered around him, and he was by the sea.

The woman was a Greek, of Syrophoenician origin. She ¹  asked him to cast the demon out of her daughter.

Two days before the Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the chief priests and the experts in the law ¹  were trying to find a way ²  to arrest Jesus ³  by stealth and kill him.

Now when the centurion, ¹  who stood in front of him, saw how he died, ²  he said, “Truly this man was God’s Son!”

When he was in Galilee, they had followed him and given him support. ¹  Many other women who had come up with him to Jerusalem ²  were there too.