Jesus said, “Truly I tell you, there is no one who has left house or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or fields, for my sake and for the sake of the good news, who will not receive a hundredfold now in this age
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“The gospel of the Lord.” The gospel, the good news, of Jesus. It is difficult for many of us to hear these words of Jesus we read today as good news.
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“If any of you put a stumbling block before one of these little ones who believe in me, it would be better for you if a great millstone were hung around your neck and you were thrown into the sea.”
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Jesus sat down, called the twelve, and said to them, “Whoever wants to be first must be last of all and servant of all.”
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Jesus said to the crowd: “Truly I tell you, there are some standing here who will not taste death until they see that the kingdom of God has come with power.”
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And they said: “He has done everything well; he even makes the deaf to hear and the mute to speak.”
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The gospels record many incidents when Jesus and the Pharisees get into controversies. And because of this, the Pharisees get kind of a bad rap, even though the Pharisees and Jesus were actually quite similar in many ways.
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Jesus asked the Twelve, “Do you also want to go away?” Peter answered him: “Lord, to whom else can we go?”
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Jesus said: “Those who chew up and devour my flesh and drink my blood have eternal life, and I will raise them up on the last day.”
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Jesus said: “The bread that I will give for the life of the world is my flesh.” The first reading today is a small snippet of a larger story about the prophet Elijah that, for me at least, is one of the most important stories in the Bible.
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