Once when large crowds of people were going along with Jesus, he turned and said to them,

So he got up and started back to his father. "He was still a long way from home when his father saw him; his heart was filled with pity, and he ran, threw his arms around his son, and kissed him.

When Jesus came to that place, he looked up and said to Zacchaeus, "Hurry down, Zacchaeus, because I must stay in your house today."

The Lord turned around and looked straight at Peter, and Peter remembered that the Lord had said to him, "Before the rooster crows tonight, you will say three times that you do not know me."

Jesus knew everything that was going to happen to him, so he stepped forward and asked them, "Who is it you are looking for?"

Again Jesus asked them, "Who is it you are looking for?" "Jesus of Nazareth," they said.

"Woman, why are you crying?" Jesus asked her. "Who is it that you are looking for?" She thought he was the gardener, so she said to him, "If you took him away, sir, tell me where you have put him, and I will go and get him."

Jesus said to her, "Mary!" She turned toward him and said in Hebrew, "Rabboni!" (This means "Teacher.")

After John's messengers had left, Jesus began to speak about him to the crowds: "When you went out to John in the desert, what did you expect to see? A blade of grass bending in the wind?

Tell me, what did you go out to see? A prophet? Yes indeed, but you saw much more than a prophet.

So Jesus stopped and ordered the blind man to be brought to him. When he came near, Jesus asked him,

"What do you want me to do for you?" "Sir," he answered, "I want to see again."

So Peter went down and said to the men, "I am the man you are looking for. Why have you come?"

And so when you sent for me, I came without any objection. I ask you, then, why did you send for me?"

"Teacher," answered Nathanael, "you are the Son of God! You are the King of Israel!"

One night he went to Jesus and said to him, "Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher sent by God. No one could perform the miracles you are doing unless God were with him."

So they went to John and told him, "Teacher, you remember the man who was with you on the east side of the Jordan, the one you spoke about? Well, he is baptizing now, and everyone is going to him!"

When the people found Jesus on the other side of the lake, they said to him, "Teacher, when did you get here?"

they love to be greeted with respect in the marketplaces and to have people call them 'Teacher.'

You must not be called 'Teacher,' because you are all equal and have only one Teacher.

They went to Philip (he was from Bethsaida in Galilee) and said, "Sir, we want to see Jesus."

But Ruth answered, "Don't ask me to leave you! Let me go with you. Wherever you go, I will go; wherever you live, I will live. Your people will be my people, and your God will be my God.

How fortunate are your wives! And how fortunate your servants, who are always in your presence and are privileged to hear your wise sayings!

I have asked the LORD for one thing; one thing only do I want: to live in the LORD's house all my life, to marvel there at his goodness, and to ask for his guidance.

Those who become wise are happy; wisdom will give them life.

Those who listen to me will be happy--- those who stay at my door every day, waiting at the entrance to my home.

Keep company with the wise and you will become wise. If you make friends with stupid people, you will be ruined.

Tell me, my love, Where will you lead your flock to graze? Where will they rest from the noonday sun? Why should I need to look for you among the flocks of the other shepherds?

Don't you know the place, loveliest of women? Go and follow the flock; find pasture for your goats near the tents of the shepherds.

The man from whom the demons had gone out begged Jesus, "Let me go with you." But Jesus sent him away, saying,

She had a sister named Mary, who sat down at the feet of the Lord and listened to his teaching.