"To what is the kingdom of God like, or to what shall I liken it? It is like a mustard seed which a man takes and sows in his garden; it grew up, became a tree, and the birds of the air nested in its branches." And he said again: "To what shall I liken the kingdom of God? It is like leaven, which a woman took and put into three measures of flour, until it was all leavened." Lc 13, 18-21.
There was a woman who had been sick for eighteen years because of a spirit, and she was bent over and could not straighten up in any way. When Jesus saw her, he called her to him and said to her, "Woman, you are freed from your sickness". And he laid his hands on her, and immediately she became upright. And she glorified God Lk 13:10-17.
"You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind." This commandment is the first and foremost. The second is similar to it: "You shall love your neighbor as yourself" Mt 22:34-40.
In those days Jesus went out to the mountain to pray and spent the night praying to God. When it was daylight, he called his disciples, and from among them he chose twelve, whom he also named apostles Lk 6:12-19.
You hypocrites: you know how to interpret the appearance of earth and heaven, for how can you not know how to interpret the present time? how can you not judge for yourselves what is right? Lc 12,54-59.
"I have come to set the earth on fire, and how I wish it were already burning! With a baptism I must be baptized, and what anguish I suffer until it is accomplished!
To whom much has been given, much will be required; to whom much has been entrusted, even more will be required Lk 12:39-48.
Lk 12:35-38 "Blessed are those servants whom the master, when he comes, finds watching; truly, I say to you, he will gird himself and make them sit at table and, drawing near, will serve them. And if he comes to the second watch or the third and finds them so, blessed are they."
Jesus calls the rich person "foolish" not because of riches or money but because this person has become so focused on himself and his riches that he has forgotten God, his family and his community.
Today's Gospel exhorts us to take seriously not only our obligations as Christians, but also our tasks as citizens, our political duties: "Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's."
The victory is ours... "do not worry about how or with what you will defend yourselves, or what you will say, because the Holy Spirit will teach you at that very moment what you should say".
The gospel invites us not to be afraid of earthly things, but to fear the one who has the power to cast us into hell because of our own acts. "My friends: do not be afraid of those who kill the body, and after that can do nothing more. fear him who, after death, has power to cast into gahenna".