When Jesus turned and noticed them following him, he asked them, ‘What are you looking for? ’ They said to him, ‘Rabbi’ (which means ‘Teacher’), ‘where are you staying? ’
This man came to him at night and said, ‘Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher who has come from God, for no one could perform these signs you do unless God were with him.’
So they came to John and told him, ‘Rabbi, the one you testified about, and who was with you across the Jordan, is baptising #– #and everyone is going to him.’
When Jesus came to the place, he looked up and said to him, ‘Zacchaeus, hurry and come down because today it is necessary for me to stay at your house.’
Then the Lord turned and looked at Peter. So Peter remembered the word of the Lord, how he had said to him, ‘Before the cock crows today, you will deny me three times.’
So he got up and went to his father. But while the son was still a long way off, his father saw him and was filled with compassion. He ran, threw his arms round his neck, and kissed him.
But Ruth replied: Don’t plead with me to abandon you or to return and not follow you. For wherever you go, I will go, and wherever you live, I will live; your people will be my people, and your God will be my God.