No matter how long we have been Christians, we can always keep growing more and more in purity and love.
As the second Adam and the faithful Israel, Jesus resisted temptation and so can help us when we are tempted.
Two parables directed against the religious leaders indicated why they would lose their management of the kingdom, and why others would take their place.
The extraordinary events in Jerusalem and the mundane events in Nazareth reveal Jesus' uniqueness and his ordinariness.