"But take care not to do your good deeds in public for people to see, for, if you do, you will get no reward from your Father in heaven.

Why should you worry about clothing? See how the wild flowers grow. They do not toil or spin,

But you must make his kingdom, and uprightness before him, your greatest care, and you will have all these other things besides.

And a leper came up to him and fell on his knees before him, saying, "If you only choose, sir, you can cure me!"

Then Jesus said to him, "See that you tell nobody, but go! Show yourself to the priest, and in proof of your cure, offer the gift that Moses prescribed."

He said to him, "I will come and cure him."

You must go and learn what the saying means, 'It is mercy, not sacrifice, that I care for.' I did not come to invite the pious but the irreligious."

Cure the sick, raise the dead, heal lepers, drive out demons. Give without payment, just as you received without payment.

But if you knew what the saying means, 'It is mercy, not sacrifice, that I care for,' you would not have condemned men who are not guilty.

There was a man there with one hand withered. And in order to get a charge to bring against him, they asked him, "Is it right to cure people on the Sabbath?"

And some of it fell among the thorns, and the thorns grew up and choked it out.

For this nation's mind has grown dull, And they hear faintly with their ears, And they have shut their eyes, So as never to see with their eyes, And hear with their ears, And understand with their minds, and turn back, And let me cure them!'

Let them both grow together until harvest time, and when we harvest I will direct the reapers to gather up the weeds first and tie them up in bundles to burn, but get the wheat into my barn.' "

And I brought him to your disciples and they have not been able to cure him."

In the morning as he went back to the city, he grew hungry,

and seeing a fig tree by the roadside, he went up to it, but found nothing on it but leaves. And he said to it, "No more fruit shall ever grow on you!" And the fig tree withered up at once.

Jesus answered, "Take care that no one misleads you about this.

and because of the increase of wickedness, most men's love will grow cold.

"Let the fig tree teach you the lesson. As soon as its branches grow soft and put forth leaves, you know that summer is coming.

As the bridegroom was slow in coming, they all grew drowsy and fell asleep.