"Take care not to do your good deeds in public, to attract the attention of people; if you do, you will get no reward from your Father in heaven.

And why should you worry about clothes? Look at the wild lilies and learn how they grow. They do not toil or spin;

And a leper came up to Him, and prostrated himself before Him, and said, "Lord, if you choose to, you can cure me."

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

Then He called His twelve disciples to Him, and gave them authority over foul spirits, so that they could drive them out, and so that they could cure any disease or ailment.

Now there was a man there with one hand withered. And, to get a charge against Him, they asked Him, "Is it right to cure people on the sabbath?"

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

For this people's soul has grown dull, and with their ears they can scarcely hear, and they have shut tight their eyes, so that they will never see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their hearts, and turn to me, so that I may cure them!'

And when the wheat plants grew up and yielded their ripened grain, the wild wheat plants appeared too.

Let them both grow together until harvest time, and at the harvest time I will order the reapers, "Gather first the wild wheat plants and tie them into bundles to be burned up, but get the wheat into my barn."'"

I brought him to your disciples, and they could not cure him."

As He saw a fig tree by the roadside, He came to it but found on it nothing but leaves, and said to it, "Never again shall a fig grow on you!" And the fig tree at once withered up.

So they sent to Him their disciples with the Herodians, to say to Him, "Teacher, we know that you are in the habit of telling the truth and of teaching the way of God in honesty, and you do not care what anyone says, for you are not partial.

You are going to hear of wars and rumors of wars; take care not to be scared out of your wits. They have to come, but that is not the end yet.

and because of the increasing crime wave, most people's love will grow cold.

"Now learn what the story of the fig tree means. Just as soon as its branches grow tender, and put forth leaves, you know that summer is near.

Now several women were there looking on from a distance, who accompanied Jesus from Galilee to care for Him,