Be glad and rejoice, because your reward is great in heaven. For that is how they persecuted the prophets who were before you.

“You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt should lose its taste, how can it be made salty? It’s no longer good for anything but to be thrown out and trampled on by men.

But if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. So if the light within you is darkness—how deep is that darkness!

And why do you worry about clothes? Learn how the wildflowers of the field grow: they don’t labor or spin thread.

If that’s how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and thrown into the furnace tomorrow, won’t He do much more for you—you of little faith?

Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ and look, there’s a log in your eye?

If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good things to those who ask Him!

How narrow is the gate and difficult the road that leads to life, and few find it.

But when they hand you over, don’t worry about how or what you should speak. For you will be given what to say at that hour,

It is enough for a disciple to become like his teacher and a slave like his master. If they called the head of the house ‘Beelzebul,’ how much more the members of his household!

how he entered the house of God, and they ate the sacred bread, which is not lawful for him or for those with him to eat, but only for the priests?

But the Pharisees went out and plotted against Him, how they might destroy Him.

If Satan drives out Satan, he is divided against himself. How then will his kingdom stand?

How can someone enter a strong man’s house and steal his possessions unless he first ties up the strong man? Then he can rob his house.

Brood of vipers! How can you speak good things when you are evil? For the mouth speaks from the overflow of the heart.

Then off it goes and brings with it seven other spirits more evil than itself, and they enter and settle down there. As a result, that man’s last condition is worse than the first. That’s how it will also be with this evil generation.”

He went to His hometown and began to teach them in their synagogue, so that they were astonished and said, “How did this wisdom and these miracles come to Him?

“How many loaves do you have?” Jesus asked them.

“Seven,” they said, “and a few small fish.”

And in the morning, ‘Today will be stormy because the sky is red and threatening.’ You know how to read the appearance of the sky, but you can’t read the signs of the times.

Don’t you understand yet? Don’t you remember the five loaves for the 5,000 and how many baskets you collected?

Or the seven loaves for the 4,000 and how many large baskets you collected?

Jesus replied, “You unbelieving and rebellious generation! How long will I be with you? How long must I put up with you? Bring him here to Me.”

Then Peter came to Him and said, “Lord, how many times could my brother sin against me and I forgive him? As many as seven times?”

When the disciples saw it, they were amazed and said, “How did the fig tree wither so quickly?”

So he said to him, ‘Friend, how did you get in here without wedding clothes?’ The man was speechless.

Then the Pharisees went and plotted how to trap Him by what He said.

He asked them, “How is it then that David, inspired by the Spirit, calls Him ‘Lord’:

“If David calls Him ‘Lord,’ how then can the Messiah be his Son?”

“Snakes! Brood of vipers! How can you escape being condemned to hell?

“Jerusalem, Jerusalem! She who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her. How often I wanted to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, yet you were not willing!

How, then, would the Scriptures be fulfilled that say it must happen this way?”

Then Pilate said to Him, “Don’t You hear how much they are testifying against You?”

“You have a guard of soldiers,” Pilate told them. “Go and make it as secure as you know how.”