So he would say to the crowds that came out there to be baptized by him, "You brood of snakes! Who warned you to fly from the wrath that is coming?

The crowds would ask him, "Then what ought we to do?"

And soldiers would ask him, "And what ought we to do?" He said to them, "Do not extort money or make false charges against people, but be satisfied with your pay."

So with many varied exhortations he would preach the good news to the people,

But Jesus himself would retire into the desert and pray.

And the scribes and the Pharisees were on the watch to see whether he would cure people on the Sabbath, in order to find a charge to bring against him.

They are like children sitting about in the bazaar and calling out to one another, " 'We have played the flute for you, and you would not dance! We have wailed and you would not weep!'

When the Pharisee who had invited him saw this, he said to himself, "If this man were really a prophet, he would know who and what the woman is who is touching him, for she leads a wicked life."

For he was commanding the foul spirit to get out of the man. For it had often seized him, and though he had been fastened with chains and fetters, and was closely watched, he would snap his bonds and the demon would drive him away to the desert.

A discussion arose among them as to which of them would be the greatest.

And the people there would not receive him, because he was going to Jerusalem.

Alas for you, Chorazin! Alas for you, Bethsaida! For if the wonders that have been done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago, sitting in sackcloth and ashes!

But you may be sure of this, that if the master of the house had known what time the thief was coming, he would have been on the watch, and would not have let his house be broken into.

And he was ready to fill himself with the pods the pigs were eating, and no one would give him anything.

But he was angry and would not go into the house. And his father came out and urged him.

And the Master said, "If your faith is as big as a mustard seed, you might have said to this mulberry tree, 'Be pulled up by the roots and planted in the sea,' and it would have obeyed you!

He was once asked by the Pharisees when the Kingdom of God would come, and he answered, "The Kingdom of God is not coming visibly,

And he would not for a time, but afterward he said to himself, 'Though I have no fear of God nor respect for men,

But the tax-collector stood at a distance and would not even raise his eyes to heaven, but struck his breast, and said, 'O God, have mercy on a sinner like me!'

He would spend the days teaching in the Temple, but at night he would go out of the city and stay on the hill called the Mount of Olives.

And in the morning all the people would come to him in the Temple to listen to him.

Jesus said to him, "Would you betray the Son of Man with a kiss?"

But the story seemed to them to be nonsense and they would not believe them.