Then Jerusalem and all Judea and the whole Jordan valley went out to him,

and said to him, "I will give all this to you, if you will fall on your knees and do homage to me."

He said to them, "Come and follow me, and I will make you fish for men!"

"Blessed are those who feel their spiritual need, for the Kingdom of Heaven belongs to them!

But I tell you that anyone who gets angry with his brother will have to answer to the court, and anyone who speaks contemptuously to his brother will have to answer to the great council, and anyone who says to his brother 'You cursed fool!' will have to answer for it in the fiery pit!

But if your right eye makes you fall, tear it out and throw it away, for you might better lose one part of your body than have it all thrown into the pit!

If your right hand makes you fall, cut it off and throw it away, for you might better lose one part of your body than have it all go down to the pit!

so that you may show yourselves true sons of your Father in heaven, for he makes his sun rise on bad and good alike, and makes the rain fall on the upright and the wrongdoers.

And the rain fell, and the rivers rose, and the winds blew, and beat about that house, and it did not go down, for its foundations were on rock.

And the rain fell, and the rivers rose, and the winds blew and beat about that house, and it went down, and its downfall was complete."

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

And a scribe came up and said to him, "Master, I will follow you wherever you are going!"

But Jesus said to him, "Follow me, and leave the dead to bury their own dead!"

Afterward, as Jesus was passing along, he saw a man called Matthew sitting at the tollhouse, and he said to him, "Follow me!" And he got up and followed him.

Then he called his twelve disciples to him, and gave them power over the foul spirits so that they could drive them out, and so that they could heal any disease or illness.

Do not sparrows sell two for a cent? And yet not one of them can fall to the ground against your Father's will!

and no one who will not take up his cross and follow me is worthy of me.

And no one who will give the humblest of my disciples even a cup of cold water because he is my disciple, I tell you, can ever fail of his reward."

You brood of snakes! how can you, bad as you are, utter anything good? For the mouth says only what the heart is full of.

"When a foul spirit goes out of a man, it roams through deserts in search of rest and can find none.

and as he was sowing, some of the seed fell by the path and the birds came and ate it up,

and some fell on rocky ground where there was not much soil and it sprang up at once, because the soil was not deep,

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

And some fell on good soil, and yielded some a hundred, some sixty, and some thirty-fold.

When it was full, they dragged it up on the beach, and sat down and sorted the good fish into baskets and threw the bad away.

And the men in the boat fell down before him and said, "You are certainly God's Son!"

Leave them alone. They are blind guides! But if one blind man leads another, they will both fall into the ditch!"

And she came and fell down before him, and said, "Help me, sir!"

But she said, "O yes, sir! For even dogs eat the scraps that fall from their masters' table!"

Do you not understand yet? Do you not remember the five loaves for the five thousand, and how many baskets full you gathered up?

Nor the seven loaves for the four thousand, and how many baskets full you gathered up?

Then Jesus said to his disciples, "If anyone wants to go with me, he must disregard himself and take his cross and follow me.

When the disciples heard it, they were dreadfully frightened and fell upon their faces.

When they came to the people again, a man came up to him and fell on his knees, saying,

"But if your own hand or your own foot makes you fall, cut it off and throw it away. You might better enter upon life maimed or crippled than keep both hands and feet but be thrown into the everlasting fire.

And if your own eye makes you fall, dig it out and throw it away. You might better enter upon life with only one eye than be thrown with both eyes into the fiery pit.

But when the slave went out he met a fellow-slave of his who owed him twenty dollars, and he caught him by the throat and began to choke him, saying, 'Pay me what you owe!'

So his fellow-slave threw himself down before him, and begged him, 'Give me time, and I will pay you.'

When his fellow-slaves saw what had happened, they were greatly distressed, and they went to their master and reported the whole matter to him.

Ought you not to have taken pity on your fellow-slave, as I did on you?'

"Tell the daughter of Zion, 'Here is your king coming to you, Gentle, and riding on an ass, And on the foal of a beast of burden.' "

Alas for you, you hypocritical scribes and Pharisees, for you clean the outside of the cup and the dish, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence.

Alas for you, you hypocritical scribes and Pharisees, for you are like white-washed tombs! They look well on the outside, but inside they are full of the bones of the dead, and all that is unclean.

So you outwardly appear to men to be upright, but within you are full of hypocrisy and wickedness.

Go on and fill up the measure of your forefathers' guilt.

Then many will fall away and betray one another and hate one another.

"But immediately after the misery of those days, the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not shed its light, and the stars will fall from the sky, and the forces of the sky will shake.

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

And he went out into the gateway, and another maid saw him, and said to the men there, "This fellow was with Jesus the Nazarene!"

And Jesus came up to them and said, "Full authority in heaven and on the earth has been given to me.

Jesus said to them, "Come, follow me, and I will make you fish for men."

Just then there was in their synagogue a man under the control of a foul spirit, and he cried out,

The foul spirit convulsed the man and gave a loud cry and went out of him.

And they were all so amazed that they discussed it with one another, and said, "What does this mean? It is a new teaching! He gives orders with authority even to the foul spirits, and they obey him!"

And as he was passing along he saw Levi, the son of Alpheus, sitting at the tollhouse, and he said to him, "Follow me." And he got up and followed him.

And whenever the foul spirits saw him, they fell down before him and screamed out, "You are the Son of God!"

This was because they said, "He is possessed by a foul spirit."

and as he was sowing, some of the seed chanced to fall by the path, and the birds came and ate it up.

Some of it fell on rocky ground, and where there was not much soil, and it sprang up at once because the soil was not deep,

Some of the seed fell among the thorns, and the thorns grew up and choked it out, and it yielded no grain.

And some fell on good soil, and came up and grew and yielded thirty, sixty, even a hundredfold."

And a heavy squall of wind came on and the waves dashed into the boat, so that it was beginning to fill.

As soon as he got out of the boat, a man possessed by a foul spirit came out of the burial places near by to meet him.

For he was saying to him, "You foul spirit, come out of this man."

So he gave them permission. And the foul spirits came out and went into the pigs, and the drove of about two thousand rushed over the steep bank into the sea, and were drowned.

And he called the Twelve to him and sent them off two by two, giving them power over the foul spirits.

Then he went up to them and got into the boat. And the wind fell. And they were perfectly beside themselves,

but a woman whose little daughter was possessed by a foul spirit immediately heard about him and came and threw herself at his feet.

And he called the people and his disciples to him and said to them, "If anyone wants to go with me, he must disregard himself, and take his cross and follow me.

And they brought the boy to him. As soon as the spirit saw him, it convulsed the boy, and he fell down on the ground and rolled about, foaming at the mouth.

Then Jesus, seeing that a crowd was rapidly gathering, reproved the foul spirit and said to it, "You deaf and dumb spirit, get out of him, I charge you, and never enter him again!"

For whoever gives you a cup of water to drink, on the ground that you belong to Christ, I tell you, will certainly not fail to be repaid.

And whoever causes one of these humble believers to fall might better have a great millstone hung around his neck and be thrown into the sea.

If your hand makes you fall, cut it off. You might better enter upon life maimed, than go with both your hands to the pit, into the fire that cannot be put out.

And if your foot makes you fall, cut it off. You might better enter upon life crippled, than be thrown with both your feet into the pit.

And if your eye makes you fall, tear it out. You might better get into the Kingdom of God with only one eye than be thrown with both your eyes into the pit,

But his face fell at Jesus' words, and he went away much cast down, for he had a great deal of property.

and the stars will fall from the sky and the forces in the sky will shake.

So he sent away two of his disciples, saying to them, "Go into the city, and you will meet a man carrying a pitcher of water. Follow him,

And he took Peter, James, and John along with him, and he began to feel distress and dread,

And the maid saw him there and began again to tell the bystanders, "This fellow is one of them!"

it fell to his lot, according to the priests' practice, to go into the sanctuary of the Lord and burn the incense,

And he gave them his blessing, and said to Mary, the child's mother, "This child is destined to cause the fall and rise of many in Israel, and to be a portent that will be much debated??35 you yourself will be pierced to the heart??nd so the thoughts of many minds will be revealed."

And he went all through the Jordan Valley preaching repentance and baptism in order to obtain the forgiveness of sins,

Jesus returned from the Jordan full of the holy Spirit, and he was led about in the desert

And they all spoke well of him and were astonished at the winning words that fell from his lips, and they said, "Is he not Joseph's son?"

There was a man in the synagogue who was possessed by the spirit of a foul demon and he cried out loudly,

And they were all amazed and said to one another, "What is the meaning of this teaching? For he gives orders authoritatively and effectually to the foul spirits, and they come out."

And they signaled to their comrades in the other boat to come and help them. And they came, and they filled both boats so full that they began to sink.

When Simon Peter saw it, he fell down at Jesus' feet and said, "Leave me, Master, for I am a sinful man."

When he was in one of the towns, he came upon a man covered with leprosy. And when he saw Jesus he fell down on his face, and begged him, saying, "If you only choose, sir, you can cure me!"

After this he went out, and he saw a tax-collector named Levi sitting at the tollhouse, and he said to him, "Follow me!"

And those who were troubled with foul spirits were cured.

And if you lend only to people from whom you expect to get something, what merit is there in that? Even godless people lend to godless people, meaning to get it back again in full.

And he used a figure saying, "Can one blind man lead another? Will they not both fall into a hole?

A good man, out of the good he has accumulated in his heart, produces good, and a bad man, out of what he has accumulated that is bad, produces what is bad. For his mouth says only what his heart is full of.

"A sower went out to sow his seed. As he was sowing, some of the seed fell by the path and was trodden on, and the wild birds ate it up.

And some of it fell upon the rock, and when it sprang up it withered, because it had no moisture.

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

And some fell on good soil, and grew up and yielded a hundred fold!" As he said this he called out, "Let him who has ears to hear with, listen!"