If [the family living in] the house is worthy [welcoming you and your message], give it your [blessing of] peace [that is, a blessing of well-being and prosperity, the favor of God]. But if it is not worthy, take back your blessing of peace.

'And whoever may not receive you nor hear your words, coming forth from that house or city, shake off the dust of your feet,

And hold ye from men: for they will deliver you up to councils, and in their assemblies will they scourge you.

And you will be hated by everyone because of [your association with] My name, but it is the one who has patiently persevered and endured to the end who will be saved.

What I say to you in the dark, say in the light: and what comes to your ear secretly, say publicly from the house-tops.

And fear not from those killing the body, and not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him able to destroy also soul and body in hell.

"Aren't two sparrows sold for an assarion coin? Not one of them falls on the ground apart from your Father's will,

For I have come to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law;

He who has the desire to keep his life will have it taken from him, and he who gives up his life because of me will have it given back to him.

and whoever shall give only a cup of cold water to the meanest of you, considering him as my disciple, shall most assuredly be far from losing his reward.

And it happened that when Jesus had finished giving orders to his twelve disciples, he went on from there to teach and to preach in their towns.

[how] blind people are receiving back their sight, and crippled people are walking [again], and people with infectious skin diseases are being healed, and deaf-mutes are hearing [and speaking (?) again], and people are being raised [from the dead], and poor people are having the good news preached to them.

And blessed [joyful, favored by God] is he who does not take offense at Me [accepting Me as the Messiah and trusting confidently in My message of salvation].”

I tell all of you with certainty, among those born of women no one has appeared who is greater than John the Baptist. Yet even the least important person in the kingdom from heaven is greater than he.

And from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force.

The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, "Look, a glutton and a drunk, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!' Absolved from every act of sin, is wisdom by her kith and kin."

Then he went on to say hard things to the towns where most of his works of power were done, because they had not been turned from their sins.

Unhappy are you, Chorazin! Unhappy are you, Beth-saida! For if the works of power which were done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have been turned from their sins in days gone by, clothing themselves in haircloth and putting dust on their heads.

At that time Jesus answered and said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes.

Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me; for I am meek and lowly in heart; and ye shall find rest to your souls;

And, going away from thence, he came into their synagogue.

And said unto them, What man, from among yourselves, shall there be, - Who shall have one sheep, and, if this should fall, on the sabbath, into a pit, will not lay hold of it, and raise it?

Upon this the Pharisees went out of the synagogue, and form'd a conspiracy against his life.

But when Jesus knew it, he withdrew himself from thence: and great multitudes followed him, and he healed them all;

Knowing their thoughts Jesus said to them, "Every kingdom [plagued] with internal division will end in ruin. And every city or household divided from within will not survive.

Or, how can someone enter a strong man's house and steal his belongings unless he first ties up the strong man? Only then will he be able to steal [his belongings] from his house.

The person who is not on my side is [actually] against me. And the person who does not gather [people to me] is [actually] driving them away [from me].

Either make the tree good, and its fruit good; or make the tree corrupt, and its fruit corrupt. For from the fruit the tree is known.

Offspring of vipers! How are you able to say good things [when you] are evil? For from the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.

The good man, from his [inner] good treasure, brings out good things; and the evil man, from his [inner] evil treasure, brings out evil things.

for from thy words thou shalt be declared righteous, and from thy words thou shalt be declared unrighteous.'

Then certain of the scribes and of the Pharisees answered, saying, Master, we would see a sign from thee.

The men of Nineveh will come up in the day of judging and give their decision against this generation: because they were turned from their sins at the preaching of Jonah; and now a greater than Jonah is here.

The queen of the south shall rise up in the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: for she came from the uttermost parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and, behold, a greater than Solomon is here.

'And, when the unclean spirit may go forth from the man, it doth walk through dry places seeking rest, and doth not find;

Then he saith, I will return into my house from whence I came out; and when he is come, he findeth it empty, swept, and garnished.

Someone [from the crowd] said to Him, "Look, your mother and your brothers are standing outside, wanting to speak to you."

And that same day Jesus went out from the house and sat down by the sea.

And he gave them teaching in the form of a story, saying, A man went out to put seed in the earth;

And the disciples came and said to him, Why do you say things to them in the form of stories?

He answered them, "You have been given knowledge about the secrets of the kingdom from heaven, but it hasn't been given to them,

For whosoever hath, to him shall be given, and he shall have more abundance: but whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken away even that he hath.

For this reason I put things into the form of stories; because they see without seeing, and give ear without hearing, and the sense is not clear to them.

For these people's minds are dull, and their ears have difficulty hearing, and they have shut their eyes. For if this were not the case, they would perceive what they see with their eyes, and comprehend what they hear with their ears, and understand with their minds and would turn [back to God] again so I would heal them [from their sins].'

From every one who hears the word of the kingdom and does not understand it, the wicked one comes and catches away what was sown in his heart: this is he that is sown by the wayside.

yet he has no firm root in himself, but is only temporary, and when affliction or persecution arises because of the word, immediately he falls away.

He presented another parable to them: "The kingdom from heaven may be compared to a man who sowed good seed in his field.

So the servants of the householder came and said unto him, Sir, didst not thou sow good seed in thy field? from whence then hath it tares?

He presented another parable to them, saying, "The kingdom from heaven is like a mustard seed that a man took and planted in his field.

He told them another parable: "The kingdom from heaven is like yeast that a woman took and mixed with three measures of flour until all of it was leavened."

All these things Jesus said to the people in the form of stories; and without a story he said nothing to them:

That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying, I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things which have been kept secret from the foundation of the world.

Then he went away from the people, and went into the house; and his disciples came to him, saying, Make clear to us the story of the evil plants in the field.

The Son of Man will send out His angels, and they will gather from His kingdom everything that causes sin and those guilty of lawlessness.

'Again, the reign of the heavens is like to treasure hid in the field, which a man having found did hide, and from his joy goeth, and all, as much as he hath, he selleth, and buyeth that field.

"Again, the kingdom from heaven is like a merchant searching for fine pearls.

"Again, the kingdom from heaven is like a large net thrown into the sea that gathered all kinds of fish.

So shall it be at the end of the world: the angels shall come forth, and sever the wicked from among the just,

And he said to them, For this reason every scribe who has become a disciple of the kingdom of heaven is like the owner of a house, who gives out from his store things new and old.

And it happened that when Jesus had finished these parables he went away from there.

And he came to his hometown [and] began to teach them in their synagogue, so that they were amazed and said, "From where did this man [get] this wisdom and these miracles?

And are not all his sisters with us? From where then did this man [get] all these [things]?"

And they took offense at Him [refusing to believe in Him]. But Jesus said to them, “A prophet is not without honor except in his hometown and in his own household.”

And said unto his servants, This is John the Baptist; he is risen from the dead; and therefore mighty works do shew forth themselves in him.

Now when Jesus heard it , he withdrew from thence in a boat, to a desert place apart: and when the multitudes heard thereof, they followed him on foot from the cities.

They all ate, and were filled. They took up twelve baskets full of that which remained left over from the broken pieces.

and those eating were about five thousand men, apart from women and children.

But the boat [by this time] was already a long distance from land, tossed and battered by the waves; for the wind was against them.

and the disciples having seen him walking upon the sea, were troubled saying -- 'It is an apparition,' and from the fear they cried out;

And he said, Come. And Peter went down from the boat, and walked upon the waters to come to Jesus.

But when he saw [the effects of] the wind, he was frightened, and he began to sink, and he cried out, “Lord, save me!”

And besought him that they might only touch the hem of his garment: and as many as touched were saved from danger.

Then there come to Jesus from Jerusalem Pharisees and scribes, saying,

But ye say, Whosoever shall say to his father or mother, It is a gift, whatsoever it be by which received from me thou wouldest be profited:

he shall be absolved from honouring his father'; and so you have abrogated God's Word for the sake of your tradition.

This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoureth me with their lips; but their heart is far from me.

not that which is coming into the mouth doth defile the man, but that which is coming forth from the mouth, this defileth the man.'

Do you not understand that whatever enters the mouth passes into the stomach and is afterwards ejected from the body?

But those things which proceed out of the mouth come forth from the heart; and they defile the man.

For from the heart come evil plans, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false witness, abusive speech.

And Jesus, going forth from thence, went away into the parts of Tyre and Sidon;

And behold, a Canaanitish woman came out from those borders, and cried, saying, Have mercy on me, O Lord, thou son of David; my daughter is grievously vexed with a demon.

And He answered [her], "It is not proper to take bread away from the children and throw it to the dogs."

And she said, Truth, Lord: yet the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their masters' table.

Then Jesus answered and said unto her, O woman, great is thy faith: be it unto thee even as thou wilt. And her daughter was made whole from that very hour.

And Jesus departed from thence, and came nigh unto the sea of Galilee; and went up into a mountain, and sat down there.

And his disciples said unto him, From where should we have so much bread in the wilderness, as to fill so great a multitude?

and those eating were four thousand men, apart from women and children.

The Pharisees also with the Sadducees came, and tempting desired him that he would shew them a sign from heaven.

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An evil and false generation is searching after a sign; and no sign will be given to it but the sign of Jonah. And he went away from them.

Then Jesus said to them, Beware and abstain from the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees.

upon which they said to one another, this comes from our not taking any bread.

How is it that you do not see that I was not talking to you about bread, but about keeping away from the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees?

Then understood they, that he spake about abstaining not from the leaven in the bread, but from the doctrine of the Pharisees and the Sadducees.

And Jesus made answer and said to him, A blessing on you, Simon Bar-jonah: because this knowledge has not come to you from flesh and blood, but from my Father in heaven.

And I, yes I, tell you, your name from now on is to be Peter, Rock, and on a massive rock like this I will build my church, and the powers of the underworld shall never overthrow it.

I will give you the keys to the kingdom from heaven. Whatever you prohibit on earth will have been prohibited in heaven, and whatever you permit on earth will have been permitted in heaven."

From that time forth began Jesus to shew unto his disciples, how that he must go unto Jerusalem, and suffer many things of the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and be raised again the third day.

Then Peter took him, and began to rebuke him, saying, Be it far from thee, Lord: this shall not be unto thee.