For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Do not even the tax collectors do the same?

And if you only greet your brothers, what more do you do than others? Do not even the Gentiles do the same?

And at once some of the scribes said to themselves, "This man blasphemes."

And as he sowed, some seeds fell by the roadside, and the birds came and devoured them.

Still others fell on good soil, and yielded fruit: some one hundred times as much, some sixty, and some thirty.

And what was sown on the good ground, this is he who hears the word, and understands it, who truly bears fruit, and brings forth, some one hundred times as much, some sixty, and some thirty."

"Again, the Kingdom of Heaven is like a dragnet, that was cast into the sea, and gathered some fish of every kind,

They said, "Some say John the Baptist, some, Elijah, and others, Jeremiah, or one of the prophets."

Truly I tell you, there are some standing here who will in no way taste of death, until they see the Son of Man coming in his Kingdom."

Whoever therefore humbles himself as this little child, the same is the greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven.

He came to the second, and said the same thing. He answered, 'I go, sir,' but he did not go.

Again, he sent other servants more than the first: and they treated them the same way.

Jesus said to them, "Did you never read in the Scriptures, 'The stone which the builders rejected, the same was made the head of the corner. This was from the Lord. It is marvelous in our eyes?'

Therefore take notice, I send to you prophets, wise men, and scribes. Some of them you will kill and crucify; and some of them you will scourge in your synagogues, and persecute from city to city;

But he who endures to the end, the same will be saved.

The foolish said to the wise, 'Give us some of your oil, for our lamps are going out.'

He answered, "He who dipped his hand with me in the dish, the same will betray me.

He left them again, went away, and prayed a third time, saying the same words.

Then they spit in his face and beat him with their fists, and some slapped him,

Then that which was spoken through Jeremiah the prophet was fulfilled, saying, "They took the thirty pieces of silver, the price of him upon whom a price had been set, whom some of the sons of Israel priced,

The robbers also who were crucified with him cast on him the same reproach.

Some of them who stood there, when they heard it, said, "This man is calling Elijah."

Now while they were going, look, some of the guards came into the city, and told the chief priests all the things that had happened.

When they saw him, they bowed down to him, but some doubted.