"O Bethlehem in the land of Judah, you are by no means least among the rulers of Judah, because from you will come a ruler who will shepherd my people Israel.'"

Then he went throughout Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, proclaiming the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every disease and every illness among the people.

"There isn't a person among you who would give his son a stone if he asked for bread, is there?

"Pay attention, now! I am sending you out like sheep among wolves. So be as cunning as serpents and as innocent as doves.

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.

But he asked them, "Is there a man among you who, if he had one sheep and it fell into a ditch on the Sabbath, wouldn't take hold of it and pull it out?

Other seeds fell among thorn bushes, and the thorn bushes grew higher and choked them out.

As for what was sown among the thorn bushes, this is the person who hears the word, but the worries of life and the deceitful pleasures of wealth choke the word so that it can't produce a crop.

While people were sleeping, his enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat and went away.

That is how it will be at the end of the age. The angels will go out, cull out the evil people from among the righteous ones,

As they began to discuss this among themselves, they kept saying, "We didn't bring along any bread."

Knowing this, Jesus asked them, "You who have little faith, why are you discussing among yourselves the fact that you don't have any bread?

Calling a little child forward, he had him stand among them.

because where two or three have come together in my name, I am there among them."

That's not the way it should be among you. Instead, whoever wants to be great among you must be your servant,

and whoever wants to be first among you must be your slave.

They began discussing this among themselves: "If we say, "From heaven,' he will ask us, "Then why didn't you believe him?' But if we say, "From humans,' we are afraid of the crowd, because everyone regards John as a prophet."

Now there were seven brothers among us. The first one married and died, and since he had no children, he left his widow to his brother.

The person who is greatest among you must be your servant.

But they kept saying, "This must not happen during the festival. Otherwise, there'll be a riot among the people."

Among them were Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James and Joseph, and the mother of Zebedee's sons.

So the soldiers took the money, did as they were instructed, and this story has been spread among the Jews to this day.