John wore clothing made of hair cloth, and he had a leather belt around his waist, and he lived on dried locusts and wild honey.

You are the light of the world! A city that is built upon a hill cannot be hidden.

"Everyone, therefore, who listens to this teaching of mine and acts upon it, will be like a sensible man who built his house on rock.

And anyone who listens to this teaching of mine and does not act upon it, will be like a foolish man who built his house on sand.

But I tell you, your name is Peter, a rock, and on this rock I will build my church, and the powers of death shall not subdue it.

"Listen to another figure. There was a land owner who planted a vineyard and fenced it in, and hewed out a wine-vat in it, and built a watch-tower, and leased it to tenants, and left the neighborhood.

Then the Pharisees went and made a plot to entrap him in argument.

"Alas for you, you hypocritical scribes and Pharisees, for you build tombs for the prophets, and decorate the monuments of the upright,

it is that on your heads may come all the righteous blood shed on the earth from the blood of Abel the upright to the blood of Zechariah, Barachiah's son, whom you murdered between the sanctuary and the altar!

"You must all drink from it, for this is my blood which ratifies the agreement, and is to be poured out for many people, for the forgiveness of their sins.

You must all watch, and pray that you may not be exposed to trial! One's spirit is eager, but flesh and blood are weak!"

and said, "This man said, 'I can tear down the sanctuary of God, and build it up in three days.' "

The high priests gathered up the money, and they said, "It is not legal to put this into the Temple treasury, for it is blood money."

For this reason that piece of ground has ever since been called the Field of Blood.

And all the people answered, "His blood be on us and on our children!"

and saying, "You who would tear down the sanctuary, and build one in three days, save yourself! If you are the Son of God, come down from the cross!"