"A voice was heard in Ramah, weeping and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children; and she would not be comforted, because they are no more."

he said, "Make room, because the girl is not dead, but sleeping." They were ridiculing him.

But when he saw the crowds, he was moved with compassion for them, because they were harassed and scattered, like sheep without a shepherd.

He who receives a prophet in the name of a prophet will receive a prophet's reward. He who receives a righteous man because he is a righteous man will receive a righteous man's reward.

And whoever gives one of these little ones just a cup of cold water to drink because he is a disciple, truly I tell you he will in no way lose his reward."

Then he began to denounce the cities in which most of his mighty works had been done, because they did not repent.

And others fell on rocky ground, where they did not have much soil, and immediately they sprang up, because they had no depth of earth.

But when the sun had risen, they were scorched. Because they had no root, they withered away.

Therefore I speak to them in parables, because seeing they do not see, and hearing, they do not hear, neither do they understand.

yet he has no root in himself, but endures for a while. When oppression or persecution arises because of the word, immediately he stumbles.

And he did not do many mighty works there because of their unbelief.

And though he wanted to kill him, he feared the crowd because they regarded him as a prophet.

And he answered them, "Why do you also disobey the commandment of God because of your tradition?

he shall not honor his father or mother.' You have made the word of God void because of your tradition.

Jesus summoned his disciples and said, "I have compassion on the crowd, because they continue with me now three days and have nothing to eat. I do not want to send them away fasting, or they might faint on the way."

So he said to them, "Because of your little faith. For truly I tell you, if you have faith as a grain of mustard seed, you will tell this mountain, 'Move from here to there,' and it will move; and nothing will be impossible for you."

"Woe to the world because of stumbling blocks. For there will always be something to cause people to stumble, but woe to the person through whom the stumbling block comes.

But because he could not pay, his lord commanded him to be sold, with his wife, his children, and all that he had, and payment to be made.

Then his lord called him in, and said to him, 'You wicked servant. I forgave you all that debt, because you begged me.

He said to them, "Moses, because of the hardness of your hearts, allowed you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it has not been so.

"They said to him, 'Because no one has hired us.' "He said to them, 'You also go into the vineyard.'

Is not it lawful for me to do what I want to with what I own? Or is your eye evil, because I am good?'

When they sought to seize him, they feared the crowds, because they considered him to be a prophet.

All which they will say unto you, observe and do; but their works do not do, because they say, and do not do.

"But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites. Because you shut up the Kingdom of Heaven against men; for you do not enter in yourselves, neither do you allow those who are entering in to enter."

And because lawlessness is multiplied, the love of many will grow cold.

However, knowing this, Jesus said to them, "Why do you trouble the woman? Because she has done a good work for me.

Then Jesus said to them, "All of you will be made to stumble because of me tonight, for it is written, 'I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock will be scattered.'

But Peter answered him, "Even if all will be made to stumble because of you, I will never be made to stumble."

For he knew that because of envy they had delivered him up.

While he was sitting on the judgment seat, his wife sent to him, saying, "Have nothing to do with that righteous man, for I have suffered many things this day in a dream because of him."