'A voice was heard in Ramah, Weeping and much lamentation; Rachel, weeping for her children, Refused all comfort because they were not.'

Be glad and rejoice, because your reward in Heaven will be great; for so men persecuted the Prophets who lived before you.

But, when he saw the crowds, his heart was moved with compassion for them, because they were distressed and harassed, 'like sheep without a shepherd';

He who welcomes a Prophet, because he is a Prophet, shall receive a Prophet's reward; and he who welcomes a good man, because he is a good man, shall receive a good man's reward.

And, if any one gives but a cup of cold water to one of these lowly ones because he is a disciple, I tell you that he shall assuredly not lose his reward."

Then Jesus began to reproach the towns in which most of his miracles had been done, because they had not repented:

At the Judgment, the men of Nineveh will stand up with this generation, and will condemn it, because they repented at Jonah's proclamation; and here is more than a Jonah!

At the Judgment the Queen of the South will rise up with the present generation, and will condemn it, because she came from the very ends of the earth to listen to the wisdom of Solomon; and here is more than a Solomon!

That is why I speak to them in parables, because, though they have eyes, they do not see, and though they have ears, they do not hear or understand.

And he did not work many miracles there, because of their want of faith.

Yet, though Herod wanted to put him to death, he was afraid of the people, because they looked on John as a Prophet.

"Because you have so little faith," he answered; "for, I tell you, if your faith were only like a mustard-seed, you could say to this mountain 'Move from this place to that!' and it would be moved; and nothing would be impossible to you."

Alas for the world because of such snares! There cannot but be snares; yet alas for the man who is answerable for the snare!

'Because no one has hired us,' they answered. 'You also may go into my vineyard,' he said.

Have not I the right to do as I choose with what is mine? Are you envious because I am liberal?'

The Chief Priests took the pieces of silver, but they said: "We must not put them into the Temple treasury, because they are blood-money."