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

he said to them, "Make room, because the girl isn't dead, but sleeping." They were ridiculing him.

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

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

Others fell on rocky ground, where they didn't have much soil, and immediately they sprang up, because they had no depth of earth.

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 don't see, and hearing, they don't 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.

He didn't do many mighty works there because of their unbelief.

When he would have put him to death, he feared the multitude, because they counted him as a prophet.

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 commandment of God void because of your tradition.

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

Jesus, perceiving it, said, "Why do you reason among yourselves, you of little faith, 'because you have brought no bread?'

He said to them, "Because of your unbelief. For most certainly 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 occasions of stumbling! For it must be that the occasions come, but woe to that person through whom the occasion comes!

But because he couldn't 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, and you will receive whatever is right.'

Isn't 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 multitudes, because they considered him to be a prophet.

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

Because iniquity will be 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."