Then, as they had been divinely warned in a dream not to go back to Herod, they returned to their own country by another way.

Then Herod saw that he had been tricked by the astrologers, and he was very angry, and he sent and made away with all the boys in Bethlehem and in all that neighborhood who were two years old or under, for that was the tune he had learned from the astrologers by his inquiries.

But when Jesus heard that John had been arrested, he retreated to Galilee.

But from the time of John the Baptist until now men have been taking the Kingdom of Heaven by storm and impetuously crowding into it.

Then he began to reproach the towns in which his numerous wonders had been done, because they did not repent.

"Alas for you, Chorazin! Alas for you, Bethsaida! For if the wonders that have been done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented in sackcloth and ashes long ago!

And you, Capernaum! Are you to be exalted to the skies? You will go down among the dead! For if the wonders that have been done in you had been done in Sodom, it would have stood until today.

Everything has been handed over to me by my Father, and no one understands the Son but the Father, nor does anyone understand the Father but the Son and anyone to whom the Son chooses to reveal him.

When anyone hears the teaching of the kingdom and does not understand it, the evil one comes and robs him of the seed that has been sown in his mind. That is what was sown along the path.

to fulfil what was said by the prophet, "I will open my mouth in figures, I will utter things that have been hidden since the creation."

But he answered, "Why do you too break God's command for the sake of what has been handed down to you?

But you say, 'Whoever tells his father or mother, "Anything of mine that might have been of use to you is given to God,"

does not have to provide for his father.' So you have nullified what God has said, for the sake of what has been handed down to you.

Then Jesus called his disciples to him and said to them, "I pity these people for they have been staying with me three days now and they have nothing left to eat, and I do not mean to send them away hungry, for they may give out on the way."

And I brought him to your disciples and they have not been able to cure him."

For some are incapable of marriage from their birth, and some have been made so by men, and some have made themselves so for the sake of the Kingdom of Heaven. Let him accept it who can."

About five he went out and found others standing about and he said to them, 'Why have you been standing about here all day doing nothing?'

And he sent his slaves to summon those who had been invited to the banquet, and they would not come.

He sent other slaves a second time, and said to them, 'Tell those who have been asked, "Here I have my banquet all ready, my bullocks and fat cattle are killed, and everything is ready. Come to the banquet!" '

and say, 'If we had been living in the times of our fathers, we would not have joined them in the murder of the prophets.'

for there will be greater misery then than there has ever been from the beginning of creation until now, or ever will be again.

If those days had not been cut short, nobody would have escaped, but for the sake of God's people those days will be cut short.

But you may be sure of this, that if the master of the house had known in what part of the night the thief was coming, he would have been on the watch, and would not have let his house be broken into.

His master said to him, 'Well done, my excellent, faithful slave! you have been faithful about a small amount; I will put a large one into your hands. Come, share your master's enjoyment!'

His master said to him, 'Well done, my excellent, faithful slave! you have been faithful about a small amount; I will put a large one into your hands. Come! share your master's enjoyment.'

Then the king will say to those at his right, 'Come, you whom my Father has blessed, take possession of the kingdom which has been destined for you from the creation of the world.

It might have been sold for a large sum, and the money given to the poor."

The Son of Man is to go away as the Scriptures say of him, but alas for the man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would have been better for that man if he had never been born!"

Then Judas who had betrayed him, when he saw that he had been condemned, in his remorse brought back the thirty silver pieces to the high priests and elders,

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

So the words spoken by the prophet Jeremiah were fulfilled: "They took the thirty silver pieces, the price of the one whose price had been fixed, on whom some of the Israelites had set a price,

And the captain and the men with him who were watching Jesus, when they saw the earthquake and all that was happening, were dreadfully frightened and said, "He surely must have been a son of God!"

In the evening a rich man named Joseph, from Arimathea, who had himself been a disciple of Jesus, came.

So they took the money and did as they were told. And this story has been current among the Jews ever since.

And Jesus came up to them and said, "Full authority in heaven and on the earth has been given to me.