He sent them to Bethlehem and said, "Go and look carefully for the child. When you find him, inform me so that I can go and worship him as well."

and don't think you can say to yourselves, 'We have Abraham as our father.' For I tell you that God can raise up children for Abraham from these stones!

"You are the salt of the earth. But if salt loses its flavor, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything except to be thrown out and trampled on by people.

In the same way, let your light shine before people, so that they can see your good deeds and give honor to your Father in heaven.

"Whenever you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, because they love to pray while standing in synagogues and on street corners so that people can see them. Truly I say to you, they have their reward.

"No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money.

And which of you by worrying can add even one hour to his life?

Or how can you say to your brother, 'Let me remove the speck from your eye,' while there is a beam in your own?

You hypocrite! First remove the beam from your own eye, and then you can see clearly to remove the speck from your brother's eye.

And a leper approached, and bowed low before him, saying, "Lord, if you are willing, you can make me clean."

Jesus said to them, "The wedding guests cannot mourn while the bridegroom is with them, can they? But the days are coming when the bridegroom will be taken from them, and then they will fast.

How else can someone enter a strong man's house and steal his property, unless he first ties up the strong man? Then he can thoroughly plunder the house.

When evening arrived, his disciples came to him saying, "This is an isolated place and the hour is already late. Send the crowds away so that they can go into the villages and buy food for themselves."

The disciples said to him, "Where can we get enough bread in this desolate place to satisfy so great a crowd?"

For what does it benefit a person if he gains the whole world but forfeits his life? Or what can a person give in exchange for his life?

He said to them, "Not everyone can accept this statement, except those to whom it has been given.

The disciples were greatly astonished when they heard this and said, "Then who can be saved?"

"The kingdom of heaven can be compared to a king who gave a wedding banquet for his son.

If David then calls him 'Lord,' how can he be his son?"

and saying, "You who can destroy the temple and rebuild it in three days, save yourself! If you are God's Son, come down from the cross!"

Pilate said to them, "Take a guard of soldiers. Go and make it as secure as you can."