"A sob was heard in Ramah, weeping and great wailing, Rachel weeping for her children, and she refused to be comforted, because they were gone."

The people that were living in darkness have seen a great light, and on those that were living in the land of the shadow of death; a light has dawned."

So great crowds followed Him, from Galilee and Decapolis, from Jerusalem and Judea, and from the other side of Jordan.

Whoever, therefore, breaks one of the least of these commands and teaches others so to do, will be ranked as least in the kingdom of heaven, but whoever practices them and teaches others so to do, will be ranked as great in the kingdom of heaven.

"You have heard that it was said to the men of old, 'You must not murder,' and 'Whoever murders will have to answer to the court.'

But I say to you: "Everyone who harbors malice against his brother, will have to answer to the court, and whoever speaks contemptuously to his brother, will have to answer to the supreme court; and whoever says to his brother, 'You cursed fool? will have to pay the penalty in the pit of torture.

leave your grit right there at the altar, and first go and make peace with your brother, and then come back and present your gift.

Be quick to come to terms with your opponent while you are on the road to court with him, so that he may not turn you over to the judge and the judge turn you over to the officer, and you be put in prison.

or by the earth, for it is His footstool, or by Jerusalem, for it is the city of the Great King.

When he came down from the mountain, great crowds followed Him.

When Jesus heard it, He was astounded, and said to His followers, "I solemnly say to you, I have not found, in a single case among the Jews, so great faith as this.

Now Jesus, because He saw a crowd about Him, gave orders to cross to the other side.

And He said to them, "Why are you afraid, O you with little faith?" Then He got up and rebuked the winds and the sea, and there was a great calm.

And Jesus, on coming to the house of the official, and on seeing the flute-players and the wailing crowd,

But when the crowd had been driven out, He went in and took hold of her hand, and the girl got up.

Be on your guard against men, for they will turn you over to the courts and will flog you in their synagogues,

And the crowds that gathered about Him were so great that He got into a boat and remained sitting in it, while all the crowd stood on the seashore.

So when He got out of the boat and saw a great crowd, His heart was moved with pity for them, and He cured their sick people.

and great crowds came up to Him bringing with them the lame, the crippled, the blind, the deaf, and many others. They laid them at His feet, and He cured them,

so that the crowd was astonished to see the dumb talking, the lame walking, and the blind seeing. So they praised the God of Israel.

Then Jesus called His disciples to Him, and said, "My heart is moved with pity for the crowd, for it is now three days they have been staying with me, and they have nothing at all left to eat, and I fear they might give out on the way home."

The disciples said to Him, "Where in this destitute place can we get bread enough to satisfy such a crowd?"

Then He ordered the crowd to sit down on the ground,

Then they understood that He meant, guard yourselves not against yeast for bread, but against the teaching of the Pharisees and the Sadducees.

When they reached the crowd, a man came up to Him, kneeling before Him and saying,

But whoever leads one of these little ones, who believe in me, to do wrong, had better have a great millstone hung around his neck to sink him to the bottom of the sea.

And great crowds thronged after Him, and He cured them there.

And when the young man heard that, he went away in deep distress, for he owned a great deal of property.

But Jesus called them to Him and said, "You know that the rulers of the heathen lord it over them, and their great men rule as despots over them.

It is not to be so among you, but whoever wants to be great among you must be your servant,

As they were leaving Jericho, a great crowd followed Him.

The crowd reproved them and urged them to keep quiet, but they cried out all the louder, "Do pity us, Lord, you Son of David!"

And most of the crowd spread their coats along the road, but some were cutting branches from the trees and spreading them along the road.

A curse on you, you hypocritical scribes and Pharisees, for you clean the outside of the cup and the dish, but inside they are full of your greed and self-indulgence.

for false Christs and false prophets will announce themselves, and they will show great signs and wonders to mislead, if possible, God's chosen people.

But be sure of this, that if the master of the house had known in exactly what part of the night the thief would come, he would have been on guard and would not have let his house be broken into.

Even while He was still speaking, here came Judas, one of the Twelve, and with him a crowd, with swords and clubs, from the high priests and the elders of the people.

For he knew that they had turned Him over to the court out of envy.

So Pilate, since he saw that he was making no headway with them, but that a riot was about to break out instead, took some water and washed his hands before the crowd, and said, "I am not responsible for this man's death; you must see to it yourselves."

And the army captain and his men, who were keeping guard over Jesus, who felt the earthquake and saw all that was taking place, were terribly frightened, and said, "Surely this was God's Son."

Pilate said to them, "Take the military guard and go and make it as secure as you can."

So off they went and made the tomb secure by sealing the boulder and setting a guard.

Now there had been a great earthquake. For an angel of the Lord came down from heaven and went and rolled the boulder back and remained sitting upon it.

The men on guard trembled in awe of him, and became like dead men.

While they were on their way, some members of the guard went into the city and told the high priests everything that had taken place.