"Look! The virgin will conceive and bear a son, and they will call him Emmanuel," which means "God with us."

After they had gone, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream and said, "Get up, take the child and his mother and flee to Egypt, and stay there until I tell you, for Herod is going to look for the child to kill him."

Then he got up, took the child and his mother during the night, and went to Egypt.

saying, "Get up, take the child and his mother, and go to the land of Israel, for those who were seeking the child's life are dead."

So he got up and took the child and his mother and returned to the land of Israel.

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!

Even now the ax is laid at the root of the trees, and every tree that does not produce good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire.

After Jesus was baptized, just as he was coming up out of the water, the heavens opened and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and coming on him.

The tempter came and said to him, "If you are the Son of God, command these stones to become bread."

But he answered, "It is written, 'Man does not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.'"

and said to him, "If you are the Son of God, throw yourself down. For it is written, 'He will command his angels concerning you' and 'with their hands they will lift you up, so that you will not strike your foot against a stone.'"

Jesus said to him, "Once again it is written: 'You are not to put the Lord your God to the test.'"

Then Jesus said to him, "Go away, Satan! For it is written: 'You are to worship the Lord your God and serve only him.'"

"Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God.

"Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called the children of God.

"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.

I tell you the truth, you will never get out of there until you have paid the last penny!

If your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away! It is better to lose one of your members than to have your whole body go into hell.

But I say to you, do not take oaths at all -- not by heaven, because it is the throne of God,

And if someone wants to sue you and to take your tunic, give him your coat also.

so that you may be like your Father in heaven, since he causes the sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous.

"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 if this is how God clothes the wild grass, which is here today and tomorrow is tossed into the fire to heat the oven, won't he clothe you even more, you people of little faith?

If you then, although you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask him!

"Enter through the narrow gate, because the gate is wide and the way is spacious that leads to destruction, and there are many who enter through it.

But the gate is narrow and the way is difficult that leads to life, and there are few who find it.

In the same way, every good tree bears good fruit, but the bad tree bears bad fruit.

A good tree is not able to bear bad fruit, nor a bad tree to bear good fruit.

Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.

He touched her hand, and the fever left her. Then she got up and began to serve them.

As he got into the boat, his disciples followed him.

But he said to them, "Why are you cowardly, you people of little faith?" Then he got up and rebuked the winds and the sea, and it was dead calm.

They cried out, "Son of God, leave us alone! Have you come here to torment us before the time?"

When the crowd saw this, they were afraid and honored God who had given such authority to men.

As Jesus went on from there, he saw a man named Matthew sitting at the tax booth. "Follow me," he said to him. And he got up and followed him.

Jesus and his disciples got up and followed him.

But when the crowd had been put outside, he went in and gently took her by the hand, and the girl got up.

Then Jesus went throughout all the towns and villages, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the good news of the kingdom, and healing every kind of disease and sickness.

The blind see, the lame walk, lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, and the poor have good news proclaimed to them.

how he entered the house of God and they ate the sacred bread, which was against the law for him or his companions to eat, but only for the priests?

How much more valuable is a person than a sheep! So it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath."

But if I cast out demons by the Spirit of God, then the kingdom of God has already overtaken you.

"Make a tree good and its fruit will be good, or make a tree bad and its fruit will be bad, for a tree is known by its fruit.

Offspring of vipers! How are you able to say anything good, since you are evil? For the mouth speaks from what fills the heart.

The good person brings good things out of his good treasury, and the evil person brings evil things out of his evil treasury.

And such a large crowd gathered around him that he got into a boat to sit while the whole crowd stood on the shore.

But other seeds fell on good soil and produced grain, some a hundred times as much, some sixty, and some thirty.

But as for the seed sown on good soil, this is the person who hears the word and understands. He bears fruit, yielding a hundred, sixty, or thirty times what was sown."

He presented them with another parable: "The kingdom of heaven is like a person who sowed good seed in his field.

So the slaves of the owner came and said to him, 'Sir, didn't you sow good seed in your field? Then where did the weeds come from?'

He answered, "The one who sowed the good seed is the Son of Man.

The field is the world and the good seed are the people of the kingdom. The weeds are the people of the evil one,

When it was full, they pulled it ashore, sat down, and put the good fish into containers and threw the bad away.

Then he came to his hometown and began to teach the people in their synagogue. They were astonished and said, "Where did this man get such wisdom and miraculous powers?

And aren't all his sisters here with us? Where did he get all this?"

As he got out he saw the large crowd, and he had compassion on them and healed their sick.

Immediately Jesus made the disciples get into the boat and go ahead of him to the other side, while he dispersed the crowds.

So he said, "Come." Peter got out of the boat, walked on the water, and came toward Jesus.

Then those who were in the boat worshiped him, saying, "Truly you are the Son of God."

He answered them, "And why do you disobey the commandment of God because of your tradition?

For God said, 'Honor your father and mother' and 'Whoever insults his father or mother must be put to death.'

But you say, 'If someone tells his father or mother, "Whatever help you would have received from me is given to God,"

he does not need to honor his father.' You have nullified the word of God on account of your tradition.

As a result, the crowd was amazed when they saw the mute speaking, the crippled healthy, the lame walking, and the blind seeing, and they praised the God of Israel.

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

After sending away the crowd, he got into the boat and went to the region of Magadan.

Simon Peter answered, "You are the Christ, the Son of the living God."

So Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him: "God forbid, Lord! This must not happen to you!"

But he turned and said to Peter, "Get behind me, Satan! You are a stumbling block to me, because you are not setting your mind on God's interests, but on man's."

So Peter said to Jesus, "Lord, it is good for us to be here. If you want, I will make three shelters -- one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah."

But Jesus came and touched them. "Get up," he said. "Do not be afraid."

If your hand or your foot causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life crippled or lame than to have two hands or two feet and be thrown into eternal fire.

So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate."

Now someone came up to him and said, "Teacher, what good thing must I do to gain eternal life?"

He said to him, "Why do you ask me about what is good? There is only one who is good. But if you want to enter into life, keep the commandments."

Again I say, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter into the kingdom of God."

Jesus looked at them and replied, "This is impossible for mere humans, but for God all things are possible."

The crowd scolded them to get them to be quiet. But they shouted even more loudly, "Lord, have mercy on us, Son of David!"

A very large crowd spread their cloaks on the road. Others cut branches from the trees and spread them on the road.

Which of the two did his father's will?" They said, "The first." Jesus said to them, "I tell you the truth, tax collectors and prostitutes will go ahead of you into the kingdom of God!

But when the tenants saw the son, they said to themselves, 'This is the heir. Come, let's kill him and get his inheritance!'

For this reason I tell you that the kingdom of God will be taken from you and given to a people who will produce its fruit.

And those slaves went out into the streets and gathered all they found, both bad and good, and the wedding hall was filled with guests.

And he said to him, 'Friend, how did you get in here without wedding clothes?' But he had nothing to say.

They sent to him their disciples along with the Herodians, saying, "Teacher, we know that you are truthful, and teach the way of God in accordance with the truth. You do not court anyone's favor because you show no partiality.

They replied, "Caesar's." He said to them, "Then give to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's."

Jesus answered them, "You are deceived, because you don't know the scriptures or the power of God.

Now as for the resurrection of the dead, have you not read what was spoken to you by God,

I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob'? He is not the God of the dead but of the living!"

Jesus said to him, "'Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.'

"Woe to you, experts in the law and you Pharisees, hypocrites! You cross land and sea to make one convert, and when you get one, you make him twice as much a child of hell as yourselves!

And whoever swears by heaven swears by the throne of God and the one who sits on it.

and the one in the field must not turn back to get his cloak.

And if those days had not been cut short, no one would be saved. But for the sake of the elect those days will be cut short.

and will cut him in two, and assign him a place with the hypocrites, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

His master answered, 'Well done, good and faithful slave! You have been faithful in a few things. I will put you in charge of many things. Enter into the joy of your master.'

His master answered, 'Well done, good and faithful slave! You have been faithful with a few things. I will put you in charge of many things. Enter into the joy of your master.'

When Jesus learned of this, he said to them, "Why are you bothering this woman? She has done a good service for me.

Get up, let us go. Look! My betrayer is approaching!"