Any tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and burned.

And anyone who listens to this teaching of mine and does not act upon it, will be like a foolish man who built his house on sand.

For I am myself under the orders of others and I have soldiers under me, and I tell one to go, and he goes, and another to come, and he comes, and my slave to do something, and he does it."

And the Pharisees observed it, and they said to his disciples, "Why does your master eat with tax-collectors and irreligious people?"

If the house deserves it, the peace you wish it will come over it, but if it does not deserve it, your blessing will come back upon yourselves.

Now that the Son of Man has come, he does eat and drink, and people say, 'Look at him! A glutton and a drinker, the companion of tax-collectors and irreligious people!' And yet Wisdom is vindicated by her actions!"

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.

Anyone who is not with me is against me, and anyone who does not join me in gathering, scatters.

For whoever does the will of my Father in heaven is my brother and sister and mother!"

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.

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.

He answered, "Elijah does come and is to reform everything,

When they reached Capernaum, the collectors of the temple-tax came and said to Peter, "Does not your Master pay the temple-tax?"

And if he happens to find it, I tell you he rejoices more over it than he does over the ninety-nine that did not stray.

Alas for you, you blind guides, who say, 'If anyone swears by the sanctuary, it does not matter, but if anyone swears by the gold of the sanctuary, it is binding.'

You say, 'If anyone swears by the altar, it does not matter, but if anyone swears by the offering that is on it, it is binding.'

that slave's master will come back some day when he does not expect him, and at some time of which he does not know