“You are the salt of the earth; but if the salt has become tasteless, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything, except to be thrown out and trampled under foot by men.

But if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light that is in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!

And why are you worried about clothing? Observe how the lilies of the field grow; they do not toil nor do they spin,

Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ and behold, the log is in your own eye?

If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give what is good to those who ask Him!

But when they hand you over, do not worry about how or what you are to say; for it will be given you in that hour what you are to say.

It is enough for the disciple that he become like his teacher, and the slave like his master. If they have called the head of the house Beelzebul, how much more will they malign the members of his household!

how he entered the house of God, and they ate the consecrated bread, which was not lawful for him to eat nor for those with him, but for the priests alone?

How much more valuable then is a man than a sheep! So then, it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath.”

But the Pharisees went out and conspired against Him, as to how they might destroy Him.

If Satan casts out Satan, he is divided against himself; how then will his kingdom stand?

Or how can anyone enter the strong man’s house and carry off his property, unless he first binds the strong man? And then he will plunder his house.

You brood of vipers, how can you, being evil, speak what is good? For the mouth speaks out of that which fills the heart.

The slaves of the landowner came and said to him, ‘Sir, did you not sow good seed in your field? How then does it have tares?’

And Jesus *said to them, “How many loaves do you have?” And they said, “Seven, and a few small fish.”

And in the morning, ‘There will be a storm today, for the sky is red and threatening.’ Do you know how to discern the appearance of the sky, but cannot discern the signs of the times?

Do you not yet understand or remember the five loaves of the five thousand, and how many baskets full you picked up?

Or the seven loaves of the four thousand, and how many large baskets full you picked up?

How is it that you do not understand that I did not speak to you concerning bread? But beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees.”

And Jesus answered and said, “You unbelieving and perverted generation, how long shall I be with you? How long shall I put up with you? Bring him here to Me.”

Then Peter came and said to Him, “Lord, how often shall my brother sin against me and I forgive him? Up to seven times?”

Seeing this, the disciples were amazed and asked, “How did the fig tree wither all at once?”

and he *said to him, ‘Friend, how did you come in here without wedding clothes?’ And the man was speechless.

Then the Pharisees went and plotted together how they might trap Him in what He said.

He *said to them, “Then how does David in the Spirit call Him ‘Lord,’ saying,

If David then calls Him ‘Lord,’ how is He his son?”

You serpents, you brood of vipers, how will you escape the sentence of hell?

“Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children together, the way a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you were unwilling.

How then will the Scriptures be fulfilled, which say that it must happen this way?”

Then Pilate *said to Him, “Do You not hear how many things they testify against You?”

Pilate said to them, “You have a guard; go, make it as secure as you know how.”