When they caught sight of the star, they were intensely glad;

on reaching the house they saw the child with his mother Mary, they fell down to worship him, and opening their caskets they offered him gifts of gold and frankincense and myrrh.

When he reached the opposite side, the country of the Gadarenes, he was met by two demoniacs who ran out of the tombs; they were so violent that nobody could pass along the road there.

you are not to take gold or silver or coppers in your girdle,

And whoever gives one of these little ones even a cup of cold water because he is a disciple, I tell you, he shall not lose his reward."

There he could not do many miracles owing to their lack of faith.

He was still speaking when a bright cloud overshadowed them, and from the cloud a voice said, "This is my Son, the Beloved, in him is my delight: listen to him."

I brought him to your disciples, but they could not heal him."

Then the disciples came to Jesus in private and said, "Why could we not cast it out?"

He said to them, "Because you have so little faith. I tell you truly, if you had faith the size of a grain of mustard-seed, you could say to this hill, 'Move from here to there,' and remove it would; nothing would be impossible for you."

saying to them, "Go to the village in front of you and you will at once find an ass tethered with a colt alongside of her; untether them and bring them to me.

Tell the daughter of Sion, 'Here is your king coming to you, He is gentle and mounted on an ass, And on a colt the foal of a beast of burden.'

they brought the ass and the colt and put their clothes on them. Jesus seated himself on them,

No one could make any answer to him, and from that day no one ventured to put another question to him.

Woe to you, blind guides that you are! you say, 'Swear by the sanctuary, and it means nothing; but swear by the gold of the sanctuary, and the oath is binding.'

You are senseless and blind! for which is the greater, the gold or the sanctuary that makes the gold sacred?

And in most of you love will grow cold by the increase of iniquity;

Then he went to the disciples and found them asleep; and he said to Peter, "So the three of you could not watch with me for a single hour?

Only, how could the scriptures be fulfilled then ??the scriptures that say this must be so?"

but they could find none, although a number of false witnesses came forward. However, two men came forward at last