Look at the birds of the sky: They don’t sow or reap or gather into barns, yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Aren’t you worth more than they?

He said to them, “Haven’t you read what David did when he and those who were with him were hungry—

Or haven’t you read in the Law that on Sabbath days the priests in the temple violate the Sabbath and are innocent?

And in the morning, ‘Today will be stormy because the sky is red and threatening.’ You know how to read the appearance of the sky, but you can’t read the signs of the times.

“Haven’t you read,” He replied, “that He who created them in the beginning made them male and female,”

and said to Him, “Do You hear what these children are saying?”

“Yes,” Jesus told them. “Have you never read:

You have prepared praise
from the mouths of children and nursing infants?”

Jesus said to them, “Have you never read in the Scriptures:

The stone that the builders rejected
has become the cornerstone.
This came from the Lord
and is wonderful in our eyes?

Now concerning the resurrection of the dead, haven’t you read what was spoken to you by God:

“But his master replied to him, ‘You evil, lazy slave! If you knew that I reap where I haven’t sown and gather where I haven’t scattered,