Then, as they had been divinely warned in a dream not to return to Herod, they went back to their own country by a different road.

The axe is lying all ready at the root of the trees; any tree that is not producing good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire.

If your right eye is a hindrance to you, pluck it out and throw it away: better for you to lose one of your members than to have all your body thrown into Gehenna.

And if your right hand is a hindrance to you, cut it off and throw it away: better for you to lose one of your members than to have all your body thrown into Gehenna.

But I tell you, you are not to resist an injury: whoever strikes you on the right cheek, turn the other to him as well;

When you give alms, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing,

Do not pray by idle rote like pagans, for they suppose they will be heard the more they say;

Enter by the narrow gate: for [the gate] is broad and the road is wide that leads to destruction, and many enter that way.

But the road that leads to life is both narrow and close, and there are few who find it.

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.

nor a wallet for the road, nor two shirts, nor sandals, nor stick ??the workman deserves his rations.

As the disciples of John went away, Jesus proceeded to speak to the crowds about John: "What did you go out to the desert to see? A reed swayed by the wind?

He replied, "Have you not read what David did when he and his men were hungry,

Have you not read in the Law that the priests in the temple are not guilty when they desecrate the sabbath?

Now a man with a withered hand was there; so in order to get a charge against him they asked him, "Is it right to heal on the sabbath?"

And how much more is a man worth than a sheep? Thus it is right to do a kindness on the sabbath."

He will not break the bruised reed, he will not put out the smouldering flax, till he carries religion to victory:

and as he sowed some seeds fell on the road and the birds came and ate them up.

but when the sun rose they got scorched and withered away because they had no root.

When anyone hears the word of the Realm and does not understand it, the evil one comes and snatches away what has been sown in his heart; that is the man who is sown 'on the road.'

he has no root in himself, he does not last, but when the word brings trouble or persecution he is at once repelled.

'No,' he said, 'for you might root up the wheat when you were gathering the weeds.

since John had told him, "You have no right to her."

Then Jesus called his disciples and said, "I am sorry for the crowd; they have been three days with me now, and they have nothing to eat. I will not send them away starving, in case they faint on the road."

Then the Pharisees came up to tempt him. They asked, "Is it right to divorce one's wife for any reason?"

He replied, "Have you never read that He who created them male and female from the beginning

Now as Jesus was about to go up to Jerusalem he took the twelve aside by themselves and said to them as they were on the road,

He said to her, "What do you want?" She said, "Give orders that my two sons are to sit at your right hand and at your left in your Realm."

"You shall drink my cup," said Jesus, "but it is not for me to grant seats at my right hand and at my left; these belong to the men for whom they have been destined by my Father."

and when two blind men who were sitting beside the road heard Jesus was passing, they shouted, "O Lord, Son of David, have pity on us!"

and the greater part of the crowd spread their clothes on the road, while others cut branches from the trees and strewed them on the road.

they said to him, "Do you hear what they are saying?" "Yes," said Jesus, "have you never read Thou hast brought praise to perfection from the mouth of babes and sucklings?"

Jesus said to them, "Have you never read in the scriptures, The stone that the builders rejected is the chief stone now of the corner: this is the doing of the Lord, and a wonder to our eyes?

Tell us, then, what you think about this. Is it right to pay taxes to Caesar or not?"

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

The Lord said to my Lord, 'Sit at my right hand, till I put your enemies under your feet.'

setting the sheep on his right hand and the goats on his left.

Then shall the King say to those on his right, 'Come, you whom my Father has blessed, come into your inheritance in the realm prepared for you from the foundation of the world.

"Only," they said, "it must not be during the festival, in case of a riot among the people."

The Son of man goes the road that the scripture has described for him, but woe to the man by whom the Son of man is betrayed! Better that man had never been born!"

Jesus said to him, "Even so! But I tell you, in future you will all see the Son of man seated at the right hand of the Power, and coming on the clouds of heaven."

Now when Pilate saw that instead of him doing any good a riot was rising, he took some water and washed his hands in presence of the crowd, saying, "I am innocent of this good man's blood. It is your affair!"

Two robbers were also crucified with him at that time, one on the right hand and one on the left.