The people living in darkness have seen a great light, and for those living in the land and shadow of death, a light has risen."

What I tell you in darkness you must speak in the daylight, and what is whispered in your ear you must shout from the housetops.

"To what can I compare the people living today? They're like little children who sit in the marketplaces and shout to each other,

He will not quarrel or shout, and no one will hear him shouting in the streets.

for this people's heart has become dull, and their ears are hard of hearing. They have shut their eyes so that they might not see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart and turn, and I would heal them.'

Suddenly, a Canaanite woman from that territory came near and began to shout, "Have mercy on me, Lord, Son of David! My daughter is severely demon-possessed!"

"How terrible it will be for you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You shut the door to the kingdom from heaven in people's faces. You don't go in yourselves, and you don't allow those who are trying to enter to go in.

As a result, you will be held accountable for all the righteous blood shed on earth, from the blood of the righteous Abel to the blood of Berechiah's son Zechariah, whom you murdered between the sanctuary and the altar.

But at midnight there came a shout: "The groom is here! Come out to meet him!'