But the axe is already lying at the roots of the trees. Any tree that fails to produce good fruit is going to be cut down and thrown into the fire.

But if your right eye makes you fall, tear it out and throw it away, for you might better lose one part of your body than have it all thrown into the pit!

so that you may show yourselves true sons of your Father in heaven, for he makes his sun rise on bad and good alike, and makes the rain fall on the upright and the wrongdoers.

But when you pray, go into your own room, and shut the door, and pray to your Father who is unseen, and your Father who sees what is secret will reward you.

"Do not give what is sacred to dogs, and do not throw your pearls before pigs, or they will trample them under their feet and turn and tear you in pieces.

Ask, and what you ask will be given you. Search, and you will find what you search for. Knock, and the door will open to you.

For it is always the one who asks who receives, and the one who searches who finds, and the one who knocks to whom the door opens.

Just so any sound tree bears good fruit, but a poor tree bears bad fruit.

No sound tree can bear bad fruit, and no poor tree can bear good fruit.

Any tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and burned.

But no one sews a patch of unshrunken cloth on an old coat, for the patch will tear away from the coat, and make the hole worse than ever.

"Alas for you, Chorazin! Alas for you, Bethsaida! For if the wonders that have been done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented in sackcloth and ashes long ago!

But I tell you, Tyre and Sidon will fare better on the Day of Judgment than you will!

"You must either make the tree sound and its fruit sound, or make the tree bad and its fruit bad; a tree is judged by its fruit.

It is the smallest of all seeds, but when it is grown it is the largest of plants and grows into a tree, so that the wild birds come and roost in its branches."

And Jesus left that place and retired to the neighborhood of Tyre and Sidon.

They said to him, "Then why did Moses command us to draw up a written divorce-notice and give it to her?"

and seeing a fig tree by the roadside, he went up to it, but found nothing on it but leaves. And he said to it, "No more fruit shall ever grow on you!" And the fig tree withered up at once.

When the disciples saw it, they were amazed and said, "How did the fig tree come to wither up immediately?"

Jesus answered, "I tell you, if you have faith and have no doubt, you will not only do what I have done to the fig tree, but even if you say to this mountain, 'Get up and throw yourself into the sea,' it will be done.

"Listen to another figure. There was a land owner who planted a vineyard and fenced it in, and hewed out a wine-vat in it, and built a watch-tower, and leased it to tenants, and left the neighborhood.

"Let the fig tree teach you the lesson. As soon as its branches grow soft and put forth leaves, you know that summer is coming.

So when you see all these things, you must know that he is just at the door.

But while they were gone to buy it, the bridegroom arrived, and the ones that were ready went in with him to the wedding banquet, and the door was closed.

Afterward the other bridesmaids came and said, 'Sir! Sir! Open the door for us!'

One of the men with Jesus put out his hand and drew his sword, and striking at the high priest's slave, cut his ear off.

Then Jesus said to him, "Put your sword back where it belongs! For all who draw the sword will die by the sword.

and said, "This man said, 'I can tear down the sanctuary of God, and build it up in three days.' "

Jesus said to him, "It is true. But I tell you you will soon see the Son of Man seated at the right hand of the Almighty and coming upon the clouds of the sky!"

Then the high priest tore his clothing and said, "He has uttered blasphemy! What do we want of witnesses now? Here you have heard his blasphemy!

and saying, "You who would tear down the sanctuary, and build one in three days, save yourself! If you are the Son of God, come down from the cross!"

and laid it in a new tomb that belonged to him, that he had cut in the rock, and he rolled a great stone over the doorway of the tomb, and went away.