and went into the house and saw the child with His mother, Mary; and they fell at His feet and worshiped Him. They opened up their treasure sacks and presented Him with gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh.

But Jesus answered him, "Let it be so now, for this is the fitting way for both of us to do our full duty to God." Then he yielded to Him.

and said to Him, "Every bit of this I will give to you, if you will fall on your knees and worship me."

He said to them, "Come! Follow me, and I will make you fishermen for catching men."

"Blessed are those who feel poor in spiritual things, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to them.

I have not come to set them aside but to fill them up to the brim. For I solemnly say to you, heaven and earth would sooner pass away than the dotting of an 'i' or the crossing of a 't' from the law, until it all becomes in force.

But I say to you: "Everyone who harbors malice against his brother, will have to answer to the court, and whoever speaks contemptuously to his brother, will have to answer to the supreme court; and whoever says to his brother, 'You cursed fool? will have to pay the penalty in the pit of torture.

"The eye is the very lamp of the body. If then your eye is sound, your whole body will be full of light.

But if your eye is unsound, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the very source of light in you is darkness, how dense is that darkness!

And the rain fell, and the rivers rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house, but it did not fall, for its pillars had been laid on a rocky foundation.

And the rain fell, and the rivers rose, and the wind blew and beat against that house, and it collapsed, and the wreck of it was complete."

And a scribe came up and said to Him, "Teacher, I will follow you wherever you may go."

And Jesus said to him, "Follow me, and leave the dead to bury their own dead."

And as He was passing along from there, He saw a man named Matthew in his seat at the tax-collector's desk, and He said to him, "Follow me." And he got up and followed Him.

And just as He was saying these things to them, an official came up and fell on his knees before Him, and said, "My daughter has just died, but come and lay your hand upon her and she will come to life."

Then He called His twelve disciples to Him, and gave them authority over foul spirits, so that they could drive them out, and so that they could cure any disease or ailment.

But whenever they persecute you in one town, flee to a different one. For I solemnly say to you, you will not cover all the towns of Israel before the Son of Man returns.

Do not sparrows sell for a cent apiece? And yet not one of them can fall to the ground without your Father's notice.

and nobody is worthy of me who does not take up his cross and follow me.

And I solemnly say to you, no one who gives a cup of cold water to one of the least of my disciples, because he is a disciple, will ever fail to get his reward."

You brood of vipers! How can you, wicked as you are, say anything that is good? For the mouth talks about the things that fill the heart.

"Whenever the foul spirit goes out of a man, it wanders about in deserts in search of rest, but cannot find it.

and as he was sowing, some of the seed fell along the path, and the birds came and ate them up,

and some fell upon rocky ground where they did not have much soil, and at once they sprang up, because there was no depth of soil,

And some fell among the thorns, and the thorns grew up and choked them out.

And some fell in rich soil, and yielded a crop, some a hundred, some sixty, some thirty-fold.

which, when it was full, the fishermen drew up on the shore, and sat down and picked out the good fish for their baskets and threw the bad away.

It is not what goes into a man's mouth that makes him foul; no, it is what comes out of a man's mouth that makes him foul."

Let them alone. They are blind teachers! And if one blind man guides another, they will both fall into the ditch."

But the things that come out of the mouth come from the heart, and they make the man foul.

These are the things that make a man foul, but eating with unwashed hands does not make a man foul."

She said, "Yes, Lord, and yet the house dogs usually eat the crumbs that fall from their master's table."

When the disciples heard it, they fell upon their faces, for they were terribly frightened.

So the slave fell down at his feet and pleaded, 'Give me time, and I will pay you every cent of it.'

"But that slave went out and found one of his fellow-slaves who owed him twenty dollars, and he caught him by the throat and began to choke him, demanding, 'Pay me what you owe me!'

"And his fellow-slave fell down before him and pleaded, 'Give me time, and I will pay you.'

"When his fellow-slaves saw what had happened, they were greatly troubled, and went and reported all that happened to their master.

Ought you not to have shown mercy to your fellow-slave, as I too had done for you?'

Jesus said to him, "If you want to be perfect, go and sell everything you have and give the money to the poor, and you will have riches in heaven; then come back here and follow me."

A curse on you, you hypocritical scribes and Pharisees, for you clean the outside of the cup and the dish, but inside they are full of your greed and self-indulgence.

"A curse on you, you hypocritical scribes and Pharisees, for you are like white-washed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside, but inside are full of dead people's bones and everything that is unclean!

So you, too, on the outside seem to people to be upright, but inside you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.

Then fill up to the brim the cup of your forefathers' guilt!

Then many will fall by the way, and will betray one another and hate one another.

"And immediately after the misery of those days, the sun will turn dark, the moon will not shed its light, the stars will fall from the sky, and the powers of the sky will be shaken.

and begins to beat his fellow-slaves, and keeps on eating and drinking with those who get drunk,

Then he went out into the gateway, and another waiting girl saw him, and said to those there, "This fellow was with Jesus the Nazarene."

and as soon as they saw Him, they fell down and worshiped Him, though some were in doubt about it.

Then Jesus came up to them, and said, "Full authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.