Jesus sent out these 12 after giving them instructions: “Don’t take the road leading to other nations, and don’t enter any Samaritan town.

Don’t you understand yet? Don’t you remember the five loaves for the 5,000 and how many baskets you collected?

Therefore do whatever they tell you, and observe it. But don’t do what they do, because they don’t practice what they teach.

“But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! You lock up the kingdom of heaven from people. For you don’t go in, and you don’t allow those entering to go in.

But after he had considered these things, an angel of the Lord suddenly appeared to him in a dream, saying, “Joseph, son of David, don’t be afraid to take Mary as your wife, because what has been conceived in her is by the Holy Spirit.

And don’t presume to say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father.’ For I tell you that God is able to raise up children for Abraham from these stones!

“Don’t assume that I came to destroy the Law or the Prophets. I did not come to destroy but to fulfill.

But I tell you, don’t take an oath at all: either by heaven, because it is God’s throne;

But I tell you, don’t resist an evildoer. On the contrary, if anyone slaps you on your right cheek, turn the other to him also.

Give to the one who asks you, and don’t turn away from the one who wants to borrow from you.

For if you love those who love you, what reward will you have? Don’t even the tax collectors do the same?

And if you greet only your brothers, what are you doing out of the ordinary? Don’t even the Gentiles do the same?

So whenever you give to the poor, don’t sound a trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and on the streets, to be applauded by people. I assure you: They’ve got their reward!

But when you give to the poor, don’t let your left hand know what your right hand is doing,

When you pray, don’t babble like the idolaters, since they imagine they’ll be heard for their many words.

Don’t be like them, because your Father knows the things you need before you ask Him.

But if you don’t forgive people, your Father will not forgive your wrongdoing.

“Whenever you fast, don’t be sad-faced like the hypocrites. For they make their faces unattractive so their fasting is obvious to people. I assure you: They’ve got their reward!

so that you don’t show your fasting to people but to your Father who is in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you.

“Don’t collect for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal.

But collect for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys, and where thieves don’t break in and steal.

“This is why I tell you: Don’t worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Isn’t life more than food and the body more than clothing?

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?

And why do you worry about clothes? Learn how the wildflowers of the field grow: they don’t labor or spin thread.

So don’t worry, saying, ‘What will we eat?’ or ‘What will we drink?’ or ‘What will we wear?’

Therefore don’t worry about tomorrow, because tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.

Why do you look at the speck in your brother’s eye but don’t notice the log in your own eye?

Don’t give what is holy to dogs or toss your pearls before pigs, or they will trample them with their feet, turn, and tear you to pieces.

Then Jesus told him, “See that you don’t tell anyone; but go, show yourself to the priest, and offer the gift that Moses prescribed, as a testimony to them.”

But when He heard this, He said, “Those who are well don’t need a doctor, but the sick do.

Don’t take along gold, silver, or copper for your money-belts.

Don’t take a traveling bag for the road, or an extra shirt, sandals, or a walking stick, for the worker is worthy of his food.

But when they hand you over, don’t worry about how or what you should speak. For you will be given what to say at that hour,

“Therefore, don’t be afraid of them, since there is nothing covered that won’t be uncovered and nothing hidden that won’t be made known.

Don’t fear those who kill the body but are not able to kill the soul; rather, fear Him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.

So don’t be afraid therefore; you are worth more than many sparrows.

Don’t assume that I came to bring peace on the earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword.

“They don’t need to go away,” Jesus told them. “You give them something to eat.”

Immediately Jesus spoke to them. “Have courage! It is I. Don’t be afraid.”

“Why do Your disciples break the tradition of the elders? For they don’t wash their hands when they eat!”

“Don’t you realize that whatever goes into the mouth passes into the stomach and is eliminated?

Now Jesus summoned His disciples and said, “I have compassion on the crowd, because they’ve already stayed with Me three days and have nothing to eat. I don’t want to send them away hungry; otherwise they might collapse on the way.”

Why is it you don’t understand that when I told you, ‘Beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees,’ it wasn’t about bread?”

Then Jesus came up, touched them, and said, “Get up; don’t be afraid.”

As they were coming down from the mountain, Jesus commanded them, “Don’t tell anyone about the vision until the Son of Man is raised from the dead.”

“See that you don’t look down on one of these little ones, because I tell you that in heaven their angels continually view the face of My Father in heaven.

Then Jesus said, “Leave the children alone, and don’t try to keep them from coming to Me, because the kingdom of heaven is made up of people like this.”

Don’t I have the right to do what I want with my business? Are you jealous because I’m generous?’

But Jesus answered, “You don’t know what you’re asking. Are you able to drink the cup that I am about to drink?”

“We are able,” they said to Him.

So they answered Jesus, “We don’t know.”

And He said to them, “Neither will I tell you by what authority I do these things.

“He answered, ‘I don’t want to!’ Yet later he changed his mind and went.

They sent their disciples to Him, with the Herodians. “Teacher,” they said, “we know that You are truthful and teach truthfully the way of God. You defer to no one, for You don’t show partiality.

Jesus answered them, “You are deceived, because you don’t know the Scriptures or the power of God.

Then He replied to them, “Don’t you see all these things? I assure you: Not one stone will be left here on another that will not be thrown down!”

So if they tell you, ‘Look, He’s in the wilderness!’ don’t go out; ‘Look, He’s in the inner rooms!’ do not believe it.

Therefore be alert, since you don’t know what day your Lord is coming.

“Therefore be alert, because you don’t know either the day or the hour.

The high priest then stood up and said to Him, “Don’t You have an answer to what these men are testifying against You?”

But he denied it in front of everyone: “I don’t know what you’re talking about!”

And again he denied it with an oath, “I don’t know the man!”

Then Pilate said to Him, “Don’t You hear how much they are testifying against You?”

But the angel told the women, “Don’t be afraid, because I know you are looking for Jesus who was crucified.