when a Scribe came up and said to him, "Teacher, I will follow you wherever you go!"

When the Pharisees saw it, they kept saying to his disciples, "Why does your Teacher eat with the tax-gatherers and sinners?"

"A pupil is not above his teacher, nor a slave above his masters.

"It is enough for the pupil to fare like his teacher, and the slave like his master. If they called the master of the house Beelzebub, how much more, the members of his household.

Then some of the Scribes and Pharisees accosted him. "Teacher," they said, "we want to see some sign from you."

As they came into Capernaum the collectors of the temple tax came to Peter and asked, "Does not your Teacher pay the temple tax?"

But look! a certain man came up to him and asked, "Teacher, what good thing shall I do to inherit eternal life?"

So they sent their disciples to him, with the Herodians. "Teacher," they said, "we know that you are honest, and that you are teaching the way of God in sincerity; and are not afraid of any one, for you do not court men's favor.

"But you are not to be called 'Rabbi'; for one is your Teacher, and you are all brothers;

"Go into the city," he answered, "to a certain man, and tell him. "'The Teacher says. "My time is near. I am going to keep the Passover at your house, with my disciples."'"