“Why does He speak like this? He’s blaspheming! Who can forgive sins but God alone?”

When the scribes of the Pharisees saw that He was eating with sinners and tax collectors, they asked His disciples, “Why does He eat with tax collectors and sinners?”

Whoever does the will of God is My brother and sister and mother.”

He answered them, “The secret of the kingdom of God has been given to you, but to those outside, everything comes in parables

For to the one who has, it will be given, and from the one who does not have, even what he has will be taken away.”

he sleeps and rises—night and day, and the seed sprouts and grows—he doesn’t know how.

If any place does not welcome you and people refuse to listen to you, when you leave there, shake the dust off your feet as a testimony against them.”

For it doesn’t go into his heart but into the stomach and is eliminated.” (As a result, He made all foods clean.)

But sighing deeply in His spirit, He said, “Why does this generation demand a sign? I assure you: No sign will be given to this generation!”

For what does it benefit a man to gain the whole world yet lose his life?

“Elijah does come first and restores everything,” He replied. “How then is it written about the Son of Man that He must suffer many things and be treated with contempt?

“Whoever welcomes one little child such as this in My name welcomes Me. And whoever welcomes Me does not welcome Me, but Him who sent Me.”

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Their worm does not die,
and the fire is not quenched.]

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Their worm does not die,
and the fire is not quenched.]

where

Their worm does not die,
and the fire is not quenched.

I assure you: Whoever does not welcome the kingdom of God like a little child will never enter it.”

I assure you: If anyone says to this mountain, ‘Be lifted up and thrown into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says will happen, it will be done for him.

Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned.