"Why does this man talk this way? He is blaspheming! Who can forgive sins but God alone?"

When the scribes and the Pharisees saw him eating with sinners and tax collectors, they asked his disciples, "Why does he eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?"

"No one patches an old garment with a piece of unshrunk cloth. If he does, the patch pulls away from it the new from the old and a worse tear is made.

And no one pours new wine into old wineskins. If he does, the wine will make the skins burst, and both the wine and the skins will be ruined. Instead, new wine is poured into fresh wineskins."

Whoever does the will of God is my brother and sister and mother."

He sleeps and gets up night and day while the seeds sprout and grow, although he doesn't know how

Because it doesn't go into his heart but into his stomach, and then into the sewer, thereby expelling all foods."

Amazed beyond measure, they kept on saying, "He does everything well! He even makes deaf people hear and mute people talk!"

I tell all of you with certainty, whoever doesn't receive the kingdom of God as a little child will never enter it."

I tell all of you with certainty, if anyone says to this mountain, "Be lifted up and thrown into the sea,' if he doesn't 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 doesn't believe will be condemned.