and preached, saying, After me comes one mightier than I, the strings of whose shoes I am not fit to stoop down and untie;

in what respect is it easier to say to the paralytic, Your sins are forgiven you, than to say, Arise, take up your bed and walk?

but days will come when the bridegroom shall be taken from them, and then they shall fast at that time.

But no one can enter into the house of a strong man, and plunder his goods, unless he first binds the strong man, and then he will plunder his house.

Then came his brothers and his mother, and standing without, sent to him to call him.

And he said to them, Do you not know this parable? How then will you know all parables?

and have no root in themselves, but are temporary [disciples]. Then, when affliction or persecution occurs on account of the word, they are immediately offended.

The earth produces spontaneously, first the stalk, then the head, then the full wheat in the head.

Then he put his hands on his eyes again, and he looked, and was restored, and saw all things clearly.

And if your hand offends you, cut it off; it is better for you to enter into life crippled, than having two hands to go away into hell, into the inextinguishable fire.

And if your foot offends you, cut it off: it is better for you to enter into life lame, than having two feet to be cast into hell.

And if your eye offends you, pluck it out; it is better for you to enter into the kingdom of God with one eye, than having two eyes to be cast into hell,

It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of the needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.

And they were greatly astonished, and said to themselves, Who then can be saved?

Second is this, You shall love your neighbor as yourself. There is no other commandment greater than these.

and to love him with all the heart, and all the understanding, and all the strength, and to love one's neighbor as himself, is more than all burnt offerings and sacrifices.

And calling his disciples, he said to them, I tell you truly, that this poor widow has cast in more than all who have cast into the treasury.

And when you see the abomination of desolation standing where it ought not, let him that reads understand, then let those in Judea flee to the mountains;

And then if any one says to you, Behold the Christ is here! Behold there! believe it not.

And then shall they see the Son of man coming in clouds, with great power and glory.

And then shall he send his angels and gather together the elect, from the four winds, from the end of the earth to the end of heaven.

For this ointment could have been sold for more than three hundred denarii [$42] and given to the poor; and they blamed her.

And Pilate again answered and said to them, What, then, do you wish me to do to him whom you call the king of the Jews?

Then the Lord, after speaking with them, was taken up to heaven, and sat on the right hand of God.