As it is written in Isaiah the prophet: "Behold, I send my messenger before your face, who will prepare your way";

"The voice of one crying in the wilderness: 'Prepare the way of the Lord; make his paths straight.'"

One Sabbath he was going through the grainfields; and as they made their way his disciples began to pluck heads of grain.

(For the Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat unless they wash their hands in a special way, holding the tradition of the elders.

And he said to them, "You have a fine way of rejecting the commandment of God, in order to keep your tradition!

Then he said to her, "For this saying you may go your way; the demon has left your daughter."

And if I send them away hungry to their homes, they will faint on the way; and some of them have come a long distance."

And Jesus went on with his disciples, to the villages of Caesarea Philippi; and on the way he asked his disciples, "Who do men say that I am?"

But they kept silent; for on the way they had discussed with one another who was the greatest.

Then Jesus said to him, "Go your way; your faith has made you well." And immediately he received his sight and followed Jesus on the road.

And the chief priests and the scribes heard it and sought a way to destroy him; for they feared him, because all the multitude was astonished at his teaching.

When they came, they said to him, "Teacher, we know that you are true, and care about no man; for you do not regard the person of men, but teach the way of God in truth. Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar, or not?