As it is written in Isaiah the prophet, "Look, I am sending my messenger ahead of you, who will prepare your way,

the voice of one shouting in the wilderness, 'Prepare the way for the Lord, make his paths straight.'"

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

Jesus was going through the grain fields on a Sabbath, and his disciples began to pick some heads of wheat as they made their way.

If I send them home hungry, they will faint on the way, and some of them have come from a great distance."

Then Jesus and his disciples went to the villages of Caesarea Philippi. On the way he asked his disciples, "Who do people say that I am?"

Then they came to Capernaum. After Jesus was inside the house he asked them, "What were you discussing on the way?"

But they were silent, for on the way they had argued with one another about who was the greatest.

Now as Jesus was starting out on his way, someone ran up to him, fell on his knees, and said, "Good teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?"

They were on the way, going up to Jerusalem. Jesus was going ahead of them, and they were amazed, but those who followed were afraid. He took the twelve aside again and began to tell them what was going to happen to him.

But it is not this way among you. Instead whoever wants to be great among you must be your servant,

When they came they said to him, "Teacher, we know that you are truthful and do not court anyone's favor, because you show no partiality but teach the way of God in accordance with the truth. Is it right to pay taxes to Caesar or not? Should we pay or shouldn't we?"

Two days before the Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the chief priests and the experts in the law were trying to find a way to arrest Jesus by stealth and kill him.

In the same way even the chief priests -- together with the experts in the law -- were mocking him among themselves: "He saved others, but he cannot save himself!

After this he appeared in a different form to two of them while they were on their way to the country.