Even now the ax is laid at the root of the trees, and every tree that does not produce good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire."

Jesus answered him, "It is written, 'Man does not live by bread alone.'"

He also told them a parable: "No one tears a patch from a new garment and sews it on an old garment. If he does, he will have torn the new, and the piece from the new will not match the old.

And no one pours new wine into old wineskins. If he does, the new wine will burst the skins and will be spilled, and the skins will be destroyed.

"For no good tree bears bad fruit, nor again does a bad tree bear good fruit,

But the person who hears and does not put my words into practice is like a man who built a house on the ground without a foundation. When the river burst against that house, it collapsed immediately, and was utterly destroyed!"

For I too am a man set under authority, with soldiers under me. I say to this one, 'Go,' and he goes, and to another, 'Come,' and he comes, and to my slave, 'Do this,' and he does it."

As for the seed that fell among thorns, these are the ones who hear, but as they go on their way they are choked by the worries and riches and pleasures of life, and their fruit does not mature.

So listen carefully, for whoever has will be given more, but whoever does not have, even what he thinks he has will be taken from him."

For what does it benefit a person if he gains the whole world but loses or forfeits himself?

Whoever is not with me is against me, and whoever does not gather with me scatters.

Then he said to them, "Watch out and guard yourself from all types of greed, because one's life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions."

then the master of that slave will come on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour he does not foresee, and will cut him in two, and assign him a place with the unfaithful.

Jesus also said to the crowds, "When you see a cloud rising in the west, you say at once, 'A rainstorm is coming,' and it does.

Then the Lord answered him, "You hypocrites! Does not each of you on the Sabbath untie his ox or his donkey from its stall, and lead it to water?

"If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother, and wife and children, and brothers and sisters, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple.

Whoever does not carry his own cross and follow me cannot be my disciple.

For which of you, wanting to build a tower, doesn't sit down first and compute the cost to see if he has enough money to complete it?

In the same way therefore not one of you can be my disciple if he does not renounce all his own possessions.

"Or what woman, if she has ten silver coins and loses one of them, does not light a lamp, sweep the house, and search thoroughly until she finds it?

I tell you the truth, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God like a child will never enter it."

I tell you that everyone who has will be given more, but from the one who does not have, even what he has will be taken away.

Then one of them, named Cleopas, answered him, "Are you the only visitor to Jerusalem who doesn't know the things that have happened there in these days?"

Look at my hands and my feet; it's me! Touch me and see; a ghost does not have flesh and bones like you see I have."