Now it happened, while the multitude pressed on him and heard the word of God, that he was standing by the lake of Gennesaret.

He saw two boats standing by the lake, but the fishermen had gone out of them, and were washing their nets.

"As you would like people to do to you, do exactly so to them.

A disciple is not above his teacher, but everyone when he is fully trained will be like his teacher.

Everyone who comes to me, and hears my words, and does them, I will show you who he is like.

He is like a man building a house, who dug and went deep, and laid a foundation on the rock. When a flood arose, the stream broke against that house, and could not shake it, because it was founded on the rock.

But he who hears, and doesn't do, is like a man who built a house on the earth without a foundation, against which the stream broke, and immediately it fell, and the ruin of that house was great."

John, calling to himself two of his disciples, sent them to Jesus, saying, "Are you the one who is coming, or should we look for another?"

When the men had come to him, they said, "John the Baptizer has sent us to you, saying, 'Are you he who comes, or should we look for another?'"

"To what then will I liken the people of this generation? What are they like?

They are like children who sit in the marketplace, and call one to another, saying, 'We piped to you, and you didn't dance. We mourned, and you didn't weep.'

Now it happened on one of those days, that he entered into a boat, himself and his disciples, and he said to them, "Let's go over to the other side of the lake." So they launched out.

But as they sailed, he fell asleep. A wind storm came down on the lake, and they were taking on dangerous amounts of water.

The demons came out from the man, and entered into the pigs, and the herd rushed down the steep bank into the lake, and were drowned.

Behold, a man from the crowd called out, saying, "Teacher, I beg you to look at my son, for he is my only child.

He said to them, "I saw Satan having fallen like lightning from heaven.

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like hidden graves, and the men who walk over them don't know it."

Consider the lilies, how they grow. They don't toil, neither do they spin; yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.

Be like men watching for their lord, when he returns from the marriage feast; that, when he comes and knocks, they may immediately open to him.

He said, "What is the Kingdom of God like? To what shall I compare it?

It is like a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and put in his own garden. It grew, and became a large tree, and the birds of the sky lodged in its branches."

It is like yeast, which a woman took and hid in three measures of flour, until it was all leavened."

"Jerusalem, Jerusalem, that kills the prophets, and stones those who are sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children together, like a hen gathers her own brood under her wings, and you refused!

The Lord said, "If you had faith like a grain of mustard seed, you would tell this sycamore tree, 'Be uprooted, and be planted in the sea,' and it would obey you.

neither will they say, 'Look, here!' or, 'Look, there!' for behold, the Kingdom of God is within you."

They will tell you, 'Look, here!' or 'Look, there!' Don't go away, nor follow after them,

The Pharisee stood and prayed to himself like this: 'God, I thank you, that I am not like the rest of men, extortioners, unrighteous, adulterers, or even like this tax collector.

Most certainly, I tell you, whoever doesn't receive the Kingdom of God like a little child, he will in no way enter into it."

When Jesus heard these things, he said to him, "You still lack one thing. Sell all that you have, and distribute it to the poor. You will have treasure in heaven. Come, follow me."

Peter said, "Look, we have left everything, and followed you."

For they can't die any more, for they are like the angels, and are children of God, being children of the resurrection.

"Beware of the scribes, who like to walk in long robes, and love greetings in the marketplaces, the best seats in the synagogues, and the best places at feasts;

But when these things begin to happen, look up, and lift up your heads, because your redemption is near."

For it will come like a snare on all those who dwell on the surface of all the earth.

He said to them, "When I sent you out without purse, and wallet, and shoes, did you lack anything?" They said, "Nothing."

Being in agony he prayed more earnestly. His sweat became like great drops of blood falling down on the ground.

Some of us went to the tomb, and found it just like the women had said, but they didn't see him."

They drew near to the village, where they were going, and he acted like he would go further.