But I say to you, there were certainly many widows in Israel in Elijah’s days, when the sky was shut up for three years and six months while a great famine came over all the land.

Which is easier: to say, ‘Your sins are forgiven you,’ or to say, ‘Get up and walk’?

Then they said to Him, “John’s disciples fast often and say prayers, and those of the Pharisees do the same, but Yours eat and drink.”

And no one, after drinking old wine, wants new, because he says, ‘The old is better.’”

“But I say to you who listen: Love your enemies, do what is good to those who hate you,

Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Brother, let me take out the speck that is in your eye,’ when you yourself don’t see the log in your eye? Hypocrite! First take the log out of your eye, and then you will see clearly to take out the speck in your brother’s eye.

“Why do you call Me ‘Lord, Lord,’ and don’t do the things I say?

That is why I didn’t even consider myself worthy to come to You. But say the word, and my servant will be cured.

For I too am a man placed under authority, having soldiers under my command. 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.”

For John the Baptist did not come eating bread or drinking wine, and you say, ‘He has a demon!’

The Son of Man has come eating and drinking, and you say, ‘Look, a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’

Jesus replied to him, “Simon, I have something to say to you.”

“Teacher,” he said, “say it.”

Those who were at the table with Him began to say among themselves, “Who is this man who even forgives sins?”

While He was praying in private and His disciples were with Him, He asked them, “Who do the crowds say that I am?”

“But you,” He asked them, “who do you say that I am?”

Peter answered, “God’s Messiah!”

Another also said, “I will follow You, Lord, but first let me go and say good-bye to those at my house.”

Whatever house you enter, first say, ‘Peace to this household.’

When you enter any town, and they don’t welcome you, go out into its streets and say,

He said to them, “Whenever you pray, say:

Father,
Your name be honored as holy.
Your kingdom come.

He also said to them: “Suppose one of you has a friend and goes to him at midnight and says to him, ‘Friend, lend me three loaves of bread,

Then he will answer from inside and say, ‘Don’t bother me! The door is already locked, and my children and I have gone to bed. I can’t get up to give you anything.’

“So I say to you, keep asking, and it will be given to you. Keep searching, and you will find. Keep knocking, and the door will be opened to you.

If Satan also is divided against himself, how will his kingdom stand? For you say I drive out demons by Beelzebul.

“When an unclean spirit comes out of a man, it roams through waterless places looking for rest, and not finding rest, it then says, ‘I’ll go back to my house where I came from.’

One of the experts in the law answered Him, “Teacher, when You say these things You insult us too.”

In these circumstances, a crowd of many thousands came together, so that they were trampling on one another. He began to say to His disciples first: “Be on your guard against the yeast of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.

“And I say to you, My friends, don’t fear those who kill the body, and after that can do nothing more.

But I will show you the One to fear: Fear Him who has authority to throw people into hell after death. Yes, I say to you, this is the One to fear!

“And I say to you, anyone who acknowledges Me before men, the Son of Man will also acknowledge him before the angels of God,

Whenever they bring you before synagogues and rulers and authorities, don’t worry about how you should defend yourselves or what you should say.

Then I’ll say to myself, “You have many goods stored up for many years. Take it easy; eat, drink, and enjoy yourself.”’

But if that slave says in his heart, ‘My master is delaying his coming,’ and starts to beat the male and female slaves, and to eat and drink and get drunk,

He also said to the crowds: “When you see a cloud rising in the west, right away you say, ‘A storm is coming,’ and so it does.

And when the south wind is blowing, you say, ‘It’s going to be a scorcher!’ and it is.

Then you will say, ‘We ate and drank in Your presence, and You taught in our streets!’

But He will say, ‘I tell you, I don’t know you or where you’re from. Get away from Me, all you workers of unrighteousness!’

See, your house is abandoned to you. And I tell you, you will not see Me until the time comes when you say, ‘He who comes in the name of the Lord is the blessed One’!”

The one who invited both of you may come and say to you, ‘Give your place to this man,’ and then in humiliation, you will proceed to take the lowest place.

“But when you are invited, go and recline in the lowest place, so that when the one who invited you comes, he will say to you, ‘Friend, move up higher.’ You will then be honored in the presence of all the other guests.

In the same way, therefore, every one of you who does not say good-bye to all his possessions cannot be My disciple.

I’ll get up, go to my father, and say to him, Father, I have sinned against heaven and in your sight.

“If you have faith the size of a mustard seed,” the Lord said, “you can say to this mulberry tree, ‘Be uprooted and planted in the sea,’ and it will obey you.

“Which one of you having a slave tending sheep or plowing will say to him when he comes in from the field, ‘Come at once and sit down to eat’?

In the same way, when you have done all that you were commanded, you should say, ‘We are good-for-nothing slaves; we’ve only done our duty.’”

no one will say, ‘Look here!’ or ‘There!’ For you see, the kingdom of God is among you.”

They will say to you, ‘Look there!’ or ‘Look here!’ Don’t follow or run after them.

Then the Lord said, “Listen to what the unjust judge says.

If anyone asks you, ‘Why are you untying it?’ say this: ‘The Lord needs it.’”

They discussed it among themselves: “If we say, ‘From heaven,’ He will say, ‘Why didn’t you believe him?’

But if we say, ‘From men,’ all the people will stone us, because they are convinced that John was a prophet.”

Some of the Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, came up and questioned Him:

Then He said to them, “How can they say that the Messiah is the Son of David?

For David himself says in the Book of Psalms:

The Lord declared to my Lord,
‘Sit at My right hand

They devour widows’ houses and say long prayers just for show. These will receive greater punishment.”

They all asked, “Are You, then, the Son of God?”

And He said to them, “You say that I am.”

Look, the days are coming when they will say, ‘The women without children, the wombs that never bore and the breasts that never nursed, are fortunate!’

Then they will begin to say to the mountains, ‘Fall on us!’ and to the hills, ‘Cover us!’