Even demons came out of many people, shrieking and saying, "You are the Son of God!" But He reproved them and would not let them speak, because they knew that He was the Christ.

And the scribes and the Pharisees were closely watching Him to see whether He would cure him on the Sabbath, in order to get a charge against Him.

Yes, you must practice dealing with others as you would like them to deal with you.

So when the Pharisee who invited Him saw it, he said to himself, "If He were really a prophet, He would know who and of what character the woman is who is clinging to Him -- that she is a social outcast."

For He was commanding the foul spirit to get out of the man. For on many occasions it had seized him, and repeatedly he had been fastened with chains and fetters under constant guard, and yet he would snap his bonds, and the demon would drive him into desert places.

But they would not receive Him, because He was facing in the direction of Jerusalem.

A curse on you, Chorazin! A curse on you, Bethsaida! For if the wonder-works done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, long ago they would have repented, sitting in sackcloth and ashes.

But be sure of this, that if the master of the house had known what time the thief was coming, he would not have let his house be broken into.

So he became angry and would not go into the house. Then his father came out and began to plead with him.

But he pleaded, 'No, father Abraham, but if someone went to them from the dead, they would repent.'

It would be better for him to have a millstone hung around his neck, and he be hurled into the sea, than for him to ensnare one of these lowly ones.

Then the Lord said to them, "If you had faith that grows like a mustard seed, you might have been saying to this mulberry tree, 'Pull yourself up by the roots and plant yourself in the sea,' and it would have obeyed you!

Now, when He was asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God would come, He answered them, "The kingdom of God is not coming with visible display,

And he would not for a time, but afterward he said to himself, Though I have no reverence for God nor respect for men,

But the tax-collector stood at a distance and would not even lift his eyes to heaven, but continued to beat his breast, and say, 'O God, have mercy on me, a sinner!'

Now during the days He continued to teach in the temple, but He would go out and spend the nights on the hill called the Mount of Olives;

while all the people would rise early in the mornings and come to listen to Him in the temple.