The ax already lies against the roots of the trees. So every tree that isn't producing good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire.

So if your right eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one of your body parts than to have your whole body thrown into hell.

But whenever you pray, go into your room, close the door, and pray to your Father who is hidden. And your Father who sees from the hidden place will reward you.

"Keep asking, and it will be given to you. Keep searching, and you will find. Keep knocking, and the door will be opened for you.

Because everyone who keeps asking will receive, and the person who keeps searching will find, and the person who keeps knocking will have the door opened.

In the same way, every good tree produces good fruit, but a rotten tree produces bad fruit.

A good tree cannot produce bad fruit, and a rotten tree cannot produce good fruit.

Every tree that doesn't produce good fruit will be cut down and thrown into a fire.

"No one patches an old garment with a piece of unshrunk cloth, because the patch pulls away from the garment, and a worse tear results.

"How terrible it will be for you, Chorazin! How terrible it will be for you, Bethsaida! Because if the miracles that happened in you had taken place in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.

Indeed I tell you, it will be more bearable for Tyre and Sidon on Judgment Day than for you!

"Either make the tree good and its fruit good, or make the tree rotten and its fruit rotten, because a tree is known by its fruit.

Although it is the smallest of all seeds, when it is fully grown it is larger than the garden plants and becomes a tree, and the birds in the sky come and nest in its branches."

Then Jesus left that place and went to the region of Tyre and Sidon.

And if your eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life with one eye than to have two eyes and be thrown into hell fire.

Seeing a fig tree by the roadside, he went up to it but found nothing on it except leaves. He told it, "May fruit never come from you again!" And immediately the fig tree dried up.

When the disciples saw this, they were amazed. "How did the fig tree dry up so quickly?" they asked.

Jesus answered them, "I tell all of you with certainty, if you have faith and do not doubt, not only will you be able to do what has been done to the fig tree, but you will also say to this mountain, "Be removed and thrown into the sea,' and it will happen.

"How terrible it will be for you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You shut the door to the kingdom from heaven in people's faces. You don't go in yourselves, and you don't allow those who are trying to enter to go in.

"Now learn a lesson from the fig tree. When its branches become tender and it produces leaves, you know that summer is near.

In the same way, when you see all these things, you'll know that the Son of Man is near, right at the door.

"While they were away buying it, the groom arrived. Those who were ready went with him into the wedding banquet, and the door was closed.

Suddenly, one of the men with Jesus reached out his hand, drew his sword, and struck the high priest's servant, cutting off his ear.

Then the high priest tore his robes and said, "He has blasphemed! Why do we still need witnesses? Listen! You yourselves have just heard the blasphemy!

Then he placed it in his own new tomb, which he had cut out of the rock. After rolling a large stone across the door of the tomb, he left,

In fact, the whole city gathered at the door.

Such a large crowd gathered that there wasn't room for them, even in front of the door. Jesus was speaking his message to them

"No one patches an old garment with a piece of unshrunk cloth. If he does, the patch pulls away from it the new from the old and a worse tear is made.

Jerusalem, Idumea, from across the Jordan, and from the region around Tyre and Sidon followed him. They came to him because they kept hearing about everything he was doing.

Jesus left that place and went to the territory of Tyre and Sidon. He went into a house, not wanting anyone to know he was there. However, it couldn't be kept a secret.

Then Jesus left the territory of Tyre and passed through Sidon towards the Sea of Galilee, in the territory of the Decapolis.

And if your eye causes you to sin, tear it out. It's better for you to enter the kingdom of God with one eye than to have two eyes and be thrown into hell.

So they went and found the colt outside in the street tied up next to a doorway. While they were untying it,

Seeing in the distance a fig tree covered with leaves, he went to see if he could find anything on it. When he came to it, he found nothing except leaves because it wasn't the season for figs.

While they were walking along early the next morning, they saw the fig tree dried up to its roots.

Remembering what Jesus had said, Peter pointed out to him, "Rabbi, look! The fig tree you cursed has dried up!"

"Now learn a lesson from the fig tree. When its branches become tender and it produces leaves, you know that summer is near.

In the same way, when you see these things taking place, you will know that the Son of Man is near, right at the door.

But one of those standing there drew his sword and struck the high priest's servant, cutting off his ear.

Then the high priest tore his clothes. "Why do we still need witnesses?" he asked.

Joseph bought some linen cloth, took the body down, wrapped it in the cloth, laid it in a tomb that had been cut out of the rock, and rolled a stone against the door of the tomb.

The ax already lies against the roots of the trees. So every tree not producing good fruit will be cut down and thrown into a fire."

the son of Jacob, the son of Isaac, the son of Abraham, the son of Terah, the son of Nahor,

After the men had done this, they caught so many fish that the nets began to tear.

Then he told them a parable: "No one tears a piece of cloth from a new garment and sews it on an old garment. If he does, the new cloth will tear, and the piece from the new won't match the old.

Then Jesus came down with them and stood on a level place, along with many of his disciples and a large gathering of people from all over Judea, Jerusalem, and the seacoast of Tyre and Sidon.

"A good tree doesn't produce rotten fruit, and a rotten tree doesn't produce good fruit,

because every tree is known by its own fruit. People don't gather figs from thorny plants or pick grapes from a thorn bush.

"How terrible it will be for you, Chorazin! How terrible it will be for you, Bethsaida! If the miracles that happened in you had taken place in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago, sitting in sackcloth and ashes.

It will be easier for Tyre and Sidon at the judgment than for you!

Suppose he answers from inside, "Stop bothering me! The door is already locked, and my children are here with us in the bedroom. I can't get up and give you anything!'

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

because everyone who keeps asking will receive, and the person who keeps searching will find, and the person who keeps knocking will have the door opened.

Then he said, "This is what I'll do. I'll tear down my barns and build bigger ones, and I'll store all my grain and goods in them.

Be like people who are waiting for their master to return from a wedding. As soon as he arrives and knocks, they will open the door for him.

What about those eighteen people who were killed when the tower at Siloam fell on them? Do you think they were worse offenders than all the other people living in Jerusalem?

Then Jesus told them this parable: "A man had a fig tree that had been planted in his vineyard. He went to look for fruit on it but didn't find any.

So he told the gardener, "Look here! For three years I've been coming to look for fruit on this tree but I haven't found any. Cut it down! Why should it waste the soil?'

It is like a mustard seed that someone took and planted in his garden. It grew and became a tree, and the birds of the sky nested in its branches."

He told them, "Keep on struggling to enter through the narrow door, because I tell you that many people will try to enter, but won't be able to do so.

After the homeowner gets up and closes the door, you can stand outside, knock on the door, and say again and again, "Lord, open the door for us!' But he will answer you, "I don't know where you come from.'

"Suppose one of you wants to build a tower. He will first sit down and estimate the cost to see whether he has enough money to finish it, won't he?

So if you haven't been faithful with unrighteous wealth, who will trust you with true wealth?

The Lord replied, "If you have faith the size of a mustard seed, you could say to this mulberry tree, "Be uprooted and planted in the sea,' and it would obey you!

So he ran ahead and climbed a sycamore tree to see Jesus, who was going to pass that way.

When Jesus came to the tree, he looked up and said, "Zacchaeus, hurry and come down! I must stay at your house today."

Then he told them a parable: "Look at the fig tree and all the trees.

This was the true light that enlightens every person by his coming into the world.

He spoke openly and, remaining true to himself, admitted, "I am not the Messiah."

Nathaniel asked him, "How do you know me?" Jesus answered him, "Before Philip called you, while you were under the fig tree, I saw you."

Jesus told him, "Do you believe because I told you that I saw you under the fig tree? You will see greater things than that."

"How does that concern us, dear lady?" Jesus asked her. "My time hasn't come yet."

Then he told them, "Now draw some out and take it to the man in charge of the banquet." So they did.

But whoever does what is true comes to the light, so that it may become evident that his actions have God's approval."

A Samaritan woman came to draw water, and Jesus told her, "Please give me a drink,"

The woman told him, "Sir, give me this water, so that I won't get thirsty or have to keep coming here to draw water."

Jesus told her, "You are quite right in saying, "I don't have a husband,' because you have had five husbands, and the man you have now is not your husband. What you have said is true."

Jesus told her, "Believe me, dear lady, the hour is coming when you Samaritans will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem.

Yet the time is coming, and is now here, when true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth. Indeed, the Father is looking for people like that to worship him.

In this respect the saying is true: "One person sows, and another person harvests.'

There is another who testifies about me, and I know that the testimony he gives about me is true.

Jesus told them, "Truly, I tell all of you emphatically, it was not Moses who gave you the bread from heaven, but it is my Father who gives you the true bread from heaven.

At this point Jesus, still teaching in the Temple, shouted, "So you know me and know where I've come from? I haven't come on my own accord. But the one who sent me is true, and he's the one you don't know.

Then Jesus stood up and asked her, "Dear lady, where are your accusers? Hasn't anyone condemned you?"

Many people came to him and kept saying, "John never performed a sign, but everything that John said about this man is true!"

As for me, if I am lifted up from the earth, I will draw all people to myself."

"I am the true vine, and my Father is the vintner.

And this is eternal life: to know you, the only true God, and the one whom you sent Jesus the Messiah.

Then Simon Peter, who had a sword, drew it and struck the high priest's servant, cutting off his right ear. The servant's name was Malchus.

So they told each other, "Let's not tear it. Instead, let's throw dice to see who gets it." This was to fulfill the Scripture that says, "They divided my clothes among themselves, and for my clothing they threw dice." So that is what the soldiers did.

When Jesus saw his mother and the disciple whom he kept loving standing there, he told his mother, "Dear lady, here is your son."

The one who saw this has testified, and his testimony is true. He knows he is telling the truth so that you, too, may believe,

Jesus asked her, "Dear lady, why are you crying? Who are you looking for?" Thinking he was the gardener, she told him, "Sir, if you have carried him away, tell me where you have put him, and I will take him away."

This is the disciple who is testifying to these things and has written them down. We know that his testimony is true.

So they drew lots for them, and when the lot fell on Matthias, he was enrolled with the eleven apostles.

"How could you have agreed together to test the Spirit of the Lord?" Peter asked her. "Listen! The feet of the men who buried your husband are at the door, and these men will carry you outside as well."

The God of our ancestors raised Jesus to life after you killed him by hanging him on a tree.

Then the high priest asked, "Is this true?"

"I am the God of your ancestors the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.' Moses became terrified and didn't dare to look.

"They hung him on a tree and killed him, but God raised him on the third day and allowed him to appear