But Jesus immediately spoke to them and said, "Take courage! It is I. Do not be afraid."

And he said, "Come!" And Peter got out of the boat and walked on the water and went to Jesus.

Jesus immediately stretched out his hand and caught hold of him, and said to him, "Why did you waver? You have so little faith!"

And the men in the boat fell down before him and said, "You are certainly God's Son!"

And they crossed over to the other side and came to Gennesaret.

Then some Pharisees and scribes came to Jesus from Jerusalem, and said to him,

For God said, 'Honor your father and mother,' and 'He who abuses his father or mother must be put to death.'

does not have to provide for his father.' So you have nullified what God has said, for the sake of what has been handed down to you.

You hypocrites! Isaiah prophesied finely about you when he said,

And he called the people to him and said to them,

Then his disciples came up to him and said to him, "Do you know that the Pharisees were shocked to hear you say that?"

Peter said to him, "Explain the figure for us."

He said, "Have even you no understanding yet?

And she came and fell down before him, and said, "Help me, sir!"

He said, "It is not right to take the children's bread and throw it to the dogs!"

But she said, "O yes, sir! For even dogs eat the scraps that fall from their masters' table!"

Jesus left that place and went along the shore of the Sea of Galilee, and went up on the hillside and sat down there.

Then Jesus called his disciples to him and said to them, "I pity these people for they have been staying with me three days now and they have nothing left to eat, and I do not mean to send them away hungry, for they may give out on the way."

The disciples said to him, "Where can we get bread enough in this solitude to feed such a crowd?"

Jesus said to them, "How many loaves have you?" They said, "Seven, and a few small fish."

And Jesus said to them, "Look out, and be on your guard against the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees!"

Jesus noticed it and said, "Why are you discussing with one another your being without bread? You have so little faith!

They said, "Some say John the Baptist, others Elijah, and still others Jeremiah or one of the prophets."

He said to them, "But who do you say that I am?"

But he turned and said to Peter, "Get out of my sight, you Satan! You hinder me, for you do not side with God, but with men!"

Then Jesus said to his disciples, "If anyone wants to go with me, he must disregard himself and take his cross and follow me.

And Peter spoke, and said to Jesus, "Master, how good it is that we are here! If you wish, I will make three huts here, one for you, and one for Moses, and one for Elijah."

As he spoke a bright cloud overshadowed them and a voice from the cloud said, "This is my Son, my Beloved. He is my Chosen. Listen to him!"

And Jesus came and touched them, and said, "Get up and do not be afraid."

Afterward, when he was alone, the disciples went to Jesus and said to him, "Why could we not drive it out?"

He said to them, "Because you have so little faith. For I tell you, if you have faith the size of a grain of mustard, you can say to this mountain, 'Move from here over to there!' and it will move, and nothing will be impossible for you."

As they were going about in Galilee, Jesus said to them, "The Son of Man is going to be handed over to men,

When they reached Capernaum, the collectors of the temple-tax came and said to Peter, "Does not your Master pay the temple-tax?"

He said, "Yes." But when he went home, Jesus spoke of it first and said, "What do you think, Simon? From whom do earthly kings collect duties and taxes? From their own people, or from aliens?"

He said, "From aliens." Jesus said to him, "Then their own people are exempt.

and he said, "I tell you, unless you change and become like children, you will never get into the Kingdom of Heaven at all.

Then Peter came to him and said, "Master, how many times am I to forgive my brother when he wrongs me? Seven times over?"

Jesus said to him, "Not seven times over, I tell you, but seventy-seven times over!

And when he set about doing so, a man was brought in who owed him ten million dollars.

Then his master called him in and said to him, 'You wicked slave! I canceled all that debt of yours when you entreated me.

When Jesus had finished this discourse, he left Galilee and went to the part of Judea that is on the other side of the Jordan.

And some Pharisees came up to him to test him, and they said, "Is it right for a man to divorce his wife for any cause?"

and said, 'For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two of them shall become one'? So they are no longer two but one.

They said to him, "Then why did Moses command us to draw up a written divorce-notice and give it to her?"

He said to them, "It was on account of your perversity that Moses permitted you to divorce your wives, but it was not so at the beginning.

The disciples said to him, "If that is a man's relation to his wife, it is better not to marry!"

He said to them, "It is not everyone who can accept that, but only those who have a special gift.

But Jesus said, "Let the children alone, and do not try to keep them from coming to me, for the Kingdom of Heaven belongs to such as they are."

A man came up to him and said, "Master, what good deed must I do to obtain eternal life?"

But he said to him, "Why do you ask me about what is good? There is only one who is good. But if you want to enter that life, keep the commandments."

He said to him, "Which ones?" Jesus said, "These: 'You shall not murder, You shall not commit adultery, You shall not steal, You shall not bear false witness,

The young man said to him, "I have obeyed all these commandments. What do I still lack?"

Jesus said to him, "If you want to be perfect, go! Sell your property and give the money to the poor, and you will have riches in heaven. Then come back and be a follower of mine."

Jesus said to his disciples, "I tell you, it will be hard for a rich man to get into the Kingdom of Heaven!

But when the disciples heard this, they were completely astounded and said, "Then who can be saved?"

But Jesus looked at them and said, "For men it is impossible, but anything is possible for God!"

Then Peter spoke and said to him, "Here we have left all we had and followed you. What are we to have?"

Jesus said to them, "In the new world, I tell you, when the Son of Man takes his seat on his glorious throne, you who have followed me will also sit upon twelve thrones, and judge the twelve tribes of Israel!

And he said to them, 'You go to my vineyard, too, and I will pay you whatever is right.' So they went.

About five he went out and found others standing about and he said to them, 'Why have you been standing about here all day doing nothing?'

They said to him, 'Because nobody has hired us.' He said to them, 'You go to my vineyard, too.'

When evening came, the owner of the vineyard said to his foreman, 'Call the laborers and pay them their wages, beginning with the last and ending with the first.'

and said, 'These men who were hired last worked only one hour, and you have put them on the same footing with us who have done the heavy work of the day and have stood the midday heat.'

When Jesus was about to go up to Jerusalem, he took the Twelve off by themselves, and said to them as they were on the way,

He said to her, "What do you want?" She said to him, "Give orders that these two sons of mine sit one at your right and one at your left, when you are king!"

He said to them, "Then what I drink you shall drink, but as for sitting at my right or my left, that is not mine to give, but belongs to those for whom it is destined by my Father."

But Jesus called them to him and said, "You know that the rulers of the heathen lord it over them, and their great men tyrannize over them.

And Jesus stopped and called them, and said, "What do you want me to do for you?"

They said to him, "Sir, have our eyes opened!"

And Jesus took pity on them and touched their eyes, and they immediately regained their sight, and followed him.

Now this happened in fulfilment of what was said by the prophet,

and he said to them, "The Scripture says, 'My house shall be called a house of prayer,' but you make it a robbers' cave."

and said to him, "Do you hear what they are saying?" Jesus said to them, "Yes. Did you never read, 'You have drawn praise from the mouths of children and infants'?"

and seeing a fig tree by the roadside, he went up to it, but found nothing on it but leaves. And he said to it, "No more fruit shall ever grow on you!" And the fig tree withered up at once.

When the disciples saw it, they were amazed and said, "How did the fig tree come to wither up immediately?"

When he had entered the Temple, and was teaching, the high priests and the elders of the people came up to him, and said, "What authority have you for doing as you do, and who gave you this authority?"

And they answered Jesus, "We do not know." He said to them, "Nor will I tell you what authority I have for doing as I do.

But what do you think? There was a man who had two sons. He went to the first and said, 'My son, go and work in the vineyard today.'

Which of the two did what his father wanted?" They said, "The second one." Jesus said to them, "I tell you, the tax-collectors and prostitutes are going into the Kingdom of God ahead of you.

But when the tenants saw his son, they said to one another. 'This is his heir! Come on, let us kill him, and get his inheritance!'

They said to him, "He will put the wretches to a miserable death, and let the vineyard to other tenants who will give him his share of the vintage when it is due."

Jesus said to them, "Did you never read in the Scriptures, " 'That stone which the builders rejected Has become the cornerstone; This came from the Lord, And seems marvelous to us'?

And Jesus spoke to them again in figures, and said,

He sent other slaves a second time, and said to them, 'Tell those who have been asked, "Here I have my banquet all ready, my bullocks and fat cattle are killed, and everything is ready. Come to the banquet!" '

Then he said to his slaves, 'The banquet is ready, but those who were invited have proved unworthy of it.

And he said to him, 'My friend, how did you happen to come here without wedding clothes?' But he had nothing to say.

Then the king said to his attendants, 'Bind him hand and foot and throw him out into the darkness, there to weep and grind his teeth.'

But he saw their malice, and said,

And he said to them, "Whose head and title is this?"

They answered, "The emperor's." Then he said to them, "Then pay the emperor what belongs to the emperor, and pay God what belongs to God!"

"Master, Moses said, 'If a man dies without children his brother shall marry his widow, and raise up a family for him.'

But as to the resurrection of the dead, did you never read what was said to you by God,

And he said to him, " 'You must love the Lord your God with your whole heart, your whole soul, and your whole mind.'

"What do you think about the Christ? Whose son is he?" They said to him, "David's."

He said to them, "How is it then that David under the Spirit's influence calls him lord, and says,

" 'The Lord has said to my lord, "Sit at my right hand, Until I put your enemies under your feet" '?

Then Jesus said to the crowds and to his disciples,

"The scribes and Pharisees have taken Moses' seat.

As he was sitting on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came up to him by themselves, and said to him, "Tell us when this is to happen, and what will be the sign of your coming, and of the close of the age."

"So when you see the dreadful desecration, of which the prophet Daniel spoke, set up in the Holy Place"??he reader must take note of this??16 "then those who are in Judea must fly to the hills;