And if I drive out demons by Beelzebul, who is it your sons drive them out by? For this reason they will be your judges.

I tell you that on the day of judgment people will have to account for every careless word they speak.

The men of Nineveh will stand up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it, because they repented at Jonah’s proclamation; and look—something greater than Jonah is here!

Then off it goes and brings with it seven other spirits more evil than itself, and they enter and settle down there. As a result, that man’s last condition is worse than the first. That’s how it will also be with this evil generation.”

Others fell on rocky ground, where there wasn’t much soil, and they sprang up quickly since the soil wasn’t deep.

But when the sun came up they were scorched, and since they had no root, they withered.

For this reason I speak to them in parables, because looking they do not see, and hearing they do not listen or understand.

For this people’s heart has grown callous;
their ears are hard of hearing,
and they have shut their eyes;
otherwise they might see with their eyes
and hear with their ears,
understand with their hearts
and turn back—
and I would cure them.

“But your eyes are blessed because they do see, and your ears because they do hear!

The Son of Man will send out His angels, and they will gather from His kingdom everything that causes sin and those guilty of lawlessness.

They will throw them into the blazing furnace where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

and when it was full, they dragged it ashore, sat down, and gathered the good fish into containers, but threw out the worthless ones.

“Have you understood all these things?”

“Yes,” they told Him.

He went to His hometown and began to teach them in their synagogue, so that they were astonished and said, “How did this wisdom and these miracles come to Him?

And His sisters, aren’t they all with us? So where does He get all these things?”

And they were offended by Him.

But Jesus said to them, “A prophet is not without honor except in his hometown and in his household.”

Though he wanted to kill him, he feared the crowd, since they regarded him as a prophet.

When Jesus heard about it, He withdrew from there by boat to a remote place to be alone. When the crowds heard this, they followed Him on foot from the towns.

When evening came, the disciples approached Him and said, “This place is a wilderness, and it is already late. Send the crowds away so they can go into the villages and buy food for themselves.”

“They don’t need to go away,” Jesus told them. “You give them something to eat.”

“But we only have five loaves and two fish here,” they said to Him.

Everyone ate and was filled. Then they picked up 12 baskets full of leftover pieces!

When the disciples saw Him walking on the sea, they were terrified. “It’s a ghost!” they said, and cried out in fear.

When they got into the boat, the wind ceased.

Once they crossed over, they came to land at Gennesaret.

When the men of that place recognized Him, they alerted the whole vicinity and brought to Him all who were sick.

They were begging Him that they might only touch the tassel on His robe. And as many as touched it were made perfectly well.

“Why do Your disciples break the tradition of the elders? For they don’t wash their hands when they eat!”

They worship Me in vain,
teaching as doctrines the commands of men.”

Then the disciples came up and told Him, “Do You know that the Pharisees took offense when they heard this statement?”

Leave them alone! They are blind guides. And if the blind guide the blind, both will fall into a pit.”

and large crowds came to Him, having with them the lame, the blind, the deformed, those unable to speak, and many others. They put them at His feet, and He healed them.

So the crowd was amazed when they saw those unable to speak talking, the deformed restored, the lame walking, and the blind seeing. And they gave glory to the God of Israel.

Now Jesus summoned His disciples and said, “I have compassion on the crowd, because they’ve already stayed with Me three days and have nothing to eat. I don’t want to send them away hungry; otherwise they might collapse on the way.”

“How many loaves do you have?” Jesus asked them.

“Seven,” they said, “and a few small fish.”

They all ate and were filled. Then they collected the leftover pieces—seven large baskets full.

The disciples reached the other shore, and they had forgotten to take bread.

And they discussed among themselves, “We didn’t bring any bread.”

Then they understood that He did not tell them to beware of the yeast in bread, but of the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees.

And they said, “Some say John the Baptist; others, Elijah; still others, Jeremiah or one of the prophets.”

I assure you: There are some standing here who will not taste death until they see the Son of Man coming in His kingdom.”

When the disciples heard it, they fell facedown and were terrified.

When they looked up they saw no one except Him—Jesus alone.

As they were coming down from the mountain, Jesus commanded them, “Don’t tell anyone about the vision until the Son of Man is raised from the dead.”

“But I tell you: Elijah has already come, and they didn’t recognize him. On the contrary, they did whatever they pleased to him. In the same way the Son of Man is going to suffer at their hands.”

When they reached the crowd, a man approached and knelt down before Him.

I brought him to Your disciples, but they couldn’t heal him.”

As they were meeting in Galilee, Jesus told them, “The Son of Man is about to be betrayed into the hands of men.

They will kill Him, and on the third day He will be raised up.” And they were deeply distressed.

When they came to Capernaum, those who collected the double-drachma tax approached Peter and said, “Doesn’t your Teacher pay the double-drachma tax?”

When the other slaves saw what had taken place, they were deeply distressed and went and reported to their master everything that had happened.

Some Pharisees approached Him to test Him. They asked, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife on any grounds?”

So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore, what God has joined together, man must not separate.”

“Why then,” they asked Him, “did Moses command us to give divorce papers and to send her away?”

When the disciples heard this, they were utterly astonished and asked, “Then who can be saved?”

To those men he said, ‘You also go to my vineyard, and I’ll give you whatever is right.’ So off they went.

“‘Because no one hired us,’ they said to him.

“‘You also go to my vineyard,’ he told them.

“When those who were hired about five came, they each received one denarius.

So when the first ones came, they assumed they would get more, but they also received a denarius each.

When they received it, they began to complain to the landowner:

“Listen! We are going up to Jerusalem. The Son of Man will be handed over to the chief priests and scribes, and they will condemn Him to death.

Then they will hand Him over to the Gentiles to be mocked, flogged, and crucified, and He will be resurrected on the third day.”

But Jesus answered, “You don’t know what you’re asking. Are you able to drink the cup that I am about to drink?”

“We are able,” they said to Him.

When the 10 disciples heard this, they became indignant with the two brothers.

As they were leaving Jericho, a large crowd followed Him.

There were two blind men sitting by the road. When they heard that Jesus was passing by, they cried out, “Lord, have mercy on us, Son of David!”

The crowd told them to keep quiet, but they cried out all the more, “Lord, have mercy on us, Son of David!”

“Lord,” they said to Him, “open our eyes!”

Moved with compassion, Jesus touched their eyes. Immediately they could see, and they followed Him.

When they approached Jerusalem and came to Bethphage at the Mount of Olives, Jesus then sent two disciples,

They brought the donkey and the colt; then they laid their robes on them, and He sat on them.

When the chief priests and the scribes saw the wonders that He did and the children shouting in the temple complex, “Hosanna to the Son of David!” they were indignant

When the disciples saw it, they were amazed and said, “How did the fig tree wither so quickly?”

Where did John’s baptism come from? From heaven or from men?”

They began to argue among themselves, “If we say, ‘From heaven,’ He will say to us, ‘Then why didn’t you believe him?’

So they answered Jesus, “We don’t know.”

And He said to them, “Neither will I tell you by what authority I do these things.

“Which of the two did his father’s will?”

“The first,” they said.

Jesus said to them, “I assure you: Tax collectors and prostitutes are entering the kingdom of God before you!

Again, he sent other slaves, more than the first group, and they did the same to them.

Finally, he sent his son to them. ‘They will respect my son,’ he said.

“But when the tenant farmers saw the son, they said among themselves, ‘This is the heir. Come, let’s kill him and take his inheritance!’

So they seized him, threw him out of the vineyard, and killed him.

“He will completely destroy those terrible men,” they told Him, “and lease his vineyard to other farmers who will give him his produce at the harvest.”

When the chief priests and the Pharisees heard His parables, they knew He was speaking about them.

Although they were looking for a way to arrest Him, they feared the crowds, because they regarded Him as a prophet.

He sent out his slaves to summon those invited to the banquet, but they didn’t want to come.

“But they paid no attention and went away, one to his own farm, another to his business.

So those slaves went out on the roads and gathered everyone they found, both evil and good. The wedding banquet was filled with guests.

They sent their disciples to Him, with the Herodians. “Teacher,” they said, “we know that You are truthful and teach truthfully the way of God. You defer to no one, for You don’t show partiality.

Show Me the coin used for the tax.” So they brought Him a denarius.

“Caesar’s,” they said to Him.

Then He said to them, “Therefore give back to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.”

When they heard this, they were amazed. So they left Him and went away.

In the resurrection, therefore, whose wife will she be of the seven? For they all had married her.”

For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage but are like angels in heaven.

And when the crowds heard this, they were astonished at His teaching.

When the Pharisees heard that He had silenced the Sadducees, they came together.

“What do you think about the Messiah? Whose Son is He?”

“David’s,” they told Him.

Therefore do whatever they tell you, and observe it. But don’t do what they do, because they don’t practice what they teach.

They tie up heavy loads that are hard to carry and put them on people’s shoulders, but they themselves aren’t willing to lift a finger to move them.

They do everything to be observed by others: They enlarge their phylacteries and lengthen their tassels.

They love the place of honor at banquets, the front seats in the synagogues,

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! You clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence!