She will have a son, and you are to name him Jesus, for it is he who is to save his people from their sins."

" 'And you, Bethlehem in Judah's land, You are by no means least important among the leading places of Judah, For from you will come a leader Who will be the shepherd of my people Israel.' "

and said, "Wake up! Take the child and his mother and go to the land of Israel, for those who sought the child's life are dead."

And the tempter came up and said to him, "If you are God's son, tell these stones to turn into bread!"

and said to him, "If you are God's son, throw yourself down, for the Scripture says, " 'He will give his angels orders about you, And they will lift you up with their hands So that you may never strike your foot against a stone!' "

"Blessed are those who feel their spiritual need, for the Kingdom of Heaven belongs to them!

"Blessed are the mourners, for they will be consoled!

"Blessed are the humble-minded, for they will possess the land!

"Blessed are those who are hungry and thirsty for uprightness, for they will be satisfied!

"Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy!

"Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God!

"Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called God's sons!

"Blessed are those who have endured persecution for their uprightness, for the Kingdom of Heaven belongs to them!

"Blessed are you when people abuse you, and persecute you, and falsely say everything bad of you, on my account.

"You are the salt of the earth! But if salt loses its strength, how can it be made salt again? It is good for nothing but to be thrown away and trodden underfoot.

You are the light of the world! A city that is built upon a hill cannot be hidden.

So when you are presenting your gift at the altar, if you remember that your brother has any grievance against you,

Be quick and come to terms with your opponent while you are on the way to court with him, or he may hand you over to the judge, and the judge may hand you over to the officer, and you will be thrown into prison.

And if you are polite to your brothers and no one else, what is there remarkable in that? Do not the very heathen do that?

So you are to be perfect, as your heavenly Father is.

So when you are going to give to charity, do not blow a trumpet before yourself, as the hypocrites do, in the synagogues and the streets, to make people praise them. I tell you, that is all the reward they will get!

This, therefore, is the way you are to pray: 'Our Father in heaven, Your name be revered!

"When you fast, do not put on a gloomy look, like the hypocrites, for they neglect their personal appearance to let people see that they are fasting. I tell you, that is all the reward they will get.

so that no one may see that you are fasting, except your Father who is unseen, and your Father who sees what is secret, will reward you.

Look at the wild birds. They do not sow or reap, or store their food in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more account than they?

For these are all things the heathen are in pursuit of, and your heavenly Father knows well that you need all this.

So if you, bad as you are, know enough to give your children what is good, how much more surely will your Father in heaven give what is good to those who ask him for it!

"Go in at the narrow gate. For the road that leads to destruction is broad and spacious, and there are many who go in by it.

But the gate is narrow and the road is hard that leads to life, and there are few that find it.

"Beware of the false prophets, who come to you disguised as sheep but are ravenous wolves underneath.

And a scribe came up and said to him, "Master, I will follow you wherever you are going!"

And they came and woke him up, saying, "Save us, sir! We are lost!"

And he said to them, "Why are you afraid? You have so little faith!" Then he got up and reproved the wind and the sea, and there was a great calm.

And the demons entreated him, saying, "If you are going to drive us out, send us into the drove of pigs."

Some people came bringing to him on a bed a man who was paralyzed. Seeing their faith, Jesus said to the man, "Courage, my son! Your sins are forgiven."

For which is easier, to say, 'Your sins are forgiven,' or to say, 'Get up and walk'?

Then the disciples of John came up to him and said, "Why is it that we and the Pharisees are keeping the fast, while your disciples are not keeping it?"

And people do not put new wine into old wine-skins, or if they do, the skins burst, and the wine runs out and the skins are spoiled. But people put new wine into fresh wine-skins, and so both are saved."

Then he said to his disciples, "The harvest is abundant enough, but the reapers are few.

These are the names of the twelve apostles: first, Simon, who was called Peter, and his brother Andrew, and James the son of Zebedee and his brother John,

But the very hairs on your heads are all counted.

You must not be afraid; you are worth more than a great many sparrows!

and said to him, "Are you the one who was to come, or should we look for someone else?"

The blind are regaining their sight and the lame can walk, the lepers are being cured and the deaf can hear, the dead are being raised and good news is being preached to the poor.

"I tell you, among men born of women no one greater than John the Baptist has ever appeared. And yet those who are of little importance in the Kingdom of Heaven are greater than he.

and, if you are ready to accept the idea, he is himself Elijah who was to come.

And you, Capernaum! Are you to be exalted to the skies? You will go down among the dead! For if the wonders that have been done in you had been done in Sodom, it would have stood until today.

Come to me, all of you who toil and are burdened, and I will let you rest.

But the Pharisees saw it and said to him, "Look! Your disciples are doing something which it is against the Law to do on the Sabbath!"

Or did you never read in the Law how the priests in the Temple are not guilty when they break the Sabbath?

But if you knew what the saying means, 'It is mercy, not sacrifice, that I care for,' you would not have condemned men who are not guilty.

You brood of snakes! how can you, bad as you are, utter anything good? For the mouth says only what the heart is full of.

A good man, out of the good he has accumulated, brings out things that are good, and a bad man, out of what he has accumulated that is bad, brings out things that are bad.

But he said to the man who told him, "Who is my mother, and who are my brothers?"

And he pointed to his disciples and said, "Here are my mother and my brothers!

He answered, "You are permitted to know the secrets of the Kingdom of Heaven, but they are not.

They are a fulfilment of Isaiah's prophecy, " 'You will listen and listen, and never understand, And you will look and look, and never see!

But blessed are your eyes, for they do see, and your ears, for they do hear.

The field is the world. The good seed is the people of the kingdom. The weeds are the wicked.

The enemy who sowed them is the devil. The harvest is the close of the age, and the reapers are angels.

So just as the weeds are gathered up and burned, this is what will happen at the close of the age;

Is he not the carpenter's son? Is not his mother named Mary, and are not his brothers named James, Joseph, Simon, and Judas?

and he said to his attendants, "This man must be John the Baptist. He has risen from the dead, and that is why wonderful powers are working through him."

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

" 'This people honor me with their lips, Yet their hearts are far away from me.

But their worship of me is all in vain, For the lessons they teach are but human precepts.' "

Leave them alone. They are blind guides! But if one blind man leads another, they will both fall into the ditch!"

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

Simon Peter answered, "You are the Christ, the Son of the living God!"

Jesus answered, "Blessed are you, Simon, son of Jonah, for human nature has not disclosed this to you, but my Father in heaven!

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."

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

"But if your brother wrongs you go to him and show him his fault while you are alone with him. If he listens to you, you have won back your brother.

For wherever two or three are gathered as my followers, I am there among them."

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.

For some are incapable of marriage from their birth, and some have been made so by men, and some have made themselves so for the sake of the Kingdom of Heaven. Let him accept it who can."

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."

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

But many who are first now will be last then, and many who are now last will be first.

So those who are last now will be first then, and those who are first will be last."

"We are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be handed over to the high priests and scribes, and they will condemn him to death,

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!"

But Jesus answered, "You do not know what you are asking for! Can you drink what I am going to drink?" They answered, "Yes, we can."

If anyone says anything to you, you are to say, 'The Master needs them'; then he will send them at once."

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'?"

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.

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!" '

For many are invited but few chosen."

So they sent their disciples to him with the Herodians, to say to him, "Master, we know that you tell the truth, and teach the way of God with sincerity, regardless of the consequences, for you are impartial.

Jesus answered them, "You are wrong, because you do not understand the Scriptures nor the power of God.

But you must not let people call you 'Rabbi,' for you have only one teacher, and you are all brothers.

"But alas for you, you hypocritical scribes and Pharisees, for you lock the doors of the Kingdom of Heaven in men's faces, for you will neither go in yourselves nor let those enter who are trying to do so.

Alas for you, you hypocritical scribes and Pharisees, for you scour land and sea to make one convert, and when he is converted you make him twice as fit for the pit as you are.

Alas for you, you hypocritical scribes and Pharisees, for you clean the outside of the cup and the dish, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence.

Alas for you, you hypocritical scribes and Pharisees, for you are like white-washed tombs! They look well on the outside, but inside they are full of the bones of the dead, and all that is unclean.

So you outwardly appear to men to be upright, but within you are full of hypocrisy and wickedness.

So you bear witness against yourselves that you are descended from the murderers of the prophets.

"O Jerusalem, Jerusalem! murdering the prophets, and stoning those who are sent to her, how often I have longed to gather your children around me, as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, but you refused!

"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;

But alas for women who are with child at that time or who have babies!