As Joseph her husband was a just man but unwilling to disgrace her, he resolved to divorce her secretly;

(This was the man spoken of by the prophet Isaiah: The voice of one who cries in the desert, 'Make the way ready for the Lord, level the paths for him.')

He answered, "It is written, Man is not to live on bread alone, but on every word that issues from the mouth of God."

so he said to them, "Come, follow me, and I will make you fish for men."

Blessed are you when men denounce you and persecute you and utter all manner of evil against you for my sake;

You are the salt of the earth. But if salt becomes insipid, what can make it salt again? After that it is fit for nothing, fit only to be thrown outside and trodden by the feet of men.

Nor do men light a lamp to put it under a bowl; they put it on a stand and it shines for all in the house.

So your light is to shine before men, that they may see the good you do and glorify your Father in heaven.

Therefore whoever relaxes a single one of these commands, were it even one of the least, and teaches men so, he will be ranked least in the Realm of heaven; but whoever obeys them and teaches them, he will be ranked great in the Realm of heaven.)

You have heard how the men of old were told, 'Murder not: whoever murders must come up for sentence,

Once again, you have heard how the men of old were told, 'You must not forswear yourself but discharge your vows to the Lord'.

give to the man who begs from you, and turn not away from him who wants to borrow.

Take care not to practise your charity before men in order to be noticed; otherwise you get no reward from your Father in heaven. No,

When you give alms, make no flourish of trumpets like the hypocrites in the synagogues and the streets, so as to win applause from men; I tell you truly, they do get their reward.

Also, when you pray, you must not be like the hypocrites, for they like to stand and pray in the synagogues and at the street-corners, so as to be seen by men; I tell you truly, they do get their reward.

For if you forgive men their trespasses, then your heavenly Father will forgive you;

but if you do not forgive men, your Father will not forgive your trespasses either.

When you fast, do not look gloomy like the hypocrites, for they look woebegone to let men see they are fasting; I tell you truly, they do get their reward.

so that your fast may be seen not by men but by your Father who is in secret, and your Father who sees what is secret will reward you.

Now if God so clothes the grass of the field which blooms to-day and is thrown to-morrow into the furnace, will not he much more clothe you? O men, how little you trust him!

Well then, whatever you would like men to do to you, do just the same to them; that is the meaning of the Law and the prophets.

You will know them by their fruit; do men gather grapes from thorns or figs from thistles? No,

Now, everyone who listens to these words of mine and acts upon them will be like a sensible man who built his house on rock.

And everyone who listens to these words of mine and does not act upon them will be like a stupid man who built his house on sand.

Then Jesus told him, "See, you are not to say a word to anybody; away and show yourself to the priest and offer the gift prescribed by Moses, to notify men."

For though I am a man under authority myself, I have soldiers under me; I tell one man to go, and he goes, I tell another to come, and he comes, I tell my servant, 'Do this,' and he does it."

while the sons of the Realm will pass outside, into the darkness; there men will wail and gnash their teeth."

Jesus said to him, "The foxes have their holes, the wild birds have their nests, but the Son of man has nowhere to lay his head."

Men marvelled at this; they said, "What sort of man is this? the very winds and sea obey him!"

Some scribes said to themselves, "The man is talking blasphemy!"

But to let you see the Son of man has power on earth to forgive sins" ??he then said to the paralytic, "Get up, lift your pallet, and go home."

The crowds who saw it were awed and glorified God for giving such power to men.

As Jesus passed along from there, he saw a man called Matthew sitting at the tax-office; he said to him, "Follow me"; and he rose and followed him.

Go and learn the meaning of this word, I care for mercy not for sacrifice. For I have not come to call just men but sinners."

nor do men pour fresh wine into old wineskins, otherwise the wineskins burst, and the wine is spilt, the wineskins are ruined. They put fresh wine into fresh wineskins, and so both are preserved."

As Jesus passed along from there, he was followed by two blind men who shrieked, "Son of David, have pity on us!"

When he went indoors the blind men came up to him, and Jesus asked them, "Do you believe I can do this?" They said, "Yes, sir."

As they went out, a dumb man was brought to him, who was possessed by a daemon,

and when the daemon had been cast out, the dumb man spoke. Then the crowd marvelled; they said, "Such a thing has never been seen in Israel!"

These twelve men Jesus despatched with the following instructions, "Do not go among the Gentiles, and do not enter a Samaritan town,

And preach as you go, tell men, 'The Reign of heaven is near.'

Beware of men, they will hand you over to sanhedrins and scourge you in their synagogues,

and you will be hated by all men on account of my name; but he will be saved who holds out to the very end.

When they persecute you in one town, flee to the next; truly I tell you, you will not have covered the towns of Israel before the Son of man arrives.

enough for the scholar to fare like his teacher, and the servant like his lord. If men have called the master of the house Beelzebul, how much more will they miscall his servants!

Everyone who will acknowledge me before men, I will acknowledge him before my Father in heaven;

and whoever will disown me before men, I will disown him before my Father in heaven.

I have come to set a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law;

yes, a man's own household will be his enemies.

He who receives a prophet because he is a prophet, will receive a prophet's reward; he who receives a good man because he is good, will receive a good man's reward.

Come, what did you go out to see? A man arrayed in soft raiment? The wearers of soft raiment are in royal palaces.

For John has come neither eating nor drinking, and men say, 'He has a devil';

the Son of man has come eating and drinking, and men say, 'Here is a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of taxgatherers and sinners!' Nevertheless, Wisdom is vindicated by all that she does."

He replied, "Have you not read what David did when he and his men were hungry,

how he went into the house of God, and there they ate the loaves of the Presence which neither he nor his men were allowed to eat, but only the priests?

Besides, if you had known what this meant, I care for mercy not for sacrifice, you would not have condemned men who are not guilty.

For the Son of man is Lord of the sabbath."

Now a man with a withered hand was there; so in order to get a charge against him they asked him, "Is it right to heal on the sabbath?"

He said to them, "Is there a man of you with one sheep, who will not catch hold of it and lift it out of a pit on the sabbath, if it falls in?

And how much more is a man worth than a sheep? Thus it is right to do a kindness on the sabbath."

Then he said to the man, "Stretch out your hand." He stretched it out, and it was quite restored, as sound as the other.

Then a blind and dumb demoniac was brought to him, and he healed him, so that the dumb man spoke and saw.

Why, how can anyone enter the strong man's house and plunder his goods, unless he first of all binds the strong man? Then he can plunder his house.

I tell you therefore, men will be forgiven any sin and blasphemy, but they will not be forgiven for blaspheming the Spirit.

Whoever says a word against the Son of man will be forgiven, but whoever speaks against the holy Spirit will never be forgiven, neither in this world nor in the world to come.

The good man brings good out of his good store, and the evil man brings evil out of his store of evil.

I tell you, men will have to account on the day of judgment for every light word they utter;

for as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the whale, so the Son of man will be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.

The men of Ninive will rise at the judgment with this generation and condemn it; for when Jonah preached they did repent, and here is One greater than Jonah.

When an unclean spirit leaves a man, it roams through dry places in search of refreshment and finds none.

Then it goes off to fetch seven other spirits worse than itself; they go in and dwell there, and the last state of that man is worse than the first. This is how it will be with the present evil generation."

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

I tell you truly, many prophets and good men have longed to see what you see, but they have not seen it; and to hear what you hear, but they have not heard it.

When anyone hears the word of the Realm and does not understand it, the evil one comes and snatches away what has been sown in his heart; that is the man who is sown 'on the road.'

As for him who is sown 'on stony soil,' that is the man who hears the word and accepts it at once with enthusiasm;

As for him who is sown 'among thorns,' that is the man who listens to the word, but the worry of the world and the delight of being rich choke the word; so it proves unfruitful.

As for him who is sown 'on good soil,' that is the man who hears the word and understands it; he bears fruit, producing now a hundredfold, now sixty, and now thirtyfold."

He put another parable before them. "The Realm of heaven," he said, "is like a man who sowed good seed in his field,

but while men slept his enemy came and resowed weeds among the wheat and then went away.

He put another parable before them. "The Realm of heaven," he said, "is like a grain of mustard-seed which a man takes and sows in his field.

So he replied, "He who sows the good seed is the Son of man;

the Son of man will despatch his angels, and they will gather out of his Realm all who are hindrances and who practise iniquity,

and throw them into the furnace of fire; there men will wail and gnash their teeth.

The Realm of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field; the man who finds it hides it and in his delight goes and sells all he possesses and buys that field.

and fling them into the furnace of fire; there men will wail and gnash their teeth.

The men who ate numbered about five thousand, apart from the women and children.

and the men in the boat worshipped him, saying, "You are certainly God's Son."

The men of that place recognized him and sent all over the surrounding country, bringing him all who were ill

But you say, whoever tells his father or mother, 'This money might have been at your service but it is dedicated to God,'

it is not what enters a man's mouth that defiles him, what defiles a man is what comes out of his mouth."

Let them alone; they are blind guides of the blind, and if one blind man leads another, both of them will fall into a pit."

while what comes out of the mouth comes from the heart ??and that is what defiles a man.

That is what defiles a man; a man is not defiled by eating with hands unwashed!"

The men who ate numbered four thousand, apart from the children and the women.

Now when Jesus came to the district of Caesarea Philippi he asked his disciples, "Who do people say the Son of man is?"

Jesus answered him, "You are a blessed man, Simon Bar-jona, for it was my Father in heaven, not flesh and blood, that revealed this to you.

But he turned and said to Peter, "Get behind me, you Satan! You are a hindrance to me! Your outlook is not God's but man's."

What profit will it be if a man gains the whole world and forfeits his own soul? What will a man offer as an equivalent for his soul?

For the Son of man is coming in the glory of his Father with his angels, and then he will reward everyone for what he has done.

I tell you truly, there are some of those standing here who will not taste death till they see the Son of man coming himself to reign."