But her husband, Joseph, because he was an upright man and did not want to disgrace her, decided to break the engagement by secretly divorcing her.

But he answered, "The Scripture says, 'Not on bread alone can man live, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.'"

He said to them, "Come! Follow me, and I will make you fishermen for catching men."

"You have heard that it was said to the men of old, 'You must not murder,' and 'Whoever murders will have to answer to the court.'

"Again, you have heard that it was said to the men of old, 'You must not swear falsely, but you must perform your oaths as a religious duty.'

But whenever you, a follower of mine, do a deed of charity, never let your own left hand know what your right hand is doing,

But whenever you, follower of mine, pray, you must go to your most private place, shut the door, and pray to your Father in secret, and your Father who sees what is secret will reward you.

But whenever you, follower of mine, fast, perfume your head and wash your face,

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

No one can be a slave to two masters, for either he will hate one and love the other, or else he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot be slaves of God and money.

"So everyone who listens to my words and practices their teaching, will be like a prudent man who built his house on a rocky foundation.

And anyone who listens to my words and does not practice their teaching, will be like an imprudent man who built his house on sand.

And Jesus said to him, "Foxes have holes, even wild birds have roosts, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay His head."

And the men were dumbfounded, and said, "What sort of man is this, for even the winds and the sea obey Him!"

When He reached the other side, in the district of Gadara, there faced Him two men, who were under the power of demons, who were just coming out from the tombs. They were such terrors that nobody could pass that way.

And He said to them, "Be gone!" And they went out of the men and got into the hogs, and suddenly the whole drove, in a stampede, rushed over the cliff into the sea, and died in the water.

And the men who fed them fled, and went off to the town, and told it all, and what occurred to the two men who were under the power of demons.

And all at once some men were bringing to Him a paralyzed man, lying on a couch. And because He saw their faith, Jesus said to the paralyzed man, "Cheer up, my child, your sins are forgiven."

But to show you that the Son of Man has authority to forgive sins on earth" -- turning to the paralyzed man, He said to Him -- "Get up, pick up your bed, and go home."

And the crowds saw it, and were stricken with awe, and gave praise to God for giving such power to men.

And as He was passing along from there, He saw a man named Matthew in his seat at the tax-collector's desk, and He said to him, "Follow me." And he got up and followed Him.

As Jesus was passing along from there, two blind men followed Him, shouting, "Do pity us, O Son of David!"

After He had gone into the house, and the blind men had gone up to Him, Jesus said to them, "Do you really believe that I can do this?" They said to Him, "Yes, Lord."

But at the very time they were going out, some people brought to Him a dumb man, who was under the power of a demon,

and after the demon had been driven out, the dumb man could talk. So the crowds were dumbfounded, saying, "Never before among the Jews was anything like this?

Do not accept gold or silver or even copper money for your purse,

Be on your guard against men, for they will turn you over to the courts and will flog you in their synagogues,

And you will be hated by all men, because you bear my name, but whoever bears up to the end will be saved.

But whenever they persecute you in one town, flee to a different one. For I solemnly say to you, you will not cover all the towns of Israel before the Son of Man returns.

The pupil should be satisfied to become like his teacher, and the slave should be satisfied to become like his master. If men have called the Head of the house Beelzebub, how much worse names will they heap upon the members of His family!

Therefore, everyone who will own me before men I will own before my Father in heaven,

but anyone who disowns me before men I will disown before my Father in heaven.

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

and a man's enemies will be members of his own family.

Whoever welcomes a prophet as a prophet will receive the same reward as a prophet, and whoever welcomes an upright man as such will receive the same reward as the upright man.

And happy is the man who finds no cause for stumbling over me."

If not, what did you go out there to see? A man dressed in silks and satins? No, people who dress in that way are found in the palaces of kings.

This is the man of whom the Scripture says, "'Attention! I am sending my messenger on before you; He will prepare the road ahead of you.'

"I solemnly say to you, of all men born of women no one greater than John the Baptist has ever appeared; and yet the one who is least important in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.

The Son of Man came eating and drinking with others, and they say, 'Just look at Him! A glutton and a wine-drinker, a chum of tax-collectors and notorious sinners!' And yet wisdom is vindicated by her doings!"

At that time Jesus said, "I thank You, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, for concealing these matters from wise and learned men, and for revealing them to little children.

If you only knew what that saying means, 'It is mercy and not sacrifice that I want,' you would not have condemned men who are not guilty.

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

Now there was a man there with one hand withered. And, to get a charge against Him, they asked Him, "Is it right to cure people on the sabbath?"

But He said to them, "What man is there among you, if he has only one sheep and it falls into a ditch on the sabbath, will not lay hold on it and lift it out?

And how much more a man is worth than a sheep! So it is right to do good on the sabbath."

Then He said to the man, "Hold out your hand." And he held it out, and it was cured so that it became like the other.

At that time some people brought to Him a man under the power of demons, who was blind and dumb, and He cured him, so that the dumb man could talk and see.

But when the Pharisees heard it, they said, "This man is not driving out demons except by the help of Beelzebub, the prince of the demons."

So I tell you, every sin and all abusive speech will be forgiven men, but abuse against the Spirit cannot be forgiven.

And whoever speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven for it, but whoever speaks abusively against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven for it, either in this world or in the world to come.

The good man out of his good inner storehouse, brings out good things, the bad man, out of his bad one, bad things.

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

For as Jonah was in the whale's stomach for three days and nights, the Son of Man will be three days and nights in the heart of the earth.

The men of Nineveh will rise with the leaders of this age at the judgment and condemn them, for they turned to the message preached by Jonah, and there is more than Jonah here!

"Whenever the foul spirit goes out of a man, it wanders about in deserts in search of rest, but cannot find it.

"Then it goes and gets seven other spirits more wicked than itself, and they go in and make their home there, and so the end of that man is worse than the beginning. This is the way it will be with the wicked leaders of this age."

But He answered the man who told Him, "Who is my mother, and who are my brothers?"

For I solemnly say to you, many prophets and upright men yearned to see what you are seeing, and did not see it, and to hear what you are hearing, and did not hear it.

And what was sown upon the thin rocky soil illustrates the man who hears the message and bubbling over with joy at once accepts it,

And what was sown among the thorns illustrates the man who hears the message, and the worries of the times and the pleasures of being rich choke the truth out, and he yields no fruit.

And what was sown in rich soil illustrates the man who hears the message and understands it, and yields fruit, one a hundred, one sixty, another thirty-fold."

He told them another story, as follows: "The kingdom of heaven is like a man who sowed seed in his field.

He told them this story, as follows: "The kingdom of heaven may be compared to a mustard seed which a man took and sowed in his field.

And He answered: "The sower of the good seed is the Son of Man;

The Son of Man will send out His angels, and they will gather out of His kingdom all those who cause wrongdoing, and the wrongdoers,

"The kingdom of heaven is like a pot of gold which was buried in a field, which a man found and buried again; and for joy over it he went and sold all he had and bought that field.

The people fed numbered about five thousand men, besides women and children.

Then Jesus at once spoke to them, "Be men of courage! It is I; stop being afraid."

And the men in the boat worshiped Him, and said, "You are certainly God's Son."

And the men of that place recognized Him, and sent into all the countryside and brought to Him all who were sick,

Their worship of me is an empty show; the things they teach are only men's precepts.'"

It is not what goes into a man's mouth that makes him foul; no, it is what comes out of a man's mouth that makes him foul."

Let them alone. They are blind teachers! And if one blind man guides another, they will both fall into the ditch."

But the things that come out of the mouth come from the heart, and they make the man foul.

These are the things that make a man foul, but eating with unwashed hands does not make a man foul."

Those fed numbered four thousand men, besides women and children.

When Jesus reached the district of Caesarea Philippi, He asked His disciples, "Who do people say that the Son of Man is?"

Then Jesus answered him, "Blessed are you, Simon, son of Jonah, for it is not man that made this known to you, but my Father in heaven.

But He turned and said to Peter, "Get out of my way, you Satan! You are a hindrance to me, for this view of yours is not from God but from men."

For what benefit will it be to a man, if he gains the whole world and loses his higher life? What price would a man pay to buy back his life?

For the Son of Man is going to come in His Father's splendor, with His angels, and then He will pay back to everyone in accordance with what he has done.

I solemnly say to you, some of the people standing here will certainly live to see the Son of Man coming in His kingdom."

And as they were going down the mountain, Jesus warned them, saying, "Never mention to anyone what you have seen until the Son of Man is raised from the dead."

But I say to you, Elijah has already come, and they did not recognize him, but treated him as they pleased. Just so the Son of Man is going to suffer at their hands."

When they reached the crowd, a man came up to Him, kneeling before Him and saying,

While they were going about in Galilee, Jesus said to them, "The Son of Man is going to be turned over into the hands of men,

A curse on the world for such influences to do wrong! For they must come, but a curse on the man from whom these influences come!

"What do you think? If a man has a hundred sheep and one of them gets lost, will he not leave the ninety-nine on the hillsides, and go and search for the one that is lost?

And when he began, a man was brought to him who owed him ten million dollars.

And some Pharisees came up to Him, to try Him out with the question, "Is it right for a man to divorce his wife for any cause?"

and said, 'For this reason a man must leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two of them must be one!'

So they are no longer two but one. Therefore, what God has joined together man must stop separating."

The disciples said to Him, "If that is a man's relation to his wife, there is no advantage in getting married."

He said to them, "It is not every man who has the capacity to carry out this saying, but it is for those to whom the capacity has been given.

For some are born incapable of marriage, 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."

And a man came up to Him and asked, "What is there good that I can do to possess eternal life?"

The young man said, "I have kept all these commandments; what more do I lack?"

Jesus said to him, "If you want to be perfect, go and sell everything you have and give the money to the poor, and you will have riches in heaven; then come back here and follow me."

And when the young man heard that, he went away in deep distress, for he owned a great deal of property.