“Listen to another parable: There was a landowner who planted a vineyard. He put a fence around it, dug a pit for its winepress, and built a watchtower. Then he leased it to tenant farmers and went on a journey.

Whoever receives a prophet in the name of a prophet will receive a prophet’s reward. Whoever receives a righteous person in the name of a righteous person will receive a righteous person’s reward.

Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a snake?

Blind guides! You strain out a gnat yet swallow a camel!

“A disciple is not greater than his teacher, nor a slave greater than his master.

You are the light of the world. A city located on a hill cannot be hidden.

People do not light a lamp and put it under a basket but on a lampstand, and it gives light to all in the house.

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

“Tell the people of Zion, ‘Look, your king is coming to you, unassuming and seated on a donkey, and on a colt, the foal of a donkey.’”

A good tree is not able to bear bad fruit, nor a bad tree to bear good fruit.

What did you go out to see? A prophet? Yes, I tell you, and more than a prophet.

How much more valuable is a person than a sheep! So it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath.”

“The kingdom of heaven can be compared to a king who gave a wedding banquet for his son.

“You have heard that it was said, ‘An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.’

He called a child, had him stand among them,

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

They stripped him and put a scarlet robe around him,

“For it is like a man going on a journey, who summoned his slaves and entrusted his property to them.

He will not break a bruised reed or extinguish a smoldering wick, until he brings justice to victory.

Again I say, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter into the kingdom of God.”