He said to them, “Are you so foolish? Don’t you understand that whatever goes into a person from outside cannot defile him?

In the same way even the chief priests – together with the experts in the law – were mocking him among themselves: “He saved others, but he cannot save himself!

Jesus said to them, “The wedding guests cannot fast while the bridegroom is with them, can they? As long as they have the bridegroom with them they do not fast.

If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom will not be able to stand.

And if Satan rises against himself and is divided, he is not able to stand and his end has come.

If a house is divided against itself, that house will not be able to stand.

He told them, “This kind can come out only by prayer.”

So they answered Jesus, “We don’t know.” Then Jesus said to them, “Neither will I tell you by what authority I am doing these things.”

If your hand causes you to sin, cut it off! It is better for you to enter into life crippled than to have two hands and go into hell, to the unquenchable fire.

When they came they said to him, “Teacher, we know that you are truthful and do not court anyone’s favor, because you show no partiality but teach the way of God in accordance with the truth. Is it right to pay taxes to Caesar or not? Should we pay or shouldn’t we?”