So whoever swears by the altar swears by it and by everything on it.

And whoever swears by the temple swears by it and the one who dwells in it.

They love the place of honor at banquets and the best seats in the synagogues

Woe to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing their babies in those days!

But they said, “Not during the feast, so that there won’t be a riot among the people.”

Now while Jesus was in Bethany at the house of Simon the leper,

“Whoever, then, acknowledges me before people, I will acknowledge before my Father in heaven.

And so they took offense at him. But Jesus said to them, “A prophet is not without honor except in his hometown and in his own house.”

And whoever swears by heaven swears by the throne of God and the one who sits on it.

So he sent and had John beheaded in the prison.

“Teacher, which commandment in the law is the greatest?”

In those days John the Baptist came into the wilderness of Judea proclaiming,

For by the standard you judge you will be judged, and the measure you use will be the measure you receive.

In the same way, your Father in heaven is not willing that one of these little ones be lost.

It must not be this way among you! Instead whoever wants to be great among you must be your servant,

For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven.

Jesus went throughout all of Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all kinds of disease and sickness among the people.

“Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! If the miracles done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.

Jesus said to him, “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’

After Jesus was born in Bethlehem in Judea, in the time of King Herod, wise men from the East came to Jerusalem