It is of no value for the soil or for the manure pile; it is to be thrown out. The one who has ears to hear had better listen!”

For I tell you that many prophets and kings longed to see what you see but did not see it, and to hear what you hear but did not hear it.”

“The one who listens to you listens to me, and the one who rejects you rejects me, and the one who rejects me rejects the one who sent me.”

and all who heard it were astonished at what the shepherds said.

And all who heard Jesus were astonished at his understanding and his answers.

When they heard this, all the people in the synagogue were filled with rage.

Now all the tax collectors and sinners were coming to hear him.

The Pharisees (who loved money) heard all this and ridiculed him.

But Abraham said, ‘They have Moses and the prophets; they must respond to them.’

And the Lord said, “Listen to what the unrighteous judge says!

But when the man heard this he became very sad, for he was extremely wealthy.

Those who heard this said, “Then who can be saved?”

When he heard a crowd going by, he asked what was going on.

As all the people were listening, Jesus said to his disciples,

And all the people came to him early in the morning to listen to him in the temple courts.

Now when Pilate heard this, he asked whether the man was a Galilean.

So he answered them, “Go tell John what you have seen and heard: The blind see, the lame walk, lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, the poor have good news proclaimed to them.

But other seed fell on good soil and grew, and it produced a hundred times as much grain.” As he said this, he called out, “The one who has ears to hear had better listen!”

“But I say to you who are listening: Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you,

(Now all the people who heard this, even the tax collectors, acknowledged God’s justice, because they had been baptized with John’s baptism.