Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.

Jesus answered them, “I will also ask you one question. If you answer me then I will also tell you by what authority I do these things.

Should you not have shown mercy to your fellow slave, just as I showed it to you?’

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

But whoever denies me before people, I will deny him also before my Father in heaven.

and said, “What will you give me to betray him into your hands?” So they set out thirty silver coins for him.

He sent them to Bethlehem and said, “Go and look carefully for the child. When you find him, inform me so that I can go and worship him as well.”

And I tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of Hades will not overpower it.