So if you cannot do such a very little thing as this, why do you worry about the rest?

and when they returned from the tomb they told all these things to the eleven and to all the rest.

Jesus also told this parable to some who were confident that they were righteous and looked down on everyone else.

Now it was Mary Magdalene, Joanna, Mary the mother of James, and the other women with them who told these things to the apostles.

He said, “You have been given the opportunity to know the secrets of the kingdom of God, but for others they are in parables, so that although they see they may not see, and although they hear they may not understand.

The Pharisee stood and prayed about himself like this: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like other people: extortionists, unrighteous people, adulterers – or even like this tax collector.