The expert answered, “Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind, and love your neighbor as yourself.”

If then your whole body is full of light, with no part in the dark, it will be as full of light as when the light of a lamp shines on you.”

This report about Jesus circulated throughout Judea and all the surrounding country.

For what does it benefit a person if he gains the whole world but loses or forfeits himself?

It is like yeast that a woman took and mixed with three measures of flour until all the dough had risen.”

It was now about noon, and darkness came over the whole land until three in the afternoon,

All their neighbors were filled with fear, and throughout the entire hill country of Judea all these things were talked about.

Then Jesus, in the power of the Spirit, returned to Galilee, and news about him spread throughout the surrounding countryside.

Simon answered, “Master, we worked hard all night and caught nothing! But at your word I will lower the nets.”

But they persisted in saying, “He incites the people by teaching throughout all Judea. It started in Galilee and ended up here!”

“Return to your home, and declare what God has done for you.” So he went away, proclaiming throughout the whole town what Jesus had done for him.

Your eye is the lamp of your body. When your eye is healthy, your whole body is full of light, but when it is diseased, your body is full of darkness.