Then he began to tell them, “Today this scripture has been fulfilled even as you heard it being read.”

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 the instant the sound of your greeting reached my ears, the baby in my womb leaped for joy.

“Take these words to heart, for the Son of Man is going to be betrayed into the hands of men.”

Then one of them struck the high priest’s slave, cutting off his right ear.

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!”

So then whatever you have said in the dark will be heard in the light, and what you have whispered in private rooms will be proclaimed from the housetops.