“Whoever receives you receives me, and whoever receives me receives the one who sent me.

For you will always have the poor with you, but you will not always have me!

“Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.

And whoever welcomes a child like this in my name welcomes me.

Then Peter came to him and said, “Lord, how many times must I forgive my brother who sins against me? As many as seven times?”

When Jesus learned of this, he said to them, “Why are you bothering this woman? She has done a good service for me.

“But if anyone causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to have a huge millstone hung around his neck and to be drowned in the open sea.