For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but the one who humbles himself will be exalted.”

And all the people came to him early in the morning to listen to him in the temple courts.

The whole crowd was trying to touch him, because power was coming out from him and healing them all.

A disciple is not greater than his teacher, but everyone when fully trained will be like his teacher.

(Now all the people who heard this, even the tax collectors, acknowledged God’s justice, because they had been baptized with John’s baptism.

For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.

Everyone who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces, and the one on whom it falls will be crushed.”

“Everyone who comes to me and listens to my words and puts them into practice – I will show you what he is like:

And everyone who speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven, but the person who blasphemes against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven.

In the same way therefore not one of you can be my disciple if he does not renounce all his own possessions.

“The law and the prophets were in force until John; since then, the good news of the kingdom of God has been proclaimed, and everyone is urged to enter it.

“Everyone who divorces his wife and marries someone else commits adultery, and the one who marries a woman divorced from her husband commits adultery.

And immediately he regained his sight and followed Jesus, praising God. When all the people saw it, they too gave praise to God.

“I tell you, whoever acknowledges me before men, the Son of Man will also acknowledge before God’s angels.

When he said this all his adversaries were humiliated, but the entire crowd was rejoicing at all the wonderful things he was doing.

I tell you that this man went down to his home justified rather than the Pharisee. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but he who humbles himself will be exalted.”