Six days later Jesus took with him Peter, James, and John the brother of James, and led them privately up a high mountain.

Then some Pharisees came to him in order to test him. They asked, “Is it lawful to divorce a wife for any cause?”

so that you may be like your Father in heaven, since he causes the sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous.

but did not have marital relations with her until she gave birth to a son, whom he named Jesus.

Whenever you enter a town or village, find out who is worthy there and stay with them until you leave.

The disciples asked him, “Why then do the experts in the law say that Elijah must come first?”

“Look! The virgin will conceive and bear a son, and they will call him Emmanuel,” which means “God with us.”

Then Jesus went with them to a place called Gethsemane, and he said to the disciples, “Sit here while I go over there and pray.”

They left their nets immediately and followed him.

Another of the disciples said to him, “Lord, let me first go and bury my father.”

Now when Judas, who had betrayed him, saw that Jesus had been condemned, he regretted what he had done and returned the thirty silver coins to the chief priests and the elders,

Then the slave threw himself to the ground before him, saying, ‘Be patient with me, and I will repay you everything.’

Then Jesus called the disciples and said, “I have compassion on the crowd, because they have already been here with me three days and they have nothing to eat. I don’t want to send them away hungry since they may faint on the way.”

“The kingdom of heaven is like a treasure, hidden in a field, that a person found and hid. Then because of joy he went and sold all that he had and bought that field.

They stripped him and put a scarlet robe around him,

All the nations will be assembled before him, and he will separate people one from another like a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats.

The disciples said to him, “Where can we get enough bread in this desolate place to satisfy so great a crowd?”

Then Jesus said to the centurion, “Go; just as you believed, it will be done for you.” And the servant was healed at that hour.

“Make a tree good and its fruit will be good, or make a tree bad and its fruit will be bad, for a tree is known by its fruit.

Immediately Jesus made the disciples get into the boat and go ahead of him to the other side, while he dispersed the crowds.