“Watch out for false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing but inwardly are voracious wolves.

When Jesus finished saying these things, the crowds were amazed by his teaching,

He stretched out his hand and touched him saying, “I am willing. Be clean!” Immediately his leprosy was cleansed.

The herdsmen ran off, went into the town, and told everything that had happened to the demon-possessed men.

For she kept saying to herself, “If only I touch his cloak, I will be healed.”

And you will be brought before governors and kings because of me, as a witness to them and the Gentiles.

“Whoever, then, acknowledges me before people, I will acknowledge before my Father in heaven.

But whoever denies me before people, I will deny him also before my Father in heaven.

Whoever finds his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life because of me will find it.

“Are you the one who is to come, or should we look for another?”

Then Jesus began to criticize openly the cities in which he had done many of his miracles, because they did not repent.

But if I cast out demons by the Spirit of God, then the kingdom of God has already overtaken you.

Whoever is not with me is against me, and whoever does not gather with me scatters.

But while everyone was sleeping, an enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat and went away.

Meanwhile the boat, already far from land, was taking a beating from the waves because the wind was against it.

They begged him if they could only touch the edge of his cloak, and all who touched it were healed.

He answered them, “And why do you disobey the commandment of God because of your tradition?

“Yes, Lord,” she replied, “but even the dogs eat the crumbs that fall from their masters’ table.”

But Jesus came and touched them. “Get up,” he said. “Do not be afraid.”

But the tenants seized his slaves, beat one, killed another, and stoned another.