When the chief priests and the Pharisees heard his parables, they realized that he was speaking about them.

They wanted to arrest him, but they were afraid of the crowds, because the crowds regarded him as a prophet.

The same day Sadducees (who say there is no resurrection) came to him and asked him,

He said to them, “How then does David by the Spirit call him ‘Lord,’ saying,

He answered, “The one who has dipped his hand into the bowl with me will betray me.

But when he was accused by the chief priests and the elders, he did not respond.

As they were going out, they found a man from Cyrene named Simon, whom they forced to carry his cross.

In the same way even the chief priests – together with the experts in the law and elders – were mocking him:

When it was evening, many demon-possessed people were brought to him. He drove out the spirits with a word, and healed all who were sick.

But he said to them, “Why are you cowardly, you people of little faith?” Then he got up and rebuked the winds and the sea, and it was dead calm.

After the demon was cast out, the man who had been mute spoke. The crowds were amazed and said, “Never has anything like this been seen in Israel!”

But he answered them, “An evil and adulterous generation asks for a sign, but no sign will be given to it except the sign of the prophet Jonah.

He replied, “You have been given the opportunity to know the secrets of the kingdom of heaven, but they have not.

He gave them another parable: “The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed that a man took and sowed in his field.

When the people there recognized him, they sent word into all the surrounding area, and they brought all their sick to him.

After they arrived in Capernaum, the collectors of the temple tax came to Peter and said, “Your teacher pays the double drachma tax, doesn’t he?”

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?”

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

He answered, “Have you not read that from the beginning the Creator made them male and female,

A very large crowd spread their cloaks on the road. Others cut branches from the trees and spread them on the road.