“Woe to you, experts in the law and you Pharisees, hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs that look beautiful on the outside but inside are full of the bones of the dead and of everything unclean.

Then it goes and brings with it seven other spirits more evil than itself, and they go in and live there, so the last state of that person is worse than the first. It will be that way for this evil generation as well!”

They sent to him their disciples along with the Herodians, saying, “Teacher, we know that you are truthful, and teach the way of God in accordance with the truth. You do not court anyone’s favor because you show no partiality.

From that time on Jesus began to show his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things at the hands of the elders, chief priests, and experts in the law, and be killed, and on the third day be raised.

Then he instructed the crowds to sit down on the grass. He took the five loaves and two fish, and looking up to heaven he gave thanks and broke the loaves. He gave them to the disciples, who in turn gave them to the crowds.

So then, be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect.

Therefore produce fruit that proves your repentance,

Yes, Father, for this was your gracious will.

As the night was ending, Jesus came to them walking on the sea.

He called a child, had him stand among them,

But the wise ones took flasks of olive oil with their lamps.

The robbers who were crucified with him also spoke abusively to him.

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

Then the Pharisees went out and planned together to entrap him with his own words.

He came to a town called Nazareth and lived there. Then what had been spoken by the prophets was fulfilled, that Jesus would be called a Nazarene.

But while they had gone to buy it, the bridegroom arrived, and those who were ready went inside with him to the wedding banquet. Then the door was shut.

But as for the seed sown on good soil, this is the person who hears the word and understands. He bears fruit, yielding a hundred, sixty, or thirty times what was sown.”

“I am sending you out like sheep surrounded by wolves, so be wise as serpents and innocent as doves.

As the weeds are collected and burned with fire, so it will be at the end of the age.

When the disciples saw him walking on the water they were terrified and said, “It’s a ghost!” and cried out with fear.