But you say that if anyone tells his father or mother, ‘Whatever help you would have received from me is corban’ (that is, a gift for God),

He said to them, “Are you so foolish? Don’t you understand that whatever goes into a person from outside cannot defile him?

Jesus looked at them and replied, “This is impossible for mere humans, but not for God; all things are possible for God.”

For even the Son of Man did not come to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”

Now when the centurion, who stood in front of him, saw how he died, he said, “Truly this man was God’s Son!”

Just then some men showed up, carrying a paralyzed man on a stretcher. They were trying to bring him in and place him before Jesus.

“Woe to you when all people speak well of you, for their ancestors did the same things to the false prophets.

What did you go out to see? A man dressed in fancy clothes? Look, those who wear fancy clothes and live in luxury are in kings’ courts!

So the demons came out of the man and went into the pigs, and the herd of pigs rushed down the steep slope into the lake and drowned.

For just as Jonah became a sign to the people of Nineveh, so the Son of Man will be a sign to this generation.

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.

be like people waiting for their master to come back from the wedding celebration, so that when he comes and knocks they can immediately open the door for him.

Then he said to the disciples, “The days are coming when you will desire to see one of the days of the Son of Man, and you will not see it.

For just like the lightning flashes and lights up the sky from one side to the other, so will the Son of Man be in his day.

For a while he refused, but later on he said to himself, ‘Though I neither fear God nor have regard for people,

For I was afraid of you, because you are a severe man. You withdraw what you did not deposit and reap what you did not sow.’

But if we say, ‘From people,’ all the people will stone us, because they are convinced that John was a prophet.”

Then he began to tell the people this parable: “A man planted a vineyard, leased it to tenant farmers, and went on a journey for a long time.

But stay alert at all times, praying that you may have strength to escape all these things that must happen, and to stand before the Son of Man.”

Then a little later someone else saw him and said, “You are one of them too.” But Peter said, “Man, I am not!”