saying, “Where is the one who is born king of the Jews? For we saw his star when it rose and have come to worship him.”

This is the one about whom it is written: ‘Look, I am sending my messenger ahead of you, who will prepare your way before you.’

Then the righteous will shine like the sun in the kingdom of their Father. The one who has ears had better listen!

For God said, ‘Honor your father and mother’ and ‘Whoever insults his father or mother must be put to death.’

Jesus said to him, “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’

“Woe to you, experts in the law and you Pharisees, hypocrites! You cross land and sea to make one convert, and when you get one, you make him twice as much a child of hell as yourselves!

“Woe to you, blind guides, who say, ‘Whoever swears by the temple is bound by nothing. But whoever swears by the gold of the temple is bound by the oath.’

Then the one who had received the one talent came and said, ‘Sir, I knew that you were a hard man, harvesting where you did not sow, and gathering where you did not scatter seed,

Then some of the experts in the law said to themselves, “This man is blaspheming!”

Get up, let us go. Look! My betrayer is approaching!”

Joseph took the body, wrapped it in a clean linen cloth,

Then his lord called the first slave and said to him, ‘Evil slave! I forgave you all that debt because you begged me!

Then Herod privately summoned the wise men and determined from them when the star had appeared.

“When an unclean spirit goes out of a person, it passes through waterless places looking for rest but does not find it.

And call no one your ‘father’ on earth, for you have one Father, who is in heaven.

So whoever swears by the altar swears by it and by everything on it.

saying, “I have sinned by betraying innocent blood!” But they said, “What is that to us? You take care of it yourself!”

Then Jesus entered the temple area and drove out all those who were selling and buying in the temple courts, and turned over the tables of the money changers and the chairs of those selling doves.

Now John wore clothing made from camel’s hair with a leather belt around his waist, and his diet consisted of locusts and wild honey.

Jesus went throughout all of Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all kinds of disease and sickness among the people.