“If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them.

Then he said to them all, “If anyone wants to become my follower, he must deny himself, take up his cross daily, and follow me.

And if a peace-loving person is there, your peace will remain on him, but if not, it will return to you.

So if Satan too is divided against himself, how will his kingdom stand? I ask you this because you claim that I cast out demons by Beelzebul.

Now if I cast out demons by Beelzebul, by whom do your sons cast them out? Therefore they will be your judges.

And if this is how God clothes the wild grass, which is here today and tomorrow is tossed into the fire to heat the oven, how much more will he clothe you, you people of little faith!

For which of you, wanting to build a tower, doesn’t sit down first and compute the cost to see if he has enough money to complete it?

He replied to him, ‘If they do not respond to Moses and the prophets, they will not be convinced even if someone rises from the dead.’”

It would be better for him to have a millstone tied around his neck and be thrown into the sea than for him to cause one of these little ones to sin.

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

saying, “If you had only known on this day, even you, the things that make for peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes.

“Father, if you are willing, take this cup away from me. Yet not my will but yours be done.”

and said, “If you are the Christ, tell us.” But he said to them, “If I tell you, you will not believe,

All things have been given to me by my Father. No one knows who the Son is except the Father, or who the Father is except the Son and anyone to whom the Son decides to reveal him.”

Then the devil brought him to Jerusalem, had him stand on the highest point of the temple, and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, throw yourself down from here,

Then the experts in the law and the Pharisees began to think to themselves, “Who is this man who is uttering blasphemies? Who can forgive sins but God alone?”

And no one pours new wine into old wineskins. If he does, the new wine will burst the skins and will be spilled, and the skins will be destroyed.

how he entered the house of God, took and ate the sacred bread, which is not lawful for any to eat but the priests alone, and gave it to his companions?”

Now when the Pharisee who had invited him saw this, he said to himself, “If this man were a prophet, he would know who and what kind of woman this is who is touching him, that she is a sinner.”

Now when he came to the house, Jesus did not let anyone go in with him except Peter, John, and James, and the child’s father and mother.