the people who sit in darkness have seen a great light, and on those who sit in the region and shadow of death a light has dawned.”

so that your gift may be in secret. And your Father, who sees in secret, will reward you.

Why do you see the speck in your brother’s eye, but fail to see the beam of wood in your own?

What I say to you in the dark, tell in the light, and what is whispered in your ear, proclaim from the housetops.

What did you go out to see? A man dressed in fancy clothes? Look, those who wear fancy clothes are in the homes of kings!

Or have you not read in the law that the priests in the temple desecrate the Sabbath and yet are not guilty?

And if I cast out demons by Beelzebul, by whom do your sons cast them out? For this reason they will be your judges.

At that time the disciples came to Jesus saying, “Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?”

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

And, ‘Whoever swears by the altar is bound by nothing. But if anyone swears by the gift on it he is bound by the oath.’

And you say, ‘If we had lived in the days of our ancestors, we would not have participated with them in shedding the blood of the prophets.’

So then, if someone says to you, ‘Look, he is in the wilderness,’ do not go out, or ‘Look, he is in the inner rooms,’ do not believe him.

then the master of that slave will come on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour he does not foresee,

and placed it in his own new tomb that he had cut in the rock. Then he rolled a great stone across the entrance of the tomb and went away.

and he was baptizing them in the Jordan River as they confessed their sins.

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

For she kept saying to herself, “If only I touch his cloak, I will be healed.”

But they went out and spread the news about him throughout that entire region.

But the Pharisees said, “By the ruler of demons he casts out demons.”

Blessed is anyone who takes no offense at me.”