For I tell you, you will not see me from now until you say, ‘Blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord!’”

And if those days had not been cut short, no one would be saved. But for the sake of the elect those days will be cut short.

Then you should have deposited my money with the bankers, and on my return I would have received my money back with interest!

(Now the betrayer had given them a sign, saying, “The one I kiss is the man. Arrest him!”)

But I say to you that anyone who is angry with a brother will be subjected to judgment. And whoever insults a brother will be brought before the council, and whoever says ‘Fool’ will be sent to fiery hell.

And if anyone will not welcome you or listen to your message, shake the dust off your feet as you leave that house or that town.

And whoever gives only a cup of cold water to one of these little ones in the name of a disciple, I tell you the truth, he will never lose his reward.”

“Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! If the miracles done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.

And you, Capernaum, will you be exalted to heaven? No, you will be thrown down to Hades! For if the miracles done among you had been done in Sodom, it would have continued to this day.

Whoever speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven. But whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven, either in this age or in the age to come.

But you say, ‘If someone tells his father or mother, “Whatever help you would have received from me is given to God,”

I tell you the truth, there are some standing here who will not experience death before they see the Son of Man coming in his kingdom.”

“But if anyone causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to have a huge millstone hung around his neck and to be drowned in the open sea.

After they had gone, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream and said, “Get up, take the child and his mother and flee to Egypt, and stay there until I tell you, for Herod is going to look for the child to kill him.”

So anyone who breaks one of the least of these commands and teaches others to do so will be called least in the kingdom of heaven, but whoever obeys them and teaches others to do so will be called great in the kingdom of heaven.