“Yes, Lord,” she replied, “but even the dogs eat the crumbs that fall from their masters’ table.”

And throw that worthless slave into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’

“Then he will say to those on his left, ‘Depart from me, you accursed, into the eternal fire that has been prepared for the devil and his angels!

Then the chief priests and the elders of the people met together in the palace of the high priest, who was named Caiaphas.

“Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter into the kingdom of heaven – only the one who does the will of my Father in heaven.

and a man’s enemies will be the members of his household.

“So listen to the parable of the sower:

The field is the world and the good seed are the people of the kingdom. The weeds are the people of the evil one,

After instructing the crowd to sit down on the ground,

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.

In the same way, the one who had two gained two more.

In those days John the Baptist came into the wilderness of Judea proclaiming,

Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil.

Then the devil took him to the holy city, had him stand on the highest point of the temple,

“For if you forgive others their sins, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.

So then, do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Today has enough trouble of its own.

When Jesus finished saying these things, the crowds were amazed by his teaching,

The herdsmen ran off, went into the town, and told everything that had happened to the demon-possessed men.

When the crowd saw this, they were afraid and honored God who had given such authority to men.

For it is not you speaking, but the Spirit of your Father speaking through you.