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.’

He said to them, “Would not any one of you, if he had one sheep that fell into a pit on the Sabbath, take hold of it and lift it out?

But as for the seed sown on good soil, this is the person who hears the word and understands. He bears fruit, yielding a hundred, sixty, or thirty times what was sown.”

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

“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 he went out, that same slave found one of his fellow slaves who owed him one hundred silver coins. So he grabbed him by the throat and started to choke him, saying, ‘Pay back what you owe me!’

And he said to them, “Do you see all these things? I tell you the truth, not one stone will be left on another. All will be torn down!”