I tell you the truth, people will be forgiven for all sins, even all the blasphemies they utter.

And as he sowed, some seed fell along the path, and the birds came and devoured it.

He said to them, “The secret of the kingdom of God has been given to you. But to those outside, everything is in parables,

These are the ones sown on rocky ground: As soon as they hear the word, they receive it with joy.

but worldly cares, the seductiveness of wealth, and the desire for other things come in and choke the word, and it produces nothing.

She had endured a great deal under the care of many doctors and had spent all that she had. Yet instead of getting better, she grew worse.

For it does not enter his heart but his stomach, and then goes out into the sewer.” (This means all foods are clean.)

After Jesus left there, he went to the region of Tyre. When he went into a house, he did not want anyone to know, but he was not able to escape notice.

He said to her, “Let the children be satisfied first, for it is not right to take the children’s bread and to throw it to the dogs.”

She answered, “Yes, Lord, but even the dogs under the table eat the children’s crumbs.”

After Jesus took him aside privately, away from the crowd, he put his fingers in the man’s ears, and after spitting, he touched his tongue.

and his clothes became radiantly white, more so than any launderer in the world could bleach them.

Then Jesus looked around and said to his disciples, “How hard it is for the rich to enter the kingdom of God!”

Then they brought the colt to Jesus, threw their cloaks on it, and he sat on it.

Two days before the Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the chief priests and the experts in the law were trying to find a way to arrest Jesus by stealth and kill him.

Then Jesus said to them, “You will all fall away, for it is written, ‘I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered.’

When they had finished mocking him, they stripped him of the purple cloak and put his own clothes back on him. Then they led him away to crucify him.

So he healed many who were sick with various diseases and drove out many demons. But he would not permit the demons to speak, because they knew him.

But no one is able to enter a strong man’s house and steal his property unless he first ties up the strong man. Then he can thoroughly plunder his house.

when it is sown, it grows up, becomes the greatest of all garden plants, and grows large branches so that the wild birds can nest in its shade.”