Jesus stopped, called them, and said, “What do you want me to do for you?”

Tell us then, what do you think? Is it right to pay taxes to Caesar or not?”

But Jesus realized their evil intentions and said, “Hypocrites! Why are you testing me?

“What do you think about the Christ? Whose son is he?” They said, “The son of David.”

So the high priest stood up and said to him, “Have you no answer? What is this that they are testifying against you?”

saying, “I have sinned by betraying innocent blood!” But they said, “What is that to us? You take care of it yourself!”

Pilate said to them, “Then what should I do with Jesus who is called the Christ?” They all said, “Crucify him!”

He asked, “Why? What wrong has he done?” But they shouted more insistently, “Crucify him!”

“Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink, or about your body, what you will wear. Isn’t there more to life than food and more to the body than clothing?

So then, if you bring your gift to the altar and there remember that your brother has something against you,

And if you only greet your brothers, what more do you do? Even the Gentiles do the same, don’t they?

Why do you worry about clothing? Think about how the flowers of the field grow; they do not work or spin.

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

But he said to them, “Why are you cowardly, you people of little faith?” Then he got up and rebuked the winds and the sea, and it was dead calm.

They cried out, “Son of God, leave us alone! Have you come here to torment us before the time?”

When the Pharisees saw this they said to his disciples, “Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?”

Go and learn what this saying means: ‘I want mercy and not sacrifice.’ For I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”

Then John’s disciples came to Jesus and asked, “Why do we and the Pharisees fast often, but your disciples don’t fast?”

While they were going away, Jesus began to speak to the crowd about John: “What did you go out into the wilderness to see? A reed shaken by the wind?

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!