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

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

Jesus spoke all these things in parables to the crowds; he did not speak to them without a parable.

‘This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me,

And in anger his lord turned him over to the prison guards to torture him until he repaid all he owed.

So whoever swears by the altar swears by it and by everything on it.

In the same way, on the outside you look righteous to people, but inside you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.

When Jesus had finished saying all these things, he told his disciples,

After consulting together they bought the Potter’s Field with it, as a burial place for foreigners.

So they left the tomb quickly, with fear and great joy, and ran to tell his disciples.

After they had assembled with the elders and formed a plan, they gave a large sum of money to the soldiers,

For the heart of this people has become dull; they are hard of hearing, and they have shut their eyes, so that they would not see with their eyes and hear with their ears and understand with their hearts and turn, and I would heal them.’

the people who sit in darkness have seen a great light, and on those who sit in the region and shadow of death a light has dawned.”

Rejoice and be glad because your reward is great in heaven, for they persecuted the prophets before you in the same way.

People do not light a lamp and put it under a basket but on a lampstand, and it gives light to all in the house.

“You have heard that it was said to an older generation, ‘Do not murder,’ and ‘whoever murders will be subjected to judgment.’

But if you do not forgive others, your Father will not forgive you your sins.

When Jesus heard this he was amazed and said to those who followed him, “I tell you the truth, I have not found such faith in anyone in Israel!

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.

As Jesus was having a meal in Matthew’s house, many tax collectors and sinners came and ate with Jesus and his disciples.