“Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant searching for fine pearls.

Or the seven loaves for the four thousand and how many baskets you took up?

Now when the other ten heard this, they were angry with the two brothers.

Again he sent other slaves, more than the first, and they treated them the same way.

The second did the same, and the third, down to the seventh.

While the Pharisees were assembled, Jesus asked them a question:

and elaborate greetings in the marketplaces, and to have people call them ‘Rabbi.’

By saying this you testify against yourselves that you are descendants of those who murdered the prophets.

Fill up then the measure of your ancestors!

and because lawlessness will increase so much, the love of many will grow cold.

But the wise ones took flasks of olive oil with their lamps.

Then one of the twelve, the one named Judas Iscariot, went to the chief priests

When it was evening, he took his place at the table with the twelve.

After singing a hymn, they went out to the Mount of Olives.

But when he was accused by the chief priests and the elders, he did not respond.

In the same way even the chief priests – together with the experts in the law and elders – were mocking him:

When some of the bystanders heard it, they said, “This man is calling for Elijah.”

And tombs were opened, and the bodies of many saints who had died were raised.

For I tell you, unless your righteousness goes beyond that of the experts in the law and the Pharisees, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.

When he came to the other side, to the region of the Gadarenes, two demon-possessed men coming from the tombs met him. They were extremely violent, so that no one was able to pass by that way.