The one who has ears had better listen!”

because he taught them like one who had authority, not like their experts in the law.

But they were indifferent and went away, one to his farm, another to his business.

And one of them, an expert in religious law, asked him a question to test him:

“Are you the one who is to come, or should we look for another?”

And do not lead us into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.

For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.

“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.

“See that you do not disdain one of these little ones. For I tell you that their angels in heaven always see the face of my Father in heaven.

What do you think? If someone owns a hundred sheep and one of them goes astray, will he not leave the ninety-nine on the mountains and go look for the one that went astray?

and the one in the field must not turn back to get his cloak.

In the same way, the one who had two gained two more.

And whoever gives only a cup of cold water to one of these little ones in the name of a disciple, I tell you the truth, he will never lose his reward.”

Therefore take the talent from him and give it to the one who has ten.

The one who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces, and the one on whom it falls will be crushed.”

They answered, “Some say John the Baptist, others Elijah, and others Jeremiah or one of the prophets.”

But you are not to be called ‘Rabbi,’ for you have one Teacher and you are all brothers.

And while they were eating he said, “I tell you the truth, one of you will betray me.”

(Now the betrayer had given them a sign, saying, “The one I kiss is the man. Arrest him!”)

All things have been handed over to me by my Father. No one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and anyone to whom the Son decides to reveal him.