“Whoever, then, acknowledges me before people, I will acknowledge before my Father in heaven.

“But your eyes are blessed because they see, and your ears because they hear.

Then the chief priests and the elders of the people met together in the palace of the high priest, who was named Caiaphas.

Then the governor’s soldiers took Jesus into the governor’s residence and gathered the whole cohort around him.

“Enter through the narrow gate, because the gate is wide and the way is spacious that leads to destruction, and there are many who enter through it.

For whoever has will be given more, and will have an abundance. But whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken from him.

Now Peter was sitting outside in the courtyard. A slave girl came to him and said, “You also were with Jesus the Galilean.”

The blind see, the lame walk, lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, and the poor have good news proclaimed to them.

At that time Jesus said, “I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and intelligent, and revealed them to little children.