But Jesus said to him, “Do not stop him, for whoever is not against you is for you.”

Jesus said to another, “Follow me.” But he replied, “Lord, first let me go and bury my father.”

Yet another said, “I will follow you, Lord, but first let me say goodbye to my family.”

Whoever is not with me is against me, and whoever does not gather with me scatters.

For from now on there will be five in one household divided, three against two and two against three.

After this, Jesus went out and saw a tax collector named Levi sitting at the tax booth. “Follow me,” he said to him.

But Jesus looked straight at them and said, “Then what is the meaning of that which is written: ‘The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone’?

“A sower went out to sow his seed. And as he sowed, some fell along the path and was trampled on, and the wild birds devoured it.

saying, “The Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders, chief priests, and experts in the law, and be killed, and on the third day be raised.”