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

Take my yoke on you and learn from me, because I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.

Then it says, ‘I will return to the home I left.’ When it returns, it finds the house empty, swept clean, and put in order.

For this reason I speak to them in parables: Although they see they do not see, and although they hear they do not hear nor do they understand.

For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in,

“He saved others, but he cannot save himself! He is the king of Israel! If he comes down now from the cross, we will believe in him!

He said to them, “Have you never read what David did when he was in need and he and his companions were hungry –

He said to them, “The secret of the kingdom of God has been given to you. But to those outside, everything is in parables,

But they have no root in themselves and do not endure. Then, when trouble or persecution comes because of the word, immediately they fall away.

In those days there was another large crowd with nothing to eat. So Jesus called his disciples and said to them,

Sighing deeply in his spirit he said, “Why does this generation look for a sign? I tell you the truth, no sign will be given to this generation.”

All who heard these things kept them in their hearts, saying, “What then will this child be?” For the Lord’s hand was indeed with him.

But he replied, “Why were you looking for me? Didn’t you know that I must be in my Father’s house?”

Jesus also said to the crowds, “When you see a cloud rising in the west, you say at once, ‘A rainstorm is coming,’ and it does.

Then a slave girl, seeing him as he sat in the firelight, stared at him and said, “This man was with him too!”

Even Herod with his soldiers treated him with contempt and mocked him. Then, dressing him in elegant clothes, Herod sent him back to Pilate.

But the man who had been healed did not know who it was, for Jesus had slipped out, since there was a crowd in that place.

For no one who seeks to make a reputation for himself does anything in secret. If you are doing these things, show yourself to the world.”

He takes away every branch that does not bear fruit in me. He prunes every branch that bears fruit so that it will bear more fruit.

and the face cloth, which had been around Jesus’ head, not lying with the strips of linen cloth but rolled up in a place by itself.