“Teacher, which commandment in the law is the greatest?”

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

I tell you the truth, this generation will be held responsible for all these things!

They stripped him and put a scarlet robe around him,

(Now Mary Magdalene and the other Mary were sitting there, opposite the tomb.)

The rain fell, the flood came, and the winds beat against that house, and it collapsed; it was utterly destroyed!”

Then his lord called the first slave and said to him, ‘Evil slave! I forgave you all that debt because you begged me!

“For it is like a man going on a journey, who summoned his slaves and entrusted his property to them.

To one he gave five talents, to another two, and to another one, each according to his ability. Then he went on his journey.

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

This all happened so that what was spoken by the Lord through the prophet would be fulfilled:

When King Herod heard this he was alarmed, and all Jerusalem with him.

Then Herod privately summoned the wise men and determined from them when the star had appeared.

Then people from Jerusalem, as well as all Judea and all the region around the Jordan, were going out to him,

Let your word be ‘Yes, yes’ or ‘No, no.’ More than this is from the evil one.

“You have heard that it was said, ‘An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.’

Give to the one who asks you, and do not reject the one who wants to borrow from you.

Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask him.

For the unconverted pursue these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them.

You will recognize them by their fruit. Grapes are not gathered from thorns or figs from thistles, are they?