And if I cast out demons by Beelzebul, by whom do your sons cast them out? For this reason they will be your judges.

For this reason I tell you, people will be forgiven for every sin and blasphemy, but the blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven.

The good person brings good things out of his good treasury, and the evil person brings evil things out of his evil treasury.

“When an unclean spirit goes out of a person, it passes through waterless places looking for rest but does not find it.

While Jesus was still speaking to the crowds, his mother and brothers came and stood outside, asking to speak to him.

To the one who had said this, Jesus replied, “Who is my mother and who are my brothers?”

Other seeds fell on rocky ground where they did not have much soil. They sprang up quickly because the soil was not deep.

But other seeds fell on good soil and produced grain, some a hundred times as much, some sixty, and some thirty.

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.

The seed sown on rocky ground is the person who hears the word and immediately receives it with joy.

“Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a net that was cast into the sea that caught all kinds of fish.

When it was full, they pulled it ashore, sat down, and put the good fish into containers and threw the bad away.

It will be this way at the end of the age. Angels will come and separate the evil from the righteous

For Herod had arrested John, bound him, and put him in prison on account of Herodias, his brother Philip’s wife,

But on Herod’s birthday, the daughter of Herodias danced before them and pleased Herod,

Now when Jesus heard this he went away from there privately in a boat to an isolated place. But when the crowd heard about it, they followed him on foot from the towns.

And after he sent the crowds away, he went up the mountain by himself to pray. When evening came, he was there alone.

When the disciples saw him walking on the water they were terrified and said, “It’s a ghost!” and cried out with fear.

He answered them, “And why do you disobey the commandment of God because of your tradition?

Don’t you understand that whatever goes into the mouth enters the stomach and then passes out into the sewer?