But he did not answer her a word. Then his disciples came and begged him, “Send her away, because she keeps on crying out after us.”

“It is not right to take the children’s bread and throw it to the dogs,” he said.

“Yes, Lord,” she replied, “but even the dogs eat the crumbs that fall from their masters’ table.”

How could you not understand that I was not speaking to you about bread? But beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees!”

Then they understood that he had not told them to be on guard against the yeast in bread, but against the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees.

So Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him: “God forbid, Lord! This must not happen to you!”

The disciples asked him, “Why then do the experts in the law say that Elijah must come first?”

After they arrived in Capernaum, the collectors of the temple tax came to Peter and said, “Your teacher pays the double drachma tax, doesn’t he?”

And if he finds it, I tell you the truth, he will rejoice more over it than over the ninety-nine that did not go astray.

“If your brother sins, go and show him his fault when the two of you are alone. If he listens to you, you have regained your brother.

Then Peter came to him and said, “Lord, how many times must I forgive my brother who sins against me? As many as seven times?”

When his fellow slaves saw what had happened, they were very upset and went and told their lord everything that had taken place.

So also my heavenly Father will do to you, if each of you does not forgive your brother from your heart.”

He answered, “Have you not read that from the beginning the Creator made them male and female,

Now I say to you that whoever divorces his wife, except for immorality, and marries another commits adultery.”

Then little children were brought to him for him to lay his hands on them and pray. But the disciples scolded those who brought them.

Then Peter said to him, “Look, we have left everything to follow you! What then will there be for us?”

And about five o’clock that afternoon he went out and found others standing around, and said to them, ‘Why are you standing here all day without work?’

As Jesus was going up to Jerusalem, he took the twelve aside privately and said to them on the way,

Then the mother of the sons of Zebedee came to him with her sons, and kneeling down she asked him for a favor.