he does not need to honor his father.’ You have nullified the word of God on account of your tradition.

Which of the two did his father’s will?” They said, “The first.” Jesus said to them, “I tell you the truth, tax collectors and prostitutes will go ahead of you into the kingdom of God!

“Brother will hand over brother to death, and a father his child. Children will rise against parents and have them put to death.

In the same way, let your light shine before people, so that they can see your good deeds and give honor to your Father in heaven.

“Be careful not to display your righteousness merely to be seen by people. Otherwise you have no reward with your Father in heaven.

“Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter into the kingdom of heaven – only the one who does the will of my Father in heaven.

For I have come to set a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law,

And Jesus answered him, “You are blessed, Simon son of Jonah, because flesh and blood did not reveal this to you, but my Father in heaven!

Again, I tell you the truth, if two of you on earth agree about whatever you ask, my Father in heaven will do it for you.

and said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and will be united with his wife, and the two will become one flesh’?

He went away a second time and prayed, “My Father, if this cup cannot be taken away unless I drink it, your will must be done.”

Or do you think that I cannot call on my Father, and that he would send me more than twelve legions of angels right now?

Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit,

Then the righteous will shine like the sun in the kingdom of their Father. The one who has ears had better listen!

But you say, ‘If someone tells his father or mother, “Whatever help you would have received from me is given to God,”

“Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.

I tell you, from now on I will not drink of this fruit of the vine until that day when I drink it new with you in my Father’s kingdom.”

For the Son of Man will come with his angels in the glory of his Father, and then he will reward each person according to what he has done.

The father went to the other son and said the same thing. This boy answered, ‘I will, sir,’ but did not go.

Going on from there he saw two other brothers, James the son of Zebedee and John his brother, in a boat with Zebedee their father, mending their nets. Then he called them.