Then the slave threw himself to the ground before him, saying, ‘Be patient with me, and I will repay you everything.’

Then his fellow slave threw himself down and begged him, ‘Be patient with me, and I will repay you.’

They brought the donkey and the colt and placed their cloaks on them, and he sat on them.

But they were indifferent and went away, one to his farm, another to his business.

So go into the main streets and invite everyone you find to the wedding banquet.’

And call no one your ‘father’ on earth, for you have one Father, who is in heaven.

For many will come in my name, saying, ‘I am the Christ,’ and they will mislead many.

So also you, when you see all these things, know that he is near, right at the door.

a woman came to him with an alabaster jar of expensive perfumed oil, and she poured it on his head as he was at the table.

When she poured this oil on my body, she did it to prepare me for burial.

He trusts in God – let God, if he wants to, deliver him now because he said, ‘I am God’s Son’!”

If this matter is heard before the governor, we will satisfy him and keep you out of trouble.”

People do not light a lamp and put it under a basket but on a lampstand, and it gives light to all in the house.

So then, if you bring your gift to the altar and there remember that your brother has something against you,

“Do not accumulate for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal.

No one sews a patch of unshrunk cloth on an old garment, because the patch will pull away from the garment and the tear will be worse.

What I say to you in the dark, tell in the light, and what is whispered in your ear, proclaim from the housetops.

Aren’t two sparrows sold for a penny? Yet not one of them falls to the ground apart from your Father’s will.

And pointing toward his disciples he said, “Here are my mother and my brothers!

And such a large crowd gathered around him that he got into a boat to sit while the whole crowd stood on the shore.