But John tried to prevent him, saying, “I need to be baptized by you, and yet you come to me?”

leave your gift there in front of the altar. First go and be reconciled to your brother and then come and present your gift.

They cried out, “Son of God, leave us alone! Have you come here to torment us before the time?”

As Jesus was having a meal in Matthew’s house, many tax collectors and sinners came and ate with Jesus and his disciples.

Go and learn what this saying means: ‘I want mercy and not sacrifice.’ For I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”

When Jesus entered the ruler’s house and saw the flute players and the disorderly crowd,

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,

Then it says, ‘I will return to the home I left.’ When it returns, it finds the house empty, swept clean, and put in order.

And as he sowed, some seeds fell along the path, and the birds came and devoured them.

But while everyone was sleeping, an enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat and went away.

Then John’s disciples came and took the body and buried it and went and told Jesus.

Peter said to him, “Lord, if it is you, order me to come to you on the water.”

When he left there, Jesus went along the Sea of Galilee. Then he went up a mountain, where he sat down.

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?”

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

just as the Son of Man did not come to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”

Now when they approached Jerusalem and came to Bethphage, at the Mount of Olives, Jesus sent two disciples,

“Tell the people of Zion, ‘Look, your king is coming to you, unassuming and seated on a donkey, and on a colt, the foal of a donkey.’”

For I tell you, you will not see me from now until you say, ‘Blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord!’”