Because you say, “I am rich and have acquired great wealth, and need nothing,” but do not realize that you are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind, and naked,

Who will not fear you, O Lord, and glorify your name, because you alone are holy? All nations will come and worship before you for your righteous acts have been revealed.”

not by earth, because it is his footstool, and not by Jerusalem, because it is the city of the great King.

The experts in the law who came down from Jerusalem said, “He is possessed by Beelzebul,” and, “By the ruler of demons he casts out demons.”

They said, “John the Baptist, others say Elijah, and still others, one of the prophets.”

For I tell you the truth, whoever gives you a cup of water because you bear Christ’s name will never lose his reward.

Then Jesus said to them, “You will all fall away, for it is written, ‘I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered.’

“We heard him say, ‘I will destroy this temple made with hands and in three days build another not made with hands.’”

But he replied, “Why were you looking for me? Didn’t you know that I must be in my Father’s house?”

But Jesus said to them, “I must proclaim the good news of the kingdom of God to the other towns too, for that is what I was sent to do.”

Nevertheless, do not rejoice that the spirits submit to you, but rejoice that your names stand written in heaven.”

He answered them, “Do you think these Galileans were worse sinners than all the other Galileans, because they suffered these things?

Jesus said to him, “Because I told you that I saw you under the fig tree, do you believe? You will see greater things than these.”

You yourselves can testify that I said, ‘I am not the Christ,’ but rather, ‘I have been sent before him.’

Now when Jesus knew that the Pharisees had heard that he was winning and baptizing more disciples than John

The world cannot hate you, but it hates me, because I am testifying about it that its deeds are evil.

Thus I told you that you will die in your sins. For unless you believe that I am he, you will die in your sins.”

I know that you are Abraham’s descendants. But you want to kill me, because my teaching makes no progress among you.

Some people said, “This is the man!” while others said, “No, but he looks like him.” The man himself kept insisting, “I am the one!”

So again they asked the man who used to be blind, “What do you say about him, since he caused you to see?” “He is a prophet,” the man replied.