The second is: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.”

I tell you the truth, this generation will not pass away until all these things take place.

Then he began to curse, and he swore with an oath, “I do not know this man you are talking about!”

So Pilate asked him again, “Have you nothing to say? See how many charges they are bringing against you!”

When they came they said to him, “Teacher, we know that you are truthful and do not court anyone’s favor, because you show no partiality but teach the way of God in accordance with the truth. Is it right to pay taxes to Caesar or not? Should we pay or shouldn’t we?”

He proclaimed, “One more powerful than I am is coming after me; I am not worthy to bend down and untie the strap of his sandals.

The people there were amazed by his teaching, because he taught them like one who had authority, not like the experts in the law.

But whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit will never be forgiven, but is guilty of an eternal sin”

Other seed fell on rocky ground where it did not have much soil. It sprang up at once because the soil was not deep.

Other seed fell among the thorns, and they grew up and choked it, and it did not produce grain.

But they have no root in themselves and do not endure. Then, when trouble or persecution comes because of the word, immediately they fall away.

He also said to them, “A lamp isn’t brought to be put under a basket or under a bed, is it? Isn’t it to be placed on a lampstand?

He goes to sleep and gets up, night and day, and the seed sprouts and grows, though he does not know how.

He did not let anyone follow him except Peter, James, and John, the brother of James.

(For the Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat unless they perform a ritual washing, holding fast to the tradition of the elders.

And when they come from the marketplace, they do not eat unless they wash. They hold fast to many other traditions: the washing of cups, pots, kettles, and dining couches.)

For it does not enter his heart but his stomach, and then goes out into the sewer.” (This means all foods are clean.)

After Jesus left there, he went to the region of Tyre. When he went into a house, he did not want anyone to know, but he was not able to escape notice.

He said to her, “Let the children be satisfied first, for it is not right to take the children’s bread and to throw it to the dogs.”

When he learned of this, Jesus said to them, “Why are you arguing about having no bread? Do you still not see or understand? Have your hearts been hardened?