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

But he answered, “It is written, ‘Man does not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.’”

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.

Other seeds fell on rocky ground where they did not have much soil. They sprang up quickly because the soil was not deep.

But other seeds fell on good soil and produced grain, some a hundred times as much, some sixty, and some thirty.

The seed sown on rocky ground is the person who hears the word and immediately receives it with joy.

When it was full, they pulled it ashore, sat down, and put the good fish into containers and threw the bad away.

Instructed by her mother, she said, “Give me the head of John the Baptist here on a platter.”

When the disciples saw him walking on the water they were terrified and said, “It’s a ghost!” and cried out with fear.

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

So he said, “Come.” Peter got out of the boat, walked on the water, and came toward Jesus.

And if he finds it, I tell you the truth, he will rejoice more over it than over the ninety-nine that did not go astray.

But if he does not listen, take one or two others with you, so that at the testimony of two or three witnesses every matter may be established.