Then John’s disciples came to Jesus and asked, “Why do we and the Pharisees fast often, but your disciples don’t fast?”

“Do not be afraid of them, for nothing is hidden that will not be revealed, and nothing is secret that will not be made known.

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

He replied, “You have been given the opportunity to know the secrets of the kingdom of heaven, but they have not.

For this reason I speak to them in parables: Although they see they do not see, and although they hear they do not hear nor do they understand.

Immediately Jesus made the disciples get into the boat and go ahead of him to the other side, while he dispersed the crowds.

“Why do your disciples disobey the tradition of the elders? For they don’t wash their hands when they eat.”

What defiles a person is not what goes into the mouth; it is what comes out of the mouth that defiles a person.”

Don’t you understand that whatever goes into the mouth enters the stomach and then passes out into the sewer?

A wicked and adulterous generation asks for a sign, but no sign will be given to it except the sign of Jonah.” Then he left them and went away.

So Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him: “God forbid, Lord! This must not happen to you!”

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?”

and said, “I tell you the truth, unless you turn around and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven!

Woe to the world because of stumbling blocks! It is necessary that stumbling blocks come, but woe to the person through whom they come.

Jesus said to them, “Moses permitted you to divorce your wives because of your hard hearts, but from the beginning it was not this way.

The disciples said to him, “If this is the case of a husband with a wife, it is better not to marry!”

The father went to the other son and said the same thing. This boy answered, ‘I will, sir,’ but did not go.

Therefore pay attention to what they tell you and do it. But do not do what they do, for they do not practice what they teach.

They tie up heavy loads, hard to carry, and put them on men’s shoulders, but they themselves are not willing even to lift a finger to move them.

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!’”