Which is easier, to say, ‘Your sins are forgiven’ or to say, ‘Stand up and walk’?

I tell you the truth, it will be more bearable for the region of Sodom and Gomorrah on the day of judgment than for that town!

For it is not you speaking, but the Spirit of your Father speaking through you.

And you will be hated by everyone because of my name. But the one who endures to the end will be saved.

And whoever does not take up his cross and follow me is not worthy of me.

If you had known what this means: ‘I want mercy and not sacrifice,’ you would not have condemned the innocent.

All the crowds were amazed and said, “Could this one be the Son of David?”

He answered, “The one who sowed the good seed is the Son of Man.

As the weeds are collected and burned with fire, so it will be at the end of the age.

They will throw them into the fiery furnace, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

and throw them into the fiery furnace, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

And aren’t all his sisters here with us? Where did he get all this?”

But immediately Jesus spoke to them: “Have courage! It is I. Do not be afraid.”

Leave them! They are blind guides. If someone who is blind leads another who is blind, both will fall into a pit.”

These are the things that defile a person; it is not eating with unwashed hands that defiles a person.”

Simon Peter answered, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.”

After he said, “From foreigners,” Jesus said to him, “Then the sons are free.

In the same way, your Father in heaven is not willing that one of these little ones be lost.

So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.”

But when the young man heard this he went away sorrowful, for he was very rich.