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

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!’”

Thus you nullify the word of God by your tradition that you have handed down. And you do many things like this.”

After Jesus took him aside privately, away from the crowd, he put his fingers in the man’s ears, and after spitting, he touched his tongue.

For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake and for the gospel will save it.

Jesus stopped and said, “Call him.” So they called the blind man and said to him, “Have courage! Get up! He is calling you.”

When the Sabbath was over, Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James, and Salome bought aromatic spices so that they might go and anoint him.

She exclaimed with a loud voice, “Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the child in your womb!

but (because they assumed that he was in their group of travelers) they went a day’s journey. Then they began to look for him among their relatives and acquaintances.

for each tree is known by its own fruit. For figs are not gathered from thorns, nor are grapes picked from brambles.

When the apostles returned, they told Jesus everything they had done. Then he took them with him and they withdrew privately to a town called Bethsaida.

So he said to them, “When you pray, say: Father, may your name be honored; may your kingdom come.

Woe to you! You are like unmarked graves, and people walk over them without realizing it!”

When he went out from there, the experts in the law and the Pharisees began to oppose him bitterly, and to ask him hostile questions about many things,

So then whatever you have said in the dark will be heard in the light, and what you have whispered in private rooms will be proclaimed from the housetops.

Another said, ‘I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I am going out to examine them. Please excuse me.’

But Jesus looked straight at them and said, “Then what is the meaning of that which is written: ‘The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone’?

Not so with you; instead the one who is greatest among you must become like the youngest, and the leader like the one who serves.

One of the criminals who was hanging there railed at him, saying, “Aren’t you the Christ? Save yourself and us!”

But to all who have received him – those who believe in his name – he has given the right to become God’s children