As a result, the crowd was amazed when they saw the mute speaking, the crippled healthy, the lame walking, and the blind seeing, and they praised the God of Israel.

How could you not understand that I was not speaking to you about bread? But beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees!”

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

The disciples asked him, “Why then do the experts in the law say that Elijah must come first?”

Then the disciples came to Jesus privately and said, “Why couldn’t we cast it out?”

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.

“If your brother sins, go and show him his fault when the two of you are alone. If he listens to you, you have regained your brother.

Then Peter came to him and said, “Lord, how many times must I forgive my brother who sins against me? As many as seven times?”

Then his lord called the first slave and said to him, ‘Evil slave! I forgave you all that debt because you begged me!

He answered, “Have you not read that from the beginning the Creator made them male and female,

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.

Then little children were brought to him for him to lay his hands on them and pray. But the disciples scolded those who brought them.

“Which ones?” he asked. Jesus replied, “Do not murder, do not commit adultery, do not steal, do not give false testimony,

Again I say, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter into the kingdom of God.”

And about five o’clock that afternoon he went out and found others standing around, and said to them, ‘Why are you standing here all day without work?’

Am I not permitted to do what I want with what belongs to me? Or are you envious because I am generous?’

As Jesus was going up to Jerusalem, he took the twelve aside privately and said to them on the way,

The crowd scolded them to get them to be quiet. But they shouted even more loudly, “Lord, have mercy on us, Son of David!”

Now when they approached Jerusalem and came to Bethphage, at the Mount of Olives, Jesus sent two disciples,

telling them, “Go to the village ahead of you. Right away you will find a donkey tied there, and a colt with her. Untie them and bring them to me.