They said to him, “Why then did Moses command us to give a certificate of dismissal and to divorce her?”

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.

and after braiding a crown of thorns, they put it on his head. They put a staff in his right hand, and kneeling down before him, they mocked him: “Hail, king of the Jews!”

They wanted to arrest him, but they were afraid of the crowds, because the crowds regarded him as a prophet.

Just then some people brought to him a paralytic lying on a stretcher. When Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralytic, “Have courage, son! Your sins are forgiven.”

While he was still speaking, a bright cloud overshadowed them, and a voice from the cloud said, “This is my one dear Son, in whom I take great delight. Listen to him!”

If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church. If he refuses to listen to the church, treat him like a Gentile or a tax collector.

Although Herod wanted to kill John, he feared the crowd because they accepted John as a prophet.

Now when the Pharisees and Sadducees came to test Jesus, they asked him to show them a sign from heaven.

(Now the betrayer had given them a sign, saying, “The one I kiss is the man. Arrest him!”)

After Herod had died, an angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt

And a voice from heaven said, “This is my one dear Son; in him I take great delight.”

And a leper approached, and bowed low before him, saying, “Lord, if you are willing, you can make me clean.”

After getting into a boat he crossed to the other side and came to his own town.

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

His head was brought on a platter and given to the girl, and she brought it to her mother.

“For this reason, the kingdom of heaven is like a king who wanted to settle accounts with his slaves.

But if we say, ‘From people,’ we fear the crowd, for they all consider John to be a prophet.”

As they were going out, they found a man from Cyrene named Simon, whom they forced to carry his cross.

And whoever gives only a cup of cold water to one of these little ones in the name of a disciple, I tell you the truth, he will never lose his reward.”