“Do not accumulate for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal.

For by the standard you judge you will be judged, and the measure you use will be the measure you receive.

But when the Pharisees heard this they said, “He does not cast out demons except by the power of Beelzebul, the ruler of demons!”

“Make a tree good and its fruit will be good, or make a tree bad and its fruit will be bad, for a tree is known by its fruit.

And concerning them the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled that says: ‘You will listen carefully yet will never understand, you will look closely yet will never comprehend.

For what does it benefit a person if he gains the whole world but forfeits his life? Or what can a person give in exchange for his life?

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

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.

“For the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire workers for his vineyard.

They said to him, ‘Because no one hired us.’ He said to them, ‘You go and work in the vineyard too.’

“Look, we are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be handed over to the chief priests and the experts in the law. They will condemn him to death,

“Teacher, Moses said, ‘If a man dies without having children, his brother must marry the widow and father children for his brother.’

“Learn this parable from the fig tree: Whenever its branch becomes tender and puts out its leaves, you know that summer is near.

For in those days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day Noah entered the ark.

‘No,’ they replied. ‘There won’t be enough for you and for us. Go instead to those who sell oil and buy some for yourselves.’

But while they had gone to buy it, the bridegroom arrived, and those who were ready went inside with him to the wedding banquet. Then the door was shut.

and saying, “You who can destroy the temple and rebuild it in three days, save yourself! If you are God’s Son, come down from the cross!”

“When you fast, do not look sullen like the hypocrites, for they make their faces unattractive so that people will see them fasting. I tell you the truth, they have their reward.

Look at the birds in the sky: They do not sow, or reap, or gather into barns, yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Aren’t you more valuable than they are?

Go and learn what this saying means: ‘I want mercy and not sacrifice.’ For I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”