Therefore pay attention to what they tell you and do it. But do not do what they do, for they do not practice what they teach.

“Woe to you, experts in the law and you Pharisees, hypocrites! You build tombs for the prophets and decorate the graves of the righteous.

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

The one with the two talents also came and said, ‘Sir, you entrusted two talents to me. See, I have gained two more.’

Then you should have deposited my money with the bankers, and on my return I would have received my money back with interest!

Then the high priest tore his clothes and declared, “He has blasphemed! Why do we still need witnesses? Now you have heard the blasphemy!

Now when Judas, who had betrayed him, saw that Jesus had been condemned, he regretted what he had done and returned the thirty silver coins to the chief priests and the elders,

The chief priests took the silver and said, “It is not lawful to put this into the temple treasury, since it is blood money.”

When they had mocked him, they stripped him of the robe and put his own clothes back on him. Then they led him away to crucify him.

While they were going, some of the guard went into the city and told the chief priests everything that had happened.

Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit,

But when he heard that Archelaus was reigning over Judea in place of his father Herod, he was afraid to go there. After being warned in a dream, he went to the regions of Galilee.

“I baptize you with water, for repentance, but the one coming after me is more powerful than I am – I am not worthy to carry his sandals. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.

Going on from there he saw two other brothers, James the son of Zebedee and John his brother, in a boat with Zebedee their father, mending their nets. Then he called them.

In the same way, let your light shine before people, so that they can see your good deeds and give honor to your Father in heaven.

“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?

Jesus said to him, “Foxes have dens, and the birds in the sky have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay his head.”

Now these are the names of the twelve apostles: first, Simon (called Peter), and Andrew his brother; James son of Zebedee and John his brother;

How else can someone enter a strong man’s house and steal his property, unless he first ties up the strong man? Then he can thoroughly plunder the house.