“If anyone causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to have a huge millstone tied around his neck and to be thrown into the sea.

If your hand causes you to sin, cut it off! It is better for you to enter into life crippled than to have two hands and go into hell, to the unquenchable fire.

But those tenants seized his slave, beat him, and sent him away empty-handed.

Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength.’

Be careful! I have told you everything ahead of time.

Then all the disciples left him and fled.

but he ran off naked, leaving his linen cloth behind.

Yet even on this point their testimony did not agree.

Then the chief priests began to accuse him repeatedly.

It was nine o’clock in the morning when they crucified him.

But Jesus cried out with a loud voice and breathed his last.

For nothing will be impossible with God.”

He has brought down the mighty from their thrones, and has lifted up those of lowly position;

that we, being rescued from the hand of our enemies, may serve him without fear,

that you have prepared in the presence of all peoples:

But he passed through the crowd and went on his way.

As the sun was setting, all those who had any relatives sick with various diseases brought them to Jesus. He placed his hands on every one of them and healed them.

And he got up and followed him, leaving everything behind.

And no one pours new wine into old wineskins. If he does, the new wine will burst the skins and will be spilled, and the skins will be destroyed.

and those who suffered from unclean spirits were cured.