“You have heard that it was said to an older generation, ‘Do not murder,’ and ‘whoever murders will be subjected to judgment.’

But accumulate for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moth and rust do not destroy, and thieves do not break in and steal.

Why do you worry about clothing? Think about how the flowers of the field grow; they do not work or spin.

And if this is how God clothes the wild grass, which is here today and tomorrow is tossed into the fire to heat the oven, won’t he clothe you even more, you people of little faith?

Why do you see the speck in your brother’s eye, but fail to see the beam of wood in your own?

Then John’s disciples came to Jesus and asked, “Why do we and the Pharisees fast often, but your disciples don’t fast?”

Aren’t two sparrows sold for a penny? Yet not one of them falls to the ground apart from your Father’s will.

But when the Pharisees saw this they said to him, “Look, your disciples are doing what is against the law to do on the Sabbath.”

Or have you not read in the law that the priests in the temple desecrate the Sabbath and yet are not guilty?

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

For this reason I tell you, people will be forgiven for every sin and blasphemy, but the blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven.

“When an unclean spirit goes out of a person, it passes through waterless places looking for rest but does not find it.

Other seeds fell on rocky ground where they did not have much soil. They sprang up quickly because the soil was not deep.

He replied, “You have been given the opportunity to know the secrets of the kingdom of heaven, but they have not.

For whoever has will be given more, and will have an abundance. But whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken from him.

But he has no root in himself and does not endure; when trouble or persecution comes because of the word, immediately he falls away.

And so they took offense at him. But Jesus said to them, “A prophet is not without honor except in his hometown and in his own house.”

“Why do your disciples disobey the tradition of the elders? For they don’t wash their hands when they eat.”

What defiles a person is not what goes into the mouth; it is what comes out of the mouth that defiles a person.”

And he replied, “Every plant that my heavenly Father did not plant will be uprooted.