Jesus said to them, “Have you never read in the scriptures: ‘The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone. This is from the Lord, and it is marvelous in our eyes’?

Beware of people, because they will hand you over to councils and flog you in their synagogues.

At that time the disciples came to Jesus saying, “Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?”

And call no one your ‘father’ on earth, for you have one Father, who is in heaven.

so I was afraid, and I went and hid your talent in the ground. See, you have what is yours.’

Then Jesus came up and said to them, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.

“But woe to you, experts in the law and you Pharisees, hypocrites! You keep locking people out of the kingdom of heaven! For you neither enter nor permit those trying to enter to go in.

Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his glory was clothed like one of these!

When Jesus had finished instructing his twelve disciples, he went on from there to teach and preach in their towns.

For whoever does the will of my Father in heaven is my brother and sister and mother.”

Jesus spoke all these things in parables to the crowds; he did not speak to them without a parable.

For many will come in my name, saying, ‘I am the Christ,’ and they will mislead many.

Woe to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing their babies in those days!

But he said, ‘No, since in gathering the weeds you may uproot the wheat with them.

Now when John heard in prison about the deeds Christ had done, he sent his disciples to ask a question:

Then those who were in the boat worshiped him, saying, “Truly you are the Son of God.”

When Jesus heard this he was amazed and said to those who followed him, “I tell you the truth, I have not found such faith in anyone in Israel!

At that time they had in custody a notorious prisoner named Jesus Barabbas.

And one of them, an expert in religious law, asked him a question to test him:

“Watch out for false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing but inwardly are voracious wolves.