The queen of the South will rise up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it, because she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon – and now, something greater than Solomon is here!

“Woe to you, experts in the law and you Pharisees, hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs that look beautiful on the outside but inside are full of the bones of the dead and of everything unclean.

A large herd of pigs was feeding some distance from them.

As you go, preach this message: ‘The kingdom of heaven is near!’

After going out from there, Jesus went to the region of Tyre and Sidon.

Simon Peter answered, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.”

So they seized him, threw him out of the vineyard, and killed him.

Now while Jesus was in Bethany at the house of Simon the leper,

Then one of the twelve, the one named Judas Iscariot, went to the chief priests

“Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to them.

and throw them into the fiery furnace, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

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

In those days John the Baptist came into the wilderness of Judea proclaiming,

So anyone who breaks one of the least of these commands and teaches others to do so will be called least in the kingdom of heaven, but whoever obeys them and teaches others to do so will be called great in the kingdom of heaven.

and a man’s enemies will be the members of his household.

On that day after Jesus went out of the house, he sat by the lake.

And which of you by worrying can add even one hour to his life?

“Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.

“Blessed are you when people insult you and persecute you and say all kinds of evil things about you falsely on account of me.

(For he knew that they had handed him over because of envy.)