Jesus said to them, “How many loaves do you have?” They replied, “Seven – and a few small fish.”

Do you still not understand? Don’t you remember the five loaves for the five thousand, and how many baskets you took up?

After he said, “From foreigners,” Jesus said to him, “Then the sons are free.

So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.”

And when those hired first came, they thought they would receive more. But each one also received the standard wage.

In the resurrection, therefore, whose wife of the seven will she be? For they all had married her.”

But you are not to be called ‘Rabbi,’ for you have one Teacher and you are all brothers.

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

In the same way, on the outside you look righteous to people, but inside you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.

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

They became greatly distressed and each one began to say to him, “Surely not I, Lord?”

Stay awake and pray that you will not fall into temptation. The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.”

Now when it was evening, there came a rich man from Arimathea, named Joseph, who was also a disciple of Jesus.

and said, “Sir, we remember that while that deceiver was still alive he said, ‘After three days I will rise again.’

After they had assembled with the elders and formed a plan, they gave a large sum of money to the soldiers,

the voice of one shouting in the wilderness, ‘Prepare the way for the Lord, make his paths straight.’”

After throwing him into convulsions, the unclean spirit cried out with a loud voice and came out of him.

When he was alone, those around him with the twelve asked him about the parables.

By itself the soil produces a crop, first the stalk, then the head, then the full grain in the head.

The girl got up at once and began to walk around (she was twelve years old). They were completely astonished at this.