So Judas threw the silver coins into the temple and left. Then he went out and hanged himself.

He said to them, “Follow me, and I will turn you into fishers of people.”

He answered them, “And why do you disobey the commandment of God because of your tradition?

Blessed is that slave whom the master finds at work when he comes.

But he did not answer even one accusation, so that the governor was quite amazed.

But when he saw many Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them, “You offspring of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the coming wrath?

but did not have marital relations with her until she gave birth to a son, whom he named Jesus.

So he said, “Come.” Peter got out of the boat, walked on the water, and came toward Jesus.

Now when the Pharisees heard that he had silenced the Sadducees, they assembled together.

His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will clean out his threshing floor and will gather his wheat into the storehouse, but the chaff he will burn up with inextinguishable fire.”

Going on from there he saw two other brothers, James the son of Zebedee and John his brother, in a boat with Zebedee their father, mending their nets. Then he called them.

“The kingdom of heaven is like a treasure, hidden in a field, that a person found and hid. Then because of joy he went and sold all that he had and bought that field.

He answered, “Have you not read that from the beginning the Creator made them male and female,

So then, if someone says to you, ‘Look, he is in the wilderness,’ do not go out, or ‘Look, he is in the inner rooms,’ do not believe him.

So if Satan casts out Satan, he is divided against himself. How then will his kingdom stand?

They will kill him, and on the third day he will be raised.” And they became greatly distressed.

“What do you think about the Christ? Whose son is he?” They said, “The son of David.”

But he denied it in front of them all: “I don’t know what you’re talking about!”

Now there were seven brothers among us. The first one married and died, and since he had no children he left his wife to his brother.

Then go quickly and tell his disciples, ‘He has been raised from the dead. He is going ahead of you into Galilee. You will see him there.’ Listen, I have told you!”