So now we consider the arrogant to be happy; indeed, those who practice evil are successful. In fact, those who challenge God escape!’”

You will trample on the wicked, for they will be like ashes under the soles of your feet on the day which I am preparing,” says the Lord who rules over all.

“Be careful not to display your righteousness merely to be seen by people. Otherwise you have no reward with your Father in heaven.

no bag for the journey, or an extra tunic, or sandals or staff, for the worker deserves his provisions.

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?

“For the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire workers for his vineyard.

So Jesus, when he began his ministry, was about thirty years old. He was the son (as was supposed) of Joseph, the son of Heli,

Fear seized them all, and they began to glorify God, saying, “A great prophet has appeared among us!” and “God has come to help his people!”

Stay in that same house, eating and drinking what they give you, for the worker deserves his pay. Do not move around from house to house.

And he summoned ten of his slaves, gave them ten minas, and said to them, ‘Do business with these until I come back.’

Now this is the basis for judging: that the light has come into the world and people loved the darkness rather than the light, because their deeds were evil.

For everyone who does evil deeds hates the light and does not come to the light, so that their deeds will not be exposed.

But the one who practices the truth comes to the light, so that it may be plainly evident that his deeds have been done in God.

So the Jewish leaders said to the man who had been healed, “It is the Sabbath, and you are not permitted to carry your mat.”

For no one who seeks to make a reputation for himself does anything in secret. If you are doing these things, show yourself to the world.”

However, because Moses gave you the practice of circumcision (not that it came from Moses, but from the forefathers), you circumcise a male child on the Sabbath.

So the chief priests and the Pharisees called the council together and said, “What are we doing? For this man is performing many miraculous signs.

if we are being examined today for a good deed done to a sick man – by what means this man was healed –

This man led them out, performing wonders and miraculous signs in the land of Egypt, at the Red Sea, and in the wilderness for forty years.