When he saw the crowds, he had compassion on them because they were bewildered and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd.

Whenever you enter a town or village, find out who is worthy there and stay with them until you leave.

Whenever they hand you over for trial, do not worry about how to speak or what to say, for what you should say will be given to you at that time.

But whoever denies me before people, I will deny him also before my Father in heaven.

While they were going away, Jesus began to speak to the crowd about John: “What did you go out into the wilderness to see? A reed shaken by the wind?

From the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven has suffered violence, and forceful people lay hold of it.

“To what should I compare this generation? They are like children sitting in the marketplaces who call out to one another,

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.”

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

For this reason I tell you, people will be forgiven for every sin and blasphemy, but the blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven.

I tell you that on the day of judgment, people will give an account for every worthless word they speak.

“When an unclean spirit goes out of a person, it passes through waterless places looking for rest but does not find it.

To the one who had said this, Jesus replied, “Who is my mother and who are my brothers?”

Other seeds fell on rocky ground where they did not have much soil. They sprang up quickly because the soil was not deep.

For whoever has will be given more, and will have an abundance. But whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken from him.

The seed sown on rocky ground is the person who hears the word and immediately receives it with joy.

But while everyone was sleeping, an enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat and went away.

So the slaves of the owner came and said to him, ‘Sir, didn’t you sow good seed in your field? Then where did the weeds come from?’

When it was full, they pulled it ashore, sat down, and put the good fish into containers and threw the bad away.

And so they took offense at him. But Jesus said to them, “A prophet is not without honor except in his hometown and in his own house.”