When the Pharisees saw this they said to his disciples, “Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?”

After the demon was cast out, the man who had been mute spoke. The crowds were amazed and said, “Never has anything like this been seen in Israel!”

What I say to you in the dark, tell in the light, and what is whispered in your ear, proclaim from the housetops.

“Whoever, then, acknowledges me before people, I will acknowledge before my Father in heaven.

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

Whoever finds his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life because of me will find it.

When Jesus had finished instructing his twelve disciples, he went on from there to teach and preach in their towns.

What did you go out to see? A man dressed in fancy clothes? Look, those who wear fancy clothes are in the homes of kings!

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

The one who has ears had better listen!

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

The good person brings good things out of his good treasury, and the evil person brings evil things out of his evil treasury.

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

And pointing toward his disciples he said, “Here are my mother and my brothers!

The one who has ears had better listen!”

He replied, “You have been given the opportunity to know the secrets of the kingdom of heaven, but they have not.

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.

For Herod had arrested John, bound him, and put him in prison on account of Herodias, his brother Philip’s wife,

Instructed by her mother, she said, “Give me the head of John the Baptist here on a platter.”