If you had known what this means: ‘I want mercy and not sacrifice,’ you would not have condemned the innocent.

Offspring of vipers! How are you able to say anything good, since you are evil? For the mouth speaks from what fills the heart.

And such a large crowd gathered around him that he got into a boat to sit while the whole crowd stood on the shore.

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

He said, ‘An enemy has done this.’ So the slaves replied, ‘Do you want us to go and gather them?’

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

Although it grieved the king, because of his oath and the dinner guests he commanded it to be given.

he took the seven loaves and the fish, and after giving thanks, he broke them and began giving them to the disciples, who then gave them to the crowds.

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

and said, “Lord, have mercy on my son, because he has seizures and suffers terribly, for he often falls into the fire and into the water.

But if he does not listen, take one or two others with you, so that at the testimony of two or three witnesses every matter may be established.

“Which ones?” he asked. Jesus replied, “Do not murder, do not commit adultery, do not steal, do not give false testimony,

And about five o’clock that afternoon he went out and found others standing around, and said to them, ‘Why are you standing here all day without work?’

When it was evening the owner of the vineyard said to his manager, ‘Call the workers and give the pay starting with the last hired until the first.’

And the landowner replied to one of them, ‘Friend, I am not treating you unfairly. Didn’t you agree with me to work for the standard wage?

Am I not permitted to do what I want with what belongs to me? Or are you envious because I am generous?’

And he said to them, “It is written, ‘My house will be called a house of prayer,’ but you are turning it into a den of robbers!”

For then there will be great suffering unlike anything that has happened from the beginning of the world until now, or ever will happen.

And if those days had not been cut short, no one would be saved. But for the sake of the elect those days will be cut short.

Then if anyone says to you, ‘Look, here is the Christ!’ or ‘There he is!’ do not believe him.