So if ¹  you cannot do such a very little thing as this, why do you worry about ²  the rest?

and when they returned from the tomb they told all these things to the eleven ¹  and to all the rest.

Jesus ¹  also told this parable to some who were confident that they were righteous and looked down ²  on everyone else.

Now it was Mary Magdalene, ¹  Joanna, ²  Mary the mother of James, and the other women with them who told these things to the apostles.

He ¹  said, “You have been given ²  the opportunity to know ³  the secrets ⁴  of the kingdom of God, ⁵  but for others they are in parables, so that although they see they may not see, and although they hear they may not understand. ⁶ 

The Pharisee stood and prayed about himself like this: ¹  ‘God, I thank ²  you that I am not like other people: ³  extortionists, ⁴  unrighteous people, ⁵  adulterers – or even like this tax collector. ⁶