So they took the money and did as they were instructed. And this story is told among the Jews to this day.<n id="1" />p>

Then Jesus came up and said to them,<n id="1" /> &#8220;All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.

If your right eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away! It is better to lose one of your members than to have your whole body thrown into hell.<n id="1" />

But whenever you pray, go into your room,<n id="1" /> close the door, and pray to your Father in secret. And your Father, who sees in secret, will reward you.<n id="2" />

Jesus<n id="1" /> said to them, &#8220;I tell you the truth:<n id="2" /> In the age when all things are renewed,<n id="3" /> when the Son of Man sits on his glorious throne, you who have followed me will also sit on twelve thrones, judging<n id="4" /> the twelve tribes of Israel.

Which of the two did his father&#8217;s will?&#8221; They said, &#8220;The first.&#8221;<n id="1" /> Jesus said to them, &#8220;I tell you the truth,<n id="2" /> tax collectors<n id="3" /> and prostitutes will go ahead of you into the kingdom of God!

After listening to the king they left, and once again<n id="1" /> the star they saw when it rose<n id="2" /> led them until it stopped above the place where the child was.

For he is the one about whom Isaiah the prophet had spoken:<n id="1" />p> <p class="otpoetry">&#8220;<b><i>The voicei>b><n id="2" /> <b><i>of one shouting in the wilderness,i>b>p> <p class="otpoetry">&#8216;<b><i>Prepare the way for the Lord, makei>b><n id="3" /> <i><b>his paths straightb>.i>&#8217;&#8221;<n id="4" />p>

<p class="bodytext">Now John wore clothing made from camel&#8217;s hair with a leather belt around his waist, and his diet consisted of locusts and wild honey.<n id="1" />

and don&#8217;t think you can say to yourselves, &#8216;We have Abraham as our father.&#8217; For I tell you that God can raise up children for Abraham from these stones!

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;I baptize you with water, for repentance, but the one coming after me is more powerful than I am &#8211; I am not worthy<n id="1" /> to carry his sandals. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.<n id="2" />

After<n id="1" /> Jesus was baptized, just as he was coming up out of the water, the<n id="2" /> heavens<n id="3" /> opened<n id="4" /> and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove<n id="5" /> and coming on him.

I<n id="1" /> tell you the truth,<n id="2" /> until heaven and earth pass away not the smallest letter or stroke of a letter<n id="3" /> will pass from the law until everything takes place.

But I say to you that everyone who divorces his wife, except for immorality, makes her commit adultery, and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery.p>

But if your eye is diseased,<n id="1" /> your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!p>

Everyone who hears these words of mine and does not do them is like a foolish man who built his house on sand.

Just then<n id="1" /> some people<n id="2" /> brought to him a paralytic lying on a stretcher.<n id="3" /> When Jesus saw their<n id="4" /> faith, he said to the paralytic, &#8220;Have courage, son! Your sins are forgiven.&#8221;<n id="5" />

But so that you may know<n id="1" /> that the Son of Man<n id="2" /> has authority on earth to forgive sins&#8221; &#8211; then he said to the paralytic<n id="3" /> &#8211; &#8220;Stand up, take your stretcher, and go home.&#8221;<n id="4" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">As Jesus went on from there, he saw a man named Matthew sitting at the tax booth.<n id="1" /> &#8220;Follow me,&#8221; he said to him. And he got up and followed him.

And no one pours new wine into old wineskins;<n id="1" /> otherwise the skins burst and the wine is spilled out and the skins are destroyed. Instead they put new wine into new wineskins<n id="2" /> and both are preserved.&#8221;p>