Then <i>the righteous will shine like the sun in the kingdom of their Fatheri>.<n id="1" /> The one who has ears had better listen!<n id="2" />p>

When the people<n id="1" /> there recognized him, they sent word into all the surrounding area, and they brought all their sick to him.

and said, &#8220;Lord, have mercy on my son, because he has seizures<n id="1" /> and suffers terribly, for he often falls into the fire and into the water.

If anyone says anything to you, you are to say, &#8216;The Lord needs them,&#8217;<n id="1" /> and he will send them at once.&#8221;

<t /><p class="bodytext">&#8220;What<n id="1" /> do you think? A man had two sons. He went to the first and said, &#8216;Son, go and work in the vineyard today.&#8217;

Then the high priest tore his clothes and declared,<n id="1" /> &#8220;He has blasphemed! Why do we still need witnesses? Now<n id="2" /> you have heard the blasphemy!

<t /><p class="bodytext">Now the birth of Jesus Christ happened this way. While his mother Mary was engaged to Joseph, but before they came together,<n id="1" /> she was found to be pregnant through the Holy Spirit.

&#8220;<b><i>Look! The virgin will conceive and bear a son, and they will call himi>b><n id="1" /> <b><i>Emmanueli>b>,&#8221;<n id="2" /> which means<n id="3" /> &#8220;<i>God with usi>.&#8221;<n id="4" />

<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!

So a report about him spread throughout Syria. People<n id="1" /> brought to him all who suffered with various illnesses and afflictions, those who had seizures,<n id="2" /> paralytics, and those possessed by demons,<n id="3" /> and he healed them.

<t /><p class="bodytext">&#8220;Be<n id="1" /> careful not to display your righteousness merely to be seen by people.<n id="2" /> Otherwise you have no reward with your Father in heaven.

For I too am a man under authority, with soldiers under me.<n id="1" /> I say to this one, &#8216;Go&#8217; and he goes,<n id="2" /> and to another &#8216;Come&#8217; and he comes, and to my slave<n id="3" /> &#8216;Do this&#8217; and he does it.&#8221;<n id="4" />

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" />

He said to them, &#8220;Would not any one of you, if he had one sheep that fell into a pit on the Sabbath, take hold of it and lift it out?

<t /><p class="bodytext">&#8220;The kingdom of heaven is like a treasure, hidden in a field, that a person found and hid. Then because of joy he went and sold all that he had and bought that field.p>

Then<n id="1" /> large crowds came to him bringing with them the lame, blind, crippled, mute, and many others. They<n id="2" /> laid them at his feet, and he healed them.

He told them, &#8220;It was because of your little faith. I tell you the truth,<n id="1" /> if you have faith the size of<n id="2" /> a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, &#8216;Move from here to there,&#8217; and it will move; nothing<n id="3" /> will be impossible for you.&#8221;p>

And if your eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away. It is better for you to enter into life with one eye than to have<n id="1" /> two eyes and be thrown into fiery hell.<n id="2" />p>

Jesus said to him, &#8220;If you wish to be perfect, go sell your possessions and give the money<n id="1" /> to the poor, and you will have treasure<n id="2" /> in heaven. Then come, follow me.&#8221;