It is the smallest of all the seeds, but when it has grown it is the greatest garden plant and becomes a tree,<n id="1" /> so that the wild birds<n id="2" /> come and nest in its branches.&#8221;<n id="3" />p>

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;But if anyone causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin,<n id="1" /> it would be better for him to have a huge millstone<n id="2" /> hung around his neck and to be drowned in the open sea.<n id="3" />

But Jesus said, &#8220;Let the little children come to me and do not try to stop them, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these.&#8221;<n id="1" />

When<n id="1" /> it was evening<n id="2" /> the owner of the vineyard said to his manager, &#8216;Call the workers and give the pay<n id="3" /> starting with the last hired until the first.&#8217;

<t /><p class="bodytext">Then<n id="1" /> Jesus entered the temple area<n id="2" /> and drove out all those who were selling and buying in the temple courts,<n id="3" /> and turned over the tables of the money changers and the chairs of those selling doves.

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;But woe to you, experts in the law<n id="1" /> and you Pharisees, hypocrites!<n id="2" /> You keep locking people out of the kingdom of heaven!<n id="3" /> For you neither enter nor permit those trying to enter to go in.p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">&#8220;Immediately<n id="1" /> after the suffering<n id="2" /> of those days, <i>the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light; the stars will fall from heaven, and the powers of heaven will be shakeni>.<n id="3" />

And he will send his angels with a loud trumpet blast, and they will gather his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven<n id="1" /> to the other.p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">While he was still speaking, Judas,<n id="1" /> one of the twelve, arrived. With him was a large crowd armed with swords and clubs, sent by the chief priests and elders of the people.

<p class="bodytext">From that time Jesus began to preach this message:<n id="1" /> &#8220;Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is near.&#8221;p>

But I say to you, love your enemy and<n id="1" /> pray for those who persecute you,

<t /><p class="bodytext">&#8220;Watch out for false prophets, who come to you in sheep&#8217;s clothing but inwardly are voracious wolves.<n id="1" />

You will recognize them by their fruit. Grapes are not gathered<n id="1" /> from thorns or figs from thistles, are they?<n id="2" />

Another<n id="1" /> of the<n id="2" /> disciples said to him, &#8220;Lord, let me first go and bury my father.&#8221;

The<n id="1" /> herdsmen ran off, went into the town,<n id="2" /> and told everything that had happened to the demon-possessed men.

Beware<n id="1" /> of people, because they will hand you over to councils<n id="2" /> and flog<n id="3" /> you in their synagogues.<n id="4" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">Now when John<n id="1" /> heard in prison about the deeds Christ<n id="2" /> had done, he sent his disciples to ask a question:<n id="3" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">Then some of the experts in the law<n id="1" /> along with some Pharisees<n id="2" /> answered him,<n id="3" /> &#8220;Teacher, we want to see a sign<n id="4" /> from you.&#8221;

They will <b><i>throw them into the fiery furnacei>b>,<n id="1" /> where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

and <i>throw them into the fiery furnacei>,<n id="1" /> where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.p>