When the Pharisees<n id="1" /> saw this they said to his disciples, &#8220;Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?&#8221;<n id="2" />

Aren&#8217;t two sparrows sold for a penny?<n id="1" /> Yet not one of them falls to the ground apart from your Father&#8217;s will.<n id="2" />

He answered them,<n id="1" /> &#8220;And why do you disobey the commandment of God because of your tradition?

<t /><p class="bodytext">After<n id="1" /> they arrived in Capernaum,<n id="2" /> the collectors of the temple tax<n id="3" /> came to Peter and said, &#8220;Your teacher pays the double drachma tax, doesn&#8217;t he?&#8221;

So also my heavenly Father will do to you, if each of you does not forgive your<n id="1" /> brother<n id="2" /> from your heart.&#8221;p>

telling them, &#8220;Go to the village ahead of you.<n id="1" /> Right away you will find a donkey tied there, and a colt with her. Untie them and bring them to me.

<p class="bodytext">For this reason I tell you that the kingdom of God will be taken from you and given to a people<n id="1" /> who will produce its fruit.

The<n id="1" /> foolish ones said to the wise, &#8216;Give us some of your oil, because our lamps are going out.&#8217;

teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And remember,<n id="1" /> I am with you<n id="2" /> always, to the end of the age.&#8221;<n id="3" />p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">&#8220;Therefore I tell you, do not worry<n id="1" /> about your life, what you will eat or drink, or about your body, what you will wear. Isn&#8217;t there more to life than food and more to the body than clothing?

For I tell you, unless your righteousness goes beyond that of the experts in the law<n id="1" /> and the Pharisees,<n id="2" /> you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.p>

Look at the birds in the sky:<n id="1" /> They do not sow, or reap, or gather into barns, yet your heavenly Father feeds<n id="2" /> them. Aren&#8217;t you more valuable<n id="3" /> than they are?

Do not give what is holy to dogs or throw your pearls before pigs; otherwise they will trample them under their feet and turn around and tear you to pieces.<n id="1" />p>

Take my yoke<n id="1" /> on you and learn from me, because I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.

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?

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>

Again, I tell you the truth,<n id="1" /> if two of you on earth agree about whatever you ask, my Father in heaven will do it for you.<n id="2" />

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;Woe to you, experts in the law<n id="1" /> and you Pharisees, hypocrites! You cross land and sea to make one convert,<n id="2" /> and when you get one,<n id="3" /> you make him twice as much a child of hell<n id="4" /> as yourselves!p>

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;For this reason I<n id="1" /> am sending you prophets and wise men and experts in the law,<n id="2" /> some of whom you will kill and crucify,<n id="3" /> and some you will flog<n id="4" /> in your synagogues<n id="5" /> and pursue from town to town,

I<n id="1" /> tell you, from now on I will not drink of this fruit<n id="2" /> of the vine until that day when I drink it new with you in my Father&#8217;s kingdom.&#8221;