Therefore pay attention to what they tell you and do it. But do not do what they do, for they do not practice what they teach.<n id="1" />

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;Woe to you, experts in the law<n id="1" /> and you Pharisees, hypocrites! You<n id="2" /> build tombs for the prophets and decorate the graves<n id="3" /> of the righteous.

<t /><p class="bodytext">&#8220;Learn<n id="1" /> this parable from the fig tree: Whenever its branch becomes tender and puts out its leaves, you know that summer is near.

The<n id="1" /> one with the two talents also came and said, &#8216;Sir, you entrusted two talents to me. See, I have gained two more.&#8217;

Then you should have deposited my money with the bankers,<n id="1" /> and on my return I would have received my money back with interest!<n id="2" />

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 when<n id="1" /> Judas, who had betrayed him, saw that Jesus<n id="2" /> had been condemned, he regretted what he had done and returned the thirty silver coins to the chief priests and the elders,

The<n id="1" /> chief priests took the silver and said, &#8220;It is not lawful to put this into the temple treasury, since it is blood money.&#8221;

When<n id="1" /> they had mocked him, they stripped him of the robe and put his own clothes back on him. Then<n id="2" /> they led him away to crucify him.p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">While<n id="1" /> they were going, some<n id="2" /> of the guard went into the city and told the chief priests everything that had happened.

Therefore go<n id="1" /> and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit,<n id="2" />

But when he heard that Archelaus<n id="1" /> was reigning over Judea in place of his father Herod,<n id="2" /> he was afraid to go there. After being warned in a dream, he went to the regions of Galilee.

<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" />

Going on from there he saw two other brothers, James the son of Zebedee and John his brother, in a boat<n id="1" /> with Zebedee their father, mending their nets. Then<n id="2" /> he called them.

In the same way, let your light shine before people, so that they can see your good deeds and give honor to your Father in heaven.p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">&#8220;When<n id="1" /> you fast, do not look sullen like the hypocrites, for they make their faces unattractive<n id="2" /> so that people will see them fasting. I tell you the truth,<n id="3" /> they have their reward.

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?

Jesus said to him, &#8220;Foxes have dens, and the birds in the sky<n id="1" /> have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay his head.&#8221;<n id="2" />

Now these are the names of the twelve apostles:<n id="1" /> first, Simon<n id="2" /> (called Peter), and Andrew his brother; James son of Zebedee and John his brother;

How<n id="1" /> else can someone enter a strong man&#8217;s<n id="2" /> house and steal his property, unless he first ties up the strong man? Then he can thoroughly plunder the house.<n id="3" />