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" />

But when Jesus turned and saw her he said, &#8220;Have courage, daughter! Your faith has made you well.&#8221;<n id="1" /> And the woman was healed<n id="2" /> from that hour.

<t /><p class="bodytext">Then Jesus went throughout all the towns<n id="1" /> and villages, teaching in their synagogues,<n id="2" /> preaching the good news of the kingdom, and healing every kind of disease and sickness.<n id="3" />

And you, Capernaum,<n id="1" /> will you be exalted to heaven?<n id="2" /> No, you will be thrown down to Hades!<n id="3" /> For if the miracles done among you had been done in Sodom, it would have continued to this day.

<t /><p class="bodytext">At that time Jesus said,<n id="1" /> &#8220;I praise<n id="2" /> you, Father, Lord<n id="3" /> of heaven and earth, because<n id="4" /> you have hidden these things from the wise<n id="5" /> and intelligent, and revealed them to little children.

how he entered the house of God and they ate<n id="1" /> the sacred bread,<n id="2" /> which was against the law<n id="3" /> for him or his companions to eat, but only for the priests?<n id="4" />

For just as Jonah was <b><i>in the belly of the huge fishi>b><n id="1" /> <i><b>for three days and three nightsb>i>,<n id="2" /> so the Son of Man will be in the heart of the earth for three days and three nights.

The people<n id="1" /> of Nineveh will stand up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it, because they repented when Jonah preached to them<n id="2" /> &#8211; and now,<n id="3" /> something greater than Jonah is here!

When anyone hears the word about the kingdom and does not understand it, the evil one<n id="1" /> comes and snatches what was sown in his heart;<n id="2" /> this is the seed sown along the path.

The field is the world and the good seed are the people<n id="1" /> of the kingdom. The weeds are the people<n id="2" /> of the evil one,

<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" /> Jesus answered her, &#8220;Woman,<n id="2" /> your faith is great! Let what you want be done for you.&#8221; And her daughter was healed from that hour.p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">When<n id="1" /> Jesus came to the area of Caesarea Philippi,<n id="2" /> he asked his disciples,<n id="3" /> &#8220;Who do people say that the Son of Man is?&#8221;

For what does it benefit a person<n id="1" /> if he gains the whole world but forfeits his life? Or what can a person give in exchange for his life?

While he was still speaking, a<n id="1" /> bright cloud<n id="2" /> overshadowed<n id="3" /> them, and a voice from the cloud said,<n id="4" /> &#8220;This is my one dear Son,<n id="5" /> in whom I take great delight. Listen to him!&#8221;<n id="6" />

<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" />

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" />

so that on you will come all the righteous blood shed on earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah son of Barachiah,<n id="1" /> whom you murdered between the temple and the altar.

<t /><p class="bodytext">As<n id="1" /> he was sitting on the Mount of Olives, his disciples came to him privately and said, &#8220;Tell us, when will these things<n id="2" /> happen? And what will be the sign of your coming and of the end of the age?&#8221;

<t /><p class="bodytext">&#8220;Who then is the faithful and wise slave,<n id="1" /> whom the master has put in charge of his household, to give the other slaves<n id="2" /> their food at the proper time?