They<n id="1" /> tie up heavy loads, hard to carry, and put them on men&#8217;s shoulders, but they themselves are not willing even to lift a finger to move them.

And you say, &#8216;If we had lived in the days of our ancestors,<n id="1" /> we would not have participated with them in shedding the blood of the prophets.&#8217;

For the one who has will be given more,<n id="1" /> and he will have more than enough. But the one who does not have, even what he has will be taken from him.<n id="2" />

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;Then he will say<n id="1" /> to those on his left, &#8216;Depart from me, you accursed, into the eternal fire that has been prepared for the devil and his angels!

I tell you the truth,<n id="1" /> wherever this gospel is proclaimed in the whole world, what she has done will also be told in memory of her.&#8221;p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">Now on the first day of the feast of<n id="1" /> Unleavened Bread the disciples came to Jesus and said,<n id="2" /> &#8220;Where do you want us to prepare for you to eat the Passover?&#8221;<n id="3" />

He<n id="1" /> answered, &#8220;The one who has dipped his hand into the bowl with me<n id="2" /> will betray me.

Then he came to the disciples and found them sleeping. He<n id="1" /> said to Peter, &#8220;So, couldn&#8217;t you stay awake with me for one hour?

Many<n id="1" /> women who had followed Jesus from Galilee and given him support<n id="2" /> were also there, watching from a distance.

and placed it<n id="1" /> in his own new tomb that he had cut in the rock.<n id="2" /> Then he rolled a great stone across the entrance<n id="3" /> of the tomb and went away.

<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.

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!

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.

<t /><p class="bodytext">Jesus<n id="1" /> went throughout all of Galilee, teaching in their synagogues,<n id="2" /> preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all kinds of disease and sickness among the people.

Then Jesus said to him, &#8220;See that you do not speak to anyone,<n id="1" /> but go, show yourself to a priest, and bring the offering<n id="2" /> that Moses commanded,<n id="3" /> as a testimony to them.&#8221;<n id="4" />p>

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" />

Just then<n id="1" /> some people<n id="2" /> brought to him a paralytic lying on a stretcher.<n id="3" /> When Jesus saw their<n id="4" /> faith, he said to the paralytic, &#8220;Have courage, son! Your sins are forgiven.&#8221;<n id="5" />

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" />

It is enough for the disciple to become like his teacher, and the slave like his master. If they have called the head of the house &#8216;Beelzebul,&#8217; how much more will they defame the members of his household!p>

<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.