They<n id="1" /> answered,<n id="2" /> &#8220;John the Baptist; others say Elijah;<n id="3" /> and still others that one of the prophets of long ago has risen.&#8221;<n id="4" />

Then<n id="1" /> he said to them, &#8220;But who do you say that I am?&#8221; Peter<n id="2" /> answered,<n id="3" /> &#8220;The Christ<n id="4" /> of God.&#8221;

<t /><p class="bodytext">Then<n id="1" /> he said to them all,<n id="2" /> &#8220;If anyone wants to become my follower,<n id="3" /> he must deny<n id="4" /> himself, take up his cross daily,<n id="5" /> and follow me.

Then<n id="1" /> a man from the crowd cried out,<n id="2" /> &#8220;Teacher, I beg you to look at<n id="3" /> my son &#8211; he is my only child!

Jesus<n id="1" /> said to another, &#8220;Follow me.&#8221; But he replied,<n id="2" /> &#8220;Lord, first let me go and bury my father.&#8221;

Yet<n id="1" /> another said, &#8220;I will follow you, Lord, but first let me say goodbye to my family.&#8221;<n id="2" />

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;The one who listens<n id="1" /> to you listens to me,<n id="2" /> and the one who rejects you rejects me, and the one who rejects me rejects<n id="3" /> the one who sent me.&#8221;<n id="4" />p>

She<n id="1" /> had a sister named Mary, who sat<n id="2" /> at the Lord&#8217;s feet<n id="3" /> and listened to what he said.

<t /><p class="bodytext">&#8220;No one after lighting a lamp puts it in a hidden place<n id="1" /> or under a basket,<n id="2" /> but on a lampstand, so that those who come in can see the light.

And everyone who speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven, but the person who blasphemes against the Holy Spirit<n id="1" /> will not be forgiven.<n id="2" />

Then<n id="1" /> he said, &#8216;I<n id="2" /> will do this: I will tear down my barns and build bigger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods.

And if<n id="1" /> this is how God clothes the wild grass,<n id="2" /> which is here<n id="3" /> today and tomorrow is tossed into the fire to heat the oven,<n id="4" /> how much more<n id="5" /> will he clothe you, you people of little faith!

be like people<n id="1" /> waiting for their master to come back from the wedding celebration,<n id="2" /> so that when he comes and knocks they can immediately open the door for him.

You hypocrites!<n id="1" /> You know how to interpret the appearance of the earth and the sky, but how can you not know how<n id="2" /> to interpret the present time?p>

So<n id="1" /> the host who invited both of you will come and say to you, &#8216;Give this man your place.&#8217; Then, ashamed,<n id="2" /> you will begin to move to the least important<n id="3" /> place.

At<n id="1" /> the time for the banquet<n id="2" /> he sent his slave<n id="3" /> to tell those who had been invited, &#8216;Come, because everything is now ready.&#8217;

So<n id="1" /> the master said to his<n id="2" /> slave, &#8216;Go out to the highways<n id="3" /> and country roads<n id="4" /> and urge<n id="5" /> people<n id="6" /> to come in, so that my house will be filled.<n id="7" />

The<n id="1" /> younger of them said to his<n id="2" /> father, &#8216;Father, give me the share of the estate<n id="3" /> that will belong<n id="4" /> to me.&#8217; So<n id="5" /> he divided his<n id="6" /> assets between them.<n id="7" />

(for I have five brothers) to warn<n id="1" /> them so that they don&#8217;t come<n id="2" /> into this place of torment.&#8217;

It would be better for him to have a millstone<n id="1" /> tied around his neck and be thrown into the sea<n id="2" /> than for him to cause one of these little ones to sin.<n id="3" />