{"id":1567,"date":"2023-12-30T15:01:18","date_gmt":"2023-12-30T14:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lionofjudah.info\/?p=1567"},"modified":"2026-01-17T07:32:44","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T06:32:44","slug":"matthew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lionofjudah.info\/?p=1567","title":{"rendered":"Matthew"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>.wp-block-kadence-advancedbtn.kb-btns1567_84eb5b-04{gap:var(--global-kb-gap-xs, 0.5rem );justify-content:center;align-items:center;}.kt-btns1567_84eb5b-04 .kt-button{font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;}.kt-btns1567_84eb5b-04 .kt-btn-wrap-0{margin-right:5px;}.wp-block-kadence-advancedbtn.kt-btns1567_84eb5b-04 .kt-btn-wrap-0 .kt-button{color:#555555;border-color:#555555;}.wp-block-kadence-advancedbtn.kt-btns1567_84eb5b-04 .kt-btn-wrap-0 .kt-button:hover, .wp-block-kadence-advancedbtn.kt-btns1567_84eb5b-04 .kt-btn-wrap-0 .kt-button:focus{color:#ffffff;border-color:#444444;}.wp-block-kadence-advancedbtn.kt-btns1567_84eb5b-04 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according to Matthew<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\"><style>.wp-block-kadence-advancedbtn.kb-btns1567_558094-ed{gap:var(--global-kb-gap-xs, 0.5rem );justify-content:flex-end;align-items:center;}.kt-btns1567_558094-ed .kt-button{font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;}.kt-btns1567_558094-ed .kt-btn-wrap-0{margin-right:5px;}.wp-block-kadence-advancedbtn.kt-btns1567_558094-ed .kt-btn-wrap-0 .kt-button{color:#555555;border-color:#555555;}.wp-block-kadence-advancedbtn.kt-btns1567_558094-ed .kt-btn-wrap-0 .kt-button:hover, .wp-block-kadence-advancedbtn.kt-btns1567_558094-ed .kt-btn-wrap-0 .kt-button:focus{color:#ffffff;border-color:#444444;}.wp-block-kadence-advancedbtn.kt-btns1567_558094-ed .kt-btn-wrap-0 .kt-button::before{display:none;}.wp-block-kadence-advancedbtn.kt-btns1567_558094-ed .kt-btn-wrap-0 .kt-button:hover, .wp-block-kadence-advancedbtn.kt-btns1567_558094-ed .kt-btn-wrap-0 .kt-button:focus{background:#444444;}<\/style>\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-advancedbtn kb-buttons-wrap kb-btns1567_558094-ed\"><style>ul.menu .wp-block-kadence-advancedbtn .kb-btn1567_59ffa9-a8.kb-button{width:initial;}<\/style><a class=\"kb-button kt-button button kb-btn1567_59ffa9-a8 kt-btn-size-standard kt-btn-width-type-auto kb-btn-global-fill  kt-btn-has-text-true kt-btn-has-svg-false  wp-block-kadence-singlebtn\" href=\"https:\/\/lionofjudah.info\/?page_id=1275\"><span class=\"kt-btn-inner-text\">Books of the bible<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<style>.kb-table-of-content-nav.kb-table-of-content-id1567_9f9b2d-39 .kb-table-of-content-wrap{padding-top:var(--global-kb-spacing-sm, 1.5rem);padding-right:var(--global-kb-spacing-sm, 1.5rem);padding-bottom:var(--global-kb-spacing-sm, 1.5rem);padding-left:var(--global-kb-spacing-sm, 1.5rem);}.kb-table-of-content-nav.kb-table-of-content-id1567_9f9b2d-39 .kb-table-of-contents-title-wrap{padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;}.kb-table-of-content-nav.kb-table-of-content-id1567_9f9b2d-39 .kb-table-of-contents-title{font-weight:regular;font-style:normal;}.kb-table-of-content-nav.kb-table-of-content-id1567_9f9b2d-39 .kb-table-of-content-wrap .kb-table-of-content-list{font-weight:regular;font-style:normal;margin-top:var(--global-kb-spacing-sm, 1.5rem);margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;}<\/style>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Matthew chapter 1<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>1 The book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2 Abraham became the father of Isaac. Isaac became the father of Jacob. Jacob became the father of Judah and his brothers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>3 Judah became the father of Perez and Zerah by Tamar. Perez became the father of Hezron. Hezron became the father of Ram.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>4 Ram became the father of Amminadab. Amminadab became the father of Nahshon. Nahshon became the father of Salmon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>5 Salmon became the father of Boaz by Rahab. Boaz became the father of Obed by Ruth. Obed became the father of Jesse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>6 Jesse became the father of David the king. David became the father of Solomon by her who had been the wife of Uriah.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>7 Solomon became the father of Rehoboam. Rehoboam became the father of Abijah. Abijah became the father of Asa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>8 Asa became the father of Jehoshaphat. Jehoshaphat became the father of Joram. Joram became the father of Uzziah.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>9 Uzziah became the father of Jotham. Jotham became the father of Ahaz. Ahaz became the father of Hezekiah.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>10 Hezekiah became the father of Manasseh. Manasseh became the father of Amon. Amon became the father of Josiah.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>11 Josiah became the father of Jechoniah and his brothers, at the time of the exile to Babylon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>12 After the exile to Babylon, Jechoniah became the father of Shealtiel. Shealtiel became the father of Zerubbabel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>13 Zerubbabel became the father of Abiud. Abiud became the father of Eliakim. Eliakim became the father of Azor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>14 Azor became the father of Sadoc. Sadoc became the father of Achim. Achim became the father of Eliud.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>15 Eliud became the father of Eleazar. Eleazar became the father of Matthan. Matthan became the father of Jacob.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>16 Jacob became the father of Joseph, the husband of Mary, from whom was born Jesus, who is called Christ.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>17 So all the generations from Abraham to David are fourteen generations; from David to the exile to Babylon fourteen generations; and from the carrying away to Babylon to the Christ, fourteen generations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>18 Now the birth of Jesus Christ was like this; because when his mother, Mary, had been engaged to Joseph, before they came together, she was found pregnant by the Holy Spirit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>19 Joseph, her husband, being a righteous man, and not willing to make her a public example, intended to put her away secretly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>20 But when he thought about these things, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, \u201eJoseph, son of David, don\u2019t be afraid to take to yourself Mary, your wife, for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Spirit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>21 She shall bring forth a son. You shall call his name JESUS, for it is he who shall save his people from their sins.\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>22 Now all this has happened, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the Lord through the prophet, saying,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>23 \u201eBehold, the virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son. They shall call his name Immanuel;\u201c which is, being interpreted, \u201eGod with us.\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>24 Joseph arose from his sleep, and did as the angel of the Lord commanded him, and took his wife to himself;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>25 and didn\u2019t know her sexually until she had brought forth her firstborn son. He named him JESUS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Matthew chapter 2<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>1 Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod, the king, behold, wise men from the east came to Jerusalem, saying,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2 \u201eWhere is he who is born King of the Jews? For we saw his star in the east, and have come to worship him.\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>3 When Herod the king heard it, he was troubled, and all Jerusalem with him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>4 Gathering together all the chief priests and scribes of the people, he asked them where the Christ would be born.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>5 They said to him, \u201eIn Bethlehem of Judea, for thus it is written through the prophet,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>6 \u201aYou Bethlehem, land of Judah, Are in no way least among the princes of Judah: For out of you shall come forth a governor, Who shall shepherd my people, Israel&#8217;\u201c.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>7 Then Herod secretly called the wise men, and learned from them exactly what time the star appeared.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>8 He sent them to Bethlehem, and said, \u201eGo and search diligently for the young child. When you have found him, bring me word, so that I also may come and worship him.\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>9 They, having heard the king, went their way; and behold, the star, which they saw in the east, went before them, until it came and stood over where the young child was.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>10 When they saw the star, they rejoiced with exceedingly great joy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>11 They came into the house and saw the young child with Mary, his mother, and they fell down and worshiped him. Opening their treasures, they offered to him gifts: gold, frankincense, and myrrh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>12 Being warned in a dream that they shouldn\u2019t return to Herod, they went back to their own country another way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>13 Now when they had departed, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream, saying, \u201eArise and take the young child and his mother, and flee into Egypt, and stay there until I tell you, for Herod will seek the young child to destroy him.\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>14 He arose and took the young child and his mother by night, and departed into Egypt,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>15 and was there until the death of Herod; that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the Lord through the prophet, saying, \u201eOut of Egypt I called my son.\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>16 Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked by the wise men, was exceedingly angry, and sent forth, and killed all the male children who were in Bethlehem, and in all the surrounding countryside, from two years old and under, according to the exact time which he had learned from the wise men.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>17 Then that which was spoken by Jeremiah the prophet was fulfilled, saying,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>18 \u201eA voice was heard in Ramah, Lamentation, weeping and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children; She wouldn\u2019t be comforted, because they are no more.\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>19 But when Herod was dead, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt, saying,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>20 \u201eArise and take the young child and his mother, and go into the land of Israel, for those who sought the young child\u2019s life are dead.\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>21 He arose and took the young child and his mother, and came into the land of Israel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>22 But when he heard that Archelaus was reigning over Judea in the place of his father, Herod, he was afraid to go there. Being warned in a dream, he withdrew into the region of Galilee,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>23 and came and lived in a city called Nazareth; that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through the prophets: \u201eHe will be called a Nazarene.\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Matthew chapter 3<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>1 In those days, John the Baptizer came, preaching in the wilderness of Judea, saying,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2 \u201eRepent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>3 For this is he who was spoken of by Isaiah the prophet, saying, \u201eThe voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make ready the way of the Lord, Make his paths straight.\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>4 Now John himself had clothing made of camel\u2019s hair, and a leather belt around his waist. His food was locusts and wild honey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>5 Then people from Jerusalem, all of Judea, and all the region around the Jordan went out to him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>6 They were baptized by him in the Jordan, confessing their sins.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>7 But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming for his baptism, he said to them, \u201eYou offspring of vipers, who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>8 Therefore bring forth fruit worthy of repentance!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>9 Don\u2019t think to yourselves, \u201aWe have Abraham for our father,\u2018 for I tell you that God is able to raise up children to Abraham from these stones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>10 Even now the ax lies at the root of the trees. Therefore, every tree that doesn\u2019t bring forth good fruit is cut down, and cast into the fire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>11 I indeed baptize you in water for repentance, but he who comes after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to carry. He shall baptize you in the Holy Spirit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>12 His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his threshing floor. He will gather his wheat into the barn, but the chaff he will burn up with unquenchable fire.\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>13 Then Jesus came from Galilee to the Jordan to John, to be baptized by him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>14 But John would have hindered him, saying, \u201eI need to be baptized by you, and you come to me?\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>15 But Jesus, answering, said to him, \u201eAllow it now, for this is the fitting way for us to fulfill all righteousness.\u201c Then he allowed him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>16 Jesus, when he was baptized, went up directly from the water: and behold, the heavens were opened to him. He saw the Spirit of God descending as a dove, and coming on him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>17 Behold, a voice out of the heavens said, \u201eThis is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Matthew chapter 4<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>1 Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2 When he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was hungry afterward.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>3 The tempter came and said to him, \u201eIf you are the Son of God, command that these stones become bread.\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>4 But he answered, \u201eIt is written, \u201aMan shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.&#8217;\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>5 Then the devil took him into the holy city. He set him on the pinnacle of the temple,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>6 and said to him, \u201eIf you are the Son of God, throw yourself down, for it is written, \u201aHe will give his angels charge concerning you.\u2018 and, \u201aOn their hands they will bear you up, So that you don\u2019t dash your foot against a stone.&#8217;\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>7 Jesus said to him, \u201eAgain, it is written, \u201aYou shall not test the Lord, your God.&#8217;\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>8 Again, the devil took him to an exceedingly high mountain, and showed him all the kingdoms of the world, and their glory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>9 He said to him, \u201eI will give you all of these things, if you will fall down and worship me.\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>10 Then Jesus said to him, \u201eGet behind me, Satan! For it is written, \u201aYou shall worship the Lord your God, and him only shall you serve.&#8217;\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>11 Then the devil left him, and behold, angels came and ministered to him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>12 Now when Jesus heard that John was delivered up, he withdrew into Galilee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>13 Leaving Nazareth, he came and lived in Capernaum, which is by the sea, in the region of Zebulun and Naphtali,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>14 that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through Isaiah the prophet, saying,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>15 \u201eThe land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, Toward the sea, beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>16 The people who sat in darkness saw a great light, To those who sat in the region and shadow of death, To them did light spring up.\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>17 From that time, Jesus began to preach, and to say, \u201eRepent! For the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand.\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>18 Walking by the sea of Galilee, he saw two brothers: Simon, who is called Peter, and Andrew, his brother, casting a net into the sea; for they were fishermen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>19 He said to them, \u201eCome, follow me, and I will make you fishers for men.\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>20 They immediately left their nets, and followed him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>21 Going on from there, he saw two other brothers, James, the son of Zebedee, and John, his brother, in the boat with Zebedee, their father, mending their nets. He called them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>22 They immediately left the boat and their father, and followed him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>23 Jesus went about in all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every disease and every sickness among the people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>24 The report about him went forth into all Syria. They brought to him all who were sick, afflicted with various diseases and torments, possessed with demons, epileptics, and paralytics; and he healed them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>25 Great multitudes from Galilee, Decapolis, Jerusalem, Judea and from beyond the Jordan followed him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Matthew chapter 5<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>1 Seeing the multitudes, he went up onto a mountain. When he had sat down, his disciples came to him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2 He opened his mouth and taught them, saying,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>3 \u201eBlessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>4 \u201eBlessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>5 \u201eBlessed are the humble, for they shall inherit the earth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>6 \u201eBlessed are those who hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be filled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>7 \u201eBlessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>8 \u201eBlessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>9 \u201eBlessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>10 \u201eBlessed are those who have been persecuted for righteousness\u2018 sake, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>11 \u201eBlessed are you when people reproach you, persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely, for my sake.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>12 \u201eRejoice, and be exceedingly glad, for great is your reward in heaven. For that is how they persecuted the prophets who were before you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>13 You are the salt of the earth, but if the salt has lost its flavor, what will it be salted with? It is then good for nothing, but to be cast out and trodden under the feet of men.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>14 You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill can\u2019t be hid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>15 Neither do you light a lamp, and put it under a bushel basket, but on a stand; and it shines to all who are in the house.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>16 Even so, let your light shine before men; that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>17 Don\u2019t think that I came to destroy the law or the prophets. I didn\u2019t come to destroy, but to fulfill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>18 For most assuredly, I tell you, until heaven and earth pass away, not even one smallest letter or one tiny pen stroke shall in any way pass away from the law, until all things are accomplished.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>19 Whoever, therefore, shall break one of these least commandments, and teach others to do so, shall be called least in the Kingdom of Heaven; but whoever shall do and teach them shall be called great in the Kingdom of Heaven.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>20 For I tell you, that unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees, there is no way you shall enter into the Kingdom of Heaven.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>21 \u201eYou have heard that it was said to them of old time, \u201aYou shall not murder;\u2018 and \u201aWhoever shall murder shall be in danger of the judgment.\u2018<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>22 But I tell you, that everyone who is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment; and whoever shall say to his brother, \u201aRaca,\u2018 shall be in danger of the council; and whoever shall say, \u201aYou fool,\u2018 shall be in danger of the fire of Gehenna.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>23 If therefore you are offering your gift at the altar, and there remember that your brother has anything against you,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>24 leave your gift there before the altar, and go your way. First be reconciled to your brother, and then come and offer your gift.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>25 Agree with your adversary quickly, while you are with him in the way; lest perhaps the prosecutor deliver you to the judge, and the judge deliver you to the officer, and you be cast into prison.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>26 Most assuredly I tell you, you shall by no means get out of there, until you have paid the last penny.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>27 \u201eYou have heard that it was said, \u201aYou shall not commit adultery;\u2018<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>28 but I tell you that everyone who gazes at a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her already in his heart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>29 If your right eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out and cast it from you. For it is profitable for you that one of your members should perish, than for your whole body to be cast into Gehenna.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>30 If your right hand causes you to stumble, cut it off, and cast it from you: for it is profitable for you that one of your members should perish, and not your whole body be cast into Gehenna.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>31 \u201eIt was also said, \u201aWhoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorce,\u2018<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>32 but I tell you that whoever who puts away his wife, except for the cause of sexual immorality, makes her an adulteress; and whoever shall marry her when she is put away commits adultery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>33 \u201eAgain you have heard that it was said to them of old time, \u201aYou shall not make false vows, but shall perform to the Lord your vows,\u2018<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>34 but I tell you, don\u2019t swear at all: neither by heaven, for it is the throne of God;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>35 nor by the earth, for it is the footstool of his feet; nor by Jerusalem, for it is the city of the great King.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>36 Neither shall you swear by your head, for you can\u2019t make one hair white or black.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>37 But let your speech be, \u201aYes, yes; No, no.\u2018 Whatever is more than these is of the evil one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>38 You have heard that it was said, \u201aAn eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth.\u2018<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>39 But I tell you, don\u2019t resist him who is evil; but whoever strikes you on your right cheek, turn to him the other also.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>40 If any man would go to law with you and take away your coat, let him have your cloak also.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>41 Whoever compels you to go one mile, go with him two.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>42 Give to him who asks you, and don\u2019t turn away him who desires to borrow from you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>43 \u201eYou have heard that it was said, \u201aYou shall love your neighbor, and hate your enemy.\u2018<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>44 But I tell you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who spitefully use you and persecute you,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>45 that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the just and the unjust.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>46 For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Don\u2019t even the tax collectors do the same?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>47 If you only greet your friends, what more do you do than others? Don\u2019t even the tax collectors do the same?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>48 Therefore you shall be perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Matthew chapter 6<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>1 \u201eBe careful that you don\u2019t do your charitable giving before men, to be seen by them, or else you have no reward with your Father who is in heaven.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2 Therefore when you do merciful deeds, don\u2019t sound a trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may get glory from men. Most assuredly, I tell you, they have received their reward.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>3 But when you do merciful deeds, don\u2019t let your left hand know what your right hand does,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>4 so that your merciful deeds may be in secret, then your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>5 \u201eWhen you pray, you shall not be as the hypocrites, for they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen by men. Most assuredly, I tell you, they have received their reward.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>6 But you, when you pray, enter into your inner chamber, and having shut your door, pray to your Father who is in secret, and your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>7 In praying, don\u2019t use vain repetitions, as the Gentiles do; for they think that they will be heard for their much speaking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>8 Therefore don\u2019t be like them, for your Father knows what things you need, before you ask him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>9 Pray like this. \u201aOur Father, who is in heaven, may your name be kept holy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>10 May your kingdom come. May your will be done, as in heaven, so on earth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>11 Give us this day our daily bread.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>12 Forgive us our debts, as we also forgive our debtors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>13 Bring us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For yours is the kingdom, the power and the glory forever. Amen.\u2018<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>14 For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>15 But if you don\u2019t forgive men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>16 \u201eMoreover when you fast, don\u2019t be, as the hypocrites, with sad faces. For they disfigure their faces, that they may be seen by men to be fasting. Most assuredly I tell you, they have received their reward.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>17 But you, when you fast, anoint your head, and wash your face;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>18 that you are not seen by men to be fasting, but by your Father who is in secret, and your Father, who sees in secret, will reward you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>19 \u201eDon\u2019t lay up treasures for yourselves on the earth, where moth and rust consume, and where thieves break through and steal;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>20 but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust consume, and where thieves don\u2019t break through and steal;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>21 for where your treasure is, your heart will be there also.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>22 The lamp of the body is the eye: if therefore your eye is sound, your whole body will be full of light.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>23 But if your eye is evil, your whole body will be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>24 \u201eNo one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to one, and despise the other. You can\u2019t serve both God and Mammon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>25 Therefore, I tell you, don\u2019t be anxious for your life, what you will eat, or what you will drink; nor yet for your body, what you will put on. Isn\u2019t life more than food, and the body more than clothing?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>26 See the birds of the sky, that they don\u2019t sow, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns. Your heavenly Father feeds them. Aren\u2019t you of much more value than they?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>27 Which of you, by being anxious, can add one cubit to the measure of his life?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>28 Why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow. They don\u2019t toil, neither do they spin,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>29 yet I tell you that even Solomon in all his glory was not dressed like one of these.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>30 But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today exists, and tomorrow is cast into the oven, won\u2019t he much more clothe you, you of little faith?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>31 Therefore don\u2019t be anxious, saying, \u201aWhat will we eat?\u2018, \u201aWhat will we drink?\u2018 or, \u201aWith what will we be clothed?\u2018<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>32 For the Gentiles seek after all these things, for your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>33 But seek first God\u2019s Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be added to you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>34 Therefore don\u2019t be anxious for tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Each day\u2019s own evil is sufficient.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Matthew chapter 7<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>1 \u201eDon\u2019t judge, so that you won\u2019t be judged.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2 For with whatever judgment you judge, you will be judged: and with whatever measure you measure, it will be measured to you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>3 Why do you see the speck that is in your brother\u2019s eye, but don\u2019t consider the beam that is in your own eye?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>4 Or how will you tell your brother, \u201aLet me remove the speck from your eye;\u2018 and behold, the beam is in your own eye?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>5 You hypocrite! First remove the beam out of your own eye, and then you can see clearly to remove the speck out of your brother\u2019s eye.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>6 \u201eDon\u2019t give that which is holy to the dogs, neither cast your pearls before the pigs, lest perhaps they trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you to pieces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>7 \u201eAsk, and it will be given you. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and it will be opened to you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>8 For everyone who asks receives. He who seeks finds. To him who knocks it will be opened.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>9 Or what man is there of you, who, if his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>10 Or if he asks for a fish, who will give him a serpent?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>11 If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>12 Therefore whatever you desire for men to do to you, you shall also do to them; for this is the law and the prophets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>13 Enter in by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leads to destruction, and many are those who enter in by it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>14 How narrow is the gate, and restricted is the way that leads to life! Few are those who find it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>15 \u201eBeware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep\u2019s clothing, but inwardly are ravening wolves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>16 By their fruits you will know them. Do you gather grapes from thorns, or figs from thistles?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>17 Even so, every good tree brings forth good fruit; but the corrupt tree brings forth evil fruit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>18 A good tree can\u2019t bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>19 Every tree that doesn\u2019t grow good fruit is cut down, and thrown into the fire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>20 Therefore, by their fruits you will know them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>21 Not everyone who says to me, \u201aLord, Lord,\u2018 will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven; but he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>22 Many will tell me in that day, \u201aLord, Lord, didn\u2019t we prophesy by your name, by your name cast out demons, and by your name do many mighty works?\u2018<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>23 Then I will tell them, \u201aI never knew you. Depart from me, you who work iniquity.\u2018<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>24 \u201eEveryone therefore who hears these words of mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man, who built his house on a rock.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>25 The rain came down, the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat on that house; and it didn\u2019t fall, for it was founded on the rock.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>26 Everyone who hears these words of mine, and doesn\u2019t do them will be like a foolish man, who built his house on the sand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>27 The rain came down, the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat on that house; and it fell \u2014 and great was its fall.\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>28 It happened, when Jesus had finished saying these things, that the multitudes were astonished at his teaching,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>29 for he taught them with authority, and not like the scribes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Matthew chapter 8<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>1 When he came down from the mountain, great multitudes followed him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2 Behold, a leper came to him and worshiped him, saying, \u201eLord, if you want to, you can make me clean.\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>3 Jesus stretched out his hand, and touched him, saying, \u201eI want to. Be made clean.\u201c Immediately his leprosy was cleansed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>4 Jesus said to him, \u201eSee that you tell nobody, but go, show yourself to the priest, and offer the gift that Moses commanded, as a testimony to them.\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>5 When he came into Capernaum, a centurion came to him, asking him,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>6 and saying, \u201eLord, my servant lies in the house paralyzed, grievously tormented.\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>7 Jesus said to him, \u201eI will come and heal him.\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>8 The centurion answered, \u201eLord, I\u2019m not worthy for you to come under my roof. Just say the word, and my servant will be healed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>9 For I am also a man under authority, having under myself soldiers. I tell this one, \u201aGo,\u2018 and he goes; and to another, \u201aCome,\u2018 and he comes; and to my servant, \u201aDo this,\u2018 and he does it.\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>10 When Jesus heard it, he marveled, and said to those who followed, \u201eMost assuredly I tell you, I haven\u2019t found so great a faith, not even in Israel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>11 I tell you that many will come from the east and the west, and will sit down with Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, in the Kingdom of Heaven,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>12 but the sons of the kingdom will be thrown out into the outer darkness. There will be weeping and the gnashing of teeth.\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>13 Jesus said to the centurion, \u201eGo your way. Let it be done for you as you as you have believed.\u201c His servant was healed in that hour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>14 When Jesus came into Peter\u2019s house, he saw his wife\u2019s mother lying sick of a fever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>15 He touched her hand, and the fever left her. She got up and served him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>16 When evening came, they brought to him many possessed with demons. He cast out the spirits with a word, and healed all who were sick;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>17 that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through Isaiah the prophet, saying: \u201eHe took our infirmities, and bore our diseases.\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>18 Now when Jesus saw great multitudes about him, he gave the order to depart to the other side.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>19 A scribe came, and said to him, \u201eTeacher, I will follow you wherever you go.\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>20 Jesus said to him, \u201eThe foxes have holes, and the birds of the sky have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head.\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>21 Another of his disciples said to him, \u201eLord, allow me first to go and bury my father.\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>22 But Jesus said to him, \u201eFollow me, and leave the dead to bury their own dead.\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>23 When he got into a boat, his disciples followed him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>24 Behold, a great tempest arose in the sea, so much that the boat was covered with the waves, but he was asleep.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>25 They came to him, and woke him up, saying, \u201eSave us, Lord! We are dying!\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>26 He said to them, \u201eWhy are you fearful, oh you of little faith?\u201c Then he got up, rebuked the wind and the sea, and there was a great calm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>27 The men marveled, saying, \u201eWhat kind of man is this, that even the wind and the sea obey him?\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>28 When he came to the other side, into the country of the Gergesenes, two people possessed with demons met him there, coming forth out of the tombs, exceedingly fierce, so that no man could pass by that way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>29 Behold, they cried out, saying, \u201eWhat do we have to do with you, Jesus, Son of God? Have you come here to torment us before the time?\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>30 Now there was a herd of many pigs feeding far away from them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>31 The demons begged him, saying, \u201eIf you cast us out, permit us to go away into the herd of pigs.\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>32 He said to them, \u201eGo!\u201c They came out, and went into the herd of pigs: and behold, the whole herd of pigs rushed down the cliff into the sea, and died in the water.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>33 Those who fed them fled, and went away into the city, and told everything, and what happened to those who were possessed with demons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>34 Behold, all the city came out to meet Jesus. When they saw him, they begged that he would depart from their borders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Matthew chapter 9<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>1 He entered into a boat, and crossed over, and came into his own city.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2 Behold, they brought to him a man who was paralyzed, lying on a bed. Jesus, seeing their faith, said to the paralytic, \u201eSon, cheer up! Your sins are forgiven you.\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>3 Behold, some of the scribes said to themselves, \u201eThis man blasphemes.\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>4 Jesus, knowing their thoughts, said, \u201eWhy do you think evil in your hearts?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>5 For which is easier, to say, \u201aYour sins are forgiven;\u2018 or to say, \u201aGet up, and walk?\u2018<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>6 But that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins\u2026\u201c (then he said to the paralytic), \u201eGet up, and take up your mat, and go up to your house.\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>7 He arose and departed to his house.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>8 But when the multitudes saw it, they marveled and glorified God, who had given such authority to men.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>9 As Jesus passed by from there, he saw a man called Matthew, sitting at the tax collection office. He said to him, \u201eFollow me.\u201c He got up and followed him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>10 It happened, as he sat at the table in the house, behold, many tax collectors and sinners came and sat down with Jesus and his disciples.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>11 When the Pharisees saw it, they said to his disciples, \u201eWhy does your teacher eat with the tax collectors and sinners?\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>12 When Jesus heard it, he said to them, \u201eThose who are healthy have no need for a physician, but those who are sick do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>13 But you go and learn what this means: \u201aI desire mercy, and not sacrifice,\u2018 for I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>14 Then John\u2019s disciples came to him, saying, \u201eWhy do we and the Pharisees fast often, but your disciples don\u2019t fast?\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>15 Jesus said to them, \u201eCan the friends of the bridegroom mourn, as long as the bridegroom is with them? But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>16 No one puts a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old garment; for the patch would tear away from the garment, and a worse hole is made.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>17 Neither do people put new wine into old wineskins, or else the skins would burst, and the wine be spilled, and the skins ruined. No, they put new wine into fresh wineskins, and both are preserved.\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>18 While he told these things to them, behold, a ruler came and worshiped him, saying, \u201eMy daughter has just died, but come and lay your hand on her, and she will live.\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>19 Jesus got up and followed him, as did his disciples.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>20 Behold, a woman, who had an issue of blood for twelve years, came behind him, and touched the tassels of his garment;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>21 for she said within herself, \u201eIf I just touch his garment, I will be made well.\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>22 But Jesus, turning around and seeing her, said, \u201eDaughter, cheer up! Your faith has made you well.\u201c And the woman was made well from that hour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>23 When Jesus came into the ruler\u2019s house, and saw the flute players, and the crowd in noisy disorder,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>24 he said to them, \u201eMake room, because the young lady isn\u2019t dead, but sleeping.\u201c They were ridiculing him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>25 But when the crowd was put out, he entered in, took her by the hand, and the young lady arose.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>26 The report of this went forth into all that land.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>27 As Jesus passed by from there, two blind men followed him, calling out and saying, \u201eHave mercy on us, son of David!\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>28 When he had come into the house, the blind men came to him. Jesus said to them, \u201eDo you believe that I am able to do this?\u201c They told him, \u201eYes, Lord.\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>29 Then he touched their eyes, saying, \u201eAccording to your faith be it done to you.\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>30 Their eyes were opened. Jesus strictly charged them, saying, \u201eSee that no one knows about this.\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>31 But they went out and spread abroad his fame in all that land.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>32 As they went forth, behold, there was brought to him a mute man who was demon possessed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>33 When the demon was cast out, the mute man spoke. The multitudes marveled, saying, \u201eNothing like this has ever been seen in Israel!\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>34 But the Pharisees said, \u201eBy the prince of the demons, he casts out demons.\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>35 Jesus went about all the cities and the villages, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every disease and every sickness among the people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>36 But when he saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion for them, because they were weary and scattered, as sheep without a shepherd.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>37 Then he said to his disciples, \u201eThe harvest indeed is plentiful, but the laborers are few.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>38 Pray therefore that the Lord of the harvest will send forth laborers into his harvest.\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Matthew chapter 10<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>1 He called to himself his twelve disciples, and gave them authority over unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal every disease and every sickness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2 Now the names of the twelve apostles are these. The first, Simon, who is called Peter; Andrew, his brother; James the son of Zebedee; John, his brother;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>3 Philip; Bartholomew; Thomas; Matthew, the tax collector; James the son of Alphaeus; and Lebbaeus, whose surname was Thaddaeus;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>4 Simon the Canaanite; and Judas Iscariot, who also betrayed him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>5 Jesus sent these twelve forth, and charged them, saying, \u201eDon\u2019t go among the Gentiles, and don\u2019t enter into any city of the Samaritans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>6 Rather, go to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>7 As you go, preach, saying, \u201aThe Kingdom of Heaven is at hand.\u2018<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>8 Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, and cast out demons. Freely you received, so freely give.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>9 Don\u2019t take any gold, nor silver, nor brass in your money belts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>10 Take no bag for your journey, neither two coats, nor shoes, nor staff: for the laborer is worthy of his food.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>11 Into whatever city or village you enter, find out who in it is worthy; and stay there until you go on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>12 As you enter into the household, greet it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>13 If the household is worthy, let your peace come on it, but if it isn\u2019t worthy, let your peace return to you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>14 Whoever doesn\u2019t receive you, nor hear your words, as you go forth out of that house or that city, shake off the dust from your feet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>15 Most assuredly I tell you, It will be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgment, than for that city.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>16 Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves. Therefore be wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>17 But beware of men: for they will deliver you up to councils, and in their synagogues they will scourge you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>18 Yes, and you will be brought before governors and kings for my sake, for a testimony to them and to the Gentiles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>19 But when they deliver you up, don\u2019t be anxious how or what you will say, for it will be given you in that hour what you will say.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>20 For it is not you who speak, but the Spirit of your Father who speaks in you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>21 Brother will deliver up brother to death, and the father his child. Children will rise up against parents, and cause them to be put to death.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>22 You will be hated by all men for my name\u2019s sake, but he who endures to the end, the same will be saved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>23 But when they persecute you in this city, flee into the next, for most assuredly I tell you, you will not have gone through the cities of Israel, until the Son of Man has come.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>24 \u201eA disciple is not above his teacher, nor a servant above his lord.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>25 It is enough for the disciple that he be like his teacher, and the servant like his lord. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebul, how much more them of his household!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>26 Therefore don\u2019t be afraid of them, for there is nothing covered, that will not be revealed; and hidden, that will not be known.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>27 What I tell you in the darkness, speak in the light; and what you hear whispered in the ear, proclaim on the housetops.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>28 Don\u2019t be afraid of those who kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul. Rather, fear him who is able to destroy both soul and body in Gehenna.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>29 \u201eAren\u2019t two sparrows sold for an assarion? Not one of them falls on the ground apart from your Father\u2019s will,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>30 but the very hairs of your head are all numbered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>31 Therefore don\u2019t be afraid, you are of more value than many sparrows.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>32 Everyone therefore who confesses me before men, him will I also confess before my Father who is in heaven.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>33 But whoever denies me before men, him will I also deny before my Father who is in heaven.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>34 \u201eDon\u2019t think that I came to send peace on the earth. I didn\u2019t come to send peace, but a sword.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>35 For I came to set a man at odds against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>36 A man\u2019s foes will be those of his own household.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>37 He who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; and he who loves son or daughter more than me isn\u2019t worthy of me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>38 He who doesn\u2019t take his cross and follow after me, isn\u2019t worthy of me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>39 He who finds his life will lose it; and he who loses his life for my sake will find it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>40 He who receives you receives me, and he who receives me receives him who sent me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>41 He who receives a prophet in the name of a prophet will receive a prophet\u2019s reward: and he who receives a righteous man in the name of a righteous man will receive a righteous man\u2019s reward.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>42 Whoever gives one of these little ones just a cup of cold water to drink, in the name of a disciple, most assuredly I tell you he will in no way lose his reward.\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Matthew chapter 11<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>1 It happened that when Jesus had finished directing his twelve disciples, he departed there to teach and preach in their cities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2 Now when John heard in the prison the works of Christ, he sent two of his disciples<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>3 and said to him, \u201eAre you he who comes, or should we look for another?\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>4 Jesus answered them, \u201eGo and tell John the things which you hear and see:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>5 the blind receive their sight, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have good news preached to them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>6 Blessed is he, whoever finds no occasion for stumbling in me.\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>7 As these went their way, Jesus began to say to the multitudes concerning John, \u201eWhat did you go out into the wilderness to see? A reed shaken with the wind?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>8 But what did you go out to see? A man in soft clothing? Behold, those who wear soft clothing are in king\u2019s houses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>9 But why did you go out? To see a prophet? Yes, I tell you, and much more than a prophet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>10 For this is he, of whom it is written, \u201aBehold, I send my messenger before your face, who will prepare your way before you.\u2018<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>11 Most assuredly I tell you, among those who are born of women there has not arisen anyone greater than John the Baptizer; yet he who is least in the Kingdom of Heaven is greater than he.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>12 From the days of John the Baptizer until now, the Kingdom of Heaven suffers violence, and the violent take it by force.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>13 For all the prophets and the law prophesied until John.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>14 If you are willing to receive it, this is Elijah, who is to come.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>15 He who has ears to hear, let him hear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>16 \u201eBut what will I compare this generation to? It is like children sitting in the marketplaces, who call to their companions<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>17 and say, \u201aWe played the flute for you, and you didn\u2019t dance. We mourned for you, and you didn\u2019t lament.\u2018<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>18 For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, \u201aHe has a demon.\u2018<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>19 The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, \u201aBehold, a gluttonous man and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!\u2018 But wisdom is justified by her children.\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>20 Then he began to denounce the cities in which most of his mighty works were done, because they didn\u2019t repent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>21 \u201eWoe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the mighty works had been done in Tyre and Sidon which were done in you, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>22 But I tell you, it will be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon in the day of judgment than for you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>23 You, Capernaum, who are exalted to Heaven, you will go down to Hades. For if the mighty works had been done in Sodom which were done in you, it would have remained until this day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>24 But I tell you that it will be more tolerable for the land of Sodom, in the day of judgment, than for you.\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>25 At that time, Jesus answered, \u201eI thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you hid these things from the wise and understanding, and revealed them to infants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>26 Yes, Father, for so it was well-pleasing in your sight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>27 All things have been delivered to me by my Father. No one knows the Son, except the Father; neither does anyone know the Father, except the Son, and he to whoever the Son wants to reveal him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>28 \u201eCome to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>29 Take my yoke on you, and learn from me, for I am humble and lowly in heart; and you will find rest for your souls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>30 For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Matthew chapter 12<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>1 At that time, Jesus went on the Sabbath day through the grain fields. His disciples were hungry and began to pluck heads of grain and to eat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2 But the Pharisees, when they saw it, said to him, \u201eBehold, your disciples do what is not lawful to do on the Sabbath.\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>3 But he said to them, \u201eHaven\u2019t you read what David did, when he was hungry, and those who were with him;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>4 how he entered into the house of God, and ate the show bread, which was not lawful for him to eat, neither for those who were with him, but only for the priests?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>5 Or have you not read in the law, that on the Sabbath day, the priests in the temple profane the Sabbath, and are guiltless?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>6 But I tell you that one greater than the temple is here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>7 But if you had known what this means, \u201aI desire mercy, and not sacrifice,\u2018 you would not have condemned the guiltless.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>8 For the Son of Man is Lord of the Sabbath.\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>9 He departed there, and went into their synagogue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>10 And behold there was a man with a withered hand. They asked him, \u201eIs it lawful to heal on the Sabbath day?\u201c that they might accuse him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>11 He said to them, \u201eWhat man is there among you, who has one sheep, and if this one falls into a pit on the Sabbath day, will he not grab on to it, and lift it out?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>12 How much, then, is a man of more value than a sheep! Therefore it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath day.\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>13 Then he told the man, \u201eStretch out your hand.\u201c He stretched it out; and it was restored whole, just like the other.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>14 But the Pharisees went out, and took counsel against him, how they might destroy him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>15 Jesus, perceiving that, withdrew from there. Great multitudes followed him; and he healed them all,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>16 and charged them that they should not make him known:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>17 that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through Isaiah the prophet, saying,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>18 \u201eBehold, my servant whom I have chosen; My beloved in whom my soul is well pleased: I will put my Spirit on him, He will declare judgment to the Gentiles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>19 He will not strive, nor shout; Neither will anyone hear his voice in the streets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>20 He won\u2019t break a bruised reed, He won\u2019t quench a smoking flax, Until he sends forth judgment to victory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>21 In his name, the Gentiles will hope.\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>22 Then there was brought to him one possessed by a demon, blind and mute, and he healed him, so that the blind and mute man both spoke and saw.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>23 All the multitudes were amazed, and said, \u201eCan this be the son of David?\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>24 But when the Pharisees heard it, they said, \u201eThis man does not cast out demons, except by Beelzebul, the prince of the demons.\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>25 Knowing their thoughts, Jesus said to them, \u201eEvery kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation, and every city or house divided against itself will not stand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>26 If Satan casts out Satan, he is divided against himself. How then will his kingdom stand?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>27 If I by Beelzebul cast out demons, by whom do your sons cast them out? Therefore they will be your judges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>28 But if I by the Spirit of God cast out demons, then the kingdom of God has come on you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>29 Or how can one enter into the house of the strong man, and plunder his goods, except he first bind the strong man? Then he will plunder his house.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>30 \u201eHe who is not with me is against me, and he who doesn\u2019t gather with me, scatters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>31 Therefore I tell you, every sin and blasphemy will be forgiven men, but the blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven men.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>32 Whoever speaks a word against the Son of Man, it will be forgiven him; but whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit, it will not be forgiven him, neither in this world, nor in that which is to come.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>33 \u201eEither make the tree good, and its fruit good, or make the tree corrupt, and its fruit corrupt; for the tree is known by its fruit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>34 You offspring of vipers, how can you, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>35 The good man out of his good treasure brings forth good things, and the evil man out of his evil treasure brings forth evil things.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>36 I tell you that every idle word that men speak, they will give account of it in the day of judgment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>37 For by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned.\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>38 Then certain of the scribes and Pharisees answered, saying, \u201eTeacher, we want to see a sign from you.\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>39 But he answered them, \u201eAn evil and adulterous generation seeks after a sign, and there will no sign be given it but the sign of Jonah, the prophet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>40 For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the whale, so will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>41 The men of Nineveh will stand up in the judgment with this generation, and will condemn it, for they repented at the preaching of Jonah; and behold, someone greater than Jonah is here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>42 The queen of the south will rise up in the judgment with this generation, and will condemn it, for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and behold, someone greater than Solomon is here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>43 But the unclean spirit, when he is gone out of the man, passes through waterless places, seeking rest, and doesn\u2019t find it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>44 Then he says, \u201aI will return into my house whence I came out,\u2018 and when he has come back, he finds it empty, swept, and put in order.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>45 Then he goes, and takes with himself seven other spirits more evil than himself, and they enter in and dwell there. The last state of that man becomes worse than the first. Even so will it be also to this evil generation.\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>46 While he was yet speaking to the multitudes, behold, his mother and his brothers stood outside, seeking to speak to him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>47 One said to him, \u201eBehold, your mother and your brothers stand outside, seeking to speak to you.\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>48 But he answered him who told him, \u201eWho is my mother? Who are my brothers?\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>49 He stretched forth his hand towards his disciples, and said, \u201eBehold, my mother and my brothers!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>50 For whoever will do the will of my Father who is in heaven, he is my brother, and sister, and mother.\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Matthew chapter 13<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>1 On that day Jesus went out of the house, and sat by the seaside.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2 Great multitudes gathered to him, so that he entered into a boat, and sat, and all the multitude stood on the beach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>3 He spoke to them many things in parables, saying, \u201eBehold, the farmer went forth to sow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>4 As he sowed, some seeds fell by the roadside, and the birds came and devoured them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>5 Others fell on rocky ground, where they didn\u2019t have much soil, and immediately they sprang up, because they had no deepness of earth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>6 When the sun had risen, they were scorched. Because they had no root, they withered away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>7 Others fell on thorns. The thorns grew up and choked them:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>8 and others fell on good soil, and yielded fruit: some one hundred times, some sixty, and some thirty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>9 He who has ears to hear, let him hear.\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>10 The disciples came, and said to him, \u201eWhy do you speak to them in parables?\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>11 He answered them, \u201eTo you it is given to know the mysteries of the Kingdom of Heaven, but it is not given to them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>12 For whoever has, to him will be given, and he will have abundance, but whoever doesn\u2019t have, from him will be taken away even that which he has.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>13 Therefore I speak to them in parables, because seeing they don\u2019t see, and hearing, they don\u2019t hear, neither do they understand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>14 In them the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled, which says, \u201aBy hearing you will hear, and will in no way understand; Seeing you will see, and will in no way perceive:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>15 For this people\u2019s heart has grown callous, Their ears are dull of hearing, Their eyes they have closed; Or else perhaps they might perceive with their eyes, Hear with their ears, Understand with their heart, And should turn again; And I would heal them.\u2018<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>16 \u201eBut blessed are your eyes, for they see; and your ears, for they hear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>17 For most assuredly I tell you that many prophets and righteous men desired to see the things which you see, and didn\u2019t see them; and to hear the things which you hear, and didn\u2019t hear them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>18 \u201eHear, then, the parable of the farmer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>19 When anyone hears the word of the kingdom, and doesn\u2019t understand it, the evil one comes, and snatches away that which has been sown in his heart. This is what was sown by the roadside.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>20 What was sown on the rocky places, this is he who hears the word, and immediately with joy receives it;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>21 yet he has no root in himself, but endures for a while. When oppression or persecution arises because of the word, immediately he stumbles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>22 What was sown among the thorns, this is he who hears the word, but the cares of this world and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and he becomes unfruitful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>23 What was sown on the good ground, this is he who hears the word, and understands it, who most assuredly bears fruit, and brings forth, some one hundred times, some sixty, some thirty.\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>24 He set another parable before them, saying, \u201eThe Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>25 but while people slept, his enemy came and sowed darnel also among the wheat, and went away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>26 But when the blade sprang up and brought forth fruit, then the darnel appeared also.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>27 The servants of the householder came and said to him, \u201aSir, didn\u2019t you sow good seed in your field? Where did this darnel come from?\u2018<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>28 He said to them, \u201aAn enemy has done this.\u2018 The servants asked him, \u201aDo you want us to go and gather them up?\u2018<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>29 But he said, \u201aNo, lest perhaps while you gather up the darnel, you root up the wheat with them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>30 Let both grow together until the harvest, and in the harvest time I will tell the reapers, \u201eFirst, gather up the darnel, and bind them in bundles to burn them; but gather the wheat into my barn.\u201c\u201a\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>31 He set another parable before them, saying, \u201eThe Kingdom of Heaven is like a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and sowed in his field;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>32 which indeed is smaller than all seeds. But when it is grown, it is greater than the herbs, and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and lodge in its branches.\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>33 He spoke another parable to them. \u201eThe Kingdom of Heaven is like yeast, which a woman took, and hid in three measures of meal, until it was all leavened.\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>34 Jesus spoke all these things in parables to the multitudes; and without a parable, he didn\u2019t speak to them,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>35 that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through the prophet, saying, \u201eI will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things hidden from the foundation of the world.\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>36 Then Jesus sent the multitudes away, and went into the house. His disciples came to him, saying, \u201eExplain to us the parable of the darnel of the field.\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>37 He answered them, \u201eHe who sows the good seed is the Son of Man,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>38 the field is the world; and the good seed, these are the sons of the kingdom; and the darnel are the sons of the evil one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>39 The enemy who sowed them is the devil. The harvest is the end of the age, and the reapers are angels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>40 As therefore the darnel is gathered up and burned with fire; so will it be in the end of this age.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>41 The Son of Man will send forth his angels, and they will gather out of his kingdom all things that cause stumbling, and those who do iniquity,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>42 and will cast them into the furnace of fire. There will be weeping and the gnashing of teeth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>43 Then the righteous will shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. He who has ears to hear, let him hear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>44 \u201eThe Kingdom of Heaven is like a treasure hidden in the field, which a man found, and hid. In his joy, he goes and sells all that he has, and buys that field.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>45 \u201eAgain, the Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who is a merchant seeking fine pearls,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>46 who having found one pearl of great price, he went and sold all that he had, and bought it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>47 \u201eAgain, the Kingdom of Heaven is like a dragnet, that was cast into the sea, and gathered some fish of every kind,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>48 which, when it was filled, they drew up on the beach. They sat down, and gathered the good into containers, but the bad they threw away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>49 So will it be in the end of the world. The angels will come forth, and separate the wicked from among the righteous,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>50 and will cast them into the furnace of fire. There will be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth.\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>51 Jesus said to them, \u201eHave you understood all these things?\u201c They answered him, \u201eYes, Lord.\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>52 He said to them, \u201eTherefore, every scribe who has been made a disciple to the Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who is a householder, who brings forth out of his treasure new and old things.\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>53 It happened, when Jesus had finished these parables, he departed from there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>54 Coming into his own country, he taught them in their synagogue, so much that they were astonished, and said, \u201eWhere did this man get this wisdom, and these mighty works?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>55 Isn\u2019t this the carpenter\u2019s son? Isn\u2019t his mother called Mary, and his brothers, James, Joses, Simon, and Judas?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>56 Aren\u2019t all of his sisters with us? Where, then did this man get all of these things?\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>57 They were offended by him. But Jesus said to them, \u201eA prophet is not without honor, except in his own country, and in his own house.\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>58 He didn\u2019t do many mighty works there because of their unbelief.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Matthew chapter 14<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>1 At that time, Herod, the tetrarch, heard the report concerning Jesus,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2 and said to his servants, \u201eThis is John the Baptizer. He is risen from the dead. That is why these powers work in him.\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>3 For Herod had laid hold of John, and bound him, and put him in prison for the sake of Herodias, his brother Philip\u2019s wife.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>4 For John said to him, \u201eIt is not lawful for you to have her.\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>5 When he would have put him to death, he feared the multitude, because they counted him as a prophet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>6 But when Herod\u2019s birthday came, the daughter of Herodias danced in the midst, and pleased Herod.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>7 Whereupon he promised with an oath to give her whatever she should ask.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>8 She, being put forward by her mother, said, \u201eGive me here on a platter the head of John the Baptizer.\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>9 The king was grieved, but for the sake of his oaths, and of those who sat at the table with him, he commanded it to be given,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>10 and he sent and beheaded John in the prison.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>11 His head was brought on a platter, and given to the young lady: and she brought it to her mother.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>12 His disciples came, and took up the body, and buried it; and they went and told Jesus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>13 Now when Jesus heard this, he withdrew from there in a boat, to a desert place apart. When the multitudes heard it, they followed him on foot from the cities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>14 Jesus went out, and he saw a great multitude. He had compassion on them, and healed their sick.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>15 When evening had come, his disciples came to him, saying, \u201eThe place is a desert, and the time is already past. Send the multitudes away, that they may go into the villages, and buy themselves food.\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>16 But Jesus said to them, \u201eThey don\u2019t need to go away. You give them something to eat.\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>17 They told him, \u201eWe only have here five loaves and two fish.\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>18 He said, \u201eBring them here to me.\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>19 He commanded the multitudes to sit down on the grass; and he took the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up to heaven, he blessed, broke and gave the loaves to the disciples, and the disciples to the multitudes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>20 They all ate, and were filled. They took up twelve baskets full of that which remained left over from the broken pieces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>21 Those who ate were about five thousand men, besides women and children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>22 Immediately Jesus made the disciples get into the boat, and to go ahead of him to the other side, while he sent the multitudes away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>23 After he had sent the multitudes away, he went up into the mountain apart to pray. When evening had come, he was there alone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>24 But the boat was now in the midst of the sea, distressed by the waves, for the wind was contrary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>25 In the fourth watch of the night Jesus came to them, walking on the sea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>26 When the disciples saw him walking on the sea, they were troubled, saying, \u201eIt is a ghost!\u201c and they cried out for fear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>27 But immediately Jesus spoke to them, saying \u201eCheer up! I AM! Don\u2019t be afraid.\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>28 Peter answered him and said, \u201eLord, if it is you, command me to come to you on the waters.\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>29 He said, \u201eCome!\u201c Peter went down from the boat, and walked on the waters to come to Jesus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>30 But when he saw that the wind was strong, he was afraid, and beginning to sink, he cried out, saying, \u201eLord, save me!\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>31 Immediately Jesus stretched forth his hand, and took hold of him, and said to him, \u201eYou of little faith, why did you doubt?\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>32 When they got up into the boat, the wind ceased.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>33 Those who were in the boat came and worshiped him, saying, \u201eYou are truly the Son of God!\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>34 When they had crossed over, they came to the land of Gennesaret.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>35 When the men of that place recognized him, they sent into all that region round about, and brought to him all who were sick,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>36 and they begged him that they might only touch the fringe of his garment. As many as touched it were made whole.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Matthew chapter 15<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>1 Then Pharisees and scribes come to Jesus from Jerusalem, saying,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2 \u201eWhy do your disciples disobey the tradition of the elders? For they don\u2019t wash their hands when they eat bread.\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>3 He answered them, \u201eWhy do you also disobey the commandment of God because of your tradition?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>4 For God commanded, \u201aHonor your father and your mother,\u2018 and, \u201aHe who speaks evil of father or mother, let him be put to death.\u2018<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>5 But you say, \u201aWhoever will tell his father or his mother, \u201eWhatever help you might otherwise have gotten from me is a gift devoted to God,\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>6 he will not honor his father or mother.\u2018 You have made the commandment of God void because of your tradition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>7 You hypocrites! Well did Isaiah prophesy of you, saying,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>8 \u201aThese people draw near to me with their mouth, And honor me with their lips; But their heart is far from me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>9 But in vain do they worship me, Teaching as doctrine rules made by men.&#8217;\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>10 He called the multitude to himself, and said to them, \u201eHear, and understand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>11 That which enters into the mouth doesn\u2019t defile the man; but that which proceeds out of the mouth, this defiles the man.\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>12 Then the disciples came, and said to him, \u201eDo you know that the Pharisees were offended, when they heard this saying?\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>13 But he answered, \u201eEvery plant which my heavenly Father didn\u2019t plant will be uprooted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>14 Let them alone. They are blind guides of the blind. If the blind guide the blind, both will fall into a pit.\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>15 Peter answered him, \u201eExplain the parable to us.\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>16 So Jesus said, \u201eDo you also still not understand?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>17 Don\u2019t you understand that whatever goes into the mouth passes into the belly, and then out of the body?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>18 But the things which proceed out of the mouth come forth out of the heart, and they defile the man.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>19 For out of the heart come forth evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual sins, thefts, false testimony, and blasphemies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>20 These are the things which defile the man; but to eat with unwashed hands doesn\u2019t defile the man.\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>21 Jesus went out from there, and withdrew into the parts of Tyre and Sidon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>22 Behold, a Canaanite woman came out from those borders, and cried, saying, \u201eHave mercy on me, Lord, you son of David. My daughter is grievously vexed with a demon.\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>23 But he answered her not a word. His disciples came and begged him, saying, \u201eSend her away; for she cries after us.\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>24 But he answered, \u201eI wasn\u2019t sent to anyone but the lost sheep of the house of Israel.\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>25 But she came and worshiped him, saying, \u201eLord, help me.\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>26 But he answered, \u201eIt is not appropriate to take the children\u2019s bread and throw it to the dogs.\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>27 But she said, \u201eYes, Lord, but even the dogs eat the crumbs which fall from their masters\u2018 table.\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>28 Then Jesus answered her, \u201eWoman, great is your faith! Be it done to you even as you desire.\u201c And her daughter was healed from that hour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>29 Jesus departed there, and came near to the sea of Galilee; and he went up into the mountain, and sat there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>30 There came to him great multitudes, having with them the lame, blind, mute, maimed, and many others, and they put them down at his feet. He healed them,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>31 so that the multitude wondered, when they saw the mute speaking, the injured whole, lame walking, and the blind seeing \u2014 and they glorified the God of Israel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>32 Jesus called his disciples to him, and said, \u201eI have compassion on the multitude, because they continue with me now three days and have nothing to eat. I don\u2019t want to send them away fasting, or they might faint on the way.\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>33 The disciples said to him, \u201eWhere should we get so many loaves in a desert place as to fill so great a multitude?\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>34 Jesus said to them, \u201eHow many loaves do you have?\u201c They said, \u201eSeven, and a few small fish.\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>35 He commanded the multitude to sit down on the ground;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>36 and he took the seven loaves and the fish. He gave thanks and broke them, and gave to the disciples, and the disciples to the multitudes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>37 They all ate, and were filled. They took up seven baskets full of the broken pieces that were left over.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>38 Those who ate were four thousand men, besides women and children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>39 He sent away the multitudes, and entered into the boat, and came into the borders of Magdala.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Matthew chapter 16<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>1 The Pharisees and Sadducees came, and testing him, asked him to show them a sign from heaven.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2 But he answered them, \u201eWhen it is evening, you say, \u201aIt will be fair weather, for the sky is red.\u2018<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>3 In the morning, \u201aIt will be foul weather today, for the sky is red and threatening.\u2018 Hypocrites! You know how to discern the appearance of the sky, but you can\u2019t discern the signs of the times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>4 An evil and adulterous generation seeks after a sign, and there will be no sign given to it, but the sign of the prophet Jonah.\u201c He left them, and departed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>5 The disciples came to the other side and forgot to take bread.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>6 Jesus said to them, \u201eTake heed and beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees.\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>7 They reasoned among themselves, saying, \u201eWe took no bread.\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>8 Jesus, perceiving it, said, \u201eWhy do you reason among yourselves, you of little faith, \u201abecause you have brought no bread?\u2018<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>9 Don\u2019t you yet perceive, neither remember the five loaves for the five thousand, and how many baskets you took up?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>10 Nor the seven loaves for the four thousand, and how many baskets you took up?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>11 How is it that you don\u2019t perceive that I didn\u2019t speak to you concerning bread? But beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees.\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>12 Then they understood that he didn\u2019t tell them to beware of the yeast of bread, but of the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>13 Now when Jesus came into the parts of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, saying, \u201eWho do men say that I, the Son of Man, am?\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>14 They said, \u201eSome say John the Baptizer, some, Elijah, and others, Jeremiah, or one of the prophets.\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>15 He said to them, \u201eBut who do you say that I am?\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>16 Simon Peter answered, \u201eYou are the Christ, the Son of the living God.\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>17 Jesus answered him, \u201eBlessed are you, Simon Bar-jonah, for flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father who is in heaven.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>18 I also tell you, that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my assembly, and the gates of Hades will not prevail against it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>19 I will give to you the keys of the Kingdom of Heaven, and whatever you will bind on earth will be bound in heaven; and whatever you will loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>20 Then he charged the disciples that they should tell no man that he is Jesus the Christ.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>21 From that time, Jesus began to show to his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things from the elders, chief priests, and scribes, and be killed, and the third day be raised up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>22 Peter took him aside, and began to rebuke him, saying, \u201eFar be it from you, Lord! This will never be done to you.\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>23 But he turned, and said to Peter, \u201eGet behind me, Satan! You are a stumbling-block to me, for you are not setting your mind on the things of God, but the things of men.\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>24 Then Jesus said to his disciples, \u201eIf any man desires to come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>25 For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, and whoever will lose his life for my sake will find it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>26 For what will it profit a man, if he will gain the whole world, and forfeit his life? Or what will a man give in exchange for his life?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>27 For the Son of Man will come in the glory of his Father with his angels, and then will he render to every man according to his deeds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>28 Most assuredly I tell you, there are some standing here, who will in no way taste of death, until they see the Son of Man coming in his kingdom.\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Matthew chapter 17<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>1 After six days, Jesus took with him Peter, James, and John, his brother, and brought them up into a high mountain by themselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2 He was transfigured before them. His face shone like the sun, and his garments became white as the light.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>3 Behold, there appeared to them Moses and Elijah talking with him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>4 Peter answered, and said to Jesus, \u201eLord, it is good for us to be here. If you want, let\u2019s make three tents here: one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah.\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>5 While he was still speaking, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them. Behold, a voice out of the cloud, saying, \u201eThis is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. Listen to him.\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>6 When the disciples heard it, they fell on their faces, and were very afraid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>7 Jesus came and touched them and said, \u201eGet up, and don\u2019t be afraid.\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>8 Lifting up their eyes, they saw no one, except Jesus alone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>9 As they were coming down from the mountain, Jesus commanded them, saying, \u201eDon\u2019t tell anyone what you saw, until the Son of Man has risen from the dead.\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>10 His disciples asked him, saying, \u201eThen why do the scribes say that Elijah must come first?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>11 Jesus answered them, \u201eElijah indeed comes first, and will restore all things,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>12 but I tell you that Elijah has come already, and they didn\u2019t recognize him, but did to him whatever they wanted to. Even so will the Son of Man also suffer by them.\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>13 Then the disciples understood that he spoke to them of John the Baptizer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>14 When they came to the multitude, there came to him a man, kneeling to him, saying,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>15 \u201eLord, have mercy on my son, for he is epileptic, and suffers grievously; for he often falls into the fire, and often into the water.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>16 So I brought him to your disciples, and they could not cure him.\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>17 Jesus answered, \u201eFaithless and perverse generation! How long will I be with you? How long will I bear with you? Bring him here to me.\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>18 Jesus rebuked him, the demon went out of him, and the boy was cured from that hour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>19 Then the disciples came to Jesus privately, and said, \u201eWhy were we not able to cast it out?\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>20 He said to them, \u201eBecause of your unbelief. For most assuredly I tell you, if you have faith as a grain of mustard seed, you will tell this mountain, \u201aMove from here to there,\u2018 and it will move; and nothing will be impossible to you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>21 But this kind doesn\u2019t go out except by prayer and fasting.\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>22 While they were staying in Galilee, Jesus said to them, \u201eThe Son of Man is about to be delivered up into the hands of men,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>23 and they will kill him, and the third day he will be raised up.\u201c They were exceedingly sorry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>24 When they were come to Capernaum, those who collected the didrachmas came to Peter, and said, \u201eDoesn\u2019t your teacher pay the didrachma?\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>25 He said, \u201eYes.\u201c When he came into the house, Jesus anticipated him, saying, \u201eWhat do you think, Simon? From whom do the kings of the earth receive toll or tribute? From their sons, or from strangers?\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>26 Peter said to him, \u201eFrom strangers.\u201c Jesus said to him, \u201eTherefore the sons are exempt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>27 But, lest we cause them to stumble, go to the sea, and cast a hook, and take up the first fish that comes up. When you have opened his mouth, you will find a stater. Take that, and give it to them for me and you.\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Matthew chapter 18<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>1 In that hour the disciples came to Jesus, saying, \u201eWho then is greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven?\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2 Jesus called a little child to himself, and set him in the midst of them,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>3 and said, \u201eMost assuredly I tell you, unless you turn, and become as little children, you will in no way enter into the Kingdom of Heaven.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>4 Whoever therefore will humble himself as this little child, the same is the greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>5 Whoever will receive one such little child in my name receives me,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>6 but whoever will cause one of these little ones who believe in me to stumble, it would be better for him that a huge millstone should be hung around his neck, and that he should be sunk in the depths of the sea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>7 Woe to the world because of occasions of stumbling! For it must be that the occasions come, but woe to that person through whom the occasion comes!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>8 If your hand or your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off, and cast it from you. It is better for you to enter into life maimed or crippled, rather than having two hands or two feet to be cast into the eternal fire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>9 If your eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out, and cast it from you. It is better for you to enter into life with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast into the Gehenna of fire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>10 See that you don\u2019t despise one of these little ones, for I tell you that in heaven their angels always see the face of my Father who is in heaven.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>11 For the Son of Man came to save that which was lost.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>12 \u201eWhat do you think? If a man has one hundred sheep, and one of them goes astray, doesn\u2019t he leave the ninety-nine, go to the mountains, and seek that which has gone astray?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>13 If he happens to find it, most assuredly I tell you, he rejoices over it more than over the ninety-nine which have not gone astray.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>14 Even so it is not the will of your Father who is in heaven that one of these little ones should perish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>15 \u201eIf your brother sins against you, go, show him his fault between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained back your brother.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>16 But if he doesn\u2019t listen, take one or two more with you, that at the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>17 If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the assembly. If he refuses to hear the assembly also, let him be to you as a Gentile or a tax collector.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>18 Most assuredly I tell you, whatever things you will bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever things you will loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>19 Again, assuredly I tell you, that if two of you will agree on earth concerning anything that they will ask, it will be done for them by my Father who is in heaven.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>20 For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there I am in the midst of them.\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>21 Then Peter came and said to him, \u201eLord, how often will my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? Until seven times?\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>22 Jesus said to him, \u201eI don\u2019t tell you until seven times, but, until seventy times seven.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>23 Therefore the Kingdom of Heaven is like a certain king, who wanted to reconcile accounts with his servants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>24 When he had begun to reconcile, one was brought to him who owed him ten thousand talents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>25 But because he couldn\u2019t pay, his lord commanded him to be sold, with his wife, his children, and all that he had, and payment to be made.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>26 The servant therefore fell down and kneeled before him, saying, \u201aLord, have patience with me, and I will repay you all.\u2018<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>27 The lord of that servant, being moved with compassion, released him, and forgave him the debt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>28 But that servant went out, and found one of his fellow-servants, who owed him one hundred denarii, and he laid hold on him, and took him by the throat, saying, \u201aPay me what you owe!\u2018<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>29 So his fellow-servant fell down at his feet and begged him, saying, \u201aHave patience with me, and I will repay you.\u2018<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>30 He would not, but went and cast him into prison, until he should pay back that which was due.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>31 So when his fellow-servants saw what was done, they were exceedingly sorry, and came and told to their lord all that was done.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>32 Then his lord called him in, and said to him, \u201aYou wicked servant! I forgave you all that debt, because you begged me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>33 Shouldn\u2019t you also have had mercy on your fellow-servant, even as I had mercy on you?\u2018<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>34 His lord was angry, and delivered him to the tormentors, until he should pay all that was due to him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>35 So will my heavenly Father also do to you, if you don\u2019t each forgive his brother from your hearts for his misdeeds.\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Matthew chapter 19<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>1 It happened when Jesus had finished these words, he departed from Galilee, and came into the borders of Judea beyond the Jordan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2 Great multitudes followed him, and he healed them there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>3 Pharisees came to him, testing him, and saying, \u201eIs it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any reason?\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>4 He answered, \u201eHaven\u2019t you read that he who made them from the beginning made them male and female,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>5 and said, \u201aFor this cause a man will leave his father and mother, and will join to his wife; and the two will become one flesh?\u2018<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>6 So that they are no more two, but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, don\u2019t let man tear apart.\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>7 They asked him, \u201eWhy then did Moses command us to give her a bill of divorce, and divorce her?\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>8 He said to them, \u201eMoses, because of the hardness of your hearts, allowed you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it has not been so.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>9 I tell you that whoever will put away his wife, except for sexual immorality, and will marry another, commits adultery; and he who marries her when she is put away commits adultery.\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>10 His disciples said to him, \u201eIf this is the case of the man with his wife, it is not expedient to marry.\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>11 But he said to them, \u201eNot all men can receive this saying, but they to whom it is given.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>12 For there are eunuchs, who were born that way from their mother\u2019s womb, and there are eunuchs, who were made eunuchs by men: and there are eunuchs who made themselves eunuchs for the Kingdom of Heaven\u2019s sake. He who is able to receive it, let him receive it.\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>13 Then little children were brought to him, that he should lay his hands on them, and pray; and the disciples rebuked them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>14 But Jesus said, \u201eAllow the little children, and don\u2019t forbid them to come to me; for to such belongs the Kingdom of Heaven.\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>15 He laid his hands on them, and departed there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>16 Behold, one came to him and said, \u201eGood teacher, what good thing shall I do, that I may have eternal life?\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>17 He said to him, \u201eWhy do you call me good? No one is good but one, that is, God. But if you want to enter into life, keep the commandments.\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>18 He said to him, \u201eWhich ones?\u201c Jesus said, \u201eYou shall not kill. You shall not commit adultery. You shall not steal. You shall not offer false testimony.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>19 Honor your father and mother. And, you shall love your neighbor as yourself.\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>20 The young man said to him, \u201eAll these things I have observed from my youth. What do I still lack?\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>21 Jesus said to him, \u201eIf you want to be perfect, go, sell what you have, and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me.\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>22 But when the young man heard the saying, he went away sad, for he was one who had great possessions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>23 Jesus said to his disciples, \u201eMost assuredly I say to you, a rich man will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven with difficulty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>24 Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through a needle\u2019s eye, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>25 When the disciples heard it, they were exceedingly astonished, saying, \u201eWho then can be saved?\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>26 Looking at them, Jesus said, \u201eWith men this is impossible; but with God all things are possible.\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>27 Then Peter answered, \u201eBehold, we have left everything, and followed you. What then will we have?\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>28 Jesus said to them, \u201eMost assuredly I tell you, that you who have followed me, in the regeneration when the Son of Man will sit on the throne of his glory, you also will sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>29 Everyone who has left houses, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name\u2019s sake, will receive one hundred times, and will inherit eternal life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>30 But many will be last who are first; and first who are last.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Matthew chapter 20<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>1 \u201eFor the Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who was the master of a household, who went out early in the morning to hire laborers for his vineyard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2 When he had agreed with the laborers for a denarius a day, he sent them into his vineyard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>3 He went out about the third hour, and saw others standing idle in the marketplace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>4 To them he said, \u201aYou also go into the vineyard, and whatever is right I will give you.\u2018 So they went their way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>5 Again he went out about the sixth and the ninth hour, and did likewise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>6 About the eleventh hour he went out, and found others standing idle. He said to them, \u201aWhy do you stand here all day idle?\u2018<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>7 They said to him, \u201aBecause no one has hired us.\u2018 He said to them, \u201aYou also go into the vineyard, and you will receive whatever is right.\u2018<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>8 When evening had come, the lord of the vineyard said to his steward, \u201aCall the laborers and pay them their hire, beginning from the last to the first.\u2018<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>9 When they who were hired at about the eleventh hour came, they each received a denarius.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>10 When the first came, they supposed that they would receive more; and they likewise each received a denarius.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>11 When they received it, they murmured against the master of the household,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>12 saying, \u201aThese last have spent one hour, and you have made them equal to us, who have borne the burden of the day and the scorching heat!\u2018<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>13 But he answered one of them, \u201aFriend, I am doing you no wrong. Didn\u2019t you agree with me for a denarius?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>14 Take that which is yours, and go your way. It is my will to give to this last just as much as to you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>15 Isn\u2019t it lawful for me to do what I want to with what I own? Or is your eye evil, because I am good?\u2018<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>16 So the last will be first, and the first last. For many are called, but few are chosen.\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>17 As Jesus was going up to Jerusalem, he took the twelve disciples aside, and on the way he said to them,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>18 \u201eBehold, we are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be delivered to the chief priests and scribes, and they will condemn him to death,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>19 and will hand him over to the Gentiles to mock, to scourge, and to crucify; and the third day he will be raised up.\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>20 Then came to him the mother of the sons of Zebedee with her sons, kneeling and asking a certain thing of him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>21 He said to her, \u201eWhat do you want?\u201c She said to him, \u201eCommand that these, my two sons, may sit, one on your right hand, and one on your left hand, in your kingdom.\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>22 But Jesus answered, \u201eYou don\u2019t know what you ask. Are you able to drink the cup that I am about to drink, and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with?\u201c They said to him, \u201eWe are able.\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>23 He said to them, \u201eYou will indeed drink my cup, and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with, but to sit on my right hand, and on my left hand, is not mine to give; but it is for whom it has been prepared by my Father.\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>24 When the ten heard it, they were moved with indignation concerning the two brothers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>25 But Jesus called them to him, and said, \u201eYou know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great ones exercise authority over them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>26 It shall not be so among you, but whoever would become great among you will be your servant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>27 Whoever would be first among you will be your bondservant,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>28 even as the Son of Man came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>29 As they went out from Jericho, a great multitude followed him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>30 Behold, two blind men sitting by the road, when they heard that Jesus was passing by, cried out, \u201eLord, have mercy on us, you son of David!\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>31 The multitude rebuked them, telling them that they should be quiet, but they cried out even more, \u201eLord, have mercy on us, you son of David!\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>32 Jesus stood still, and called them, and asked, \u201eWhat do you want me to do for you?\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>33 They told him, \u201eLord, that our eyes may be opened.\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>34 Jesus, being moved with compassion, touched their eyes; and immediately their eyes received their sight, and they followed him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Matthew chapter 21<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>1 When they drew near to Jerusalem, and came to Bethsphage, to the Mount of Olives, then Jesus sent two disciples,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2 saying to them, \u201eGo into the village that is opposite you, and immediately you will find a donkey tied, and a colt with her. Untie them, and bring them to me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>3 If anyone says anything to you, you will say, \u201aThe Lord needs them,\u2018 and immediately he will send them.\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>4 All this was done, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through the prophet, saying,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>5 \u201eTell the daughter of Zion, Behold, your King comes to you, Humble, and riding on a donkey, On a colt, the foal of a donkey.\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>6 The disciples went, and did just as Jesus commanded them,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>7 and brought the donkey and the colt, and laid their clothes on them; and he sat on them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>8 A very great multitude spread their clothes on the road. Others cut branches from the trees, and spread them on the road.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>9 The multitudes who went before him, and who followed, cried, \u201eHosanna to the son of David! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord! Hosanna in the highest!\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>10 When he had come into Jerusalem, all the city was stirred, saying, \u201eWho is this?\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>11 The multitudes said, \u201eThis is the prophet, Jesus, from Nazareth of Galilee.\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>12 Jesus entered into the temple of God, and drove out all of those who sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the money-changers\u2018 tables, and the seats of those who sold the doves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>13 He said to them, \u201eIt is written, \u201aMy house will be called a house of prayer,\u2018 but you have made it a den of robbers!\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>14 The blind and the lame came to him in the temple, and he healed them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>15 But when the chief priests and the scribes saw the wonderful things that he did, and the children who were crying in the temple and saying, \u201eHosanna to the son of David!\u201c they were moved with indignation,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>16 and said to him, \u201eDo you hear what these are saying?\u201c Jesus said to them, \u201eYes. Did you never read, \u201aOut of the mouth of babes and nursing babies you have perfected praise?&#8217;\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>17 He left them, and went forth out of the city to Bethany, and lodged there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>18 Now in the morning, as he returned to the city, he was hungry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>19 Seeing a fig tree by the road, he came to it, and found nothing on it but leaves. He said to it, \u201eLet there be no fruit from you forever!\u201c Immediately the fig tree withered away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>20 When the disciples saw it, they marveled, saying, \u201eHow did the fig tree immediately wither away?\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>21 Jesus answered them, \u201eMost assuredly I tell you, if you have faith, and don\u2019t doubt, you will not only do what is done to the fig tree, but even if you will tell this mountain, \u201aBe taken up and cast into the sea,\u2018 it will be done.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>22 All things, whatever you will ask in prayer, believing, you will receive.\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>23 When he had come into the temple, the chief priests and the elders of the people came to him as he was teaching, and said, \u201eBy what authority do you do these things? Who gave you this authority?\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>24 Jesus answered them, \u201eI also will ask you one question, which if you tell me, I likewise will tell you by what authority I do these things.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>25 The baptism of John, where was it from? From heaven or from men?\u201c They reasoned with themselves, saying, \u201eIf we will say, \u201aFrom heaven,\u2018 he will tell us, \u201aWhy then did you not believe him?\u2018<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>26 But if we will say, \u201aFrom men,\u2018 we fear the multitude, for all hold John as a prophet.\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>27 They answered Jesus, and said, \u201eWe don\u2019t know.\u201c He also said to them, \u201eNeither will I tell you by what authority I do these things.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>28 But what do you think? A man had two sons, and he came to the first, and said, \u201aSon, go work today in my vineyard.\u2018<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>29 He answered, \u201aI will not,\u2018 but afterward he repented himself, and went.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>30 He came to the second, and said likewise. He answered, \u201aI go, sir,\u2018 but he didn\u2019t go.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>31 Which of the two did the will of his father?\u201c They said to him, \u201eThe first.\u201c Jesus says to them, \u201eMost assuredly I tell you, that the tax collectors and the prostitutes are entering into the kingdom of God before you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>32 For John came to you in the way of righteousness, and you didn\u2019t believe him, but the tax collectors and the prostitutes believed him. When you saw it, you didn\u2019t even repent afterward, that you might believe him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>33 \u201eHear another parable. There was a man who was a master of a household, who planted a vineyard, set a hedge about it, dug a winepress in it, built a tower, leased it out to farmers, and went into another country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>34 When the season of the fruits drew near, he sent his servants to the farmers, to receive his fruits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>35 The farmers took his servants, beat one, killed another, and stoned another.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>36 Again, he sent other servants more than the first: and they did to them in like manner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>37 But afterward he sent to them his son, saying, \u201aThey will respect my son.\u2018<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>38 But the farmers, when they saw the son, said among themselves, \u201aThis is the heir. Come, let\u2019s kill him, and seize his inheritance.\u2018<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>39 So they took him, and threw him out of the vineyard, and killed him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>40 When therefore the lord of the vineyard will come, what will he do to those farmers?\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>41 They told him, \u201eHe will miserably destroy those miserable men, and will lease out the vineyard to other farmers, who will give him the fruits in their seasons.\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>42 Jesus said to them, \u201eDid you never read in the Scriptures, \u201aThe stone which the builders rejected, The same was made the head of the corner. This was from the Lord. It is marvelous in our eyes?\u2018<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>43 \u201eTherefore I tell you, the kingdom of God will be taken away from you, and will be given to a nation bringing forth its fruits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>44 He who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces, but on whoever it will fall, it will scatter him as dust.\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>45 When the chief priests and the Pharisees heard his parables, they perceived that he spoke of them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>46 When they sought to lay hold on him, they feared the multitudes, because they took him for a prophet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Matthew chapter 22<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>1 Jesus answered and spoke again in parables to them, saying,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2 \u201eThe Kingdom of Heaven is like a certain king, who made a marriage feast for his son,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>3 and sent forth his servants to call those who were invited to the marriage feast, but they would not come.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>4 Again he sent forth other servants, saying, \u201aTell those who are invited, \u201eBehold, I have made ready my dinner. My oxen and my fatlings are killed, and all things are ready. Come to the marriage feast.\u201c\u201a<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>5 But they made light of it, and went their ways, one to his own farm, another to his merchandise,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>6 and the rest grabbed his servants, and treated them shamefully, and killed them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>7 But the king was angry, and he sent his armies, destroyed those murderers, and burned their city.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>8 Then he said to his servants, \u201aThe wedding is ready, but they who were invited were not worthy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>9 Go therefore to the intersections of the highways, and as many as you may find, invite to the marriage feast.\u2018<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>10 Those servants went out into the highways, and gathered together as many as they found, both bad and good. The wedding was filled with guests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>11 But when the king came in to see the guests, he saw there a man who didn\u2019t have on wedding-clothing,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>12 and he said to him, \u201aFriend, how did you come in here not having wedding-clothing?\u2018 He was speechless.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>13 Then the king said to the servants, \u201aBind him hand and foot, take him away, and throw him into the outer darkness; there is where the weeping and grinding of teeth will be.\u2018<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>14 For many are called, but few chosen.\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>15 Then the Pharisees went and took counsel how they might entrap him in his talk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>16 They sent their disciples to him, along with the Herodians, saying, \u201eTeacher, we know that you are honest, and teach the way of God in truth, no matter who you teach, for you aren\u2019t partial to anyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>17 Tell us therefore, what do you think? Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar, or not?\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>18 But Jesus perceived their wickedness, and said, \u201eWhy do you test me, you hypocrites?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>19 Show me the tax money.\u201c They brought to him a denarius.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>20 He asked them, \u201eWhose is this image and inscription?\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>21 They said to him, \u201eCaesar\u2019s.\u201c Then he said to them, \u201eGive therefore to Caesar the things that are Caesar\u2019s, and to God the things that are God\u2019s.\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>22 When they heard it, they marveled, and left him, and went away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>23 On that day Sadducees (those who say that there is no resurrection) came to him. They asked him,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>24 saying, \u201eTeacher, Moses said, \u201aIf a man dies, having no children, his brother will marry his wife, and raise up seed for his brother.\u2018<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>25 Now there were with us seven brothers. The first married and died, and having no seed left his wife to his brother.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>26 In like manner the second also, and the third, to the seventh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>27 After them all, the woman died.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>28 In the resurrection therefore, whose wife will she be of the seven? For they all had her.\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>29 But Jesus answered them, \u201eYou are mistaken, not knowing the Scriptures, nor the power of God.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>30 For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are like God\u2019s angels in heaven.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>31 But concerning the resurrection of the dead, haven\u2019t you read that which was spoken to you by God, saying,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>32 \u201aI am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob?\u2018 God is not the God of the dead, but of the living.\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>33 When the multitudes heard it, they were astonished at his teaching.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>34 But the Pharisees, when they heard that he had put the Sadducees to silence, gathered themselves together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>35 One of them, a lawyer, asked him a question, testing him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>36 \u201eTeacher, which is the greatest commandment in the law?\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>37 Jesus said to him, \u201e\u201aYou shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.\u2018<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>38 This is the first and great commandment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>39 A second likewise is this, \u201aYou shall love your neighbor as yourself.\u2018<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>40 The whole law and the prophets depend on these two commandments.\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>41 Now while the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them a question,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>42 saying, \u201eWhat do you think of the Christ? Whose son is he?\u201c They said to him, \u201eOf David.\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>43 He said to them, \u201eHow then does David in the Spirit call him Lord, saying,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>44 \u201aThe Lord said to my Lord, Sit on my right hand, Until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet?\u2018<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>45 \u201eIf then David calls him Lord, how is he his son?\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>46 No one was able to answer him a word, neither dared any man from that day forth ask him any more questions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Matthew chapter 23<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>1 Then Jesus spoke to the multitudes and to his disciples,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2 saying, \u201eThe scribes and the Pharisees sat on Moses\u2018 seat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>3 All things therefore whatever they tell you to observe, observe and do, but don\u2019t do their works; for they say, and don\u2019t do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>4 For they bind heavy burdens that are grievous to be borne, and lay them on men\u2019s shoulders; but they themselves will not lift a finger to help them<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>5 But all their works they do to be seen by men. They make their phylacteries broad, enlarge the fringes of their garments,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>6 and love the chief place at feasts, the chief seats in the synagogues,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>7 the salutations in the marketplaces, and to be called \u201aRabbi, Rabbi\u2018 by men.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>8 But don\u2019t you be called \u201aRabbi,\u2018 for one is your teacher, the Christ, and all of you are brothers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>9 Call no man on the earth your father, for one is your Father, he who is in heaven.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>10 Neither be called masters, for one is your master, the Christ.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>11 But he who is greatest among you will be your servant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>12 Whoever will exalt himself will be humbled, and whoever will humble himself will be exalted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>13 \u201eWoe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you devour widows\u2018 houses, and as a pretense you make long prayers. Therefore you will receive greater condemnation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>14 \u201eBut woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you shut up the Kingdom of Heaven against men; for you don\u2019t enter in yourselves, neither do you allow those who are entering in to enter<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>15 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you travel around by sea and land to make one proselyte; and when he becomes one, you make him twice as much of a son of Gehenna as yourselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>16 Woe to you, you blind guides, who say, \u201aWhoever swears by the temple, it is nothing; but whoever swears by the gold of the temple, he is a debtor.\u2018<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>17 You blind fools! For which is greater, the gold, or the temple that sanctifies the gold?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>18 \u201aWhoever will swear by the altar, it is nothing; but whoever will swear by the gift that is on it, he is a debtor.\u2018<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>19 You blind fools! For which is greater, the gift, or the altar that sanctifies the gift<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>20 He therefore who swears by the altar, swears by it, and by everything on it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>21 He who swears by the temple, swears by it, and by him who is living in it<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>22 He who swears by the heaven, swears by the throne of God, and by him who sits on it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>23 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint, dill, and cumin, and have left undone the weightier matters of the law \u2013 justice, mercy, and faith. But you ought to have done these, and not to have left the other undone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>24 You blind guides, who strain out a gnat, and swallow a camel!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>25 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and unrighteousness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>26 You blind Pharisee, first clean the inside of the cup and of the platter, that the outside of it may become clean also.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>27 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitened tombs, which outwardly appear beautiful, but inwardly are full of dead men\u2019s bones, and of all uncleanness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>28 Even so you also outwardly appear righteous to men, but inwardly you are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>29 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you build the tombs of the prophets, and decorate the tombs of the righteous,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>30 and say, \u201aIf we had been in the days of our fathers, we should not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.\u2018<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>31 Therefore you testify to yourselves that you are sons of those who killed the prophets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>32 Fill up, then, the measure of your fathers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>33 You serpents, you offspring of vipers, how will you escape the judgment of Gehenna?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>34 Therefore, behold, I send to you prophets, wise men, and scribes. Some of them will you kill and crucify; and some of them will you scourge in your synagogues, and persecute from city to city;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>35 that on you may come all the righteous blood shed on the earth, from the blood of Abel the righteous to the blood of Zachariah son of Barachiah, whom you killed between the sanctuary and the altar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>36 Most assuredly I tell you, all these things will come on this generation<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>37 \u201eJerusalem, Jerusalem, that kills the prophets, and stones those who are sent to her! How often would I have gathered your children together, even as a hen gathers her chickens under her wings, and you would not!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>38 Behold, your house is left to you desolate<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>39 For I tell you, you will not see me from now on, until you will say, \u201aBlessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.&#8217;\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Matthew chapter 24<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>1 Jesus went out from the temple, and was going on his way. His disciples came to him to show him the buildings of the temple.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2 But he answered them, \u201eDon\u2019t you see all of these things? Most assuredly I tell you, there will not be left here one stone on another, that will not be thrown down.\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>3 As he sat on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to him privately, saying, \u201eTell us, when will these things be? What is the sign of your coming, and of the end of the world?\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>4 Jesus answered them, \u201eBe careful that no one leads you astray.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>5 For many will come in my name, saying, \u201aI am the Christ,\u2018 and will lead many astray.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>6 You will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you aren\u2019t troubled, for all this must happen, but the end is not yet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>7 For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom; and there will be famines, plagues, and earthquakes in various places.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>8 But all these things are the beginning of birth pains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>9 Then they will deliver you up to oppression, and will kill you. You will be hated by all of the nations for my name\u2019s sake.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>10 Then will many stumble, and will deliver up one another, and will hate one another.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>11 Many false prophets will arise, and will lead many astray.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>12 Because iniquity will be multiplied, the love of many will grow cold.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>13 But he who endures to the end, the same will be saved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>14 This gospel of the kingdom will be preached in the whole world for a testimony to all the nations, and then the end will come.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>15 When, therefore, you see the abomination of desolation, which was spoken of through Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place (let the reader understand),<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>16 then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>17 Let him who is on the housetop not go down to take out things that are in his house.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>18 Let him who is in the field not return back to take his cloak.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>19 But woe to those who are with child and to nursing mothers in those days!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>20 Pray that your flight will not be in the winter, nor on a Sabbath,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>21 for then will be great oppression, such as has not been from the beginning of the world until now, no, nor ever will be.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>22 Except those days had been shortened, no flesh would have been saved. But for the elect\u2019s sake, those days will be shortened.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>23 Then if any man will tell you, \u201aBehold, here is the Christ,\u2018 or, \u201aThere,\u2018 don\u2019t believe it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>24 For there will arise false Christs, and false prophets, and they will show great signs and wonders, so as to lead astray, if possible, even the elect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>25 Behold, I have told you beforehand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>26 If therefore they tell you, \u201aBehold, he is in the wilderness!\u2018 don\u2019t go out; \u201aBehold, he is in the inner chambers,\u2018 don\u2019t believe it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>27 For as the lightning comes forth from the east, and is seen even to the west, so will be the coming of the Son of Man.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>28 For wherever the carcass is, there will the vultures be gathered together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>29 But immediately after the oppression of those days, the sun will be darkened, the moon will not give her light, the stars will fall from the sky, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>30 and then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in the sky. Then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of the sky with power and great glory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>31 He will send forth his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they will gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of the sky to the other.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>32 \u201eNow from the fig tree learn her parable. When its branch has now become tender, and puts forth its leaves, you know that the summer is near.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>33 Even so you also, when you see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>34 Most assuredly I tell you, this generation will not pass away, until all these things are accomplished.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>35 Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>36 But no one knows of that day and hour, not even the angels of heaven, but my Father only.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>37 As the days of Noah, so will be the coming of the Son of Man.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>38 For as in those days which were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>39 and they didn\u2019t know until the flood came, and took them all away, so will be the coming of the Son of Man.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>40 Then will two men be in the field: one is taken, and one is left;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>41 two women grinding at the mill, one is taken, and one is left.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>42 Watch therefore, for you don\u2019t know in what hour your Lord comes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>43 But know this, that if the master of the house had known in what watch the thief was coming, he would have watched, and would not have allowed his house to be broken into.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>44 Therefore also be ready, for in an hour that you don\u2019t expect, the Son of Man will come.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>45 Who then is the faithful and wise servant, whom his lord has set over his household, to give them their food in due season?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>46 Blessed is that servant, whom his lord will find doing so when he comes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>47 Most assuredly I tell you, that he will set him over all that he has.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>48 But if that evil servant should say in his heart, \u201aMy lord is delaying his coming,\u2018<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>49 and began to beat his fellow-servants, and eat and drink with the drunken,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>50 the lord of that servant will come in a day when he doesn\u2019t expect it, and in an hour when he doesn\u2019t know it,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>51 and will cut him in pieces, and appoint his portion with the hypocrites; there is where the weeping and grinding of teeth will be.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Matthew chapter 25<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>1 \u201eThen the Kingdom of Heaven will be like ten virgins, who took their lamps, and went forth to meet the bridegroom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2 Five of them were foolish, and five were wise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>3 Those who were foolish, when they took their lamps, took no oil with them,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>4 but the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>5 Now while the bridegroom delayed, they all slumbered and slept.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>6 But at midnight there was a cry, \u201aBehold! The bridegroom is coming! Come out to meet him!\u2018<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>7 Then all those virgins arose, and trimmed their lamps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>8 The foolish said to the wise, \u201aGive us some of your oil, for our lamps are going out.\u2018<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>9 But the wise answered, saying, \u201aWhat if there will not be enough for us and you? You go rather to those who sell, and buy for yourselves.\u2018<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>10 While they went away to buy, the bridegroom came, and those who were ready went in with him to the marriage feast, and the door was shut.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>11 Afterward the other virgins also came, saying, \u201aLord, Lord, open to us.\u2018<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>12 But he answered, \u201aMost assuredly I tell you, I don\u2019t know you.\u2018<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>13 Watch therefore, for you don\u2019t know the day nor the hour in which the Son of Man is coming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>14 \u201eFor it is like a man, going into another country, who called his own servants, and delivered his goods to them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>15 To one he gave five talents, to another two, to another one; to each according to his own ability, and he went on his journey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>16 Immediately he who received the five talents went and traded with them, and made another five talents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>17 In like manner he also who got the two gained another two.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>18 But he who received the one went away and dug in the earth, and hid his lord\u2019s money.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>19 Now after a long time the lord of those servants came, and reconciled accounts with them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>20 He who received the five talents came and brought another five talents, saying, \u201aLord, you delivered to me five talents. Behold, I have gained another five talents besides them.\u2018<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>21 His lord said to him, \u201aWell done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a few things, I will set you over many things. Enter into the joy of your lord.\u2018<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>22 He also who got the two talents came and said, \u201aLord, you delivered to me two talents. Behold, I have gained another two talents besides them.\u2018<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>23 His lord said to him, \u201aWell done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a few things, I will set you over many things. Enter into the joy of your lord.\u2018<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>24 He also who had received the one talent came and said, \u201aLord, I knew you that you are a hard man, reaping where you did not sow, and gathering where you did not scatter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>25 I was afraid, and went away and hid your talent in the earth. Behold, you have your own.\u2018<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>26 But his lord answered him, \u201aYou wicked and slothful servant. You knew that I reap where I didn\u2019t sow, and gather where I didn\u2019t scatter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>27 You ought therefore to have deposited my money with the bankers, and at my coming I should have received back my own with interest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>28 Take away therefore the talent from him, and give it to him who has the ten talents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>29 For to everyone who has will be given, and he will have abundance, but from him who has not, even that which he has will be taken away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>30 Throw out the unprofitable servant into the outer darkness; there will be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth.\u2018<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>31 \u201eBut when the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then will he sit on the throne of his glory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>32 Before him all the nations will be gathered, and he will separate them one from another, as the shepherd separates the sheep from the goats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>33 He will set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>34 Then the King will tell them on his right hand, \u201aCome, blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>35 for I was hungry, and you gave me food to eat; I was thirsty, and you gave me drink; I was a stranger, and you took me in;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>36 naked, and you clothed me; I was sick, and you visited me; I was in prison, and you came to me.\u2018<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>37 Then the righteous will answer him, saying, \u201aLord, when did we see you hungry, and feed you; or thirsty, and give you a drink?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>38 When did we see you as a stranger, and take you in; or naked, and clothe you?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>39 When did we see you sick, or in prison, and come to you?\u2018<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>40 The King will answer them, \u201aMost assuredly I tell you, inasmuch as you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.\u2018<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>41 Then will he say also to them on the left hand, \u201aDepart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire which is prepared for the devil and his angels;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>42 for I was hungry, and you didn\u2019t give me food to eat; I was thirsty, and you gave me no drink;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>43 I was a stranger, and you didn\u2019t take me in; naked, and you didn\u2019t clothe me; sick, and in prison, and you didn\u2019t visit me.\u2018<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>44 Then will they also answer, saying, \u201aLord, when did we see you hungry, or thirsty, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not help you?\u2018<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>45 Then will he answer them, saying, \u201aMost assuredly I tell you, inasmuch as you didn\u2019t do it to one of these least, you didn\u2019t do it to me.\u2018<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>46 These will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Matthew chapter 26<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>1 It happened, when Jesus had finished all these words, that he said to his disciples,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2 \u201eYou know that after two days the Passover is coming, and the Son of Man will be delivered up to be crucified.\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>3 Then the chief priests, the scribes, and the elders of the people were gathered together in the court of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>4 They took counsel together that they might take Jesus by deceit, and kill him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>5 But they said, \u201eNot during the feast, lest a riot occur among the people.\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>6 Now when Jesus was in Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>7 a woman came to him having an alabaster jar of very expensive ointment, and she poured it on his head as he sat at the table.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>8 But when his disciples saw it, they were indignant, saying, \u201eWhy this waste?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>9 For this ointment might have been sold for much, and given to the poor.\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>10 But Jesus, knowing this, said to them, \u201eWhy do you trouble the woman? For she has done a good work for me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>11 For you always have the poor with you; but you don\u2019t always have me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>12 For in that she poured this ointment on my body, she did it to prepare me for burial.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>13 Most assuredly I tell you, wherever this gospel will be preached in the whole world, what this woman has done will also be spoken of for a memorial of her.\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>14 Then one of the twelve, who was called Judas Iscariot, went to the chief priests,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>15 and said, \u201eWhat are you willing to give me, and I will deliver him to you?\u201c They weighed out for him thirty pieces of silver.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>16 From that time he sought opportunity to betray him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>17 Now on the first day of unleavened bread, the disciples came to Jesus, saying to him, \u201eWhere do you want us to prepare for you to eat the Passover?\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>18 He said, \u201eGo into the city to a certain person, and tell him, \u201aThe Teacher says, \u201eMy time is at hand. I will keep the Passover at your house with my disciples.\u201c\u201a\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>19 The disciples did as Jesus commanded them, and they prepared the Passover.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>20 Now when evening had come, he was reclining at the table with the twelve disciples.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>21 As they were eating, he said, \u201eMost assuredly I tell you, that one of you will betray me.\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>22 They were exceedingly sorrowful, and each began to ask him, \u201eIt isn\u2019t me, is it, Lord?\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>23 He answered, \u201eHe who dipped his hand with me in the dish, the same will betray me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>24 The Son of Man goes, even as it is written of him, but woe to that man through whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would be better for that man if he had not been born.\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>25 Judas, who betrayed him, answered, \u201eIt isn\u2019t me, is it, Rabbi?\u201c He said to him, \u201eSo you have said.\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>26 As they were eating, Jesus took bread, gave thanks for it, and broke it. He gave to the disciples, and said, \u201eTake, eat; this is my body.\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>27 He took the cup, gave thanks, and gave to them, saying, \u201eDrink all of it,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>28 for this is my blood of the new covenant, which is poured out for many for the remission of sins.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>29 But I tell you that I will not drink of this fruit of the vine from now on, until that day when I drink it anew with you in my Father\u2019s kingdom.\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>30 When they had sung a hymn, they went out to the Mount of Olives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>31 Then Jesus said to them, \u201eAll of you will be offended by me tonight, for it is written, \u201aI will strike the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock will be scattered abroad.\u2018<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>32 But after I am raised up, I will go before you into Galilee.\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>33 But Peter answered him, \u201eEven if all will be offended by you, I will never be offended.\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>34 Jesus said to him, \u201eMost assuredly I tell you, that tonight, before the cock crows, you will deny me three times.\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>35 Peter said to him, \u201eEven if I must die with you, I will not deny you.\u201c All of the disciples also said likewise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>36 Then Jesus came with them to a place called Gethsemane, and said to his disciples, \u201eSit here, while I go there and pray.\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>37 He took with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and began to be sorrowful and severely troubled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>38 Then he said to them, \u201eMy soul is exceedingly sorrowful, even to death. Stay here, and watch with me.\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>39 He went forward a little, fell on his face, and prayed, saying, \u201eMy Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass away from me; nevertheless, not what I want, but what you want.\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>40 He came to the disciples, and found them sleeping, and said to Peter, \u201eWhat, couldn\u2019t you watch with me for one hour?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>41 Watch and pray, that you don\u2019t enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>42 Again, a second time he went away, and prayed, saying, \u201eMy Father, if this cup can\u2019t pass away from me, unless I drink it, your will be done.\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>43 He came again and found them sleeping, for their eyes were heavy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>44 He left them again, went away, and prayed a third time, saying the same words.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>45 Then he came to his disciples, and said to them, \u201eSleep on now, and take your rest. Behold, the hour is at hand, and the Son of Man is betrayed into the hands of sinners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>46 Arise, let us be going. Behold, he who betrays me is at hand.\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>47 While he was still speaking, behold, Judas, one of the twelve, came, and with him a great multitude with swords and clubs, from the chief priest and elders of the people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>48 Now he who betrayed him gave them a sign, saying, \u201eWhoever I will kiss, that is he. Take him.\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>49 Immediately he came to Jesus, and said, \u201eHail, Rabbi!\u201c and kissed him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>50 Jesus said to him, \u201eFriend, why are you here?\u201c Then they came and laid hands on Jesus, and took him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>51 Behold, one of those who were with Jesus stretched out his hand, and drew his sword, and struck the servant of the high priest, and struck off his ear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>52 Then Jesus said to him, \u201ePut your sword back into its place, for all those who take the sword will die by the sword.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>53 Or do you think that I can\u2019t ask my Father, and he would even now send me more than twelve legions of angels?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>54 How then would the Scriptures be fulfilled that it must be so?\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>55 In that hour Jesus said to the multitudes, \u201eHave you come out as against a robber with swords and clubs to seize me? I sat daily in the temple teaching, and you didn\u2019t arrest me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>56 But all this has happened, that the Scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled.\u201c Then all the disciples left him, and fled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>57 Those who had taken Jesus led him away to Caiaphas, the high priest, where the scribes and the elders were gathered together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>58 But Peter followed him from a distance, to the court of the high priest, and entered in, and sat with the officers, to see the end.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>59 Now the chief priests, the elders, and the whole council sought false testimony against Jesus, that they might put him to death;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>60 and they found none. Even though many false witnesses came forward, they found none. But at last two false witnesses came forward,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>61 and said, \u201eThis man said, \u201aI am able to destroy the temple of God, and to build it in three days.&#8217;\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>62 The high priest stood up, and answered him, \u201eHave you no answer? What is this that these testify against you?\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>63 But Jesus held his peace. The high priest answered him, \u201eI adjure you by the living God, that you tell us whether you are the Christ, the Son of God.\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>64 Jesus said to him, \u201eYou have said it. Nevertheless, I tell you, henceforth you will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of Power, and coming on the clouds of the sky.\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>65 Then the high priest tore his clothing, saying, \u201eHe has spoken blasphemy! Why do we need any more witnesses? Behold, now you have heard his blasphemy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>66 What do you think?\u201c They answered, \u201eHe is worthy of death!\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>67 Then they spit in his face and beat him with their fists, and some slapped him,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>68 saying, \u201eProphesy to us, you Christ! Who hit you?\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>69 Now Peter was sitting outside in the court, and a maid came to him, saying, \u201eYou were also with Jesus, the Galilean.\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>70 But he denied before them all, saying, \u201eI don\u2019t know what you are talking about.\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>71 When he had gone out onto the porch, someone else saw him, and said to those who were there, \u201eThis man also was with Jesus of Nazareth.\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>72 Again he denied with an oath, \u201eI don\u2019t know the man.\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>73 After a little while those who stood by came and said to Peter, \u201eSurely you are also one of them, for your speech makes you known.\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>74 Then began he to curse and to swear, \u201eI don\u2019t know the man!\u201c Immediately the cock crowed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>75 Peter remembered the word which Jesus had said to him, \u201eBefore the cock crows, you will deny me three times.\u201c He went out and wept bitterly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Matthew chapter 27<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>1 Now when morning had come, all the chief priests and the elders of the people took counsel against Jesus to put him to death:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2 and they bound him, and led him away, and delivered him up to Pontius Pilate, the governor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>3 Then Judas, who betrayed him, when he saw that he was condemned, felt remorse, and brought back the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>4 saying, \u201eI have sinned in that I betrayed innocent blood.\u201c But they said, \u201eWhat is that to us? You see to it.\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>5 He threw down the pieces of silver in the sanctuary, and departed. He went away and hanged himself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>6 The chief priests took the pieces of silver, and said, \u201eIt is not lawful to put them into the treasury, since it is the price of blood.\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>7 They took counsel, and bought with them the potter\u2019s field, to bury strangers in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>8 Therefore that field was called \u201eThe Field of Blood\u201c to this day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>9 Then that which was spoken through Jeremiah the prophet was fulfilled, saying, \u201eThey took the thirty pieces of silver, the price on him upon whom a price had been set, whom some of the children of Israel did price,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>10 and they gave them for the potter\u2019s field, as the Lord commanded me.\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>11 Now Jesus stood before the governor: and the governor asked him, saying, \u201eAre you the King of the Jews?\u201c Jesus said to him, \u201eSo you say.\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>12 When he was accused by the chief priests and elders, he answered nothing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>13 Then Pilate said to him, \u201eDon\u2019t you hear how many things they testify against you?\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>14 He gave him no answer, not even one word, so that the governor marveled greatly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>15 Now at the feast the governor used to release to the multitude one prisoner, whom they wanted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>16 They had then a notable prisoner, called Barabbas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>17 When therefore they were gathered together, Pilate said to them, \u201eWhom do you want me to release to you? Barabbas, or Jesus, who is called Christ?\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>18 For he knew that because of envy they had delivered him up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>19 While he was sitting on the judgment seat, his wife sent to him, saying, \u201eHave nothing to do with that righteous man, for I have suffered many things this day in a dream because of him.\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>20 Now the chief priests and the elders persuaded the multitudes that they should ask for Barabbas, and destroy Jesus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>21 But the governor answered them, \u201eWhich of the two do you want me to release to you?\u201c They said, \u201eBarabbas!\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>22 Pilate said to them, \u201eWhat then will I do to Jesus, who is called Christ?\u201c They all said to him, \u201eLet him be crucified!\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>23 But the governor said, \u201eWhy? What evil has he done?\u201c But they cried out exceedingly, saying, \u201eLet him be crucified!\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>24 So when Pilate saw that nothing was gained, but rather that a disturbance was starting, he took water, and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, \u201eI am innocent of the blood of this righteous person. You see to it.\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>25 All the people answered, \u201eMay his blood be on us, and on our children!\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>26 Then he released to them Barabbas, but Jesus he flogged and delivered to be crucified.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>27 Then the governor\u2019s soldiers took Jesus into the Praetorium, and gathered to him the whole cohort.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>28 They stripped him, and put a scarlet robe on him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>29 They braided a crown of thorns and put it on his head, and a reed in his right hand; and they kneeled down before him, and mocked him, saying, \u201eHail, King of the Jews!\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>30 They spat on him, and took the reed and struck him on the head.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>31 When they had mocked him, they took the robe off from him, and put his clothes on him, and led him away to crucify him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>32 As they came out, they found a man of Cyrene, Simon by name, and they compelled him to go with them, that he might carry his cross.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>33 They came to a place called \u201eGolgotha,\u201c that is to say, \u201eThe place of a skull.\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>34 They gave him sour wine to drink mixed with gall. When he had tasted it, he would not drink.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>35 When they had crucified him, they divided his clothing among them, casting lots,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>36 and they sat and watched him there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>37 They set up over his head his accusation written, \u201eTHIS IS JESUS, THE KING OF THE JEWS.\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>38 Then there were two robbers crucified with him, one on his right hand and one on the left.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>39 Those who passed by blasphemed him, wagging their heads,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>40 and saying, \u201eYou who destroy the temple, and build it in three days, save yourself! If you are the Son of God, come down from the cross!\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>41 Likewise the chief priests also mocking, with the scribes, the Pharisees, and the elders, said,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>42 \u201eHe saved others, but he can\u2019t save himself. If he is the King of Israel, let him come down from the cross now, and we will believe in him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>43 He trusts in God. Let him deliver him now, if he wants him; for he said, \u201aI am the Son of God.&#8217;\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>44 The robbers also who were crucified with him cast on him the same reproach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>45 Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land until the ninth hour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>46 About the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, \u201eEli, Eli, lama sabachthani?\u201c That is, \u201eMy God, my God, why have you forsaken me?\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>47 Some of them who stood there, when they heard it, said, \u201eThis man calls Elijah.\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>48 Immediately one of them ran, and took a sponge, and filled it with vinegar, and put it on a reed, and gave him a drink.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>49 The rest said, \u201eLet him be. Let\u2019s see whether Elijah comes to save him.\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>50 Jesus cried again with a loud voice, and yielded up his spirit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>51 Behold, the veil of the temple was torn in two from the top to the bottom. The earth quaked and the rocks were split.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>52 The tombs were opened, and many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>53 and coming forth out of the tombs after his resurrection, they entered into the holy city and appeared to many.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>54 Now the centurion, and those who were with him watching Jesus, when they saw the earthquake, and the things that were done, feared exceedingly, saying, \u201eTruly this was the Son of God.\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>55 Many women were there watching from afar, who had followed Jesus from Galilee, serving him,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>56 among whom was Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James and Joses, and the mother of the sons of Zebedee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>57 When evening had come, there came a rich man from Arimathaea, named Joseph, who also himself was Jesus\u2018 disciple.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>58 This man went to Pilate, and asked for the body of Jesus. Then Pilate commanded the body to be given up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>59 Joseph took the body, and wrapped it in a clean linen cloth,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>60 and laid it in his own new tomb, which he had hewn out in the rock, and he rolled a great stone to the door of the tomb, and departed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>61 Mary Magdalene was there, and the other Mary, sitting opposite the tomb.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>62 Now on the next day, which is the day after the Preparation, the chief priests and the Pharisees were gathered together to Pilate,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>63 saying, \u201eSir, we remember what that deceiver said while he was still alive: \u201aAfter three days I will rise again.\u2018<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>64 Command therefore that the tomb be made secure until the third day, lest perhaps his disciples come at night and steal him away, and tell the people, \u201aHe is risen from the dead;\u2018 and the last deception will be worse than the first.\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>65 Pilate said to them, \u201eYou have a guard. Go, make it as secure as you can.\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>66 So they went, and made the tomb secure, sealing the stone, the guard being with them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Matthew chapter 28<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>1 Now after the Sabbath, as it began to dawn on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary came to see the tomb.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2 Behold, there was a great earthquake, for an angel of the Lord descended from the sky, and came and rolled away the stone from the door, and sat on it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>3 His appearance was like lightning, and his clothing white as snow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>4 For fear of him, the guards shook, and became like dead men.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>5 The angel answered the women, \u201eDon\u2019t be afraid, for I know that you seek Jesus, who has been crucified.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>6 He is not here, for he has risen, just like he said. Come, see the place where the Lord was lying.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>7 Go quickly and tell his disciples, \u201aHe has risen from the dead, and behold, he goes before you into Galilee; there you will see him.\u2018 Behold, I have told you.\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>8 They departed quickly from the tomb with fear and great joy, and ran to bring his disciples word.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>9 As they went to tell his disciples, behold, Jesus met them, saying, \u201eRejoice!\u201c They came and took hold of his feet, and worshiped him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>10 Then Jesus said to them, \u201eDon\u2019t be afraid. Go tell my brothers that they may go into Galilee, and there they will see me.\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>11 Now while they were going, behold, some of the guards came into the city, and told the chief priests all the things that had happened.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>12 When they were assembled with the elders, and had taken counsel, they gave a large amount of silver to the soldiers,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>13 saying, \u201eSay that his disciples came by night, and stole him away while we slept.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>14 If this comes to the governor\u2019s ears, we will persuade him and make you free of worry.\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>15 So they took the money and did as they were told. 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