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“But, so we won’t offend them, go to the sea, cast in a fishhook, and take the first fish that you catch. When you open its mouth you’ll find a coin.

“But whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to fall away—it would be better for him if a heavy millstone were hung around his neck and he were drowned in the depths of the sea.

Woe to the world because of offenses. For offenses will inevitably come, but woe to that person by whom the offense comes.

But if he won’t listen, take one or two others with you, so that by the testimony

But he wasn’t willing. Instead, he went and threw him into prison until he could pay what was owed.

So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore, what God has joined together, let no one separate.”

He told them, “Moses permitted you to divorce your wives because of the hardness of your hearts, but it was not like that from the beginning.

He responded, “Not everyone can accept this saying, but only those to whom it has been given.

Then children were brought to Jesus for him to place his hands on them and pray, but the disciples rebuked them.

Jesus looked at them and said, “With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”

But many who are first will be last, and the last first.

So when the first ones came, they assumed they would get more, but they also received a denarius each.

just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve,

The crowd demanded that they keep quiet, but they cried out all the more, “Lord, have mercy on us, Son of David!”

Jesus answered them, “Truly I tell you, if you have faith and do not doubt, you will not only do what was done to the fig tree, but even if you tell this mountain, ‘Be lifted up and thrown into the sea,’ it will be done.

But if we say, ‘Of human origin,’ we’re afraid of the crowd, because everyone considers John to be a prophet.”

“He answered, ‘I don’t want to’ but later he changed his mind and went.

Then the man went to the other and said the same thing. ‘I will, sir,’ he answered, but he didn’t go.

“But when the tenant farmers saw the son, they said to each other, ‘This is the heir. Come, let’s kill him and take his inheritance.’

“But they paid no attention and went away, one to his own farm, another to his business,