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Go and learn what this means, ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice.' For I have come to call not the righteous but sinners."

Then the disciples of John came to him, saying, "Why do we and the Pharisees fast often, but your disciples do not fast?"

Neither is new wine put into old wineskins; otherwise, the skins burst, and the wine is spilled, and the skins are destroyed; but new wine is put into fresh wineskins, and so both are preserved."

While he was saying these things to them, suddenly a leader of the synagogue came in and knelt before him, saying, "My daughter has just died; but come and lay your hand on her, and she will live."

he said, "Go away; for the girl is not dead but sleeping." And they laughed at him.

But when the crowd had been put outside, he went in and took her by the hand, and the girl got up.

But they went away and spread the news about him throughout that district.

But the Pharisees said, "By the ruler of the demons he casts out the demons."

Then he said to his disciples, "The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few;

but go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.

If the house is worthy, let your peace come upon it; but if it is not worthy, let your peace return to you.

for it is not you who speak, but the Spirit of your Father speaking through you.

and you will be hated by all because of my name. But the one who endures to the end will be saved.

Do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul; rather fear him who can destroy both soul and body in hell.

but whoever denies me before others, I also will deny before my Father in heaven.

"Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth; I have not come to bring peace, but a sword.

"But to what will I compare this generation? It is like children sitting in the marketplaces and calling to one another,

But I tell you, on the day of judgment it will be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon than for you.

But I tell you that on the day of judgment it will be more tolerable for the land of Sodom than for you."

He entered the house of God and ate the bread of the Presence, which it was not lawful for him or his companions to eat, but only for the priests.