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Jesus answered them, "How right Isaiah was when he prophesied about you! You are hypocrites, just as he wrote: ‘These people, says God, honor me with their words, but their heart is really far away from me.

But you teach that if people have something they could use to help their father or mother, but say, ‘This is Corban' (which means, it belongs to God),

In this way the teaching you pass on to others cancels out the word of God. And there are many other things like this that you do."

He ordered the crowd to sit down on the ground. Then he took the seven loaves, gave thanks to God, broke them, and gave them to his disciples to distribute to the crowd; and the disciples did so.

Some Pharisees came to Jesus and started to argue with him. They wanted to trap him, so they asked him to perform a miracle to show that God approved of him.

But Jesus turned around, looked at his disciples, and rebuked Peter. "Get away from me, Satan," he said. "Your thoughts don't come from God but from human nature!"

And he went on to say, "I tell you, there are some here who will not die until they have seen the Kingdom of God come with power."

And if your eye makes you lose your faith, take it out! It is better for you to enter the Kingdom of God with only one eye than to keep both eyes and be thrown into hell.

But in the beginning, at the time of creation, ‘God made them male and female,' as the scripture says.

No human being must separate, then, what God has joined together."

When Jesus noticed this, he was angry and said to his disciples, "Let the children come to me, and do not stop them, because the Kingdom of God belongs to such as these.

I assure you that whoever does not receive the Kingdom of God like a child will never enter it."

"Why do you call me good?" Jesus asked him. "No one is good except God alone.

Jesus looked around at his disciples and said to them, "How hard it will be for rich people to enter the Kingdom of God!"

The disciples were shocked at these words, but Jesus went on to say, "My children, how hard it is to enter the Kingdom of God!

It is much harder for a rich person to enter the Kingdom of God than for a camel to go through the eye of a needle."

Jesus looked straight at them and answered, "This is impossible for human beings but not for God; everything is possible for God."

But I do not have the right to choose who will sit at my right and my left. It is God who will give these places to those for whom he has prepared them."

The people who were in front and those who followed behind began to shout, "Praise God! God bless him who comes in the name of the Lord!

God bless the coming kingdom of King David, our father! Praise be to God!"