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Some Pharisees and teachers of religious law now arrived from Jerusalem to see Jesus. They asked him,

In this way, you say they don't need to honor their parents. And so you cancel the word of God for the sake of your own tradition.

so ignore them. They are blind guides leading the blind, and if one blind person guides another, they will both fall into a ditch."

A vast crowd brought to him people who were lame, blind, crippled, those who couldn't speak, and many others. They laid them before Jesus, and he healed them all.

The crowd was amazed! Those who hadn't been able to speak were talking, the crippled were made well, the lame were walking, and the blind could see again! And they praised the God of Israel.

Then Jesus called his disciples and told them, "I feel sorry for these people. They have been here with me for three days, and they have nothing left to eat. I don't want to send them away hungry, or they will faint along the way."

Jesus asked, "How much bread do you have?" They replied, "Seven loaves, and a few small fish."

Then at last they understood that he wasn't speaking about the yeast in bread, but about the deceptive teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees.

"Well," they replied, "some say John the Baptist, some say Elijah, and others say Jeremiah or one of the other prophets."

And I tell you the truth, some standing here right now will not die before they see the Son of Man coming in his Kingdom."

And when they looked up, Moses and Elijah were gone, and they saw only Jesus.

But I tell you, Elijah has already come, but he wasn't recognized, and they chose to abuse him. And in the same way they will also make the Son of Man suffer."

"When some of the other servants saw this, they were very upset. They went to the king and told him everything that had happened.

"Haven't you read the Scriptures?" Jesus replied. "They record that from the beginning ‘God made them male and female.'"

"Then why did Moses say in the law that a man could give his wife a written notice of divorce and send her away?" they asked.

So they went to work in the vineyard. At noon and again at three o'clock he did the same thing.

"They replied, ‘Because no one hired us.' "The landowner told them, ‘Then go out and join the others in my vineyard.'

"Listen," he said, "we're going up to Jerusalem, where the Son of Man will be betrayed to the leading priests and the teachers of religious law. They will sentence him to die.

Then they will hand him over to the Romans to be mocked, flogged with a whip, and crucified. But on the third day he will be raised from the dead."

When the ten other disciples heard what James and John had asked, they were indignant.