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But I say to you that it will be better for the land of Sodom in the day of judging, than for you.

Yes, Father, for so it was pleasing in your eyes.

Take my yoke on you and become like me, for I am gentle and without pride, and you will have rest for your souls;

For my yoke is good, and the weight I take up is not hard.

How he went into the house of God and took for food the holy bread which it was not right for him or for those who were with him to take, but only for the priests?

But if these words had been in your minds, My desire is for mercy and not for offerings, you would not have been judging those who have done no wrong.

For the Son of man is lord of the Sabbath.

Of how much more value is a man than a sheep! For this reason it is right to do good on the Sabbath day.

So I say to you, Every sin and every evil word against God will have forgiveness; but for evil words against the Spirit there will be no forgiveness.

Make the tree good, and its fruit good; or make the tree bad, and its fruit bad; for by its fruit you will get knowledge of the tree.

For by your words will your righteousness be seen, and by your words you will be judged.

Then some of the scribes and Pharisees, hearing this, said to him, Master, we are looking for a sign from you.

But he, answering, said to them, An evil and false generation is looking for a sign; and no sign will be given to it but the sign of the prophet Jonah:

For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the stomach of the great fish, so will the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.

The queen of the South will come up in the day of judging and give her decision against this generation: for she came from the ends of the earth to give ear to the wisdom of Solomon; and now a greater than Solomon is here.

But the unclean spirit, when he is gone out of a man, goes through dry places looking for rest, and getting it not.

For whoever does the pleasure of my Father in heaven, he is my brother, and sister, and mother.

And while he did so, some seeds were dropped by the wayside, and the birds came and took them for food:

And some seeds went among thorns, and the thorns came up and they had no room for growth:

For this reason I put things into the form of stories; because they see without seeing, and give ear without hearing, and the sense is not clear to them.