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And when you fast, be not as the hypocrites, sad. For they disfigure their faces, that they may appear unto men to fast. Amen I say to you, they have received their reward.

For where thy treasure is, there is thy heart also.

No man can serve two masters. For either he will hate the one, and love the other: or he will sustain the one, and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.

Therefore I say to you, be not solicitous for your life, what you shall eat, nor for your body, what you shall put on. Is not the life more than the meat: and the body more than the raiment?

Behold the birds of the air, for they neither sow, nor do they reap, nor gather into barns: and your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are not you of much more value than they?

And for raiment why are you solicitous? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they labour not, neither do they spin.

For after all these things do the heathens seek. For your Father knoweth that you have need of all these things.

Be not therefore solicitous for to morrow; for the morrow will be solicitous for itself. Sufficient for the day is the evil thereof.

For with what judgment you judge, you shall be judged: and with what measure you mete, it shall be measured to you again.

For every one that asketh, receiveth: and he that seeketh, findeth: and to him that knocketh, it shall be opened.

All things therefore whatsoever you would that men should do to you, do you also to them. For this is the law and the prophets.

Enter ye in at the narrow gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way that leadeth to destruction, and many there are who go in thereat.

And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and they beat upon that house, and it fell not, for it was founded on a rock.

For he was teaching them as one having power, and not as the scribes and Pharisees.

And Jesus saith to him: See thou tell no man: but go, shew thyself to the priest, and offer the gift which Moses commanded, for a testimony unto them.

For I also am a man subject to authority, having under me soldiers; and I say to this, Go, and he goeth, and to another Come, and he cometh, and to my servant, Do this, and he doeth it.

But the men wondered, saying: What manner of man is this, for the winds and the sea obey him?

Go then and learn what this meaneth, I will have mercy and not sacrifice. For I am not come to call the just, but sinners.

And nobody putteth a piece of raw cloth unto an old garment. For it taketh away the fulness thereof from the garment, and there is made a greater rent.

For she said within herself: If I shall touch only his garment, I shall be healed.