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For you will be treated as you treat others. The standard you use in judging is the standard by which you will be judged.

"Keep on asking, and you will receive what you ask for. Keep on seeking, and you will find. Keep on knocking, and the door will be opened to you.

For everyone who asks, receives. Everyone who seeks, finds. And to everyone who knocks, the door will be opened.

"You parents—if your children ask for a loaf of bread, do you give them a stone instead?

Or if they ask for a fish, do you give them a snake? Of course not!

"You can enter God's Kingdom only through the narrow gate. The highway to hell is broad, and its gate is wide for the many who choose that way.

for he taught with real authority—quite unlike their teachers of religious law.

Then Jesus said to him, "Don't tell anyone about this. Instead, go to the priest and let him examine you. Take along the offering required in the law of Moses for those who have been healed of leprosy. This will be a public testimony that you have been cleansed."

But many Israelites—those for whom the Kingdom was prepared—will be thrown into outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth."

But when Jesus touched her hand, the fever left her. Then she got up and prepared a meal for him.

Fear swept through the crowd as they saw this happen. And they praised God for giving humans such authority.

Then he added, "Now go and learn the meaning of this Scripture: ‘I want you to show mercy, not offer sacrifices.' For I have come to call not those who think they are righteous, but those who know they are sinners."

"Besides, who would patch old clothing with new cloth? For the new patch would shrink and rip away from the old cloth, leaving an even bigger tear than before.

"And no one puts new wine into old wineskins. For the old skins would burst from the pressure, spilling the wine and ruining the skins. New wine is stored in new wineskins so that both are preserved."

Just then a woman who had suffered for twelve years with constant bleeding came up behind him. She touched the fringe of his robe,

for she thought, "If I can just touch his robe, I will be healed."

"Whenever you enter a city or village, search for a worthy person and stay in his home until you leave town.

But beware! For you will be handed over to the courts and will be flogged with whips in the synagogues.

For it is not you who will be speaking—it will be the Spirit of your Father speaking through you.

"But don't be afraid of those who threaten you. For the time is coming when everything that is covered will be revealed, and all that is secret will be made known to all.