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For this reason I tell you, people will be forgiven for every sin and blasphemy, but the blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven.

"Make a tree good and its fruit will be good, or make a tree bad and its fruit will be bad, for a tree is known by its fruit.

Offspring of vipers! How are you able to say anything good, since you are evil? For the mouth speaks from what fills the heart.

I tell you that on the day of judgment, people will give an account for every worthless word they speak.

For by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned."

But he answered them, "An evil and adulterous generation asks for a sign, but no sign will be given to it except the sign of the prophet Jonah.

For just as Jonah was in the belly of the huge fish for three days and three nights , so the Son of Man will be in the heart of the earth for three days and three nights.

"When an unclean spirit goes out of a person, it passes through waterless places looking for rest but does not find it.

Then it goes and brings with it seven other spirits more evil than itself, and they go in and live there, so the last state of that person is worse than the first. It will be that way for this evil generation as well!"

For whoever does the will of my Father in heaven is my brother and sister and mother."

For whoever has will be given more, and will have an abundance. But whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken from him.

For this reason I speak to them in parables: Although they see they do not see, and although they hear they do not hear nor do they understand.

For the heart of this people has become dull; they are hard of hearing, and they have shut their eyes, so that they would not see with their eyes and hear with their ears and understand with their hearts and turn, and I would heal them .'

For I tell you the truth, many prophets and righteous people longed to see what you see but did not see it, and to hear what you hear but did not hear it.

But as for the seed sown on good soil, this is the person who hears the word and understands. He bears fruit, yielding a hundred, sixty, or thirty times what was sown."

"Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant searching for fine pearls.

Then he said to them, "Therefore every expert in the law who has been trained for the kingdom of heaven is like the owner of a house who brings out of his treasure what is new and old."

For Herod had arrested John, bound him, and put him in prison on account of Herodias, his brother Philip's wife,

because John had repeatedly told him, "It is not lawful for you to have her."

When evening arrived, his disciples came to him saying, "This is an isolated place and the hour is already late. Send the crowds away so that they can go into the villages and buy food for themselves."