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Offspring of vipers! How are you able to say good things when you are evil? For from the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.

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

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

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

"Now whenever an unclean spirit has gone out of a person, it travels through waterless places searching for rest, and does not find it.

Then it goes and brings along with itself seven other spirits more evil than itself, and they go in and live there. And the last state of that person becomes worse than the first. So it will be for this evil generation also!"

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

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

For this reason I speak to them in parables, because seeing they do not see, and hearing they do not hear, nor do they understand,

For the heart of this people has become dull, and with their ears they hear with difficulty, and they have shut their eyes, so that they would not see with their eyes and hear with their ears and understand with their heart and turn, and I would heal them."

For truly I say to you that many prophets and righteous people longed to see what you see, and did not see it, and to hear what you hear, and did not hear it!

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

And he said to them, "For this reason every scribe who has been trained for the kingdom of heaven is like the master of the house who brings out of his storeroom new things and old things."

and he said to his servants, "This is John the Baptist! He has been raised from the dead, and for this reason miraculous powers are at work in him."

For Herod, after arresting John, bound him and put him in prison on account of Herodias, the wife of his brother Philip,

because John had been saying to him, "It is not permitted for you to have her."

Now when it was evening, the disciples came to him saying, "The place is desolate and the hour is late. Release the crowds so that they can go away into the villages and purchase food for themselves."

And he commanded the crowds to recline for a meal on the grass. Taking the five loaves and the two fish and looking up to heaven, he gave thanks. And after breaking them, he gave the loaves to the disciples, and the disciples gave them to the crowds.

"Why do your disciples break the tradition of the elders? For they do not wash their hands when they eat a meal."

For God said, ‘Honor your father and your mother,' and ‘The one who speaks evil of father or mother must certainly die.'