ἐπί

and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, throw yourself down, for it is written, ‘He will command his angels concerning you,’ and, ‘On their hands they will bear you up, so that you don’t dash your foot against a stone.’ ”

Neither do you light a lamp, and put it under a measuring basket, but on a stand; and it shines to all who are in the house.

“If therefore you are offering your gift at the altar, and there remember that your brother has anything against you,

that you may be children of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the just and the unjust.

that you may be children of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the just and the unjust.

Let your Kingdom come. Let your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.

“Don’t lay up treasures for yourselves on the earth, where moth and rust consume, and where thieves break through and steal;

“Which of you, by being anxious, can add one moment to his lifespan?

“Everyone therefore who hears these words of mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man, who built his house on a rock.

The rain came down, the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat on that house; and it didn’t fall, for it was founded on the rock.

Everyone who hears these words of mine, and doesn’t do them will be like a foolish man, who built his house on the sand.

When Jesus had finished saying these things, the multitudes were astonished at his teaching,

Behold, they brought to him a man who was paralyzed, lying on a bed. Jesus, seeing their faith, said to the paralytic, “Son, cheer up! Your sins are forgiven you.”

As Jesus passed by from there, he saw a man called Matthew sitting at the tax collection office. He said to him, “Follow me.” He got up and followed him.

Jesus said to them, “Can the friends of the bridegroom mourn, as long as the bridegroom is with them? But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast.

No one puts a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old garment; for the patch would tear away from the garment, and a worse hole is made.

While he told these things to them, behold, a ruler came and worshiped him, saying, “My daughter has just died, but come and lay your hand on her, and she will live.”

If the household is worthy, let your peace come on it, but if it isn’t worthy, let your peace return to you.

Yes, and you will be brought before governors and kings for my sake, for a testimony to them and to the nations.

“Brother will deliver up brother to death, and the father his child. Children will rise up against parents, and cause them to be put to death.

What I tell you in the darkness, speak in the light; and what you hear whispered in the ear, proclaim on the housetops.

“Aren’t two sparrows sold for an assarion coin? Not one of them falls on the ground apart from your Father’s will,

“Don’t think that I came to send peace on the earth. I didn’t come to send peace, but a sword.

Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart; and you will find rest for your souls.

For in pouring this ointment on my body, she did it to prepare me for burial.

“Behold, my servant whom I have chosen; my beloved in whom my soul is well pleased: I will put my Spirit on him. He will proclaim justice to the nations.

If Satan casts out Satan, he is divided against himself. How then will his kingdom stand?

But if I by the Spirit of God cast out demons, then God’s Kingdom has come upon you.

He stretched out his hand toward his disciples, and said, “Behold, my mother and my brothers!

Great multitudes gathered to him, so that he entered into a boat, and sat, and all the multitude stood on the beach.

Others fell on rocky ground, where they didn’t have much soil, and immediately they sprang up, because they had no depth of earth.

Others fell among thorns. The thorns grew up and choked them.

Others fell on good soil, and yielded fruit: some one hundred times as much, some sixty, and some thirty.

In them the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled, which says, ‘By hearing you will hear, and will in no way understand; Seeing you will see, and will in no way perceive:

What was sown on the rocky places, this is he who hears the word, and immediately with joy receives it;

What was sown on the good ground, this is he who hears the word, and understands it, who most certainly bears fruit, and produces, some one hundred times as much, some sixty, and some thirty.”

which, when it was filled, they drew up on the beach. They sat down, and gathered the good into containers, but the bad they threw away.

Behold, there was a man in Jerusalem whose name was Simeon. This man was righteous and devout, looking for the consolation of Israel, and the Holy Spirit was on him.

Jesus went out, and he saw a great multitude. He had compassion on them, and healed their sick.

He commanded the multitudes to sit down on the grass; and he took the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up to heaven, he blessed, broke and gave the loaves to the disciples, and the disciples gave to the multitudes.