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Jesus, perceiving it, said, “Why do you reason among yourselves, you of little faith, ‘because you have brought no bread?’

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Don’t you yet perceive, neither remember the five loaves for the five thousand, and how many baskets you took up?

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Nor the seven loaves for the four thousand, and how many baskets you took up?

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How is it that you don’t perceive that I didn’t speak to you concerning bread? But beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees.”

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Then they understood that he didn’t tell them to beware of the yeast of bread, but of the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees.

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Now when Jesus came into the parts of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, saying, “Who do men say that I, the Son of Man, am?”

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They said, “Some say John the Baptizer, some, Elijah, and others, Jeremiah, or one of the prophets.”

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He said to them, “But who do you say that I am?”

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Simon Peter answered, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.”

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Jesus answered him, “Blessed are you, Simon Bar Jonah, for flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father who is in heaven.

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I also tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my assembly, and the gates of Hades will not prevail against it.

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I will give to you the keys of the Kingdom of Heaven, and whatever you bind on earth will have been bound in heaven; and whatever you release on earth will have been released in heaven.”

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Then he commanded the disciples that they should tell no one that he was Jesus the Christ.

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From that time, Jesus began to show his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things from the elders, chief priests, and scribes, and be killed, and the third day be raised up.

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Peter took him aside, and began to rebuke him, saying, “Far be it from you, Lord! This will never be done to you.”

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But he turned, and said to Peter, “Get behind me, Satan! You are a stumbling block to me, for you are not setting your mind on the things of God, but on the things of men.”

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Then Jesus said to his disciples, “If anyone desires to come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.

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For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, and whoever will lose his life for my sake will find it.

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For what will it profit a man, if he gains the whole world, and forfeits his life? Or what will a man give in exchange for his life?

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For the Son of Man will come in the glory of his Father with his angels, and then he will render to everyone according to his deeds.

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Most certainly I tell you, there are some standing here who will in no way taste of death, until they see the Son of Man coming in his Kingdom.”

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After six days, Jesus took with him Peter, James, and John his brother, and brought them up into a high mountain by themselves.

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He was transfigured before them. His face shone like the sun, and his garments became as white as the light.

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Behold, Moses and Elijah appeared to them talking with him.

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Peter answered, and said to Jesus, “Lord, it is good for us to be here. If you want, let’s make three tents here: one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah.”

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While he was still speaking, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them. Behold, a voice came out of the cloud, saying, “This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. Listen to him.”

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When the disciples heard it, they fell on their faces, and were very afraid.

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Jesus came and touched them and said, “Get up, and don’t be afraid.”

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Lifting up their eyes, they saw no one, except Jesus alone.

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As they were coming down from the mountain, Jesus commanded them, saying, “Don’t tell anyone what you saw, until the Son of Man has risen from the dead.”

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His disciples asked him, saying, “Then why do the scribes say that Elijah must come first?”

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Jesus answered them, “Elijah indeed comes first, and will restore all things,

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but I tell you that Elijah has come already, and they didn’t recognize him, but did to him whatever they wanted to. Even so the Son of Man will also suffer by them.”

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Then the disciples understood that he spoke to them of John the Baptizer.

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When they came to the multitude, a man came to him, kneeling down to him, saying,

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“Lord, have mercy on my son, for he is epileptic, and suffers grievously; for he often falls into the fire, and often into the water.

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So I brought him to your disciples, and they could not cure him.”

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Jesus answered, “Faithless and perverse generation! How long will I be with you? How long will I bear with you? Bring him here to me.”

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Jesus rebuked him, the demon went out of him, and the boy was cured from that hour.

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Then the disciples came to Jesus privately, and said, “Why weren’t we able to cast it out?”

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He said to them, “Because of your unbelief. For most certainly I tell you, if you have faith as a grain of mustard seed, you will tell this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move; and nothing will be impossible for you.

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But this kind doesn’t go out except by prayer and fasting.”

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While they were staying in Galilee, Jesus said to them, “The Son of Man is about to be delivered up into the hands of men,

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and they will kill him, and the third day he will be raised up.” They were exceedingly sorry.

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When they had come to Capernaum, those who collected the didrachma coins came to Peter, and said, “Doesn’t your teacher pay the didrachma?”

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He said, “Yes.” When he came into the house, Jesus anticipated him, saying, “What do you think, Simon? From whom do the kings of the earth receive toll or tribute? From their children, or from strangers?”

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Peter said to him, “From strangers.” Jesus said to him, “Therefore the children are exempt.

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But, lest we cause them to stumble, go to the sea, cast a hook, and take up the first fish that comes up. When you have opened its mouth, you will find a stater coin. Take that, and give it to them for me and you.”

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In that hour the disciples came to Jesus, saying, “Who then is greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven?”

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Jesus called a little child to himself, and set him in the midst of them,

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and said, “Most certainly I tell you, unless you turn, and become as little children, you will in no way enter into the Kingdom of Heaven.

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Whoever therefore humbles himself as this little child, the same is the greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven.

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Whoever receives one such little child in my name receives me,

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but whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to stumble, it would be better for him that a huge millstone should be hung around his neck, and that he should be sunk in the depths of the sea.

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“Woe to the world because of occasions of stumbling! For it must be that the occasions come, but woe to that person through whom the occasion comes!

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If your hand or your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off, and cast it from you. It is better for you to enter into life maimed or crippled, rather than having two hands or two feet to be cast into the eternal fire.

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If your eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out, and cast it from you. It is better for you to enter into life with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast into the Gehenna of fire.

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See that you don’t despise one of these little ones, for I tell you that in heaven their angels always see the face of my Father who is in heaven.

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For the Son of Man came to save that which was lost.

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“What do you think? If a man has one hundred sheep, and one of them goes astray, doesn’t he leave the ninety-nine, go to the mountains, and seek that which has gone astray?

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If he finds it, most certainly I tell you, he rejoices over it more than over the ninety-nine which have not gone astray.

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Even so it is not the will of your Father who is in heaven that one of these little ones should perish.

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“If your brother sins against you, go, show him his fault between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained back your brother.

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But if he doesn’t listen, take one or two more with you, that at the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established.

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If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the assembly. If he refuses to hear the assembly also, let him be to you as a Gentile or a tax collector.

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Most certainly I tell you, whatever things you bind on earth will have been bound in heaven, and whatever things you release on earth will have been released in heaven.

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Again, assuredly I tell you, that if two of you will agree on earth concerning anything that they will ask, it will be done for them by my Father who is in heaven.

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For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there I am in the midst of them.”

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Then Peter came and said to him, “Lord, how often shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? Until seven times?”

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Jesus said to him, “I don’t tell you until seven times, but, until seventy times seven.

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Therefore the Kingdom of Heaven is like a certain king, who wanted to reconcile accounts with his servants.

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When he had begun to reconcile, one was brought to him who owed him ten thousand talents.

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But because he couldn’t pay, his lord commanded him to be sold, with his wife, his children, and all that he had, and payment to be made.

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The servant therefore fell down and kneeled before him, saying, ‘Lord, have patience with me, and I will repay you all!’

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The lord of that servant, being moved with compassion, released him, and forgave him the debt.

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“But that servant went out, and found one of his fellow servants, who owed him one hundred denarii, and he grabbed him, and took him by the throat, saying, ‘Pay me what you owe!’

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“So his fellow servant fell down at his feet and begged him, saying, ‘Have patience with me, and I will repay you!’

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He would not, but went and cast him into prison, until he should pay back that which was due.

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So when his fellow servants saw what was done, they were exceedingly sorry, and came and told to their lord all that was done.

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Then his lord called him in, and said to him, ‘You wicked servant! I forgave you all that debt, because you begged me.

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Shouldn’t you also have had mercy on your fellow servant, even as I had mercy on you?’

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His lord was angry, and delivered him to the tormentors, until he should pay all that was due to him.

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So my heavenly Father will also do to you, if you don’t each forgive your brother from your hearts for his misdeeds.”

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It happened when Jesus had finished these words, he departed from Galilee, and came into the borders of Judea beyond the Jordan.

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Great multitudes followed him, and he healed them there.

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Pharisees came to him, testing him, and saying, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any reason?”

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He answered, “Haven’t you read that he who made them from the beginning made them male and female,

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and said, ‘For this cause a man shall leave his father and mother, and shall join to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh?’

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So that they are no more two, but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, don’t let man tear apart.”

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They asked him, “Why then did Moses command us to give her a bill of divorce, and divorce her?”

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He said to them, “Moses, because of the hardness of your hearts, allowed you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it has not been so.

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I tell you that whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery; and he who marries her when she is divorced commits adultery.”

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His disciples said to him, “If this is the case of the man with his wife, it is not expedient to marry.”

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But he said to them, “Not all men can receive this saying, but those to whom it is given.

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For there are eunuchs who were born that way from their mother’s womb, and there are eunuchs who were made eunuchs by men; and there are eunuchs who made themselves eunuchs for the Kingdom of Heaven’s sake. He who is able to receive it, let him receive it.”

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Then little children were brought to him, that he should lay his hands on them and pray; and the disciples rebuked them.

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But Jesus said, “Allow the little children, and don’t forbid them to come to me; for the Kingdom of Heaven belongs to ones like these.”

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He laid his hands on them, and departed from there.

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Behold, one came to him and said, “Good teacher, what good thing shall I do, that I may have eternal life?”

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He said to him, “Why do you call me good? No one is good but one, that is, God. But if you want to enter into life, keep the commandments.”