1 And it happened that while he was in a certain place praying, when he stopped a certain one of his disciples said to him, “Lord, teach us to pray, just as John also taught his disciples.”
2 And he said to them, “When you pray, say,
3 Give us each day our daily bread.
4 And forgive us our sins,
5 And he said to them, “Who of you will have a friend, and will go to him at midnight and say to him, ‘Friend, lend me three loaves,
6 because a friend of mine has come to me on a journey, and I do not have anything to set before him.’
7 And that one will answer from inside
8 I tell you, even if he does not give him
9 And I tell you, ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and it will be opened for you.
10 For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened.
11 But what father from among you,
12 Or also,
13 Therefore if you,
14 And he was expelling a demon, and it was mute. Now it happened that
15 But some of them said, “By Beelzebul the ruler of demons he expels demons!”
16 And others,
17 But he, knowing their thoughts, said to them, “Every kingdom divided against itself is laid waste, and
18 So if Satan also is divided against himself, how will his kingdom stand? For you say
19 But if I expel demons by Beelzebul, by whom do your sons expel
20 But if I expel demons by the finger of God, then the kingdom of God has come upon you!
21 When a strong man, fully armed, guards his own palace, his possessions are
22 But when a stronger man attacks him
23 The one who is not with me is against me, and the one who does not gather with me scatters.
24 “Whenever an unclean spirit has gone out of a person, it travels through waterless places searching for rest, and does not find
25 And
26 Then it goes and brings along seven other spirits more evil than itself, and
27 Now it happened that as he said these
28 But he said, “On the contrary, blessed
29 And
30 For just as Jonah became a sign to the Ninevites, so also the Son of Man will be to this generation.
31 The queen of the south will rise up at the judgment with the people of this generation and condemn them, because she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon, and behold,
32 The people of Nineveh will stand up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it, because they repented at the proclamation of Jonah, and behold,
33 “No one
34 Your eye is the lamp of the body. When your eye is sincere, your whole body is full of light also. But when it is evil, your body
35 Therefore pay careful attention
36 If therefore your whole body
37 And as he was speaking, a Pharisee asked him
38 And the Pharisee,
39 But the Lord said to him, “Now you Pharisees cleanse the outside of the cup and of the dish, but your inside is full of greediness and wickedness.
40 Fools! Did not the one who made the outside make the inside also?
41 But give
42 “But woe to you, Pharisees, because you pay a tenth of mint and rue and every garden herb, and neglect justice and love for God! But it was necessary to do these
43 Woe to you, Pharisees, because you love the best seat in the synagogues and the greetings in the marketplaces!
44 Woe to you, because you are like unmarked graves, and the people who walk over
45 And one of the legal experts answered
46 So he said, “Woe to you also, legal experts, because you load people
47 Woe to you, because you build the tombs of the prophets, and your fathers killed them!
48 As a result you are witnesses, and you approve of the deeds of your fathers, because they killed them and you build
49 For this
50 so that the blood of all the prophets that has been shed from the foundation of the world may be required of this generation,
51 from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zechariah, who perished between the altar and the temple building.
52 Woe to you, legal experts, because you have taken away the key to knowledge! You did not enter yourselves, and you hindered those who were entering!”
53 And
54 plotting to catch him with reference to something