She will give birth to a son, and you are to name Him Jesus, because He will save His people from their sins.”

and they were baptized by him in the Jordan River as they confessed their sins.

The First Disciples

As He was walking along the Sea of Galilee, He saw two brothers, Simon, who was called Peter, and his brother Andrew. They were casting a net into the sea, since they were fishermen.

If your right eye causes you to sin, gouge it out and throw it away. For it is better that you lose one of the parts of your body than for your whole body to be thrown into hell.

And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. For it is better that you lose one of the parts of your body than for your whole body to go into hell!

Neither should you swear by your head, because you cannot make a single hair white or black.

When you pray, don’t babble like the idolaters, since they imagine they’ll be heard for their many words.

“No one can be a slave of two masters, since either he will hate one and love the other, or be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot be slaves of God and of money.

Can any of you add a single cubit to his height by worrying?

Just then some men brought to Him a paralytic lying on a mat. Seeing their faith, Jesus told the paralytic, “Have courage, son, your sins are forgiven.”

For which is easier: to say, ‘Your sins are forgiven,’ or to say, ‘Get up and walk’?

But so you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins” —then He told the paralytic, “Get up, pick up your mat, and go home.”

While He was reclining at the table in the house, many tax collectors and sinners came as guests to eat with Jesus and His disciples.

When the Pharisees saw this, they asked His disciples, “Why does your Teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?”

Go and learn what this means: I desire mercy and not sacrifice. For I didn’t come to call the righteous, but sinners.”

Fear God

“Therefore, don’t be afraid of them, since there is nothing covered that won’t be uncovered and nothing hidden that won’t be made known.

The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, ‘Look, a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’ Yet wisdom is vindicated by her deeds.”

Because of this, I tell you, people will be forgiven every sin and blasphemy, but the blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven.

Others fell on rocky ground, where there wasn’t much soil, and they sprang up quickly since the soil wasn’t deep.

But when the sun came up they were scorched, and since they had no root, they withered.

The Son of Man will send out His angels, and they will gather from His kingdom everything that causes sin and those guilty of lawlessness.

since John had been telling him, “It’s not lawful for you to have her!”

Though he wanted to kill him, he feared the crowd, since they regarded him as a prophet.

But when he saw the strength of the wind, he was afraid. And beginning to sink he cried out, “Lord, save me!”

Restoring a Brother

“If your brother sins against you, go and rebuke him in private. If he listens to you, you have won your brother.