As they looked on, a change came over Jesus: his face was shining like the sun, and his clothes were dazzling white.

So Peter spoke up and said to Jesus, "Lord, how good it is that we are here! If you wish, I will make three tents here, one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah."

When the disciples heard the voice, they were so terrified that they threw themselves face downward on the ground.

So they looked up and saw no one there but Jesus.

Then the disciples asked Jesus, "Why do the teachers of the Law say that Elijah has to come first?"

But I tell you that Elijah has already come and people did not recognize him, but treated him just as they pleased. In the same way they will also mistreat the Son of Man."

When they returned to the crowd, a man came to Jesus, knelt before him,

I brought him to your disciples, but they could not heal him."

Jesus gave a command to the demon, and it went out of the boy, and at that very moment he was healed.

"It was because you do not have enough faith," answered Jesus. "I assure you that if you have faith as big as a mustard seed, you can say to this hill, 'Go from here to there!' and it will go. You could do anything!"

When the disciples all came together in Galilee, Jesus said to them, "The Son of Man is about to be handed over to those

When Jesus and his disciples came to Capernaum, the collectors of the Temple tax came to Peter and asked, "Does your teacher pay the Temple tax?"

"The foreigners," answered Peter. "Well, then," replied Jesus, "that means that the citizens don't have to pay.

So Jesus called a child to come and stand in front of them,

The greatest in the Kingdom of heaven is the one who humbles himself and becomes like this child.

"If anyone should cause one of these little ones to lose his faith in me, it would be better for that person to have a large millstone tied around his neck and be drowned in the deep sea.

"If your hand or your foot makes you lose your faith, cut it off and throw it away! It is better for you to enter life without a hand or a foot than to keep both hands and both feet and be thrown into the eternal fire.

"See that you don't despise any of these little ones. Their angels in heaven, I tell you, are always in the presence of my Father in heaven.

"What do you think a man does who has one hundred sheep and one of them gets lost? He will leave the other ninety-nine grazing on the hillside and go and look for the lost sheep.

In just the same way your Father in heaven does not want any of these little ones to be lost.

But if he will not listen to you, take one or two other persons with you, so that 'every accusation may be upheld by the testimony of two or more witnesses,' as the scripture says.

"And so I tell all of you: what you prohibit on earth will be prohibited in heaven, and what you permit on earth will be permitted in heaven.

For where two or three come together in my name, I am there with them."

"No, not seven times," answered Jesus, "but seventy times seven,

He had just begun to do so when one of them was brought in who owed him millions of dollars.

The servant fell on his knees before the king. 'Be patient with me,' he begged, 'and I will pay you everything!'

"Then the man went out and met one of his fellow servants who owed him a few dollars. He grabbed him and started choking him. 'Pay back what you owe me!' he said.

But he refused; instead, he had him thrown into jail until he should pay the debt.

So he called the servant in. 'You worthless slave!' he said. 'I forgave you the whole amount you owed me, just because you asked me to.

The king was very angry, and he sent the servant to jail to be punished until he should pay back the whole amount."

Large crowds followed him, and he healed them there.

Jesus answered, "Haven't you read the scripture that says that in the beginning the Creator made people male and female?

So they are no longer two, but one. No human being must separate, then, what God has joined together."

Jesus answered, "Moses gave you permission to divorce your wives because you are so hard to teach. But it was not like that at the time of creation.

His disciples said to him, "If this is how it is between a man and his wife, it is better not to marry."

For there are different reasons why men cannot marry: some, because they were born that way; others, because men made them that way; and others do not marry for the sake of the Kingdom of heaven. Let him who can accept this teaching do so."

Jesus said, "Let the children come to me and do not stop them, because the Kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these."

Once a man came to Jesus. "Teacher," he asked, "what good thing must I do to receive eternal life?"

"What commandments?" he asked. Jesus answered, "Do not commit murder; do not commit adultery; do not steal; do not accuse anyone falsely;

"I have obeyed all these commandments," the young man replied. "What else do I need to do?"

When the young man heard this, he went away sad, because he was very rich.

I repeat: it is much harder for a rich person to enter the Kingdom of God than for a camel to go through the eye of a needle."

Jesus looked straight at them and answered, "This is impossible for human beings, but for God everything is possible."

Jesus said to them, "You can be sure that when the Son of Man sits on his glorious throne in the New Age, then you twelve followers of mine will also sit on thrones, to rule the twelve tribes of Israel.

But many who now are first will be last, and many who now are last will be first.