And if you only greet your brothers, what more do you do? Even the Gentiles do the same, don’t they?

But if you do not forgive others, your Father will not forgive you your sins.

“The eye is the lamp of the body. If then your eye is healthy, ¹  your whole body will be full of light.

In ¹  everything, treat others as you would want them ²  to treat you, ³  for this fulfills ⁴  the law and the prophets.

For whoever wants to save his life ¹  will lose it, ²  but whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.

and said, “I tell you the truth, ¹  unless you turn around and become like little children, ²  you will never ³  enter the kingdom of heaven!

And if he finds it, I tell you the truth, ¹  he will rejoice more over it than over the ninety-nine that did not go astray.

But if he does not listen, take one or two others with you, so that at the testimony of two or three witnesses every matter may be established. ¹ 

So also my heavenly Father will do to you, if each of you does not forgive your ¹  brother ²  from your heart.”

If anyone says anything to you, you are to say, ‘The Lord needs them,’ ¹  and he will send them at once.”

Therefore pay attention to what they tell you and do it. But do not do what they do, for they do not practice what they teach. ¹ 

So then, if someone ¹  says to you, ‘Look, he is in the wilderness,’ ²  do not go out, or ‘Look, he is in the inner rooms,’ do not believe him.

I tell you the truth, ¹  wherever this gospel is proclaimed in the whole world, what she has done will also be told in memory of her.”

Now ¹  a leper ²  came to him and fell to his knees, asking for help. “If ³  you are willing, you can make me clean,” he said.

I tell you the truth, ¹  people will be forgiven for all sins, even all the blasphemies they utter. ² 

(For the Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat unless they perform a ritual washing, ¹  holding fast to the tradition of the elders.

And when they come from the marketplace, they do not eat unless they wash. They hold fast to many other traditions: the washing of cups, pots, kettles, and dining couches. ¹ ) ² 

If I send them home hungry, they will faint on the way, and some of them have come from a great distance.”

Salt ¹  is good, but if it loses its saltiness, ²  how can you make it salty again? Have salt in yourselves, and be at peace with each other.”

Then ¹  James and John, the sons of Zebedee, came to him and said, “Teacher, we want you to do for us whatever we ask.”