“Land of Zebulun and land of Naphtali, the way by the sea, beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles –

But they went out and spread the news about him throughout that entire region. ¹ 

But I tell you, it will be more bearable for the region of Sodom ¹  on the day of judgment than for you!”

Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away. ¹ 

After ¹  he had destroyed ²  seven nations ³  in the land of Canaan, he gave his people their land as an inheritance. ⁴ 

for the earth and its abundance are the Lord’s. ¹ 

but ¹  the earth came to her rescue; ²  the ground opened up ³  and swallowed the river that the dragon had spewed from his mouth.

I tell you the truth, ¹  it will be more bearable for the region of Sodom and Gomorrah ²  on the day of judgment than for that town!

Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away. ¹ 

so ¹  I was afraid, and I went and hid your talent in the ground. See, you have what is yours.’

By itself the soil produces a crop, first the stalk, then the head, then the full grain in the head.

Do you think I have come to bring peace on earth? No, I tell you, but rather division! ¹ 

Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away. ¹ 

Then ¹  he prayed again, and the sky gave rain and the land sprouted with a harvest.

not by earth, because it is his footstool, and not by Jerusalem, ¹  because it is the city of the great King.

Just then ¹  the temple curtain ²  was torn in two, from top to bottom. The ³  earth shook and the rocks were split apart.

But as for the seed that landed on good soil, these are the ones who, after hearing ¹  the word, cling to it ²  with an honest and good ³  heart, and bear fruit with steadfast endurance. ⁴ 

But God spoke as follows: ‘Your ¹  descendants will be foreigners ²  in a foreign country, whose citizens will enslave them and mistreat them for four hundred years. ³ 

When the man said this, ¹  Moses fled and became a foreigner ²  in the land of Midian, where he became the father of two sons.

But the Lord said to him, ‘Take the sandals off your feet, for the place where you are standing is holy ground. ¹