The Sayings Gospel Q · 6 of 12

Prayer and Controversy

2. "When you pray, say:" Father, We honor your holy name. Let your reign come.

3. Give us our daily bread today.

4. Forgive us our debts, because we too forgive everyone who's indebted to us. Don't put us in harm's way.

9. "I'm telling you, ask and you'll receive. Look and you'll find. Knock and it'll be opened for you, (10) because everyone who asks receives. The one who looks finds. To one who knocks it'll be opened."

11. "Which of you would give your child a stone if they ask for bread?"

12. "Or who would give them a snake if they ask for fish?"

13. "So if you, evil as you are, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the heavenly Father give good things to those who ask!"

14. He was casting out a demon that couldn't speak. And when the demon came out, the person who couldn't speak started talking. And the crowds were amazed.

15. But some said, "He casts out demons with the power of Beelzebul, the ruler of the demons!"

17. Knowing what they were thinking, he told them, "Every divided empire is devastated, and a divided house will fall."

18. "If the Enemy is divided, how will its empire endure?"

19. "But if Beelzebul gives me power to cast out demons, who gives your people power to cast them out? So they prove you wrong."

20. "But if I cast out demons by the finger of God, then God's reign has come to you!"

23. "Whoever isn't with me is against me, and whoever doesn't gather with me, scatters."

24. "When the impure spirit leaves someone, it journeys through arid places looking for rest, but doesn't find it. Then it says, 'I'll return to the home I left'; (25) and when it comes back, it finds it swept and organized."

26. "Then it goes out and brings seven other spirits that are even more evil, and they move in and live there. That person ends up even worse off than before."

16. Some demanded him to show a sign.

29. But he said, "This is an evil generation. It demands a sign, but no sign will be provided except the sign of Jonah!"

30. "As Jonah became a sign to the Ninevites, so the Son of Humanity will be a sign to this generation."

31. "The queen of the South will rise up in the judgment with this generation and will condemn it, because she came from the ends of the earth to hear Solomon's wisdom; and look, something greater than Solomon is here."

32. "The people of Nineveh will rise up in the judgment with this generation and will condemn it, because they changed in response to Jonah's announcement, and look, something greater than Jonah is here."

33. "No one lights a lamp and hides it, but puts it on a lampstand, and it enlightens everyone in the house."

34. "Your eye is the body's lamp. If your eye is single, your whole body is full of light. If your eye is evil, your whole body is dark."

35. "So if the light within you is dark, how dark it is!"

42. "Woe to you, Pharisees! You tithe your mint, dill, and cumin, but you ignore justice, mercy, and trust. You should've done these without ignoring the others."

39. "Woe to you, Pharisees! You clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside they're full of greed and decadence."

41. "Clean the inside of the cup, and its outside will be clean too."

43. "Woe to you, Pharisees! You love the place of honor at banquets, the front seat in the synagogues, and accolades in the marketplaces."

44. "Woe to you, because you're like unmarked graves that people walk on without knowing it."

46. "And woe to you, lawyers! You load people with burdens that are hard to bear, but you yourselves won't even lift a finger to help them."

52. "Woe to you, lawyers! You shut people out of God's reign. You didn't enter, and didn't let those enter who are trying to do so."

47. "Woe to you, because you build the tombs of the prophets whom your ancestors killed."

48. "You prove that you're the descendants of your ancestors."

49. "So Wisdom said, 'I'll send prophets and sages. Some of them they'll kill and persecute.'"

50. "So this generation will be guilty of the blood of all the prophets shed from the beginning of the world, (51) from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zechariah, who died between the altar and the sanctuary. Yes, I'm telling you that this generation will be held responsible."