A reading from the holy Gospel according to Matthew 18:15-20
Jesus said to his disciples: “If your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault between you and him alone.
Jesus said to his disciples: “If your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault between you and him alone.
While Jesus was going through a field of grain on a sabbath, his disciples were picking the heads of grain, rubbing them in their hands, and eating them.
The scribes and Pharisees said to Jesus, “The disciples of John the Baptist fast often and offer prayers, and the disciples of the Pharisees do the same; but yours eat and drink.” Jesus answered them, “Can you make the wedding guests fast while the bridegroom is with them?
While the crowd was pressing in on Jesus and listening to the word of God, he was standing by the Lake of Gennesaret.
After Jesus left the synagogue, he entered the house of Simon.
Jesus went down to Capernaum, a town of Galilee.
Jesus came to Nazareth, where he had grown up, and went according to his custom into the synagogue on the sabbath day.
Jesus began to show his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer greatly from the elders, the chief priests, and the scribes, and be killed and on the third day be raised.
Herod was the one who had John the Baptist arrested and bound in prison on account of Herodias, the wife of his brother Philip, whom he had married.
Jesus told his disciples this parable: “The Kingdom of heaven will be like ten virgins who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom.