Jonah Is Thrown into the Sea

And they said to one another, “Come, let us cast lots, that we may know on whose account this evil has come upon us.” So they cast lots, and the lot fell on Jonah.

“Thus says the Lord of hosts, Render true judgments, show kindness and mercy to one another,

These are the things that you shall do: Speak the truth to one another; render in your gates judgments that are true and make for peace;

do not devise evil in your hearts against one another, and love no false oath, for all these things I hate, declares the Lord.”

So I said, “I will not be your shepherd. What is to die, let it die. What is to be destroyed, let it be destroyed. And let those who are left devour the flesh of one another.”

Judah Profaned the Covenant

Have we not all one Father? Has not one God created us? Why then are we faithless to one another, profaning the covenant of our fathers?

The Book of Remembrance

Then those who feared the Lord spoke with one another. The Lord paid attention and heard them, and a book of remembrance was written before him of those who feared the Lord and esteemed his name.

And then many will fall away and betray one another and hate one another.

And they were filled with great fear and said to one another, “Who then is this, that even the wind and the sea obey him?”

And they began discussing with one another the fact that they had no bread.

But they kept silent, for on the way they had argued with one another about who was the greatest.

Salt is good, but if the salt has lost its saltiness, how will you make it salty again? Have salt in yourselves, and be at peace with one another.”

And they discussed it with one another, saying, “If we say, ‘From heaven,’ he will say, ‘Why then did you not believe him?’

But those tenants said to one another, ‘This is the heir. Come, let us kill him, and the inheritance will be ours.’

The Great Commandment

And one of the scribes came up and heard them disputing with one another, and seeing that he answered them well, asked him, “Which commandment is the most important of all?”

So also the chief priests with the scribes mocked him to one another, saying, “He saved others; he cannot save himself.

And they were saying to one another, “Who will roll away the stone for us from the entrance of the tomb?”

When the angels went away from them into heaven, the shepherds said to one another, “Let us go over to Bethlehem and see this thing that has happened, which the Lord has made known to us.”

And they were all amazed and said to one another, “What is this word? For with authority and power he commands the unclean spirits, and they come out!”

But they were filled with fury and discussed with one another what they might do to Jesus.

They are like children sitting in the marketplace and calling to one another, “‘We played the flute for you, and you did not dance; we sang a dirge, and you did not weep.’

He said to them, “Where is your faith?” And they were afraid, and they marveled, saying to one another, “Who then is this, that he commands even winds and water, and they obey him?”

Beware of the Leaven of the Pharisees

In the meantime, when so many thousands of the people had gathered together that they were trampling one another, he began to say to his disciples first, “Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.

And they discussed it with one another, saying, “If we say, ‘From heaven,’ he will say, ‘Why did you not believe him?’

And they began to question one another, which of them it could be who was going to do this.