But that you may know that the Son of Man has power on earth to forgive sins” —He said to the paralytic,

Some fell on stony ground, where it did not have much earth; and immediately it sprang up because it had no depth of earth.

For the earth yields crops by itself: first the blade, then the head, after that the full grain in the head.

It is like a mustard seed which, when it is sown on the ground, is smaller than all the seeds on earth;

His clothes became shining, exceedingly white, like snow, such as no launderer on earth can whiten them.

For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. And there will be earthquakes in various places, and there will be famines and troubles. These are the beginnings of sorrows.

And then He will send His angels, and gather together His elect from the four winds, from the farthest part of earth to the farthest part of heaven.

Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will by no means pass away.