Jesus answered, “Friend, who made me a judge or arbitrator between the two of you?”
But you, a human being, are judging others for doing the same things you’re doing yourself. So how do you think you’ll escape when God judges you?
But who are you, a mere human being, to talk back to God? “Can a clay pot say to the one who made it, ‘Why did you make me like this?’ ”
So when you judge someone else, you don’t have any excuse. When you judge another person, you’re judging yourself, because you do the same things you blame others for doing.
“No one, sir,” she said. “Then I don’t condemn you either,” Jesus told her. “Go now and stop sinning.”
Jesus saw that they were about to come and make him be their king whether he wanted to or not. So he went away again to a mountain by himself.
When Jesus saw how much faith they had, he said to the man, “Friend, your sins are forgiven.”
A little while later someone else saw Peter and said, “You also are one of them.” “No,” he insisted, “I’m not!”
Someone in the crowd said to Jesus, “Teacher, tell my brother to divide the family property with me.”