You are the salt of the earth; but if its taste goes from the salt, how will you make it salt again? it is then good for nothing but to be put out and crushed under foot by men.

But if your eye is evil, all your body will be dark. If then the light which is in you is dark, how dark it will be!

And why are you troubled about clothing? See the flowers of the field, how they come up; they do no work, they make no thread:

Or how will you say to your brother, Let me take out the grain of dust from your eye, when you yourself have a bit of wood in your eye?

If you, then, being evil, are able to give good things to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good things to those who make requests to him?

But when you are given up into their hands, do not be troubled about what to say or how to say it: for in that hour what you are to say will be given to you;

It is enough for the disciple that he may be as his master, and the servant as his lord. If they have given the name Beelzebub to the master of the house, how much more to those of his house!

How he went into the house of God and took for food the holy bread which it was not right for him or for those who were with him to take, but only for the priests?

Or is it not said in the law, how the Sabbath is broken by the priests in the Temple and they do no wrong?

Of how much more value is a man than a sheep! For this reason it is right to do good on the Sabbath day.

But the Pharisees went out and made designs against him, how they might put him to death.

And if Satan sends out Satan, he makes war against himself; how then will he keep his kingdom?

Or how may one go into a strong man's house and take his goods, if he does not first put cords round the strong man? and then he may take his goods.

You offspring of snakes, how are you, being evil, able to say good things? because out of the heart's store come the words of the mouth.

And the servants of the master of the house came and said to him, Sir, did you not put good seed in your field? how then has it evil plants?

And the disciples say to him, How may we get enough bread in a waste place, to give food to such a number of people?

And Jesus says to them, How much bread have you? And they said, Seven cakes, and some small fishes.

How is it that you do not see that I was not talking to you about bread, but about keeping away from the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees?

From that time Jesus went on to make clear to his disciples how he would have to go up to Jerusalem, and undergo much at the hands of those in authority and the chief priests and scribes, and be put to death, and the third day come again from the dead.

And Jesus, answering, said, O false and foolish generation, how long will I be with you? how long will I put up with you? let him come here to me.

And when the disciples saw it they were surprised, saying, How did the fig-tree become dry in so short a time?

But how does it seem to you? A man had two sons; and he came to the first, and said, Son, go and do work today in the vine-garden.

And he says to him, Friend, how came you in here not having a guest's robe? And he had nothing to say.

Then the Pharisees went and had a meeting to see how they might make use of his words to take him.

But the Pharisees, hearing how the mouths of the Sadducees had been stopped, came together;

He says to them, How then does David in the Spirit give him the name of Lord, saying,

If David then gives him the name of Lord, how is he his son?

You snakes, offspring of snakes, how will you be kept from the punishment of hell?

But how then would the Writings come true, which say that so it has to be?

Saying, Sir, we have in mind how that false man said, while he was still living, After three days I will come again from the dead.