"You are the salt of the earth! But if salt loses its strength, how can it be made salt again? It is good for nothing but to be thrown away and trodden underfoot.

but if your eye is unsound, your whole body will be dark. If, therefore, your very light is darkness, how deep the darkness will be!

Why should you worry about clothing? See how the wild flowers grow. They do not toil or spin,

How can you say to your brother, 'Just let me get that speck out of your eye,' when all the time there is a beam in your own?

So if you, bad as you are, know enough to give your children what is good, how much more surely will your Father in heaven give what is good to those who ask him for it!

But when they give you up, you must have no anxiety about how to speak or what to say, for you will be told at the very moment what you ought to say,

A pupil should be satisfied to come to be like his teacher, or a slave, to come to be like his master. If men have called the head of the house Beelzebub, how much worse names will they give to the members of his household!

How is it that he went into the House of God and that they ate the Presentation Loaves which it was against the Law for him and his companions to eat, or for anyone except the priests?

Or did you never read in the Law how the priests in the Temple are not guilty when they break the Sabbath?

And how much more a man is worth than a sheep! Therefore, it is right to do people good on the Sabbath."

If Satan is driving Satan out, he is disunited, and so how can his kingdom last?

How can anyone get into a strong man's house and carry off his property unless he first binds the strong man? After that he can plunder his house.

You brood of snakes! how can you, bad as you are, utter anything good? For the mouth says only what the heart is full of.

Jesus said to them, "How many loaves have you?" They said, "Seven, and a few small fish."

Do you not understand yet? Do you not remember the five loaves for the five thousand, and how many baskets full you gathered up?

Nor the seven loaves for the four thousand, and how many baskets full you gathered up?

And Peter spoke, and said to Jesus, "Master, how good it is that we are here! If you wish, I will make three huts here, one for you, and one for Moses, and one for Elijah."

Jesus answered, "O you unbelieving, obstinate people! How long must I be with you? How long must I put up with you? Bring him here to me!"

Then Peter came to him and said, "Master, how many times am I to forgive my brother when he wrongs me? Seven times over?"

When the disciples saw it, they were amazed and said, "How did the fig tree come to wither up immediately?"

And he said to him, 'My friend, how did you happen to come here without wedding clothes?' But he had nothing to say.

He said to them, "How is it then that David under the Spirit's influence calls him lord, and says,

So if David calls him lord, how can he be his son?"

You serpents! You brood of snakes! How can you escape being sentenced to the pit?

"O Jerusalem, Jerusalem! murdering the prophets, and stoning those who are sent to her, how often I have longed to gather your children around me, as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, but you refused!

But then how are the Scriptures to be fulfilled, which say that this must happen?"

And Peter followed him at a distance as far as the courtyard of the high priest's house, and he went inside and sat down among the attendants to see how it came out.