He told his disciples to have a boat always ready for his use, to prevent his being crushed by the crowd.

but the worries of the time and the pleasure of being rich and passions for other things creep in and choke the message out and it yields nothing.

They were discussing with one another their being without bread.

And he noticed it and said to them, "Why do you discuss your being without bread? Do you not yet see nor understand? Are your minds so dull?

For when people rise from the dead, there is no marrying or being married, but they live as angels do in heaven.

But as to the dead being raised, have you never read in the Book of Moses, in the passage about the bush, how God said to him, 'I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob'?