And a leper came to him, begging him, kneeling down to him, and saying to him, "If you want to, you can make me clean."

"Why does this man speak like that? He is blaspheming; who can forgive sins but God alone?"

And Jesus said to them, "Can the groomsmen fast while the bridegroom is with them? As long as they have the bridegroom with them, they cannot fast.

And so he summoned them, and said to them in parables, "How can Satan cast out Satan?

But no one can enter into the house of the strong man to plunder, unless he first binds the strong man; and then he will plunder his house.

yet when it is sown, grows up, and becomes greater than all the herbs, and puts out great branches, so that the birds of the sky can lodge under its shadow."

There is nothing from outside of the man, that going into him can defile him; but the things which proceed out of the man are those that defile the man."

His clothing became glistening, exceedingly white, such as no launderer on earth can whiten them.

Often it has cast him both into the fire and into the water, to destroy him. But if you can do anything, have compassion on us, and help us."

Jesus said to him, "'If you can?' All things are possible to him who believes."

And he said to them, "This kind can come out by nothing, except by prayer and fasting."

They were exceedingly astonished, saying to him, "Then who can be saved?"

Jesus responded, as he taught in the temple, "How can the scribes say that the Messiah is the son of David?

David himself calls him Lord, so how can he be his son?" The common people heard him gladly.

For you always have the poor with you, and whenever you want to, you can do them good; but you will not always have me.