Now when the crowds came thronging upon Him, He proceeded to say, "The present generation is a wicked generation: it requires some sign, but no sign shall be given to it except that of Jonah.

The Queen of the South will awake at the Judgement together with the men of the present generation, and will condemn them; because she came from the extremity of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; but mark! One greater than Solomon is here.

"When any one lights a lamp, he never puts it in the cellar or under the bushel, but on the lampstand, that people who come in may see the light.

The lamp of the body is the eye. When your eyesight is good, your whole body also is lighted up; but when it is defective, your body is darkened.

Consider therefore whether the light that is in you is anything but mere darkness.

But as to what is within, give alms, and instantly all is clean in you.

"But alas for you Pharisees! for you pay tithes on your mint and rue and every kind of garden vegetable, and are indifferent to justice and the love of God. These are the things you ought to have attended to, while not neglecting the others.

"But to you who are my friends I say, "'Be not afraid of those who kill the body and after that can do nothing further.

But the very hairs on your heads are all counted. Away with fear: you are more precious than a multitude of sparrows.'

But he who disowns me before men will be disowned before the angels of God.

"Moreover every one who shall speak against the Son of Man, may obtain forgiveness; but he who blasphemes the Holy Spirit will never obtain forgiveness.

"But God said to him, "'Foolish man, this night your life is demanded from you; and these preparations--for whom shall they be?'

"So is it with him who amasses treasure for himself, but has no riches in God."

But if God so clothes the vegetation in the fields, that blooms to-day and to-morrow will be thrown into the oven, how much more certainly will He clothe you, you men of feeble faith!

But make His Kingdom the object of your pursuit, and these things shall be given you in addition.

But if that servant should say in his heart, 'My Master is a long time in coming,' and should begin to beat the menservants and the maids, and to eat and drink, drinking even to excess;

But he who had not been told it and yet did what deserved the scourge, will receive but few lashes. To whomsoever much has been given, from him much will be required; and to whom much has been entrusted, of him a larger amount will be demanded.

But I have a baptism to undergo; and how am I pent up till it is accomplished!

"But the gardener pleaded, "'Leave it, Sir, this year also, till I have dug round it and manured it.

But Jesus saw her, and calling to her, He said to her, "Woman, you are free from your weakness."

But the Lord's reply to him was, "Hypocrites, does not each of you on the Sabbath untie his bullock or his ass from the stall and lead him to water?

when some one asked Him, "Sir, are there but few who are to be saved?"

"But He will reply, "'I tell you that you are no friends of mine. Begone from me, all of you, wrongdoers that you are.'

See, your house is left to you. But I tell you that you will never see me again until you say, 'Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord!'"

But when you entertain, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, and the blind;

and you will be blessed, because they have no means of requiting you, but there will be requital for you at the Resurrection of the righteous."

"But they all without exception began to excuse themselves. The first told him, "'I have purchased a piece of land, and must of necessity go and look at it. Pray hold me excused.'

saying, 'This man began to build, but could not finish.'

"Salt is good: but if even the salt has become tasteless, what will you use to season it?

and he longed to make a hearty meal of the pods the swine were eating, but no one gave him any.

"But on coming to himself he said, "'How many of my father's hired men have more bread than they want, while I here am dying of hunger!

"So he rose and came to his father. But while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and pitied him, and ran and threw his arms round his neck and kissed him tenderly.

"But the father said to his servants, "'Fetch a good coat quickly--the best one--and put it on him; and bring a ring for his finger and shoes for his feet.

"Then he was angry and would not go in. But his father came out and entreated him.

but now that this son of yours is come who has eaten up your property among his bad women, you have killed the fat calf for him.'

"But I charge you, so to use the wealth which is ever tempting to dishonesty as to win friends who, when it fails, shall welcome you to the tents that never perish.

"You are they," He said to them, "who boast of their own goodness before men, but God sees your hearts; for that which holds a proud position among men is detestable in God's sight.

But it is easier for earth and sky to pass away than for one smallest detail of the Law to fall to the ground.

"But in course of time the beggar died; and he was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom. The rich man also died, and had a funeral.

"'Remember, my child,' said Abraham, 'that you had all your good things during your lifetime, and that Lazarus in like manner had his bad things. But, now and here, he is receiving consolation and you are in agony.

"'No, father Abraham,' he pleaded; 'but if some one goes to them from the dead, they will repent.'

Jesus said to His disciples, "It is inevitable that causes of stumbling should come; but alas for him through whom they come!

But which of you who has a servant ploughing, or tending sheep, will say to him when he comes in from the farm, 'Come at once and take your place at table,'

"Were not all ten made clean?" Jesus asked; "but where are the nine?

Then, turning to His disciples, He said, "There will come a time when you will wish you could see a single one of the days of the Son of Man, but will not see one.

But first He must endure much suffering, and be rejected by the present generation.

but on the day that Lot left Sodom, God rained fire and brimstone from the sky and destroyed them all.

Any man who makes it his object to keep his own life safe, will lose it; but whoever loses his life will preserve it.

"For a time he would not, but afterwards he said to himself, "'Though I have neither reverence for God nor respect for man,

"But the tax-gatherer, standing far back, would not so much as lift his eyes to Heaven, but kept beating his breast and saying, "'O God, be reconciled to me, sinner that I am.'

"I tell you that this man went home more thoroughly absolved from guilt than the other; for every one who uplifts himself will be humbled, but he who humbles himself will be uplifted."

On one occasion people also brought with them their infants, for Him to touch them; but the disciples, noticing this, proceeded to find fault with them.

"Why do you call me good?" replied Jesus; "there is no one good but One, namely God.

But on hearing these words he was deeply sorrowful, for he was exceedingly rich.

Those in front reproved him and tried to silence him; but he continued shouting, louder than ever, "Son of David, take pity on me."

He was anxious to see what sort of man Jesus was; but he could not because of the crowd, for he was short in stature.

But as for those enemies of mine who were unwilling that I should become their king, bring them here, and cut them to pieces in my presence.'"

"O that at this time thou hadst known--yes even thou--what makes peace possible! But now it is hid from thine eyes.

"It is written," He said, "'And My house shall be the House of Prayer,' but you have made it a robbers' cave."

But they could not find any way of doing it, for the people all hung upon His lips.

At vintage-time he sent a servant to the vine-dressers, for them to give him a share of the crop; but the vine-dressers beat him cruelly and sent him away empty-handed.

"But when the vine-dressers saw him, they discussed the matter with one another, and said, "'This is the heir: let us kill him, that the inheritance may be ours.'

Every one who falls on that stone will be severely hurt, but on whomsoever it falls, he will be utterly crushed."

So they put a question to Him. "Rabbi," they said, "we know that you say and teach what is right and that you make no distinctions between one man and another, but teach God's way truly.

But He saw through their knavery and replied,

"Rabbi, Moses made it a law for us that if a man's brother should die, leaving a wife but no children, the man shall marry the widow and raise up a family for his brother.

But as for those who shall have been deemed worthy to find a place in that other age and in the Resurrection from among the dead, the men do not marry and the women are not given in marriage.

But that the dead rise to life even Moses clearly implies in the passage about the Bush, where he calls the Lord 'The God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.'

He is not a God of dead, but of living men, for to Him are all living."

But He asked them, "How is it they say that the Christ is a son of David?

For from what they could well spare they have all of them contributed to the offerings, but she in her need has thrown in all she had to live on."

But when you hear of wars and turmoils, be not afraid; for these things must happen first, but the end does not come immediately."

"But before all these things happen they will lay hands on you and persecute you. They will deliver you up to synagogues and to prison, and you will be brought before kings and governors for my sake.

"But when you see Jerusalem with armies encamping round her on every side, then be certain that her overthrow is close at hand.

But when all this is beginning to take place, grieve no longer. Lift up your heads, because your deliverance is drawing near."

Earth and sky will pass away, but it is certain that my words will not pass away.

"But take heed to yourselves, lest your souls be weighed down with self-indulgence and drunkenness or the anxieties of this life, and that day come upon you, suddenly, like a falling trap;

But beware of slumbering; and every moment pray that you may be fully strengthened to escape from all these coming evils, and to take your stand in the presence of the Son of Man."

His habit at this time was to teach in the Temple by day, but to go out and spend the night on the Mount called the Oliveyard.

and the High Priests and the Scribes were contriving how to destroy Him. But they feared the people.

But He said to them, "The kings of the Gentiles are their masters, and those who exercise authority over them are called Benefactors.

With you it is not so; but let the greatest among you be as the younger, and the leader be like him who serves.

For which is the greater--he who sits at table, or he who waits on him? Is it not he who sits at table? But my position among you is that of one who waits on others.

But *I* have prayed for *you* that your faith may not fail, and you, when at last you have come back to your true self, must strengthen your brethren."

"But now," said He, "let the one who has a purse take it, and he who has a bag must do the same. And let him who has no sword sell his outer garment and buy one.

But when He arrived at the place, He said to them, "Pray that you may not come into temptation."

But He Himself withdrew from them about a stone's throw, and knelt down and prayed repeatedly, saying,

"Father, if it be Thy will, take this cup away from me; yet not my will but Thine be done!"

While day after day I was with you in the Temple, you did not lay hands upon me; but to you belongs this hour--and the power of darkness."

But he denied it, and declared, "Woman, I do not know him."

But from this time forward the Son of Man will be seated at the right hand of God's omnipotence."

But they violently insisted. "He stirs up the people," they said, "throughout all Judaea with His teaching--even from Galilee (where He first started)

So he put a number of questions to Him, but Jesus gave him no reply.

"You have brought this man to me on a charge of corrupting the loyalty of the people. But, you see, I have examined him in your presence and have discovered in the man no ground for the accusations which you bring against him.

But Pilate once more addressed them, wishing to set Jesus free.

But they urgently insisted, demanding with frantic outcries that He should be crucified; and their clamour prevailed.

The man who was lying in prison charged with riot and murder and for whom they clamoured he set free, but Jesus he gave up to be dealt with as they desired.

But Jesus turned towards them and said, "Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not for me, but weep for yourselves and for your children.

But the other, answering, reproved him. "Do you also not fear God," he said, "when you are actually suffering the same punishment?

And we indeed are suffering justly, for we are receiving due requital for what we have done. But He has done nothing amiss."