Mary said to the angel, “How will this be, since I am a virgin and have no intimacy with any man?”

The scribes and the Pharisees began to consider and question [the implications of what He had said], saying, “Who is this man who speaks blasphemies [by claiming the rights and prerogatives of God]? Who can forgive sins [that is, remove guilt, nullify sin’s penalty, and assign righteousness] except God alone?”

Jesus said to them, “Can you make the wedding guests of the bridegroom fast while he is with them?

He also told them a parable: “Can a blind man guide [another] blind man? Will they not both fall into a hole in the ground?

How can you say to your brother, ‘Brother, allow me to take out the speck that is in your eye,’ when you yourself do not see the log that is in your own eye? You hypocrite (play actor, pretender), first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take out the speck that is in your brother’s eye.

“I say to you, My friends, do not be afraid of those who kill the body and after that have nothing more that they can do.

And which of you by worrying can add one hour to his life’s span?

and if it bears fruit after this, fine; but if not, cut it down.’”

So he called him and said to him, ‘What is this I hear about you? Give an accounting of your management [of my affairs], for you can no longer be [my] manager.’

And those who heard it said, “Then who can be saved?”

Then He said to them, “How is it that people say that the Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed) is David’s son?