And he said to them, "Exact no more than the sum allowed you."

But all the more the report about him continued to spread; and great crowds began to come together to hear him, and to be healed of their infirmities.

"Yes, I tell you and more than a prophet. This is he who it is written. "Behold I send a messenger before thy face, Who shall prepare thy way before thee.

"However, it will be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon in the judgment than for you.

"The next day he took two silver pieces and gave them to the landlord and said, "'Take care of him, and whatever more you spend I will repay it to you on my way back.'

"If you give good gifts to your children, how much more shall the Father who is in heaven give the Holy spirit to those that ask him!"

"Then it goes off and fetches seven other spirits more wicked than itself, and they go in and live there. And the last state of that man is worse than the first."

"But I say to you who are my friends, do not be afraid of those who kill the body and after that have no more that they can do.

"But the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not! You are of more value than many sparrow!

"For the life is more than food, and the body is more than clothes.

"Consider the ravens; they neither sow nor reap; they have no storehouse nor barn. And yet God feeds them. How much more are you worth than the birds?

"Now if God so clothe the grass in the field, which today is, and tomorrow is cast into the oven, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?

"but he who did not know, but did things worthy of a beating, will receive few lashes. To whom much has been given, from him much will be required, and to whom much is entrusted, of him they will ask the more.

"When you are invited by any one to a marriage-feast, do not sit down in the best seat, lest a guest more distinguished than yourself has been invited, and your host come to you and say,

"I say to you that even so there shall be joy in heaven over one sinner who repents, more than over ninety and nine just persons who need no repentance.

"'"I am no more worthy to be called your son; only make me like one of your hired men."'

"The son said to him, 'Father, I have sinned against heaven and in your sight and am no more worthy to be called your son.'

Those who went ahead began to reprove him and to tell him to be still; but he kept clamorously shouting all the more, "Son of David, take pity on me!"

"For indeed they cannot die any more; they are equal to the angels, and through being sons of the resurrection are sons of God.

And he said: "Of truth I tell you that this poor widow has put in more than they all;

"Take this, and divide it among yourselves; for I tell you that I will drink no more of the fruit of the vine until the kingdom of God is come."

(And being in agony he kept praying more earnestly; and his sweat became as if it were great drops of blood falling down upon the ground.)

But they kept shouting the more insistently, demanding that he should be crucified, and their shouts won the day.