but if your eyesight is bad, your whole body will be dark. If however the very light within you is darkness, how dense must the darkness be!

Or how say to your brother, 'Allow me to take the splinter out of your eye,' while the beam is in your own eye?

Hypocrite, first take the beam out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly how to remove the splinter from your brother's eye.

If you then, imperfect as you are, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in Heaven give good things to those who ask Him!

But when they have delivered you up, have no anxiety as to how you shall speak or what you shall say; for at that very time it shall be given you what to say;

Enough for the learner to be on a level with his teacher, and for the servant to be on a level with his master. If they have called the master of the house Baal-zebul, how much more will they slander his servants?

how he entered the House of God and ate the Presented Loaves, which it was not lawful for him or his men to eat, nor for any except the priests?

And have you not read in the Law how on the Sabbath the priests in the Temple break the Sabbath without incurring guilt?

But the Pharisees after leaving the synagogue consulted together against Him, how they might destroy Him.

And if Satan is expelling Satan, he has begun to make war on himself: how therefore shall his kingdom last?

Again, how can any one enter the house of a strong man and carry off his goods, unless first of all he masters and secures the strong man: then he will ransack his house.

O vipers' brood, how can you speak what is good when you are evil? For it is from the overflow of the heart that the mouth speaks.

"How many loaves have you?" Jesus asked. "Seven," they said, "and a few small fish."

and in the morning, 'It will be rough weather to-day, for the sky is red and murky.' You learn how to distinguish the aspect of the heavens, but the signs of the times you cannot.

Do you not yet understand? nor even remember the 5,000 and the five loaves, and how many basketfuls you carried away,

nor the 4,000 and the seven loaves, and how many hampers you carried away?

How is it you do not understand that it was not about bread that I spoke to you? But beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees."

"O unbelieving and perverse generation!" replied Jesus; "how long shall I be with you? how long shall I endure you? Bring him to me."

At this point Peter came to Him with the question, "Master, how often shall my brother act wrongly towards me and I forgive him? seven times?"

When the disciples saw it they exclaimed in astonishment, "How instantaneously the fig-tree has withered away!"

"'My friend,' he said, 'how is it that you came in here without a wedding robe?'

Then the Pharisees went and consulted together how they might entrap Him in His conversation.

"How then," He asked, "does David, taught by the Spirit, call Him Lord, when he says,

"If therefore David calls Him Lord, how can He be his son?"

O serpents, O vipers' brood, how are you to escape condemnation to Gehenna?

"O Jerusalem, Jerusalem! thou who murderest the Prophets and stonest those who have been sent to thee! how often have I desired to gather thy children to me, just as a hen gathers her chickens under her wings, and you would not come!

and consulted how to get Jesus into their power by stratagem and put Him to death.

In that case how are the Scriptures to be fulfilled which declare that thus it must be?"

and Peter recollected the words of Jesus, how He had said, "Before the cock crows you will three times disown me." And he went out and wept aloud, bitterly.

how he entered the house of God in the High-priesthood of Abiathar, and ate the Presented Loaves--which none but the priests are allowed to eat--and gave some to his men also?"

So He called them to Him, and using figurative language He appealed to them, saying, "How is it possible for Satan to expel Satan?

"Do you all miss the meaning of this parable?" He added; "how then will you understand the rest of my parables?"

he spends days and nights, now awake, now asleep, while the seed sprouts and grows tall, he knows not how.

Another saying of His was this: "How are we to picture the Kingdom of God? or by what figure of speech shall we represent it?

"How many loaves have you?" He inquired; "go and see." So they found out, and said, "Five; and a couple of fish."

"How many loaves have you?" He asked. "Seven," they said.

When I broke up the five loaves for the 5,000 men, how many baskets did you carry away full of broken portions?" "Twelve," they said.

"And when the seven for the 4,000, how many hampers full of portions did you take away?" "Seven," they answered.

They also asked Him, "How is it that the Scribes say that Elijah must first come?"

"Elijah," He replied, "does indeed come first and reforms everything; but how is it that it is written of the Son of Man that He will endure much suffering and be held in contempt?

"O unbelieving generation!" replied Jesus; "how long must I be with you? how long must I have patience with you? Bring the boy to me."

Then Jesus asked the father, "How long has he been like this?" "From early childhood," he said;

After the return of Jesus to the house His disciples asked Him privately, "How is it that we could not expel the spirit?"

Then looking round on His disciples Jesus said, "With how hard a struggle will the possessors of riches enter the Kingdom of God!"

The disciples were amazed at His words. Jesus, however, said again, "Children, how hard a struggle is it for those who trust in riches to enter the Kingdom of God!

Jesus, however, called them to Him and said to them, "You are aware how those who are deemed rulers among the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great men make them feel their authority;

But as to the dead, that they rise to life, 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?'

But, while teaching in the Temple, Jesus asked, "How is it the Scribes say that the Christ is a son of David?

"David himself calls Him 'Lord:' how then can He be his son?" And the mass of people found pleasure in listening to Jesus.

Having taken a seat opposite the Treasury, He observed how the people were dropping money into the Treasury, and that many of the wealthy threw in large sums.

It was now two days before the Passover and the feast of Unleavened Bread, and the High Priests and Scribes were bent on finding how to seize Him by stratagem and put Him to death.

When He returned He again found them asleep, for they were very tired; and they knew not how to answer Him.

"How can this be," Mary replied, "seeing that I have no husband?"

and her neighbours and relatives heard how the Lord had had great compassion on her; and they rejoiced with her.

how he entered the house of God and took and ate the Presented Loaves and gave some to his followers--loaves which none but the Priests are allowed to eat?"

How can you say to your brother, 'Brother, let me take that splinter out of your eye,' when all the while you yourself do not see the beam in your own eye? Vain pretender! take the beam out of your own eye first, and then you will see clearly to take the splinter out of your brother's eye.

Be careful, therefore, how you hear; for whoever has anything, to him more shall be given, and whoever has nothing, even that which he thinks he has shall be taken away from him."

And those who had seen it told them how the demoniac was cured.

Then the woman, perceiving that she had not escaped notice, came trembling, and throwing herself down at His feet she stated before all the people the reason why she had touched Him and how she was instantly cured.

"O unbelieving and perverse generation!" replied Jesus; "how long shall I be with you and bear with you? Bring your son here to me."

"Go to the Law," said Jesus; "what is written there? how does it read?"

If you then, with all your human frailty, know how to give your children gifts that are good for them, how much more certainly will your Father who is in Heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him!"

And if Satan really has engaged in fierce conflict with himself, how shall his kingdom stand?--because you say that I expel demons by the power of Baal-zebul.

The Master however said to him, "Here we see how you Pharisees clean the outside of the cup or plate, while your secret hearts are full of greed and selfishness.

Observe the ravens. They neither sow nor reap, and have neither store-chamber nor barn. And yet God feeds them. How far more precious are you than the birds!

Observe the lilies, how they grow. They neither labour nor spin. And yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendour was as beautifully dressed as one of these.

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

Vain pretenders! You know how to read the aspect of earth and sky. How is it you cannot read this present time?

O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou who murderest the Prophets and stonest those who have been sent to thee, how often have I desired to gather thy children just as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you would not come!

"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 called all his master's debtors, one by one, and asked the first, 'How much are you in debt to my master?'

"To a second he said, "'And how much do you owe?' "'A hundred quarters of wheat,' was the answer. "'Here is your account,' said he: 'change it into eighty quarters.'

Jesus saw his sorrow, and said, "With how hard a struggle do the possessors of riches ever enter the Kingdom of God!

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

"David himself therefore calls Him Lord, and how can He be his son?"

When some were remarking about the Temple, how it was embellished with beautiful stones and dedicated gifts, He said,

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

He went and conferred with the High Priests and Commanders as to how he should deliver Him up to them.

The Master turned and looked on Peter; and Peter recollected the Master's words, how He had said to him, "This very day, before the cock crows, you will disown me three times."

The women--those who had come with Jesus from Galilee--followed close behind, and saw the tomb and how His body was placed.

He is not here. He has come back to life. Remember how He spoke to you while He was still in Galilee,

and how our High Priests and Rulers delivered Him up to be sentenced to death, and crucified Him.

Then they related what had happened on the way, and how He had been recognized by them in the breaking of the bread.

"How do you know me?" Nathanael asked. "Before Philip called you," said Jesus, "when you were under the fig-tree I saw you."

"How is it possible," Nicodemus asked, "for a man to be born when he is old? Can he a second time enter his mother's womb and be born?"

"How is all this possible?" asked Nicodemus.

If I have told you earthly things and none of you believe me, how will you believe me if I tell you of things in Heaven?

"How is it," replied the woman, "that a Jew like you asks me, who am a woman and a Samaritan, for water?" (For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.)

How is it possible for you to believe, while you receive glory from one another and have no desire for the glory that comes from the only God?

But if you disbelieve his writings, how are you to believe my words?"

This led to an angry debate among the Jews. "How can this man," they argued, "give us his flesh to eat?"

The Jews were astonished. "How does this man know anything of books," they said, "although he has never been at any of the schools?"

"You--who are you?" they asked. "How is it that I am speaking to you at all?" replied Jesus.

How is it you do not understand me when I speak? It is because you cannot bear to listen to my words.

"How then were your eyes opened?" they asked.

So the Pharisees renewed their questioning as to how he had obtained his sight. "He put clay on my eyes," he replied, "and I washed, and now I can see."

This led some of the Pharisees to say, "That man has not come from God, for he does not keep the Sabbath." "How is it possible for a bad man to do such miracles?" argued others.

"Is this your son, who you say was born blind? How is it then that he can now see?"

but how it is that he can now see or who has opened his eyes we do not know. Ask him himself; he is of full age; he himself will give his own account of it."