"I baptize you with water, for repentance, but the one coming after me is more powerful than I am -- I am not worthy to carry his sandals. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.

Let your word be 'Yes, yes' or 'No, no.' More than this is from the evil one.

And if you only greet your brothers, what more do you do? Even the Gentiles do the same, don't they?

"Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink, or about your body, what you will wear. Isn't there more to life than food and more to the body than clothing?

Look at the birds in the sky: They do not sow, or reap, or gather into barns, yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Aren't you more valuable than they are?

And if this is how God clothes the wild grass, which is here today and tomorrow is tossed into the fire to heat the oven, won't he clothe you even more, you people of little faith?

If you then, although you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask him!

I tell you the truth, it will be more bearable for the region of Sodom and Gomorrah on the day of judgment than for that town!

It is enough for the disciple to become like his teacher, and the slave like his master. If they have called the head of the house 'Beelzebul,' how much more will they defame the members of his household!

So do not be afraid; you are more valuable than many sparrows.

"Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.

What did you go out to see? A prophet? Yes, I tell you, and more than a prophet.

But I tell you, it will be more bearable for Tyre and Sidon on the day of judgment than for you!

But I tell you, it will be more bearable for the region of Sodom on the day of judgment than for you!"

How much more valuable is a person than a sheep! So it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath."

Then it goes and brings with it seven other spirits more evil than itself, and they go in and live there, so the last state of that person is worse than the first. It will be that way for this evil generation as well!"

For whoever has will be given more, and will have an abundance. But whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken from him.

And if he finds it, I tell you the truth, he will rejoice more over it than over the ninety-nine that did not go astray.

And when those hired first came, they thought they would receive more. But each one also received the standard wage.

The crowd scolded them to get them to be quiet. But they shouted even more loudly, "Lord, have mercy on us, Son of David!"

Again he sent other slaves, more than the first, and they treated them the same way.

"Woe to you, experts in the law and you Pharisees, hypocrites! You give a tenth of mint, dill, and cumin, yet you neglect what is more important in the law -- justice, mercy, and faithfulness! You should have done these things without neglecting the others.

The one who had received five talents went off right away and put his money to work and gained five more.

In the same way, the one who had two gained two more.

The one who had received the five talents came and brought five more, saying, 'Sir, you entrusted me with five talents. See, I have gained five more.'

The one with the two talents also came and said, 'Sir, you entrusted two talents to me. See, I have gained two more.'

For the one who has will be given more, and he will have more than enough. But the one who does not have, even what he has will be taken from him.

So leaving them again, he went away and prayed for the third time, saying the same thing once more.

Or do you think that I cannot call on my Father, and that he would send me more than twelve legions of angels right now?

He asked, "Why? What wrong has he done?" But they shouted more insistently, "Crucify him!"