Now, produce fruits that answer to your repentance, instead of beginning to say to yourselves, 'We have a father in Abraham.' I tell you, God can raise up children for Abraham from these stones!

From many people daemons were also driven out, clamouring aloud, "You are God's son!" But he checked them and refused to let them say anything, as they knew he was the Christ.

Jesus ordered him not to say a word to anybody, but to "Go off and show yourself to the priest, and offer whatever Moses prescribed for your cleansing, to notify men."

Which is the easier thing, to say, 'Your sins are forgiven,' or to say, 'Rise and walk'?

Besides, no one wants new wine [immediately] after drinking old; 'The old,' he says, 'is better.'"

How dare you say to your brother, 'Brother, let me take out the splinter that is in your eye,' and you never notice the plank in your own eye? You hypocrite! take the plank out of your own eye first, and then you will see properly to take out the splinter in your brother's eye.

When he had finished what he had to say in the hearing of the people, he went into Capharnahum.

and so I did not consider myself fit even to come to you. Just say the word, and let my servant be cured.

For John the Baptist has come, eating no bread and drinking no wine, and you say, 'He has a devil';

the Son of man has come eating and drinking, and you say, 'Here is a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of taxgatherers and sinners!'

Then Jesus addressed him. "Simon," he said, "I have something to say to you." "Speak, teacher," he said.

His fellow guests began to say to themselves, "Who is this, to forgive even sins?"

He was still speaking when someone came from the house of the synagogue-president to say, "Your daughter is dead. Do not trouble the teacher any further."

Now it happened that while he was praying by himself his disciples were beside him. So he inquired of them, "Who do the crowds say I am?"

They replied, "John the Baptist, though some say Elijah and some say that one of the ancient prophets has arisen."

He said to them, "And who do you say I am?" Peter replied, "The Christ of God."

Another man also said to him, "I will follow you, Lord. But let me first say good-bye to my people at home."

Whatever house you enter, first say, 'Peace be to this household!'

He said to them, "When you pray, say, Father, thy name be revered, thy Reign begin;

And he said to them, "Suppose one of you has a friend, and you go to him at midnight and say to him, 'Friend, let me have three loaves;

and if Satan is divided against himself, how can his realm stand? You say I am casting out daemons by Beelzebul?

When an unclean spirit leaves a man, it roams through dry places in search of refreshment. As it finds none, then it says, 'I will go back to the house I left,'

As the crowds were thronging to him, he proceeded to say, "This is an evil generation: it demands a Sign, but no Sign will be given to it except the Sign of Jonah;

One of the jurists said to him, "Teacher, when you say this you are insulting us as well."

Meanwhile as the crowd was gathering in its thousands till they trod on one another, he proceeded to say to his disciples first of all, "Be on your guard against the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy,

Everyone also who says a word against the Son of man will be forgiven for it, but he who blasphemes against the holy Spirit will never be forgiven.

When they bring you before synagogues and the magistrates and authorities, do not trouble yourselves about how to defend yourselves or what to say,

for the holy Spirit will teach you at that hour what you should say."

And I will say to my soul, "Soul, you have ample stores laid up for many a year; take your ease, eat, drink and be merry."'

But if that servant says to himself, 'My lord and master is long of arriving,' and if he starts to beat the menservants and maidservants, to eat and drink and get drunk,

And to the crowds he said, "When you see a cloud rise in the west, you say, 'There is a shower coming,' and so it is:

when you feel the south wind blow, you say, 'There will be heat,' and so it is.

You will then proceed to say, 'But we ate and drank in your presence, and you taught in our streets!'

'I tell you,' he will say, 'I do not know where you come from; begone everyone of you, you evildoers.'

See, your House is left to yourselves. I tell you, you will never see me till the day comes when you say, Blessed be he who comes in the Lord's name."

and when he gets home he gathers his friends and neighbours: 'Rejoice with me,' he says to them, 'for I have found the sheep I lost.'

I will be up and off to my father, and I will say to him, "Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you;

The Lord said, "If you had faith the size of a grain of mustard-seed, you would say to this mulberry tree, 'Be uprooted and planted in the sea,' and it would obey you.

Which of you, with a servant out ploughing or shepherding, will say to him when he comes in from the field, 'Come at once and take your place at table'?

Will the man not rather say to him, 'Get some thing ready for my supper; gird yourself and wait on me till I eat and drink; then you can eat and drink yourself'?

Well, it is the same with you; when you have done all you are bidden, say, 'We are but servants; we have only done our duty.' "

no one will say, 'Here it is' or 'There it is,' for the Reign of God is now in your midst."

Men will say, 'See, here he is!' 'See, there he is!' but do not go out or run after them,

Listen," said the Lord, "to what this unjust judge says!

Now his people hated him and sent envoys after him to say, 'We object to him having royal power over us.'

If anyone asks you, 'Why are you untethering it?' this is what you will say, 'The Lord needs it.'"

Now they reasoned to themselves, "If we say, 'From heaven,' he will ask, 'Why did you not believe him?'

And if we say, 'From men,' the whole of the people will stone us, for they are convinced John was a prophet."

They put this question to him, "Teacher, we know you are straight in what you say and teach, you do not look to human favour but teach the Way of God honestly.

But he said to them, "How can people say that the Christ is David's son?

Why, David himself says in the book of psalms, The Lord said to my Lord, 'Sit at my right hand,

Then will people say to the mountains, 'Fall on us!' and to the hills, 'Cover us.'