Do not suppose that you can say to yourselves, 'We have Abraham for our forefather,' for I tell you God can produce descendants for Abraham right out of these stones!

"You are the salt of the earth! But if salt loses its strength, how can it be made salt again? It is good for nothing but to be thrown away and trodden underfoot.

For if you love only those who love you, what reward can you expect? Do not the very tax-collectors do that?

No slave can belong to two masters, for he will either hate one and love the other, or stand by one and make light of the other. You cannot serve God and money.

But which of you with all his worry can add a single hour to his life?

How can you say to your brother, 'Just let me get that speck out of your eye,' when all the time there is a beam in your own?

You hypocrite! First get the beam out of your own eye, and then you can see to get the speck out of your brother's eye.

You can tell them by their fruit. Do people pick grapes off thorns, or figs off thistles?

No sound tree can bear bad fruit, and no poor tree can bear good fruit.

So you can tell them by their fruit.

And a leper came up to him and fell on his knees before him, saying, "If you only choose, sir, you can cure me!"

Jesus said to them, "Can wedding guests mourn as long as the bridegroom is with them? But a time will come when the bridegroom will be taken from them, and they will fast then.

For she said to herself, "If I can just touch his cloak, I will get well."

When he had gone indoors, the blind men came up to him, and he said to them, "Do you believe that I can do this?" They said to him, "Yes, sir."

Have no fear of those who kill the body, but cannot kill the soul. You had better be afraid of one who can destroy both soul and body in the pit.

Do not sparrows sell two for a cent? And yet not one of them can fall to the ground against your Father's will!

And no one who will give the humblest of my disciples even a cup of cold water because he is my disciple, I tell you, can ever fail of his reward."

The blind are regaining their sight and the lame can walk, the lepers are being cured and the deaf can hear, the dead are being raised and good news is being preached to the poor.

But to what can I compare this present age? It is like children sitting about in the bazaars and calling out to their playmates,

And all the crowds of people were astounded, and said, "Can this be the Son of David?"

If Satan is driving Satan out, he is disunited, and so how can his kingdom last?

How can anyone get into a strong man's house and carry off his property unless he first binds the strong man? After that he can plunder his house.

You brood of snakes! how can you, bad as you are, utter anything good? For the mouth says only what the heart is full of.

"When a foul spirit goes out of a man, it roams through deserts in search of rest and can find none.

He said to them, "Then remember that every scribe who has become a disciple of the Kingdom of Heaven must be like a householder who can supply from his storeroom new things as well as old."

Can you not see that whatever goes into the mouth passes into the stomach and then is disposed of?

The disciples said to him, "Where can we get bread enough in this solitude to feed such a crowd?"

And Peter took him aside and began to reprove him for it, saying, "God bless you, Master! that can never happen to you!"

For what good will it do a man if he gains the whole world but parts with his life? What can a man give to buy back his life?

He said to them, "Because you have so little faith. For I tell you, if you have faith the size of a grain of mustard, you can say to this mountain, 'Move from here over to there!' and it will move, and nothing will be impossible for you."

He said to them, "It is not everyone who can accept that, but only those who have a special gift.

For some are incapable of marriage from their birth, and some have been made so by men, and some have made themselves so for the sake of the Kingdom of Heaven. Let him accept it who can."

But when the disciples heard this, they were completely astounded and said, "Then who can be saved?"

But Jesus answered, "You do not know what you are asking for! Can you drink what I am going to drink?" They answered, "Yes, we can."

So if David calls him lord, how can he be his son?"

You serpents! You brood of snakes! How can you escape being sentenced to the pit?

for false Christs and false prophets will appear, and they will show great signs and wonders to mislead God's chosen people if they can.

They were deeply hurt and began to say to him one after another, "Can it be I, Master?"

Judas, who betrayed him, said, "Can it be I, Master?" He said to him, "You are right!"

and said, "This man said, 'I can tear down the sanctuary of God, and build it up in three days.' "

Pilate said to them, "Take a guard of soldiers, and go and make it as secure as you can."