but if you love only them who love you, what reward can ye have? do not the heathens themselves do as much?

no man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or he will be attach'd to the one, and neglectful of the other. ye cannot serve God and Mamon.

who by all his sollicitude can add one moment to his age?

with what assurance can you say, brother, let me take that mote out of your eye; when there is such an apparent beam in your own eye?

a good tree cannot produce bad fruit: neither can a corrupt tree produce good fruit.

Jesus answer'd them, can the bride-men mourn, while the bridegroom is with them? the day indeed will come, when the bridegroom shall be taken from them, and then will be the time to fast.

fear not those who can only kill the body, but cannot hurt the soul: rather fear him who is able to destroy both soul and body in Gehenna.

Jesus perceiving what they surmized, said to them, any kingdom once divided against itself will soon be desolate: nor can any city or house divided against itself, long subsist.

O degenerate race, how can ye, wicked as ye are, utter any thing that is good? for "'tis the overflowing of the heart that the mouth dischargeth."

how can we get bread enough in the desert to satisfy such a multitude?

and in the morning, a foul day: when the sky is of a dusky red. hypocrites, can ye judge of the appearance of the sky, and yet not discern the signs of these times?

why, can't you perceive, that in cautioning you to beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, and of the Sadducees, I did not speak of bread?

but he reply'd, 'tis not everyman can live single, but only such as have the gift of continency.

as there are some eunuchs, who were such from their very birth: and others who were made such by men: so there are some who have made themselves eunuchs for the sake of religion. he that can bear the state of celibacy, let him bear it.

when his disciples heard this, they were exceedingly amazed, saying, who then can be saved?

can't I do what I will with my own? because I am bountiful, are you invidious?

but Jesus answered them, ye know not what ye ask. can ye bear to drink of the cup that I shall drink of, and to be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with? they said to him, we can.

children that can't fail to fill up the measure of your fathers iniquities.

ye serpents, ye brood of vipers, how can ye escape the punishment of Gehenna?

for there shall arise false Messiahs, and false prophets, and shall shew such astonishing miracles and prodigies, as to deceive, if that can do it, the very converts themselves.

to whom Pilate replied, you have a guard, go then, and make it as secure as you can.