And do not think that you can say among yourselves 'Abraham is our ancestor,' for I tell you that out of these very stones God is able to raise descendants for Abraham!

No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate one and love the other, or else he will attach himself to one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and Money.

That is why I say to you, Do not be anxious about your life here--what you can get to eat or drink; nor yet about your body-- what you can get to wear. Is not life more than food, and the body than its clothing?

But which of you, by being anxious, can prolong his life a single moment?

Do not then ask anxiously 'What can we get to eat?' or 'What can we get to drink?' or 'What can we get to wear?'

A sound tree cannot produce bad fruit, nor can a worthless tree bear good fruit.

Jesus answered: "Can the bridegroom's friends mourn as long as the bridegroom is with them? But the days will come, when the bridegroom will be parted from them, and they will fast then.

So, if Satan drives Satan out, he must be divided against himself; and how, then, can his kingdom last?

How, again, can any one get into a strong man's house and carry off his goods, without first securing him? And not till then will he plunder his house.

You brood of vipers! how can you, evil as you are, say anything good? For what fills the heart will rise to the lips.

"Where can we," his disciples asked, "in a lonely place find enough bread for such a crowd as this?"

"It is not every one," replied Jesus, "who can accept this teaching, but only those who have been enabled to do so.

Some men, it is true, have from birth been disabled for marriage, while others have been disabled by their fellow men, and others again have disabled themselves for the sake of the Kingdom of Heaven. Let him accept it who can."

On hearing this, the disciples exclaimed in great astonishment: "Who then can possibly be saved?"

"You do not know what you are asking," was Jesus' answer. "Can you drink the cup that I am to drink?" "Yes," they exclaimed, "we can."

You serpents and brood of vipers! How can you escape being sentenced to the Pit?

In great grief they began to say to him, one by one: "Can it be I, Master?"

And Judas, who was betraying him, turned to him and said: "Can it be I, Rabbi?" "It is," answered Jesus.

"You may have a guard," was Pilate's reply; "go and make the tomb as secure as you can."