and do not imagine that you can say to yourselves, 'We have Abraham as our forefather,' for I tell you that God can raise up descendants for Abraham from these stones.

"*You* are the salt of the earth; but if salt has become tasteless, in what way can it regain its saltness? It is no longer good for anything but to be thrown away and trodden on by the passers by.

"No man can be the bondservant of two masters; for either he will dislike one and like the other, or he will attach himself to one and think slightingly of the other. You cannot be the bondservants both of God and of gold.

Which of you by being over-anxious can add a single foot to his height?

"Can the bridegroom's party mourn," He replied, "as long as the bridegroom is with them? But other days will come (when the Bridegroom has been taken from them)

And when He had gone indoors, they came to Him. "Do you believe that I can do this?" He asked them. "Yes, Sir," they replied.

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

Again, how can any one enter the house of a strong man and carry off his goods, unless first of all he masters and secures the strong man: then he will ransack his house.

O vipers' brood, how can you speak what is good when you are evil? For it is from the overflow of the heart that the mouth speaks.

"Where can we," asked the disciples, "get bread enough in this remote place to satisfy so vast a multitude?"

"It is not every man," He replied, "who can receive this teaching, but only those on whom the grace has been bestowed.

These words utterly amazed the disciples, and they asked, "Who then can be saved?"

"None of you know what you are asking for," said Jesus; "can you drink out of the cup from which I am about to drink?" "We can," they replied.

"If therefore David calls Him Lord, how can He be his son?"

Intensely grieved they began one after another to ask Him, "Can it be I, Master?"

Then Judas, the disciple who was betraying Him, asked, "Can it be I, Rabbi?" "It is you," He replied.

They twisted a wreath of thorny twigs and put it on His head, and they put a sceptre of cane in His right hand, and kneeling to Him they shouted in mockery, "Long live the King of the Jews!"

Then they spat upon Him, and taking the cane they repeatedly struck Him on the head with it.

One of them ran forthwith, and filling a sponge with sour wine put it on the end of a cane and offered it Him to drink;

"You can have a guard," said Pilate: "go and make all safe, as best you can."