Look at the birds in the sky; they do not plant seeds or harvest [a crop] or store [things] in barns, yet your heavenly Father feeds them [adequately]. Are you not a lot more valuable than they are?

Beware of false prophets; they come to you with the garb of sheep but at heart they are ravenous wolves.

He said to them, "What man is there among you, who has one sheep, and if this one falls into a pit on the Sabbath day, won't he grab on to it, and lift it out?

And [still] other seed fell onto fertile soil, where some of it produced a crop of one hundred, some sixty and some thirty times [as much as was planted].

And straight away Jesus put out his hand and took a grip of him, and said to him, O man of little faith, why were you in doubt?

Again he sent another group of slaves larger than the first; and they did the same thing to them.

Pilate said to them, "Take [a group of] guards [with you]; go and make the grave site as secure as you can."