When therefore thou doest alms, thou shouldst not sound the trumpet before thee, as hypocrites do in the assemblies, and in the streets, that they might be praised by men. Verily I say to you, They have their reward.

But thou doing alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right does:

Therefore, every one which hears these my words and does them, I will liken him to a discerning man which built his house upon the rock.

For I also am a man under power, having soldiers under me: and I say to this, Go, and he goes; and to another, Come, and he comes; and to my servant, Do this, and he does.

And the Pharisees, seeing, said to his disciples, Wherefore does your teacher eat with tax collectors and the sinful?

How much then does a man surpass a sheep? So that it is lawful to do well in the sabbaths.

And they having come to Capernaum, they taking double drachmas came to Peter and said, Does not your teacher pay double drachmas?

What does it seem to you? if there be to any man a hundred sheep, and one of them have been led astray, does he not, having left the ninety-nine upon the mountains, having gone, seek the one led astray?

And to him, having come into the temple to him teaching, came the chief priests and elders of the people, saying, By what authority doest thou these? and who gave thee this authority?

He says to them, How then does David in spirit call him Lord, saying,