Ye are the salt of the earth; but if the salt become insipid, how shall it recover its savour? it is no longer fit for any thing, but to be cast out and trod under foot.

but if your eye be bad, your whole body will be dark: if therefore that, which should be light to you, be dark; how great is that darkness?

And as for rayment, why should that give you pain? consider the lillies of the field how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin.

now if God thus adorns the flower of the field, which thriving to day, is to morrow thrown into the oven, how much more shall he provide for you, if you have any degree of faith?

therefore make no such sollicitous enquiries, as what shall we eat? or what shall we drink? or how shall we be clothed?

thou hypocrite, first get rid of the beam in your own eye; and then see how to remove the mote out of thy brother's eye.

if ye then, as wicked as ye are, know how to bestow proper gifts upon your children; how much more shall your heavenly father give good things to them that ask him?

but when he saw how the multitude were fatigued and dispers'd like so many sheep without their Pastors, he was moved with compassion, and said to his disciples,

but when they take you. into custody, be not sollicitous, how or what ye shall speak, for at the very instant you shall be inspir'd what to say.

how he entred into the house of God, and did eat the shewbread, which it was not lawful either for him or his company to eat, but only for the priests?

is not a man of much greater consequence than a sheep? how lawful then is it to do good offices on the sabbath-day?

if satan expels satan, he is divided against himself; how then shall his kingdom last?

besides, how could any one enter into the house of a man of might to rob him of his goods, except he first master the strong man? and then indeed he might plunder his house.

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."

so the servants of the yeoman came and said, Sir, did not you sow your field with good grain: how comes it then to have tares?

and when he was come into his native country, he taught them in their synagogue, in such a manner that they cry'd out with astonishment, how came this man by all this wisdom, and extraordinary power?

and his sisters, don't they live just by us? how came he then by all this?

Thereupon his disciples drawing nigh, said, did you observe, how the Pharisees were scandalized at your discourse?

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

Jesus asked, how many loaves have ye? they reply'd, seven, and a few small fish.

where's your understanding? don't you remember the five loaves among five thousand and how many baskets ye took away?

nor the seven loaves among the four thousand, and how many baskets ye carried away?

upon which Jesus answered, incredulous and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you? how long shall I suffer you?

Then Peter advancing to him, said, Lord, if my brother injures me, how many injuries must I forgive him? must I forgive him seven?

upon which the disciples said to one another, much surpriz'd, how came the fig-tree to wither away so suddenly?

friend, how came you in hither, without a wedding garment? and he was speechless.

Upon this the Pharisees withdrew, and consulted how they might insnare him in his discourse.

how comes it then, said he, that David by inspiration calls him Lord, in these words,

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

O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who killest the prophets, and stonest them that are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, but ye would not!

and consulted how to seize Jesus by surprize, and take away his life.

but how then shall the scriptures be fulfilled, which say, that thus it must happen?

As soon as it was day, all the chief priests and senators of the people consulted measures against Jesus how they might put him to death.

whereupon Pilate said to him, don't you hear how many things they lay to your charge?