"but if your eye is unsound, your whole body will be darkened. If then the very light within you is darkness, how dense is that darkness!

"Why be anxious then about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow. They toil not, neither do they spin.

"Or how will you say to your brother, 'Permit me to remove the mote from your eye,' when, behold, the beam is in your own eye?

"Hypocrite! First cast out the beam from your own eye, and then you will see clearly how to cast the mote out of your brother's eye.

"If you then, evil as you are, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give good gifts to those who ask him?

"But whenever they apprehend you, do not be anxious about how you shall speak or what you shall say; for it will be given you in that very hour what to say.

"It is enough for the pupil to fare like his teacher, and the slave like his master. If they called the master of the house Beelzebub, how much more, the members of his household.

"How he went into the House of God, and there they ate the loaves of the Presence, which neither he nor his men were permitted to eat, but the priests only?

"Have you not read in the Law how on the Sabbath the priests in the Temple break the Sabbath and are guiltless?

"And how much more is a man worth than a sheep? Therefore it is right to do good on the Sabbath."

The man stretched it out, and it had become sound like the other. But when the Pharisees came out, they consulted together how they might destroy him.

"So if Satan drives out Satan, he is divided against himself; how then will his kingdom stand?

"Or how can any one enter the strong man's house and carry off his goods without first binding the strong man? Then he can rob his house.

"You generation of vipers! How can you speak good, when you are evil? For the mouth speaks what the heart is full of. "When the time of fruit drew near, he sent his slaves to the vine-dressers seized to get his fruit.

"Do you not know how all that goes into the mouth passes into the stomach and is afterward evacuated;

"How many loaves have you?" answered Jesus. They replied, "Seven, and a few small fish.

and at dawn you say, 'It will storm today, for the sky is red and lowering.' You know how to discern the look of the sky, but the signs of the times you cannot read.

"Do you not remember the five loaves for the five thousand, and how many large basketfuls you took up?

"Nor the seven loaves for the four thousand, and how many large basketfuls you took up?

"How is it that you do not perceive that I did not speak to you concerning bread? But beware off the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees!"

After this Jesus the Christ began to show his disciples how he must go to Jerusalem, and suffer many things at the hands of the elders and chief priests and Scribes, and be put to death, and on the third day be raised again.

In reply Jesus said: "O faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you? How long shall I endure you? Bring him here to me!"

"Indeed he does," answered Peter. But on Peter's entering the house, Jesus forestalled him, saying. "How does it seem to you, Simon? From whom do earthly kings collect customs or taxes??rom their own people, or from aliens?"

"How does it seem to you, when a man has a hundred sheep and loses one of them? Will he not leave the ninety and nine on the hills, to go and search for the one that has strayed?

Just then Peter came to him, and asked him, "Lord, how often shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? till seven times?"

but Jesus called them to him and said: "You know how the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great men exercise authority over them.

When his disciples saw this, they were astonished. "How instantaneously," they said, "the fig tree withered!"

"Have you never read in the Scriptures," Jesus answered, "how The stone that the builders rejected Has been made the corner-stone; This is the Lord's doing, It is wonderful in our eyes?

"'Friend, how did you come in here without a wedding-garment?' "The man was speechless.

Then the Pharisees went and took counsel how they might ensnare him during conversation.

"How then, "he said, "does David in the Spirit call him Lord, saying,

"If David calls him Lord, how can he be his Son?"

"You serpents! You vipers brood! How shall you escape the judgment of hell?

"O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, murdering the prophets, and stoning those who have been sent to you! How often would I have gathered your children together, as a hen gathers her chickens under her wings, and you would not!

"But if I did, how could the Scriptures be fulfilled that say that thus it must happen?"

And when the morning came, all the chief priests and the elders of the people took counsel against Jesus, how they might put him to death.