"You are the salt of the earth. But if salt loses its flavor, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything except to be thrown out and trampled on by people.

But if your eye is diseased, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!

Why do you worry about clothing? Think about how the flowers of the field grow; they do not work or spin.

And if this is how God clothes the wild grass, which is here today and tomorrow is tossed into the fire to heat the oven, won't he clothe you even more, you people of little faith?

Or how can you say to your brother, 'Let me remove the speck from your eye,' while there is a beam in your own?

If you then, although you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask him!

Whenever they hand you over for trial, do not worry about how to speak or what to say, for what you should say will be given to you at that time.

It is enough for the disciple to become like his teacher, and the slave like his master. If they have called the head of the house 'Beelzebul,' how much more will they defame the members of his household!

how he entered the house of God and they ate the sacred bread, which was against the law for him or his companions to eat, but only for the priests?

How much more valuable is a person than a sheep! So it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath."

But the Pharisees went out and plotted against him, as to how they could assassinate him.

So if Satan casts out Satan, he is divided against himself. How then will his kingdom stand?

How else can someone enter a strong man's house and steal his property, unless he first ties up the strong man? Then he can thoroughly plunder the house.

Offspring of vipers! How are you able to say anything good, since you are evil? For the mouth speaks from what fills the heart.

Jesus said to them, "How many loaves do you have?" They replied, "Seven -- and a few small fish."

and in the morning, 'It will be stormy today, because the sky is red and darkening.' You know how to judge correctly the appearance of the sky, but you cannot evaluate the signs of the times.

Do you still not understand? Don't you remember the five loaves for the five thousand, and how many baskets you took up?

Or the seven loaves for the four thousand and how many baskets you took up?

How could you not understand that I was not speaking to you about bread? But beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees!"

Jesus answered, "You unbelieving and perverse generation! How much longer must I be with you? How much longer must I endure you? Bring him here to me."

Then Peter came to him and said, "Lord, how many times must I forgive my brother who sins against me? As many as seven times?"

When the disciples saw it they were amazed, saying, "How did the fig tree wither so quickly?"

And he said to him, 'Friend, how did you get in here without wedding clothes?' But he had nothing to say.

He said to them, "How then does David by the Spirit call him 'Lord,' saying,

If David then calls him 'Lord,' how can he be his son?"

You snakes, you offspring of vipers! How will you escape being condemned to hell?

"O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those who are sent to you! How often I have longed to gather your children together as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you would have none of it!

How then would the scriptures that say it must happen this way be fulfilled?"

Then Pilate said to him, "Don't you hear how many charges they are bringing against you?"