Don't think that I am come to abolish the law or the prophets: I am not come to abolish, but to complete them.

I assure you, heaven and earth may as well cease to be, as that one jot or one tittle of the law should fail of its completion.

and if any man will go to law with you, to have your coat, let him have your cloke too.

Lay not up for your selves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal.

but lay up for your selves treasures in heaven, where there is neither moth, nor rust, nor corruption, nor thieves, nor violence to molest you.

consider the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor lay up any stores; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are not ye of much greater value than they?

Let your actions be such, with regard to others, as you should think reasonable with regard to yourselves, for this is the substance of the law and the prophets.

Jesus replyed, the foxes have kennels, and the birds of the air have nests; but the son of man hath not where to lay his head.

Whilst he thus entertain'd them, the ruler of the synagogue came and made his address to him, saying, my daughter is upon the point of death: but come and lay thy hand upon her, and she shall live.

but Jesus turned about, and looking upon her, said, daughter lay aside your fears, thy faith hath cured thee: and the woman was cured from that instant.

lay aside then your fears, ye are of a superior rank to those animals.

my coming will occasion discord between the son and his father, between the daughter and her mother, between the daughter in law and her mother in law:

for all the prophets and the law were your guides, till the coming of John.

or have ye not observed in the law, what a work the priests made in the temple on the sabbath-day, without being blamed?

when it is full, they drag it to shore, then sit down, and pick out the good to lay by, but throw the bad away.

but he answered them, why do you violate the law of God to follow your tradition?

and said, I declare to you, except ye lay aside your ambition, and become as children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of the Messias.

they dispatch'd therefore some of their disciples, together with the Herodians, who thus address'd themselves to him; master, we know that you are sincere, and faithfully teach the divine law without fear or flattery: for you have no regard to the outward quality of men.

master, said they, by the law of Moses, in case a man die without children, his brother is oblig'd to marry his wife, in order to perpetuate his brother's name.

In the mean time one of them, a Doctor of the law, to try him, started this question, master,

which is the most important commandment of the law?

these two precepts comprehend the substance of all the law and the prophets.

wo unto you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, who pay tithe of mint, anise, and cummin, but neglect those more important matters of the law, justice, mercy, and fidelity: these were the things ye ought to have practis'd, without neglecting however the other matters.

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