but if you love only them who love you, what reward can ye have? do not the heathens themselves do as much?

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?

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?

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?

if the disciple fare as well as his master, and the servant as his lord, is not that sufficient? if they style the master of the house Beelzebub, much more will they call his domestics so.

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

Then he talk'd to them much in parables, and said, a sower went out to sow.

another part fell upon stony places, where it had not much earth: and it soon sprung up, because the soil was shallow:

his fellow-servants upon seeing this were very much concern'd, and went to acquaint their master with what had pass'd.

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

wo unto you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, who ransack sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is gain'd, ye make him deserve Gehenna much more than your selves.

his lord said to him, well done, thou art an honest faithful servant; thou hast been faithful in a small trust, I will give thee a much larger trust; go in and partake of thy master's diversions.

his lord said to him, well done, good and faithful servant; thou hast been faithful in a small trust, I will give thee a much larger trust: go in and partake of your master's joy.

but he made no answer to any thing he said, so that the governor was very much surpriz'd.

Whilst he was sitting on the tribunal, his wife sent this message to him, pray, have nothing to do with that just man: for to-day I have suffered very much on his account in a dream.