For if you love only those who love you, what reward do you get for that? do not the very taxgatherers do as much?

and if you only salute your friends, what is special about that? do not the very pagans do as much?

Now if God so clothes the grass of the field which blooms to-day and is thrown to-morrow into the furnace, will not he much more clothe you? O men, how little you trust him!

Well, if for all your evil you know to give your children what is good, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask him?

enough for the scholar to fare like his teacher, and the servant like his lord. If men have called the master of the house Beelzebul, how much more will they miscall his servants!

And how much more is a man worth than a sheep? Thus it is right to do a kindness on the sabbath."

Some other seeds fell on stony soil where they had not much earth, and shot up at once because they had no depth of soil;

Everyone who has left brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or lands or houses for my name's sake will get a hundred times as much and inherit life eternal.