For I tell you, unless your goodness excels that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will never get into the Realm of heaven.

truly I tell you, you will never get out till you pay the last halfpenny of your debt.

and yet, I tell you, even Solomon in all his grandeur was never robed like one of them.

Then I will declare to them, 'I never knew you; depart from my presence, you workers of iniquity.'

When Jesus heard that, he marvelled; "I tell you truly," he said to his followers, "I have never met faith like this anywhere in Israel.

and when the daemon had been cast out, the dumb man spoke. Then the crowd marvelled; they said, "Such a thing has never been seen in Israel!"

As Jesus knew what they were thinking, he said to them, "Any realm divided against itself comes to ruin, any city or house divided against itself will never stand;

Whoever says a word against the Son of man will be forgiven, but whoever speaks against the holy Spirit will never be forgiven, neither in this world nor in the world to come.

In their case the prophecy of Isaiah is being fulfilled: You will hear and hear but never understand, you will see and see but never perceive.

Jesus said all this to the crowds in parables; he never spoke to them except in a parable ??35 to fulfil what had been said by the prophet, I will open my mouth in parables, I will speak out what has been hidden since the foundation of the world.

So they were repelled by him. But Jesus said to them, "A prophet never goes without honour except in his native place and in his home."

and said, "I tell you truly, unless you turn and become like children, you will never get into the Realm of heaven at all.

And if he happens to find it, I tell you he rejoices over it more than over the ninety-nine that never went astray.

He replied, "Have you never read that He who created them male and female from the beginning

they said to him, "Do you hear what they are saying?" "Yes," said Jesus, "have you never read Thou hast brought praise to perfection from the mouth of babes and sucklings?"

Jesus said to them, "Have you never read in the scriptures, The stone that the builders rejected is the chief stone now of the corner: this is the doing of the Lord, and a wonder to our eyes?

For I tell you, you will never see me again till you say, Blessed be he who comes in the Lord's name."

for there will be sore misery then, such as never has been from the beginning of the world till now ??no and never shall be.

Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away.

Keep on the watch then, for you never know what day your Lord will come.

Then the servant who had got the two hundred and fifty pounds came forward. He said, 'I knew you were a hard man, sir, reaping where you never sowed and gathering where you never winnowed.

His master said to him in reply, 'You rascal, you idle servant! You knew, did you, that I reap where I have never sowed and gather where I have never winnowed!

For I was hungry but you never fed me, I was thirsty but you never gave me drink,

I was a stranger but you never entertained me, I was unclothed but you never clothed me, I was ill and in prison but you never looked after me.'

The Son of man goes the road that the scripture has described for him, but woe to the man by whom the Son of man is betrayed! Better that man had never been born!"

I tell you, after this I will never drink this produce of the vine till the day I drink it new with you in the Realm of my Father."

Peter said to him, "Even though I have to die with you, I will never disown you." And all the disciples said the same thing.

At that hour Jesus said to the crowds, "Have you sallied out to arrest me like a robber, with swords and cudgels? Day after day I sat in the temple teaching, and you never seized me.