but on hearing that Archelaus reigned over Judaea in place of his father Herod, he was afraid to go there and, by a divine injunction in a dream, withdrew to the region of Galilee.

He answered, "It is written, Man is not to live on bread alone, but on every word that issues from the mouth of God."

Therefore I tell you, do not trouble about what you are to eat or drink in life, nor about what you are to put on your body; surely life means more than food, surely the body means more than clothes!

He said to them, "Is there a man of you with one sheep, who will not catch hold of it and lift it out of a pit on the sabbath, if it falls in?

they will kill him, but on the third day he will be raised." They were greatly distressed at this.

I am the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob? He is not a God of dead people but of living."

and after making fun of him they stripped him of the mantle, put on his own clothes, and took him off to be crucified.

One of them ran off at once and took a sponge, which he soaked in vinegar and put on the end of a stick to give him a drink.