Look on the birds of the air: for they neither sow, nor reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are you not of more value than they?

And he said unto them, Have ye not read what David did, when he was hungry, and they who were with him?

Or have ye not read in the law, that on the sabbaths the priests in the temple profane the sabbath, and are not culpable?

But he replying, said unto them, Have ye not read, that he who created them from the beginning, created them male and female?

and said to him, Hearest thou what these say? Jesus replied to them, Yes; but have ye never read, "That out of the mouths of infants and sucklings thou hast perfected praise?"

Jesus saith unto them, Have ye not read in the Scriptures, "The stone, which the builders rejected; the same is become the head of the corner; this is done by the Lord, and it is wonderful in our eyes."

But with respect to the resurrection of the dead, have ye not read what was spoken to you of God, saying,

Then his master answering said to him, Thou wicked and idle slave, thou knewest that I reap whence I had not sown, and gather where I had not scattered: