"Lord, "said the captain in reply, "I am not worthy to have you under my roof, but speak the word only, and my slave will be cured,

and when he had driven out the demon, the dumb spoke. The crowds were amazed, saying, "Never was such a thing seen in Israel!"

"But whenever they apprehend you, do not be anxious about how you shall speak or what you shall say; for it will be given you in that very hour what to say.

"What I am telling you is in the darkness, do you speak in the light; and what is whispered in your ear, proclaim upon the housetops.

As these men started to go away, Jesus began to speak to the throngs, about John.

Then they brought to him a blind and deaf demoniac; and he healed him, so that the dumb both spoke and saw.

"You generation of vipers! How can you speak good, when you are evil? For the mouth speaks what the heart is full of. "When the time of fruit drew near, he sent his slaves to the vine-dressers seized to get his fruit.

"I tell you that for every careless word that men speak they shall give account on the day of judgment.

While he was still talking to the crowd, his mother and brothers were standing outside, desiring to speak to him.

So some one told him, "Your mother and brothers are standing outside, and wanting to speak to you."

"Why do you speak to them in parables?" Jesus answered. "To you it has been granted to understand the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven; but to them it has not been granted.

"This is why I speak to them in parables, because seeing they do not see, and hearing they do not hear, nor do they understand.

Jesus told all this to the crowd in parables; indeed he never spoke to them except in parables,

But at once Jesus spoke to them, "Courage," he said, "it is I. Fear not."

"How is it that you do not perceive that I did not speak to you concerning bread? But beware off the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees!"

While they were going down from the mountain, Jesus laid a command on them. "Speak to no man about the vision," he said, "until after the Son of man has been raised from the dead."

A little later the bystanders came up and said to Peter, "You also are certainly one of them, for your speech betrays you."

And Jesus came forward to them and spoke to them, saying. "All authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth.