Then a leper came to him, imploring him, kneeling down to him and saying to him, "If you are willing, you can make me clean."

"Why does this man speak like this? He is blaspheming! Who can forgive sins but God alone?"

And Jesus said to them, "Can the guests of the bridegroom fast while he is with them? As long as they have the bridegroom with them, they cannot fast.

So he called them to himself and said to them in parables: "How can Satan cast out Satan?

No one can enter a strong man's house and plunder his goods, unless he first binds the strong man. And then he will plunder his house.

yet when it is sown it grows up and becomes the greatest of all shrubs, and puts forth large branches, so that the birds of the air can make nests in its shade."

Send them away, so they can go to the surrounding country and villages and buy themselves something to eat."

there is nothing outside a man which by going into him can defile him; but the things which come out of a man are what defile him."

And his disciples answered him, "How can one feed these men with bread here in the desert?"

Or what can a man give in exchange for his soul?

And it has often thrown him both into the fire and into the water to destroy him. But if you can do anything, have pity on us and help us."

Jesus said to him, "If you can, all things are possible to him who believes."

And he said to them, "This kind can only come out by prayer."

But Jesus said, "Do not forbid him, for no one who does a miracle in my name can soon afterward speak evil of me.

And they were exceedingly astonished, and said to him, "Then who can be saved?"

But Jesus said to them, "You do not know what you are asking. Can you drink the cup that I drink, or be baptized with the baptism I am baptized with?"

For you always have the poor with you, and whenever you will, you can do good to them; but you will not always have me.