Then a man with a serious skin disease came to Him and, on his knees, begged Him: “If You are willing, You can make me clean.”

“Why does He speak like this? He’s blaspheming! Who can forgive sins but God alone?”

Jesus said to them, “The wedding guests cannot fast while the groom is with them, can they? As long as they have the groom with them, they cannot fast.

So He summoned them and spoke to them in parables: “How can Satan drive out Satan?

“On the other hand, no one can enter a strong man’s house and rob his possessions unless he first ties up the strong man. Then he will rob his house.

He answered them, “The secret of the kingdom of God has been given to you, but to those outside, everything comes in parables

And He said: “How can we illustrate the kingdom of God, or what parable can we use to describe it?

And when sown, it comes up and grows taller than all the vegetables, and produces large branches, so that the birds of the sky can nest in its shade.”

and kept begging Him, “My little daughter is at death’s door. Come and lay Your hands on her so she can get well and live.”

For she said, “If I can just touch His robes, I’ll be made well!”

Send them away, so they can go into the surrounding countryside and villages to buy themselves something to eat.”

Nothing that goes into a person from outside can defile him, but the things that come out of a person are what defile him.

And He said to them, “Are you also as lacking in understanding? Don’t you realize that nothing going into a man from the outside can defile him?

His disciples answered Him, “Where can anyone get enough bread here in this desolate place to fill these people?”

What can a man give in exchange for his life?

“And many times it has thrown him into fire or water to destroy him. But if You can do anything, have compassion on us and help us.”

Then Jesus said to him, “‘If You can’? Everything is possible to the one who believes.”

And He told them, “This kind can come out by nothing but prayer [and fasting].”

“Don’t stop him,” said Jesus, “because there is no one who will perform a miracle in My name who can soon afterward speak evil of Me.

Salt is good, but if the salt should lose its flavor, how can you make it salty? Have salt among yourselves and be at peace with one another.”

So they were even more astonished, saying to one another, “Then who can be saved?”

So Jesus asked this question as He taught in the temple complex, “How can the scribes say that the Messiah is the Son of David?

David himself calls Him ‘Lord’; how then can the Messiah be his Son?” And the large crowd was listening to Him with delight.

You always have the poor with you, and you can do what is good for them whenever you want, but you do not always have Me.