One day a leper cane to him and besought him as he knelt down to him, saying, "If you choose, you are able to cleanse me."

"Can friends of the bridegroom fast while he is still with them?" asked Jesus. "As long as they have the bridegroom with them, they cannot fast.

So when he had called them to him he spoke to them in parables. "How," said he, "can Satan cast out Satan?

"Indeed, no one can enter the strong man's house and carry off his property without first binding the strong man; then he can plunder his house.

Then they were awestruck, and said one to another, "Who can this be, that even the wind and the sea obey him!"

"If I can touch even his clothes," she kept saying to herself, "I shall get well."

"Listen to me, all of you, and understand; there is nothing outside a man which by entering in can defile him; but it is what comes from him that defiled him."

"Are even you without understanding?" he said. "Do you not perceive that nothing whatever from without can defile a man by entering him,

Taking the blind man by the hand, he led him outside the village; and, after spitting on his eyes, he laid his hands on him and asked, "Can you make out anything?"

The man looked up and said, "I can make out the people, for as they move about, I see them like trees."

"From childhood," he answered; "and often it has thrown him into the fire and into the water, to destroy him; but if you can do anything, take pity on us and help us."

Jesus said to him. "'If you can'! All things can be for one who believes."

"This kind can only be cast out by prayer," he replied.

"Do not try to stop him," Jesus answered, "for there is no one who performs a miracle in my name who can soon speak evil of me.

"Then who can be saved?" they said to themselves astonished beyond measure.

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

They answered him, "We can." "You shall indeed drink the cup that I drink, and with the baptism that I am baptized with shall you be baptized,

"David himself then calls him Lord; so how can he be his son?" Now the great mass of the people were wont to listen to him with delight;

for false Christs and false prophets will arise and will show signs and wonders, to lead astray the very chosen, if they can.

She has done a beautiful thing to me. For you always have the poor among you, and can show them kindness whenever you wish, but me you will not always have.