There came to Him a leper, begging Him on his knees, saying to Him, "If you want to, you can cure me."

"Why is He talking this way? He is blaspheming. Who can forgive sins but God alone?"

Jesus answered them, "The wedding guests cannot fast, can they, while the bridegroom is with them? As long as they have the bridegroom with them they cannot fast.

So He called them to Him, and continued speaking to them in short stories, as follows: "How can Satan drive out Satan?

But no one can get into a giant's house and carry off his goods, unless he first binds the giant; after that he can make a clean sweep of his house.

But whoever speaks abusively against the Holy Spirit can never get forgiveness, but is guilty of a sin that has no end."

Then He said to them: "If you do not understand this story, how, indeed, can you understand any of my stories?

Then He kept on saying: "How can I further picture the kingdom of God, or by what story can I illustrate it?

but when it is properly sown, it comes up and grows to be the largest of all the plants, and produces branches so large that the wild birds can roost under its shade."

They were very much frightened, and said to one another, "Who can He be that even the wind and the sea obey Him?"

And they begged Him, "Send us among the hogs, so that we can get into them."

for she kept saying, "If I can only touch His clothes, I shall get well."

Nothing that goes into a man from the outside can make him foul, but the things that come from the inside of a man are the things that make him foul."

And He answered them, "Are you too without understanding yet? Do you not know that nothing from the outside that goes into a man can make him foul,

But His disciples answered Him, "Where can anyone get bread enough here in this destitute place, to give these people plenty?"

Since you have eyes can you not see with them? Since you have ears can you not hear with them?

For what price can a man give to buy back life?

and many a time it has thrown him into the fire or into the water, to destroy him. But if there is anything you can do for him, do pity us and help us!"

Jesus said to him, "If there is anything I can do! Everything is possible for him who has faith!"

He answered them, "This sort of thing can be driven out only by prayer."

Everyone must be seasoned with fire. Salt is a good thing, but if salt loses its strength, how can you season it again?

They were perfectly dumbfounded, and said to Him, "Then who can be saved?"

Jesus said to them, "You do not realize what you are asking for. Can you drink the cup that I am drinking, or endure the baptism of agony that I am to endure?"

They answered Him, "We can." Jesus said to them, "Yes, the cup that I am drinking you will have to drink, and the baptism of agony that I am enduring you will have to endure,

On the other hand, can we say, 'It was from men'?" For they were afraid of the people, because everybody thought that John was really a prophet.

While He was teaching in the temple, He answered them and said, "How can the scribes say that the Christ is the son of David?

David himself called him Lord, so how can He be his son?" Most of the people liked to hear Him.

For you always have the poor among you, and whenever you please you can do them good, but you will not always have me.

And they began to show that they were hurt and to ask Him one by one, "It cannot be I, can it?"