"Why does this man use such words?" they said; "he is blaspheming. Who can pardon sins but One--that is, God?"

"Can a wedding party fast while the bridegroom is among them?" replied Jesus. "So long as they have the bridegroom with them, fasting is impossible.

For if civil war breaks out in a kingdom, nothing can make that kingdom last;

Nay, no one can go into a strong man's house and carry off his property, unless he first binds the strong man, and then he will plunder his house.

There is nothing outside a man which entering him can make him unclean; but it is the things which come out of a man that make him unclean."

"Where can we possibly get bread here in this remote place to satisfy such a crowd?" answered His disciples.

You have eyes! can you not see? You have ears! can you not hear? and have you no memory?

So He took the blind man by the arm and brought him out of the village, and spitting into his eyes He put His hands on him and asked him, "Can you see anything?"

He looked up and said, "I can see the people: I see them like trees--only walking."

"and often it has thrown him into the fire or into pools of water to destroy him. But, if you possibly can, have pity on us and help us."

"'If I possibly can!'" replied Jesus; "why, everything is possible to him who believes."

"An evil spirit of this kind," He answered, "can only be driven out by prayer."

They were astonished beyond measure, and said to one another, "Who then *can* be saved?"

"David himself calls Him 'Lord:' how then can He be his son?" And the mass of people found pleasure in listening to Jesus.

For you always have the poor among you, and whenever you choose you can do acts of kindness to them; but me you have not always.

and whatever house he enters, tell the master of the house, 'The Rabbi asks, Where is my room where I can eat the Passover with my disciples?'

Then they began to beat Him on the head with a cane, to spit on Him, and to do Him homage on bended knees.

Then a man ran to fill a sponge with sour wine, and he put it on the end of a cane and placed it to His lips, saying at the same time, "Wait! let us see whether Elijah will come and take him down."