So he called them and said to them by way of parable, "How can Satan cast out Satan?

And he said to them, "You do not understand this parable? Then how are you to understand the other parables?

he sleeps at night and rises by day, and the seed sprouts and shoots up ??he knows not how.

He said also, "To what can we compare the Realm of God? how are we to put it in a parable?

but he said, "Go home to your own people, and report to them all the Lord has done for you and how he took pity on you."

He said, "How many loaves have you got? Go and see." When they found out they told him, "Five, and two fish."

He said to them, "So you do not understand, either? Do you not see how nothing outside a man can defile him by entering him?

they were astounded in the extreme, saying, "How splendidly he has done everything! He actually makes the deaf hear and the dumb speak!"

He asked them, "How many loaves have you got?" They said, "Seven."

Do you not remember how many baskets full of fragments you picked up when I broke the five loaves for the five thousand?" They said, "Twelve."

"And how many basketfuls of fragments did you pick up when I broke the seven loaves for the four thousand?" They said, "Seven."

He answered them, "O faithless generation, how long must I still be with you? how long have I to bear with you? Bring him to me."

Jesus asked his father, "How long has he been like this?" "From childhood," he said;

Salt is excellent: but if salt is tasteless, how are you to restore its flavour? Let there be 'salt between you'; be at peace with one another."

Jesus looked round and said to his disciples, "How difficult it is for those who have money to get into the Realm of God!"

The disciples were amazed at what he said; so he repeated, "My sons, how difficult it is [for those who rely on money] to get into the Realm of God!

As for the dead being raised, have you not read in the book of Moses, at the passage on the Bush, how God said to him, I am the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob?

And as Jesus taught in the temple he asked, "How can the scribes say that the Christ is David's son?

David here calls him Lord. Then how can he be his son?" Now the mass of the people listened with delight to him.

The passover and the festival of unleavened bread fell two days later; so the high priests and scribes were trying how to get hold of him by craft and have him put to death.

At that moment the cock crowed for the second time. Then Peter remembered how Jesus had told him, "Before the cock crows twice you will disown me thrice;" and he burst into tears.