How is it that he went into the house of God, when Abiathar was high priest, and ate the sacred loaves, which it is against the law for anyone except the priests to eat, and gave part of them to his soldiers, too?"

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

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

then continues sleeping by night and getting up by day, while the seed sprouts and comes up without his knowing how.

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

And those who had seen it told them how it occurred to the man who had been under the power of the demons, and about the hogs.

However, He did not let him, but said to him, "Go home to your folks, and tell them how much the Lord has done for you, and has taken pity on you."

And so he went away and began to tell everybody in the Ten Cities how much Jesus had done for him; and everybody was dumbfounded.

The apostles returned and met Jesus and reported to Him everything, how many things they had done and taught.

Then He asked them, "How many loaves have you? Go and see." They found out and told Him, "Five, and two fish."

So the people were overwhelmingly dumbfounded, and kept saying, "How wonderfully He has done everything! He even makes deaf people hear and dumb people talk."

Then He asked them, "How many loaves have you?" They answered, "Seven."

Do you not remember how many basketfuls of pieces you picked up when I broke the five loaves in pieces for the five thousand?" They said to Him, "Twelve."

"And how many hamper-basketfuls of pieces when I broke the seven loaves in pieces for the four thousand?" They said to Him, "Seven."

He said to them, "How is it that you do not understand?"

He answered them, "Elijah does come first and gets everything ready, but how is it that the Scripture says about the Son of Man that He will suffer much and be rejected?

He answered them, "Oh, you unbelieving people of the times! How long must I be with you! How long must I put up with you! Bring him to me."

Then He asked his father, "How long has he been like this?" He answered, "From his childhood;

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

Then Jesus looked around and said to His disciples, "How hard it will be for those who have money to get into the kingdom of God!"

His disciples were startled at this statement. But Jesus again said to them as He continued the topic, "My children, how hard it is to get into the kingdom of God!

But as to the rising of the dead, did you never read in the book of Moses, in the passage about the bush, how God said to him, 'I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob'?

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.

At that moment for the second time a Cock crowed. Then Peter remembered how Jesus had said to him, "Before the cock crows twice, you will disown me three times!" And when he remembered that, he burst into tears.

Then again Pilate asked Him, "Have you no answer to make? Just see how many charges they are making against you!"