In his preaching John said, "One who is more powerful than I am will follow my ministry. I am not [even] worthy to stoop down and loosen the straps of His sandals [i.e., to serve as His slave].

said he, how you take the least notice of this to any man: but go, show your self to the priest, and offer for your cure what Moses commanded, that this may serve as a testimony against them.

if a kingdom be divided against it self, that kingdom cannot last.

if a family be divided against it self, it is impossible for it to subsist.

Jesus took him away from the crowd to be alone with him. Putting his fingers into the man's ears, he touched the man's tongue with saliva.

[So], He took hold of the blind man by his hand and brought him out of the village. When Jesus spit [and put His saliva] on his eyes [See 7:33 for a similar use of His saliva in healing] and placed His hands on him [for healing], He asked him, "Can you see anything?"

Then calling to Him the crowd and also His disciples, He said to them, "If any one is desirous of following me, let him ignore self and take up his cross, and so be my follower.

and whoever wishes to be first and most important among you must be slave of all.

And he sent a slave to the tenant farmers at the proper time, so that he could collect [some] of the fruit of the vineyard from the tenant farmers.

But those tenants seized his slave, beat him, and sent him away empty-handed.

And again he sent to them another slave, and that one they struck on the head and dishonored.

He sent [still] another slave, whom they killed. He continued sending many more slaves; they beat some and killed others.

And the second, which is like it, is this: You shall love your neighbor as your self. There is no other commandment greater than these.

and to love him with all the heart, and with all the intelligence, and with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love one's neighbour as one's self, is more than all the burnt-offerings and sacrifices.

But a certain one of the bystanders, drawing [his] sword, struck the slave of the high priest and cut off his ear.

then the high priest rising up in the midst of the assembly, ask'd Jesus, saying, have you nothing to plead for your self? what say you to the evidence they give against you?

Now while Peter was below in the courtyard, one of the high priest's slave girls came by.

And the female slave, [when she] saw him, began to say again to the bystanders, "This man is one of them!"

Pilate spake to him again, and said, will you make no defence for your self? don't you hear what they urge against you?

save your self, and come down from the cross.