"How can I be sure of this?" Zechariah asked the angel. "For I am an old man and my wife is advanced in years."

"How can this be?" Mary asked the angel. "For I have no husband."

And all who heard it kept it in mind, asking one another-- "What can this child be destined to become?" For the Power of the Lord was with him.

The Teachers of the Law and the Pharisees began debating about this. "Who is this man who speaks so blasphemously?" they asked. "Who can forgive sins except God?"

But Jesus answered them: "Can you make the bridegroom's friends fast while the bridegroom is with them?

Then, speaking in parables, Jesus said: "Can one blind man guide another? Will they not both fall into a ditch?

How can you say to your brother 'Brother, let me take out the straw in your eye,' while you yourself do not see the beam in your own? Hypocrite! Take out the beam from your own eye first, and then you will see clearly how to take out the straw in your brother's.

"Where is your faith?" he exclaimed. But in great awe and amazement they said to one another: "Who can this be, that he commands even the winds and the waves, and they obey him?"

So, too, if Satan is wholly divided against himself, how can his kingdom last? Yet you say that I drive out demons by the help of Baal-zebub.

To you who are my friends I say, Do not be afraid of those who kill the body, but after that can do no more.

And Jesus said to his disciples: "That is why I say to you, Do not be anxious about the life here--what you can get to eat; nor yet about your body--what you can get to wear.

But which of you, by being anxious, can prolong his life a moment?

And you--do not be always seeking what you can get to eat or what you can get to drink; and do not waver.

I came to cast fire upon the earth; and what more can I wish, if it is already kindled?

Then, if it bears in future, well and good; but if not, you can have it cut down.'"

So Jesus said: "What is the Kingdom of God like? and to what can I liken it?

And again Jesus said: "To what can I liken the Kingdom of God?

"If any man comes to me and does not hate his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brothers, and sisters, yes and his very life, he can be no disciple of mine.

Whoever does not carry his own cross, and walk in my steps, can be no disciple of mine.

But, when he came to himself, he said 'How many of my father's hired servants have more bread than they can eat, while here am I starving to death!

No servant can serve two masters, for, either he will hate one and love the other, or else he will attach himself to one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and Money."

"You," said Jesus, "are the men who justify themselves before the world, but God can read your hearts; and what is highly esteemed among men may be an abomination in the sight of God.

And not only that, but between you and us there lies a great chasm, so that those who wish to pass from here to you cannot, nor can they cross from there to us.'

"Then who can be saved?" asked those who heard this.

Nor indeed can they die again, for they are like angels and, having shared in the resurrection, they are God's Sons.