"How can this be," Mary replied, "seeing that I have no husband?"

Live lives which shall prove your change of heart; and do not begin to say to yourselves, 'We have Abraham as our forefather,' for I tell you that God can raise up descendants for Abraham from these stones.

Then the Scribes and Pharisees began to cavil, asking, "Who is this, uttering blasphemies? Who but God alone can forgive sins?"

"Can you compel the bridal party to fast," replied Jesus, "so long as they have the bridegroom among them?

He also spoke to them in figurative language. "Can a blind man lead a blind man?" He asked; "would not both fall into the ditch?

How can you say to your brother, 'Brother, let me take that splinter out of your eye,' when all the while you yourself do not see the beam in your own eye? Vain pretender! take the beam out of your own eye first, and then you will see clearly to take the splinter out of your brother's eye.

Every tree is known by its own fruit. It is not from thorns that men gather figs, nor from the bramble that they can get a bunch of grapes.

Then the other guests began to say to themselves, "Who can this man be who even forgives sins?"

"But to you who are my friends I say, "'Be not afraid of those who kill the body and after that can do nothing further.

Sell your possessions and give alms. Provide yourselves with purses that will never wear out, a treasure inexhaustible in Heaven, where no thief can come nor moth consume.

No one who does not carry his own cross and come after me can be a disciple of mine.

Just as no one of you who does not detach himself from all that belongs to him can be a disciple of mine.

"No servant can be in bondage to two masters. For either he will hate one and love the other, or else he will cling fast to one and scorn the other. You cannot be bondservants both of God and of gold."

Being asked by the Pharisees when the Kingdom of God was coming, He answered, "The Kingdom of God does not so come that you can stealthily watch for it.

"Who then can be saved?" exclaimed the hearers.

"David himself therefore calls Him Lord, and how can He be his son?"

and say to the master of the house, "'The Rabbi asks you, Where is the room where I can eat the Passover with my disciples?'

Pilate said to the High Priests and to the crowd, "I can find no crime in this man."