Then the devil said to Him, "If you are God's Son, order this stone to turn to a loaf of bread."

Then he took Him to Jerusalem, and had Him stand on the tip-top turret of the temple, and said to Him, "If you are God's Son, throw yourself down from here,

"Ha! What do you want of us, Jesus, you Nazarene? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are. You are God's Holy One."

but the Pharisees and experts in the law thwarted God's purpose for themselves by refusing to be baptized by him.

This is what the story means: The seed is God's message.

Then He answered them, "My mother and my brothers are those who listen to God's message and practice it."

But He said, "Yes, but better still, blessed are those who listen to God's message and practice it!"

Now if God so gorgeously dresses the wild grass which today is green but tomorrow is tossed into the furnace, how much more surely will He clothe you, O you with little faith?

But he answered his father, 'See! I have served you all these years and have never disobeyed a command of yours, but you have never given me even a kid, so that I could celebrate with my friends.