Now as people's expectations were roused and as everybody thought to himself about John, "Can he be the Christ,"

When his host the Pharisee noticed this, he said to himself, "If he was a prophet he would know what sort of a woman this is who is touching him; for she is a sinner."

Now it happened that while he was praying by himself his disciples were beside him. So he inquired of them, "Who do the crowds say I am?"

He said to all, "If anyone wishes to come after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross day after day, and so follow me;

What profit will it be for a man to gain the whole world and lose or forfeit himself?

After that the Lord commissioned other seventy disciples, sending them in front of him two by two to every town and place that he intended to visit himself.

Anxious to make an excuse for himself, however, he said to Jesus, "But who is my neighbour?"

and if Satan is divided against himself, how can his realm stand? You say I am casting out daemons by Beelzebul?

So fares the man who lays up treasure for himself instead of gaining the riches of God."

Blessed are those servants whom the lord and master finds awake when he comes! I tell you truly, he will gird himself, make them recline at table, and come forward to wait on them.

But if that servant says to himself, 'My lord and master is long of arriving,' and if he starts to beat the menservants and maidservants, to eat and drink and get drunk,

For everyone who uplifts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be uplifted."

so he went and attached himself to a citizen of that land, who sent him to his fields to feed swine.

The factor said to himself, 'What am I to do, now that my master is taking the factorship away from me? I am too weak to dig, I am ashamed to beg.

For a while he would not, but afterwards he said to himself, 'Though I have no reverence for God and no respect even for man,

The Pharisee stood up and prayed by himself as follows; 'I thank thee, O God, I am not like the rest of men, thieves, rogues, and immoral, or even like yon taxgatherer.

I tell you, he went home accepted by God rather than the other man; for everyone who uplifts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be uplifted."

"A nobleman," he said, "went abroad to obtain royal power for himself and then return.

Why, David himself says in the book of psalms, The Lord said to my Lord, 'Sit at my right hand,

and ascertaining that he came under the jurisdiction of Herod, he remitted him to Herod, who himself was in Jerusalem during those days.

The people stood and looked on, and even the rulers sneered at him, saying, "He saved others, let him save himself, if he is the Christ of God, the Chosen One!"

and during their conversation and discussion Jesus himself approached and walked beside them,

Then he began with Moses and all the prophets and interpreted to them the passages referring to himself throughout the scriptures.