Then you could know how reliable the information is that you have been told.

And Zacharias said to the angel, How may I be certain of this? For I am an old man, and my wife is far on in years.

And Mary said to the angel, How may this be, because I have had no knowledge of a man?

and she loudly exclaimed, "How blessed are you among women, and how blessed is the infant in your womb!

How is it that the mother of my Lord comes to me?

How blessed is this woman for believing that what was spoken to her by the Lord would be fulfilled!"

"For the Almighty has done wonders for me, How holy his name is!

And her neighbours and her cousins heard tell, how the Lord had showed great mercy upon her, and they rejoiced with her.

And they made signs to his father, how he would have him called.

by acquainting his people how they may be saved by the remission of their sins,

When His parents saw Him, they were utterly amazed, and yet His mother said to Him, "My child, why did you treat us so? Just see how your father and I, in agony of mind, have been searching for you!"

And he said unto them, "How is it that ye sought me? Wist ye not that I must go about my father's business?"

And all mankind is to see how God can save!"

the Publicans likewise came to be baptized, and said to him, master, how are we to act?

the soldiers too made the same demand, how are we to act? he answer'd them, injure no man either by violence or by fraud, and be content with your pay.

he undertook to show them, how the passage they had heard, was actually then accomplished.

And he said to them, Ye will doubtless say to me this proverb: Physician, heal thyself. How many things we heard that happened at Capernaum, do also here in thy fatherland.

And in truth I say unto you, There were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah. When the heaven was shut up three years and six months, how the famine was great over all the land;

And behold, men brought, on a bed, a man who was a paralytic. And they sought how they might bring him in, and lay him before him.

And not having found how they might bring him in because of the multitude, after going up upon the housetop, they let him down through the tiles with the small bed into the midst in front of Jesus.

I came not to call saints, but sinners to repentance. Then they ask'd him, how comes it that John's disciples,

And Jesus answering them said, Have ye not read what David did, when he himself was hungry and those that were with him? how he went into the house of God,

how he entered into the house of God, and took and ate the showbread, and gave also to them that were with him; which it is not lawful to eat save for the priests alone?

And the scribes and the Pharisees watched him, whether he would heal on the sabbath; that they might find how to accuse him.

Then Jesus looked at his disciples and said, "How blessed are you who are destitute, because the kingdom of God is yours!

How blessed are you who are hungry now, because you will be satisfied! How blessed are you who are crying now, because you will laugh!

"How blessed are you whenever people hate you, avoid you, insult you, and slander you because of the Son of Man!

"But how terrible it will be for you who are rich, because you have had your comfort!

How terrible it will be for you who are full now, because you will be hungry! How terrible it will be for you who are laughing now, because you will mourn and cry!

"How terrible it will be for you when everyone says nice things about you, because that's the way their ancestors used to treat the false prophets!"

How comes it, that you can see the mote in your brother's eye, and not see the beam that is in your own eye?

Or how canst thou say to thy brother, Brother, let me cast out the mote that is in thine eye, when thou thyself beholdest not the beam that is in thine own eye? Thou hypocrite, cast out first the beam out of thine own eye, and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote that is in thy brother's eye.

And Jesus answered, and said unto them, "Go your ways and show John, what things ye have heard and seen: how that the blind see, the halt go, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead arise: To the poor is the glad tidings preached,

How blessed is anyone who is not offended by me!"

Take heed therefore how ye hear: for whosoever hath, to him shall be given; and whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken away even that which he thinketh he hath.

And they that saw it told them how he that was possessed with demons was made whole.

Return to thy house, and declare how great things God hath done for thee. And he went his way, publishing throughout the whole city how great things Jesus had done for him.

And when the woman saw that she was not hid, she came trembling, and falling down before him declared in the presence of all the people for what cause she touched him, and how she was healed immediately.

And the apostles having turned back, declared to him how great things they did, and having taken them, he withdrew by himself to a desert place of a city called Bethsaida,

Just as they were parting from him, Peter said to Jesus, "Master, how good it is that we are here! Let us put up three huts, one for you and one for Moses and one for Elijah!" For he did not know what he was saying.

And Jesus answered and said, O faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you, and bear with you? bring hither thy son.

"How terrible it will be for you, Chorazin! How terrible it will be for you, Bethsaida! If the miracles that happened in you had taken place in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago, sitting in sackcloth and ashes.

Then turning to his disciples in private, he told them, "How blessed are the eyes that see what you see!

And he said unto him, What is written in the law? how readest thou?

How readest thou? And he answering said, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbour as thyself.

And it happened as Jesus finished praying at a certain place that one of His disciples said to Him, "Lord, teach us [how] to pray, just like John [the Immerser] taught his disciples."

If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children: how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him?

If Satan also be divided against himself, how shall his kingdom stand? because ye say that I cast out devils through Beelzebub.

As Jesus was saying this, a woman in the crowd raised her voice and told him, "How blessed is the womb that gave birth to you and the breasts that nursed you!"

But he said, "Instead, how blessed are those who hear God's word and obey it!"

The Master however said to him, "Here we see how you Pharisees clean the outside of the cup or plate, while your secret hearts are full of greed and selfishness.

"How terrible it will be for you Pharisees! You give a tenth of your mint, spices, and every kind of herb, but you neglect justice and the love of God. These are the things you should have practiced, without neglecting the others.

How terrible it will be for you Pharisees! You love to have the places of honor in the synagogues and to be greeted in the marketplaces.

How terrible it will be for you! You are like unmarked graves people walk on them without realizing it."

Jesus said, "How terrible it will be for you experts in the Law, too! You load people with burdens that are hard to carry, yet you don't even lift a finger to ease those burdens.

How terrible it will be for you! You build monuments for the prophets, and it was your ancestors who killed them!

How terrible it will be for you experts in the Law! You have taken away the key to knowledge. You didn't go in yourselves, and you kept out those who were trying to go in."

And when they bring you unto the synagogues, and unto magistrates, and powers, take ye no thought how or what thing ye shall answer, or what ye shall say:

take no thought how or what ye shall answer or what ye shall say. For the Holy Ghost shall teach you in that hour, what ye ought to say.

But He said to him, "Man, who appointed me to judge or [decide on how] to divide [the property] between you two?"

And he said to them, "Take care! You must be on your guard against any form of greed, for a man's life does not belong to him, no matter how rich he is."

“That’s how it is with the one who stores up treasure for himself and is not rich toward God.”

And he said to his disciples, For this reason I say to you, Take no thought for your life, about what food you will take, or for your body, how it may be clothed.

Consider the ravens: for they neither sow nor reap; which neither have storehouse nor barn; and God feedeth them: how much more are ye better than the fowls?

Consider the lilies how they grow: they toil not, they spin not; and yet I say unto you, that Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.

If then God so clothe the grass, which is to day in the field, and to morrow is cast into the oven; how much more will he clothe you, O ye of little faith?

How blessed are those servants whom the master finds watching for him when he comes! I tell all of you with certainty, he himself will put on an apron, make them sit down at the table, and go around and serve them.

How blessed they will be if their master comes in the middle of the night or near dawn and finds them awake!

How blessed is that servant whom his master finds doing this when he comes!

"I have come to bring fire on the earth, and how I wish that it had been kindled already!

But I have a baptism to be baptized with; and how am I straitened till it be accomplished!

Ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky and of the earth; but how is it that ye do not discern this time?

Now some people who were there at that time, gave him an account of how the blood of some Galilaeans had been mixed by Pilate with their offerings.

O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, which killest the prophets, and stonest them that are sent unto thee; how often would I have gathered thy children together, as a hen doth gather her brood under her wings, and ye would not!

Look! Your house is left vacant to you. I tell you, you will not see me again until you say, "How blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord!'"

And he put forth a parable to those which were bidden, when he marked how they chose out the chief rooms; saying unto them,

Now one of those eating with him heard this and told him, "How blessed is the person who will eat in the kingdom of God!"

Salt is good, but if salt itself loses its strength, how can that strength be restored?

And when he came to himself, he said, How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger!

how many years have I serv'd you, without having ever disobey'd your orders? and yet you never bestow'd a kid upon me, to make merry with my friends:

And he called him, and said unto him, How is it that I hear this of thee? give an account of thy stewardship; for thou mayest be no longer steward.

So he called every one of his lord's debtors unto him, and said unto the first, How much owest thou unto my lord?

Then said he to another, And how much owest thou? And he said, An hundred measures of wheat. And he said unto him, Take thy bill, and write fourscore.

And I tell you, make friends for yourselves by how you use worldly wealth, so that when it runs out you will be welcomed into the eternal homes.

if therefore your fidelity has not appear'd in the use of these transitory enjoyments, how can you be trusted with what is more lasting?

if you have imbezel'd what another gave you in trust, how can he give you an estate in perpetuity?

But Abraham said [to him], 'Son, remember how you enjoyed good things when you were alive [on earth] and how Lazarus had to put up with bad things? But now here [i.e., in the unseen place of departed spirits] he is being comforted and you are in agony.

Jesus told his disciples, "It is inevitable that temptations to sin will come, but how terrible it will be for the person through whom they come!

Now He told them the following story to show how necessary it is for people always to pray and never to give up:

I tell you, he will speedily avenge them. however, when the son of man comes, how few of the faithful will he find in the land?

The Pharisee stood up [conspicuously] and prayed about himself this way [i.e., bragging to God about how good he was], 'God, I thank you that I am not like other people: swindlers, unjust, sexually unfaithful to their mates, or even like that tax collector [over there].

And when Jesus saw that he was very sorrowful, he said, How hardly shall they that have riches enter into the kingdom of God!

And it came to pass, that when he was returned, having received the kingdom, then he commanded these servants to be called unto him, to whom he had given the money, that he might know how much every man had gained by trading.

They said, "How blessed is the king who comes in the name of the Lord! Peace in heaven, and glory in the highest heaven!"

and could not find how to effect it: for all the people were attentive to hear Him.

And he said unto them, How say they that the Christ is David's son?

David therefore calleth him Lord, and how is he his son?

As he beheld, he saw the rich men, how they cast in their offerings into the treasury.

And as some spake of the temple, how it was adorned with goodly stones and offerings, he said,

Settle it therefore in your hearts, not to meditate beforehand how to answer: