“How can I know this?” Zechariah asked the angel. “For I am an old man, and my wife is well along in years.”

Mary asked the angel, “How can this be, since I have not been intimate with a man?”

How could this happen to me, that the mother of my Lord should come to me?

how he entered the house of God, and took and ate the sacred bread, which is not lawful for any but the priests to eat? He even gave some to those who were with him.”

Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Brother, let me take out the speck that is in your eye,’ when you yourself don’t see the log in your eye? Hypocrite! First take the log out of your eye, and then you will see clearly to take out the speck in your brother’s eye.

Therefore take care how you listen. For whoever has, more will be given to him; and whoever does not have, even what he thinks he has will be taken away from him.”

Meanwhile, the eyewitnesses reported to them how the demon-possessed man was delivered.

When the woman saw that she was discovered, she came trembling and fell down before Him. In the presence of all the people, she declared the reason she had touched Him and how she was instantly cured.

Jesus replied, “You unbelieving and rebellious generation! How long will I be with you and put up with you? Bring your son here.”

“What is written in the law?” He asked him. “How do you read it?”

If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him?”

If Satan also is divided against himself, how will his kingdom stand? For you say I drive out demons by Beelzebul.

Whenever they bring you before synagogues and rulers and authorities, don’t worry about how you should defend yourselves or what you should say.

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

“Consider how the wildflowers grow: They don’t labor or spin thread. Yet I tell you, not even Solomon in all his splendor was adorned like one of these!

If that’s how God clothes the grass, which is in the field today and is thrown into the furnace tomorrow, how much more will He do for you—you of little faith?

“I came to bring fire on the earth, and how I wish it were already set ablaze!

But I have a baptism to be baptized with, and how it consumes Me until it is finished!

Hypocrites! You know how to interpret the appearance of the earth and the sky, but why don’t you know how to interpret this time?

“Jerusalem, Jerusalem! She who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her. How often I wanted to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing!

He told a parable to those who were invited, when He noticed how they would choose the best places for themselves:

“Now, salt is good, but if salt should lose its taste, how will it be made salty?

When he came to his senses, he said, ‘How many of my father’s hired hands have more than enough food, and here I am dying of hunger!

“So he summoned each one of his master’s debtors. ‘How much do you owe my master?’ he asked the first one.

“Next he asked another, ‘How much do you owe?’

“‘A hundred measures of wheat,’ he said.

“‘Take your invoice,’ he told him, ‘and write 80.’

Seeing that he became sad, Jesus said, “How hard it is for those who have wealth to enter the kingdom of God!

“At his return, having received the authority to be king, he summoned those slaves he had given the money to, so he could find out how much they had made in business.

Then He said to them, “How can they say that the Messiah is the Son of David?

David calls Him ‘Lord’; how then can the Messiah be his Son?”

As some were talking about the temple complex, how it was adorned with beautiful stones and gifts dedicated to God, He said,

He went away and discussed with the chief priests and temple police how he could hand Him over to them.

Then the Lord turned and looked at Peter. So Peter remembered the word of the Lord, how He had said to him, “Before the rooster crows today, you will deny Me three times.”

The women who had come with Him from Galilee followed along and observed the tomb and how His body was placed.

“He is not here, but He has been resurrected! Remember how He spoke to you when He was still in Galilee,

and how our chief priests and leaders handed Him over to be sentenced to death, and they crucified Him.

He said to them, “How unwise and slow you are to believe in your hearts all that the prophets have spoken!

Then they began to describe what had happened on the road and how He was made known to them in the breaking of the bread.