"How shall I be sure of this?" said Zachariah to the Angel. "For I am an old man and my wife is advanced in years."

And Mary said to the angel. "How can this be? For I have no husband?"

"How he entered into God's house and took and ate the Presented Loaves, and gave some to his followers, loaves which none must eat but the priests?

"Or how can you say to your brother. "Brother, allow me to pull that splinter out of your eye," when you do not see the beam in your own eye? Hypocrite! Take out first the beam from your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take out the splinter from your brother's eye.

So he answered them. "Go your way, tell John what you have seen and heard. How the blind are seeing, the lame are walking, the lepers are being cleansed, the deaf are hearing, the dead are being raised, and the poor are hearing the proclamations of glad tidings.

"Take heed, then, how you listen. for he who has, to him shall it be given, but from him who has not, shall be taken away even what he has."

Then those who had seen it told them how the demon-possessed man had been saved.

"Return to your home, and tell them all that God has done for you." So he went away and throughout the whole city he published how much Jesus had done for him.

Then the woman, who saw that she had not escaped notice, came trembling, and falling down before him, stated before the people for what reason she had touched him, and how she had been instantly healed.

"O faithless and perverse generation," said Jesus, "how long shall I be with you and bear with you? Bring your son to me."

It happened he was praying in a certain place, and when he stopped, one of his disciples said to him, "Master, teach us how to pray, just as John taught his disciples."

"If you give good gifts to your children, how much more shall the Father who is in heaven give the Holy spirit to those that ask him!"

"And if Satan also is divided against himself, how shall his kingdom stand?

"And when they are bringing you before the synagogues and the rulers and authorities, do not worry about how or what you shall answer; or what you shall say;

"Consider the ravens; they neither sow nor reap; they have no storehouse nor barn. And yet God feeds them. How much more are you worth than the birds?

"Consider the lilies how they grow! They toil not, neither do they spin, yet I say to you that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.

"Would it were already kindled! But I have a baptism to be baptized with, and how am I straitened till it is accomplished!

"Hypocrites! you know how to read the face of the earth and of the sky; but how is it that you do not know how to read the signs of the present time?

"O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those who are sent to you! How often would I have gathered your children, as a hen gathers her chickens under her wings, and you would not!

He told a parable to the guests when he noticed how they began choosing the best seats. He said to them.

"When he came to himself he said: "'How many of my father's hired men have bread enough and to spare, while I am perishing of hunger!

"So he called to him each of his master's debtors and said to the first, 'How much money do you owe my master?'

"To a second he said, 'How much do you owe?' "The man answered, 'A hundred measures of wheat.' "'Here is you bill,' he said, 'change it to eighty measures.'

He also taught them by a parable how they ought always to pray and never to lose heart.

Jesus looked at him and said: "How hard it is for those who have money to enter into the kingdom of God!

But they could not find how to do it, for the people all hung upon him, listening to him.

"How is it," he asked them, "that they say that Christ is David's son?

"David therefore himself calls him 'Lord,' and how can he be his son?"

And to some who were about the Temple, how it was adorned with beautiful stones votive offerings, he said,

Then the Lord turned and looked at Peter, and Peter recollected the word of the Lord, how he had said to him, "This very day, before the cock crows, you will deny me three times."

Then the women who had accompanied him out of Galilee followed after, and noted the tomb, and how his body was placed.

"He is not here; he is risen. Do you remember how he told you when he was still in Galilee

"and how our high priest and ruler delivered him to be condemned to death and crucified him.

Then he said to them, "These are my words which I spoke to you while I was still with you, how all things must be fulfilled which are written in the Law of Moses, and the prophets, and the Psalms concerning me."