Zacharias said to the angel, “How will I know this for certain? For I am an old man and my wife is advanced in years.”

Mary said to the angel, “How can this be, since I am a virgin?”

And how has it happened to me, that the mother of my Lord would come to me?

how he entered the house of God, and took and ate the consecrated bread which is not lawful for any to eat except the priests alone, and gave it to his companions?”

Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Brother, let me take out the speck that is in your eye,’ when you yourself do not see the log that is in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take out the speck that is in your brother’s eye.

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

Those who had seen it reported to them how the man who was demon-possessed had been made well.

When the woman saw that she had not escaped notice, she came trembling and fell down before Him, and declared in the presence of all the people the reason why she had touched Him, and how she had been immediately healed.

And Jesus answered and said, “You unbelieving and perverted generation, how long shall I be with you and put up with you? Bring your son here.”

And He said to him, “What is written in the Law? How does it read to you?”

If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your 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 that I cast out demons by Beelzebul.

When they bring you before the synagogues and the rulers and the authorities, do not worry about how or what you are to speak in your defense, or what you are to say;

Consider the ravens, for they neither sow nor reap; they have no storeroom nor barn, and yet God feeds them; how much more valuable you are than the birds!

Consider the lilies, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin; but I tell you, not even Solomon in all his glory clothed himself like one of these.

But if God so clothes the grass in the field, which is alive today and tomorrow is thrown into the furnace, how much more will He clothe you? You men of little faith!

“I have come to cast fire upon the earth; and how I wish it were already kindled!

But I have a baptism to undergo, and how distressed I am until it is accomplished!

You hypocrites! You know how to analyze the appearance of the earth and the sky, but why do you not analyze this present time?

O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones those sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children together, just as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you would not have it!

And He began speaking a parable to the invited guests when He noticed how they had been picking out the places of honor at the table, saying to them,

But when he came to his senses, he said, ‘How many of my father’s hired men have more than enough bread, but I am dying here with hunger!

And he summoned each one of his master’s debtors, and he began saying to the first, ‘How much do you owe my master?’

Then he said to another, ‘And how much do you owe?’ And he said, ‘A hundred measures of wheat.’ He *said to him, ‘Take your bill, and write eighty.’

And Jesus looked at him and said, “How hard it is for those who are wealthy to enter the kingdom of God!

Then He said to them, “How is it that they say the Christ is David’s son?

Therefore David calls Him ‘Lord,’ and how is He his son?”

The chief priests and the scribes were seeking how they might put Him to death; for they were afraid of the people.

And he went away and discussed with the chief priests and officers how he might betray Him to them.

The Lord turned and looked at Peter. And Peter remembered the word of the Lord, how He had told him, “Before a rooster crows today, you will deny Me three times.”

Now the women who had come with Him out of Galilee followed, and saw the tomb and how His body was laid.

He is not here, but He has risen. Remember how He spoke to you while He was still in Galilee,

and how the chief priests and our rulers delivered Him to the sentence of death, and crucified Him.

They began to relate their experiences on the road and how He was recognized by them in the breaking of the bread.