When his parents saw him they were amazed, and his mother said to him. "My child, why did you treat us like this? Here your father and I have been looking for you, and have been very anxious."

A pupil is not better than his teacher, but every pupil when he is fully trained will be like his teacher.

If anyone comes to me and listens to this teaching of mine and acts upon it, I will show you whom he is like.

He is like a man who was building a house, who dug deep and laid his foundation upon the rock, and when there was a flood the torrent burst upon that house and could not shake it, because it was well built.

But the man who listens to it, and does not act upon it, is like a man who built a house on the ground without any foundation. The torrent burst upon it, and it collapsed at once, and the wreck of that house was complete."

So what is there to which I can compare the men of this age? What are they like?

They are like children sitting about in the bazaar and calling out to one another, " 'We have played the flute for you, and you would not dance! We have wailed and you would not weep!'

Now go. Here I send you out like lambs among wolves.

He said to them, "I saw Satan fall from heaven like a flash of lightning!

Alas for you! For you are like unmarked graves which men tread upon without knowing it."

See how the lilies grow. They do not toil or spin, but, I tell you, even Solomon in all his splendor was never dressed like one of them.

like men waiting for their master to come home from a wedding, so that when he comes and knocks, they can open the door for him at once.

He said, therefore, "What is the Kingdom of God like, and to what can I compare it?

It is like a mustard seed that a man took and dropped in his garden, and it grew and became a tree, and the wild birds roosted on its branches."

It is like yeast that a woman took and hid in a bushel of flour, till it all rose."

I no longer deserve to be called your son; treat me like one of your hired men!" '

His son said to him, 'Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in your eyes; I no longer deserve to be called your son; treat me like one of your hired men!'

It will be like that on the day when the Son of Man appears.

The Pharisee stood up and uttered this prayer to himself: 'O God, I thank you that I am not like other men, greedy, dishonest, or adulterous, like that tax-collector.

But the tax-collector stood at a distance and would not even raise his eyes to heaven, but struck his breast, and said, 'O God, have mercy on a sinner like me!'

I tell you, whoever does not accept the Kingdom of God like a child will not enter it at all."

For they cannot die again; they are like the angels, and through sharing in the resurrection, they are sons of God.

"Beware of the scribes who like to go about in long robes, and love to be saluted with respect in public places, and to have the front seats in the synagogues and the best places at banquets??47 men who eat up widows' houses and to cover it up make long prayers! They will get all the heavier sentence!"

But take care that your hearts are not loaded down with self-indulgence and drunkenness and worldly cares, and that day takes you by surprise, like a trap.

But you are not to do so, but whoever is greatest among you must be like the youngest, and the leader like a servant.

For which is greater, the man at the table, or the servant who waits on him? Is not the man at the table? Yet I am like a servant among you.

O Simon, Simon! Satan has obtained permission to sift all of you like wheat,