When His parents saw Him, they were astonished, and His mother said to Him, “Son, why have You treated us like this? Your father and I have been anxiously searching for You.”

and the Holy Spirit descended on Him in a physical appearance like a dove. And a voice came from heaven:

You are My beloved Son.
I take delight in You!

A disciple is not above his teacher, but everyone who is fully trained will be like his teacher.

I will show you what someone is like who comes to Me, hears My words, and acts on them:

He is like a man building a house, who dug deep and laid the foundation on the rock. When the flood came, the river crashed against that house and couldn’t shake it, because it was well built.

But the one who hears and does not act is like a man who built a house on the ground without a foundation. The river crashed against it, and immediately it collapsed. And the destruction of that house was great!”

“To what then should I compare the people of this generation, and what are they like?

They are like children sitting in the marketplace and calling to each other:

We played the flute for you,
but you didn’t dance;
we sang a lament,
but you didn’t weep!

Now go; I’m sending you out like lambs among wolves.

He said to them, “I watched Satan fall from heaven like a lightning flash.

“Woe to you! You are like unmarked graves; the people who walk over them don’t know it.”

“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!

You must be like people waiting for their master to return from the wedding banquet 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 what can I compare it to?

It’s like a mustard seed that a man took and sowed in his garden. It grew and became a tree, and the birds of the sky nested in its branches.”

It’s like yeast that a woman took and mixed into 50 pounds of flour until it spread through the entire mixture.”

I’m no longer worthy to be called your son. Make me like one of your hired hands.’

It will be like that on the day the Son of Man is revealed.

The Pharisee took his stand and was praying like this: ‘God, I thank You that I’m not like other people —greedy, unrighteous, adulterers, or even like this tax collector.

I assure you: Whoever does not welcome the kingdom of God like a little child will never enter it.”

For they cannot die anymore, because they are like angels and are sons of God, since they are sons of the resurrection.

like a trap. For it will come on all who live on the face of the whole earth.

But it must not be like that among you. On the contrary, whoever is greatest among you must become like the youngest, and whoever leads, like the one serving.

“Simon, Simon, look out! Satan has asked to sift you like wheat.

Being in anguish, He prayed more fervently, and His sweat became like drops of blood falling to the ground.]

But these words seemed like nonsense to them, and they did not believe the women.