When Jesus' parents saw him, they were shocked. His mother asked him, "Son, why have you treated us like this? Your father and I have been worried sick looking for you!"

A disciple is not better than his teacher. But everyone who is fully-trained will be like his teacher.

I will show you what everyone is like who comes to me, hears my words, and acts on them.

They are like a person building a house, who dug a deep hole to lay the foundation on rock. When a flood came, the floodwaters pushed against that house but couldn't shake it, because it had been founded on the rock.

But the person who hears what I say but doesn't act on it is like someone who built a house on the ground without any foundation. When the floodwaters pushed against it, that house quickly collapsed, and the resulting destruction of that house was extensive."

They're like little children who sit in the marketplace and shout to each other, "A wedding song we played for you, the dance you all did scorn. A woeful dirge we chanted, too, but then you would not mourn.'

John said, "Master, we saw someone driving out demons in your name. We tried to stop him, because he wasn't a follower like us."

Get going! See, I am sending you out like lambs among wolves.

He told them, "I watched Satan falling from heaven like lightning.

How terrible it will be for you! You are like unmarked graves people walk on them without realizing it."

So if you can't do a small thing like that, why worry about other things?

Consider how the lilies grow. They don't work or spin yarn, but I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was clothed like one of them.

Be like people who are waiting for their master to return from a wedding. As soon as he arrives and knocks, they will open the door for him.

He asked them, "Do you think that these Galileans were more sinful than all the other Galileans because they suffered like this?

So Jesus went on to say, "What is the kingdom of God like? What can I compare it to?

It is like a mustard seed that someone took and planted 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 with three measures of flour until all of it was leavened."

I don't deserve to be called your son anymore. Treat me like one of your hired men."'

But he answered his father, "Listen! All these years I've worked like a slave for you. I've never disobeyed a command of yours. Yet you've never given me so much as a young goat for a festival so I could celebrate with my friends.

The day when the Son of Man is revealed will be like that.

The Pharisee stood by himself and prayed, "O God, I thank you that I'm not like other people thieves, dishonest people, adulterers, or even this tax collector.

Jesus, however, called for the children and said, "Let the little children come to me, and stop keeping them away, because the kingdom of God belongs to people like these.

Nor can they die anymore, because they are like the angels and, since they share in the resurrection, are God's children.

"Beware of the scribes! They like to walk around in long robes and love to be greeted in the marketplaces and to have the best seats in the synagogues and the places of honor at banquets.

like a trap, because it will come on everyone who lives on the face of the earth.

But you are not to do so. On the contrary, the greatest among you should become like the youngest, and the one who leads should become like the one who serves.

"Simon, Simon, listen! Satan has asked permission to sift all of you like wheat,

In his anguish he prayed more earnestly, and his sweat became like large drops of blood falling on the ground.