When his parents saw him they were astounded, and his mother said to him, "My son, why have you behaved like this to us? Here have your father and I been looking for you anxiously!"

and the holy Spirit descended in bodily form like a dove upon him; and a voice came from heaven, "Thou art my son, the Beloved, to-day have I become thy father."

As you would like men to do to you, so do to them.

A scholar is not above his teacher: but if he is perfectly trained he will be like his teacher.

Everyone who comes to me and listens to my words and acts upon them, I will show you whom he is like.

He is like a man engaged in building a house, who dug deep down and laid his foundation on the rock; when a flood came, the river dashed against that house but could not shake it, for it had been well built.

He who has listened and has not obeyed is like a man who built a house on the earth with no foundation; the river dashed against it and it collapsed at once, and the ruin of that house was great."

When Jesus heard this he marvelled at him, and turning to the crowd that followed he said, "I tell you, I have never met faith like this anywhere even in Israel."

"To what then shall I compare the men of this generation? What are they like?

Like children sitting in the marketplace and calling to one another, 'We piped to you and you would not dance, we lamented and you would not weep.'

Go your way; I am sending you out like lambs among wolves.

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

Woe to you! you are like unsuspected tombs; men walk over them unawares."

Look how the lilies neither spin nor weave; and yet, I tell you, even Solomon in all his grandeur was never robed like one of them.

and be like men who are expecting their lord and master on his return from a marriage-banquet, so as to open the door for him at once when he comes and knocks.

So he said, "What is the Reign of God like? to what shall I compare it?

It is like a grain of mustard-seed which a man took and put into his orchard, where it grew up and became a tree, and the wild birds roosted in its branches."

It is like dough which a woman took and buried in three pecks of flour, till all of it was leavened."

I don't deserve to be called your son any more; only make me like one of your hired men."'

for like lightning that flashes from one side of the sky to the other, so will the Son of man be on his own day.

The Pharisee stood up and prayed by himself as follows; 'I thank thee, O God, I am not like the rest of men, thieves, rogues, and immoral, or even like yon taxgatherer.

I tell you truly, whoever will not submit to the Reign of God like a child will never get into it at all."

who tried to see what Jesus was like; but he could not, on account of the crowd ??for he was small of stature.

"Beware of the scribes! They like to walk about in long robes, they are fond of getting saluted in the market-places, of securing the front seats in the synagogues and the best places at banquets;

Take heed to yourselves in case your hearts get overpowered by dissipation and drunkenness and worldly anxieties, and so that Day catches you suddenly like a trap.

not so with you. He who is greatest among you must be like the youngest, and he who is chief like a servant.

Simon, Simon, Satan has claimed the right to sift you all like wheat,

he fell into an agony and prayed with greater intensity, his sweat dropping to the ground like clots of blood.]

Then he said to the high priests and commanders of the temple and elders who had appeared to take him, "Have you sallied out to arrest me like a robber, with swords and cudgels?