and the Holy Spirit came down in bodily shape, like a dove, upon Him, and a voice came from Heaven, which said, "Thou art My Son, dearly loved: in Thee is My delight."

There is no disciple who is superior to his teacher; but every one whose instruction is complete will be like his teacher.

Every one who comes to me and listens to my words and puts them in practice, I will show you whom he is like.

He is like a man building a house, who digs and goes deep, and lays the foundation on the rock; and when a flood comes, the torrent bursts upon that house, but is unable to shake it, because it is securely built.

But he who has heard and not practised is like a man who has built a house upon the soft soil without a foundation, against which the torrent bursts, and immediately it collapses, and terrible is the wreck and ruin of that house."

Jesus listened to the Captain's message and was astonished at him, and He turned and said to the crowd that followed Him, "I tell you that not even in Israel have I found faith like that."

They are like children sitting in the public square and calling out to one another, 'We have played the flute to you, and you have not danced: we have sung dirges, and you have not shown sorrow.'

"I saw Satan fall like a lightning-flash out of Heaven," He replied.

In like manner a Levite also came to the place, and seeing him passed by on the other side.

"Which of those three seems to you to have acted like a fellow man to him who fell among the robbers?"

Alas for you Pharisees! for you love the best seats in the synagogues, and you like to be bowed to in places of public resort.

Alas for you! for you are like the tombs which lie hidden, and the people who walk over them are not aware of their existence."

and be yourselves like men waiting for their master--on the look-out till he shall return from the wedding feast--that, when he comes and knocks, they may open the door instantly.

This prompted Him to say, "What is the Kingdom of God like? and to what shall I compare it?

It is like a mustard seed which a man drops into the soil in his garden, and it grows and becomes a tree in whose branches the birds roost."

It is like yeast which a woman takes and buries in a bushel of flour, to work there till the whole is leavened."

"'Remember, my child,' said Abraham, 'that you had all your good things during your lifetime, and that Lazarus in like manner had his bad things. But, now and here, he is receiving consolation and you are in agony.

"If your faith," replied the Lord, "is like a mustard seed, you might command this black-mulberry-tree, 'Tear up your roots and plant yourself in the sea,' and instantly it would obey you.

The Pharisee, standing erect, prayed as follows by himself: "'O God, I thank Thee that I am not like other people--I am not a thief nor a cheat nor an adulterer, nor do I even resemble this tax-gatherer.

I tell you in solemn truth that, whoever does not receive the Kingdom of God like a little child will certainly not enter it."

For indeed they cannot die again; they are like angels, and are sons of God through being sons of the Resurrection.

"Beware of the Scribes, who like to walk about in long robes, and love to be bowed to in places of public resort and to occupy the best seats in the synagogues or at a dinner party;

"But take heed to yourselves, lest your souls be weighed down with self-indulgence and drunkenness or the anxieties of this life, and that day come upon you, suddenly, like a falling trap;

He gave them the cup in like manner, when the meal was over. "This cup," He said, "is the new Covenant ratified by my blood which is to be poured out on your behalf.

With you it is not so; but let the greatest among you be as the younger, and the leader be like him who serves.

while He--an agony of distress having come upon Him--prayed all the more with intense earnestness, and His sweat became like clots of blood dropping on the ground.

At this they were in great perplexity, when suddenly there stood by them two men whose raiment flashed like lightning.