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."

He said to them, "How did you come to look for me? Did you not know that I must be at my Father's house?"

Once as the crowd was pressing about him to hear God's message, he happened to be standing by the Lake of Gennesaret,

and he saw two boats on the shore of the lake, for the fishermen had gotten out of them and were washing their nets.

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."

and he called two of them to him, and sent them to the Master to ask him, "Are you the one who was to come, or should we look for someone else?"

And the men went to him and said, "John the Baptist sent us to you to ask, 'Are you the one who was to come, or should we look for someone else?' "

When John's messengers were gone, he began to speak to the crowds about John. "What was it that you went out into the desert to look at? A reed swaying in the wind?

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 that the Son of Man has come, he does eat and drink, and you say, 'Look at him! A glutton and a drinker, the companion of tax-collectors and irreligious people!'

And he said, "You are permitted to know the secrets of the Kingdom of God, but they are given to others in the form of figures, so that they may look and yet not see, and hear and yet not understand.

It happened one day that he got into a boat with his disciples, and said to them, "Let us cross to the other side of the lake."

So they set sail. As they sailed along, he fell asleep. And a squall of wind came down upon the lake, and they were being swamped and were in peril.

They made a landing in the neighborhood of Gerasa, which is just across the lake from Galilee.

Then the demons came out of the man and went into the pigs, and the drove rushed over the steep bank into the lake, and were drowned.

And as he was praying, the look of his face changed and his clothes turned dazzling white.

And a man in the crowd shouted, "Master, I beg you to look at my son, for he is my only child,

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.

You hypocrites! You know how to interpret the look of the earth and sky; and why can you not interpret this present time?

He used this figure: "A man had a fig tree growing in his garden, and he went to look for fruit on it, and could not find any.

And he said to the gardener, 'Here I have come three years to look for fruit on this fig tree, without finding any. Cut it down. Why should it waste the ground?'

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."

And they all immediately began to excuse themselves. The first one said to him, 'I have bought a piece of land, and I must go and look at it. Please have me excused.'

Or what woman who has ten silver coins and loses one, does not light the lamp and sweep the house and look carefully until she finds it?

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!'

Look out for yourselves! If your brother wrongs you, take it up with him, and if he repents, forgive him.

and people will not say, 'Look! here it is!' or 'There it is!' for the Kingdom of God is within you."

Men will say to you, 'Look! There he is!' or, 'Look! Here he is!' Do not go off in pursuit of him,

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."

When Jesus heard this, he said to him, "There is one thing that you still lack. Sell all that you have, and divide the money among the poor, and then you will have riches in heaven; and come back and be a follower of mine."

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 when this begins to happen, look up and raise your heads, for your deliverance will be at hand."

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.

Yet look! The hand of the man who is betraying me is beside me on the table!

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,

The women were frightened and bowed their faces to the ground, but the men said to them, "Why do you look among the dead for him who is alive?

Look at my hands and feet, for it is I myself! Feel of me and see, for a ghost has not flesh and bones, as you see I have."