"Do not exact more than the legal amount," he replied.

But all the more the report about Him spread abroad, and great multitudes crowded to hear Him and to be cured of their diseases;

But what did you go out to see? A Prophet? Aye, I tell you, and far more than a Prophet.

Be careful, therefore, how you hear; for whoever has anything, to him more shall be given, and whoever has nothing, even that which he thinks he has shall be taken away from him."

And He addressed them thus: "The harvest is abundant, but the reapers are few: therefore entreat the Owner of the harvest to send out more reapers into His fields. And now go.

"I tell you that it will be more endurable for Sodom on the great day than for that town.

However, for Tyre and Sidon it will be more endurable at the Judgement than for you.

If you then, with all your human frailty, know how to give your children gifts that are good for them, how much more certainly will your Father who is in Heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him!"

Then it goes and brings with it seven other spirits more malignant than itself, and they enter and dwell there; and in the end that man's condition becomes worse than it was at first.

But the very hairs on your heads are all counted. Away with fear: you are more precious than a multitude of sparrows.'

Observe the ravens. They neither sow nor reap, and have neither store-chamber nor barn. And yet God feeds them. How far more precious are you than the birds!

But if God so clothes the vegetation in the fields, that blooms to-day and to-morrow will be thrown into the oven, how much more certainly will He clothe you, you men of feeble faith!

Or those eighteen on whom the tower at Siloam fell, do you suppose they had failed in their duty more than all the rest of the people who live in Jerusalem?

"When any one invites you to a wedding banquet, do not take the best seat, lest perhaps some more honoured guest than you may have been asked,

I tell you that in the same way there will be rejoicing in Heaven over one repentant sinner--more rejoicing than over ninety-nine blameless persons who have no need of repentance.

"But on coming to himself he said, "'How many of my father's hired men have more bread than they want, while I here am dying of hunger!

"I tell you that this man went home more thoroughly absolved from guilt than the other; for every one who uplifts himself will be humbled, but he who humbles himself will be uplifted."

"So the first came and said, "'Sir, your pound has produced ten pounds more.'

"'I tell you that to every one who has anything, more shall be given; and from him who has not anything, even what he has shall be taken away.

There was nothing here that they could lay hold of before the people, and marvelling at His answer they said no more.

who swallow up the property of widows and mask their wickedness by making long prayers. They will be punished far more severely than others."

and He said, "In truth I tell you that this widow, so poor, has thrown in more than any of them.

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.

But Pilate once more addressed them, wishing to set Jesus free.