He said to them, "Do not collect any more than you are authorized to."

Yet the news about him spread more and more, and great crowds gathered to hear him and to be cured of their diseases.

So Jesus went with them. But when he was not far from the house, the captain sent some friends to him, to say to him, "Master, do not take any more trouble, for I am not a suitable person to have you under my roof.

Then what did you go out there to see? A prophet? Yes, I tell you, and far more than a prophet!

As they could not pay him, he canceled what they owed him. Now which of them will be more attached to him?"

So take care how you listen. For people who have will have more given to them, and from people who have nothing, even what they think they have will be taken away."

Even as he spoke someone came from the house of the leader of the synagogue and said, "Your daughter is dead. Do not trouble the Master any more."

The next day he took out a dollar and gave it to the innkeeper and said, 'Take care of him, and whatever more you spend I will refund to you on my way back.'

So if you, bad as you are, know enough to give your children what is good, how much more surely will your Father in heaven give the holy Spirit to those who ask him for it!"

Then it goes and gets seven other spirits more wicked than itself, and they go in and live there, and in the end the man is worse off than he was before."

The queen of the south will rise with the men of this generation at the Judgment and will condemn them, for she came from the very ends of the earth to listen to Solomon's wisdom, and there is more than Solomon here!

Men of Nineveh will rise with this generation at the Judgment and will condemn it, for they repented at Jonah's preaching, and there is more than Jonah here.

I tell you, who are my friends, have no fear of those who kill the body, and after that can do no more.

But the very hairs on your heads are all counted! You must not be afraid, you are worth more than a great many sparrows!

Life is more important than food, and the body than clothes.

Think of the crows! They do not sow or reap, and they have no storehouses or barns, and God feeds them. How much more you are worth than the birds!

But if God so dresses the wild grass, which is alive today, and is thrown into the furnace tomorrow, how much more surely will he clothe you, who have so little faith?

But one who does wrong without knowing them will be lightly punished. From anyone who has been given much, much will be required, and of the man to whom people have intrusted much, they will demand even more.

He answered, 'Let it stand this one year more, sir, till I dig around it and manure it;

"When someone invites you to a wedding supper, do not take the best place, for someone more distinguished than you are may have been invited,

I tell you, in just that way there will be more joy in heaven over one sinful person who repents, than over ninety-nine upright people who do not need any repentance.

When he came to himself he said, 'How many hired men my father has, who have more than enough to eat, and here I am, dying of hunger!

The apostles said to the Master, "Give us more faith."

who will not receive many times more in this time, and in the coming age eternal life."

They said to him, 'He has two hundred, sir!'??26 'I tell you, the man who has will have more given him, and from the man who has nothing, even what he has will be taken away!

So they could not fasten on what he said before the people, and they were amazed at his answer, and said nothing more.

For they did not dare to ask him any more questions.

And he said, "I tell you, this poor widow has put in more than all the rest.