And Mary said, "I am the Lord's slave. Let it be as you say." Then the angel left her.

as the book of the sermons of the prophet Isaiah says, "Hark! Someone is shouting in the desert, Get the Lord's way ready! Make his paths straight.

So he would say to the crowds that came out there to be baptized by him, "You brood of snakes! Who warned you to fly from the wrath that is coming?

Then produce fruit that will be consistent with your professed repentance! And do not begin to say to yourselves, 'We have Abraham for our forefather,' for I tell you, God can produce descendants for Abraham right out of these stones!

Jesus answered, "The Scripture says, 'Not on bread alone is man to live!' "

Jesus answered, "The Scripture says, 'You must do homage before the Lord your God, and worship him alone.' "

for the Scripture says, 'He will give his angels orders about you, to protect you,'

And the roll of the prophet Isaiah was handed to him, and he unrolled it and found the place where it says,

And the scribes and the Pharisees began to debate and say, "Who is this man who talks blasphemy? Who can forgive sins but God alone?"

Which is easier, to say, 'Your sins are forgiven,' or to say, 'Get up and walk'?

No one after drinking old wine wants new, for he says, 'The old is better!' "

How can you say to your brother, 'Brother, just let me get that speck out of your eye,' when you cannot see the beam in your own eye? You hypocrite! First get the beam out of your own eye, and then you can see to get out the speck in your brother's eye.

A good man, out of the good he has accumulated in his heart, produces good, and a bad man, out of what he has accumulated that is bad, produces what is bad. For his mouth says only what his heart is full of.

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.

That is why I did not think I was fit to come to you. But simply say the word, and have my servant cured.

This is the man of whom the Scripture says, " 'Here I send my messenger on before you, He will prepare the road ahead of you!'

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!'

Jesus answered him, and said to him, "Simon, there is something I want to say to you." He said, "Proceed, Master."

The men at table with him began to say to themselves, "Who is this man, who even forgives sins?"

Once when he was praying by himself, with only the disciples near him, he asked them, "Who do the people say that I am?"

They answered, "John the Baptist, though others say Elijah, and others that one of the old prophets has come back to life."

And he said to them, "But who do you say that I am?" Peter answered, "The Christ of God!"

Yet another man said to him, "Master, I am going to follow you, but let me first say goodbye to my people at home."

Whenever you go to stay at a house, first say, 'Peace to this household!'

and cure the sick there, and say to them, 'The Kingdom of God is close upon you!'

But whenever you come to a town and they do not welcome you, go out into the open streets and say,

Jesus said to him, "What does the Law say? How does it read?"

He said to them, "When you pray, say, 'Father, your name be revered! Your kingdom come!

And he said to them, "Suppose one of you has a friend, and goes to him in the middle of the night, and says to him, 'Friend, lend me three loaves,

And if Satan is disunited, how can his kingdom last? Because you say that I drive out demons with Beelzebub's aid.

When a foul spirit goes out of a man, it roams through deserts in search of rest, and when it finds none, it says, 'I will go back to my house that I left.'

But he said, "You might better say, 'Blessed are those who hear God's message and observe it!' "

As the crowds pressed a round him, he went on to say, "This is a wicked age! It demands a sign, and no sign will be given it but the sign of Jonah.

At this, one of the experts in the Law said to him, "Master, when you say that, you affront us too."

plotting to entrap him in something he might say.

Meanwhile as the people gathered in thousands, until they actually trod on one another, he proceeded to say to his disciples first of all, "Beware of the yeast of the Pharisees, that is, hypocrisy.

For what you say in the darkness will be heard in the light, and what you whisper in someone's ear, behind closed doors, will be proclaimed from the housetops.

When they bring you before the synagogues or the magistrates or the authorities, you must have no anxiety about how to defend yourselves or what to say,

for at the very moment the holy Spirit will teach you what you ought to say."

And I will say to my soul, "Soul, you have great wealth stored up for years to come. Now take your ease; eat, drink, and enjoy yourself." '

But if the slave says to himself, 'My master is not coming back for a long time,' and begins to beat the men and women slaves and to eat and drink and get drunk,

And he said to the crowds, "When you see a cloud rise in the west, you say at once, 'It is going to rain,' and it does.

And when you see the south wind blowing, you say, 'It is going to be very hot,' and it is.

when the master of the house gets up and shuts the door, and you begin to stand outside and to knock on the door, and say, 'Open it for us, sir!' Then he will answer you and say, 'I do not know where you come from,'

Then you will go on to say, 'We have been entertained with you, and you have taught in our streets!'

And he will say to you, 'I do not know where you come from. Get away from me, all you wrongdoers!'

He said to them, "Go and say to that fox, 'Here I am, driving out demons and performing cures, today and tomorrow, and on the third day I will be through.

Now I leave you to yourselves. And I tell you, you will never see me again until you say, 'Blessed be he who comes in the Lord's name!' "

and your host will come and say to you 'Make room for this man,' and then you will proceed in confusion to take the poorest place.

But when you are invited anywhere, go and take the poorest place, so that when your host comes in, he will say to you, 'My friend, come to a better place.' So you will be shown consideration before all the other guests.

and when the dinner hour came, he sent around his slave, to say to those who were invited, 'Come! for it is now ready!'

and say, 'This man started to erect a building, and could not finish it!'

In just that way, no one of you who does not say goodbye to all he has can be a disciple of mine.

and when he reaches home, he calls in his friends and neighbors, and says to them, 'Congratulate me, for I have found my lost sheep!'

And when she finds it, she calls in her friends and neighbors, and says to them, 'Congratulate me, for I have found the coin that I lost!'

I will get up, and go to my father, and say to him, "Father, I have sinned against heaven and in your eyes;

And if he wrongs you seven times a day, and seven times turns to you and says, 'I am sorry,' you must forgive him."

"What man among you, if he has a servant ploughing or keeping sheep, will say to him when he comes in from the field, 'Come at once and sit down at the table,'

So you also, when you do all you have been ordered to do, must say, 'We are good-for-nothing slaves! We have done only what we ought to have done!' "

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,

But his countrymen hated him, and they sent a delegation after him to say, 'We do not want this man made king over us.'

And if anyone asks you why you are untying it, you are to say, 'The Master needs it.'

and to say, "Blessed is the king who comes in the Lord's name, Peace be in heaven and glory on high!"

and he said to them, "The Scripture says, 'And my house shall be a house of prayer,' but you have made it a den of robbers!"

And they argued with one another, and said, "If we say 'From heaven,' he will say, 'Why did you not believe him?'

But if we say, 'From men,' all the people will stone us to death, for they are convinced that John was a prophet."

And they asked him, "Master, we know that you are right in what you say and teach, and that you show no favor, but teach the way of God in sincerity.

Then some of the Sadducees, who say that there is no resurrection, came up and asked him,

But he said to them, "How can the scribes say that the Christ is a son of David?

For David himself says in the Book of Psalms, " 'The Lord has said to my lord, "Sit at my right hand,

And he said, "Take care not to be misled. For many will come under my name, and say, 'I am he,' and 'The time is at hand.' Do not follow them.

and say to the man of the house, 'Our Master says to you, "Where is the room where I can eat the Passover supper with my disciples?" '

And they all said, "Are you the Son of God then?" And he said to them, "I am, as you say!"

for a time is coming when they will say, 'Happy are the childless women, and those who have never borne or nursed children!'

Then people will begin to say to the mountains, 'Fall on us!' and to the hills, 'Cover us up!'