So John used to say to the crowd of those who were going out to be baptized by him. "You breed of vipers, who has warned you to flee from the wrath to come?

Then bring forth fruit befitting your penitence, and do not begin to say to yourselves, "We have Abraham as our father." I tell you that God is able to raise up sons to Abraham out of these stones.

The eyes of all in the synagogue were fixed on him, and he began to say to them, "Today is this scripture fulfilled in your hearing."

"What is this caviling in your hearts? Which is easier to say, "Your sins are forgiven," or to say, "Rise and walk?"

"And no man after drinking old wine, wishes for new; for he says, "The old is better.""

Then raising his eyes upon his disciples he began to say to them. "Blessed are you poor, For the kingdom of God is yours.

"But to you who are listening to me I say, Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you,

"Or how can you say to your brother. "Brother, allow me to pull that splinter out of your eye," when you do not see the beam in your own eye? Hypocrite! Take out first the beam from your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take out the splinter from your brother's eye.

"For I also am a man obedient to authority, and have soldiers under me. And I say to one 'come,' and he comes, and to my slave 'do this or that,' and he does it."

and, calling a certain two disciples to him, he sent them to Jesus, to say, "Are you 'the coming one,' or if we are to expect another?"

"To What are they like, they are like children sitting in the market-place and calling to one another. "'We have piped to you,' they say, 'and you have not danced; we have wailed, and you did not cry.'

"For John the Baptist has come eating no bread and drinking no wine, and you say, 'He has a demon!'

"The son of man has come eating and drinking, and you say, 'Behold a gluttonous man and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners!'

Jesus then spoke to him. "Simon, I have a word to say to you." "Rabbi, say on," he replied.

Then the other guest began to say among themselves, "Who is this even to forgive sins?"

"John the Baptist," they answered, "But others say Elijah, and others that one of the ancient prophets is risen again."

Then he said to them, "But who do you say I am?" Then Peter answered saying, "The Christ of God."

"Into whatever you first enter, say, 'Peace be to this house!'

So he said to them. "When you pray, say, "Father, hallowed be thy name; May thy kingdom come,

"So I say to you. "Ask, and it shall be given to you; seek, and ye shall find; knock and it shall be opened to you.

"Do you say that I am casting out demons by the power of Beelzebub? If I then am casting out demons by Beelzebub, by whom are your sons casting them out? They therefore shall be your judges.

"Whenever a foul spirit is gone out of a man, it roams through waterless places, in search of rest; but when it can find none, it says, 'I will go back to the house which I have left.'

When the crowd were beginning to throng about him he proceeded to say. "This is an evil generation! It seeks a sign, and there shall be no sign be given to it except the sign of Jonah;

Meanwhile when myriads of the multitudes were thronging around him so that they trod one upon another, he began to say to his disciples, first of all. "Beware of the leaven of the Pharisee, which is hypocrisy.

"But I say to you who are my friends, do not be afraid of those who kill the body and after that have no more that they can do.

"And when they are bringing you before the synagogues and the rulers and authorities, do not worry about how or what you shall answer; or what you shall say;

"for the Holy Spirit will teach you in that hour what you ought to say."

"'And I will say to my soul, "'Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years! Take your ease, eat, drink, and be merry.'

Then he said to his disciples. "For this is the reason I say to you. Be not anxious for your life, what you shall eat; nor yet your body what shall you wear.

"Consider the lilies how they grow! They toil not, neither do they spin, yet I say to you that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.

"But if that slave should say to himself, 'My master delays his coming,' and should begin to beat the men and the maids, and to eat and drink and to get drunk,

Then he said to the crowd also. "When you see a cloud rising in the west you at once say, 'There is going to be a shower,' and it comes to pass.

"And when you feel the south winds blowing you say, 'There will be a hot wind,' and it comes to pass.

This led him to say. "What is the kingdom of God like? And to what shall I compare it?

"Behold! Your house is left to you, desolate! I tell you that you shall never see me again until you say, Blessed is he that comes in the name of the Lord,"

"When you are invited by any one to a marriage-feast, do not sit down in the best seat, lest a guest more distinguished than yourself has been invited, and your host come to you and say,

"But when you are invited, go and sit down in the lowest place, so that when your host arrives he may say to you, 'My friend, come up higher.' Then you will be honored before the other guest.

"At dinnertime he sent his slave to say to those who had been invited, 'Come, for all things are now ready.'

"I say to you that even so there shall be joy in heaven over one sinner who repents, more than over ninety and nine just persons who need no repentance.

"And when she has found it, she calls together her woman friends and neighbors and say, 'Rejoice with me, for I have found the coin which I had lost.'

"'I will rise and go to my father, and say to him. "Father, I have sinned against Heaven and in your sight,

"And to you I say, Use mammon, dishonest as it is, to make yourselves friends, so that when it shall fail they will welcome you to the eternal tabernacles.

"If your faith," answered Jesus, "were like a grain of mustard-seed, you would say to this tree, 'Tear yourself up and be planted in the sea,' and it would obey you.

"But who of you who has a slave plowing or keeping sheep, will say to him, when he is come in from the field, 'Come at once, sit down to dinner,'

"Even so, you also, after you have done all the things that are commanded you, should say, 'We are but slaves, we have only done what it was our duty to do.'"

"nor will they say, 'Look here it is!' or 'See there!'??or the kingdom of God is now in your midst."

"And they shall say to you, 'Lo there! Lo there!' But do not go away or follow them.

"Listen" said the Lord, "to what this unjust judge says.

"But this fellow citizens hated him, and sent a deputation after him to say, 'We do not wish this man to become our king.'

"Untie it and bring it here. And if any one asks you, 'Why are you untying the colt?' Simply say, 'The Master needs it.'"

So they reasoned among themselves. "If we say, 'From heaven,' he will ask us, 'Why did you not believe in him?'

"And if we say, 'From man,' all the people will stone us, for they were persuaded that John was a prophet."

"How is it," he asked them, "that they say that Christ is David's son?

"for David himself say's in the book of the Psalms, "The Lord said to my Lord. Sit at my right hand,

"And to the good man of the house say, 'The teacher asks you, "Where is the room in which I can eat the Passover with my disciples?"'

"For I say to you that this word of Scripture must find it's fulfilment in me. "And he was numbered among the transgressors, For that which concerns me has its accomplishment."

but they continued to shout out and say, "Crucify! Crucify him!"

"but weep for yourselves and for your children. For behold, the days are coming when they shall say, 'Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that have never bore children, and the breasts that never suckled.'

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