Accordingly John used to say to the crowds who came out to be baptized by him, "O vipers' brood, who has warned you to flee from the coming wrath?

Live lives which shall prove your change of heart; and do not begin to say to yourselves, 'We have Abraham as our forefather,' for I tell you that God can raise up descendants for Abraham from these stones.

Then He proceeded to say to them, "To-day is this Scripture fulfilled in your hearing."

Which is easier? --to say, 'Your sins are forgiven,' or to say, 'Rise and walk'?

Nor does any one after drinking old wine wish for new; for he says, 'The old is better.'"

"But to you who are listening to me I say, Love your enemies; seek the welfare of those who hate you;

How can you say to your brother, 'Brother, let me take that splinter out of your eye,' when all the while you yourself do not see the beam in your own eye? Vain pretender! take the beam out of your own eye first, and then you will see clearly to take the splinter out of your brother's eye.

For I too am a man obedient to authority, and have soldiers under me; and I say to one, 'Go,' and he goes; to another, 'Come,' and he comes; and to my slave, 'Do this or that,' and he does it."

When John's messengers were gone, He proceeded to say to the multitude concerning John, "What did you go out into the Desert to gaze at? A reed waving in the wind?

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, 'Look, there is a man who is overfond of eating and drinking--he is a friend of tax-gatherers and notorious sinners!'

In answer to his thoughts Jesus said to him, "Simon, I have a word to say to you." "Rabbi, say on," he replied.

Then the other guests began to say to themselves, "Who can this man be who even forgives sins?"

One day when He was praying by Himself the disciples were present; and He asked them, "Who do the people say that I am?"

"John the Baptist," they replied; "but others say Elijah; and others that some one of the ancient Prophets has come back to life."

"But you," He asked, "who do you say that I am?" "God's Anointed One," replied Peter.

"Master," said yet another, "I will follow you; but allow me first to go and say good-bye to my friends at home."

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

"But whatever town you come to and they will not receive you, go out into the broader streets and say,

So He said to them, "When you pray, say, 'Father may Thy name be kept holy; let Thy Kingdom come;

And He said to them, "Which of you shall have a friend and shall go to him in the middle of the night and say, "'Friend, lend me three loaves of bread;

"So I say to you, 'Ask, and what you ask for shall be given to you; seek, and you shall find; knock, and the door shall be opened to you.'

And if Satan really has engaged in fierce conflict with himself, how shall his kingdom stand?--because you say that I expel demons by the power of Baal-zebul.

"When a foul spirit has left a man, it roams about in the Desert, seeking a resting-place; but, unable to find any, it says, 'I will return to the house I have left;"

Now when the crowds came thronging upon Him, He proceeded to say, "The present generation is a wicked generation: it requires some sign, but no sign shall be given to it except that of Jonah.

Meanwhile the people had come streaming towards Him by tens of thousands, so that they were trampling one another under foot. And now He proceeded to say to His disciples first, "Beware of the yeast of the Pharisees, that is to say, beware of hypocrisy.

"But to you who are my friends I say, "'Be not afraid of those who kill the body and after that can do nothing further.

I will warn you whom to fear: fear him who after killing has power to throw into Gehenna: yes, I say to you, fear him.

And when they are bringing you before synagogues and magistrates and governors, do not anxiously ponder the manner or matter of your defence, nor what you are to say;

for the Holy Spirit shall teach you at that very moment what you must say."

and I will say to my life, "'Life, you have ample possessions laid up for many years to come: take your ease, eat, drink, enjoy yourself.'

Then turning to His disciples He said, "For this reason I say to you, 'Dismiss all anxious care for your lives, inquiring what you are to eat, and for your bodies, what you are to put on.'

But if that servant should say in his heart, 'My Master is a long time in coming,' and should begin to beat the menservants and the maids, and to eat and drink, drinking even to excess;

Then He said to the people also, "When you see a cloud rising in the west, you immediately say, 'There is to be a shower;' and it comes to pass.

And when you see a south wind blowing, you say, 'It will be burning hot;' and it comes to pass.

This prompted Him to say, "What is the Kingdom of God like? and to what shall I compare it?

As soon as the Master of the house shall have risen and shut the door, and you have begun to stand outside and knock at the door and say, "'Sir, open the door for us' --"'I do not know you,' He answers; 'you are no friends of mine.'

See, your house is left to you. But I tell you that you will never see me again until you say, 'Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord!'"

and the man who invited you both will come and will say to you, 'Make room for this guest,' and then you, ashamed, will move to the lowest place.

On the contrary, when you are invited go and take the lowest place, that when your host comes round he may say to you, 'My friend, come up higher.' This will be doing you honour in the presence of all the other guests.

Then coming home he calls his friends and neighbours together, and says, 'Congratulate me, for I have found my sheep--the one I had lost.'

And when she has found it, she calls together her friends and neighbours, and says, "'Congratulate me, for I have found the coin which I had lost.'

He went on to say, "There was a man who had two sons.

I will rise and go to my father, and will say to him, Father, I have sinned against Heaven and before you:

and if seven times in a day he acts wrongly towards you, and seven times turns again to you and says, 'I am sorry,' you must forgive him."

But which of you who has a servant ploughing, or tending sheep, will say to him when he comes in from the farm, 'Come at once and take your place at table,'

and will not rather say to him, 'Get my dinner ready, make yourself tidy, and wait upon me till I have finished my dinner, and then you shall have yours'?

So you also, when you have obeyed all the orders given you, must say, "'There is no merit in our service: what we have done is only what we were in duty bound to do.'"

Nor will they say, 'See here!' or 'See there!' --for the Kingdom of God is within you."

And they will say to you, 'See there!' 'See here!' Do not start off and go in pursuit.

"Now his countrymen hated him, and sent a deputation after him to say, 'We are not willing that he should become our king.'

And if any one asks you, 'Why are you untying the colt?' simply say, 'The Master needs it.'"

So they debated the matter with one another. "If we say 'Heavenly,'" they argued, "he will say, 'Why did you not believe him?'

And if we say, 'human,' the people will all stone us; for they are thoroughly convinced that John was a Prophet."

So they put a question to Him. "Rabbi," they said, "we know that you say and teach what is right and that you make no distinctions between one man and another, but teach God's way truly.

But He asked them, "How is it they say that the Christ is a son of David?

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

and say to the master of the house, "'The Rabbi asks you, Where is the room where I can eat the Passover with my disciples?'

Thereupon they cried out with one voice, "You, then, are the Son of God?" "It is as you say," He answered; "I am He."

Then Pilate asked Him, "You, then, are the King of the Jews?" "It is as you say," He replied.

For a time is coming when they will say, 'Blessed are the women who never bore children, and the breasts which have never given nourishment.'

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