After they had gone, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream and said, "Wake up! Tenderly take the child and His mother, and escape to Egypt; stay there until I further direct you, for Herod is going to search for the child to destroy Him."

"A sob was heard in Ramah, weeping and great wailing, Rachel weeping for her children, and she refused to be comforted, because they were gone."

and do not presume to say to yourselves, 'We have Abraham for our forefather? For I tell you, God can raise up descendants for Abraham even out of these stones.

His winnowing-fork is in His hand, and He will clean out His threshing-floor and store His wheat in His barn, but He will burn up the chaff with fire that never can be put out."

But he answered, "The Scripture says, 'Not on bread alone can man live, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.'"

Then Jesus said to him, "Be gone, Satan! For the Scripture says, 'You must worship the Lord your God, and serve Him alone.'"

"You are the salt of the earth. But if salt loses its strength, what can make it salt again? It is good for nothing but to be thrown away and trodden under foot.

No one can be a slave to two masters, for either he will hate one and love the other, or else he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot be slaves of God and money.

But which of you by worrying can add a single minute to his life?

How can you say to your brother, 'Let me get that tiny speck out of your eye,' while all the time there is a girder in your own?

You hypocrite, first get the girder out of your own eye, and then you can see well enough to get the tiny speck out of your brother's eye.

And a leper came up to Him, and prostrated himself before Him, and said, "Lord, if you choose to, you can cure me."

And He said to them, "Be gone!" And they went out of the men and got into the hogs, and suddenly the whole drove, in a stampede, rushed over the cliff into the sea, and died in the water.

Jesus said to them, "The wedding guests cannot mourn, can they, as long as they have the bridegroom with them? But a time will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast.

For she kept saying to herself, "If I can only touch His coat, I will get well."

After He had gone into the house, and the blind men had gone up to Him, Jesus said to them, "Do you really believe that I can do this?" They said to Him, "Yes, Lord."

You must never be afraid of those who kill the body, but cannot kill the soul. But rather you must keep on fearing Him who can destroy both soul and body in the pit.

Do not sparrows sell for a cent apiece? And yet not one of them can fall to the ground without your Father's notice.

Anybody who gains his lower life will lose the higher life, and anybody who loses his lower life for my sake will gain the higher life.

"But to what can I compare the leaders of this age? They are like little children sitting in the market places and calling to their fellows in the game,

Now if Satan is driving out Satan, he has become disunited; how then can his kingdom last?

Or, how can anyone get into a giant's house and carry off his goods, unless he first binds the giant? After that he can make a clean sweep of his house.

You brood of vipers! How can you, wicked as you are, say anything that is good? For the mouth talks about the things that fill the heart.

The queen of the south will rise with the leaders of this age at the judgment and condemn them, for she came from the farthest limits of the earth to listen to Solomon's wisdom, and there is more than Solomon here!

For this people's soul has grown dull, and with their ears they can scarcely hear, and they have shut tight their eyes, so that they will never see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their hearts, and turn to me, so that I may cure them!'

He said to them, "Every scribe who has become a disciple in the kingdom of heaven is like a householder who can bring out of his storeroom new furnishings as well as old."

The disciples said to Him, "Where in this destitute place can we get bread enough to satisfy such a crowd?"

And Jesus answered, "O you unbelieving and perverted people of the times! How long can I put up with you? Bring him here to me!"

He answered them, "Because you have so little faith! For I solemnly say to you, if you have the faith that is living like a grain of mustard, you can say to this mountain, 'Move over from here to yonder,' and it will move over, and nothing will be impossible for you to do."

and said: "I solemnly say to you, unless you turn and become like little children, you can never get into the kingdom of heaven at all.

For some are born incapable of marriage, and some have been made so by men, and some have made themselves so for the sake of the kingdom of heaven. Let him accept it who can."

And a man came up to Him and asked, "What is there good that I can do to possess eternal life?"

But when the disciples heard this, they were dumbfounded, and asked, "Who then can be saved!"

But Jesus answered, "You do not realize what you are asking for. Can you drink the cup that I am about to drink?" They answered, "Yes, we can."

Show me a poll-tax coin."

If David, then, calls Him Lord, how can He be his son?"

You serpents! You brood of vipers! How can you escape a sentence to the pit!

But if the slave is bad and says to himself, 'My master is going to be gone a long time,'

"Then He will say to those at His left, 'Be gone from me, you who are now cursed, to the everlasting fire prepared for the devil and his angels.

They were cut to the bottom of their hearts, and began to ask one by one, "It cannot be I, can it, Lord?"

Then Judas, who afterward betrayed Him, answered by asking, "It cannot be I, can it, Rabbi?" Jesus answered him, "Yes, you are the man."

and said, "This man said, 'I can tear down the temple of God, and build it again in three days.'"

Pilate said to them, "Take the military guard and go and make it as secure as you can."

In the evening, when the sun had gone down, they kept on bringing to Him all the people who were sick or under the power of demons,

There came to Him a leper, begging Him on his knees, saying to Him, "If you want to, you can cure me."

"See that you tell nobody a single word about it. Be gone, show yourself to the priest, and to prove it to the people, make the offering for your purification which Moses prescribed."

"Why is He talking this way? He is blaspheming. Who can forgive sins but God alone?"

Jesus answered them, "The wedding guests cannot fast, can they, while the bridegroom is with them? As long as they have the bridegroom with them they cannot fast.

His kinsmen heard of it and came over to get hold of Him, for they kept saying, "He has gone crazy."

So He called them to Him, and continued speaking to them in short stories, as follows: "How can Satan drive out Satan?

But no one can get into a giant's house and carry off his goods, unless he first binds the giant; after that he can make a clean sweep of his house.

But whoever speaks abusively against the Holy Spirit can never get forgiveness, but is guilty of a sin that has no end."

Then He said to them: "If you do not understand this story, how, indeed, can you understand any of my stories?

Then He kept on saying: "How can I further picture the kingdom of God, or by what story can I illustrate it?

but when it is properly sown, it comes up and grows to be the largest of all the plants, and produces branches so large that the wild birds can roost under its shade."

They were very much frightened, and said to one another, "Who can He be that even the wind and the sea obey Him?"

And they begged Him, "Send us among the hogs, so that we can get into them."

for she kept saying, "If I can only touch His clothes, I shall get well."

Jesus at once perceived that power had gone out of Him, and so He turned around in the crowd, and asked, "Who touched my clothes?"

Nothing that goes into a man from the outside can make him foul, but the things that come from the inside of a man are the things that make him foul."

Now when He had left the crowd and gone home, His disciples were asking Him the meaning of this story.

And He answered them, "Are you too without understanding yet? Do you not know that nothing from the outside that goes into a man can make him foul,

Then He said to her, "Because you have said this, go home; the demon has gone out of your daughter."

She went home and found her daughter lying in bed, and the demon gone out.

But His disciples answered Him, "Where can anyone get bread enough here in this destitute place, to give these people plenty?"

Since you have eyes can you not see with them? Since you have ears can you not hear with them?

For what benefit will it be to a man to gain the whole world and fail to gain the higher life?

For what price can a man give to buy back life?

and many a time it has thrown him into the fire or into the water, to destroy him. But if there is anything you can do for him, do pity us and help us!"

Jesus said to him, "If there is anything I can do! Everything is possible for him who has faith!"

He answered them, "This sort of thing can be driven out only by prayer."

Everyone must be seasoned with fire. Salt is a good thing, but if salt loses its strength, how can you season it again?

They were perfectly dumbfounded, and said to Him, "Then who can be saved?"

Jesus said to them, "You do not realize what you are asking for. Can you drink the cup that I am drinking, or endure the baptism of agony that I am to endure?"

They answered Him, "We can." Jesus said to them, "Yes, the cup that I am drinking you will have to drink, and the baptism of agony that I am enduring you will have to endure,

On the other hand, can we say, 'It was from men'?" For they were afraid of the people, because everybody thought that John was really a prophet.

Should we pay it, or should we not?" Now because He saw their pretense, He said to them, "Why are you testing me so? Bring me a twenty-cent coin to look at."

While He was teaching in the temple, He answered them and said, "How can the scribes say that the Christ is the son of David?

David himself called him Lord, so how can He be his son?" Most of the people liked to hear Him.

For you always have the poor among you, and whenever you please you can do them good, but you will not always have me.

And they began to show that they were hurt and to ask Him one by one, "It cannot be I, can it?"

But Mary said to the angel, "How can this be, since I have no husband?"

Now the child continued to grow and to gain strength in the Spirit, and he lived in the desert until the day when he announced himself to Israel.

And the child continued to grow and gain in strength; He continued to increase in wisdom, and the spiritual blessing of God was on Him.

Produce, then, fruit that is consistent with the repentance that you profess, and do not even begin to say within yourselves, 'We have Abraham for our forefather,' for I tell you, God can raise up descendants for Abraham even out of these stones.

Now while He was in one of the towns, a man covered with leprosy saw Jesus and fell on his face and begged Him, saying, "Lord, if you choose to, you can cure me."

But the scribes and the Pharisees began to argue, saying, "Who is this fellow who speaks blasphemy? Who can forgive sins but God alone?"

But Jesus said to them, "You cannot make the wedding guests fast while the bridegroom is with them, can you?

Then He told them a story: "Can one blind man lead another? Will they not both fall into the ditch?

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

But when John's messengers had gone, He began to speak to the crowds about John: "What did you go out into the desert to gaze at? A reed that is tossed to and fro by the wind?

So to what can I compare the men of this age, and what are they like?

and some women who had been cured of evil spirits and diseases: Mary, who was called Mary of Magdala, out of whom seven demons had gone,

Then He said to them, "Where is your faith?" But they were frightened and astounded, and continued to say to one another, "Who can He be? For He gives orders even to the winds and the water, and they obey Him."

So Jesus asked him, "What is your name?" And he answered, "Legion!" For many demons had gone into him.

So the people went out to see what had taken place, and they went to Jesus and found the man out of whom the demons had gone sitting at the feet of Jesus, with his clothes on and in his right mind; and they were frightened.

The man out of whom the demons had gone begged Him to let him go with Him, but Jesus sent him away and said,

So Herod said, "John I beheaded, but who can this be about whom I hear such reports?" So he was trying to see Him.

For what benefit will it be to a man to gain the whole world and lose or forfeit himself?

And if Satan is really disunited, how can his kingdom last? Yet you say that I am driving the demons out with Beelzebub's help.