He sent them to Bethlehem and said, "Go and look carefully for the child. When you find him, inform me so that I can go and worship him as well."

and don't think you can say to yourselves, 'We have Abraham as our father.' For I tell you that God can raise up children for Abraham from these stones!

"You are the salt of the earth. But if salt loses its flavor, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything except to be thrown out and trampled on by people.

In the same way, let your light shine before people, so that they can see your good deeds and give honor to your Father in heaven.

"Whenever you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, because they love to pray while standing in synagogues and on street corners so that people can see them. Truly I say to you, they have their reward.

"No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money.

And which of you by worrying can add even one hour to his life?

Or how can you say to your brother, 'Let me remove the speck from your eye,' while there is a beam in your own?

You hypocrite! First remove the beam from your own eye, and then you can see clearly to remove the speck from your brother's eye.

And a leper approached, and bowed low before him, saying, "Lord, if you are willing, you can make me clean."

Jesus said to them, "The wedding guests cannot mourn while the bridegroom is with them, can they? But the days are coming when the bridegroom will be taken from them, and then they will fast.

How else can someone enter a strong man's house and steal his property, unless he first ties up the strong man? Then he can thoroughly plunder the house.

When evening arrived, his disciples came to him saying, "This is an isolated place and the hour is already late. Send the crowds away so that they can go into the villages and buy food for themselves."

The disciples said to him, "Where can we get enough bread in this desolate place to satisfy so great a crowd?"

For what does it benefit a person if he gains the whole world but forfeits his life? Or what can a person give in exchange for his life?

He said to them, "Not everyone can accept this statement, except those to whom it has been given.

The disciples were greatly astonished when they heard this and said, "Then who can be saved?"

"The kingdom of heaven can be compared to a king who gave a wedding banquet for his son.

If David then calls him 'Lord,' how can he be his son?"

and saying, "You who can destroy the temple and rebuild it in three days, save yourself! If you are God's Son, come down from the cross!"

Pilate said to them, "Take a guard of soldiers. Go and make it as secure as you can."

He replied, "Let us go elsewhere, into the surrounding villages, so that I can preach there too. For that is what I came out here to do."

Now a leper came to him and fell to his knees, asking for help. "If you are willing, you can make me clean," he said.

"Why does this man speak this way? He is blaspheming! Who can forgive sins but God alone?"

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

So he called them and spoke to them in parables: "How can Satan cast out Satan?

But no one is able to enter a strong man's house and steal his property unless he first ties up the strong man. Then he can thoroughly plunder his house.

He also asked, "To what can we compare the kingdom of God, or what parable can we use to present it?

when it is sown, it grows up, becomes the greatest of all garden plants, and grows large branches so that the wild birds can nest in its shade."

Send them away so that they can go into the surrounding countryside and villages and buy something for themselves to eat."

There is nothing outside of a person that can defile him by going into him. Rather, it is what comes out of a person that defiles him."

His disciples answered him, "Where can someone get enough bread in this desolate place to satisfy these people?"

Though you have eyes, don't you see? And though you have ears, can't you hear? Don't you remember?

What can a person give in exchange for his life?

He told them, "This kind can come out only by prayer."

Salt is good, but if it loses its saltiness, how can you make it salty again? Have salt in yourselves, and be at peace with each other."

They were even more astonished and said to one another, "Then who can be saved?"

If David himself calls him 'Lord,' how can he be his son?" And the large crowd was listening to him with delight.

For you will always have the poor with you, and you can do good for them whenever you want. But you will not always have me!

Those who passed by defamed him, shaking their heads and saying, "Aha! You who can destroy the temple and rebuild it in three days,

Zechariah said to the angel, "How can I be sure of this? For I am an old man, and my wife is old as well."

Therefore produce fruit that proves your repentance, and don't begin to say to yourselves, 'We have Abraham as our father.' For I tell you that God can raise up children for Abraham from these stones!

And he said to him, "To you I will grant this whole realm -- and the glory that goes along with it, for it has been relinquished to me, and I can give it to anyone I wish.

While Jesus was in one of the towns, a man came to him who was covered with leprosy. When he saw Jesus, he bowed down with his face to the ground and begged him, "Lord, if you are willing, you can make me clean."

Then the experts in the law and the Pharisees began to think to themselves, "Who is this man who is uttering blasphemies? Who can forgive sins but God alone?"

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

He also told them a parable: "Someone who is blind cannot lead another who is blind, can he? Won't they both fall into a pit?

How can you say to your brother, 'Brother, let me remove the speck from your eye,' while you yourself don't see the beam in your own? You hypocrite! First remove the beam from your own eye, and then you can see clearly to remove the speck from your brother's eye.

"No one lights a lamp and then covers it with a jar or puts it under a bed, but puts it on a lampstand so that those who come in can see the light.

Now the day began to draw to a close, so the twelve came and said to Jesus, "Send the crowd away, so they can go into the surrounding villages and countryside and find lodging and food, because we are in an isolated place."

"No one after lighting a lamp puts it in a hidden place or under a basket, but on a lampstand, so that those who come in can see the light.

"I tell you, my friends, do not be afraid of those who kill the body, and after that have nothing more they can do.

And which of you by worrying can add an hour to his life?

be like people waiting for their master to come back from the wedding celebration, so that when he comes and knocks they can immediately open the door for him.

You hypocrites! You know how to interpret the appearance of the earth and the sky, but how can you not know how to interpret the present time?

Then if it bears fruit next year, very well, but if not, you can cut it down.'"

He said also to the man who had invited him, "When you host a dinner or a banquet, don't invite your friends or your brothers or your relatives or rich neighbors so you can be invited by them in return and get repaid.

In the same way therefore not one of you can be my disciple if he does not renounce all his own possessions.

"Salt is good, but if salt loses its flavor, how can its flavor be restored?

So he called the manager in and said to him, 'What is this I hear about you? Turn in the account of your administration, because you can no longer be my manager.'

No servant can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money."

Besides all this, a great chasm has been fixed between us, so that those who want to cross over from here to you cannot do so, and no one can cross from there to us.'

Those who heard this said, "Then who can be saved?"

In fact, they can no longer die, because they are equal to angels and are sons of God, since they are sons of the resurrection.

If David then calls him 'Lord,' how can he be his son?"

Then they said to him, "Who are you? Tell us so that we can give an answer to those who sent us. What do you say about yourself?"

Nathanael replied, "Can anything good come out of Nazareth?" Philip replied, "Come and see."

Now on the third day there was a wedding at Cana in Galilee. Jesus' mother was there,

Jesus did this as the first of his miraculous signs, in Cana of Galilee. In this way he revealed his glory, and his disciples believed in him.

So then the Jewish leaders responded, "What sign can you show us, since you are doing these things?"

Nicodemus said to him, "How can a man be born when he is old? He cannot enter his mother's womb and be born a second time, can he?"

Nicodemus replied, "How can these things be?"

John replied, "No one can receive anything unless it has been given to him from heaven.

You yourselves can testify that I said, 'I am not the Christ,' but rather, 'I have been sent before him.'

So the Samaritan woman said to him, "How can you -- a Jew -- ask me, a Samaritan woman, for water to drink?" (For Jews use nothing in common with Samaritans.)

"Come, see a man who told me everything I ever did. Surely he can't be the Messiah, can he?"

The one who reaps receives pay and gathers fruit for eternal life, so that the one who sows and the one who reaps can rejoice together.

Now he came again to Cana in Galilee where he had made the water wine. In Capernaum there was a certain royal official whose son was sick.

So Jesus answered them, "I tell you the solemn truth, the Son can do nothing on his own initiative, but only what he sees the Father doing. For whatever the Father does, the Son does likewise.

I can do nothing on my own initiative. Just as I hear, I judge, and my judgment is just, because I do not seek my own will, but the will of the one who sent me.

How can you believe, if you accept praise from one another and don't seek the praise that comes from the only God?

Then Jesus, when he looked up and saw that a large crowd was coming to him, said to Philip, "Where can we buy bread so that these people may eat?"

and they said, "Isn't this Jesus the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How can he now say, 'I have come down from heaven'?"

No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him, and I will raise him up at the last day.

Then the Jews who were hostile to Jesus began to argue with one another, "How can this man give us his flesh to eat?"

Then many of his disciples, when they heard these things, said, "This is a difficult saying! Who can understand it?"

So Jesus added, "Because of this I told you that no one can come to me unless the Father has allowed him to come."

"We are descendants of Abraham," they replied, "and have never been anyone's slaves! How can you say, 'You will become free'?"

Who among you can prove me guilty of any sin? If I am telling you the truth, why don't you believe me?

We must perform the deeds of the one who sent me as long as it is daytime. Night is coming when no one can work.

Then some of the Pharisees began to say, "This man is not from God, because he does not observe the Sabbath." But others said, "How can a man who is a sinner perform such miraculous signs?" Thus there was a division among them.

He replied, "I do not know whether he is a sinner. I do know one thing -- that although I was blind, now I can see."

Jesus replied, "If you were blind, you would not be guilty of sin, but now because you claim that you can see, your guilt remains."

Others said, "These are not the words of someone possessed by a demon. A demon cannot cause the blind to see, can it?"

My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all, and no one can snatch them from my Father's hand.

Thus the Pharisees said to one another, "You see that you can do nothing. Look, the world has run off after him!"

Then the crowd responded, "We have heard from the law that the Christ will remain forever. How can you say, 'The Son of Man must be lifted up'? Who is this Son of Man?"

Peter said to him, "Lord, why can't I follow you now? I will lay down my life for you!"

Thomas said, "Lord, we don't know where you are going. How can we know the way?"

Jesus replied, "Have I been with you for so long, and you have not known me, Philip? The person who has seen me has seen the Father! How can you say, 'Show us the Father'?