Be glad and rejoice, because your reward is great in heaven. For that is how they persecuted the prophets who were before you.

“You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt should lose its taste, how can it be made salty? It’s no longer good for anything but to be thrown out and trampled on by men.

But if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. So if the light within you is darkness—how deep is that darkness!

And why do you worry about clothes? Learn how the wildflowers of the field grow: they don’t labor or spin thread.

If that’s how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and thrown into the furnace tomorrow, won’t He do much more for you—you of little faith?

Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ and look, there’s a log in your eye?

If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good things to those who ask Him!

How narrow is the gate and difficult the road that leads to life, and few find it.

But when they hand you over, don’t worry about how or what you should speak. For you will be given what to say at that hour,

It is enough for a disciple to become like his teacher and a slave like his master. If they called the head of the house ‘Beelzebul,’ how much more the members of his household!

how he entered the house of God, and they ate the sacred bread, which is not lawful for him or for those with him to eat, but only for the priests?

But the Pharisees went out and plotted against Him, how they might destroy Him.

If Satan drives out Satan, he is divided against himself. How then will his kingdom stand?

How can someone enter a strong man’s house and steal his possessions unless he first ties up the strong man? Then he can rob his house.

Brood of vipers! How can you speak good things when you are evil? For the mouth speaks from the overflow of the heart.

Then off it goes and brings with it seven other spirits more evil than itself, and they enter and settle down there. As a result, that man’s last condition is worse than the first. That’s how it will also be with this evil generation.”

He went to His hometown and began to teach them in their synagogue, so that they were astonished and said, “How did this wisdom and these miracles come to Him?

“How many loaves do you have?” Jesus asked them.

“Seven,” they said, “and a few small fish.”

And in the morning, ‘Today will be stormy because the sky is red and threatening.’ You know how to read the appearance of the sky, but you can’t read the signs of the times.

Don’t you understand yet? Don’t you remember the five loaves for the 5,000 and how many baskets you collected?

Or the seven loaves for the 4,000 and how many large baskets you collected?

Jesus replied, “You unbelieving and rebellious generation! How long will I be with you? How long must I put up with you? Bring him here to Me.”

Then Peter came to Him and said, “Lord, how many times could my brother sin against me and I forgive him? As many as seven times?”

When the disciples saw it, they were amazed and said, “How did the fig tree wither so quickly?”

So he said to him, ‘Friend, how did you get in here without wedding clothes?’ The man was speechless.

Then the Pharisees went and plotted how to trap Him by what He said.

He asked them, “How is it then that David, inspired by the Spirit, calls Him ‘Lord’:

“If David calls Him ‘Lord,’ how then can the Messiah be his Son?”

“Snakes! Brood of vipers! How can you escape being condemned to hell?

“Jerusalem, Jerusalem! She who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her. How often I wanted to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, yet you were not willing!

How, then, would the Scriptures be fulfilled that say it must happen this way?”

Then Pilate said to Him, “Don’t You hear how much they are testifying against You?”

“You have a guard of soldiers,” Pilate told them. “Go and make it as secure as you know how.”

how he entered the house of God in the time of Abiathar the high priest and ate the sacred bread—which is not lawful for anyone to eat except the priests—and also gave some to his companions?”

Immediately the Pharisees went out and started plotting with the Herodians against Him, how they might destroy Him.

So He summoned them and spoke to them in parables: “How can Satan drive out Satan?

Then He said to them: “Don’t you understand this parable? How then will you understand any of the parables?

he sleeps and rises—night and day, and the seed sprouts and grows—he doesn’t know how.

And He said: “How can we illustrate the kingdom of God, or what parable can we use to describe it?

But He would not let him; instead, He told him, “Go back home to your own people, and report to them how much the Lord has done for you and how He has had mercy on you.”

So he went out and began to proclaim in the Decapolis how much Jesus had done for him, and they were all amazed.

When the Sabbath came, He began to teach in the synagogue, and many who heard Him were astonished. “Where did this man get these things?” they said. “What is this wisdom given to Him, and how are these miracles performed by His hands?

And He asked them, “How many loaves do you have? Go look.”

When they found out they said, “Five, and two fish.”

“How many loaves do you have?” He asked them.

“Seven,” they said.

When I broke the five loaves for the 5,000, how many baskets full of pieces of bread did you collect?”

“Twelve,” they told Him.

“When I broke the seven loaves for the 4,000, how many large baskets full of pieces of bread did you collect?”

“Seven,” they said.

“Elijah does come first and restores everything,” He replied. “How then is it written about the Son of Man that He must suffer many things and be treated with contempt?

He replied to them, “You unbelieving generation! How long will I be with you? How long must I put up with you? Bring him to Me.”

“How long has this been happening to him?” Jesus asked his father.

“From childhood,” he said.

Salt is good, but if the salt should lose its flavor, how can you make it salty? Have salt among yourselves and be at peace with one another.”

Jesus looked around and said to His disciples, “How hard it is for those who have wealth to enter the kingdom of God!”

But the disciples were astonished at His words. Again Jesus said to them, “Children, how hard it is to enter the kingdom of God!

Now concerning the dead being raised—haven’t you read in the book of Moses, in the passage about the burning bush, how God spoke to him: I am the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob?

So Jesus asked this question as He taught in the temple complex, “How can the scribes say that the Messiah is the Son of David?

David himself calls Him ‘Lord’; how then can the Messiah be his Son?” And the large crowd was listening to Him with delight.

Sitting across from the temple treasury, He watched how the crowd dropped money into the treasury. Many rich people were putting in large sums.

Then Pilate questioned Him again, “Are You not answering anything? Look how many things they are accusing You of!”

“How can I know this?” Zechariah asked the angel. “For I am an old man, and my wife is well along in years.”

Mary asked the angel, “How can this be, since I have not been intimate with a man?”

How could this happen to me, that the mother of my Lord should come to me?

how he entered the house of God, and took and ate the sacred bread, which is not lawful for any but the priests to eat? He even gave some to those who were with him.”

Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Brother, let me take out the speck that is in your eye,’ when you yourself don’t see the log in your eye? Hypocrite! First take the log out of your eye, and then you will see clearly to take out the speck in your brother’s eye.

Therefore take care how you listen. For whoever has, more will be given to him; and whoever does not have, even what he thinks he has will be taken away from him.”

Meanwhile, the eyewitnesses reported to them how the demon-possessed man was delivered.

When the woman saw that she was discovered, she came trembling and fell down before Him. In the presence of all the people, she declared the reason she had touched Him and how she was instantly cured.

Jesus replied, “You unbelieving and rebellious generation! How long will I be with you and put up with you? Bring your son here.”

“What is written in the law?” He asked him. “How do you read it?”

If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him?”

If Satan also is divided against himself, how will his kingdom stand? For you say I drive out demons by Beelzebul.

Whenever they bring you before synagogues and rulers and authorities, don’t worry about how you should defend yourselves or what you should say.

“That’s how it is with the one who stores up treasure for himself and is not rich toward God.”

“Consider how the wildflowers grow: They don’t labor or spin thread. Yet I tell you, not even Solomon in all his splendor was adorned like one of these!

If that’s how God clothes the grass, which is in the field today and is thrown into the furnace tomorrow, how much more will He do for you—you of little faith?

“I came to bring fire on the earth, and how I wish it were already set ablaze!

But I have a baptism to be baptized with, and how it consumes Me until it is finished!

Hypocrites! You know how to interpret the appearance of the earth and the sky, but why don’t you know how to interpret this time?

“Jerusalem, Jerusalem! She who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her. How often I wanted to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing!

He told a parable to those who were invited, when He noticed how they would choose the best places for themselves:

“Now, salt is good, but if salt should lose its taste, how will it be made salty?

When he came to his senses, he said, ‘How many of my father’s hired hands have more than enough food, and here I am dying of hunger!

“So he summoned each one of his master’s debtors. ‘How much do you owe my master?’ he asked the first one.

“Next he asked another, ‘How much do you owe?’

“‘A hundred measures of wheat,’ he said.

“‘Take your invoice,’ he told him, ‘and write 80.’

Seeing that he became sad, Jesus said, “How hard it is for those who have wealth to enter the kingdom of God!

“At his return, having received the authority to be king, he summoned those slaves he had given the money to, so he could find out how much they had made in business.

Then He said to them, “How can they say that the Messiah is the Son of David?

David calls Him ‘Lord’; how then can the Messiah be his Son?”

As some were talking about the temple complex, how it was adorned with beautiful stones and gifts dedicated to God, He said,

He went away and discussed with the chief priests and temple police how he could hand Him over to them.

Then the Lord turned and looked at Peter. So Peter remembered the word of the Lord, how He had said to him, “Before the rooster crows today, you will deny Me three times.”

The women who had come with Him from Galilee followed along and observed the tomb and how His body was placed.

“He is not here, but He has been resurrected! Remember how He spoke to you when He was still in Galilee,

and how our chief priests and leaders handed Him over to be sentenced to death, and they crucified Him.

He said to them, “How unwise and slow you are to believe in your hearts all that the prophets have spoken!

Then they began to describe what had happened on the road and how He was made known to them in the breaking of the bread.

“How do you know me?” Nathanael asked.

“Before Philip called you, when you were under the fig tree, I saw you,” Jesus answered.

“But how can anyone be born when he is old?” Nicodemus asked Him. “Can he enter his mother’s womb a second time and be born?”

“How can these things be?” asked Nicodemus.

If I have told you about things that happen on earth and you don’t believe, how will you believe if I tell you about things of heaven?

“How is it that You, a Jew, ask for a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?” she asked Him. For Jews do not associate with Samaritans.

How can you believe? While accepting glory from one another, you don’t seek the glory that comes from the only God.