"but if your eye is unsound, your whole body will be darkened. If then the very light within you is darkness, how dense is that darkness!

"Why be anxious then about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow. They toil not, neither do they spin.

"Or how will you say to your brother, 'Permit me to remove the mote from your eye,' when, behold, the beam is in your own eye?

"Hypocrite! First cast out the beam from your own eye, and then you will see clearly how to cast the mote out of your brother's eye.

"If you then, evil as you are, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give good gifts to those who ask him?

"But whenever they apprehend you, do not be anxious about how you shall speak or what you shall say; for it will be given you in that very hour what to say.

"It is enough for the pupil to fare like his teacher, and the slave like his master. If they called the master of the house Beelzebub, how much more, the members of his household.

"How he went into the House of God, and there they ate the loaves of the Presence, which neither he nor his men were permitted to eat, but the priests only?

"Have you not read in the Law how on the Sabbath the priests in the Temple break the Sabbath and are guiltless?

"And how much more is a man worth than a sheep? Therefore it is right to do good on the Sabbath."

The man stretched it out, and it had become sound like the other. But when the Pharisees came out, they consulted together how they might destroy him.

"So if Satan drives out Satan, he is divided against himself; how then will his kingdom stand?

"Or how can any one enter the strong man's house and carry off his goods without first binding the strong man? Then he can rob his house.

"You generation of vipers! How can you speak good, when you are evil? For the mouth speaks what the heart is full of. "When the time of fruit drew near, he sent his slaves to the vine-dressers seized to get his fruit.

"Do you not know how all that goes into the mouth passes into the stomach and is afterward evacuated;

"How many loaves have you?" answered Jesus. They replied, "Seven, and a few small fish.

and at dawn you say, 'It will storm today, for the sky is red and lowering.' You know how to discern the look of the sky, but the signs of the times you cannot read.

"Do you not remember the five loaves for the five thousand, and how many large basketfuls you took up?

"Nor the seven loaves for the four thousand, and how many large basketfuls you took up?

"How is it that you do not perceive that I did not speak to you concerning bread? But beware off the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees!"

After this Jesus the Christ began to show his disciples how he must go to Jerusalem, and suffer many things at the hands of the elders and chief priests and Scribes, and be put to death, and on the third day be raised again.

In reply Jesus said: "O faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you? How long shall I endure you? Bring him here to me!"

"Indeed he does," answered Peter. But on Peter's entering the house, Jesus forestalled him, saying. "How does it seem to you, Simon? From whom do earthly kings collect customs or taxes??rom their own people, or from aliens?"

"How does it seem to you, when a man has a hundred sheep and loses one of them? Will he not leave the ninety and nine on the hills, to go and search for the one that has strayed?

Just then Peter came to him, and asked him, "Lord, how often shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? till seven times?"

but Jesus called them to him and said: "You know how the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great men exercise authority over them.

When his disciples saw this, they were astonished. "How instantaneously," they said, "the fig tree withered!"

"Have you never read in the Scriptures," Jesus answered, "how The stone that the builders rejected Has been made the corner-stone; This is the Lord's doing, It is wonderful in our eyes?

"'Friend, how did you come in here without a wedding-garment?' "The man was speechless.

Then the Pharisees went and took counsel how they might ensnare him during conversation.

"How then, "he said, "does David in the Spirit call him Lord, saying,

"If David calls him Lord, how can he be his Son?"

"You serpents! You vipers brood! How shall you escape the judgment of hell?

"O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, murdering the prophets, and stoning those who have been sent to you! How often would I have gathered your children together, as a hen gathers her chickens under her wings, and you would not!

"But if I did, how could the Scriptures be fulfilled that say that thus it must happen?"

And when the morning came, all the chief priests and the elders of the people took counsel against Jesus, how they might put him to death.

Now the disciples of John and the Pharisees were keeping a fast, and people came to ask him, "How is it that the disciples of John and the Pharisees are fasting, but your disciples are not?"

How he went into the house of God when Abiathar was priest, and ate the consecrated bread, which none but priests may eat, and gave some to his men?

So when he had called them to him he spoke to them in parables. "How," said he, "can Satan cast out Satan?

"You do not understand this parable," said Jesus. "Then how will you understand the other parables?

night and day he sleeps and wakes while the seed is sprouting and growing tall, he knows not how.

"How many loaves have you?" he answered. "Go and see." When they had found out, they said, "Five, and two fishes."

and people were amazed beyond measure saying. "How successfully he does things! Even the deaf he makes to hear, and the dumb to speak."

He asked them, "How many loaves have you?" "Seven," they said.

Do you not remember? When I broke the five loaves among the five thousand, how many baskets of broken pieces did you take up?" "Twelve," they said.

"And when the seven for the four thousand, how many hampers full of fragments did you pick up?"

So they asked him, "How is it that the Scribes say that Elijah must first come?"

"Elijah does indeed first come," he said, "and restores all things, But how is it written about the Son of Man, that he will endure great suffering, and be rejected?

"O unbelieving generation!" replied Jesus; "how long must I be with you? How long must I be patient with you? Bring him to me."

Then Jesus asked the father, "How long has he been like this?"

Then Jesus looked round on his disciples and said, "How hard it is for those who have wealth to enter into the kingdom of God!"

"My sons, how hard it is for those who trust in money to enter the kingdom of God. It is easier for a camel to get through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven."

But in regard to the rising again of the dead, have you never read in the Book of Moses, in the passage about the Bush, how God spoke to him, saying, "I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob?

While he was teaching in the Temple courts, Jesus in his turn asked. "How is it that the Scribes say that the Christ is the son of David?

"David himself then calls him Lord; so how can he be his son?" Now the great mass of the people were wont to listen to him with delight;

Now two days later was the feast of the Passover and of Unleavened Bread. Both the chief priests and the Scribes were continually seeking how they might arrest him by a stratagem and kill him;

"See, how many accusations they are making." But Jesus no longer made any answer, at which Pilate wondered.

"How shall I be sure of this?" said Zachariah to the Angel. "For I am an old man and my wife is advanced in years."

And Mary said to the angel. "How can this be? For I have no husband?"

"How he entered into God's house and took and ate the Presented Loaves, and gave some to his followers, loaves which none must eat but the priests?

"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.

So he answered them. "Go your way, tell John what you have seen and heard. How the blind are seeing, the lame are walking, the lepers are being cleansed, the deaf are hearing, the dead are being raised, and the poor are hearing the proclamations of glad tidings.

"Take heed, then, how you listen. for he who has, to him shall it be given, but from him who has not, shall be taken away even what he has."

Then those who had seen it told them how the demon-possessed man had been saved.

"Return to your home, and tell them all that God has done for you." So he went away and throughout the whole city he published how much Jesus had done for him.

Then the woman, who saw that she had not escaped notice, came trembling, and falling down before him, stated before the people for what reason she had touched him, and how she had been instantly healed.

"O faithless and perverse generation," said Jesus, "how long shall I be with you and bear with you? Bring your son to me."

It happened he was praying in a certain place, and when he stopped, one of his disciples said to him, "Master, teach us how to pray, just as John taught his disciples."

"If you give good gifts to your children, how much more shall the Father who is in heaven give the Holy spirit to those that ask him!"

"And if Satan also is divided against himself, how shall his kingdom stand?

"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;

"Consider the ravens; they neither sow nor reap; they have no storehouse nor barn. And yet God feeds them. How much more are you worth than the birds?

"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.

"Would it were already kindled! But I have a baptism to be baptized with, and how am I straitened till it is accomplished!

"Hypocrites! you know how to read the face of the earth and of the sky; but how is it that you do not know how to read the signs of the present time?

"O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those who are sent to you! How often would I have gathered your children, as a hen gathers her chickens under her wings, and you would not!

He told a parable to the guests when he noticed how they began choosing the best seats. He said to them.

"When he came to himself he said: "'How many of my father's hired men have bread enough and to spare, while I am perishing of hunger!

"So he called to him each of his master's debtors and said to the first, 'How much money do you owe my master?'

"To a second he said, 'How much do you owe?' "The man answered, 'A hundred measures of wheat.' "'Here is you bill,' he said, 'change it to eighty measures.'

He also taught them by a parable how they ought always to pray and never to lose heart.

Jesus looked at him and said: "How hard it is for those who have money to enter into the kingdom of God!

But they could not find how to do it, for the people all hung upon him, listening to him.

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

"David therefore himself calls him 'Lord,' and how can he be his son?"

And to some who were about the Temple, how it was adorned with beautiful stones votive offerings, he said,

Then the Lord turned and looked at Peter, and Peter recollected the word of the Lord, how he had said to him, "This very day, before the cock crows, you will deny me three times."

Then the women who had accompanied him out of Galilee followed after, and noted the tomb, and how his body was placed.

"He is not here; he is risen. Do you remember how he told you when he was still in Galilee

"and how our high priest and ruler delivered him to be condemned to death and crucified him.

Then he said to them, "These are my words which I spoke to you while I was still with you, how all things must be fulfilled which are written in the Law of Moses, and the prophets, and the Psalms concerning me."

"How do you know me?" asked Nathanael. "Before Philip called you," replied Jesus, "when you were under the fig tree, I saw you."

"How can a man be born when he is old?" Nicodemus replied; "Can he enter a second time into his mother's womb, and be born?"

"How can this be?" said Nicodemus in reply.

If I have told you earthly things and yet none of you believe me, how will you believe if I tell you concerning heavenly things?

"How is it," answered the Samaritan woman, "that you who are a Jew ask a drink from me, a woman, and a Samaritan?" (For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.)

"How can you believe when you receive glory from, one another, and have no desire for the glory which comes from the only God?

And if you do not believe his writings, how will you ever believe my words?"

"Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph? Do we not know his father and mother? How is it that he now says, 'I have come down from heaven'?"

Then the Jews began to dispute among themselves, saying, "How can this man give us his flesh to eat?"