But, if your eye is diseased, your whole body will be darkened. And, if the inner light is darkness, how intense must that darkness be!

And why be anxious about clothing? Study the wild lilies, and how they grow. They neither toil nor spin;

How will you say to your brother 'Let me take out the straw from your eye,' when all the time there is a beam in your own?

Hypocrite! Take out the beam from your own eye first, and then you will see clearly how to take out the straw from your brother's.

If you, then, wicked though you are, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in Heaven give what is good to those that ask him!

Whenever they betray you, do not be anxious as to how you shall speak or what you shall say, for what you shall say will be given you at the moment;

It is enough for a scholar to be treated like his teacher, and a servant like his master. If the head of the house has been called Baal-zebub, how much more the members of his household!

How he went into the House of God, and how they ate the consecrated bread, through it was not allowable for him or his companions to eat it, but only for the priests?

And how much more precious a man is than a sheep! Therefore it is allowable to do good on the Sabbath."

So, if Satan drives Satan out, he must be divided against himself; and how, then, can his kingdom last?

How, again, can any one get into a strong man's house and carry off his goods, without first securing him? And not till then will he plunder his house.

You brood of vipers! how can you, evil as you are, say anything good? For what fills the heart will rise to the lips.

"How is it that your disciples break the traditions of our ancestors? For they do not wash their hands when they eat food."

His reply was: "How is it that you on your side break God's commandments out of respect for your own traditions?

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

Do not you yet see, nor remember the five loaves for the five thousand, and how many baskets you took away?

Nor yet the seven loaves for the four thousand, and how many basketfuls you took away?

How is it that you do not see that I was not speaking about bread? Be on your guard against the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees."

"How is it," his disciples asked, "that our Teachers of the Law say that Elijah has to come first?"

"O faithless and perverse generation!" Jesus exclaimed, "how long must I be among you? how long must I have patience with you? Bring the boy here to me."

Then Peter came up, and said to Jesus: "Master, how often am I to forgive my Brother when he wrongs me? As many as seven times?"

When the disciples saw this, they exclaimed in astonishment: "How suddenly the fig tree withered up!"

So he said to him 'My friend, how is it that you came in here without a wedding-robe?' The man was speechless.

Then the Pharisees went away and conferred together as to how they might lay a snare for Jesus in the course of conversation.

"How is it, then," Jesus replied, "that David, speaking under inspiration, calls him 'lord,' in the passage-

Since, then, David calls him 'lord,' how is he David's son?"

You serpents and brood of vipers! How can you escape being sentenced to the Pit?

Jerusalem! Jerusalem! She who slays the Prophets and stones the messengers sent to her--Oh, how often have I wished to gather your children round me, as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you would not came!

But in that case how would the Scriptures be fulfilled, which say that this must be?"

Then Pilate said to him: "Do not you hear how many accusations they are making against you?"

How he went into the House of God, in the time of Abiathar the High Priest, and ate 'the consecrated bread,' which only the priests are allowed to eat, and gave some to his comrades as well?"

So Jesus called them to him, and answered them in parables: "How can Satan drive out Satan?

You do not know the meaning of this parable!" he went on; "Then how will you understand all the other parables?

And then sleeps by night and rises by day, while the seed is shooting up and growing--he knows not how.

But Jesus refused. "Go back to your home, to your own people," he said, "and tell them of all that the Lord has done for you, and how he took pity on you."

"How many loaves have you?" he asked; "Go, and see." When they had found out, they told him: "Five, and two fishes."

So the Pharisees and the Teachers of the Law asked Jesus this question--"How is it that your disciples do not follow the traditions of our ancestors, but eat their food with defiled hands?"

"How many loaves have you?" he asked. "Seven," they answered.

When I broke up the five loaves for the five thousand, how many baskets of broken pieces you picked up?" "Twelve," they said.

And when the seven for the four thousand, how many basketfuls of broken pieces did you pick up?" "Seven," they said.

"How is it," they asked Jesus, "that our Teachers of the Law say that Elijah has to come first?"

"O faithless generation!" exclaimed Jesus. "How long must I be with you? how long must I have patience with you? Bring the boy to me."

"How long has he been like this?" Jesus asked the boy's father.

Then Jesus looked round, and said to his disciples: "How hard it will be for men of wealth to enter the Kingdom of God!"

The disciples were amazed at his words. But Jesus said again: "My children, how hard a thing it is to enter the Kingdom of God!

As to the dead, and the fact that they rise, have you never read in the Book of Moses, in the passage about the Bush, how God spoke to him thus--'I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob'?

While Jesus was teaching in the Temple Courts, he asked: "How is it that the Teachers of the Law say that the Christ is to be David's son?

David himself calls him 'lord,' how comes it, then, that he is to be his son?" The mass of the people listened to Jesus with delight.

Then Jesus sat down opposite the chests for the Temple offerings, and watched how the people put money into them. Many rich people were putting in large sums;

Upon which Pilate questioned Jesus again. "Have you no reply to make?" he asked. "Listen, how many charges they are bringing against you."

"How can I be sure of this?" Zechariah asked the angel. "For I am an old man and my wife is advanced in years."

"How can this be?" Mary asked the angel. "For I have no husband."

But how have I this honor, that the mother of my Lord should come to me?

How can you say to your brother 'Brother, let me take out the straw in your eye,' while you yourself do not see the beam in your own? Hypocrite! Take out the beam from your own eye first, and then you will see clearly how to take out the straw in your brother's.

Take care, then, how you listen. For, to all those who have, more will be given; while, from all those who have nothing, even what they seem to have will be taken away."

Those who had seen it told them how the possessed man had been delivered;

"O faithless and perverse generation!" Jesus exclaimed; "how long must I be with you and have patience with you? Lead your son here."

If you, then, naturally wicked though you are, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the Father in Heaven give the Holy Spirit to those that ask him!"

So, too, if Satan is wholly divided against himself, how can his kingdom last? Yet you say that I drive out demons by the help of Baal-zebub.

Whenever they take you before the Synagogue Courts or the magistrates or other authorities, do not be anxious as to how you will defend yourselves, or what your defense will be, or what you will say;

Think of the ravens--they neither sow nor reap; they have neither storehouse nor barn; and yet God feeds them! And how much more precious are you than birds!

Think of the lilies, and how they grow. They neither toil nor spin; yet, I tell you, even Solomon in all his splendor was not robed like one of these.

If, even in the field, God so clothes the grass which is living to-day and to-morrow will be thrown into the oven, how much more will he clothe you, O men of little faith!

There is a baptism that I must undergo, and how great is my distress until it is over!

Hypocrites! You know how to judge of the earth and the sky; how is it, then, that you cannot judge of this time?

Jerusalem! Jerusalem! she who slays the Prophets and stones the messengers sent to her--Oh, how often have I wished to gather your children round me, as a hen takes her brood under her wings, and you would not come!

But, when he came to himself, he said 'How many of my father's hired servants have more bread than they can eat, while here am I starving to death!

One by one he called up his master's debtors. 'How much do you owe my master?' he asked of the first.

And you, the steward said to the next, 'how much do you owe?' 'Seventy quarters of wheat,' he replied. 'Here is your agreement,' the steward said; 'make it fifty-six.'

Seeing this, Jesus said to his disciples: "How hard it is for men of wealth to enter the Kingdom of God!

But Jesus said to them: "How is it that people say that the Christ is to be David's son?

David, then, calls him 'lord,' so how is he David's son?"

The women who had accompanied Jesus from Galilee followed, and saw the tomb and how the body of Jesus was laid,

[He is not here; but he has risen.] Remember how he spoke to you before he left Galilee--

How he said that the Son of Man must be betrayed into the hands of wicked men, and be crucified, and rise again on the third day."

And how the Chief Priests and our leading men gave him up to be sentenced to death, and afterwards crucified him.

"How our hearts glowed," the disciples said to each other, "while he was talking to us on the road, and when he explained the Scriptures to us!"

So they also related what had happened during their walk, and how they had recognized Jesus at the Breaking of the Bread.

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

"How can a man," asked Nicodemus, "be born when he is old? Can he be born a second time?"

"How can that be?" asked Nicodemus.

If, when I tell you earthly things, you do not believe me, how will you believe me when I tell you of heavenly things?

"How is it," replied the Samaritan woman, "that you who are a Jew ask for water from a Samaritan woman like me?" (For Jews do not associate with Samaritans).

Do not you say that it still wants four months to harvest? Why, look up, and see how white the fields are for harvest!

How can you believe in me, when you receive honor from one another and do not desire the honor which comes from the only God?

But, if you do not believe his writings, how will you believe my teaching?"

"How," they asked, "are we to do the work that God would have us do?"

"Is not this Jesus, Joseph's son," they asked, "whose father and mother we know? How is it that he now says that he has come down from Heaven?"

Upon this the Jews began disputing with one another: "How is it possible for this man to give us his flesh to eat?"

The Jews were astonished. "How has this man got his learning," they asked, "when he has never studied?"

When a man receives circumcision on a Sabbath to prevent the Law of Moses from being broken, how can you be angry with me for making a man sound and well on a Sabbath?

How is it that you do not understand what I say? It is because you cannot bear to listen to my Message.

"How did you get your sight, then?" they asked.

So the Pharisees also questioned the man as to how he had gained his sight. "He put clay on my eyes," he answered, "and I washed them, and I can see."

"The man cannot be from God," said some of the Pharisees, "for he does not keep the Sabbath." "How is it possible," retorted others, "for a bad man to give signs like this?"

"Is this your son," they asked, "who you say was born blind? If so, how is it that he can see now?"

But how it is that he can see now we do not know; nor do we know who it was that gave him his sight. Ask him--he is old enough- -he will tell you about himself."

"What did he do to you?" they asked. "How did he give you your sight?"

When the Jews gathered round him, and said: "How long are you going to keep us in suspense? If you are the Christ, tell us so frankly."

"How he must have loved him!" the Jews exclaimed;