When they were gone, and angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream and said, "Rise: take the babe and His mother and escape to Egypt, and remain there till I bring you word. For Herod is about to make search for the child in order to destroy Him."

and do not imagine that you can say to yourselves, 'We have Abraham as our forefather,' for I tell you that God can raise up descendants for Abraham from these stones.

"*You* are the salt of the earth; but if salt has become tasteless, in what way can it regain its saltness? It is no longer good for anything but to be thrown away and trodden on by the passers by.

"No man can be the bondservant of two masters; for either he will dislike one and like the other, or he will attach himself to one and think slightingly of the other. You cannot be the bondservants both of God and of gold.

Which of you by being over-anxious can add a single foot to his height?

"Can the bridegroom's party mourn," He replied, "as long as the bridegroom is with them? But other days will come (when the Bridegroom has been taken from them)

And when He had gone indoors, they came to Him. "Do you believe that I can do this?" He asked them. "Yes, Sir," they replied.

Whenever they persecute you in one town, escape to the next; for I solemnly tell you that you will not have gone the round of all the towns of Israel before the Son of Man comes.

And the crowds of people were all filled with amazement and said, "Can this be the Son of David?"

Again, how can any one enter the house of a strong man and carry off his goods, unless first of all he masters and secures the strong man: then he will ransack his house.

O vipers' brood, how can you speak what is good when you are evil? For it is from the overflow of the heart that the mouth speaks.

The Queen of the south will awake at the Judgement together with the present generation, and will condemn it; because she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon, and mark! there is One greater than Solomon here.

"No sooner however has the foul spirit gone out of the man, then he roams about in places where there is no water, seeking rest but finding none.

But when evening was come, the disciples came to Him and said, "This is an uninhabited place, and the best of the day is now gone; send the people away to go into the villages and buy something to eat."

"Where can we," asked the disciples, "get bread enough in this remote place to satisfy so vast a multitude?"

"However, lest we cause them to sin, go and throw a hook into the Lake, and take the first fish that comes up. When you open its mouth, you will find a shekel in it: bring that coin and give it to them for yourself and me."

And if he succeeds in finding it, in solemn truth I tell you that he rejoices over it more than he does over the ninety-nine that have not gone astray.

But no sooner had that servant gone out, than he met with one of his fellow servants who owed him 100 shillings; and seizing him by the throat and nearly strangling him he exclaimed, "'Pay me all you owe.'

"It is not every man," He replied, "who can receive this teaching, but only those on whom the grace has been bestowed.

These words utterly amazed the disciples, and they asked, "Who then can be saved?"

"None of you know what you are asking for," said Jesus; "can you drink out of the cup from which I am about to drink?" "We can," they replied.

Show me the tribute coin." And they brought Him a shilling.

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

Intensely grieved they began one after another to ask Him, "Can it be I, Master?"

Then Judas, the disciple who was betraying Him, asked, "Can it be I, Rabbi?" "It is you," He replied.

So when he saw that he could gain nothing, but that on the contrary there was a riot threatening, he called for water and washed his hands in sight of them all, saying, "I am not responsible for this murder: you must answer for it."

They twisted a wreath of thorny twigs and put it on His head, and they put a sceptre of cane in His right hand, and kneeling to Him they shouted in mockery, "Long live the King of the Jews!"

Then they spat upon Him, and taking the cane they repeatedly struck Him on the head with it.

One of them ran forthwith, and filling a sponge with sour wine put it on the end of a cane and offered it Him to drink;

"You can have a guard," said Pilate: "go and make all safe, as best you can."

"Why does this man use such words?" they said; "he is blaspheming. Who can pardon sins but One--that is, God?"

"Can a wedding party fast while the bridegroom is among them?" replied Jesus. "So long as they have the bridegroom with them, fasting is impossible.

For if civil war breaks out in a kingdom, nothing can make that kingdom last;

Nay, no one can go into a strong man's house and carry off his property, unless he first binds the strong man, and then he will plunder his house.

Immediately Jesus, well knowing that healing power had gone from within Him, turned round in the crowd and asked, "Who touched my clothes?"

But no sooner had they gone ashore than the people immediately recognized Him.

There is nothing outside a man which entering him can make him unclean; but it is the things which come out of a man that make him unclean."

After He had left the crowd and gone indoors, His disciples began to ask Him about this figure of speech.

"For those words of yours, go home," He replied; "the demon has gone out of your daughter."

So she went home, and found the child lying on the bed, and the demon gone.

"Where can we possibly get bread here in this remote place to satisfy such a crowd?" answered His disciples.

You have eyes! can you not see? You have ears! can you not hear? and have you no memory?

So He took the blind man by the arm and brought him out of the village, and spitting into his eyes He put His hands on him and asked him, "Can you see anything?"

He looked up and said, "I can see the people: I see them like trees--only walking."

Why, what does it benefit a man to gain the whole world and forfeit his life?

"and often it has thrown him into the fire or into pools of water to destroy him. But, if you possibly can, have pity on us and help us."

"'If I possibly can!'" replied Jesus; "why, everything is possible to him who believes."

"An evil spirit of this kind," He answered, "can only be driven out by prayer."

They were astonished beyond measure, and said to one another, "Who then *can* be saved?"

"David himself calls Him 'Lord:' how then can He be his son?" And the mass of people found pleasure in listening to Jesus.

For you always have the poor among you, and whenever you choose you can do acts of kindness to them; but me you have not always.

and whatever house he enters, tell the master of the house, 'The Rabbi asks, Where is my room where I can eat the Passover with my disciples?'

Then they began to beat Him on the head with a cane, to spit on Him, and to do Him homage on bended knees.

Then a man ran to fill a sponge with sour wine, and he put it on the end of a cane and placed it to His lips, saying at the same time, "Wait! let us see whether Elijah will come and take him down."

"How can this be," Mary replied, "seeing that I have no husband?"

Live lives which shall prove your change of heart; and do not begin to say to yourselves, 'We have Abraham as our forefather,' for I tell you that God can raise up descendants for Abraham from these stones.

He, however, saw two fishing-boats drawn up on the beach (for the men had gone away from them and were washing the nets)

Then the Scribes and Pharisees began to cavil, asking, "Who is this, uttering blasphemies? Who but God alone can forgive sins?"

"Can you compel the bridal party to fast," replied Jesus, "so long as they have the bridegroom among them?

On another Sabbath He had gone to the synagogue and was teaching there; and in the congregation was a man whose right arm was withered.

He also spoke to them in figurative language. "Can a blind man lead a blind man?" He asked; "would not both fall into the ditch?

How can you say to your brother, 'Brother, let me take that splinter out of your eye,' when all the while you yourself do not see the beam in your own eye? Vain pretender! take the beam out of your own eye first, and then you will see clearly to take the splinter out of your brother's eye.

Every tree is known by its own fruit. It is not from thorns that men gather figs, nor from the bramble that they can get a bunch of grapes.

When John's messengers were gone, He proceeded to say to the multitude concerning John, "What did you go out into the Desert to gaze at? A reed waving in the wind?

Then the other guests began to say to themselves, "Who can this man be who even forgives sins?"

and they besought Him not to command them to be gone into the Bottomless Pit.

whereupon the people came out to see what had happened. They came to Jesus, and they found the man from whom the demons had gone out sitting at the feet of Jesus, clothed and in his right mind; and they were terrified.

But the man from whom the demons had gone out earnestly asked permission to go with Him; but He sent him away.

"Some one has touched me," Jesus replied, "for I feel that power has gone out from me."

On once occasion He was expelling a dumb demon; and when the demon was gone out the dumb man could speak, and the people were astonished.

The Queen of the South will awake at the Judgement together with the men of the present generation, and will condemn them; because she came from the extremity of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; but mark! One greater than Solomon is here.

"But to you who are my friends I say, "'Be not afraid of those who kill the body and after that can do nothing further.

Sell your possessions and give alms. Provide yourselves with purses that will never wear out, a treasure inexhaustible in Heaven, where no thief can come nor moth consume.

No one who does not carry his own cross and come after me can be a disciple of mine.

Just as no one of you who does not detach himself from all that belongs to him can be a disciple of mine.

And when she has found it, she calls together her friends and neighbours, and says, "'Congratulate me, for I have found the coin which I had lost.'

"No servant can be in bondage to two masters. For either he will hate one and love the other, or else he will cling fast to one and scorn the other. You cannot be bondservants both of God and of gold."

Being asked by the Pharisees when the Kingdom of God was coming, He answered, "The Kingdom of God does not so come that you can stealthily watch for it.

"Who then can be saved?" exclaimed the hearers.

When they all saw this, they began to complain with indignation. "He has gone in to be the guest of a notorious sinner!" they said.

"David himself therefore calls Him Lord, and how can He be his son?"

and say to the master of the house, "'The Rabbi asks you, Where is the room where I can eat the Passover with my disciples?'

Pilate said to the High Priests and to the crowd, "I can find no crime in this man."

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

Two days later there was a wedding at Cana in Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there,

This, the first of His miracles, Jesus performed at Cana in Galilee, and thus displayed His glorious power; and His disciples believed in Him.

So He plaited a whip of rushes, and drove all--both sheep and bullocks--out of the Temple. The small coin of the brokers He upset on the ground and overturned their tables.

He came to Jesus by night and said, "Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher from God; for no one can do these miracles which you are doing, unless God is with him.

"How is it possible," Nicodemus asked, "for a man to be born when he is old? Can he a second time enter his mother's womb and be born?"

There is no one who has gone up to Heaven, but there is One who has come down from Heaven, namely the Son of Man whose home is in Heaven.

You yourselves can bear witness to my having said, 'I am not the Christ,' but 'I am His appointed forerunner.'

for His disciples were gone to the town to buy provisions.

"Sir," she said, "you have nothing to draw with, and the well is deep; so where can you get the living water from?

"Come," she said, "and see a man who has told me everything I have ever done. Can this be the Christ, do you think?"

So the disciples began questioning one another. "Can it be," they said, "that some one has brought Him something to eat?"

So He came once more to Cana in Galilee, where He had made the water into wine. Now there was a certain officer of the King's court whose son was ill at Capernaum.

"In most solemn truth I tell you," replied Jesus, "that the Son can do nothing of Himself--He can only do what He sees the Father doing; for whatever He does, that the Son does in like manner.

"I can of my own self do nothing. As I am bidden, so I judge; and mine is a just judgement, because it is not my own will that guides me, but the will of Him who sent me.

"no one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him; then I will raise him to life on the last day.

This led to an angry debate among the Jews. "How can this man," they argued, "give us his flesh to eat?"