Woe to you! you are like unsuspected tombs; men walk over them unawares."

Look at the crows! they neither sow nor reap, no storehouse or granary have they, and yet God feeds them. How much more are you worth than birds?

Look how the lilies neither spin nor weave; and yet, I tell you, even Solomon in all his grandeur was never robed like one of them.

and be like men who are expecting their lord and master on his return from a marriage-banquet, so as to open the door for him at once when he comes and knocks.

You hypocrites, you know how to decipher the look of earth and sky; how is it you cannot decipher the meaning of this era?

So he said, "What is the Reign of God like? to what shall I compare it?

It is like a grain of mustard-seed which a man took and put into his orchard, where it grew up and became a tree, and the wild birds roosted in its branches."

It is like dough which a woman took and buried in three pecks of flour, till all of it was leavened."

But they all alike proceeded to decline. The first said to him, 'I have bought a farm and I am obliged to go and look at it. Pray consider me excused.'

I don't deserve to be called your son any more; only make me like one of your hired men."'

but he replied, 'Look at all the years I have been serving you! I have never neglected any of your orders, and yet you have never given me so much as a kid, to let me make merry with my friends.

Well, the master praised the dishonest factor for looking ahead; for the children of this world look further ahead in dealing with their own generation than the children of Light.

and fain to eat up the crumbs that fell from the rich man's table. (The very dogs used to come and lick his ulcers.)

for like lightning that flashes from one side of the sky to the other, so will the Son of man be on his own day.

The Pharisee stood up and prayed by himself as follows; 'I thank thee, O God, I am not like the rest of men, thieves, rogues, and immoral, or even like yon taxgatherer.

I tell you truly, whoever will not submit to the Reign of God like a child will never get into it at all."

When Jesus heard this he said to him, "You lack one thing more; sell all you have, distribute the money among the poor and you will have treasure in heaven; then come and follow me."

who tried to see what Jesus was like; but he could not, on account of the crowd ??for he was small of stature.

They put this question to him, "Teacher, we know you are straight in what you say and teach, you do not look to human favour but teach the Way of God honestly.

"Beware of the scribes! They like to walk about in long robes, they are fond of getting saluted in the market-places, of securing the front seats in the synagogues and the best places at banquets;

But when these things begin to happen, look up and raise your heads, for your release is not far distant."

And he told them a parable. "Look at the fig tree and indeed all the trees;

Take heed to yourselves in case your hearts get overpowered by dissipation and drunkenness and worldly anxieties, and so that Day catches you suddenly like a trap.

not so with you. He who is greatest among you must be like the youngest, and he who is chief like a servant.

Simon, Simon, Satan has claimed the right to sift you all like wheat,

he fell into an agony and prayed with greater intensity, his sweat dropping to the ground like clots of blood.]

Then he said to the high priests and commanders of the temple and elders who had appeared to take him, "Have you sallied out to arrest me like a robber, with swords and cudgels?

A maidservant who noticed him sitting by the fire took a long look at him and said, "That fellow was with him too."

As for his acquaintances, they were all standing at a distance to look on, with the women who had accompanied him from Galilee.

They were terrified and bent their faces to the ground, but the men said to them, "Why do you look among the dead for him who is alive?

Look at my hands and feet. It is I! Feel me and see; a ghost has not flesh and bones as you see I have."

Next day he observed Jesus coming towards him and exclaimed, "Look, there is the lamb of God, who is to remove the sin of the world!

And John bore this testimony also: "I saw the Spirit descend like a dove from heaven and rest on him.

he gazed at Jesus as he walked about, and said, "Look, there is the lamb of God!"

"Come here, look at a man who has told me everything I ever did! Can he be the Christ?"

You have a saying, have you not, 'Four months yet, then harvest'? Look round, I tell you; see, the fields are white for harvesting!

And this was why the Jews persecuted Jesus, because he did things like this on the sabbath.

After this Jesus went off to the opposite side of the sea of Galilee (the lake of Tiberias),

Now many of his disciples, on hearing it, said, "This is hard to take in! Who can listen to talk like this?"

but you do not understand him. I know him. Were I to say, 'I do not know him,' I would be a liar like yourselves; but I do know him and I hold to his word.

Some said, "It is"; others said, "No, but it is like him." He said, "I am the man."

If we let him alone, like this, everybody will believe in him, and then the Romans will come and suppress our holy Place and our nation."

Then said the Pharisees to one another, "You see, you can do nothing! Look, the world has gone after him."

My dear children, I am only to be with you a little longer; then you will look for me, and, as I told the Jews I tell you now, where I go you cannot come.

If anyone does not remain in me he is thrown aside like a branch and he withers up; then the branches are gathered and thrown into the fire to be burned.

If you remain in me and my words remain in you, then ask whatever you like and you shall have it.

Again Pilate went out and said to them, "Look, I am bringing him out to you. Understand, I cannot find anything wrong about him."

And another scripture also says, They shall look on him whom they have impaled.

Then he said to Thomas, "Look at my hands, put your finger here; and put your hand here into my side; cease your unbelief and believe."

when suddenly there came a sound from heaven like a violent blast of wind, which filled the whole house where they were seated.

They saw tongues like flames distributing themselves, one resting on the head of each,

Peter looked at him steadily, as did John, and said, "Look at us."

Now I know, brothers, that you acted in ignorance, like your rulers ??18 though this was how God fulfilled what he had announced beforehand by the lips of all the prophets, namely the sufferings of his Christ.

When it remained unsold, did it not remain your own? And even after the sale, was the money not yours to do as you pleased about it? How could you think of doing a thing like this? You have not defrauded men but God."

Brothers, look out seven of your own number, men of good reputation who are full of the Spirit and of wisdom. We will appoint them to this duty,

Then all who were seated in the Sanhedrin fixed their eyes on him, and saw that his face shone like the face of an angel.

When Moses saw this, he marvelled at the sight; and as he went up to look at it, the voice of the Lord said,

'I am the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham and Isaac and Jacob.' Moses was so terrified that he did not dare to look at the bush.

"Look," he said, "I see heaven open and the Son of man standing at God's right hand!"

With a loud shriek they shut their ears and rushed at him like one man.

And the crowds attended like one man to what was said by Philip, listening to him and watching the miracles he performed.

Now the passage of scripture which he was reading was as follows: ??he was led like a sheep to be slaughtered, and as a lamb is dumb before the shearer, so he opens not his lips.

In a moment something like scales fell from his eyes, he regained his sight, got up and was baptized.

He saw heaven open and a vessel coming down, like a huge sheet lowered by the four corners to the earth,

"I was in the town of Joppa at prayer," he said, "and in a trance I saw a vision ??a vessel coming down like a huge sheet lowered from heaven by the four corners. It came down to me,

So Barnabas went off to Tarsus to look for Saul,

Look, you disdainful folk, wonder at this and perish for in your days I do a deed, a deed you will never believe, not though one were to explain it to you."

shouting, "Men, what is this you are doing? We are but human, with natures like your own! The gospel we are preaching to you is to turn from such futile ways to the living God who made the heaven, the earth, the sea, and all that in them is.

He took them up to his house and put food before them, overjoyed like all his household at having believed in God.

Some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also came across him. Some said, "Whatever does the fellow mean with his scraps of learning'?" Others said, "He looks like a herald of foreign deities" (this was because he preached 'Jesus' and 'the Resurrection').

But as these are merely questions of words and persons and your own Law, you can attend to them for yourselves. I decline to adjudicate upon matters like that."

So the city was filled with confusion. They rushed like one man into the amphitheatre, dragging along Gaius and Aristarchus, Macedonians who were travelling with Paul.

With a steady look at the Sanhedrin Paul said, "Brothers, I have lived with a perfectly good conscience before God down to the present day."

"I should like to hear the man myself," said Agrippa to Festus. "You shall hear him to-morrow," said Festus.

Brothers, I would like you to understand that I have often purposed to come to you (though up till now I have been prevented) so as to have some results among you as well as among the rest of the Gentiles.

Nevertheless, from Adam to Moses death reigned even over those whose sins were not like Adam's transgression. Adam prefigured Him who was to come,

Nor is the free gift like the effect of the one man's sin; for while the sentence ensuing on a single sin resulted in doom, the free gift ensuing on many trespasses issues in acquittal.

For if we have grown into him by a death like his, we shall grow into him by a resurrection like his,

But who are you, my man, to speak back to God? Is something a man has moulded to ask him who has moulded it, "Why did you make me like this?"

And Isaiah exclaims, with regard to Israel, Though the number of the sons of Israel be like the sand of the sea, only a remnant of them shall be saved;

Indeed, as Isaiah foretold, Had not the Lord of hosts left us with some descendants, we would have fared like Sodom, we would have been like Gomorra.

Supposing some of the branches have been broken off, while you have been grafted in like a shoot of wild olive to share the rich growth of the olive-stem,

Granted. They were broken off ??for their lack of faith. And you owe your position to your faith. You should feel awed instead of being uplifted.

To prevent you from being self-conceited, brothers, I would like you to understand this secret: it is only a partial insensibility that has come over Israel, until the full number of the Gentiles come in.

The eater must not look down upon the non-eater, and the non-eater must not criticize the eater, for God has welcomed him.

So why do you criticize your brother? And you, why do you look down upon your brother? All of us have to stand before the tribunal of God ??11 for it is written, As I live, saith the Lord, every knee shall bend before me, every tongue shall offer praise to God.

Thus you lack no spiritual endowment during these days of waiting till our Lord Jesus Christ is revealed;

Why, look at your own ranks, my brothers; not many wise men (that is, judged by human standards), not many leading men, not many of good birth, have been called!

you are still worldly. For with jealousy and quarrels in your midst, are you not worldly, are you not behaving like ordinary men?

In virtue of my commission from God, I laid the foundation of the house like an expert master-builder. It remains for another to build on this foundation. Whoever he is, let him be careful how he builds.

This is how you are to look upon us, as servants of Christ and stewards of God's secret truths.

For it seems to me that God means us apostles to come in at the very end, like the doomed gladiators in the arena! We are made a spectacle to the world, to angels and to men!

Some of you were once like that; but you washed yourselves clean, you were consecrated, you were justified in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God.

I would like all men to be as I am. However, everyone is endowed by God in his own way; he has a gift for the one life or the other.

To the unmarried and to widows I would say this: it is an excellent thing if like me they remain as they are.

Have we no right to travel with a Christian wife, like the rest of the apostles, like the brothers of the Lord, like Cephas himself?

To Jews I have become like a Jew, to win over Jews; to those under the Law I have become as one of themselves ??though I am not under the Law myself ??to win over those under the Law;

to those outside the Law I have become like one of themselves ??though I am under Christ's law, not outside God's Law ??to win over those outside the Law;

And you must not be idolaters, like some of them; as it is written, the people sat down to eat and drink, and they rose up to make sport.

Look at the rites of Israel. Do not those who eat the sacrifices participate in the altar?