For I have seen how your evil-doing is increased and how strong are your sins, you troublers of the upright, who take rewards and do wrong to the cause of the poor in the public place.

And it came about that after they had taken all the grass of the land, I said, O Lord God, have mercy: how will Jacob be able to keep his place? for he is small.

Then said I, O Lord God, let there be an end: how will Jacob be able to keep his place? for he is small.

If thieves came, attacking you by night, (how are you cut off!) would they not go on taking till they had enough? if men came cutting your grapes would they take them all?

How are the things of Esau searched out! how are his secret stores looked for!

And I said, I have been sent away from before your eyes; how may I ever again see your holy Temple?

And God saw what they did, how they were turned from their evil way; and God's purpose was changed as to the evil which he said he would do to them, and he did it not.

O my people, what have I done to you? how have I been a weariness to you? give answer against me.

Sorrow! how are the keepers of your flock sleeping, O king of Assyria! your strong men are at rest; your people are wandering on the mountains, and there is no one to get them together.

How long, O Lord, will your ears be shut to my voice? I make an outcry to you about violent behaviour, but you do not send salvation.

This is the town which was full of joy, living without fear of danger, saying in her heart, I am, and there is no other: how has she been made waste, a place for beasts to take their rest in! everyone who goes by her will make hisses, waving his hand.

Who is there still among you who saw this house in its first glory? and how do you see it now? is it not in your eyes as nothing?

How, when anyone came to a store of twenty measures, there were only ten: when anyone went to the wine-store to get fifty vessels full, there were only twenty.

Then the angel of the Lord, answering, said, O Lord of armies, how long will it be before you have mercy on Jerusalem and on the towns of Judah against which your wrath has been burning for seventy years?

And I said to him, Where are you going? And he said to me, To take the measure of Jerusalem, to see how wide and how long it is.

For how good it is and how beautiful! grain will make the young men strong and new wine the virgins.

A son gives honour to his father, and a servant has fear of his master: if then I am a father, where is my honour? and if I am a master, where is the fear of me? says the Lord of armies to you, O priests, who give no value to my name. And you say, How have we not given value to your name?

You put unclean bread on my altar. And you say, How have we made it unclean? By your saying, The table of the Lord is of no value.

You have made the Lord tired with your words. And still you say, How have we made him tired? By your saying, Everyone who does evil is good in the eyes of the Lord, and he has delight in them; or, Where is God the judge?

From the days of your fathers you have been turned away from my rules and have not kept them. Come back to me, and I will come back to you, says the Lord of armies. But you say, How are we to come back?

Then you will again see how the upright man is different from the sinner, and the servant of God from him who is not.

You are the salt of the earth; but if its taste goes from the salt, how will you make it salt again? it is then good for nothing but to be put out and crushed under foot by men.

But if your eye is evil, all your body will be dark. If then the light which is in you is dark, how dark it will be!

And why are you troubled about clothing? See the flowers of the field, how they come up; they do no work, they make no thread:

Or how will you say to your brother, Let me take out the grain of dust from your eye, when you yourself have a bit of wood in your eye?

If you, then, being evil, are able to give good things to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good things to those who make requests to him?

But when you are given up into their hands, do not be troubled about what to say or how to say it: for in that hour what you are to say will be given to you;

It is enough for the disciple that he may be as his master, and the servant as his lord. If they have given the name Beelzebub to the master of the house, how much more to those of his house!

How he went into the house of God and took for food the holy bread which it was not right for him or for those who were with him to take, but only for the priests?

Or is it not said in the law, how the Sabbath is broken by the priests in the Temple and they do no wrong?

Of how much more value is a man than a sheep! For this reason it is right to do good on the Sabbath day.

But the Pharisees went out and made designs against him, how they might put him to death.

And if Satan sends out Satan, he makes war against himself; how then will he keep his kingdom?

Or how may one go into a strong man's house and take his goods, if he does not first put cords round the strong man? and then he may take his goods.

You offspring of snakes, how are you, being evil, able to say good things? because out of the heart's store come the words of the mouth.

And the servants of the master of the house came and said to him, Sir, did you not put good seed in your field? how then has it evil plants?

And the disciples say to him, How may we get enough bread in a waste place, to give food to such a number of people?

And Jesus says to them, How much bread have you? And they said, Seven cakes, and some small fishes.

How is it that you do not see that I was not talking to you about bread, but about keeping away from the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees?

From that time Jesus went on to make clear to his disciples how he would have to go up to Jerusalem, and undergo much at the hands of those in authority and the chief priests and scribes, and be put to death, and the third day come again from the dead.

And Jesus, answering, said, O false and foolish generation, how long will I be with you? how long will I put up with you? let him come here to me.

And when the disciples saw it they were surprised, saying, How did the fig-tree become dry in so short a time?

But how does it seem to you? A man had two sons; and he came to the first, and said, Son, go and do work today in the vine-garden.

And he says to him, Friend, how came you in here not having a guest's robe? And he had nothing to say.

Then the Pharisees went and had a meeting to see how they might make use of his words to take him.

But the Pharisees, hearing how the mouths of the Sadducees had been stopped, came together;

He says to them, How then does David in the Spirit give him the name of Lord, saying,

If David then gives him the name of Lord, how is he his son?

You snakes, offspring of snakes, how will you be kept from the punishment of hell?

But how then would the Writings come true, which say that so it has to be?

Saying, Sir, we have in mind how that false man said, while he was still living, After three days I will come again from the dead.

How he went into the house of God when Abiathar was high priest, and took for food the holy bread, which only the priests may take, and gave it to those who were with him?

And the Pharisees went out, and straight away made designs with the Herodians about how they might put him to death.

And turning to them, he said to them in the form of a story, How is it possible for Satan to put out Satan?

And he said to them, If you are not clear about this story, how will you be clear about the others?

And went to sleep and got up, night and day, and the seed came to growth, though he had no idea how.

And he would not let him, but said to him, Go to your house, to your friends, and give them news of the great things the Lord has done for you, and how he had mercy on you.

And he said to them, How much bread have you? go and see. And when they had seen, they said, Five cakes of bread and two fishes.

And his disciples said in answer, How will it be possible to get enough bread for these men here in a waste place?

And he put the question, How much bread have you? And they said, Seven cakes.

And he said to them, Truly, Elijah does come first, and puts all things in order; and how is it said in the Writings that the Son of man will go through much sorrow and be made as nothing?

And he said to them in answer, O generation without faith, how long will I have to be with you? how long will I put up with you? let him come to me.

And Jesus questioning the father said, How long has he been like this? And he said, From a child.

Salt is good; but if the taste goes from it, how will you make it salt again? Have salt in yourselves, and be at peace one with another.

And Jesus, looking round about, said to his disciples, How hard it is for those who have wealth to come into the kingdom of God!

And the disciples were full of wonder at his words. But Jesus said to them again, Children, how hard it is for those who put faith in wealth to come into the kingdom of God!

And it came to the ears of the chief priests and scribes, and they took thought how they might put him to death; being in fear of him, because all the people were full of wonder at his teaching.

But as to the dead coming back to life; have you not seen in the book of Moses, about the burning thorn-tree, how God said to him, I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob?

And Jesus, when he was teaching in the Temple, said, How do the scribes say that the Christ is the Son of David?

David himself gives him the name of Lord; and how then is he his son? And the common people gave ear to him gladly.

And he took a seat by the place where the money was kept, and saw how the people put money into the boxes: and a number who had wealth put in much.

It was now two days before the feast of the Passover and the unleavened bread: and the chief priests and the scribes made designs how they might take him by deceit and put him to death:

And hearing what he said, they were glad, and gave him their word to make him a payment of money. And he took thought how he might best give him up to them.

And in the same minute, the cock gave a second cry. And it came to Peter's mind how Jesus had said to him, Before the cock's second cry, you will say three times that you have no knowledge of me. And at this thought he was overcome with weeping.

And Pilate again put a question, Do you say nothing in answer? see how much evil they say you have done.

And when the captain, who was near, saw how he gave up his spirit, he said, Truly this man was a son of God.

And Zacharias said to the angel, How may I be certain of this? For I am an old man, and my wife is far on in years.

And Mary said to the angel, How may this be, because I have had no knowledge of a man?

How is it that the mother of my Lord comes to me?

How he went into the house of God and took for food the holy bread, which only the priests may take, and gave it to those who were with him?

How will you say to your brother, Brother, let me take the grain of dust out of your eye, when you yourself do not see the bit of wood in your eye? O false one! first take the wood out of your eye and then you will see clearly to take the dust out of your brother's eye.

So take care how you give hearing, for to him who has will be given, and from him who has not will be taken even what he seems to have.

And those who had seen it gave them an account of how the man who had the evil spirits was made well.

And when the woman saw that she was not able to keep it secret, she came, shaking with fear, and falling down before him she made clear before all the people the reason for her touching him, and how she was made well straight away.

And Jesus said, O generation without faith and false in heart, how long will I have to be with you and put up with you? let your son come here.

If, then, you who are evil are able to give good things to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who make request to him?

If, then, Satan is at war with himself, how will he keep his kingdom? because you say that I send evil spirits out of men by the help of Beelzebul.

And he said to his disciples, For this reason I say to you, Take no thought for your life, about what food you will take, or for your body, how it may be clothed.

Give thought to the ravens; they do not put seeds into the earth, or get together grain; they have no store-houses or buildings; and God gives them their food: of how much greater value are you than the birds!

But if God gives such clothing to the grass in the field, which today is living, and tomorrow will be burned in the oven, how much more will he give clothing to you, O men of little faith?

But there is a baptism which I have to undergo; and how am I kept back till it is complete!

O false ones! the face of the earth and the heaven is clear to you; how is it that the signs of these times are not as clear to you?

Now some people who were there at that time, gave him an account of how the blood of some Galilaeans had been mixed by Pilate with their offerings.

And he gave teaching in the form of a story to the guests who came to the feast, when he saw how they took the best seats; saying to them,

And Jesus, looking at him, said, How hard it is for those who have wealth to get into the kingdom of God!

David then gives him the name of Lord, so how is it possible for him to be his son?

And some were talking about the Temple, how it was made fair with beautiful stones and with offerings, but he said,

And he went away and had a discussion with the chief priests and the rulers, about how he might give him up to them.

And the Lord, turning, gave Peter a look. And the words of the Lord came to Peter's mind, how he had said, This night, before the hour of the cock's cry, you will be false to me three times.

And the women who had come with him from Galilee went after him and saw the place and how his body had been put to rest;