Then he asked another debtor, "How much do you owe?' The man replied, "A hundred containers of wheat.' The manager told him, "Get your bill and write "80."'

Jesus told his disciples, "It is inevitable that temptations to sin will come, but how terrible it will be for the person through whom they come!

So when Jesus saw how sad he was, he said, "How hard it is for rich people to get into the kingdom of God!

They said, "How blessed is the king who comes in the name of the Lord! Peace in heaven, and glory in the highest heaven!"

Then he asked them, "How can people say that the Messiah is David's son?

So David calls him "Lord.' Then how can he be his son?"

Now while some people were talking about the Temple how it was decorated with beautiful stones and gifts dedicated to God he said,

"How terrible it will be for those women who are pregnant or who are nursing babies in those days! because there will be great distress in the land and wrath against this people.

So he went off and discussed with the high priests and the Temple police how he could betray Jesus to them.

The Son of Man is going away, just as it has been determined, but how terrible it will be for that man by whom he is betrayed!"

Then the Lord turned and looked straight at Peter. And Peter remembered the word from the Lord, and how he had told him, "Before a rooster crows today, you will deny me three times."

because the time is surely coming when people will say, "How blessed are the women who couldn't bear children and the wombs that never bore and the breasts that never nursed!'

So the women who had come with Jesus from Galilee, following close behind, saw the tomb and how his body was laid.

They answered him, "The events involving Jesus of Nazareth, who was a prophet, mighty in what he said and did before God and all the people, and how our high priests and leaders handed him over to be condemned to death and had him crucified.

Then Jesus told them, "O, how foolish you are! How slow you are to believe everything the prophets said!

Then the two men began to tell what had happened on the road and how they had recognized him when he broke the bread in pieces.

He told them, "This is how it is written: the Messiah was to suffer and rise from the dead on the third day,

Nathaniel asked him, "How do you know me?" Jesus answered him, "Before Philip called you, while you were under the fig tree, I saw you."

"How does that concern us, dear lady?" Jesus asked her. "My time hasn't come yet."

Nicodemus asked him, "How can a person be born when he is old? He can't go back into his mother's womb a second time and be born, can he?"

Nicodemus asked him, "How can that be?"

If I have told you people about earthly things and you do not believe, how will you believe if I tell you about heavenly things?

"For this is how God loved the world: He gave his unique Son so that everyone who believes in him would not be lost but have eternal life.

The Samaritan woman asked him, "How can you, a Jew, ask for a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?" Because Jews do not have anything to do with Samaritans.

How can you believe when you accept each other's praise and do not look for the praise that comes from the only God?

But if you do not believe what he wrote, how will you believe my words?"

They kept saying, "This is Jesus, the son of Joseph, isn't it, whose father and mother we know? So how can he say, "I have come down from heaven'?"

Then the Jewish leaders debated angrily with each other, asking, "How can this man give us his flesh to eat?"

The Jewish leaders were astonished and remarked, "How can this man be so educated when he has never gone to school?"

They replied to him, "We are Abraham's descendants and have never been slaves to anybody. So how can you say, "You will be set free'?"

So they asked him, "How, then, did you gain your eyesight?"

So the Pharisees also began to ask him how he had gained his sight. He told them, "He put mud on my eyes, then I washed, and now I can see."

Some of the Pharisees began to remark, "This man is not from God because he does not keep the Sabbath." But others were saying, "How can a sinful man perform such signs?" And there was a division among them.

and asked them, "Is this your son, the one you say was born blind? How does he now see?"

But we don't know how it is that he now sees, and we don't know who opened his eyes. Ask him. He is of age and can speak for himself."

Then they asked him, "What did he do to you? How did he heal your eyes?"

So the Jewish leaders surrounded him and quizzed him, "How long are you going to keep us in suspense? If you're the Messiah, tell us so plainly."

how can you say to the one whom the Father has consecrated and sent into the world, "You're blaspheming,' because I said, "I'm the Son of God'?

So the Jews said, "See how much he loved him!"

So they took branches of palm trees and went out to meet him, shouting, "Hosanna! How blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord, the King of Israel!"

Then the crowd answered him, "We have learned from the Law that the Messiah remains forever. So how can you say that the Son of Man must be lifted up? Who is this Son of Man?"

because I haven't spoken on my own authority. Instead, the Father who sent me has himself commanded me what to say and how to speak.

If you understand these things, how blessed you are if you put them into practice!

This is how everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another."

Thomas asked him, "Lord, we don't know where you are going, so how can we know the way?"

"Have I been with you all this time, Philip, and you still do not know me?" Jesus asked him. "The person who has seen me has seen the Father. So how can you say, "Show us the Father'?

Judas (not Iscariot) asked him, "Lord, how is it that you are going to reveal yourself to us and not to the world?"

This is how my Father is glorified, when you produce a lot of fruit and so prove to be my disciples.

Jesus told him, "Is it because you've seen me that you have believed? How blessed are those who have never seen me and yet have believed!"

Jesus told him, "If it's my will for him to remain until I come back, how does that concern you? You must keep following me!"

So the rumor spread among the brothers that this disciple wasn't going to die. Yet Jesus didn't say to Peter that he wasn't going to die, but, "If it's my will for him to remain until I come back, how does that concern you?"

So how is it that each one of us hears them speaking in his own native language:

This is how God fulfilled what he had predicted through the voice of all the prophets that his Messiah would suffer.

If we are being questioned today for a good deed done for someone who was sick or to learn how this man was healed,

As long as it remained unsold, wasn't it your own? And after it was sold, wasn't the money at your disposal? So how could you have thought of doing what you did? You didn't lie only to men, but also to God!"

"How could you have agreed together to test the Spirit of the Lord?" Peter asked her. "Listen! The feet of the men who buried your husband are at the door, and these men will carry you outside as well."

The man replied, "How can I unless someone guides me?" So he invited Philip to get in and sit with him.

But Ananias answered, "Lord, I have heard many people tell how much evil this man has done to your saints in Jerusalem.

since I'm going to show him how much he must suffer for my name's sake."

Barnabas, however, introduced Saul to the apostles, telling them how on the road Saul had seen the Lord, who had spoken to him, and how courageously he had spoken in the name of Jesus in Damascus.

He told them, "You understand how wrong it is for a Jew to associate or visit with unbelievers. But God has shown me that I should stop calling anyone common or unclean,

Then he told us how he had seen an angel standing in his home and saying, "Send messengers to Joppa and summon Simon, who is called Peter.

He will discuss with you how you and your entire household will be saved.'

When he saw how this was agreeable to the Jews, he proceeded to arrest Peter, too. This happened during the Festival of Unleavened Bread.

He motioned to them with his hand to be quiet, and then he told them how the Lord had brought him out of the prison. He added, "Tell this to James and the brothers." Then he left and went somewhere else.

When they arrived, they called the church together and told them everything that God had done with them and how he had opened a door so that gentiles would believe.

Simeon has explained how God first showed his concern for the gentiles by taking from among them a people for his name.

When the people read it, they were pleased with how the letter encouraged them.

A few days later, Paul told Barnabas, "Let's go back and visit the brothers in every town where we proclaimed the word of the Lord and see how they're doing."

When they came to him, he told them, "You know how I lived among you the entire time from the first day I set foot in Asia.

He came to us, took Paul's belt, and tied his own feet and hands with it. Then he said, "The Holy Spirit says, "This is how the Jewish leaders in Jerusalem will tie up the man who owns this belt. Then they will hand him over to the gentiles.'"

When they heard about it, they praised God and told him, "You see, brother, how many tens of thousands of believers there are among the Jews, and all of them are zealous for the Law.

At this Paul told him, "God will strike you, you whitewashed wall! How can you sit there and judge me according to the Law, and yet in violation of the Law order me to be struck?"

I was puzzled how I should investigate such matters, so I asked if he would like to go to Jerusalem and be tried there for these things.

All the Jews know how I lived from the earliest days of my youth with my own people and in Jerusalem.

"That is how I happened to be traveling to Damascus with authority based on a commission from the high priests.

For God, whom I serve with my spirit by preaching the gospel about his Son, is my witness how constantly I mention you

Of course not! Otherwise, how could God judge the world?

"How blessed are those whose iniquities are forgiven and whose sins are covered!

How blessed is the person whose sins the Lord will never charge against him!"

Hoping in spite of hopeless circumstances, he believed that he would become "the father of many nations," just as he had been told: "This is how many descendants you will have."

Now that we have been justified by his blood, how much more will we be saved from wrath through him!

For if, while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, how much more, having been reconciled, will we be saved by his life!

But God's free gift is not like Adam's offense. For if many people died as the result of one man's offense, how much more have God's grace and the free gift given through the kindness of one man, Jesus the Messiah, been showered on many people!

For if, through one man, death ruled because of that man's offense, how much more will those who receive such overflowing grace and the gift of righteousness rule in life because of one man, Jesus the Messiah!

Of course not! How can we who died as far as sin is concerned go on living in it?

In the same way, the Spirit also helps us in our weakness, since we do not know how to pray as we should. But the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groans too deep for words,

How, then, can people call on someone they have not believed? And how can they believe in someone they have not heard about? And how can they hear without someone preaching?

And how can people preach unless they are sent? As it is written, "How beautiful are those who bring the good news!"

Now if their stumbling means riches for the world, and if their fall means riches for the gentiles, how much more will their full participation mean!

After all, if you were cut off from what is naturally a wild olive tree, and contrary to nature were grafted into a cultivated olive tree, how much easier it will be for these natural branches to be grafted back into their own olive tree!

O how deep are God's riches, and wisdom, and knowledge! How unfathomable are his decisions and unexplainable are his ways!

As for the faith you do have, have it as your own conviction before God. How blessed is the person who has no reason to condemn himself because of what he approves!

As an expert builder using the grace that God gave me, I laid the foundation, and someone else is building on it. But each person must be careful how he builds on it.

That's why I sent Timothy to you. He is my dear and dependable son in the Lord and will help you remember how I live for the Messiah Jesus as I teach everywhere in every church.

I want you to be free from concerns. An unmarried man is concerned about the things of the Lord, that is, about how he can please the Lord.

But a married man is concerned about things of this world, that is, about how he can please his wife,

An unmarried woman or virgin is concerned about the affairs of the Lord, so that she may be holy in body and spirit. But a married woman is concerned about the affairs of this world, that is, about how she can please her husband. I'm saying this for your benefit, not to put a noose around your necks, but to promote good order and unhindered devotion to the Lord.

For if I preach the gospel, I have nothing to boast about, for this obligation has been entrusted to me. How terrible it would be for me if I didn't preach the gospel!

For I received from the Lord what I also passed on to you how the Lord Jesus, on the night he was betrayed, took a loaf of bread,