instead of presuming to say to yourselves, 'We have a father in Abraham.' I tell you, God can raise up children for Abraham from these stones!

You are the salt of the earth. But if salt becomes insipid, what can make it salt again? After that it is fit for nothing, fit only to be thrown outside and trodden by the feet of men.

No one can serve two masters: either he will hate one and love the other, or else he will stand by the one and despise the other ??you cannot serve both God and Mammon.

Which of you can add an ell to his height by troubling about it?

How can you say to your brother, 'Let me take out the splinter from your eye,' when there lies the plank in your own eye?

A leper came up and knelt before him, saying, "If you only choose, sir, you can cleanse me";

Jesus said to them, "Can friends at a wedding mourn so long as the bride groom is beside them? A time will come when the bridegroom is taken from them, and then they will fast.

what she said to herself was this, "If I can only touch his robe, I will recover."

When he went indoors the blind men came up to him, and Jesus asked them, "Do you believe I can do this?" They said, "Yes, sir."

Have no fear of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul: rather fear Him who can destroy both soul and body in Gehenna.

And all the crowds were amazed; they said, "Can this be the Son of David?"

and if Satan casts out Satan, he is divided against himself; how then can his realm stand?

Why, how can anyone enter the strong man's house and plunder his goods, unless he first of all binds the strong man? Then he can plunder his house.

You brood of vipers, how can you speak good when you are evil? For the mouth utters what the heart is full of.

When the disciples heard this they were utterly astounded; they said, "Who then can possibly be saved?"

Can I not do as I please with what belongs to me? Have you a grudge because I am generous?'

Jesus replied, "You do not know what you are asking. Can you drink the cup I am going to drink?" They said to him, "We can."

If David calls him Lord, how can he be his son?"

You serpents! you brood of vipers! how can you escape being sentenced to Gehenna?

and said, "This fellow declared, 'I can destroy the temple of God and build it in three days.'"

Pilate said to them, "Take a guard of soldiers, go and make it as secure as you can."

A leper came to him beseeching him on bended knee, saying, "If you only choose, you can cleanse me;"

"What does the man mean by talking like this? It is blasphemy! Who can forgive sins, who but God alone?"

Jesus said to them, "Can friends at a wedding fast while the bridegroom is beside them? As long as they have the bridegroom beside them they cannot fast.

So he called them and said to them by way of parable, "How can Satan cast out Satan?

No one can enter the strong man's house and plunder his goods unless first of all he binds the strong man; then he can plunder his house.

He said also, "To what can we compare the Realm of God? how are we to put it in a parable?

but once sown it springs up to be larger than any plant, throwing out such big branches that the wild birds can roost under its shadow."

But they were overawed and said to each other, "Whatever can he be, when the very wind and sea obey him?"

"if I can touch even his clothes," she said to herself, "I will recover."

nothing outside a man can defile him by entering him; it is what comes from him that defiles him.

He said to them, "So you do not understand, either? Do you not see how nothing outside a man can defile him by entering him?

His disciples replied, "Where can one get loaves to satisfy them in a desert spot like this?"

He began to see and said, "I can make out people, for I see them as large as trees, moving."

"it has thrown him into fire and water many a time, to destroy him. If you can do anything, do help us, do have pity on us."

Jesus said to him, "'If you can'! Anything can be done for one who believes."

He said to them, "Nothing can make this kind come out but prayer and fasting."

They were more astounded than ever; they said to themselves, "Then who ever can be saved?"

Jesus said, "You do not know what you are asking. Can you drink the cup I have to drink, or undergo the baptism I have to undergo?"

They said to him, "We can." Jesus said, "You shall drink the cup I have to drink and undergo the baptism I have to undergo;

And as Jesus taught in the temple he asked, "How can the scribes say that the Christ is David's son?

David here calls him Lord. Then how can he be his son?" Now the mass of the people listened with delight to him.

for false Christs and false prophets will rise and perform signs and wonders to mislead the elect if they can.

The poor you always have beside you, and you can be kind to them whenever you want; but you will not always have me.

At this she was startled; she thought to herself, whatever can this greeting mean?

"How can this be?" said Mary to the angel, "I have no husband."

Now, produce fruits that answer to your repentance, instead of beginning to say to yourselves, 'We have a father in Abraham.' I tell you, God can raise up children for Abraham from these stones!

Now as people's expectations were roused and as everybody thought to himself about John, "Can he be the Christ,"

and the devil said to him, "I will give you all their power and grandeur, for it has been made over to me and I can give it to anyone I choose.

When he was in one of their towns, there was a man full of leprosy who, on seeing Jesus, fell on his face and besought him, "If you only choose, sir, you can cleanse me."

Then the scribes and Pharisees began to argue, "Who is this blasphemer? Who can forgive sins, who but God alone?"

Jesus said to them, "Can you make friends at a wedding fast while the bride groom is beside them?

He also told them a parabolic word: "Can one blind man lead another? will they not both fall into a pit?

No one lights a lamp and hides it under a vessel or puts it below the bed: he puts it on a stand so that those who come in can see the light.

Then he said to them, "Where is your faith?" They marvelled in awe, saying to one another, "Whatever can he be? He gives orders to the very winds and water, and they obey him!"

And suppose he answers from the inside, 'Don't bother me; the door is locked by this time, and my children are in bed with me. I can't get up and give you anything.'

and if Satan is divided against himself, how can his realm stand? You say I am casting out daemons by Beelzebul?

No one lights a lamp to put it in a cellar or under a bowl, but on a stand, so that those who come in can see the light.

I tell you, my friends, have no fear of those who kill the body but after that can do no more;

And he said, 'This is what I will do. I will pull down my granaries and build larger ones, where I can store all my produce and my goods.

Which of you can add an ell to his height by troubling about it?

Sell what you possess and give it away in alms, make purses for yourselves that never wear out: get treasure in heaven that never fails, that no thief can get at, no moth destroy.

Then it may bear fruit next year. If not, you can have it cut down.'"

Or what king sets out to fight against another king without first sitting down to deliberate whether with ten thousand men he can encounter the king who is attacking him with twenty thousand?

So, if you are not faithful with dishonest mammon, how can you ever be trusted with true Riches?

And if you are not faithful with what belongs to another, how can you ever be given what is your own?

No servant can serve two masters: either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will stand by the one and despise the other, you cannot serve both God and Mammon."

'They have got Moses and the prophets,' said Abraham, 'they can listen to them.'

Will the man not rather say to him, 'Get some thing ready for my supper; gird yourself and wait on me till I eat and drink; then you can eat and drink yourself'?

His hearers said, "Then whoever can be saved?"

But he said to them, "How can people say that the Christ is David's son?

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

as soon as they put out their leaves, you can see for yourselves that summer is at hand.

and tell the owner of the house, 'The Teacher asks you, Where is the room in which I can eat the passover with my disciples?'

"Then who are you?" they said; "tell us, so that we can give some answer to those who sent us. What have you to say for yourself?"

"Nazaret!" said Nathanael, "can anything good come out of Nazaret?" "Come and see," said Philip.

Two days later a wedding took place at Cana in Galilee; the mother of Jesus was present,

Jesus performed this, the first of his Signs, at Cana in Galilee, thereby displaying his glory; and his disciples believed in him.

Jesus replied, "Truly, truly I tell you, no one can see God's Realm unless he is born from above."

Nicodemus said to him, "How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter his mother's womb over again and be born?"

The wind blows where it wills; you can hear its sound, but you never know where it has come from or where it goes: it is the same with everyone who is born of the Spirit."

Nicodemus answered, "How can that be?"

John answered, "No one can receive anything except as a gift from heaven.

You can bear me out, that I said, 'I am not the Christ'; what I said was, 'I have been sent in advance of him.'

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

So the disciples asked each other, "Can anyone have brought him something to eat?"

Once more he came to Cana in Galilee, where he had turned the water into wine. There was a royal official, whose son was lying ill at Capernaum;

So Jesus made this answer to them: "Truly, truly I tell you, the Son can do nothing of his own accord, nothing but what he sees the Father doing; for whatever he does, the Son also does the same.

I can do nothing of my own accord; I pass judgment on men as I am taught by God, and my judgment is just, because my aim is not my own will but the will of him who sent me.

How can you believe, you who accept credit from one another instead of aiming at the credit which comes from the only God?

They said, "Is this not Jesus the son of Joseph? We know his father and mother. How can he claim now, 'I have come down from heaven'?"

The Jews then wrangled with one another, saying, "How can he give us his flesh to eat?"

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

so his brothers said to him, "Leave this and go across into Judaea, to let your disciples witness what you can do;

for nobody who aims at public recognition ever keeps his actions secret. Since you can do these deeds, display yourself to the world"

placed after 5:47] The Jews were amazed, saying, "How can this uneducated fellow manage to read?"

Yet here he is, opening his lips in public, and they say nothing to him! Can the authorities have really discovered that he is the Christ?

Which of you can convict me of sin? If I tell the truth, why do you not believe me?

While daylight lasts, we must be busy with the work of God: night comes, when no one can do any work.

So the Pharisees asked him again how he had regained his sight, and he told them, "He smeared some clay on my eyes, and I washed them, and now I can see."