And do not think that you can say among yourselves 'Abraham is our ancestor,' for I tell you that out of these very stones God is able to raise descendants for Abraham!

No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate one and love the other, or else he will attach himself to one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and Money.

That is why I say to you, Do not be anxious about your life here--what you can get to eat or drink; nor yet about your body-- what you can get to wear. Is not life more than food, and the body than its clothing?

But which of you, by being anxious, can prolong his life a single moment?

Do not then ask anxiously 'What can we get to eat?' or 'What can we get to drink?' or 'What can we get to wear?'

A sound tree cannot produce bad fruit, nor can a worthless tree bear good fruit.

Jesus answered: "Can the bridegroom's friends mourn as long as the bridegroom is with them? But the days will come, when the bridegroom will be parted from them, and they will fast then.

So, if Satan drives Satan out, he must be divided against himself; and how, then, can his kingdom last?

How, again, can any one get into a strong man's house and carry off his goods, without first securing him? And not till then will he plunder his house.

You brood of vipers! how can you, evil as you are, say anything good? For what fills the heart will rise to the lips.

"Where can we," his disciples asked, "in a lonely place find enough bread for such a crowd as this?"

"It is not every one," replied Jesus, "who can accept this teaching, but only those who have been enabled to do so.

Some men, it is true, have from birth been disabled for marriage, while others have been disabled by their fellow men, and others again have disabled themselves for the sake of the Kingdom of Heaven. Let him accept it who can."

On hearing this, the disciples exclaimed in great astonishment: "Who then can possibly be saved?"

"You do not know what you are asking," was Jesus' answer. "Can you drink the cup that I am to drink?" "Yes," they exclaimed, "we can."

You serpents and brood of vipers! How can you escape being sentenced to the Pit?

In great grief they began to say to him, one by one: "Can it be I, Master?"

And Judas, who was betraying him, turned to him and said: "Can it be I, Rabbi?" "It is," answered Jesus.

"You may have a guard," was Pilate's reply; "go and make the tomb as secure as you can."

"Why does this man speak like this? He is blaspheming! Who can forgive sins except God?"

Jesus answered: "Can the bridegroom's friends fast, while the bridegroom is with them? As long as they have the bridegroom with them, they cannot fast.

So Jesus called them to him, and answered them in parables: "How can Satan drive out Satan?

No man who has got into a strong man's house can carry off his goods, without first securing him; and not till then will he plunder his house.

Jesus also said: "To what can we liken the Kingdom of God?

By what can we illustrate it? Perhaps by the growth of a mustard-seed. This seed, when sown in the ground, though it is smaller than all other seeds,

Yet, when sown, shoots up, and becomes larger than any other herb, and puts out great branches, so that even 'the wild birds can roost in its shelter.'"

But they were struck with great awe, and said to one another: "Who can this be that even the wind and the sea obey him?"

"If I can only touch his clothes," she said, "I shall get well!"

There is nothing external to a man, which by going into him can 'defile' him; but the things that come out from a man are the things that defile him."

"What, do even you understand so little?" exclaimed Jesus. "Do not you see that there is nothing external to a man, which by going into a man, can 'defile' him,

"From his childhood," he answered; "and it has often thrown him into fire and into water to put an end to his life; but, if you can possibly do anything, take pity on us, and help us!"

"A spirit of this kind," he said, "can be driven out only by prayer."

"Then who can be saved?" they exclaimed in the greatest astonishment.

"You do not know what you are asking," Jesus said to them. "Can you drink the cup that I am to drink? or receive the baptism that I am to receive?"

"Yes," they answered, "we can." "You shall indeed drink the cup that I am to drink," Jesus said, "and receive the baptism that I am to receive,

Yet can we say 'human'?"--They were afraid of the people, for everyone regarded John as undoubtedly a Prophet.

You always have the poor with you, and whenever you wish you can do good to them; but you will not always have me.

They were grieved at this, and began to say to him, one after another: "Can it be I?"

"How can I be sure of this?" Zechariah asked the angel. "For I am an old man and my wife is advanced in years."

"How can this be?" Mary asked the angel. "For I have no husband."

And all who heard it kept it in mind, asking one another-- "What can this child be destined to become?" For the Power of the Lord was with him.

The Teachers of the Law and the Pharisees began debating about this. "Who is this man who speaks so blasphemously?" they asked. "Who can forgive sins except God?"

But Jesus answered them: "Can you make the bridegroom's friends fast while the bridegroom is with them?

Then, speaking in parables, Jesus said: "Can one blind man guide another? Will they not both fall into a ditch?

How can you say to your brother 'Brother, let me take out the straw in your eye,' while you yourself do not see the beam in your own? Hypocrite! Take out the beam from your own eye first, and then you will see clearly how to take out the straw in your brother's.

"Where is your faith?" he exclaimed. But in great awe and amazement they said to one another: "Who can this be, that he commands even the winds and the waves, and they obey him?"

So, too, if Satan is wholly divided against himself, how can his kingdom last? Yet you say that I drive out demons by the help of Baal-zebub.

To you who are my friends I say, Do not be afraid of those who kill the body, but after that can do no more.

And Jesus said to his disciples: "That is why I say to you, Do not be anxious about the life here--what you can get to eat; nor yet about your body--what you can get to wear.

But which of you, by being anxious, can prolong his life a moment?

And you--do not be always seeking what you can get to eat or what you can get to drink; and do not waver.

I came to cast fire upon the earth; and what more can I wish, if it is already kindled?

Then, if it bears in future, well and good; but if not, you can have it cut down.'"

So Jesus said: "What is the Kingdom of God like? and to what can I liken it?

And again Jesus said: "To what can I liken the Kingdom of God?

"If any man comes to me and does not hate his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brothers, and sisters, yes and his very life, he can be no disciple of mine.

Whoever does not carry his own cross, and walk in my steps, can be no disciple of mine.

But, when he came to himself, he said 'How many of my father's hired servants have more bread than they can eat, while here am I starving to death!

No servant can serve two masters, for, either he will hate one and love the other, or else he will attach himself to one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and Money."

"You," said Jesus, "are the men who justify themselves before the world, but God can read your hearts; and what is highly esteemed among men may be an abomination in the sight of God.

And not only that, but between you and us there lies a great chasm, so that those who wish to pass from here to you cannot, nor can they cross from there to us.'

"Then who can be saved?" asked those who heard this.

Nor indeed can they die again, for they are like angels and, having shared in the resurrection, they are God's Sons.

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

Two days after this there was a wedding at Cana in Galilee, and Jesus' mother was there.

This, the first sign of his mission, Jesus gave at Cana in Galilee, and by it revealed his glory; and his disciples believed in him.

"How can a man," asked Nicodemus, "be born when he is old? Can he be born a second time?"

The wind blows where it wills, and you can hear the sound of it, but you do not know whence it comes, or where it goes; it is the same with every one that owes his birth to the Spirit."

"How can that be?" asked Nicodemus.

John's answer was--"A man can gain nothing but what is given him from Heaven.

"Come and see someone who has told me everything that I have done. Can he be the Christ?"

"Can any one have brought him anything to eat?" the disciples said to one another.

So Jesus came again to Cana in Galilee, where he had turned the water into wine. Now there was one of the King's officers whose son was lying ill at Capernaum.

So Jesus made this further reply: "In truth I tell you, the Son can do nothing of himself; he does only what he sees the Father doing; whatever the Father does, the Son does also.

I can do nothing of myself; I judge as I am taught; and the judgment that I give is just, because my aim is not to do my own will, but the will of him who sent me.

How can you believe in me, when you receive honor from one another and do not desire the honor which comes from the only God?

"No one can come to me, unless the Father who sent me draws him to me; and I will raise him up at the Last Day.

On hearing it, many of his disciples said: "This is harsh doctrine! Who can bear to listen to it?"

And he added: "This is why I told you that no one can come to me, unless enabled by the Father."

When a man receives circumcision on a Sabbath to prevent the Law of Moses from being broken, how can you be angry with me for making a man sound and well on a Sabbath?

Which of you can convict me of sin? Why then do not you believe me, if I am speaking truth?

We must do the work of him who sent me, while it is day; night is coming, when no one can work.

So the Pharisees also questioned the man as to how he had gained his sight. "He put clay on my eyes," he answered, "and I washed them, and I can see."

"Is this your son," they asked, "who you say was born blind? If so, how is it that he can see now?"

But how it is that he can see now we do not know; nor do we know who it was that gave him his sight. Ask him--he is old enough- -he will tell you about himself."

"I know nothing about his being a bad man," he replied; "one thing I do know, that although I was blind, now I can see."

And Jesus added: "It was to put men to the test that I came into this world, in order that those that cannot see should see, and that those that can see should become blind."

"If you had been blind," replied Jesus, "you would have had no sin to answer for; but, as it is, you say 'We can see,' and so your sin remains.

Others said: "This is not the teaching of one who is possessed by a demon. Can a demon give sight to the blind?"

What my Father has entrusted to me is more than all else; and no one can snatch anything out of the Father's hands.

"Are not there twelve hours in the day?" answered Jesus. "If a man walks about in the day-time, he does not stumble, because he can see the light of the sun;

Now I am distressed at heart and what can I say? Father, bring me safe through this hour--yet it was for this very reason that I came to this hour--

"We do not know where you are going, Master," said Thomas; "so how can we know the way?"

"Have I been all this time among you," said Jesus, "and yet you, Philip, have not recognized me? He who has seen me has seen the Father, how can you say, then, 'Show us the Father'?

Remain united to me, and I will remain united to you. As a branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it remains united to the vine; no more can you, unless you remain united to me.

I am the Vine, you are the branches. He that remains united to me, while I remain united to him--he bears fruit plentifully; for you can do nothing apart from me.

No one can give greater proof of love than by laying down his life for his friends.

"What is Truth?" exclaimed Pilate. After saying this, he went out to the Jews again, and said: "For my part, I find nothing with which he can be charged.

Pilate again came outside, and said to the people: "Look! I am bringing him out to you, so that you may know that I find nothing with which he can be charged."

When the Chief Priests and the police-officers saw him, they shouted: "Crucify him! Crucify him!" "Take him yourselves and crucify him," said Pilate. "For my part, I find nothing with which he can be charged."