I have baptized you in water, but he shall baptize you in the Holy Spirit."

"What business have you with us, you Jesus of Nazareth? Are you come to destroy us? I know you who you are, the Holy One of God."

"Can friends of the bridegroom fast while he is still with them?" asked Jesus. "As long as they have the bridegroom with them, they cannot fast.

He answered them. "Have you never read what David did when he was needy and hungry, he and his men?

And they kept watching Jesus to see whether he would cure him on the Sabbath; so as to have some charge to bring against him.

and to have authority to cast out demons.

but because they have no root in themselves they last for a time; but when suffering or persecution ensues because of the Word, they at once fall away.

When they have heard the Word, the anxieties of life and the snares of wealth, and all sorts of other ambitions, come in to choke the Word, so that it proves unfruitful.

"It is with the kingdom of God," he continued, "as if a man should have sown seed in the earth;

The wind fell, and there ensued a great calm. Then he said to them. "Why are you so afraid? Have you still no faith?"

and with a shriek he cried out in a loud voice. "Jesus, son of God most high, what business have you with me? I adjure you by God, torment me not!"

But Jesus, paying no attention to the remark, said to the warden of the synagogue, "Have no fear, only believe."

"How many loaves have you?" he answered. "Go and see." When they had found out, they said, "Five, and two fishes."

For the Pharisees and all of the Jews do not eat until they have ceremoniously washed their hands in obedience to the tradition of the elders;

and when they come from the market-place they do not eat without bathing first. and they have many other customs which they have received and observe, such as the washing of cups and jugs and copper pans.

you say that if a man tells his father or mother, 'This money which otherwise you would have received from me, is Korban' (that is, a thing devoted to God),

Thus by your tradition which you have handed down you set at naught the word of God; and you do many other things like that."

"My heart aches for the crowd, because they have remained with me three days now, and they have nothing to eat;

He asked them, "How many loaves have you?" "Seven," they said.

"Why are you arguing together because you have no bread? Do you not yet perceive and understand?

Are your minds so slow to comprehend? You have eyes, do you not see? You have ears, do you not hear?

"Elijah indeed has already come," he added, "and they have done to him whatever they pleased, even as it is written of him."

"If your hand cause you to stumble, cut it off! It is better to be maimed and to enter into life than to have two hands and go away into hell, into the fire that cannot be put out.

If your foot cause you to stumble, cut it off! It is better to enter into the life a cripple, than to have two feet and be cast into hell.

salt is excellent, but if the salt has lost its savor, what will you use to restore its saltness? Then have salt in yourselves, and be at peace with one another."

"Teacher," he answered, "I have observed all these from my youth."

Jesus loved him as he looked at him, and said: "One thing you lack. Go, sell all you have and give to the poor; and you shall have wealth in heaven; and come, follow me."

Then Jesus looked round on his disciples and said, "How hard it is for those who have wealth to enter into the kingdom of God!"

"But we," Peter began to say, "we have left our all and have followed you."

Hearing that it was Jesus of Nazareth, he began shouting and saying, "Jesus, thou son of David, have mercy on me!"

and many kept rebuking him and telling him to be quiet, but he only shouted much louder, "Son of David, have mercy on me!"

"Is it not written," he said, "My house shall be called a house of prayer for all the nations? But you have made it a den of robbers."

That is why I am telling you that whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it shall be yours.

And whenever you stand up to pray, forgive, if you have anything against any one, that so your Father also who is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses."

"Have you not read this Scripture?" (he continued) "The very stone which the builders rejected Has now become the corner-stone;

But in regard to the rising again of the dead, have you never read in the Book of Moses, in the passage about the Bush, how God spoke to him, saying, "I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob?

"Admirably said, O Teacher," exclaimed the Scribe. "You have truthfully said that He is one,

and in his teaching he said: "Look out for the Scribes who like to walk about in long robes, and to receive salutations in the street, and to have prominent places in the synagogues,

On this he called his disciples to him, and said: "I tell you solemnly that this poor widow has put in more than all who have put their offerings into the treasury;

for they have all put in what they could spare out of their surplus, but she, out of her penury, has put in all that she possessed, her whole living."

"And brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child, and children will rise up against their parents, and have them put to death.

Be on your guard! I have told you it all beforehand.

That perfume could have been sold for more than one hundred and fifty dollars, and given to the poor."

She has done a beautiful thing to me. For you always have the poor among you, and can show them kindness whenever you wish, but me you will not always have.

Meanwhile the high priests and all of the Sanhedrin were trying to get evidence against Jesus, so as to have him put to death, but they found none;

Then the high priest rose and stood forth among them. "Have you no answer to make?" he asked Jesus; "What is it that these testify against you?"

But the chief priests incited the crowds to have Barabbas released to them, instead.