"You are the salt of the earth! But if salt loses its strength, how can it be made salt again? It is good for nothing but to be thrown away and trodden underfoot.

but if your eye is unsound, your whole body will be dark. If, therefore, your very light is darkness, how deep the darkness will be!

Why should you worry about clothing? See how the wild flowers grow. They do not toil or spin,

How can you say to your brother, 'Just let me get that speck out of your eye,' when all the time there is a beam in your own?

So if you, bad as you are, know enough to give your children what is good, how much more surely will your Father in heaven give what is good to those who ask him for it!

But when they give you up, you must have no anxiety about how to speak or what to say, for you will be told at the very moment what you ought to say,

A pupil should be satisfied to come to be like his teacher, or a slave, to come to be like his master. If men have called the head of the house Beelzebub, how much worse names will they give to the members of his household!

How is it that he went into the House of God and that they ate the Presentation Loaves which it was against the Law for him and his companions to eat, or for anyone except the priests?

Or did you never read in the Law how the priests in the Temple are not guilty when they break the Sabbath?

And how much more a man is worth than a sheep! Therefore, it is right to do people good on the Sabbath."

If Satan is driving Satan out, he is disunited, and so how can his kingdom last?

How can anyone get into a strong man's house and carry off his property unless he first binds the strong man? After that he can plunder his house.

You brood of snakes! how can you, bad as you are, utter anything good? For the mouth says only what the heart is full of.

Jesus said to them, "How many loaves have you?" They said, "Seven, and a few small fish."

Do you not understand yet? Do you not remember the five loaves for the five thousand, and how many baskets full you gathered up?

Nor the seven loaves for the four thousand, and how many baskets full you gathered up?

And Peter spoke, and said to Jesus, "Master, how good it is that we are here! If you wish, I will make three huts here, one for you, and one for Moses, and one for Elijah."

Jesus answered, "O you unbelieving, obstinate people! How long must I be with you? How long must I put up with you? Bring him here to me!"

Then Peter came to him and said, "Master, how many times am I to forgive my brother when he wrongs me? Seven times over?"

When the disciples saw it, they were amazed and said, "How did the fig tree come to wither up immediately?"

And he said to him, 'My friend, how did you happen to come here without wedding clothes?' But he had nothing to say.

He said to them, "How is it then that David under the Spirit's influence calls him lord, and says,

So if David calls him lord, how can he be his son?"

You serpents! You brood of snakes! How can you escape being sentenced to the pit?

"O Jerusalem, Jerusalem! murdering the prophets, and stoning those who are sent to her, how often I have longed to gather your children around me, as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, but you refused!

But then how are the Scriptures to be fulfilled, which say that this must happen?"

And Peter followed him at a distance as far as the courtyard of the high priest's house, and he went inside and sat down among the attendants to see how it came out.

How is it that he went into the house of God when Abiathar was high priest, and ate the Presentation Loaves, which it is against the law for anyone but the priests to eat, and gave some to his companions too?"

So he called them to him and spoke to them in figures, saying, "How can Satan drive Satan out?

And Jesus said, "If you do not understand this figure, then how will you understand my other figures?

"How can we find any comparison," he said, "for the reign of God, or what figure can we use to describe it?

And he would not permit it, but said to him, "Go home to your own people, and tell them all the Lord has done for you and how he took pity on you."

When the Sabbath came he began to teach in the synagogue. And the people were astonished when they heard him, and said, "Where did he get all this? How does he come to have such wisdom? How are such marvelous things done through him?

But he said to them, "How many loaves have you? Go and see." They looked, and told him. "Five, and two fish."

"How skilful you are," he said to them, "in nullifying what God has commanded in order to observe what has been handed down to you.

And people were utterly amazed, and said, "How well he has done everything! He even makes the deaf hear and the dumb speak!"

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

how many baskets of pieces you picked up when I broke the five loaves in pieces for those five thousand men?" They said to him, "Twelve."

"When I broke the seven loaves in pieces for the four thousand, how many baskets of pieces did you pick up?" They said to him, "Seven."

Then Peter spoke, and said to Jesus, "Master, how good it is that we are here! Let us put up three huts, one for you and one for Moses and one for Elijah."

He answered them and said, "O you unbelieving people, how long must I be with you? How long must I put up with you? Bring him here to me!"

Jesus asked the boy's father, "How long has he been like this?" And he said,

And Jesus looked around and said to his disciples, "How hard it will be for those who have money to enter the Kingdom of God!"

But the disciples were amazed at what he said. And Jesus said to them again, "My children, how hard it is to enter the Kingdom of God!

But as to the dead being raised, have you never read in the Book of Moses, in the passage about the bush, how God said to him, 'I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob'?

As Jesus was teaching in the Temple, he answered them and said, "How can the scribes say that the Christ is a son of David?

David himself calls him lord, and how can he be his son?" The mass of the people liked to hear him.

At that moment for the second time a cock crowed. And Peter remembered how Jesus had said to him, "Before the cock crows twice, you will disown me three times!" And at that, he wept aloud.

And when the captain who stood facing him saw how he expired he said, "This man was certainly a son of God!"

Zechariah said to the angel, "How am I to know that this is so? For I am an old man, and my wife is advanced in life."

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

"For the Almighty has done wonders for me, How holy his name is!

He said to them, "How did you come to look for me? Did you not know that I must be at my Father's house?"

And all mankind is to see how God can save!"

How he went into the house of God and took the Presentation Loaves, which it was against the Law for anyone but the priests to eat, and ate them with his companions?"

How can you say to your brother, 'Brother, just let me get that speck out of your eye,' when you cannot see the beam in your own eye? You hypocrite! First get the beam out of your own eye, and then you can see to get out the speck in your brother's eye.

So take care how you listen. For people who have will have more given to them, and from people who have nothing, even what they think they have will be taken away."

And those who had seen it told them how the man who had been possessed was cured.

When the woman saw that she had not escaped his notice, she came forward trembling, and fell down before him, and before all the people told why she had touched him, and how she had been cured at once.

Just as they were parting from him, Peter said to Jesus, "Master, how good it is that we are here! Let us put up three huts, one for you and one for Moses and one for Elijah!" For he did not know what he was saying.

Jesus answered, "O you unbelieving, obstinate people! How long must I be with you and put up with you? Bring your son here!"

Jesus said to him, "What does the Law say? How does it read?"

So if you, bad as you are, know enough to give your children what is good, how much more surely will your Father in heaven give the holy Spirit to those who ask him for it!"

And if Satan is disunited, how can his kingdom last? Because you say that I drive out demons with Beelzebub's aid.

When they bring you before the synagogues or the magistrates or the authorities, you must have no anxiety about how to defend yourselves or what to say,

And he said to them, "Take care! You must be on your guard against any form of greed, for a man's life does not belong to him, no matter how rich he is."

Think of the crows! They do not sow or reap, and they have no storehouses or barns, and God feeds them. How much more you are worth than the birds!

See how the lilies grow. They do not toil or spin, but, I tell you, even Solomon in all his splendor was never dressed like one of them.

But if God so dresses the wild grass, which is alive today, and is thrown into the furnace tomorrow, how much more surely will he clothe you, who have so little faith?

I have come to bring fire down to the earth, and how I wish it were kindled already!

I have a baptism to undergo, and how distressed I am till it is over!

You hypocrites! You know how to interpret the look of the earth and sky; and why can you not interpret this present time?

O Jerusalem! Jerusalem! murdering the prophets, and stoning those who are sent to her, how often I have longed to gather your children around me, as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, but you refused!

When he came to himself he said, 'How many hired men my father has, who have more than enough to eat, and here I am, dying of hunger!

Then he called in each of his master's debtors, and he said to the first one, 'How much do you owe my master?'

Then he said to another, 'And how much do you owe?' He answered, 'Fifteen hundred bushels of wheat.' He said to him, 'Here is your agreement; write twelve hundred.'

And when Jesus saw it, he said, "How hard it will be for those who have money to get into the Kingdom of God!

And when he had secured the appointment and returned, he ordered the slaves to whom he had given the money to be called in, so that he could find out how much they had made.

But he said to them, "How can the scribes say that the Christ is a son of David?

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

And he went off and discussed with the high priests and captains of the Temple how he could betray him to them.

The women who had followed Jesus from Galilee followed and saw the tomb and how his body was put there.

and how the high priests and our leading men gave him up to be sentenced to death, and had him crucified.

Then he said to them, "How foolish you are and how slow to believe all that the prophets have said!

And they told what had happened on the road, and how they had known him when he broke the bread in pieces.

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?"

Nicodemus said to him, "How can that be?"

If you will not believe the earthly things that I have told you, how can you believe the heavenly things I have to tell?

So the Samaritan woman said to him, "How is it that a Jew like you asks a Samaritan woman like me for a drink?" For Jews have nothing to do with Samaritans.

Yet how can you believe in me, when you accept honor from one another, instead of seeking the honor that comes from the one God?

But if you refuse to believe what he wrote, how are you ever to believe what I say?"

and they said, "Is he not Joseph's son, Jesus, whose father and mother we know? How can he now say, 'I have come down out of heaven'?"

This led the Jews to dispute with one another. They said, "How can he give us his flesh to eat?"

This astonished the Jews. "How is it that this man can read?" they said, "when he has never gone to school?"

They answered, "We are descended from Abraham, and have never been anyone's slaves. How can you say to us, 'You will be set free'?"

So they said to him, "Then how does it happen that you can see?"

So once more the Pharisees asked him how he had become able to see, and he said to them, "He put some clay on my eyes, and I washed them, and I can see."

Then some of the Pharisees said, "This man does not come from God, for he does not keep the Sabbath." But others said, "How can a sinful man show such signs as this?" And there was a division of opinion among them.

and asked them, "Is this your son, who you say was born blind? How is it that he can see now?"

But we do not know how it is that he can see now, or who has made him able to see. You must ask him. He is grown up. Let him tell you about himself."