But if your eye is unsound, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the very source of light in you is darkness, how dense is that darkness!

And why should you worry about clothes? Look at the wild lilies and learn how they grow. They do not toil or spin;

How can you say to your brother, 'Let me get that tiny speck out of your eye,' while all the time there is a girder in your own?

So if you, in spite of your being bad, know how to give your children what is good, how much more surely will your heavenly Father give what is good to those who keep on asking Him?

But when they turn you over to the courts, you must not worry at all about how or what you ought to speak, for it will be given you at that hour what you ought to speak.

The pupil should be satisfied to become like his teacher, and the slave should be satisfied to become like his master. If men have called the Head of the house Beelzebub, how much worse names will they heap upon the members of His family!

How he went into the house of God, and they ate the sacred loaves, which it was against the law for him or his soldiers to eat, or for anyone except the priests?

And how much more a man is worth than a sheep! So it is right to do good on the sabbath."

Now if Satan is driving out Satan, he has become disunited; how then can his kingdom last?

Or, how can anyone get into a giant's house and carry off his goods, unless he first binds the giant? After that he can make a clean sweep of his house.

You brood of vipers! How can you, wicked as you are, say anything that is good? For the mouth talks about the things that fill the heart.

Then Jesus asked them, "How many loaves have you on hand?" They answered, "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 basketfuls you took up?

Nor the seven loaves for the four thousand and how many hamper-basketfuls you took up?

How is it that you do not understand that I did not speak to you about bread, when I said, keep on guarding yourselves against the yeast of the Pharisees and the Sadducees?"

And Jesus answered, "O you unbelieving and perverted people of the times! How long can I put up with you? Bring him here to me!"

Then Peter came up to Him and asked, "Lord, how many times may my brother wrong me and I have to forgive him? As many as seven?"

When the disciples saw it, they were dumbfounded, and asked, "How is it that the fig tree withered up all at once?"

So he said to him, 'My friend, how is it that you came in here without a wedding suit on?' But his lips were sealed.

He asked them, "How then does David, under the guidance of the Spirit, call Him Lord, when he says:

If David, then, calls Him Lord, how can He be his son?"

You serpents! You brood of vipers! How can you escape a sentence to the pit!

"O Jerusalem, Jerusalem! The city that has kept on murdering the prophets, and stoning those who have been sent to her, how often I have yearned to gather your children around me, as a hen gathers her chickens under her wings, but you refused!

How then could the Scriptures be fulfilled, for they say this is the way it must be?"

And Peter followed Him at a distance as far as the courtyard of the high priest's home; he even went inside and was sitting among the attendants to see how it would end.

Then Pilate said to Him, "Do you not hear how strong is the evidence they are bringing against you?"

How is it that he went into the house of God, when Abiathar was high priest, and ate the sacred loaves, which it is against the law for anyone except the priests to eat, and gave part of them to his soldiers, too?"

So He called them to Him, and continued speaking to them in short stories, as follows: "How can Satan drive out Satan?

Then He said to them: "If you do not understand this story, how, indeed, can you understand any of my stories?

then continues sleeping by night and getting up by day, while the seed sprouts and comes up without his knowing how.

Then He kept on saying: "How can I further picture the kingdom of God, or by what story can I illustrate it?

And those who had seen it told them how it occurred to the man who had been under the power of the demons, and about the hogs.

However, He did not let him, but said to him, "Go home to your folks, and tell them how much the Lord has done for you, and has taken pity on you."

And so he went away and began to tell everybody in the Ten Cities how much Jesus had done for him; and everybody was dumbfounded.

The apostles returned and met Jesus and reported to Him everything, how many things they had done and taught.

Then He asked them, "How many loaves have you? Go and see." They found out and told Him, "Five, and two fish."

So the people were overwhelmingly dumbfounded, and kept saying, "How wonderfully He has done everything! He even makes deaf people hear and dumb people talk."

Then He asked them, "How many loaves have you?" They answered, "Seven."

Do you not remember how many basketfuls of pieces you picked up when I broke the five loaves in pieces for the five thousand?" They said to Him, "Twelve."

"And how many hamper-basketfuls of pieces when I broke the seven loaves in pieces for the four thousand?" They said to Him, "Seven."

He said to them, "How is it that you do not understand?"

He answered them, "Elijah does come first and gets everything ready, but how is it that the Scripture says about the Son of Man that He will suffer much and be rejected?

He answered them, "Oh, you unbelieving people of the times! How long must I be with you! How long must I put up with you! Bring him to me."

Then He asked his father, "How long has he been like this?" He answered, "From his childhood;

Everyone must be seasoned with fire. Salt is a good thing, but if salt loses its strength, how can you season it again?

Then Jesus looked around and said to His disciples, "How hard it will be for those who have money to get into the kingdom of God!"

His disciples were startled at this statement. But Jesus again said to them as He continued the topic, "My children, how hard it is to get into the kingdom of God!

But as to the rising of the dead, did 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'?

While He was teaching in the temple, He answered them and said, "How can the scribes say that the Christ is the son of David?

David himself called him Lord, so how can He be his son?" Most of the people liked to hear Him.

At that moment for the second time a Cock crowed. Then Peter remembered how Jesus had said to him, "Before the cock crows twice, you will disown me three times!" And when he remembered that, he burst into tears.

Then again Pilate asked Him, "Have you no answer to make? Just see how many charges they are making against you!"

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

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

When His parents saw Him, they were utterly amazed, and yet His mother said to Him, "My child, why did you treat us so? Just see how your father and I, in agony of mind, have been searching for you!"

How he went into the house of God and took and ate the sacred loaves, which it was against the law for anyone to eat except the priests, and gave some to his soldiers?"

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

So take care how you listen, for whoever gets more will have more given to him, and whoever does not get more will have even what he thinks he has taken away from him."

Then they who had seen it told them how the man who had been under the power of demons was cured.

When the woman saw that she had not escaped His notice, she came forward trembling, and falling down before Him she told in the presence of all the people why she had touched Him and how she had been cured at once.

Then Jesus answered, "O you unbelieving, stubborn people of the times! How long must I be with you and put up with you? Bring him here to me."

And He answered him, "What is written in the law? How does it read?"

So if you, in spite of your being bad, know how to give your children what is good, how much more surely will your Father in heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who continue to ask Him?"

And if Satan is really disunited, how can his kingdom last? Yet you say that I am driving the demons out with Beelzebub's help.

Now when they are bringing you before the synagogues or the magistrates or the authorities, never worry about how to defend yourselves, or what to say,

Just think of the ravens! For they neither sow nor reap, they have no storehouses nor barns, and yet God continues to feed them. How much more are you worth than the birds!

Just think of how the lilies grow. They do not toil nor spin. But, I tell you, not even Solomon, in all his splendor, was ever dressed like one of them.

Now if God so gorgeously dresses the wild grass which today is green but tomorrow is tossed into the furnace, how much more surely will He clothe you, O you with little faith?

"It is fire that I have come to bring upon the earth, and how I wish it were already kindled!

I have a baptism to be baptized with, and how I am pressed with anguish till it is accomplished!

You hypocrites! You know how to interpret day by day the look of earth and sky. Then how is it that you do not know how to interpret the present crisis?

"O Jerusalem! Jerusalem! The city that continues to murder the prophets, and to stone those who are sent to her, how often I have yearned to gather your children around me, as a hen gathers her brood under her wings. But you refused!

When He noticed how the guests were picking out the best places, He told them the following story:

Salt is good, but if salt itself loses its strength, how can that strength be restored?

Then he came to himself and said, 'How many of my father's hired men have more to eat than they need, and here I am dying of hunger!

So he called the manager to him and said, 'What is this that I am hearing about you? Balance your accounts and show how you are conducting my affairs, for you cannot be manager any longer.'

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

Then he asked another, 'And how much do you owe?' He answered, 'Twelve hundred bushels of wheat:' He said to him, 'Take your bill and write nine hundred and sixty.'

Now He told them the following story to show how necessary it is for people always to pray and never to give up:

So when Jesus saw it, He said, "How hard it is for those who have money to get into the kingdom of God!

Then He said to them, "How do people say that the Christ 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 votive-offerings, He said,

So you must purpose in your hearts not to prepare beforehand how to make your defense,

So the high priests and the scribes continued to seek how they might put Him to death, for they were afraid of the people.

So he went off and discussed with the high priests and captains of the temple how he could betray Him to them.

So the women, who had come with Jesus from Galilee, followed closely after Joseph and saw the tomb and how His body was laid there.

and how the high priests and leading men turned Him over to be sentenced to death, and had Him crucified.

Then they themselves began to tell what had occurred on the road, and how He was recognized by them when He broke the loaf in pieces.

Nathaniel said to Him, "How do you know me?" Jesus answered him, "While you were still under the fig tree, before Philip called you, I saw you."

Nicodemus said to Him, "How can a man be born when he is old? He cannot again enter his mother's womb and be born, can he?"

Then Nicodemus answered by asking, "How can this be?"

If you do not believe the earthly things I tell you, how can you believe the heavenly things, if I tell you about them?

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.

How can you believe, you who are always accepting honor from one another, but never seek the honor that comes from the one God?

But if you do not believe what he wrote, how will you ever believe what I say?"

And they said, "Is He not Jesus, Joseph's son, whose father and mother we know? So how can He say, 'I have come down out of heaven'?"

But the Jews kept on wrangling with one another and saying, "How can He give us His flesh to eat?"

The Jews were dumbfounded and said, "How can this uneducated man know the Scriptures?"

They answered Him, "We are Abraham's descendants and we never have been anybody's slaves. How can you say to us, 'You will be set free'?"