how he entered the house of God in the High-priesthood of Abiathar, and ate the Presented Loaves--which none but the priests are allowed to eat--and gave some to his men also?"

So He called them to Him, and using figurative language He appealed to them, saying, "How is it possible for Satan to expel Satan?

"Do you all miss the meaning of this parable?" He added; "how then will you understand the rest of my parables?"

he spends days and nights, now awake, now asleep, while the seed sprouts and grows tall, he knows not how.

Another saying of His was this: "How are we to picture the Kingdom of God? or by what figure of speech shall we represent it?

"How many loaves have you?" He inquired; "go and see." So they found out, and said, "Five; and a couple of fish."

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

When I broke up the five loaves for the 5,000 men, how many baskets did you carry away full of broken portions?" "Twelve," they said.

"And when the seven for the 4,000, how many hampers full of portions did you take away?" "Seven," they answered.

They also asked Him, "How is it that the Scribes say that Elijah must first come?"

"Elijah," He replied, "does indeed come first and reforms everything; but how is it that it is written of the Son of Man that He will endure much suffering and be held in contempt?

"O unbelieving generation!" replied Jesus; "how long must I be with you? how long must I have patience with you? Bring the boy to me."

Then Jesus asked the father, "How long has he been like this?" "From early childhood," he said;

After the return of Jesus to the house His disciples asked Him privately, "How is it that we could not expel the spirit?"

Then looking round on His disciples Jesus said, "With how hard a struggle will the possessors of riches enter the Kingdom of God!"

The disciples were amazed at His words. Jesus, however, said again, "Children, how hard a struggle is it for those who trust in riches to enter the Kingdom of God!

Jesus, however, called them to Him and said to them, "You are aware how those who are deemed rulers among the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great men make them feel their authority;

But as to the dead, that they rise to life, 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?'

But, while teaching in the Temple, Jesus asked, "How is it the Scribes say that the Christ is a son of David?

"David himself calls Him 'Lord:' how then can He be his son?" And the mass of people found pleasure in listening to Jesus.

Having taken a seat opposite the Treasury, He observed how the people were dropping money into the Treasury, and that many of the wealthy threw in large sums.

It was now two days before the Passover and the feast of Unleavened Bread, and the High Priests and Scribes were bent on finding how to seize Him by stratagem and put Him to death.

When He returned He again found them asleep, for they were very tired; and they knew not how to answer Him.