When they were gone an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream, saying; "Rise! Take the young child and his mother and flee into Egypt, and there remain until I bring you word; for Herod intends to make a search for the child, in order to put him to death."

"While praying do not say the same words over and over again, as the Gentiles do, for they suppose that by their much speaking they will gain attention.

"No slave can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will pay heed to the one and despise the other. You cannot be the slaves both of God and of gold.

"A good tree cannot bear bad fruit; neither can a worthless tree bear good fruit.

And behold! a leper came and knelt before him, saying, "Lord if you choose, you can make me clean."

"Can the friends fast at a wedding-feast," said Jesus, "so long as the bridegroom is with them? But the days will come when the bridegroom has been taken from them, and then they will fast.

For she said to herself, "If only I can touch his cloak, I shall be cured."

And when he had gone indoors, they came to him. "Do you believe that I can do this?" asked Jesus. "Yes, Lord," they answered.

"Do not be afraid of those who kill the body, but cannot kill the soul; but fear rather him who can destroy both soul and body in Gehenna.

And all the crowds were amazed, and he began to say, "Can this be the Son of David?"

"Or how can any one enter the strong man's house and carry off his goods without first binding the strong man? Then he can rob his house.

"You generation of vipers! How can you speak good, when you are evil? For the mouth speaks what the heart is full of. "When the time of fruit drew near, he sent his slaves to the vine-dressers seized to get his fruit.

"The Queen of the South will rise in the judgment with this generation, and condemn it, because she came from the ends of the earth to listen to the wisdom of Solomon; and lo! a greater than Solomon is here!

After he had sent the people away and gone into the house, his disciples came to him and said, "Explain to us the parable about the weeds in the field."

"In a lonely place like this," asked the disciple. "where can we get bread enough to satisfy such a crowd?"

What will it profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?

"Because of your little faith," he answered. "In solemn truth I tell you that if you have faith the size of a mustard-seed, you can say to this mountain, 'Move from this place to that!' and it will move; and nothing will be impossible to you.

When they heard this the disciples were utterly astounded. "Who then can be saved?" they exclaimed. Jesus looked at them.

"None of you know what you are asking," said Jesus. "Can you drink the cup which I am about to drink?" "We can," they replied.

"If David calls him Lord, how can he be his Son?"

However, at last two came forward who said, "This fellow declared, 'I can destroy the Temple of God and build it in three days.'"

"You can have a guard," said Pilate. "Go your way, make it as secure as you can."

There had been a great earthquake; for an angel of the Lord had come down from heaven, and gone and rolled away the stone, and was sitting upon it.

One day a leper cane to him and besought him as he knelt down to him, saying, "If you choose, you are able to cleanse me."

"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.

So when he had called them to him he spoke to them in parables. "How," said he, "can Satan cast out Satan?

"Indeed, no one can enter the strong man's house and carry off his property without first binding the strong man; then he can plunder his house.

Then they were awestruck, and said one to another, "Who can this be, that even the wind and the sea obey him!"

"If I can touch even his clothes," she kept saying to herself, "I shall get well."

Jesus, instantly conscious that the power within him had gone forth, turned about in the crowd, and said, "Who touched my clothes?"

"Listen to me, all of you, and understand; there is nothing outside a man which by entering in can defile him; but it is what comes from him that defiled him."

After he had left the crowd and gone indoors his disciples began asking him about the parable.

"Are even you without understanding?" he said. "Do you not perceive that nothing whatever from without can defile a man by entering him,

Taking the blind man by the hand, he led him outside the village; and, after spitting on his eyes, he laid his hands on him and asked, "Can you make out anything?"

The man looked up and said, "I can make out the people, for as they move about, I see them like trees."

For what shall it profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his own life?

"From childhood," he answered; "and often it has thrown him into the fire and into the water, to destroy him; but if you can do anything, take pity on us and help us."

Jesus said to him. "'If you can'! All things can be for one who believes."

When Jesus had gone into the house, his disciples asked him in private, "Why could not we cast it out?"

"This kind can only be cast out by prayer," he replied.

"Do not try to stop him," Jesus answered, "for there is no one who performs a miracle in my name who can soon speak evil of me.

"Then who can be saved?" they said to themselves astonished beyond measure.

"You know not what you are asking," said Jesus. "Can you drink the cup that I drink, or be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with?"

They answered him, "We can." "You shall indeed drink the cup that I drink, and with the baptism that I am baptized with shall you be baptized,

"David himself then calls him Lord; so how can he be his son?" Now the great mass of the people were wont to listen to him with delight;

for false Christs and false prophets will arise and will show signs and wonders, to lead astray the very chosen, if they can.

Take heed! Awake! for you never know the time. As a man gone abroad and leaving his house gives authority to his slaves, to each his task; and orders the porter to keep watch;

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.

And Mary said to the angel. "How can this be? For I have no husband?"

Now when the angels had left them, and gone away to heaven, the shepherds said to one to another, "Let us go now even to Bethlehem, and see this saying which has come to pass, which the Lord has made known to us."

Another time when he was in one of their cities, there was a man there full of leprosy. And he, upon seeing Jesus, fell on his face and implored him. "Lord," he said, "if only you choose you can make me clean."

And the Scribes and Pharisees began to cavil. "Who is this?" they asked, "speaking blasphemies? Who can forgive sins but God alone?"

"Can you make the bridal party fast," he asked, while the bridegroom is still with them?

He also told them a parable. "Can a blind man lead a blind man? Will they not both fall into a pit?

"Or how can you say to your brother. "Brother, allow me to pull that splinter out of your eye," when you do not see the beam in your own eye? Hypocrite! Take out first the beam from your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take out the splinter from your brother's eye.

When John's messengers were gone he began to speak to the crowds about John, saying, "What went out you out to the desert to behold? A reed shaken by the wind?

Then the people came out to see what had happened, and came to Jesus, and found the man out of whom the demons had gone sitting clothed and in his right mind, at the feet of Jesus. And they were terrified.

But the man out of whom the demons had gone kept begging him that he might be with him. But Jesus sent him away saying,

"For what shall it profit a man if he shall gain the whole world and lose or forfeit himself?

Once he was casting out a dumb demon, and when the demon was gone out, the dumb man spoke, and the people wondered.

"Whenever a foul spirit is gone out of a man, it roams through waterless places, in search of rest; but when it can find none, it says, 'I will go back to the house which I have left.'

"The queen of the South shall rise up in Judgment with the men of this generation, and shall condemn them; because she came from the ends of the earth to listen to the wisdom of Solomon, and lo, one greater than Solomon is here!

After he had gone away, the Scribes and the Pharisee began to set themselves vehemently against him, and to cross-question him upon many points,

"But I say to you who are my friends, do not be afraid of those who kill the body and after that have no more that they can do.

"And which of you by taking anxious thought can add a cubit to his height?

"Or what king as he goes forth to join battle with another king in war does not sit down first and deliberate whether he can meet with ten thousand men the one who is advancing against him with twenty thousand?

"And when she has found it, she calls together her woman friends and neighbors and say, 'Rejoice with me, for I have found the coin which I had lost.'

"He called to him to him and said: "'What is this that I hear about you? Render an account of your stewardship; for you can no longer be steward.'

"No one can be a household servants to two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will cling to the one and despise the other. You cannot be the slave of God and of Mammon."

"But besides all this, between us and you there is a great chasm fixed, so that those who want to cross from here to you cannot, nor can those who would cross from you to us.'

The Pharisees asked him when the kingdom of God was coming. He answered. "The kingdom of God does not come so that you can catch sight of it,

"Who then can be saved?" exclaimed his hearers.

When they all saw it, they began to complain, saying "He has gone in to lodge with a man who is a sinner."

"David therefore himself calls him 'Lord,' and how can he be his son?"

"Look at the fig tree and all the trees! When they put out their leaves you can see for yourselves that summer is coming.

"And to the good man of the house say, 'The teacher asks you, "Where is the room in which I can eat the Passover with my disciples?"'

And Nathanael said to him, "Can anything good come out of Nazareth?" Philip said to him, "Come and see."

Now two days after this there was a wedding in Cana of Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there;

This beginning of signs Jesus performed in Cana of Galilee, and showed forth his glory; and his disciples believed on him there.

This man came to Jesus by night, and said to him. "Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher sent from God; for no man can do these signs which you are continually doing, unless God is with him."

"How can a man be born when he is old?" Nicodemus replied; "Can he enter a second time into his mother's womb, and be born?"

"How can this be?" said Nicodemus in reply.

There is no one gone up to heaven, except the One who came down from heaven??he Son of man himself.

Jesus said to her, "Give me a drink" (for his disciples were gone away into the city to buy food.)

"Come! see a man who has told me everything that I ever did. He can't be the Christ, can he?"

So the disciples began to say to one another, "Can any one have brought him something to eat?"

So he came back again to Cana of Galilee, where he made the water wine. Now there was one of the king's officers whose son was lying ill at Capernaum.

"I can of my own self do nothing. As I listen, I judge, and my own judgment is just, because I am not seeking my own will, but the will of Him who sent me.

"How can you believe when you receive glory from, one another, and have no desire for the glory which comes from the only God?

"Thirty-five dollars worth of bread," answered Philip, "is not enough for them, so that each can take a morsel."

The crowd that remained on the other side of the sea had seen that there was only one small boat there, and that Jesus had not gone aboard with his disciples, but that his disciples had gone away by themselves.

answered Jesus; "no one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draw him; then I will raise him up on the last day.

Then the Jews began to dispute among themselves, saying, "How can this man give us his flesh to eat?"

So many of his disciples, when they heard it, said: "This teaching is unbelievable! Who can listen to him?"

So he added, "This is why I told you that no on can come to me unless it be given from the Father."

After saying this, he remained in Galilee; but after his brothers had gone up to feast,

"If a child receives circumcision on the Sabbath, in order that the Law of Moses may not be broken, how can you be angry with me because I made a man sound and well on the Sabbath?

"And look! he is speaking boldly and they are saying nothing to him. Can it possibly be that the rulers have really discovered that he is the Christ?

"I must work the works of him that sent me while it is day; night is coming, when no man can work.

Then some of the Pharisees began to say, "This man in not from God, because he does not keep the Sabbath." But others said, "How can a man who is a sinner perform such signs?"