And do not think that you can say among yourselves 'Abraham is our ancestor,' for I tell you that out of these very stones God is able to raise descendants for Abraham!

No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate one and love the other, or else he will attach himself to one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and Money.

That is why I say to you, Do not be anxious about your life here--what you can get to eat or drink; nor yet about your body-- what you can get to wear. Is not life more than food, and the body than its clothing?

But which of you, by being anxious, can prolong his life a single moment?

Do not then ask anxiously 'What can we get to eat?' or 'What can we get to drink?' or 'What can we get to wear?'

A sound tree cannot produce bad fruit, nor can a worthless tree bear good fruit.

Jesus answered: "Can the bridegroom's friends mourn as long as the bridegroom is with them? But the days will come, when the bridegroom will be parted from them, and they will fast then.

When he had gone indoors, the blind men came up to him; and Jesus asked them: "Do you believe that I am able to do this?" "Yes, Master!" they answered.

So, if Satan drives Satan out, he must be divided against himself; and how, then, can his kingdom last?

How, again, can any one get into a strong man's house and carry off his goods, without first securing him? And not till then will he plunder his house.

You brood of vipers! how can you, evil as you are, say anything good? For what fills the heart will rise to the lips.

At the Judgment the Queen of the South will rise up with the present generation, and will condemn it, because she came from the very ends of the earth to listen to the wisdom of Solomon; and here is more than a Solomon!

"Where can we," his disciples asked, "in a lonely place find enough bread for such a crowd as this?"

What good will it do a man to gain the whole world, if he forfeits his life? or what will a man give that is of equal value with his life?

"It is not every one," replied Jesus, "who can accept this teaching, but only those who have been enabled to do so.

Some men, it is true, have from birth been disabled for marriage, while others have been disabled by their fellow men, and others again have disabled themselves for the sake of the Kingdom of Heaven. Let him accept it who can."

On hearing this, the disciples exclaimed in great astonishment: "Who then can possibly be saved?"

Every one who has left houses, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or children, or land, on account of my Name, will receive many times as much, and will 'gain Immortal Life.'

"You do not know what you are asking," was Jesus' answer. "Can you drink the cup that I am to drink?" "Yes," they exclaimed, "we can."

Show me the coin with which the tax is paid." And, when they had brought him a florin,

You serpents and brood of vipers! How can you escape being sentenced to the Pit?

In great grief they began to say to him, one by one: "Can it be I, Master?"

And Judas, who was betraying him, turned to him and said: "Can it be I, Rabbi?" "It is," answered Jesus.

When he had gone out into the gateway, another maid saw him, and said to those who were there: "This man was with Jesus of Nazareth!"

"You may have a guard," was Pilate's reply; "go and make the tomb as secure as you can."

After the Sabbath, as the first day of the week began to dawn, Mary of Magdala and the other Mary had gone to look at the grave,

"Why does this man speak like this? He is blaspheming! Who can forgive sins except God?"

Jesus answered: "Can the bridegroom's friends fast, while the bridegroom is with them? As long as they have the bridegroom with them, they cannot fast.

So Jesus called them to him, and answered them in parables: "How can Satan drive out Satan?

No man who has got into a strong man's house can carry off his goods, without first securing him; and not till then will he plunder his house.

Jesus also said: "To what can we liken the Kingdom of God?

By what can we illustrate it? Perhaps by the growth of a mustard-seed. This seed, when sown in the ground, though it is smaller than all other seeds,

Yet, when sown, shoots up, and becomes larger than any other herb, and puts out great branches, so that even 'the wild birds can roost in its shelter.'"

But they were struck with great awe, and said to one another: "Who can this be that even the wind and the sea obey him?"

"If I can only touch his clothes," she said, "I shall get well!"

Jesus at once became aware of the power that had gone out from him, and, turning round in the crowd, he said: "Who touched my clothes?"

There is nothing external to a man, which by going into him can 'defile' him; but the things that come out from a man are the things that defile him."

"What, do even you understand so little?" exclaimed Jesus. "Do not you see that there is nothing external to a man, which by going into a man, can 'defile' him,

"For saying that," he answered, "you may go. The demon has gone out of your daughter."

The woman went home, and found the child lying on her bed, and the demon gone.

What good is it to a man to gain the whole world and forfeit his life?

"From his childhood," he answered; "and it has often thrown him into fire and into water to put an end to his life; but, if you can possibly do anything, take pity on us, and help us!"

When Jesus had gone indoors, his disciples asked him privately: "Why could not we drive it out?"

"A spirit of this kind," he said, "can be driven out only by prayer."

They came to Capernaum. When Jesus had gone into the house, he asked them: "What were you discussing on the way?"

And, as Jesus was resuming his journey, a man came running up to him, and threw himself on his knees before him. "Good Teacher," he asked, "what must I do to gain Immortal Life?"

"Then who can be saved?" they exclaimed in the greatest astonishment.

"You do not know what you are asking," Jesus said to them. "Can you drink the cup that I am to drink? or receive the baptism that I am to receive?"

"Yes," they answered, "we can." "You shall indeed drink the cup that I am to drink," Jesus said, "and receive the baptism that I am to receive,

Yet can we say 'human'?"--They were afraid of the people, for everyone regarded John as undoubtedly a Prophet.

You always have the poor with you, and whenever you wish you can do good to them; but you will not always have me.

They were grieved at this, and began to say to him, one after another: "Can it be I?"

"How can I be sure of this?" Zechariah asked the angel. "For I am an old man and my wife is advanced in years."

"How can this be?" Mary asked the angel. "For I have no husband."

And all who heard it kept it in mind, asking one another-- "What can this child be destined to become?" For the Power of the Lord was with him.

Now, when the angels had left them and gone back to Heaven, the shepherds said to one another: "Let us go at once to Bethlehem, and see this thing that has happened, of which the Lord has told us."

The fishermen had gone away from them and were washing the nets.

The Teachers of the Law and the Pharisees began debating about this. "Who is this man who speaks so blasphemously?" they asked. "Who can forgive sins except God?"

But Jesus answered them: "Can you make the bridegroom's friends fast while the bridegroom is with them?

Then, speaking in parables, Jesus said: "Can one blind man guide another? Will they not both fall into a ditch?

How can you say to your brother 'Brother, let me take out the straw in your eye,' while you yourself do not see the beam in your own? Hypocrite! Take out the beam from your own eye first, and then you will see clearly how to take out the straw in your brother's.

"Where is your faith?" he exclaimed. But in great awe and amazement they said to one another: "Who can this be, that he commands even the winds and the waves, and they obey him?"

The people went out to see what had happened, and, when they came to Jesus, they found the man from whom the demons had gone out, sitting, clothed and in his right mind, at Jesus' feet; and they were awe-struck.

The man from whom the demons had gone out begged Jesus to let him be with him; but Jesus sent him away.

"Somebody touched me," said Jesus; "for I felt that power had gone out from me."

Just then a Student of the Law came forward to test Jesus further. "Teacher," he said, "what must I do if I am to 'gain Immortal Life'?"

Once Jesus was driving out a dumb demon, and, when the demon had gone out, the dumb man spoke. The people were amazed at this;

So, too, if Satan is wholly divided against himself, how can his kingdom last? Yet you say that I drive out demons by the help of Baal-zebub.

At the Judgment the Queen of the South will rise up with the men of this generation, and will condemn them, because she came from the very ends of the earth to listen to the wisdom of Solomon; and here is more than a Solomon!

Alas for you Students of the Law! You have taken away the key of the door of Knowledge. You have not gone in yourselves and you have hindered those who try to go in."

To you who are my friends I say, Do not be afraid of those who kill the body, but after that can do no more.

And Jesus said to his disciples: "That is why I say to you, Do not be anxious about the life here--what you can get to eat; nor yet about your body--what you can get to wear.

But which of you, by being anxious, can prolong his life a moment?

And you--do not be always seeking what you can get to eat or what you can get to drink; and do not waver.

I came to cast fire upon the earth; and what more can I wish, if it is already kindled?

Then, if it bears in future, well and good; but if not, you can have it cut down.'"

So Jesus said: "What is the Kingdom of God like? and to what can I liken it?

And again Jesus said: "To what can I liken the Kingdom of God?

"If any man comes to me and does not hate his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brothers, and sisters, yes and his very life, he can be no disciple of mine.

Whoever does not carry his own cross, and walk in my steps, can be no disciple of mine.

And, when she has found it, she calls her friends and neighbors together, and says 'Come and rejoice with me, for I have found the coin which I lost.'

But, when he came to himself, he said 'How many of my father's hired servants have more bread than they can eat, while here am I starving to death!

No servant can serve two masters, for, either he will hate one and love the other, or else he will attach himself to one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and Money."

"You," said Jesus, "are the men who justify themselves before the world, but God can read your hearts; and what is highly esteemed among men may be an abomination in the sight of God.

And not only that, but between you and us there lies a great chasm, so that those who wish to pass from here to you cannot, nor can they cross from there to us.'

And one of the Presidents asked Jesus this question--"Good Teacher, what must I do if I am to gain Immortal Life?"

"Then who can be saved?" asked those who heard this.

On seeing this, every one began to complain: "He has gone to stay with a man who is an outcast."

Nor indeed can they die again, for they are like angels and, having shared in the resurrection, they are God's Sons.

"Can anything good come out of Nazareth?" asked Nathanael. "Come and see," replied Philip.

Two days after this there was a wedding at Cana in Galilee, and Jesus' mother was there.

This, the first sign of his mission, Jesus gave at Cana in Galilee, and by it revealed his glory; and his disciples believed in him.

"How can a man," asked Nicodemus, "be born when he is old? Can he be born a second time?"

The wind blows where it wills, and you can hear the sound of it, but you do not know whence it comes, or where it goes; it is the same with every one that owes his birth to the Spirit."

"How can that be?" asked Nicodemus.

John's answer was--"A man can gain nothing but what is given him from Heaven.

For his disciples had gone into the town to buy food.

"Come and see someone who has told me everything that I have done. Can he be the Christ?"

"Can any one have brought him anything to eat?" the disciples said to one another.

So Jesus came again to Cana in Galilee, where he had turned the water into wine. Now there was one of the King's officers whose son was lying ill at Capernaum.