When they were gone, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream, and said, "Wake up! Take the child and his mother and make your escape to Egypt, and stay there until I tell you to leave. For Herod is going to look for the child in order to make away with him."

"A cry was heard in Ramah! Weeping and great lamenting! Rachel weeping for her children, And inconsolable because they were gone."

Do not suppose that you can say to yourselves, 'We have Abraham for our forefather,' for I tell you God can produce descendants for Abraham right out of these stones!

"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.

For if you love only those who love you, what reward can you expect? Do not the very tax-collectors do that?

No slave can belong to two masters, for he will either hate one and love the other, or stand by one and make light of the other. You cannot serve God and money.

But which of you with all his worry can add a single hour to his life?

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?

You hypocrite! First get the beam out of your own eye, and then you can see to get the speck out of your brother's eye.

You can tell them by their fruit. Do people pick grapes off thorns, or figs off thistles?

No sound tree can bear bad fruit, and no poor tree can bear good fruit.

So you can tell them by their fruit.

And a leper came up to him and fell on his knees before him, saying, "If you only choose, sir, you can cure me!"

Jesus said to them, "Can wedding guests mourn as long as the bridegroom is with them? But a time will come when the bridegroom will be taken from them, and they will fast then.

For she said to herself, "If I can just touch his cloak, I will get well."

When he had gone indoors, the blind men came up to him, and he said to them, "Do you believe that I can do this?" They said to him, "Yes, sir."

But when they persecute you in one town, make your escape to another, for I tell you, you will not have gone through all the towns of Israel before the Son of Man arrives.

Have no fear of those who kill the body, but cannot kill the soul. You had better be afraid of one who can destroy both soul and body in the pit.

Do not sparrows sell two for a cent? And yet not one of them can fall to the ground against your Father's will!

Whoever gains his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will gain it.

And no one who will give the humblest of my disciples even a cup of cold water because he is my disciple, I tell you, can ever fail of his reward."

The blind are regaining their sight and the lame can walk, the lepers are being cured and the deaf can hear, the dead are being raised and good news is being preached to the poor.

But to what can I compare this present age? It is like children sitting about in the bazaars and calling out to their playmates,

And all the crowds of people were astounded, and said, "Can this be the Son of David?"

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.

The queen of the south will rise with this age at the judgment and condemn it, for she came from the very ends of the earth to listen to Solomon's wisdom, and there is more than Solomon here!

"When a foul spirit goes out of a man, it roams through deserts in search of rest and can find none.

He said to them, "Then remember that every scribe who has become a disciple of the Kingdom of Heaven must be like a householder who can supply from his storeroom new things as well as old."

Can you not see that whatever goes into the mouth passes into the stomach and then is disposed of?

The disciples said to him, "Where can we get bread enough in this solitude to feed such a crowd?"

And Peter took him aside and began to reprove him for it, saying, "God bless you, Master! that can never happen to you!"

For what good will it do a man if he gains the whole world but parts with his life? What can a man give to buy back his life?

He said to them, "Because you have so little faith. For I tell you, if you have faith the size of a grain of mustard, you can say to this mountain, 'Move from here over to there!' and it will move, and nothing will be impossible for you."

He said to them, "It is not everyone who can accept that, but only those who have a special gift.

For some are incapable of marriage from their birth, and some have been made so by men, and some have made themselves so for the sake of the Kingdom of Heaven. Let him accept it who can."

But when the disciples heard this, they were completely astounded and said, "Then who can be saved?"

But Jesus answered, "You do not know what you are asking for! Can you drink what I am going to drink?" They answered, "Yes, we can."

"Why do you put me to such a test, you hypocrites? Show me the poll-tax coin!" And they brought him a denarius.

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?

for false Christs and false prophets will appear, and they will show great signs and wonders to mislead God's chosen people if they can.

But while they were gone to buy it, the bridegroom arrived, and the ones that were ready went in with him to the wedding banquet, and the door was closed.

They were deeply hurt and began to say to him one after another, "Can it be I, Master?"

Judas, who betrayed him, said, "Can it be I, Master?" He said to him, "You are right!"

and said, "This man said, 'I can tear down the sanctuary of God, and build it up in three days.' "

Pilate said to them, "Take a guard of soldiers, and go and make it as secure as you can."

There came to him a leper appealing to him on his knees, saying to him, "If you only choose, you can cure me."

"Why does this man talk so? This is blasphemy. Who can forgive sins but God alone?"

Jesus said to them, "Can wedding guests fast while the bridegroom is with them? As long as they have the bridegroom with them they cannot fast.

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

But no one can go 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.

But whoever reviles the holy Spirit can never be forgiven, but is guilty of an unending sin."

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

yet once sown, comes up and grows to be the largest of all the plants, and produces branches so large that the wild birds can roost under the shelter of it."

And they were very much frightened, and said to one another, "Who can he be? For even the wind and the sea obey him."

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

But he answered, "Give them food yourselves." They said to him, "Can we go and buy forty dollars' worth of bread and give it to them to eat?"

Nothing that goes into a man from outside can pollute him. It is what comes out of a man that pollutes him."

When he had left the crowd and gone home, his disciples asked him what he meant by this figure.

And he said to them, "Have not even you any understanding then? Do you not see that nothing that goes into a man from outside can pollute him,

He said to her, "If you can say that, go home; the demon has left your daughter."

And she went home and found the child lying on the bed, and the demon gone.

His disciples replied, "Where can anyone get bread enough, here in this solitude, to satisfy these people's hunger?"

When you have eyes can you not see, and when you have ears can you not hear? Do you not remember

He looked up and said, "I can see people, for they look to me like trees, only they are moving about."

For what good does it do a man to gain the whole world and yet part with his life?

For what can a man give to buy back his life?

"From his childhood, and many a time it has thrown him into the fire or into the water, to put an end to him. But if there is anything you can do, take pity on us and help us!"

Jesus said to him, " 'If there is anything I can do!' Everything is possible for one who has faith!"

When he had gone home, and his disciples were alone with him, they asked him, "Why could not we drive it out?"

He said to them, "This kind of thing can be driven out only by prayer."

They were perfectly astounded and said to him, "Then who can be saved?"

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

They said to him, "Yes, we can." Jesus said to them, "Then you shall drink what I am drinking, and you shall undergo the baptism that I am undergoing;

Yet can we say, 'It was from men'?" For they were afraid of the people, because all the people thought John was really a prophet.

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.

For false Christs and false prophets will appear, and they will show signs and wonders to mislead God's chosen people if they can.

For you always have the poor among you, and whenever you please you can do for them, but you will not always have me.

and whatever house he goes into, say to the man of the house, 'The Master says, "Where is my room where I can eat the Passover supper with my disciples?" '

And they were hurt, and said to him one after another, "Can it be I?"

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

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

Then produce fruit that will be consistent with your professed repentance! And do not begin to say to yourselves, 'We have Abraham for our forefather,' for I tell you, God can produce descendants for Abraham right out of these stones!

And the devil said to him, "I will give you all this power and their splendor, for it has been turned over to me, and I can give it to anyone I please.

When he was in one of the towns, he came upon a man covered with leprosy. And when he saw Jesus he fell down on his face, and begged him, saying, "If you only choose, sir, you can cure me!"

And the scribes and the Pharisees began to debate and say, "Who is this man who talks blasphemy? Who can forgive sins but God alone?"

Jesus said to them, "Can you make wedding guests fast while the bridegroom is with them?

And he used a figure saying, "Can one blind man lead another? Will they not both fall into a hole?

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.

And he answered them, "Go and report to John what you have seen and heard. The blind are regaining their sight, the lame can walk, the lepers are being cured and the deaf can hear, the dead are being raised and good news is being preached to the poor.

When John's messengers were gone, he began to speak to the crowds about John. "What was it that you went out into the desert to look at? A reed swaying in the wind?

So what is there to which I can compare the men of this age? What are they like?

And he said to them, "Where is your faith?" But they were frightened and amazed, and said to one another, "Who can he be? For he gives orders even to the winds and the water, and they obey him!"

And Jesus asked him, "What is your name?" He said, "Legion!" For many demons had gone into him.

And the people came out to see what had happened, and they came to Jesus and found the man out of whom the demons had gone sitting there, at Jesus' feet, with his clothes on and in his right mind, and they were frightened.

The man out of whom the demons had gone begged to go with him, but Jesus sent him away, and said,

But Herod said, "John I have beheaded, but who can this be about whom I hear such reports?" And he endeavored to see him.