Those who had seen it told them how the man who had been demon-possessed had been healed.

He said to him, “What is written in the law? How do you understand it?”

I have a baptism to undergo, and how distressed I am until it is finished!

But he said to them, “How is it that they say that the Christ is David’s son?

If David then calls him ‘Lord,’ how can he be his son?”

Mary said to the angel, “How will this be, since I have not had sexual relations with a man?”

Then when Jesus noticed how the guests chose the places of honor, he told them a parable. He said to them,

The chief priests and the experts in the law were trying to find some way to execute Jesus, for they were afraid of the people.

He went away and discussed with the chief priests and officers of the temple guard how he might betray Jesus, handing him over to them.

So if Satan too is divided against himself, how will his kingdom stand? I ask you this because you claim that I cast out demons by Beelzebul.

But when they bring you before the synagogues, the rulers, and the authorities, do not worry about how you should make your defense or what you should say,

You hypocrites! You know how to interpret the appearance of the earth and the sky, but how can you not know how to interpret the present time?

When Jesus noticed this, he said, “How hard it is for the rich to enter the kingdom of God!

So listen carefully, for whoever has will be given more, but whoever does not have, even what he thinks he has will be taken from him.”

Consider how the flowers grow; they do not work or spin. Yet I tell you, not even Solomon in all his glory was clothed like one of these!

How can you say to your brother, ‘Brother, let me remove the speck from your eye,’ while you yourself don’t see the beam in your own? You hypocrite! First remove the beam from your own eye, and then you can see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.