<p class="bodytext">&#8220;To what then should I compare the people<n id="1" /> of this generation, and what are they like?

<t /><p class="bodytext">Thus Jesus<n id="1" /> asked,<n id="2" /> &#8220;What is the kingdom of God<n id="3" /> like?<n id="4" /> To<n id="5" /> what should I compare it?

<p class="bodytext">Again<n id="1" /> he said, &#8220;To what should I compare the kingdom of God?<n id="2" />

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;Salt<n id="1" /> is good, but if salt loses its flavor,<n id="2" /> how can its flavor be restored?

if<n id="1" /> we are being examined<n id="2" /> today for a good deed<n id="3" /> done to a sick man &#8211; by what means this man was healed<n id="4" /> &#8211;

So<n id="1" /> Peter<n id="2" /> stayed many days in Joppa with a man named<n id="3" /> Simon, a tanner.<n id="4" />p>

This man is staying as a guest with a man named Simon, a tanner,<n id="1" /> whose house is by the sea.&#8221;

Therefore when you sent for me,<n id="1" /> I came without any objection. Now may I ask why<n id="2" /> you sent for me?&#8221;

<t /><p class="bodytext">He also asked, &#8220;To what can we compare the kingdom of God, or what parable can we use to present it?

&#8220;A certain creditor<n id="1" /> had two debtors; one owed him<n id="2" /> five hundred silver coins,<n id="3" /> and the other fifty.

He said,<n id="1" /> &#8220;In a certain city<n id="2" /> there was a judge<n id="3" /> who neither feared God nor respected people.<n id="4" />

and by which you are being saved, if you hold firmly to the message I preached to you &#8211; unless you believed in vain.

<p class="bodytext">See to it,<n id="1" /> brothers and sisters,<n id="2" /> that none of you has<n id="3" /> an evil, unbelieving heart that forsakes<n id="4" /> the living God.<n id="5" />

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;To<n id="1" /> what should I compare this generation? They are like children sitting in the marketplaces who call out to one another,<n id="2" />p>

And if I cast out demons by Beelzebul, by whom do your sons<n id="1" /> cast them<n id="2" /> out? For this reason they will be your judges.

Salt<n id="1" /> is good, but if it loses its saltiness,<n id="2" /> how can you make it salty again? Have salt in yourselves, and be at peace with each other.&#8221;p>

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;Everyone who comes to me and listens to my words and puts them into practice<n id="1" /> &#8211; I will show you what he is like:

Now if I cast out demons by Beelzebul, by whom do your sons<n id="1" /> cast them<n id="2" /> out? Therefore they will be your judges.

But God said to him, &#8216;You fool! This very night your life<n id="1" /> will be demanded back from<n id="2" /> you, but who will get what you have prepared for yourself?&#8217;<n id="3" />

so that the word<n id="1" /> of Isaiah the prophet would be fulfilled. He said,<n id="2" /> &#8220;<b><i>Lord, who has believed our message, and to whom has the arm of the Lordi>b><n id="3" /> <b><i>been revealed?i>b>&#8221;<n id="4" />