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“If thieves came to you, if robbers by night—oh, how you will be ruined—would they not steal only what they wanted? If grape gatherers came to you, would they not leave some gleanings?

But how Esau will be pillaged, his hidden treasures sought out!

The captain approached him and said, “How can you sleep? Get up and call upon your God. Perhaps this God will consider us, so that we may not perish.”

In that day they will take up a proverb against you and taunt you with this bitter lamentation: ‘We are utterly ruined! He has changed the portion of my people. How He has removed it from me! He has allotted our fields to traitors.’”

‘My people, what have I done to you? Testify against Me how I have wearied you!

How long, O LORD, must I call for help but You do not hear, or cry out to You, “Violence!” but You do not save?

I will stand at my guard post and station myself on the ramparts. I will watch to see what He will say to me, and how I should answer when corrected.

Will not all of these take up a taunt against him, speaking with mockery and derision: ‘Woe to him who amasses what is not his and makes himself rich with many loans! How long will this go on?’

‘Who is left among you who saw this house in its former glory? How does it look to you now? Does it not appear to you like nothing in comparison?’

Then the angel of the LORD said, “How long, O LORD of Hosts, will You withhold mercy from Jerusalem and the cities of Judah, with which You have been angry these seventy years?”

How lovely they will be, and how beautiful! Grain will make the young men flourish, and new wine, the young women.

How lovely they will be, and how beautiful! Grain will make the young men flourish, and new wine, the young women.

“I have loved you,” says the LORD. But you ask, “How have You loved us?” “Was not Esau Jacob’s brother?” declares the LORD. “Yet Jacob I have loved,

“A son honors his father, and a servant his master. But if I am a father, where is My honor? And if I am a master, where is your fear of Me?” says the LORD of Hosts to you priests who despise My name. “But you ask, ‘How have we despised Your name?’

By presenting defiled food on My altar. But you ask, ‘How have we defiled You?’ By saying that the table of the LORD is contemptible.

You have wearied the LORD with your words; yet you ask, “How have we wearied Him?” By saying, “All who do evil are good in the sight of the LORD, and in them He delights,” or, “Where is the God of justice?”

Yet from the days of your fathers, you have turned away from My statutes and have not kept them. Return to Me, and I will return to you,” says the LORD of Hosts. “But you ask, ‘How can we return?’

Will a man rob God? Yet you are robbing Me! But you ask, ‘How do we rob You?’ In tithes and offerings.

This is how the birth of Jesus Christ came about: His mother Mary was pledged in marriage to Joseph, but before they came together, she was found to be with child through the Holy Spirit.

You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt loses its savor, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything, except to be thrown out and trampled by men.

So then, this is how you should pray: ‘Our Father in heaven, hallowed be Your name.

But if your eyes are bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light within you is darkness, how great is that darkness!

And why do you worry about clothes? Consider how the lilies of the field grow: They do not labor or spin.

If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the furnace, will He not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?

How can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ while there is still a beam in your own eye?

So if you who are evil know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good things to those who ask Him!

So if you who are evil know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good things to those who ask Him!

Jesus replied, “How can the guests of the bridegroom mourn while He is with them? But the time will come when the bridegroom will be taken from them; then they will fast.

But when they hand you over, do not worry about how to respond or what to say. In that hour you will be given what to say.

It is enough for a disciple to be like his teacher, and a servant like his master. If the head of the house has been called Beelzebul, how much more the members of his household!

How much more valuable is a man than a sheep! Therefore it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath.”

But the Pharisees went out and plotted how they might kill Jesus.

If Satan drives out Satan, he is divided against himself. How then can his kingdom stand?

Or again, how can anyone enter a strong man’s house and steal his possessions, unless he first ties up the strong man? Then he can plunder his house.

You brood of vipers, how can you who are evil say anything good? For out of the overflow of the heart the mouth speaks.

“How many loaves do you have?” Jesus asked. “Seven,” they replied, “and a few small fish.”

…and in the morning, ‘Today it will be stormy, for the sky is red and overcast.’ You know how to interpret the appearance of the sky, but not the signs of the times.

Do you still not understand? Do you not remember the five loaves for the five thousand, and how many basketfuls you gathered?

Or the seven loaves for the four thousand, and how many basketfuls you gathered?

How do you not understand that I was not telling you about bread? But beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees.”

“O unbelieving and perverse generation!” Jesus replied. “How long must I remain with you? How long must I put up with you? Bring the boy here to Me.”

“O unbelieving and perverse generation!” Jesus replied. “How long must I remain with you? How long must I put up with you? Bring the boy here to Me.”

Then Peter came to Jesus and asked, “Lord, how many times shall I forgive my brother who sins against me? Up to seven times?”

That is how My heavenly Father will treat each of you unless you forgive your brother from your heart.”

When the disciples saw this, they marveled and asked, “How did the fig tree wither so quickly?”

‘Friend,’ he asked, ‘how did you get in here without wedding clothes?’ But the man was speechless.

Jesus said to them, “How then does David in the Spirit call Him ‘Lord’? For he says:

So if David calls Him ‘Lord,’ how can He be David’s son?”

You snakes! You brood of vipers! How will you escape the sentence of hell?

O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those sent to her, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were unwilling!

How miserable those days will be for pregnant and nursing mothers!

But how then would the Scriptures be fulfilled that say it must happen this way?”

Then Pilate asked Him, “Do You not hear how many charges they are bringing against You?”

“You have a guard,” Pilate said. “Go, make the tomb as secure as you know how.”

Jesus replied, “How can the guests of the bridegroom fast while He is with them? As long as He is with them, they cannot fast.

At this, the Pharisees went out and began plotting with the Herodians how they might kill Jesus.

So Jesus called them together and began to speak to them in parables: “How can Satan drive out Satan?

Then Jesus said to them, “Do you not understand this parable? Then how will you understand any of the parables?

Night and day he sleeps and wakes, and the seed sprouts and grows, though he knows not how.

But Jesus would not allow him. “Go home to your own people,” He said, “and tell them how much the Lord has done for you, and what mercy He has shown you.”

So the man went away and began to proclaim throughout the Decapolis how much Jesus had done for him. And everyone was amazed.

When the Sabbath came, He began to teach in the synagogue, and many who heard Him were astonished. “Where did this man get these ideas?” they asked. “What is this wisdom He has been given? And how can He perform such miracles?

“Go and see how many loaves you have,” He told them. And after checking, they said, “Five—and two fish.”

“How many loaves do you have?” Jesus asked. “Seven,” they replied.

When I broke the five loaves for the five thousand, how many basketfuls of broken pieces did you collect?” “Twelve,” they answered.

“And when I broke the seven loaves for the four thousand, how many basketfuls of broken pieces did you collect?” “Seven,” they said.

“O unbelieving generation!” Jesus replied. “How long must I remain with you? How long must I put up with you? Bring the boy to Me.”

“O unbelieving generation!” Jesus replied. “How long must I remain with you? How long must I put up with you? Bring the boy to Me.”

Jesus asked the boy’s father, “How long has this been with him?” “From childhood,” he said.

Then Jesus looked around and said to His disciples, “How hard it is for the rich to enter the kingdom of God!”

And the disciples were amazed at His words. But Jesus said to them again, “Children, how hard it is to enter the kingdom of God!

But concerning the dead rising, have you not read about the burning bush in the Book of Moses, how God told him, ‘I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’?

Now one of the scribes had come up and heard their debate. Noticing how well Jesus had answered them, he asked Him, “Which commandment is the most important of all?”

While Jesus was teaching in the temple courts, He asked, “How can the scribes say that the Christ is the Son of David?

David himself calls Him ‘Lord.’ So how can He be David’s son?” And the large crowd listened to Him with delight.

How miserable those days will be for pregnant and nursing mothers!

Then Pilate questioned Him again, “Have You no answer? Look how many charges they are bringing against You!”

When the centurion standing there in front of Jesus saw how He had breathed His last, he said, “Truly this man was the Son of God!”

“How can I be sure of this?” Zechariah asked the angel. “I am an old man, and my wife is well along in years.”

“How can this be,” Mary asked the angel, “since I am a virgin?”

How can you say, ‘Brother, let me take the speck out of your eye,’ while you yourself fail to see the beam in your own eye? You hypocrite! First take the beam out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.

Pay attention, therefore, to how you listen. Whoever has will be given more, but whoever does not have, even what he thinks he has will be taken away from him.”

Meanwhile, those who had seen it reported how the demon-possessed man had been healed.

“Return home and describe how much God has done for you.” So the man went away and proclaimed all over the town how much Jesus had done for him.

“Return home and describe how much God has done for you.” So the man went away and proclaimed all over the town how much Jesus had done for him.

Then the woman, seeing that she could not escape notice, came trembling and fell down before Him. In the presence of all the people, she explained why she had touched Him and how she had immediately been healed.

“O unbelieving and perverse generation!” Jesus replied. “How long must I remain with you and put up with you? Bring your son here.”

“What is written in the Law?” Jesus replied. “How do you read it?”

So if you who are evil know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him!”

So if you who are evil know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him!”

If Satan is divided against himself, how can his kingdom stand? After all, you say that I drive out demons by Beelzebul.

When you are brought before synagogues, rulers, and authorities, do not worry about how to defend yourselves or what to say.

This is how it will be for anyone who stores up treasure for himself but is not rich toward God.”

Consider the ravens: They do not sow or reap, they have no storehouse or barn; yet God feeds them. How much more valuable you are than the birds!

Consider how the lilies grow: They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you, not even Solomon in all his glory was adorned like one of these.

If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the furnace, how much more will He clothe you, O you of little faith!

If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the furnace, how much more will He clothe you, O you of little faith!

I have come to ignite a fire on the earth, and how I wish it were already kindled!

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

You hypocrites! You know how to interpret the appearance of the earth and sky. Why don’t you know how to interpret the present time?