and don’t think you can say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father.’ For I tell you that God can raise up children for Abraham from these stones!

“Do not think that I have come to abolish the law or the prophets. I have not come to abolish these things but to fulfill them. ¹ 

When ¹  you pray, do not babble repetitiously like the Gentiles, because they think that by their many words they will be heard.

They ¹  cried out, “Son of God, leave us alone! ²  Have you come here to torment us before the time?” ³ 

He said to them, “Would not any one of you, if he had one sheep that fell into a pit on the Sabbath, take hold of it and lift it out?

Offspring of vipers! How are you able to say anything good, since you are evil? For the mouth speaks from what fills the heart.

Or do you think that I cannot call on my Father, and that he would send me more than twelve legions ¹  of angels right now?

His disciples answered him, “Where can someone get enough bread in this desolate place to satisfy these people?”

What then will the owner of the vineyard do? He will come and destroy ¹  those tenants and give the vineyard to others. ² 

When they could not pay, he canceled ¹  the debts of both. Now which of them will love him more?”

So listen carefully, ¹  for whoever has will be given more, but ²  whoever does not have, even what he thinks he has ³  will be taken from him.”

What father among you, if your ¹  son asks for ²  a fish, will give him a snake ³  instead of a fish?

But if ¹  that ²  slave should say to himself, ³  ‘My master is delayed ⁴  in returning,’ and he begins to beat ⁵  the other ⁶  slaves, both men and women, ⁷  and to eat, drink, and get drunk,

Or those eighteen who were killed ¹  when the tower in Siloam fell on them, ²  do you think they were worse offenders than all the others who live in Jerusalem? ³ 

For which of you, wanting to build a tower, doesn’t sit down ¹  first and compute the cost ²  to see if he has enough money to complete it?

You study the scriptures thoroughly ¹  because you think in them you possess eternal life, ²  and it is these same scriptures ³  that testify about me,

Some thought that, because Judas had the money box, Jesus was telling him to buy whatever they needed for the feast, ¹  or to give something to the poor.) ² 

So since we are God’s offspring, we should not think the deity ¹  is like gold or silver or stone, an image ²  made by human ³  skill ⁴  and imagination. ⁵ 

Then you’re not that Egyptian who started a rebellion ¹  and led the four thousand men of the ‘Assassins’ ²  into the wilderness ³  some time ago?” ⁴ 

It is not as though the word of God had failed. For not all those who are descended from Israel are truly Israel, ¹