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

Or the seven loaves for the four thousand and how many baskets you took up?

Then Pilate said to him, “Don’t you hear how many charges they are bringing against you?”

He asked them, “How many loaves do you have?” They replied, “Seven.”

Jesus said to them, “How many loaves do you have?” They replied, “Seven – and a few small fish.”

Do you still not understand? Don’t you remember the five loaves for the five thousand, and how many baskets you took up?

“When I broke the seven loaves for the four thousand, how many baskets full of pieces did you pick up?” They replied, ¹  “Seven.”

So Pilate asked him again, ¹  “Have you nothing to say? See how many charges they are bringing against you!”

Now if their transgression means riches for the world and their defeat means riches for the Gentiles, how much more will their full restoration ¹  bring?

no longer as a slave, ¹  but more than a slave, as a dear brother. He is especially so to me, and even more so to you now, both humanly speaking ²  and in the Lord.

He said to them, “How many loaves do you have? Go and see.” When they found out, they said, “Five – and two fish.”

When I broke the five loaves for the five thousand, how many baskets full of pieces did you pick up?” They replied, “Twelve.”

Jesus ¹  asked his father, “How long has this been happening to him?” And he said, “From childhood.

And if ¹  this is how God clothes the wild grass, ²  which is here ³  today and tomorrow is tossed into the fire to heat the oven, ⁴  how much more ⁵  will he clothe you, you people of little faith!

But when he came to his senses ¹  he said, ‘How many of my father’s hired workers have food ²  enough to spare, but here I am dying from hunger!

So ¹  he contacted ²  his master’s debtors one by one. He asked the first, ‘How much do you owe my master?’

But if your eye is diseased, ¹  your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!

If you then, although you are evil, ¹  know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts ²  to those who ask him!

It is enough for the disciple to become like his teacher, and the slave like his master. If they have called the head of the house ‘Beelzebul,’ how much more will they defame the members of his household!

If you then, although you are ¹  evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit ²  to those who ask him!”