Tertullian

But understand this: If the homeowner had known at what hour the thief was coming, he would not have let his house be broken into.

“In the next parable also he makes a flagrant mistake, when he assigns to the person of the Creator that "thief, whose hour, if the father of the family had only known, he would not have suffered his house to be broken through."”

They will be divided, father against son and son against father, mother against daughter and daughter against mother, mother-in-law against daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law against mother-in-law.”

“He says at last, "The father shall be divided against the son, and the son against the father; the mother against the daughter, and the daughter against the mother; the mother-in-law against the daughter-in-law, and the daughter-in-law against the mother-in-law."”

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?

“Since this battle among the relatives was sung by the prophet's trumpet in the very words, I fear that Micah must have predicted it to Marcion's Christ!”

But it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away than for a single stroke of a pen to drop out of the Law.

“"More easily, therefore, may heaven and earth pass away-as also the law and the prophets-than that one tittle of the Lord's words should fail." "For," as says Isaiah: "the word of our God shall stand for ever.”

In Hades, where he was in torment, he looked up and saw Abraham from afar, with Lazarus by his side.

“Our answer to this is, that the Scripture itself which dazzles his sight expressly distinguishes between Abraham's bosom, where the poor man dwells, and the infernal place of torment. "Hell" (I take it) means one thing, and "Abraham's bosom" another.”

“Were not all ten cleansed?” Jesus asked. “Where then are the other nine?

“The miracle was performed in the district of Samaria, to which country also belonged one of the lepers. Samaria, however, had revolted from Israel, carrying with it the disaffected nine tribes, which, having been alienated by the prophet Ahijah, Jeroboam settled in Samaria.”

Then Jesus said to him, “Rise and go; your faith has made you well!”

“And yet who was the God to whom the Samaritan gave thanks, because thus far not even had an Israelite heard of another god? Who else but He by whom all had hitherto been healed through Christ?”

Nor will people say, ‘Look, here it is,’ or ‘There it is.’ For you see, the kingdom of God is in your midst.”

“" This means, "Neither in this place nor that place is the kingdom of God; for, behold, it is within you."”

It was the same in the days of Lot: People were eating and drinking, buying and selling, planting and building.

“Let us marry daily, and in the midst of our marrying let us be overtaken, like Sodom and Gomorrah, by that day of fear!”

To some who trusted in their own righteousness and viewed others with contempt, He also told this parable:

“For that publican who prayed with humility and dejection not merely in his supplication, but in his countenance too, went his way "more justified" than the shameless Pharisee.”

Those who led the way admonished him to be silent, but he cried out all the louder, “Son of David, have mercy on me!”

“Why then did the blind man, on hearing that He was passing by, exclaim, "Jesus, Thou Son of David, have mercy on me?”

“Receive your sight!” Jesus replied. “Your faith has healed you.”

“Now, whether they were baptized in any manner whatever, or whether they continued unbathed to the end-so that even that saying of the Lord touching the "one bath" does, under the person of Peter, merely regard us-still, to determine concerning the salvation of the apostles…”

His master replied, ‘You wicked servant, I will judge you by your own words.

“Else, if it is the Creator whom He has here delineated as the "austere man," who "takes up what he laid not down, and reaps what he did not sow," my instructor even here is He, (whoever He may be, ) to whom belongs the…”

John’s baptism—was it from heaven, or from men?”

“Christ knew "the baptism of John, whence it was." Then why did He ask them, as if He knew not? He knew that the Pharisees would not give Him an answer; then why did He ask in vain?”

They deliberated among themselves and said, “If we say, ‘From heaven,’ He will ask, ‘Why did you not believe him?’

“But John's baptism was "from heaven." "Why, therefore," asks Christ, "did ye not believe him? " He therefore who had wished men to believe John, purposing to censure them because they had not believed him, belonged to Him whose sacrament John was administering.”

But if we say, ‘From men,’ all the people will stone us, for they are convinced that John was a prophet.”

“Suppose their answer to have been, that John's baptism was "of men," they would have been immediately stoned to death. Some Marcion, in rivalry to Marcion, would have stood up and said: O most excellent God; how different are his ways from the Creator's!”

And Jesus replied, “Neither will I tell you by what authority I am doing these things.”

“But, at any rate, when He actually met their refusal to say what they thought, with such reprisals as, "Neither tell I you by what authority I do these things," He returned evil for evil!”

So then, in the resurrection, whose wife will she be? For all seven were married to her.”

“For the question submitted to Christ had nothing to do with the god, but only with the state, of that world.”

But those who are considered worthy to share in the age to come and in the resurrection from the dead will neither marry nor be given in marriage.

“"And all that glory shall serve Him; His dominion shall be an everlasting one, which shall not be taker from Him, and His kingdom that which shall not be destroyed," because in it "men shall not die, neither shall they marry, but be like the…”

Some of the scribes answered, “Teacher, You have spoken well!”

“They, indeed, who had caught the very force of His voice, and pronunciation, and expression, discovered no other sense than what had reference to the matter of the question. Accordingly, the Scribes exclaimed, "Master, Thou hast well said."”

You will be betrayed even by parents and brothers and relatives and friends, and some of you will be put to death.

“Now, what plea is wiser and more irresistible than the simple and open" confession made in a martyr's cause, who "prevails with God"-which is what "Israel" means?”

By your patient endurance you will gain your souls.

“But "by patience," says He, "ye shall yourselves be saved." Of this very patience the Psalm says, "The patient endurance of the just shall not perish for ever; " because it is said in another Psalm, "Precious (in the sight of the Lord) is the…”

They will fall by the edge of the sword and be led captive into all the nations.

“For after He had declared that "Jerusalem was to be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles should be fulfilled," -meaning, of course, those which were to be chosen of God, and gathered in with the remnant of Israel-He then goes…”

Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will never pass away.

“(If you examine) the whole passage of this Gospel Scripture, from the inquiry of the disciples down to the parable of the fig-tree you will find the sense in its connection suit in every point the Son of man, so that it consistently ascribes to…”

So keep watch at all times, and pray that you may have the strength to escape all that is about to happen and to stand before the Son of Man.”

“"Watch ye, therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all those things, and to stand before the Son of man; " that is, no doubt, at the resurrection, after all these things have been previously transacted.”