But Jesus said, "Let the children alone, and do not try to keep them from coming to me, for the Kingdom of Heaven belongs to such as they are."

But he said to him, "Why do you ask me about what is good? There is only one who is good. But if you want to enter that life, keep the commandments."

Honor your father and mother,' and 'You shall love your neighbor as you do yourself.' "

And again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to get through a needle's eye than for a rich man to get into the Kingdom of God!"

But Jesus looked at them and said, "For men it is impossible, but anything is possible for God!"

And anyone who has given up houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or land for my sake will receive many times as much, and share eternal life.

For the Kingdom of Heaven is like an employer who went out early in the morning to hire laborers for his vineyard.

And he said to them, 'You go to my vineyard, too, and I will pay you whatever is right.' So they went.

They said to him, 'Because nobody has hired us.' He said to them, 'You go to my vineyard, too.'

and said, 'These men who were hired last worked only one hour, and you have put them on the same footing with us who have done the heavy work of the day and have stood the midday heat.'

Take what belongs to you and go. I wish to give the last man hired as much as I give you.

Have I no right to do what I please with what is mine? Or do you begrudge my generosity?'

When Jesus was about to go up to Jerusalem, he took the Twelve off by themselves, and said to them as they were on the way,

He said to them, "Then what I drink you shall drink, but as for sitting at my right or my left, that is not mine to give, but belongs to those for whom it is destined by my Father."

It is not to be so among you, but whoever wants to be great among you must be your servant,

just as the Son of Man has come not to be waited on, but to wait on other people, and to give his life to ransom many others."

As they were going out of Jericho, a great crowd followed him.

And two blind men sitting by the roadside, hearing that it was Jesus who was passing, called out, "You Son of David! Take pity on us, sir!"

The crowd told them to be still, but they called all the louder, "You Son of David! Take pity on us, sir!"

saying to them, "Go to the village that lies in front of you, and you will at once find an ass tied there, and a colt with her. Untie her and bring them to me.

"Tell the daughter of Zion, 'Here is your king coming to you, Gentle, and riding on an ass, And on the foal of a beast of burden.' "

So the disciples went and did as Jesus had directed them;

they brought the ass and the colt, and laid their coats upon them, and Jesus seated himself upon them.

When he came into Jerusalem, the whole city was stirred, and everyone asked, "Who is he?"

The crowd answered, "It is Jesus, the prophet of Nazareth in Galilee!"

In the morning as he went back to the city, he grew hungry,

When he had entered the Temple, and was teaching, the high priests and the elders of the people came up to him, and said, "What authority have you for doing as you do, and who gave you this authority?"

Jesus answered, "Let me ask you one question, and if you answer it, I will tell you what authority I have for doing as I do.

Where did John's baptism come from? Was it from heaven, or from men?" And they argued with one another, "If we say, 'It was from heaven,' he will say to us, 'Then why did you not believe him?'

And they answered Jesus, "We do not know." He said to them, "Nor will I tell you what authority I have for doing as I do.

But when the tenants saw his son, they said to one another. 'This is his heir! Come on, let us kill him, and get his inheritance!'

They said to him, "He will put the wretches to a miserable death, and let the vineyard to other tenants who will give him his share of the vintage when it is due."

Jesus said to them, "Did you never read in the Scriptures, " 'That stone which the builders rejected Has become the cornerstone; This came from the Lord, And seems marvelous to us'?

"That, I tell you, is why the Kingdom of God will be taken away from you, and given to a people that will produce its proper fruit.

"The Kingdom of Heaven is like a king, who gave a wedding banquet for his son.

He sent other slaves a second time, and said to them, 'Tell those who have been asked, "Here I have my banquet all ready, my bullocks and fat cattle are killed, and everything is ready. Come to the banquet!" '

Then he said to his slaves, 'The banquet is ready, but those who were invited have proved unworthy of it.

So give us your opinion: Is it right to pay the poll-tax to the emperor, or not?"

And he said to them, "Whose head and title is this?"

On the same day some Sadducees came up to him, claiming that there is no resurrection, and they asked him this question:

Now there were seven brothers among us. The first of them married and died, and as he had no children, he left his wife to his brother;

For after the resurrection there is no marrying or being married, but they live as angels do in heaven.

But as to the resurrection of the dead, did you never read what was said to you by God,

'I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob'? He is not the God of dead men but of living!"

"Master, what command is greatest in the Law?"

That is the great, first command.

There is a second like it: 'You must love your neighbor as you do yourself.'

"What do you think about the Christ? Whose son is he?" They said to him, "David's."

He said to them, "How is it then that David under the Spirit's influence calls him lord, and says,

So do everything they tell you, and observe it all, but do not do as they do, for they talk but do not act.

They do everything they do to have men see it. They wear wide Scripture texts as charms, and they wear large tassels,

But he who is greatest among you must be your servant.

Alas for you, you hypocritical scribes and Pharisees, for you scour land and sea to make one convert, and when he is converted you make him twice as fit for the pit as you are.

Alas for you, you blind guides, who say, 'If anyone swears by the sanctuary, it does not matter, but if anyone swears by the gold of the sanctuary, it is binding.'

Blind fools! which is greater, the gold, or the sanctuary that makes the gold sacred?

You say, 'If anyone swears by the altar, it does not matter, but if anyone swears by the offering that is on it, it is binding.'

You blind men! Which is greater, the offering, or the altar that makes the offering sacred?

Anyone who swears by the altar is swearing by it and by everything that is on it,

and anyone who swears by the sanctuary is swearing by it and by him who dwells in it;

and anyone who swears by heaven is swearing by the throne of God and by him who sits upon it.

Alas for you, you hypocritical scribes and Pharisees, for you are like white-washed tombs! They look well on the outside, but inside they are full of the bones of the dead, and all that is unclean.

This is why I am going to send you prophets, wise men and scribes, some of whom you will kill and crucify, and some you will flog in your synagogues and hunt from one town to another;

it is that on your heads may come all the righteous blood shed on the earth from the blood of Abel the upright to the blood of Zechariah, Barachiah's son, whom you murdered between the sanctuary and the altar!

"O Jerusalem, Jerusalem! murdering the prophets, and stoning those who are sent to her, how often I have longed to gather your children around me, as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, but you refused!

As he was sitting on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came up to him by themselves, and said to him, "Tell us when this is to happen, and what will be the sign of your coming, and of the close of the age."

You will hear of wars and rumors of war; do not let yourselves be alarmed. They have to come, but that is not the end.

All this is only the beginning of the sufferings.

"If anyone says to you at that time, 'Look! here is the Christ!' or 'There he is!' do not believe it,

So if they say to you, 'There he is, in the desert!' do not go out there; 'Here he is, in a room in here!' do not believe it.

For just as the lightning starts in the east and flashes to the west, so the coming of the Son of Man will be.

Wherever there is a dead body, the vultures will flock.

"Let the fig tree teach you the lesson. As soon as its branches grow soft and put forth leaves, you know that summer is coming.

So when you see all these things, you must know that he is just at the door.

For just as it was in the time of Noah, it will be at the coming of the Son of Man.

For just as in those days before the flood people were eating and drinking, marrying and being married, until the very day Noah entered the ark,

So you must be on the watch, for you do not know on what day your Master is coming.

Therefore you must be ready too, for the Son of Man is coming at a time when you do not expect him.

Blessed is that slave if his master when he returns finds him doing it.

But if he is a bad slave and says to himself, 'My master is going to stay a long time,'

As the bridegroom was slow in coming, they all grew drowsy and fell asleep.

But in the middle of the night there was a shout 'Here is the bridegroom! Come out and meet him!'

And the foolish ones said to the sensible ones, 'Give us some of your oil, for our lamps are going out.'

But the sensible ones answered, 'There may not be enough for us and you. You had better go to the dealers and buy yourselves some.'

Afterward the other bridesmaids came and said, 'Sir! Sir! Open the door for us!'

"For it is just like a man who was going on a journey, and called in his slaves, and put his property in their hands.

and I was frightened, and I went and hid your thousand dollars in the ground. Here is your money!'

and all the nations will be gathered before him, and he will separate them from one another, just as a shepherd separates his sheep from his goats,

The king will answer, 'I tell you, in so far as you did it to one of the humblest of these brothers of mine, you did it to me.'

Then he will answer, 'I tell you, in so far as you failed to do it for one of these people who are humblest, you failed to do it for me.'

Then the high priests and the elders of the people gathered in the house of the high priest, whose name was Caiaphas,

When his disciples saw it, they said indignantly, "What was the use of wasting it like that?

But Jesus observed this and said to them, "Why do you bother the woman? It is a fine thing that she has done to me.

I tell you, wherever this good news is preached all over the world, what she has done will also be told, in memory of her."

On the first day of the festival of Unleavened Bread, the disciples came to Jesus and said, "Where do you wish us to make the preparations for you to eat the Passover supper?"

And he said, "Go into the city, to a certain man, and say to him, 'The Master says, "My time is near. I am going to keep the Passover at your house with my disciples." ' "

So the disciples did as Jesus directed them, and prepared the Passover supper.

And as they were eating, he said, "I tell you, one of you will betray me!"

He answered, "The man who just dipped his hand in the same dish with me is going to betray me.

The Son of Man is to go away as the Scriptures say of him, but alas for the man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would have been better for that man if he had never been born!"

As they were eating Jesus took a loaf and blessed it, and he broke it in pieces and gave it to his disciples, saying, "Take this and eat it. It is my body!"