And they were all overcome with awe, and they praised God, and said, "A great prophet has appeared among us!" and "God has not forgotten his people!"

And the men went to him and said, "John the Baptist sent us to you to ask, 'Are you the one who was to come, or should we look for someone else?' "

And he answered them, "Go and report to John what you have seen and heard. The blind are regaining their sight, the lame can walk, the lepers are being cured and the deaf can hear, the dead are being raised and good news is being preached to the poor.

And blessed is the man who finds nothing that repels him in me."

This is the man of whom the Scripture says, " 'Here I send my messenger on before you, He will prepare the road ahead of you!'

"I tell you, among men born of women there is none greater than John; and yet those who are of little importance in the Kingdom of God are greater than he.

So what is there to which I can compare the men of this age? What are they like?

So wisdom is vindicated by all who are really wise."

When the Pharisee who had invited him saw this, he said to himself, "If this man were really a prophet, he would know who and what the woman is who is touching him, for she leads a wicked life."

Jesus answered him, and said to him, "Simon, there is something I want to say to you." He said, "Proceed, Master."

As they could not pay him, he canceled what they owed him. Now which of them will be more attached to him?"

Therefore, I tell you, her sins, many as they are, are forgiven, for she has loved me so much. But the man with little to be forgiven loves me but little."

The men at table with him began to say to themselves, "Who is this man, who even forgives sins?"

But he said to the woman, "It is your faith that has saved you. Go in peace."

"A sower went out to sow his seed. As he was sowing, some of the seed fell by the path and was trodden on, and the wild birds ate it up.

And some fell on good soil, and grew up and yielded a hundred fold!" As he said this he called out, "Let him who has ears to hear with, listen!"

This is what the figure means. The seed is God's message.

For there is nothing hidden that shall not be disclosed, nor kept secret that shall not be known and come to light.

It happened one day that he got into a boat with his disciples, and said to them, "Let us cross to the other side of the lake."

So they set sail. As they sailed along, he fell asleep. And a squall of wind came down upon the lake, and they were being swamped and were in peril.

And he said to them, "Where is your faith?" But they were frightened and amazed, and said to one another, "Who can he be? For he gives orders even to the winds and the water, and they obey him!"

They made a landing in the neighborhood of Gerasa, which is just across the lake from Galilee.

And Jesus asked him, "What is your name?" He said, "Legion!" For many demons had gone into him.

because he had an only daughter, about twelve years old, and she was dying. As he was going, the crowds of people almost crushed him.

Jesus said, "Who was it who touched me?" And as everyone denied having done so, Peter said, "Master, the people are all around you and they are crowding you."

And he said to her, "My daughter, it is your faith that has cured you. Go in peace."

Even as he spoke someone came from the house of the leader of the synagogue and said, "Your daughter is dead. Do not trouble the Master any more."

And they were all wailing and beating their breasts for her. But he said, "Stop wailing! For she is not dead, she is asleep."

And where they will not welcome you, leave that town and shake off the very dust from your feet as a protest against them."

For if anyone is ashamed of me and my teaching the Son of Man will be ashamed of him, when he comes with all the glory of his Father and of the holy angels.

And as he was praying, the look of his face changed and his clothes turned dazzling white.

Just as they were parting from him, Peter said to Jesus, "Master, how good it is that we are here! Let us put up three huts, one for you and one for Moses and one for Elijah!" For he did not know what he was saying.

But as he said it, a cloud came and overshadowed them, and they were frightened as they passed under the cloud.

And from the cloud came a voice that said, "This is my Son, my Chosen! Listen to him!"

And a man in the crowd shouted, "Master, I beg you to look at my son, for he is my only child,

"You must store up these teachings in your minds, for the Son of Man is going to be handed over to men."

A discussion arose among them as to which of them would be the greatest.

and said to them, "Whoever welcomes this child on my account is welcoming me, and whoever welcomes me, welcomes him who has sent me. For it is the lowliest among you all who is really great."

John answered, "Master, we saw a man driving out demons with your name, and we told him not to do so, for he does not go with us."

Jesus said to him, "Do not try to stop him, for the man who is not against you is for you."

As the time approached when he was to be taken up to heaven, he set his face toward Jerusalem,

When the disciples, James and John, saw this, they said, "Master, will you have us order fire to come down from heaven and consume them?"

As they were going along the road, a man said to him, "I will follow you wherever you go."

Jesus said to him, "No one who puts his hand to the plough, and then looks back, is fitted for the Kingdom of God."

And he said to them, "The harvest is abundant enough, but the reapers are few. So pray to the owner of the harvest to send reapers to gather it.

If there is anyone there who loves peace, your blessing will rest upon him, but if there is not, it will come back to you.

Whenever you come to a town and they welcome you, eat what is offered you,

and cure the sick there, and say to them, 'The Kingdom of God is close upon you!'

'The very dust of your town that sticks to our feet we wipe off in protest. But understand this: the Kingdom of God is at hand!'

The seventy-two came back delighted, and said, "Master, when we use your name the very demons submit to us!"

Everything has been handed over to me by my Father, and no one knows who the Son is but the Father, nor who the Father is but the Son, and anyone to whom the Son chooses to reveal him."

He answered, " 'You must love the Lord your God with your whole heart, your whole soul, your whole strength, and your whole mind,' and 'your neighbor as you do yourself.' "

But he, wishing to justify his question, said, "And who is my neighbor?"

As they continued their journey, he came to a certain village, and a woman named Martha welcomed him to her house.

indeed there is only one thing we need. For Mary has chosen the right thing, and it must not be taken away from her."

Once as he was praying in a certain place, when he stopped, one of his disciples said to him, "Master, teach us to pray, as John taught his disciples."

Give us each day our bread for the day,

and forgive us our sins, for we ourselves forgive anyone who wrongs us; and do not subject us to temptation.' "

and he answers from inside, 'Do not bother me; the door is now fastened, and my children and I have gone to bed; I cannot get up and give you any.'

I tell you, even if he will not get up and give him some because he is his friend, yet because of his persistence he will rouse himself and give him all he needs.

For it is always the one who asks who receives, and the one who searches who finds, and the one who knocks to whom the door opens.

So if you, bad as you are, know enough to give your children what is good, how much more surely will your Father in heaven give the holy Spirit to those who ask him for it!"

But some of them said, "It is with the aid of Beelzebub, the prince of the demons, that he drives the demons out."

But he knew what they were thinking, and he said to them, "Any kingdom that is disunited is on the way to destruction, and one house falls after another.

And if Satan is disunited, how can his kingdom last? Because you say that I drive out demons with Beelzebub's aid.

But if it is with his aid that I drive out demons, by whose do your sons drive them out? Therefore, they shall be your judges.

But if it is with the finger of God that I am driving the demons out, then the Kingdom of God has overtaken you.

When a strong man fully armed guards his own dwelling, his property is undisturbed.

Anyone who is not with me is against me, and anyone who does not join me in gathering, scatters.

Then it goes and gets seven other spirits more wicked than itself, and they go in and live there, and in the end the man is worse off than he was before."

As he said this, a woman in the crowd raised her voice and said to him, "Blessed is the mother who bore you and nursed you!"

As the crowds pressed a round him, he went on to say, "This is a wicked age! It demands a sign, and no sign will be given it but the sign of Jonah.

For just as Jonah became a sign to the people of Nineveh, so the Son of Man will be a sign to this age.

The queen of the south will rise with the men of this generation at the Judgment and will condemn them, for she came from the very ends of the earth to listen to Solomon's wisdom, and there is more than Solomon here!

Men of Nineveh will rise with this generation at the Judgment and will condemn it, for they repented at Jonah's preaching, and there is more than Jonah here.

Your eye is the lamp of your body. When your eye is sound, your whole body is light, but when it is unsound, your body is dark.

If, therefore, your whole body is light with no darkness in it at all, it will all be as light as a lamp makes things for you by its light."

But give your inmost life as charity, and you will immediately find everything clean.

At this, one of the experts in the Law said to him, "Master, when you say that, you affront us too."

This is why the Wisdom of God said, 'I will send prophets and apostles to them, and some of them they will kill and some they will persecute'??50 so that this age may be charged with the blood of all the prophets that has been shed since the creation of the world,

Meanwhile as the people gathered in thousands, until they actually trod on one another, he proceeded to say to his disciples first of all, "Beware of the yeast of the Pharisees, that is, hypocrisy.

There is nothing covered up that is not going to be uncovered, nor secret that is not going to be known.

Do not sparrows sell five for two cents? And yet not one of them is forgotten in God's sight.

And he said to them, "Take care! You must be on your guard against any form of greed, for a man's life does not belong to him, no matter how rich he is."

Then he said, 'This is what I will do; I will tear down my barns and build larger ones, and in them I will store all my grain and my goods.

That is the way with the man who lays up money for himself, and is not rich with God."

Life is more important than food, and the body than clothes.

But if God so dresses the wild grass, which is alive today, and is thrown into the furnace tomorrow, how much more surely will he clothe you, who have so little faith?

For wherever your treasure is, your heart will be too.

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

Peter said to him, "Master, do you mean this figure for us, or is it for everybody?"

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

But if the slave says to himself, 'My master is not coming back for a long time,' and begins to beat the men and women slaves and to eat and drink and get drunk,

I have a baptism to undergo, and how distressed I am till it is over!

And he said to the crowds, "When you see a cloud rise in the west, you say at once, 'It is going to rain,' and it does.

And when you see the south wind blowing, you say, 'It is going to be very hot,' and it is.

Why do you not decide what is right yourselves?

Just then some people came up to bring him word of the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mingled with that of their sacrifices.

No, I tell you; unless you repent, you will all perish as they did!

No, I tell you; unless you repent, you will all perish as they did!"