But when he noticed a number of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming for his baptism, he said to them, "You brood of vipers, who told you to flee from the coming Wrath?

Be quick and make terms with your opponent, so long as you and he are on the way to court, in case he hands you over to the judge, and the judge to the jailer, and you are thrown into prison;

If your right eye is a hindrance to you, pluck it out and throw it away: better for you to lose one of your members than to have all your body thrown into Gehenna.

And if your right hand is a hindrance to you, cut it off and throw it away: better for you to lose one of your members than to have all your body thrown into Gehenna.

whoever forces you to go one mile, go two miles with him;

Do not be troubled, then, and cry, 'What are we to eat?' or 'what are we to drink?' or 'how are we to be clothed?'

rather make your way to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.

to ask him, "Are you the Coming One? Or are we to look out for someone else?"

"Woe to you, Khorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! Had the miracles performed in you been performed in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.

He replied, "Because it is granted you to understand the open secrets of the Realm of heaven, but it is not granted to these people.

He said, "Come." Then Peter got out of the boat and walked over the water on his way to Jesus;

The disciples said to him, "Where are we to get loaves enough in a desert to satisfy such a crowd?"

Jesus answered, "O faithless and perverse generation, how long must I still be with you? How long have I to bear with you? Bring him here to me."

Woe to the world for hindrances! Hindrances have to come, but ??woe to the man by whom the hindrance does come!

He said to them, "Moses permitted you to divorce your wives, on account of the hardness of your hearts, but it was not so from the beginning.

Then Peter replied, "Well, we have left our all and followed you. Now what are we to get?"

For John showed you the way to be good and you would not believe him; the taxgatherers and harlots believed him, and even though you saw that, you would not change your mind afterwards and believe him.

Woe to you, you impious scribes and Pharisees! you shut the Realm of heaven in men's faces; you neither enter yourselves, nor will you let those enter who are on the point of entering.

Woe to you, you impious scribes and Pharisees! you traverse sea and land to make a single proselyte, and when you succeed you make him a son of Gehenna twice as bad as yourselves.

Woe to you, blind guides that you are! you say, 'Swear by the sanctuary, and it means nothing; but swear by the gold of the sanctuary, and the oath is binding.'

Woe to you, you impious scribes and Pharisees! you tithe mint and dill and cummin, and omit the weightier matters of the law, justice and mercy and faithfulness; these latter you ought to have practised ??without omit ting the former.

Woe to you, you irreligious scribes and Pharisees! you clean the outside of the cup and the plate, but inside they are filled with your rapacity and self-indulgence.

Woe to you, you irreligious scribes and Pharisees! you are like tombs white-washed; they look comely on the outside, but inside they are full of dead men's bones and all manner of impurity.

Woe to you, you irreligious scribes and Pharisees! You build tombs for the prophets and decorate the tombs of the just,

Woe to women with child and to women who give suck in those days!

On the first day of unleavened bread the disciples of Jesus came up and said to him, "Where do you want us to prepare for you to eat the passover?"

The Son of man goes the road that the scripture has described for him, but woe to the man by whom the Son of man is betrayed! Better that man had never been born!"

But after my rising I will precede you to Galilee."

but those who had seized Jesus took him away to the house of Caiaphas the high priest, where the scribes and elders had gathered.

Pilate said, "Then what am I to do with Jesus the so-called 'Christ'?" They all said, "Have him crucified!"

Now be quick and go to his disciples, tell them he has risen from the dead and that 'he precedes you to Galilee; you shall see him there.' That is my message for you."

And he said to them, "You do not understand this parable? Then how are you to understand the other parables?

He said also, "To what can we compare the Realm of God? how are we to put it in a parable?

He was sleeping on the cushion in the stern, so they woke him up saying, "Teacher, are we to drown, for all you care?"

then he took the child's hand and said to her, "Talitha koum" ??which may be translated, "Little girl, I am telling you to rise."

So she went out and said to her mother, "What am I to ask?" "John the Baptizer's head," she answered.

Then she hurried in at once and asked the king, saying, "I want you to give me this very moment John the Baptist's head on a dish."

And he said to them, "Come away to some lonely spot and get a little rest" (for there were many people coming and going, and they could get no time even to eat).

He replied, "Give them some food, yourselves." They said, "Are we to go and buy ten pounds' worth of food and give them that to eat?"

Leaving there, he went away to the territory of Tyre and Sidon. He went into a house and wished no one to know of it, but he could not escape notice;

Then he left them, embarked again, and went away to the opposite side.

He answered them, "O faithless generation, how long must I still be with you? how long have I to bear with you? Bring him to me."

Salt is excellent: but if salt is tasteless, how are you to restore its flavour? Let there be 'salt between you'; be at peace with one another."

James and John, the sons of Zebedaeus, came up to him saying, "Teacher, we want you to do whatever we ask you."

Now they argued to themselves, "[What are we to say?] If we say, 'From heaven,' he will ask, 'Then why did you not believe him.'

Are we to pay, or are we not to pay?" But he saw their trick and said to them, "Why tempt me? Bring me a shilling. Let me see it."

Woe to women with child and to women who give suck in those days!

On the first day of unleavened bread (the day when the paschal lamb was sacrificed) his disciples said to him, "Where do you want us to go and prepare for you to eat the passover?"

The Son of man goes the road that the scripture has described for him, but woe to the man by whom the Son of man is betrayed! Better that man had never been born!"

But after my rising I will precede you to Galilee."

They took Jesus away to the high priest, and all the high priests and scribes and elders met there with him.

Pilate asked them again, "And what am I to do with your so-called king of the Jews?"

Then, after making fun of him, they stripped off the purple, put on his own clothes, and took him away to crucify him.

Go you and tell his disciples and Peter, 'He precedes you to Galilee; you shall see him there, as he told you.'"

After this he appeared in another form to two of them as they were walking on their way to the country.

Zechariah said to the angel, "But how am I to be sure of this? I am an old man myself, and my wife is advanced in years."

Now when the angels had left them and gone away to heaven, the shepherds said to one another, "Let us be off to Bethlehem to see this thing that the Lord has told us of."

To the crowds who came out to get baptized by him John said, "You brood of vipers, who told you to flee from the coming Wrath?

The crowds asked him, "Then what are we to do?"

Taxgatherers also came to get baptized, and they said to him, "Teacher, what are we to do?"

Soldiers also asked him, "And what are we to do?" He said to them, "Never extort money, never lay a false charge, but be content with your pay."

But woe to you rich folk! you get all the comforts you will ever get.

Woe to you who have your fill to-day! you will be hungry. Woe to you who laugh to-day! you will wail and weep.

Woe to you when all men speak well of you! that is just what their fathers did to the false prophets.

It was shortly afterwards that he made his way to a town called Nain, accompanied by his disciples and a large crowd.

So John summoned two of his disciples and sent them to ask the Lord, "Are you the Coming One? Or are we to look out for someone else?"

When the men reached Jesus they said, "John the Baptist has sent us to you to ask if you are the Coming One or if we are to look out for someone else?"

so he said, "It is granted you to understand the open secrets of the Reign of God, but the others get it in parables, so that for all their seeing they may not see, and for all their hearing they may not understand.

He said to them, "Give them some food yourselves." They said, "We have only got five loaves and two fish. Unless ??are we to go and buy food for the whole of this people?"

Woe to you, Khorazin! woe to you, Bethsaida! Had the miracles performed in you been performed in Tyre and Sidon, they would long ago have been sitting penitent in sackcloth and ashes.

Now a jurist got up to tempt him. "Teacher," he said, "what am I to do to inherit life eternal?"

But woe to you Pharisees! you tithe mint and rue and every vegetable, but justice and the love of God you disregard; these latter you ought to have practised ??without omitting the former.

Woe to you Pharisees! you love the front bench in the synagogues and salutations in the marketplaces.

Woe to you! you are like unsuspected tombs; men walk over them unawares."

He said, "And woe to you jurists! you load men with irksome burdens, and you will not put a single finger to their burdens.

Woe to you! you build tombs for the prophets whom your own fathers killed:

Woe to you jurists! you have taken the key that unlocks the door of knowledge; you have not entered yourselves, and you have stopped those who were entering."

So he debated, 'What am I to do? I have no room to store my crops.'

The Lord replied to him, "You hypocrites, does not each of you untether his ox or ass from the stall on the sabbath and lead it away to drink?

On he went, teaching from one town and village to another, as he made his way to Jerusalem.

"When anyone invites you to a marriage-banquet," he said, "never lie down in the best place, in case a more distinguished guest than yourself has been invited;

The factor said to himself, 'What am I to do, now that my master is taking the factorship away from me? I am too weak to dig, I am ashamed to beg.

And I tell you, use mammon, dishonest as it is, to make friends for yourselves, so that when you die they may welcome you to the eternal abodes.

Besides all that, a great gulf yawns between us and you, to keep back those who want to cross from us to you and also those who want to pass from you to us.'

Then he said, 'Well, father, I beg you to send him to my father's house,

To his disciples he said, "It is inevitable that hindrances should come, but woe to the man by whom they come;

Then a ruler asked him, "Good teacher, what am I to do to inherit life eternal?"

'I tell you, to everyone who has shall more be given, but from him who has nothing, even what he has shall be taken.

and raze you and your children within you to the ground, leaving not one stone upon another within you ??and all because you would not understand when God was visiting you."

That will turn out an opportunity for you to bear witness.

Woe to women with child and to women who give suck in those days, for sore anguish will come upon the land and Wrath on this people;

The Son of man moves to his end indeed as it has been decreed, but woe to the man by whom he is betrayed!"

"Lord," he said, "I am ready to go with you to prison and to death."

Then he went outside and made his way to the Hill of Olives, as he was accustomed. The disciples followed him,

That very day two of them were on their way to a village called Emmaus about seven miles from Jerusalem.

"Then who are you?" they said; "tell us, so that we can give some answer to those who sent us. What have you to say for yourself?"

"Woman," said Jesus, "what have you to do with me? My time has not come yet."

Then the Jews accosted him with the words, "What sign of authority have you to show us, for acting in this way?"

They set out from the town on their way to him.

I sent you to reap a crop for which you did not toil; other men have toiled, and you reap the profit of their toil."