In these circumstances, a crowd of many thousands came together, so that they were trampling on one another. He began to say to His disciples first: “Be on your guard against the yeast of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.

There is nothing covered that won’t be uncovered, nothing hidden that won’t be made known.

But I will show you the One to fear: Fear Him who has authority to throw people into hell after death. Yes, I say to you, this is the One to fear!

Aren’t five sparrows sold for two pennies? Yet not one of them is forgotten in God’s sight.

He then told them, “Watch out and be on guard against all greed because one’s life is not in the abundance of his possessions.”

“But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night your life is demanded of you. And the things you have prepared—whose will they be?’

“That’s how it is with the one who stores up treasure for himself and is not rich toward God.”

For life is more than food and the body more than clothing.

If that’s how God clothes the grass, which is in the field today and is thrown into the furnace tomorrow, how much more will He do for you—you of little faith?

For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

You also be ready, because the Son of Man is coming at an hour that you do not expect.”

“Lord,” Peter asked, “are You telling this parable to us or to everyone?”

The Lord said: “Who then is the faithful and sensible manager his master will put in charge of his household servants to give them their allotted food at the proper time?

That slave whose master finds him working when he comes will be rewarded.

But if that slave says in his heart, ‘My master is delaying his coming,’ and starts to beat the male and female slaves, and to eat and drink and get drunk,

But I have a baptism to be baptized with, and how it consumes Me until it is finished!

He also said to the crowds: “When you see a cloud rising in the west, right away you say, ‘A storm is coming,’ and so it does.

And when the south wind is blowing, you say, ‘It’s going to be a scorcher!’ and it is.

“Why don’t you judge for yourselves what is right?

As you are going with your adversary to the ruler, make an effort to settle with him on the way. Then he won’t drag you before the judge, the judge hand you over to the bailiff, and the bailiff throw you into prison.

At that time, some people came and reported to Him about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mixed with their sacrifices.

No, I tell you; but unless you repent, you will all perish as well!

No, I tell you; but unless you repent, you will all perish as well!”

As He was teaching in one of the synagogues on the Sabbath,

He said, therefore, “What is the kingdom of God like, and what can I compare it to?

once the homeowner gets up and shuts the door. Then you will stand outside and knock on the door, saying, ‘Lord, open up for us!’ He will answer you, ‘I don’t know you or where you’re from.’

Yet I must travel today, tomorrow, and the next day, because it is not possible for a prophet to perish outside of Jerusalem!

“Jerusalem, Jerusalem! She who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her. How often I wanted to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing!

See, your house is abandoned to you. And I tell you, you will not see Me until the time comes when you say, ‘He who comes in the name of the Lord is the blessed One’!”

There in front of Him was a man whose body was swollen with fluid.

In response, Jesus asked the law experts and the Pharisees, “Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath or not?”

And to them, He said, “Which of you whose son or ox falls into a well, will not immediately pull him out on the Sabbath day?”

When one of those who reclined at the table with Him heard these things, he said to Him, “The one who will eat bread in the kingdom of God is blessed!”

At the time of the banquet, he sent his slave to tell those who were invited, ‘Come, because everything is now ready.’

“Or what king, going to war against another king, will not first sit down and decide if he is able with 10,000 to oppose the one who comes against him with 20,000?

If not, while the other is still far off, he sends a delegation and asks for terms of peace.

“Now, salt is good, but if salt should lose its taste, how will it be made salty?

I tell you, in the same way, there is joy in the presence of God’s angels over one sinner who repents.”

because this son of mine was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found!’ So they began to celebrate.

“Now his older son was in the field; as he came near the house, he heard music and dancing.

‘Your brother is here,’ he told him, ‘and your father has slaughtered the fattened calf because he has him back safe and sound.’

“‘Son,’ he said to him, ‘you are always with me, and everything I have is yours.

But we had to celebrate and rejoice, because this brother of yours was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found.’”

So he called the manager in and asked, ‘What is this I hear about you? Give an account of your management, because you can no longer be my manager.’

“Then the manager said to himself, ‘What should I do, since my master is taking the management away from me? I’m not strong enough to dig; I’m ashamed to beg.

Whoever is faithful in very little is also faithful in much, and whoever is unrighteous in very little is also unrighteous in much.

So if you have not been faithful with the unrighteous money, who will trust you with what is genuine?

And if you have not been faithful with what belongs to someone else, who will give you what is your own?

And He told them: “You are the ones who justify yourselves in the sight of others, but God knows your hearts. For what is highly admired by people is revolting in God’s sight.

“The Law and the Prophets were until John; since then, the good news of the kingdom of God has been proclaimed, and everyone is strongly urged to enter it.

But it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away than for one stroke of a letter in the law to drop out.

“‘Son,’ Abraham said, ‘remember that during your life you received your good things, just as Lazarus received bad things, but now he is comforted here, while you are in agony.

Besides all this, a great chasm has been fixed between us and you, so that those who want to pass over from here to you cannot; neither can those from there cross over to us.’

As He entered a village, 10 men with serious skin diseases met Him. They stood at a distance

and raised their voices, saying, “Jesus, Master, have mercy on us!”

Being asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God will come, He answered them, “The kingdom of God is not coming with something observable;

no one will say, ‘Look here!’ or ‘There!’ For you see, the kingdom of God is among you.”

For as the lightning flashes from horizon to horizon and lights up the sky, so the Son of Man will be in His day.

“Just as it was in the days of Noah, so it will be in the days of the Son of Man:

It will be the same as it was in the days of Lot: People went on eating, drinking, buying, selling, planting, building.

It will be like that on the day the Son of Man is revealed.

On that day, a man on the housetop, whose belongings are in the house, must not come down to get them. Likewise the man who is in the field must not turn back.

“Where, Lord?” they asked Him.

He said to them, “Where the corpse is, there also the vultures will be gathered.”

Jesus, however, invited them: “Let the little children come to Me, and don’t stop them, because the kingdom of God belongs to such as these.

“Why do you call Me good?” Jesus asked him. “No one is good but One—God.

Seeing that he became sad, Jesus said, “How hard it is for those who have wealth to enter the kingdom of God!

For it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the kingdom of God.”

He replied, “What is impossible with men is possible with God.”

So He said to them, “I assure you: There is no one who has left a house, wife or brothers, parents or children because of the kingdom of God,

Then He took the Twelve aside and told them, “Listen! We are going up to Jerusalem. Everything that is written through the prophets about the Son of Man will be accomplished.

As He drew near Jericho, a blind man was sitting by the road begging.

“Jesus the Nazarene is passing by,” they told him.

But Zacchaeus stood there and said to the Lord, “Look, I’ll give half of my possessions to the poor, Lord! And if I have extorted anything from anyone, I’ll pay back four times as much!”

“Today salvation has come to this house,” Jesus told him, “because he too is a son of Abraham.

As they were listening to this, He went on to tell a parable because He was near Jerusalem, and they thought the kingdom of God was going to appear right away.

“But his subjects hated him and sent a delegation after him, saying, ‘We don’t want this man to rule over us!’

“And another came and said, ‘Master, here is your mina. I have kept it hidden away in a cloth

As He approached Bethphage and Bethany, at the place called the Mount of Olives, He sent two of the disciples

and said, “Go into the village ahead of you. As you enter it, you will find a young donkey tied there, on which no one has ever sat. Untie it and bring it here.

So those who were sent left and found it just as He had told them.

As they were untying the young donkey, its owners said to them, “Why are you untying the donkey?”

As He was going along, they were spreading their robes on the road.

The King who comes
in the name of the Lord
is the blessed One.
Peace in heaven
and glory in the highest heaven!

As He approached and saw the city, He wept over it,

saying, “If you knew this day what would bring peace—but now it is hidden from your eyes.

and He said, “It is written, My house will be a house of prayer, but you have made it a den of thieves!”

One day as He was teaching the people in the temple complex and proclaiming the good news, the chief priests and the scribes, with the elders, came up

and said to Him: “Tell us, by what authority are You doing these things? Who is it who gave You this authority?”

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

“But when the tenant farmers saw him, they discussed it among themselves and said, ‘This is the heir. Let’s kill him, so the inheritance will be ours!’

But He looked at them and said, “Then what is the meaning of this Scripture:

The stone that the builders rejected—
this has become the cornerstone?

Is it lawful for us to pay taxes to Caesar or not?”

“Show Me a denarius. Whose image and inscription does it have?”

“Caesar’s,” they said.

Some of the Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, came up and questioned Him:

“Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if a man’s brother has a wife, and dies childless, his brother should take the wife and produce offspring for his brother.

In the resurrection, therefore, whose wife will the woman be? For all seven had married her.”

He is not God of the dead but of the living, because all are living to Him.”

Then He said to them, “How can they say that the Messiah is the Son of David?

As some were talking about the temple complex, how it was adorned with beautiful stones and gifts dedicated to God, He said,

Then He said, “Watch out that you are not deceived. For many will come in My name, saying, ‘I am He,’ and, ‘The time is near.’ Don’t follow them.