A second time he sent some servants, with orders to say to those who had been invited 'I have prepared my breakfast, my cattle and fat beasts are killed and everything is ready; come to the banquet.'

But the king was angry; and he sent his armies, and those who had put his servants to death he gave to destruction, burning down their town with fire.

Then he said to his slaves, 'The wedding celebration is ready, but those who had been invited were not worthy.

But when the king came in to see the guests, he saw there a man who had not on a guest's robe;

And he says to him, Friend, how came you in here not having a guest's robe? And he had nothing to say.

Then the Pharisees went and had a meeting to see how they might make use of his words to take him.

Show me the coin with which the tax is paid." And, when they had brought him a florin,

When they had heard these words, they marveled, and left him, and departed.

"Teacher, Moses said [in Deut. 25:5] that when a man dies without having had any children, his brother must marry his widow and father children by her, who would [then] be considered his [dead] brother's.

Now there were with us seven brothers: and the first, when he had married a wife, deceased; and having no issue, left his wife to his brother.

When they come back from the dead, then, whose wife will she be of the seven? because they all had her.

The crowds, who had been listening to him, were greatly struck with his teaching.

But the Pharisees, hearing how the mouths of the Sadducees had been stopped, came together;

As the Pharisees had mustered, Jesus put a question to them.

If we had been living in the days of our fathers, we would not have taken part with them in the blood of the prophets.

Jesus had left the Temple and was going on His way, when His disciples came and called His attention to the Temple buildings.

When he had seated himself on the Mount of Olives, his disciples came to him privately, saying, "Tell us, when will these things happen, and what will be the sign of your coming, and of the end of the age?"

There will be great trouble [during these times], such as had never been from the beginning of time up to the present, or ever will be [in the days to come].

And if those days had not been made short there would have been no salvation for any, but because of the saints those days will be made short.

And they had no care till the waters came and took them all away; so will be the coming of the Son of man.

But be certain of this, that if the master of the house had had knowledge of the time when the thief was coming, he would have been watching, and would not have let his house be broken into.

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.'

But [while] they had gone away to buy [it] the bridegroom arrived, and those who were ready went inside with him to the wedding celebration, and the door was shut.

Straight away he who had been given the five talents went and did trade with them, and made five more.

In the same way he who had been given the two got two more.

But the one who had received the one went away [and] dug up the ground and hid his master's money.

And after a long time the lord of those servants came, and had a settlement with them.

And he who had the five talents came with his other five talents, saying, Lord, you gave into my care five talents: see, I have got five more.

And he who had the two talents came and said, Lord, you gave into my care two talents: see, I have got two more.

And he who had had the one talent came and said, Lord, I had knowledge that you are a hard man, getting in grain where you have not put seed, and making profits for which you have done no work:

But his lord in answer said to him, You are a bad and unready servant; if you had knowledge that I get in grain where I did not put seed, and make profits for which I have done no work,

Thou oughtest therefore to have had my money to the changers, and then at my coming should I have received my mine own with vantage.

Take the one talent away from him, therefore, and give it to the servant who had the ten talents.

I had no clothing, and you gave it to me: when I was ill, or in prison, you came to me.

Then those who had done what was right [i.e., the ones at His right side] replied, 'Lord, when did we see you hungry, and feed you? Or thirsty, and give you [something] to drink?

when I was a stranger, you did not invite me home, when I had no clothes, you did not supply me, when I was sick and in prison, you did not look after me.'

And when Jesus had come to the end of all these words, he said to his disciples,

Now when Jesus was in Bethany, in the house of Simon who had been a leper,

there came unto him a woman, which had an alabaster box of precious ointment, and poured it on his head, as he sat at the board.

When his disciples saw that, they had indignation saying, "What needed this waste?

And the disciples did as Jesus had directed them, and they prepared the passover.

And when evening had come, He sat down with the Twelve.

The Son of Man is going just as it is written about him, but woe to that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would be better for him if that man had not been born."

And after they had eaten, Jesus took bread and blessed and brake and gave it to his disciples and said, Take, eat; this is my body.

And when he had taken the cup and given thanks, he gave it to them, saying.

And [after they] had sung the hymn, they went out to the Mount of Olives.

And he came to his disciples, and found them sleeping; and he said to Peter: Was it so, that you had not strength to watch with me one hour?

And coming, he, again, found them sleeping, for their eyes had become heavy.

And before he had done speaking, Judas one of the twelve appear'd, with a numerous retinue, arm'd with swords and staves, being sent by the chief priests and elders of the people.

Now the one who was betraying him had given them a sign, saying, "[The one] whom I kiss--he is [the one]. Arrest him!"

but all this was to be done, in pursuance of what the prophets had predicted. then all the disciples abandon'd him, and fled.

Now those who had arrested Jesus led [him] away to Caiaphas the high priest, where the scribes and the elders had gathered.

But they couldn't find any, even though many false witnesses had come forward. At last two men came forward

saying, "Prophesy to us, you 'Christ.' Tell us who hit you?" [Note: By this time Jesus had been blindfolded. See Mark 14:65].

And when he had gone out into the entrance, another maid saw him, and says to those there, This man also was with Jesus the Nazaraean.

And Peter remembered the statement Jesus had said, "Before the rooster crows, you will deny me three times," and he went outside [and] wept bitterly.

Now when morning had come, all the chief priests and the elders of the people took counsel against Jesus to put him to death:

And when they had bound him, they led him away, and delivered him to Pontius Pilate the governor.

Then [when] Judas, the one who had betrayed him, saw that he had been condemned, he regretted [what he had done] [and] returned the thirty silver coins to the chief priests and elders,

When the High Priests had gathered up the money they said, "It is illegal to put it into the Treasury, because it is the price of blood."

So, they conferred together [and decided] to buy "The Potter's Field" with the money [Note: This was probably an abandoned field where clay had been obtained for making pottery], for use in burying people who were not from the local area.

Then what was spoken by the prophet Jeremiah was fulfilled, who said, "And they took the thirty silver coins, the price of the one who had been priced, [on] whom a price had been set by the sons of Israel,

And they gave them for the potter's field, as I had word from the Lord.

Now during a feast the governor had been accustomed to release to the crowd one prisoner whom they wanted.

And at that time they had a notorious prisoner named Jesus Barabbas.

So [after] they had assembled, Pilate said to them, "Whom do you want me to release for you--Jesus Barabbas or Jesus who is called Christ?"

(For he knew that they had handed him over because of envy.

And while he was on the judge's seat, his wife sent to him, saying, Have nothing to do with that upright man, for I have had much trouble this day in a dream because of him.

But the chief priests and the elders had persuaded the people, that they should ask Barabbas, and should destroy Jesus.

Then he released Barabbas for them, but [after] he had Jesus flogged, he handed [him] over so that he could be crucified.

and when they had stript Him, they covered Him with a scarlet robe;

And when they had platted a crown of thorns, they put it upon his head, and a reed in his right hand: and they bowed the knee before him, and mocked him, saying, Hail, King of the Jews?

And when they had mocked him, they stripped him of the military cloak and put his [own] clothes on him, and led him away in order to crucify [him].

And when they had come to a place called Golgotha, that is to say, a place of a skull,

they gave him vinegar to drink, mingled with gall. And when he had tasted thereof, he would not drink.

And [when they] had crucified him, they divided his clothes among themselves [by] casting lots.

And the robbers also who had been crucified with him cast the same reproaches on him.

Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud voice, expired.

And the tombs were opened, and many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised,

And coming out of their resting-places, after he had come again from the dead, they went into the holy town and were seen by a number of people.

now the centurion, and they that were with him, to guard Jesus, having observ'd the earthquake, and all that had happened, were under great apprehensions, and said, certainly this was the son of God.

And there were many women there, observing from a distance, who had followed Jesus from Galilee, serving him,

And, when, evening, arrived, there came a rich man from Arimathaea, whose name was Joseph, who also, himself, had been discipled unto Jesus.

And when Joseph had taken the body, he wrapped it in a clean linen cloth,

and placed it in his [own] new tomb that he had cut in the rock. And he rolled a large stone to the entrance of the tomb [and] went away.

After the Sabbath, as the first day of the week began to dawn, Mary of Magdala and the other Mary had gone to look at the grave,

Now there had been a great earthquake. For an angel of the Lord came down from heaven and went and rolled the boulder back and remained sitting upon it.

He is not here, for He has risen just as He said [He would]. Come and see the place where the Lord had been lying,

And [while] they were going, behold, some of the guard of soldiers went into the city [and] reported to the chief priests everything that had happened.

And [after they] had assembled with the elders and had taken counsel, they gave a rather large sum of money to the soldiers,

And they took the money and did as they had been taught. And this report is current among the Jews until this day.

So the eleven disciples proceeded to Galilee, to the mountain which Jesus had designated for them.

And when they saw him they worshiped him, tho' some had doubted.