Then he went up the hillside and called to him those whom he chose, and they came to him.

Then, with a glance at those who were in the circle sitting around him, he added.

He went on to say to them. "The secret truth concerning the kingdom of God has been given to you, but to those outside everything is told in parables,

"What the Sower sows is the Word. There are those 'on the wayside' where the Word is sown.

And like the sowing upon 'stony ground' are those who, whenever they hear the Word, at once receive it with joy,

But those, on the other hand, who were sown on that good soil, are those who listen to the Word, and welcome it, and bear fruit, thirty, sixty, or a hundredfold."

And those who had been eye-witnesses told them what had happened to the demoniac and to the swine.

"The child is not dead, but asleep." And they began to laugh him to scorn. Then he put them all outside, took the father and mother of the child and those he brought with him, and entered the room where the child was lying.

Those who ate the bread were five thousand adult men.

In those days when a large crowd had again assembled and had nothing to eat, Jesus called together his disciples and said to them.

Then Jesus looked round on his disciples and said, "How hard it is for those who have wealth to enter into the kingdom of God!"

"My sons, how hard it is for those who trust in money to enter the kingdom of God. It is easier for a camel to get through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven."

but a seat upon my right hand or my left is not mine to grant, but it is for those for whom it has been reserved."

"You know that those who are regarded as rulers among the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great ones make them feel their authority.

and those who went before him and those who came after kept shouting. "Hosanna! Blessed be He who comes in the name of the Lord!

Presently they reached Jerusalem, and, after entering the Temple courts, Jesus began to drive out those who were buying and selling there, and to upset the tables of the money-changers, and the stalls of those who sold doves,

"But those tenants said to themselves. 'Here is the heir! Come, let us kill him, and the inheritance will be ours.'

"But when you see the Abomination of Desolation 'standing where he ought not' (let the reader ponder this), then let those in Judea flee to the mountains;

And alas for the pregnant women, and for those that are nursing their infants in those days!

For those will be days of suffering the like of which has never been from the beginning of God's creation until now, and never shall be.

And had not the Lord cut short those days, not a single person would escape; but for the elect's sake whom he has chosen, he has cut them short.

"But when the tribulation is past, in those days the sun will be darkened and the moon will not shed her light,

Some of those who were present said among themselves indignantly. "Why has the perfume been wasted like this?

She went and told those who had been with him, as they mourned and wept.

Afterward he appeared to the Eleven themselves, as they were eating, and reproached them for their lack of faith, and stubborn hearts, because they disbelieved those who had seen him risen.

Moreover these signs shall follow those who believe. They shall drive out demons in my name; they shall speak with new tongues in foreign languages;