And on the morrow departing, he took out two pieces of money, and gave them to the host, and said to him, Take care of him; and whatsoever thou spendest more, as I come back I will repay thee.

And he said to them, When ye pray, say, Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come: Thy will be done as in heaven, so on earth.

I tell you, though he will not rise and give him,

because he is his friend, yet, because of his importunity, he will rise and give him as many as he needeth. And I say to you, Ask, and it shall be given you, seek and ye shall find, knock and it shall be opened to you.

If a son shall ask bread of any of you that is a father, will he give him a stone?

Or if he ask a fish, for a fish give him a serpent? Or if he shall ask an egg, will he give him a scorpion?

While the strong one armed guardeth his palace, his goods are in peace. But

When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh thro' dry places, seeking rest: and finding none, he saith, I will return to my house whence I came out.

The eye is the lamp of the body: therefore when thine eye is single, thy whole body is full of light, but when thine eye is evil, thy body also is full of darkness.

If then thy whole body be full of light, not having any part dark, the whole shall be as full of light, as when a lamp enlightens thee with its bright shining.

But give what is in them in alms, and behold all things are clean to you.

But wo to you, Pharisees; for ye tythe mint and rue and all herbs; and pass by justice and the love of God: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone.

Therefore also the wisdom of God hath said, I will send them prophets and apostles, and some of them they will slay, and persecute the rest.

So that the blood of all the prophets shed from the foundation of the world, shall be required of this generation.

But I will shew you whom ye shall fear: fear him, who after he hath killed, hath power to cast into hell: yea, I say to you, fear him.

But even the hairs of your head are all numbered.

For I have no room where to stow my fruits. And he said, This I will do: I will pull down my barns and build greater; and there will I stow all my fruits and my goods.

And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years: take thine ease; eat, drink, and be merry.

Consider the lilies, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin; and yet I say to you, that Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.

If then God so cloth the grass, which is to day in the field, and to morrow is cast into the still, how much more will he clothe you, O ye of little faith?

For the nations of the world seek all these things; and your Father knoweth that ye need these things.

But seek ye the kingdom of God, and all these things shall be added to you.

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

and your lamps burning, And be like men that wait for their Lord, when he will return from the wedding, that, when he cometh and knocketh, they may open to him immediately.

Happy are those servants, whom the Lord, when he cometh, shall find watching; verily I say to you, that he will gird himself, and make them sit down to table, and will come forth and serve them.

Then Peter said to him, Lord, speakest thou this parable to us, or also to all?

Verily I say to you, he will set him over all that he hath.

The Lord of that servant will come in a day when he expecteth not, and at an hour when he knoweth not, and will cut him in sunder, and appoint him his portion with the unfaithful.

And that servant who knew his Lord's will, and prepared not, neither did according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes.

But he that knew not, and did things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few. For to whomsoever much is given, of him much shall be required; and to whom they have committed much, of him they will ask the more.

And when ye find the south wind blowing, ye say, There will be sultry heat; and it is so.

And Jesus answering said to them, Suppose ye that these Galileans were sinners above all the Galileans, because they suffered such things;

I tell you, Nay; but except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish.

Or those eighteen, on whom the tower in Siloam fell and slew them, suppose ye, that they were sinners above all that dwelt at Jerusalem?

I tell you, Nay; but except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish.

And when he had said these things, all his adversaries were ashamed: and all the multitude rejoiced for all the glorious things that were done by him.

It is like leaven, which a woman took and covered up in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened.

And he said to him, Strive to enter in thro' the strait gate; for many, I say to you, will seek to enter in, and shall not be able.

But he shall say, I tell you, I know not whence ye are: depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity.

There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when ye shall see Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, and all the prophets in the kingdom of God, and yourselves thrust out.

And answered them, saying, Which of you shall have an ass or an ox fallen into a pit, and will not straightway pull him out on the sabbath day?

And he sent his servants at supper time to say to them that were invited, Come, for all things are now ready.

And they all with one consent began to make excuse. The first said to him, I have bought a field, I must needs go and see it: I pray thee, have me excused.

Lest haply after he hath laid the foundation, and is not able to finish it, all that behold mock him,

If not, while the other is yet a great way off, he sendeth an embassage, and desireth conditions of peace.

So every one of you, who forsaketh not all that he hath, cannot be my disciple.

Then drew near to him all the publicans and sinners, to hear him.

And he divided to them his substance. And not many days after, the younger son gathered all together, and took a journey into a far country, and there squandered away his substance, living riotously.

And when he had spent all, there arose a mighty famine in that country; and he began to be in want.

I will arise and go to my father, and will say to him, Father, I have sinned against heaven and before thee:

And he arose and came to his father: But while he was yet a great way off, his father saw him, and his bowels yearned, and he ran, and fell on his neck and kissed him.

And he said to him, Son, thou art always with me, and all that I have is thine.

And he said, An hundred measures of oil. He said to him, Take thy bill, and sit down quickly and write fifty.

If therefore ye have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will intrust you with the true riches?

And if ye have not been fauthful in that which is another's, who will give you that which is your own?

No servant can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other, or he will cleave to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and Mammon.

And besides all this, between us and you, there is a great gulph fixed; so that they who would pass from us to you, cannot, neither can they pass to us that would come from thence.

And he said, Nay, father Abraham; but if one go to them from the dead, they will repent.

And he said to him, If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded tho' one rose from the dead.

Then said he to the disciples, It is impossible but offences will come; but wo to him through whom they come.

But which of you having a servant plowing or feeding cattle, will say to him as soon as he cometh from the field, Come and sit down to table?

And will not rather say to him, Make ready wherewith I may sup, and gird thyself and serve me till I have eaten and drunk, and afterward thou shalt eat and drink?

I think not. So likewise ye, when ye have done all the things that are commanded you, say, We are but unprofitable servants: we have done what was our duty to do.

And he said to the disciples, The days will come, when ye shall desire to see one of the days of the Son of man, and shall not see it.

They ate, they drank, they married, they were given in marriage, till the day that Noah entered into the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all.

But the day that Lot went out of Sodom, it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed them all.

And they answering said to him, Where Lord? And he said to them, Wheresoever the body is, there will the eagles be gathered together.

And he would not for a while, but afterwards he said in himself, Tho' I fear not God nor reverence man,

Yet because this widow giveth me trouble, I will do her justice, left by her continual coming she weary me out.

I tell you he will vindicate them speedily. Yet when the Son of man cometh, will he find faith upon earth?

I fast twice in the week: I give tythes of all that I possess.

And he said, All these have I kept from my childhood. Jesus hearing these things said to him, Yet lackest thou one thing:

Sell all that thou hast, and distribute to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me.

Then Peter said, Lo we have left all and followed thee.

Then he took to him the twelve, and said to them, Behold we go up to Jerusalem, and all things that are written by the prophets shall be accomplished on the Son of man.

And while he was yet nigh to Jericho, a certain blind man sat by the way side begging.

And immediately he received his sight, and followed him, glorifying God: And all the people seeing it gave praise to God.

And seeing it, they all murmured, saying, He is gone to be guest with a sinner.

But his citizens hated him, and sent an embassy after him, saying, We will not have this man to reign over us.

And he said to him, Well done, good servant; because thou hast been faithful in a very little, be thou governor over ten cities.

And he saith to him, Out of thy own mouth will I judge thee, thou wicked servant. Thou knewest that I am an austere man, taking up what I laid not down, and reaping what I did not sow.

And when he was now come nigh, at the descent of the mount of Olives, the whole multitude of the disciples began to praise God with a loud voice, for all the mighty works that they had seen,

And found not what they might do; for all the people hung upon him to hear him.

And he answering said, I will also ask you one thing and tell me, Was the baptism of John from heaven or of men?

saying, If we say from heaven, he will say, Why then did ye not believe him?

But if we say of men, all the people will stone us;

Then said the Lord of the vineyard, What shall I do? I will send my beloved son; perhaps seeing him they will reverence him.

So they cast him out of the vineyard and killed him. What therefore will the Lord of the vineyard do to them?

He will come and destroy these husbandmen, and give the vineyard to others.

Whosoever shall fall on that stone shall be broken; but on whomsoever it shall fall, it will grind him to powder.

Last of all the woman died also. Therefore in the resurrection, whose wife of them is she?

For he is not a God of the dead, but of the living; so that all live to him.

And some of the scribes answering said, Master, Thou hast spoken excellently well.

And after that, they durst not ask him any question at all.

Then in the hearing of all the people, he said to his disciples, Beware of the scribes,

And he said, Of a truth I say to you, This poor widow hath cast in more than they all.

For all these have of their abundance cast into the offerings of God: but she of her penury hath cast in all the living that she had.

he said, As for these things which ye behold, the days will come, in which there shall not be left one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down.

But before all these things they shall lay their hands on you and persecute you, delivering you up to the synagogues, and into prisons, being brought before kings and rulers for my names sake.

Settle it therefore in your hearts, not to premeditate what to answer. For I will give you a mouth and wisdom,