then the lord of that servant will come in a day when he is not expecting him, and in an hour that he does not know, and will cut him in two, and place his portion with the unfaithful.

I tell you, you will by no means get out of there, until you have paid the very last penny."

He said to the vine dresser, 'Look, these three years I have come looking for fruit on this fig tree, and found none. Cut it down. Why does it waste the soil?'

If it bears fruit, fine; but if not, after that, you can cut it down.'"

He laid his hands on her, and immediately she stood up straight, and glorified God.

He said, "What is the Kingdom of God like? To what shall I compare it?

Again he said, "To what shall I compare the Kingdom of God?

There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when you see Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and all the prophets, in the Kingdom of God, and yourselves being thrown outside.

They will come from the east, west, north, and south, and will sit down in the Kingdom of God.

In that same hour some Pharisees came, saying to him, "Get out of here, and go away, for Herod wants to kill you."

When one of those who sat at the table with him heard these things, he said to him, "Blessed is he who will eat bread in the Kingdom of God."

Salt is good, but if the salt becomes flat and tasteless, with what do you season it?

Even so, I tell you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner repenting."

I will get up and go to my father, and will tell him, "Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in your sight.

But he answered his father, 'Look, these many years I have served you, and I never disobeyed a commandment of yours, but you never gave me a goat, that I might celebrate with my friends.

No servant can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to one, and despise the other. You are not able to serve God and wealth."

He said to them, "You are those who justify yourselves in the sight of men, but God knows your hearts. For that which is exalted among men is an abomination in the sight of God.

The Law and the Prophets were until John. From that time the Good News of the Kingdom of God is preached, and everyone is forcing his way into it.

A certain beggar, named Lazarus, was placed at his gate, full of sores,

"But Abraham said, 'Son, remember that you, in your lifetime, received your good things, and Lazarus, in like manner, bad things. But now here he is comforted and you are in anguish.

One of them, when he saw that he was healed, turned back, glorifying God with a loud voice.

Were there none found who returned to give glory to God, except this stranger?"

Then he said to him, "Get up, and go your way. Your faith has healed you."

Being asked by the Pharisees when the Kingdom of God would come, he answered them, "The Kingdom of God does not come with observation;

neither will they say, 'Look, here.' or, 'Look, there.' for the Kingdom of God is within you."

saying, "There was a judge in a certain city who did not fear God, and did not respect man.

He would not for a while, but afterward he said to himself, 'Though I neither fear God, nor respect man,

Won't God avenge his chosen ones, who are crying out to him day and night, and yet he exercises patience with them?

The Pharisee stood and prayed to himself like this: 'God, I thank you, that I am not like the rest of men, extortioners, unrighteous, adulterers, or even like this tax collector.

I fast twice a week. I give tithes of all that I get.'

But the tax collector, standing far away, would not even lift up his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, 'God, be merciful to me, a sinner.'

Jesus summoned them, saying, "Allow the little children to come to me, and do not hinder them, for the Kingdom of God belongs to such as these.

Truly, I tell you, whoever does not receive the Kingdom of God like a little child, he will in no way enter into it."

A certain ruler asked him, saying, "Good Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?"

Jesus asked him, "Why do you call me good? No one is good, except one?God.

Jesus, seeing that he became very sad, said, "How hard it is for those who have riches to enter into the Kingdom of God.

For it is easier for a camel to enter in through a needle's eye, than for a rich man to enter into the Kingdom of God."

But he said, "The things which are impossible with men are possible with God."

He said to them, "Truly I tell you, there is no one who has left house, or wife, or brothers, or parents, or children, for the Kingdom of God's sake,

Those who led the way rebuked him, that he should be quiet; but he shouted all the more, "Son of David, have mercy on me."

And immediately he received his sight, and followed him, glorifying God. All the people, when they saw it, praised God.

As they heard these things, he went on and told a parable, because he was near Jerusalem, and they supposed that the Kingdom of God would be revealed immediately.

"He said to him, 'Well done, you good servant. Because you were found faithful with very little, you shall have authority over ten cities.'

As he was now getting near, at the descent of the Mount of Olives, the whole crowd of the disciples began to rejoice and praise God with a loud voice for all the mighty works which they had seen,

It happened on one of those days, as he was teaching the people in the temple and proclaiming the Good News, that the chief priests and scribes came to him with the elders.

They asked him, "Teacher, we know that you say and teach what is right, and are not partial to anyone, but truly teach the way of God.

He said to them, "Then give to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's."

For they cannot die any more, for they are like the angels, and are sons of God, being sons of the resurrection.

But that the dead are raised, even Moses showed at the bush, when he called the Lord 'The God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.'

Now he is not the God of the dead, but of the living, for all are alive to him."

He said, "Watch out that you do not get led astray, for many will come in my name, saying, 'I am he,' and, 'The time is near.' Therefore do not follow them.

Even so you also, when you see these things happening, know that the Kingdom of God is near.

for I tell you, I will no longer by any means eat of it until it is fulfilled in the Kingdom of God."

for I tell you, I will not drink at all again from the fruit of the vine, until the Kingdom of God comes."

A certain one of them struck the servant of the high priest, and cut off his right ear.

From now on, the Son of Man will be seated at the right hand of the power of God."

They all said, "Are you then the Son of God?" He said to them, "You say it, because I am."

The people stood watching. The rulers also scoffed at him, saying, "He saved others. Let him save himself, if this is the Messiah of God, his Chosen One."

But the other answered, and rebuking him said, "Do you not even fear God, seeing you are under the same condemnation?

When the centurion saw what was done, he glorified God, saying, "Certainly this was a righteous man."

And look, a man named Joseph, who was a member of the council, a good and righteous man

(he had not consented to their counsel and deed), from Arimathaea, a city of the Judeans, who was also waiting for the Kingdom of God:

He took it down, and wrapped it in a linen cloth, and placed him in a tomb that was cut in stone, where no one had ever been placed.

But Peter got up and ran to the tomb. Stooping and looking in, he saw the strips of linen by themselves, and he departed to his home, wondering what had happened.

He said to them, "What things?" They said to him, "The things concerning Jesus, the Nazarene, a man who was a prophet mighty in deed and word before God and all the people;

and were continually in the temple, blessing God.