The Lord said to him, "Now you Pharisees cleanse the outside of the cup and of the platter, but your inward part is full of extortion and wickedness.

He said, "Woe to you Law scholars also. For you load people with burdens that are difficult to carry, and you yourselves won't even lift one finger to help carry those burdens.

Therefore also the wisdom of God said, 'I will send to them prophets and apostles; and some of them they will kill and persecute,

Therefore whatever you have said in the darkness will be heard in the light. What you have spoken in the ear in the inner chambers will be proclaimed on the housetops.

And someone in the crowd said to him, "Teacher, tell my brother to divide the inheritance with me."

But he said to him, "Man, who made me a judge or an arbitrator over you?"

He said to them, "Beware. Keep yourselves from all covetousness, for a man's life does not consist of the abundance of the things which he possesses."

He said, 'This is what I will do. I will pull down my barns, and build bigger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods.

"But God said to him, 'You foolish one, tonight your soul is required of you. The things which you have prepared?whose will they be?'

He said to his disciples, "Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious for your life, what you will eat, nor yet for your body, what you will wear.

Peter said to him, "Lord, are you telling this parable to us, or to everybody?"

The Lord said, "Who then is the faithful and wise steward, whom his lord will set over his household, to give them their portion of food at the right times?

He said to the crowds also, "When you see a cloud rising from the west, immediately you say, 'A shower is coming,' and so it happens.

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?'

When Jesus saw her, he called her, and said to her, "Woman, you are freed from your infirmity."

The ruler of the synagogue, being indignant because Jesus had healed on the Sabbath, said to the crowd, "There are six days in which men ought to work. Therefore come on those days and be healed, and not on the Sabbath day."

As he said these things, all his adversaries were disappointed, and all the crowd rejoiced for all the glorious things that were done by him.

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?

One said to him, "Lord, are they few who are saved?" He said to them,

And he said to them, "Go and tell that fox, 'Look, I cast out demons and perform cures today and tomorrow, and the third day I complete my mission.

He spoke a parable to those who were invited, when he noticed how they chose the best seats, and said to them,

He also said to the one who had invited him, "When you make a dinner or a supper, do not call your friends, nor your brothers, nor your kinsmen, nor rich neighbors, or perhaps they might also return the favor, and pay you back.

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."

But he said to him, "A certain man made a great supper, and he invited many people.

They all as one began to make excuses. "The first said to him, 'I have bought a field, and I must go and see it. Please have me excused.'

"Another said, 'I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I must go try them out. Please have me excused.'

"Another said, 'I have married a wife, and therefore I cannot come.'

"That servant came, and told his lord these things. Then the master of the house, being angry, said to his servant, 'Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in the poor, maimed, blind, and lame.'

"The servant said, 'Lord, it is done as you commanded, and there is still room.'

"The lord said to the servant, 'Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled.

Now great crowds were going with him. He turned and said to them,

He said, "A certain man had two sons.

The younger of them said to his father, 'Father, give me my share of your property.' He divided his livelihood between them.

But when he came to himself he said, 'How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough to spare, and I'm dying with hunger.

The son said to him, 'Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in your sight. I am no longer worthy to be called your son.'

"But the father said to his servants, 'Quickly, bring out the best robe, and put it on him. Put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his feet.

He said to him, 'Your brother has come, and your father has killed the fattened calf, because he has received him back safe and healthy.'

"He said to him, 'Son, you are always with me, and all that is mine is yours.

He also said to his disciples, "There was a certain rich man who had a manager. An accusation was made to him that this man was wasting his possessions.

He called him, and said to him, 'What is this that I hear about you? Give an accounting of your management, for you can no longer be manager.'

"The manager said within himself, 'What will I do, seeing that my lord is taking away the management position from me? I do not have strength to dig. I am ashamed to beg.

Calling each one of his lord's debtors to him, he said to the first, 'How much do you owe to my lord?'

He said, 'A hundred batos of oil.' He said to him, 'Take your bill, and sit down quickly and write fifty.'

Then said he to another, 'How much do you owe?' He said, 'A hundred cors of wheat.' He said to him, 'Take your bill, and write eighty.'

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.

He called out and said, 'Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue. For I am in anguish in this flame.'

"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.

"He said, 'I ask you therefore, father, that you would send him to my father's house;

"But Abraham said to him, 'They have Moses and the Prophets. Let them listen to them.'

"He said, 'No, father Abraham, but if one goes to them from the dead, they will repent.'

"He said to him, 'If they do not listen to Moses and the Prophets, neither will they be persuaded if one rises from the dead.'"

He said to the disciples, "It is impossible that no occasions of stumbling should come, but woe to him through whom they come.

The apostles said to the Lord, "Increase our faith."

The Lord said, "If you had faith like a grain of mustard seed, you would tell this sycamore tree, 'Be uprooted, and be planted in the sea,' and it would obey you.

When he saw them, he said to them, "Go and show yourselves to the priests." It happened that as they went, they were cleansed.

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

He said to the disciples, "The days will come, when you will desire to see one of the days of the Son of Man, and you will not see it.

37 They, answering, asked him, "Where, Lord?" He said to them, "Where the body is, there will the vultures also be gathered together."

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

The Lord said, "Listen to what the unrighteous judge says.

He said, "I have observed all these things from my youth up."

When Jesus heard it, he said to him, "You still lack one thing. Sell all that you have, and distribute it to the poor. You will have treasure in heaven. Come, follow me."

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

Those who heard it said, "Then who can be saved?"

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

Peter said, "Look, we have left our homes and followed you."

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,

He took the twelve aside, and said to them, "Look, we are going up to Jerusalem, and all the things that are written through the prophets concerning the Son of Man will be completed.

They understood none of these things. This saying was hidden from them, and they did not understand the things that were said.

"What do you want me to do?" He said, "Lord, that I may see again."

Jesus said to him, "Receive your sight. Your faith has healed you."

When Jesus came to the place, he looked up, and said to him, "Zacchaeus, hurry and come down, for today I must stay at your house."

And Zacchaeus stood and said to the Lord, "Look, Lord, half of my goods I give to the poor. If I have wrongfully exacted anything of anyone, I restore four times as much."

Jesus said to him, "Today, salvation has come to this house, because he also is a son of Abraham.

He said therefore, "A certain nobleman went into a far country to receive for himself a kingdom, and to return.

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

"So he said to him, 'And you are to be over five cities.'

"He said to him, 'Out of your own mouth will I judge you, you wicked servant. You knew that I am an exacting man, taking up that which I did not lay down, and reaping that which I did not sow.

He said to those who stood by, 'Take the mina away from him, and give it to him who has the ten minas.'

"They said to him, 'Lord, he has ten minas.'

Having said these things, he went on ahead, going up to Jerusalem.

As they were untying the colt, its owners said to them, "Why are you untying the colt?"

They said, "The Lord needs it."

Some of the Pharisees from the crowd said to him, "Teacher, rebuke your disciples."

They could not find what they might do, for all the people hung on to every word that he said.

Jesus said to them, "Neither will I tell you by what authority I do these things."

The lord of the vineyard said, 'What shall I do? I will send my beloved son. It may be that they will respect him.'

He will come and destroy these farmers, and will give the vineyard to others." When they heard it, they said, "May it never be."

But he looked at them, and said, "Then what is this that is written, 'The stone which the builders rejected, the same was made the chief cornerstone?'

They watched him, and sent out spies, who pretended to be righteous, that they might trap him in something he said, so as to deliver him up to the power and authority of the governor.

But he perceived their craftiness, and said to them,

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

Jesus said to them, "The sons of this age marry, and are given in marriage.

He said to them, "Why do they say that the Messiah is David's son?

David himself says in the scroll of Psalms, 'The Lord said to my Lord, "Sit at my right hand,

In the hearing of all the people, he said to his disciples,

He said, "Truly I tell you, this poor widow put in more than all of them,

As some were talking about the temple and how it was decorated with beautiful stones and gifts, he said,

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.