You will then proceed to say, 'But we ate and drank in your presence, and you taught in our streets!'

'I tell you,' he will say, 'I do not know where you come from; begone everyone of you, you evildoers.'

There you will wail and gnash your teeth, to see Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and all the prophets inside the Realm of God and yourselves put outside.

Yes, and people will come from east and west and north and south to their places at the feast within the Realm of God.

Some are last who will be first, and some are first who will be last."

See, your House is left to yourselves. I tell you, you will never see me till the day comes when you say, Blessed be he who comes in the Lord's name."

"Which of you," he said to them, "when an ass or an ox has fallen into a well, will not pull him out at once upon the sabbath day?"

then the host will tell you, 'Make room for him,' and you will proceed in shame to take the lowest place.

No, when you are invited, go and recline in the lowest place, so that when your host comes in he will tell you, 'Move higher up, my friend.' Then you will be honoured before your fellow guests.

For everyone who uplifts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be uplifted."

Then you will be blessed; for as they have no means of repaying you, you will be repaid at the resurrection of the just."

At the hour for supper he sent his servant to tell the guests, 'Come, things are all ready.'

But they all alike proceeded to decline. The first said to him, 'I have bought a farm and I am obliged to go and look at it. Pray consider me excused.'

For which of you wants to build a tower and does not first sit down to calculate the expense, to see if he has enough money to complete it? ??29 in case, after he has laid the foundation and then is unable to finish the building, all the spectators start to make fun of him,

If he cannot, when the other is still at a distance he will send an embassy to do homage to him.

So with everyone of you who will not part with all his goods he cannot be a disciple of mine.

Salt is excellent indeed: but if salt becomes insipid, what will restore its flavour?

Now the tax gatherers and sinners were all approaching him to listen to him,

So, I tell you, there will be joy in heaven over a single sinner who repents, more than over ninety-nine good people who do not need to repent.

After he had spent his all, a severe famine set in throughout that land, and he began to feel in want;

I will be up and off to my father, and I will say to him, "Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you;

but he replied, 'Look at all the years I have been serving you! I have never neglected any of your orders, and yet you have never given me so much as a kid, to let me make merry with my friends.

The father said to him, 'My son, you and I are always together, all I have is yours.

Ah, I know what I will do, so that people will welcome me to their houses when I am deposed from the factorship.'

'A hundred barrels of oil,' he said. The factor told him, 'Here is your bill; sit down at once and enter fifty barrels.'

Well, the master praised the dishonest factor for looking ahead; for the children of this world look further ahead in dealing with their own generation than the children of Light.

No servant can serve two masters: either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will stand by the one and despise the other, you cannot serve both God and Mammon."

Now the Pharisees who were fond of money heard all this, and they sneered at him.

But Abraham said, 'Remember, my son, you got all the bliss when you were alive, just as Lazarus got the ills of life; he is in comfort now, and you are in anguish.

Besides all that, a great gulf yawns between us and you, to keep back those who want to cross from us to you and also those who want to pass from you to us.'

Then he said, 'Well, father, I beg you to send him to my father's house,

for I have five brothers; let him bear testimony to them, that they may not come to this place of torture as well.'

'No, father Abraham,' he said, 'but if someone only goes to them from the dead, they will repent.'

He said to him, 'If they will not listen to Moses and the prophets, they will not be convinced, not even if one rose from the dead."

it would be well for him to have a millstone hung round his neck and be flung into the sea, rather than prove a hindrance to one of these little ones!

Which of you, with a servant out ploughing or shepherding, will say to him when he comes in from the field, 'Come at once and take your place at table'?

Will the man not rather say to him, 'Get some thing ready for my supper; gird yourself and wait on me till I eat and drink; then you can eat and drink yourself'?

Well, it is the same with you; when you have done all you are bidden, say, 'We are but servants; we have only done our duty.' "

So Jesus said, "Were all the ten not cleansed? Where are the other nine?

And he said to him, "Get up and go, your faith has made you well."

no one will say, 'Here it is' or 'There it is,' for the Reign of God is now in your midst."

To his disciples he said, "There will come days when you will long and long in vain to have even one day of the Son of man.

Men will say, 'See, here he is!' 'See, there he is!' but do not go out or run after them,

for like lightning that flashes from one side of the sky to the other, so will the Son of man be on his own day.

And just as it was in the days of Noah, so will it be in the days of the Son of man;

they were eating, drinking, marrying and being married, till the day Noah entered the ark ??then came the deluge and destroyed them all.

but on the day that Lot left Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed them all.

So will it be on the day the Son of man is revealed.

Whoever tries to secure his life will lose it, and whoever loses it will preserve it.

On that night, I tell you, there will be two men in the one bed, the one will be taken and the other left;

two women will be grinding together, the one will be taken and the other left."

They asked him, "Where, Lord?" And he said to them, "Where the body is lying, there the vultures will gather."

For a while he would not, but afterwards he said to himself, 'Though I have no reverence for God and no respect even for man,

still, as this widow is bothering me, I will see justice done to her ??not to have her for ever coming and pestering me.'

And will not God see justice done to his elect who cry to him by day and night? Will he be tolerant to their opponents?

I tell you, he will quickly see justice done to his elect! And yet, when the Son of man does come, will he find faith on earth?"

Twice a week I fast; on all my income I pay tithes.'

I tell you, he went home accepted by God rather than the other man; for everyone who uplifts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be uplifted."

I tell you truly, whoever will not submit to the Reign of God like a child will never get into it at all."

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

When Jesus heard this he said to him, "You lack one thing more; sell all you have, distribute the money among the poor and you will have treasure in heaven; then come and follow me."

Peter said, "Well, we have left our homes and followed you!"

Then he took the twelve aside and told them, "We are going up to Jerusalem, and all the predictions of the prophets regarding the Son of man will be fulfilled;

he will be betrayed to the Gentiles, mocked, illtreated, and spat on;

they will scourge him and kill him, but he will rise again on the third day."

The people in front checked him and told him to be quiet, but he shouted all the more, "Son of David, have pity on me!"

And Jesus said to him, "Regain your sight, your faith has made you well."

Instantly he regained his sight and followed him, glorifying God. And all the people gave praise to God when they saw this.

So Zacchaeus stopped and said to the Lord, "I will give the half of all I have, Lord, to the poor, and if I have cheated anybody I will give him back four times as much."

He replied, 'You rascal of a servant, I will convict you by what you have said yourself. You knew, did you, that I was a hard man, picking up what I never put down, and reaping what I never sowed!

saying, "Go to the village in front, and on entering it you will find a colt tethered on which no one ever has sat; untether it and bring it.

If anyone asks you, 'Why are you untethering it?' this is what you will say, 'The Lord needs it.'"

and as he was now close to the descent from the Hill of Olives, all the multitude of the disciples started joyfully to praise God with a loud voice for all they had seen,

A time is coming for you when your enemies will throw up ramparts round you and encircle you and besiege you on every side

and raze you and your children within you to the ground, leaving not one stone upon another within you ??and all because you would not understand when God was visiting you."

but they could not discover what was to be done, for the whole of the people hung upon his lips.

He answered them, "Well, I will ask you a question. Tell me,

Now they reasoned to themselves, "If we say, 'From heaven,' he will ask, 'Why did you not believe him?'

And if we say, 'From men,' the whole of the people will stone us, for they are convinced John was a prophet."

Jesus said to them, "No more will I tell you what authority I have for acting as I do."

Said the owner of the vineyard, 'What shall I do? I will send my beloved son; perhaps they will respect him.'

And they threw him outside the vineyard and killed him. Now what will the owner of the vineyard do to them?

He will come and kill these vinedressers and give the vineyard to others." When they heard that, they said, "God forbid!"

Everyone who falls on that stone will be shattered, and whoever it falls upon will be crushed."

"Well then," he said to them, "give Caesar what belongs to Caesar, give God what belongs to God."

Well, there were seven brothers. The first married a wife and died childless.

and the third took her, as indeed all the seven did, dying and leaving no children.

Now at the resurrection whose wife will she be? She was wife to the seven of them."

God is not a God of dead people but of living, for all live to him."

And in the hearing of all the people he said to his disciples,

they prey upon the property of widows and offer long unreal prayers. All the heavier will their sentence be!"

He said, "I tell you plainly, this poor widow has put in more than them all;

for these people all contributed out of their surplus, but she has given out of her neediness all her living."

"As for what you see, there are days coming when not a stone will be left upon another, without being torn down."

So they asked him, "Teacher, and when will this happen? What will be the sign for this to take place?"

He said, "Take care that you are not misled; for many will come in my name saying, 'I am he' and 'the time is near' ??do not go after them.

Then he said to them, "Nation will rise against nation, and realm against realm,

there will be great earthquakes with famine and pestilence here and there, there will be awful portents and great signs from heaven.

But before all that, men will lay hands on you and persecute you, handing you over to synagogues and prisons; you will be dragged before kings and governors for the sake of my name.

That will turn out an opportunity for you to bear witness.