So he ran forward and climbed into a sycomore tree to get a sight of him, as he was to pass that road.

But when Jesus reached the spot he looked up and said to him, "Zacchaeus, come down at once, for I must stay at your house to-day."

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."

And Jesus said of him, "To-day salvation has come to this house, since Zacchaeus here is a son of Abraham.

"A nobleman," he said, "went abroad to obtain royal power for himself and then return.

'Capital,' he said, 'you excellent servant! because you have proved trustworthy in a trifle, you are placed over ten towns.'

Then the second came and said, 'Your five pounds has made twenty-five, sir.'

To him he said, 'And you are set over five towns.'

Then the next came and said, 'Here is your five pounds, sir; I kept it safe in a napkin,

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!

Then he said to the bystanders, 'Take the five pounds from him and give it to the man with fifty.'

'Sir,' they said, 'he has fifty already!'

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.

As they were untethering it, the owners said to them, "Why are you untethering the colt?"

And they said, "Because the Lord needs it."

Some Pharisees in the crowd said to him, "Check your disciples, teacher."

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

"Tell us," they said, "what authority you have for acting in this way? Who was it that gave you this authority?"

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.'

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

But he looked at them and said, "Then what does this scripture mean? ??The stone that the builders rejected is the chief stone now of the corner.

So watching their chance they sent spies who pretended to be honest persons, in order to seize on what he said and get him handed over to the authority and jurisdiction of the governor.

But he noted their knavery and said to them,

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

So they could not seize on what he said before the people, and marvelling at his reply they said nothing.

"Teacher," they said, "Moses has written this law for us, that if a man's married brother dies and is childless, his brother is to take the woman and raise offspring for his brother.

Jesus said to them, "People in this world marry and are married,

But he said to them, "How can people say that the Christ is David's son?

Why, David himself says in the book of psalms, The Lord said to my Lord, 'Sit at my right hand,

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

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

Some were speaking of the temple with its ornamentation of splendid stones and votive gifts, but he said,

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,

He said to them, "When you enter the city you will meet a man carrying a water-jar: follow him to the house he enters,

He said to them, "I have longed eagerly to eat this passover with you before I suffer,

And he took a cup which was handed to him, gave thanks to God and said, "Take this and distribute it among yourselves,

But Jesus said to them, "The kings of the Gentiles rule over them, and their authorities take the name of 'Benefactor':

"Lord," he said, "I am ready to go with you to prison and to death."

Jesus said, "I tell you, Peter, the cock will not crow to-day before you have three times denied that you know me."

And he said to them, "When I sent you out with neither purse nor wallet nor sandals, did you want for anything?" "No," they said, "for nothing."

Then he said to them, "But he who has a purse must take it now, and the same with a wallet; and he who has no sword must sell his coat and buy one.

"Lord," they said, "here are two swords!" "Enough! Enough!" he answered.

and when he reached the spot he said to them, "Pray that you may not slip into temptation."

he fell into an agony and prayed with greater intensity, his sweat dropping to the ground like clots of blood.]

He said to them, "Why are you sleeping? Get up and pray that you may not slip into temptation."

but Jesus said to him, "Judas! would you betray the Son of man with a kiss?"

Now when the supporters of Jesus saw what was going to happen, they said, "Lord, shall we strike with our swords?"

Jesus said, "Let me do this at least," and cured him by touching his ear.

Then he said to the high priests and commanders of the temple and elders who had appeared to take him, "Have you sallied out to arrest me like a robber, with swords and cudgels?

and sat down among some people who had lit a fire in the courtyard and were sitting round it.

A maidservant who noticed him sitting by the fire took a long look at him and said, "That fellow was with him too."

Shortly afterwards another man noticed him and said, "Why, you are one of them!" "Man," said Peter, "I am not."

"Man," said Peter, "I do not know what you mean." Instantly, just as he was speaking, the cock crowed;

When day broke, the elders of the people all met along with the high priests and scribes, and had him brought before their Sanhedrin. They said to him,

"Tell us if you are the Christ." He said to them, "You will not believe me if I tell you,

"Are you the Son of God then?" they all said. "Certainly," he replied, "I am."

So they said, "What more evidence do we need? We have heard it from his own lips."

And Pilate said to the high priests and the crowds, "I cannot find anything criminal about him."

Pilate said to them, "You brought me this man as being an inciter to rebellion among the people. I have examined him before you and found nothing criminal about him, for all your accusations against him.

but Jesus turned to them and said, "Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not for me but weep for yourselves and for your children!

Jesus said, "Father, forgive them, they do not know what they are doing." Then they distributed his clothes among themselves by drawing lots.

"I tell you truly," said Jesus, "you will be in paradise with me this very day."

Then with a loud cry Jesus said, "Father, I trust my spirit to thy hands," and with these words he expired.

And when all the crowds who had collected for the sight saw what had happened, they turned away beating their breasts.

They were terrified and bent their faces to the ground, but the men said to them, "Why do you look among the dead for him who is alive?

Then they remembered what he had said,

He said to them, "What is all this you are debating on your walk?" They stopped, looking downcast,

"What is that?" he said to them. They replied, "All about Jesus of Nazaret! To God and all the people he was a prophet strong in action and utterance,

Some of our company did go to the tomb and found things exactly as the women had said, but they did not see him."

He said to them, "O foolish men, with hearts so slow to believe, after all the prophets have declared!

but they pressed him, saying, "Stay with us, for it is getting towards evening and the day has now declined." So he went in to stay with them.

Then their eyes were opened and they recognized him, but he vanished from their sight.

And they said to one another, "Did not our hearts glow within us when he was talking to us on the road, opening up the scriptures for us?"

Just as they were speaking He stood among them [and said to them, "Peace to you!"]

but he said to them, "Why are you upset? Why do doubts invade your mind?

Even yet they could not believe it for sheer joy; they were lost in wonder. So he said to them, "Have you any food here?"

Then he said to them, "When I was still with you, this is what I told you, that whatever is written about me in the law of Moses and the prophets and the psalms must be fulfilled."

"Thus," he said, "it is written that the Christ has to suffer and rise from the dead on the third day,