But the Angel said to him. "Do not be afraid, Zachariah, because your petition has been heard, and your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son, and you are to call him John.

and called out with a loud cry. "Blessed are you among women, and blessed is your unborn child!

The devil said to him, "If you are the Son of God tell this stone to become bread."

Then he brought him to Jerusalem, and caused him to stand upon the Temple roof, and said to him. "If you really are the Son of God throw yourself down here;

The Spirit of the Lord is upon me Because He has anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor, He has sent me to proclaim release to the prisoners, And recovery of sight to the blind; To set at liberty those that are bruised,

"Ha! Jesus of Nazareth, what business have you with us? Are you come to destroy us? I know you who you are, you holy one of God!"

Demons also came out of many, screaming and saying, "You are the Son of God." But he rebuked them, and did not permit them to speak, because they knew that he was the Christ.

When Jesus saw their faith, he said to him, "Man, your sins are forgiven you!"

"What is this caviling in your hearts? Which is easier to say, "Your sins are forgiven," or to say, "Rise and walk?"

And the Pharisees and their scribes began complaining to his disciples, saying, "Why are you eating and drinking with tax-gatherers and sinners?"

Jesus answered them saying. "They who are well have no need of a physician, but they who are ill.

Again they said unto him. "Why do the disciples of John fast frequently, and make supplications, as also do the disciples of the Pharisees, but your disciples are eating and drinking?"

And some of the Pharisees asked, "Why are you doing what it is not lawful to do on the Sabbath?"

Then raising his eyes upon his disciples he began to say to them. "Blessed are you poor, For the kingdom of God is yours.

"Blessed are you who are hungry now, For you shall be filled. "Blessed are you who are wailing now, For you shall laugh.

"Blessed are you when men shall hate you, And excommunicate you and reproach you, and cast out your name as evil because of the Son of man.

"Woe unto you who are full now! For you shall suffer hunger. "Woe to you who are laughing now! For you shall wail and weep.

"But to you who are listening to me I say, Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you,

"And if you are kind to those who are kind to you, what credit is it to you? Even sinners do the same.

"And if you lend to those from whom you are hoping to receive, what credit is that to you? Even sinners lend to sinners, so as to get as much back.

"You do not gather figs from thorns, and grapes are not plucked from a bramble-bush.

"And why are you calling me Lord, Lord, and not doing what I tell you?

and, calling a certain two disciples to him, he sent them to Jesus, to say, "Are you 'the coming one,' or if we are to expect another?"

So the men came to Jesus and said, "John the Baptist has sent us to ask you if you are the coming one, or if we are to expect another."

So he answered them. "Go your way, tell John what you have seen and heard. How the blind are seeing, the lame are walking, the lepers are being cleansed, the deaf are hearing, the dead are being raised, and the poor are hearing the proclamations of glad tidings.

"But what you went out to behold? A man clothed in soft robes? Behold, men who are gorgeously dressed and live in luxury are in kings' palaces.

"I tell you that among all that are born of women not one is greater than John; yet he that is little in the kingdom of God is greater than he."

"To What are they like, they are like children sitting in the market-place and calling to one another. "'We have piped to you,' they say, 'and you have not danced; we have wailed, and you did not cry.'

"This is why I tell you that her sins, many as they are, are forgiven, for her love is great; but he who is forgiven little, loves but little.

"Your sins are forgiven," he said to her.

He answered. "To you it is given to understand the mysteries of the kingdom of God; But all others are taught in parables so that seeing they shall not see, and hearing they shall not hear.

"Those by the wayside are people who hear, but then comes the devil and carries off the word from their heart, so that they may not believe and not be saved.

"Those on the rock are people who, upon hearing, receive the word with joy; but they have no root. For a time indeed they all believe, but in time of temptation they fall away.

But some one told him, "Your mother and brothers are standing outside, desiring to see you."

"My mother and brothers," he answered, "are those who listen to the word of God and obey it."

Then they came to him and woke him, saying, "Master, Master, we are lost!" Then he awoke, and rebuked the winds and the raging of the sea. They ceased, and there was a calm.

"Who is that touched me?" said Jesus and when everybody denied it, Peter said, "Master, the crowds are hemming you in and pressing upon you."

But now the day began to decline, and the twelve came to him and said: "Send away the crowd so that they may go into the villages and surrounding the country to lodge and buy provisions; for here we are on a solitary place."

"But I tell you truly there are some of those standing here who will not taste death till they see the kingdom of God."

And when his disciples, James and John, saw this they said, "Lord, are you willing for us to bid fire come down from heaven and destroy them?" As Elijah did.

And another man also said to him. "I will follow you, Lord; but first permit me to bid farewell to those who are in my house."

And he thus addressed them. "The harvest is abundant, but the harvesters are few. do you therefore pray the lord of the harvest to send forth harvesters into his harvest.

Then the Seventy returned with joy, saying, "Lord even the demons are subject to us in your name."

"Nevertheless, do not rejoice at this, that the spirits are subject to you; but rejoice that your names are written in Heaven."

And turning to his disciples he said privately. "Blessed are the eyes that see what you see!

"Martha, Martha," said Jesus, "you are anxious and worried about many things,

"and he from indoors shall answer. 'Do not pester me. The door is now closed, and my children are with me in bed. I cannot rise and give to you.'

"Do you say that I am casting out demons by the power of Beelzebub? If I then am casting out demons by Beelzebub, by whom are your sons casting them out? They therefore shall be your judges.

"No, rather," he answered, "blessed are those who listen to the word of God, and keep it."

"Woe unto you! for you are like the tombs which are hidden, and men walk over them unsuspecting."

Hereupon one of the lawyers exclaimed, "But teacher, in saying such things you are also reproaching us also."

"Woe to you! for you are building the tombs of the prophets whom you ancestors killed.

"So you are witnesses, and you consent to the actions of your ancestors. for they killed them, and you build their tombs.

"Woe to you lawyers, for you have taken away the key of knowledge!' You yourselves have not entered, and you have hindered those who are trying to enter."

"But I say to you who are my friends, do not be afraid of those who kill the body and after that have no more that they can do.

"Are not five sparrows sold for two farthings? Yet not one of them is forgotten in the sight of God!

"But the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not! You are of more value than many sparrow!

"And when they are bringing you before the synagogues and the rulers and authorities, do not worry about how or what you shall answer; or what you shall say;

"Consider the ravens; they neither sow nor reap; they have no storehouse nor barn. And yet God feeds them. How much more are you worth than the birds?

"If then you cannot do even that which is least, why are you anxious concerning the rest?

"For all these things the nations of the world are seeking; but your Father knows that you have need of these things.

"and be yourselves like men who are looking for the Lord, on his return from a wedding banquet, so that when he comes and knocks they may at once open the door for him.

"Happy are those slaves whom their master shall find watching when he comes. I tell you truly that will gird himself, and make them sit down to meat, and come and serve them.

"And whether it be in the second watch, or in the third, that he comes, and so finds them, happy are those slaves.

"Master," said Peter, "are you speaking this parable to us or to all alike?"

Jesus noticed her and called to him and said, "Woman, you are free from your weakness."

But the ruler of the synagogue was indignant at Jesus for healing her on the Sabbath, and said to the crowd. "There are six days of the week on which men ought to work. Therefore come during those, and get cured, but not on the Sabbath Day."

teaching as he journeyed toward Jerusalem. And a man came behind him and said, "Lord are there but few that are saved?"

"And lo, there are last which shall be first, and there are first which shall be last."

"O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those who are sent to you! How often would I have gathered your children, as a hen gathers her chickens under her wings, and you would not!

"When you are invited by any one to a marriage-feast, do not sit down in the best seat, lest a guest more distinguished than yourself has been invited, and your host come to you and say,

"But when you are invited, go and sit down in the lowest place, so that when your host arrives he may say to you, 'My friend, come up higher.' Then you will be honored before the other guest.

Also to his host who had invited him, he continued, saying. "When you are making a dinner-party or a supper, do not invite your friends, or your brothers, or your relatives, or your rich neighbors, lest it chance that they invite you in return, and a recompense be made by you.

One of his fellow guest who was listening to him, said to him, "Blessed are those who eat bread in the kingdom of God."

"At dinnertime he sent his slave to say to those who had been invited, 'Come, for all things are now ready.'

"'My dear son,' answered his father, 'you are always with me and all that is mine is yours.

"And the master praised the unjust steward because he had acted shrewdly; for the sons of this world are in relation to their own generation wiser than the sons of the light.

"And if you are not faithful with what belongs to another, who will give you what is your own?

He said to them. "You are those that justify themselves in the eyes of men; but God knows you hearts; for that which is lofty in the eyes of men is abomination in the eyes of God.

"'Remember my son.' said Abraham, 'that you had in your lifetime all your good things, and in the same way Lazarus his evil things; but now here he is comforted, and you are in anguish.

"Even so, you also, after you have done all the things that are commanded you, should say, 'We are but slaves, we have only done what it was our duty to do.'"

"Were there not ten cleansed?" asked Jesus, "but where are the nine?

"Are there none found to return and give glory to God except this foreigner?"

"And will not God see justice done to his elect who are crying unto him day and night, even if he seems to delay helping them?

"Two men are going up to the temple to pray; the one a Pharisee, the other a tax-gatherer.

"Why are you calling me 'good'?" said Jesus to him; "no one is good but God.

And receiving this reply, Jesus said to him. "One thing you are still lacking. Sell all that you have and give it to the poor, and you shall have treasure in heaven. Then come and follow me."

"Things that are impossible with men," he answered them, "are possible with God."

Then he took the twelve aside and told them. "See, we are on our way to Jerusalem, and all prophets regarding the son of Man will be fulfilled.

"'For I was afraid of you, because you are a hard man. You take what you did not sow.'

"Untie it and bring it here. And if any one asks you, 'Why are you untying the colt?' Simply say, 'The Master needs it.'"

For as they were untying the colt, the owners said to them, "Why are you untying the colt?"

They spoke to him saying. "Tell us by what authority you are doing these things? Who is it that gave you this authority?"

"People in this world marry and are given in marriage," said Jesus,

"but those who are counted worthy to reach that world and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry, nor are given in marriage.

"For indeed they cannot die any more; they are equal to the angels, and through being sons of the resurrection are sons of God.

"But that the dead are raised, even Moses clearly implied in the passage about the Bush, when he calls the Lord. "The God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, the God of Jacob.

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

"As for what you are looking at, the time is coming when not one stone will be left upon another, that shall not be thrown down."

"Teacher, when will this be?" they asked him, "and what shall be the sign that these things are about to happen?"