it fell to him by lot, as was the custom of the priesthood, to enter the sanctuary of the Lord and burn incense,

When Zechariah saw him he was troubled, and fear fell on him;

Then fear fell on all their neighbours, and all these events were talked of through the whole of the hill-country of Judaea.

After spending the full number of days they came back, but the boy Jesus stayed behind in Jerusalem. His parents did not know of this;

Every valley shall be filled up, every hill and mound laid low, the crooked made straight, the rough roads smooth;

To the crowds who came out to get baptized by him John said, "You brood of vipers, who told you to flee from the coming Wrath?

From the Jordan Jesus came back full of the holy Spirit,

But when Simon Peter saw it he fell at the knees of Jesus, crying, "Lord, leave me; I am a sinful man."

When he was in one of their towns, there was a man full of leprosy who, on seeing Jesus, fell on his face and besought him, "If you only choose, sir, you can cleanse me."

On going outside after this he noticed a taxgatherer called Levi sitting at the tax-office and said to him, "Follow me";

Woe to you who have your fill to-day! you will be hungry. Woe to you who laugh to-day! you will wail and weep.

He also told them a parabolic word: "Can one blind man lead another? will they not both fall into a pit?

Why do you note the splinter in your brother's eye and fail to see the plank in your own eye?

The good man produces good from the good stored in his heart, and the evil man evil from his evil: for a man's mouth utters what his heart is full of.

His fellow guests began to say to themselves, "Who is this, to forgive even sins?"

"A sower went out to sow his seed. And as he sowed, some seed fell on the road and was trampled down, and the wild birds ate it up;

some other seed fell among thorns, and the thorns sprang up along with it and choked it;

some other seed fell on sound soil, and springing up bore a crop, a hundredfold." When he said this he called out, "He who has an ear, let him listen to this."

Those 'on the rock' are people who on hearing the word welcome it with enthusiasm, but they have no root; they believe for a while and fall away in the hour of trial.

As for the seed that fell among thorns, that means people who hear but who go and get choked with worries and money and the pleasures of life, so that they never ripen.

During the voyage he fell asleep. But when a gale of wind came down on the lake and they were being swamped and in peril,

And they all ate and had enough. What they had left over was picked up, twelve baskets full of fragments.

He said to all, "If anyone wishes to come after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross day after day, and so follow me;

And as they journeyed along the road a man said to him, "I will follow you anywhere."

He said to another man, "Follow me"; but he said, "Let me go and bury my father first of all."

Another man also said to him, "I will follow you, Lord. But let me first say good-bye to my people at home."

He said to them, "Yes, I watched Satan fall from heaven like a flash of lightning.

Jesus rejoined, "A man going down from Jerusalem to Jericho fell among robbers who stripped and belaboured him and then went off leaving him half-dead.

Which of these three men, in your opinion, proved a neighbour to the man who fell among the robbers?"

After he had gone away, the scribes and Pharisees commenced to follow him up closely and cross-question him on many points,

when you feel the south wind blow, you say, 'There will be heat,' and so it is.

Or those eighteen men killed by the fall of the tower at Siloam? do you think they were worse offenders than the rest of the residents in Jerusalem?

O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, slaying the prophets and stoning those who have been sent to you! How often I would fain have gathered your children as a fowl gathers her brood under her wings! But you would not have it!

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.

Hearing this, one of his fellow guests said to him, "Blessed is he who feasts in the Realm of God!"

the master said to the servant, 'Go out to the roads and hedges and make people come in, to fill up my house.

saying, 'This fellow started to build but he could not finish it.'

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

And he was fain to fill his belly with the pods the swine were eating; no one gave him anything.

So he got up and went off to his father. But when he was still far away his father saw him and felt pity for him and ran to fall upon his neck and kiss him.

and fain to eat up the crumbs that fell from the rich man's table. (The very dogs used to come and lick his ulcers.)

and he fell on his face at the feet of Jesus and thanked him. The man was a Samaritan.

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."

they will fall by the edge of the sword, they will be carried prisoners to all nations, and Jerusalem will be under the heel of the Gentiles till the period of the Gentiles expires.

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,

but I have prayed that your own faith may not fail. And you in turn must be a strength to your brothers."

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

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

About an hour had passed when another man insisted, "That fellow really was with him. Why, he is a Galilean!"

They proceeded to accuse him, saying, "We have discovered this fellow perverting our nation, forbidding tribute being paid to Caesar, and alleging he is king messiah."

Then will people say to the mountains, 'Fall on us!' and to the hills, 'Cover us.'

Look at my hands and feet. It is I! Feel me and see; a ghost has not flesh and bones as you see I have."