but the angel said to him, "Fear not, Zechariah, your prayer has been heard; your wife Elizabeth will bear a son to you, and you must call his name John.

It will be joy and gladness for you, and many will rejoice over his birth:

for he shall be great in the sight of the Lord, he will drink neither wine nor strong drink, he will be filled with the holy Spirit from his very birth;

he will turn many of the sons of Israel to the Lord their God,

he will go in front of Him with the spirit and power of Elijah to turn the hearts of fathers to their children, turning the disobedient to the wisdom of the just, to make a people ready and prepared for the Lord."

But you will be silent and unable to speak till the day this happens, because you have not believed what I told you; it will be accomplished, for all that, in due time."

He will be great, he will be called the Son of the Most High, and the Lord God will give him the throne of David his father;

he will reign over the house of Jacob forever, and to his reign there will be no end."

The angel answered her, "The holy Spirit will come upon you, the power of the Most High will overshadow you; hence what is born will be called holy, Son of God.

for he has considered the humiliation of his servant. From this time forth all generations will call me blessed,

All who heard of it bore it in mind; they said, "Whatever will this child become?" For the hand of the Lord was indeed with him.

by the tender mercy of our God, who will make the Dawn visit us from on high,

And here is a proof for you: you will find a baby wrapped up and lying in a stall for cattle."

but Symeon blessed them, and to his mother Mary he said, "This child is destined for the downfall as well as for the rise of many a one in Israel; destined to be a Sign for man's attack ??35 to bring out the secret aims of many a heart. And your own soul will be pierced by a spear."

The axe is lying all ready at the root of the trees; any tree that is not producing good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire."

John said to them all, "I baptize you with water, but after me one who is mightier will come, and I am not fit to untie the string of his sandals; he will baptize you with the holy Spirit and fire.

and the devil said to him, "I will give you all their power and grandeur, for it has been made over to me and I can give it to anyone I choose.

If you will worship before me, then it shall all be yours."

for it is written, He will give his angels charge of you,

and They will bear you on their hands, lest you strike your foot against a stone."

So he said to them, "No doubt you will repeat to me this proverb, 'Doctor, cure yourself!' 'Do here in your own country all we have heard you did in Capharnahum.'"

Simon replied, "Master, we worked all night and got nothing! However, I will lower the nets at your command."

as was the case with James and John, the sons of Zebedaeus, who were partners of Simon. Then said Jesus to Simon, "Have no fear; from now your catch will be men."

A time will come when the bridegroom is taken from them, and then they will fast at that time."

He also told them a parable: "No one tears a piece from a new cloak and sews it on an old cloak; otherwise he will tear the new cloak, and the new piece will not match with the old.

No one pours fresh wine into old wineskins; otherwise the fresh wine will burst the wineskins, the wine will be spilt and the wineskins ruined.

Blessed are you when men will hate you, when they will excommunicate you and denounce you and defame you as wicked on account of the Son of man;

But woe to you rich folk! you get all the comforts you will ever get.

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.

No, you must love your enemies and help them, you must lend to them without expecting any return; then you will have a rich reward, you will be sons of the Most High for he is kind even to the ungrateful and the evil.

Also, judge not, and you will not be judged yourselves: condemn not, and you will not be condemned: pardon, and you will be pardoned yourselves:

give, and you will have ample measure given you ??they will pour into your lap measure pressed down, shaken together, and running over; for the measure you deal out to others will be dealt back to yourselves."

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

A scholar is not above his teacher: but if he is perfectly trained he will be like his teacher.

How dare you say to your brother, 'Brother, let me take out the splinter that is in your eye,' and you never notice the plank in your own eye? You hypocrite! take the plank out of your own eye first, and then you will see properly to take out the splinter in your brother's eye.

Everyone who comes to me and listens to my words and acts upon them, I will show you whom he is like.

As they were unable to pay, he freely forgave them both. Tell me, now, which of them will love him most?"

"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;

Whoever will not receive you, leave that town and shake off the very dust from your feet as a testimony against them."

for whoever wants to save his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake, he will save it.

What profit will it be for a man to gain the whole world and lose or forfeit himself?

For whoever is ashamed of me and my words, of him will the Son of man be ashamed when he comes in his glory and in the glory of the Father and of the holy angels.

I tell you plainly, there are some of those standing here who will not taste death till they see the Reign of God."

and a spirit gets hold of him till he suddenly shrieks; it convulses him till he foams; indeed it will hardly leave off tearing him to pieces.

So when the disciples James and John saw this, they said, "Lord, will you have us bid fire come down from heaven and consume them?"

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

Jesus said to him, "The foxes have their holes, the wild birds have their nests, but the Son of man has nowhere to lay his head."

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

Then, if there is a soul there breathing peace, your peace will rest on him; otherwise it will come back to you.

I tell you, on the great Day it will be more bearable for Sodom than for that town.

But it will be more bearable for Tyre and Sidon at the judgment than for you.

And you, O Capharnahum! Exalted to heaven? No, you will sink to Hades!

"A right answer!" said Jesus; "do that and you will live."

Next morning he took out a couple of shillings and gave them to the innkeeper, saying, 'Attend to him, and if you are put to any extra expense I will refund you on my way back.'

I tell you, though he will not get up and give you anything because you are a friend of his, he will at least rise and give you whatever you want, because you persist.

So I tell you, ask and the gift will be yours, seek and you will find, knock and the door will open to you;

What father among you, if asked by his son for a loaf, will hand him a stone? Or, if asked for a fish, will hand him a serpent instead of a fish?

Or, if asked for an egg, will he hand him a scorpion?

Well, if for all your evil you know to give your children what is good, how much more will your Father give the holy Spirit from heaven to those who ask him?"

If I cast out daemons by Beelzebul, by whom do your sons cast them out? Thus they will be your judges.

When an unclean spirit leaves a man, it roams through dry places in search of refreshment. As it finds none, then it says, 'I will go back to the house I left,'

As the crowds were thronging to him, he proceeded to say, "This is an evil generation: it demands a Sign, but no Sign will be given to it except the Sign of Jonah;

The queen of the South will rise at the judgment with the men of this generation and condemn them; for she came from the ends of the earth to listen to the wisdom of Solomon, and here is One greater than Solomon.

The men of Ninive will rise at the judgment with this generation and condemn it; for when Jonah preached they did repent, and here is One greater than Jonah.

So if your whole body has light, without any corner of it in darkness, it will be lit up entirely, as when a lamp lights you with its rays."

Better cleanse what is within; then nothing will be unclean for you.

He said, "And woe to you jurists! you load men with irksome burdens, and you will not put a single finger to their burdens.

This is why the Wisdom of God said, 'I will send them prophets and apostles, some they will kill and some they will persecute';

from the blood of Abel down to the blood of Zechariah who was slain between the altar and the House of God ??yes, I tell you, it will all be charged upon this generation.

So all you utter in the dark will be heard in the light, and what you whisper in chambers will be proclaimed on the housetops,

I will show you whom to fear ??fear Him who after he has killed has power to cast you into Gehenna. Yes, I tell you, fear Him.

I tell you, whoever acknowledges me before men, the Son of man will acknowledge him before the angels of God;

and he who disowns me before men will be disowned before the angels of God.

Everyone also who says a word against the Son of man will be forgiven for it, but he who blasphemes against the holy Spirit will never be forgiven.

for the holy Spirit will teach you at that hour what you should say."

And he said, 'This is what I will do. I will pull down my granaries and build larger ones, where I can store all my produce and my goods.

And I will say to my soul, "Soul, you have ample stores laid up for many a year; take your ease, eat, drink and be merry."'

But God said to him, 'Foolish man, this very night your soul is wanted; and who will get all you have prepared?'

Now if God so clothes grass which blooms to-day in the field and is thrown to-morrow into the furnace, will he not much more clothe you? O men, how little you trust him!

only seek his Realm, and it will be yours over and above.

For where your treasure lies, your heart will lie there too.

Blessed are those servants whom the lord and master finds awake when he comes! I tell you truly, he will gird himself, make them recline at table, and come forward to wait on them.

The Lord said, "Well, where is the trusty, thoughtful steward whom the lord and master will set over his establishment to give out supplies at the proper time?

I tell you plainly, he will set him over all his property.

that servant's lord and master will arrive on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour which he does not know; he will cut him in two and assign him the fate of unbelievers.

The servant who knew his lord and master's orders and did not prepare for them, will receive many lashes;

whereas he who was ignorant and did what deserves a beating, will receive few lashes. He who has much given him will have much required from him, and he who has much entrusted to him will have all the more demanded of him.

After this there will be five at issue in one house, three divided against two and two against three,

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

Thus, when you go before the magistrate with your opponent, do your utmost to get quit of him on the way there, in case he hales you before the judge; then the judge will hand you over to the jailer and the jailer will throw you in prison.

I tell you, you will never get out till you pay the last farthing of your debt."

I tell you, no; unless you repent you will all perish as they did.

I tell you, no; unless you repent you will all perish as they did."

It is like a grain of mustard-seed which a man took and put into his orchard, where it grew up and became a tree, and the wild birds roosted in its branches."

"Strive to get in through the narrow door, for I tell you many will try to get in and not be able,

once the master of the House has got up and closed the door. You may stand outside and knock at the door, crying, 'Lord, open for us,' but he will answer you, 'I do not know where you come from.'

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.