just as they reported them to us, who were from beginning eye-witnesses and ministers of the word,

for they were all waiting for him. Just then there came a man named Jarius, and he was ruler in the synagogue. He fell down at Jesus' feet and begged him to come into his house;

It happened he was praying in a certain place, and when he stopped, one of his disciples said to him, "Master, teach us how to pray, just as John taught his disciples."

"Then you will be blessed, because they have no means to repay you, but you shall be paid in the Resurrection of the Just."

"Just so any one of you who does not renounce all that he has cannot be my disciple.

"I say to you that even so there shall be joy in heaven over one sinner who repents, more than over ninety and nine just persons who need no repentance.