Why do you call me 'Master! Master!' and yet fail to do what I tell you?

"Who, then," replied the Master, "is that trustworthy steward, the careful man, who will be placed by his master over his establishment, to give them their rations at the proper time?

One by one he called up his master's debtors. 'How much do you owe my master?' he asked of the first.

But Zacchaeus stood forward and said to the Master: "Listen, Master! I will give half my property to the poor, and, if I have defrauded any one of anything, I will give him back four times as much."

Which is the greater--the master at the table or his servant? Is not it the master at the table? Yet I myself am among you as one who serves.

And the Master turned and looked at Peter; and Peter remembered the words that the Master had said to him-- "Before a cock has crowed to-day, you will disown me three times";

"What man among you who has a hundred sheep, and has lost one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine out in the open country, and go after the lost sheep till he finds it?

When Simon Peter saw this, he threw himself down at Jesus' knees, exclaiming: "Master, leave me, for I am a sinful man!"

On one occasion Jesus was staying in a town, when he saw a man who was covered with leprosy. When the leper saw Jesus, he threw himself on his face and implored his help: "Master, if only you are willing, you are able to make me clean."

When he saw her, the Master was moved with compassion for her, and he said to her: "Do not weep."

So he summoned two of them, and sent them to the Master to ask--"Are you 'The Coming One,' or are we to look for some one else?"

When James and John saw this, they said: "Master, do you wish us to call for fire to come down from the heavens and consume them?"

"Master," said another, "I will follow you; but first let me say good-bye to my family."

After this, the Master appointed seventy-two other disciples, and sent them on as his Messengers, two and two, in advance, to every town and place that he was himself intending to visit.

When the seventy-two returned, they exclaimed joyfully: "Master, even the demons submit to us when we use your name."

She had a sister called Mary, who seated herself at the Master's feet, and listened to his teaching;

But Martha was distracted by the many preparations that she was making. So she went up to Jesus and said: "Master, do you approve of my sister's leaving me to make preparations alone? Tell her to help me."

"Martha, Martha," replied the Master, "you are anxious and trouble yourself about many things;

One day Jesus was at a certain place praying, and, when he had finished, one of his disciples said to him: "Master, teach us to pray, as John taught his disciples."

But the Master said to him: "You Pharisees do, it is true, clean the outside of the cup and of the plate, but inside you yourselves are filled with greed and wickedness.

And be like men who are waiting for their Master's return from his wedding, so that, when he comes and knocks, they may open the door for him at once.

Happy are those servants whom, on his return, the Master will find watching. I tell you that he will make himself ready, and bid them take their places at table, and will come and wait upon them.

"Master," said Peter, "are you telling this parable with reference to us or to every one?"

Happy will that servant be whom his master, when he comes home, shall find doing this.

His master, I tell you, will put him in charge of the whole of his property.

But should that servant say to himself 'My master is a long time coming,' and begin to beat the menservants and the maidservants, and to eat and drink and get drunk,

That servant's master will come on a day when he does not expect him, and at an hour of which he is unaware, and will flog him severely and assign him his place among the untrustworthy.

The servant who knows his master's wishes and yet does not prepare and act accordingly will receive many lashes;

while one who does not know his master's wishes, but acts so as to deserve a flogging, will receive but few. From every one to whom much has been given much will be expected, and from the man to whom much has been entrusted the more will be demanded.

"You hypocrites!" the Master answered him. "Does not every one of you let his ox or his ass loose from its manger, and take it out to drink, on the Sabbath?

"Master," some one asked, "are there but few in the path of Salvation?" And Jesus answered:

When once the master of the house has got up and shut the door, while you begin to say, as you stand outside and knock, 'Sir, open the door for us.' His answer will be--'I do not know where you come from.'

On his return the servant told his master all these answers. Then in anger the owner of the house said to his servant 'Go out at once into the streets and alleys of the town, and bring in here the poor, and the crippled, and the blind, and the lame.'

'Go out,' the master said, 'into the roads and hedgerows, and make people come in, so that my house may be filled;

So the master called him and said 'What is this that I hear about you? Give in your accounts, for you cannot act as steward any longer.'

'What am I to do,' the steward asked himself, 'now that my master is taking the steward's place away from me? I have not strength to dig, and I am ashamed to beg.

His master complimented this dishonest steward on the shrewdness of his action. And indeed men of the world are shrewder in dealing with their fellow-men than those who have the Light.

"Give us more faith," said the Apostles to the Master;

But the Master said: "If your faith were only like a mustard- seed, you could say to this mulberry tree 'Be up-rooted and planted in the sea,' and it would obey you.

"Where will it be, Master?" interposed the disciples. "Where there is a body," said Jesus, "'there will the vultures flock.'"

Then the Master added: "Listen to what this iniquitous judge says!

"What do you want me to do for you?" "Master," he said, "I want to recover my sight."