When the Lord saw her, he had compassion for her and said to her, "Do not weep."

But wisdom is vindicated by all her children."

As she stood behind him at his feet, weeping, she began to wet his feet with her tears. She wiped them with her hair, kissed them, and anointed them with the perfumed oil.

Then, turning toward the woman, he said to Simon, "Do you see this woman? I entered your house. You gave me no water for my feet, but she has wet my feet with her tears and wiped them with her hair.

Therefore I tell you, her sins, which were many, are forgiven, thus she loved much; but the one who is forgiven little loves little."

Then Jesus said to her, "Your sins are forgiven."

Now a large herd of pigs was feeding there on the hillside, and the demonic spirits begged Jesus to let them go into them. He gave them permission.

So the demons came out of the man and went into the pigs, and the herd of pigs rushed down the steep slope into the lake and drowned.

Then he said to her, "Daughter, your faith has made you well. Go in peace."

Now they were all wailing and mourning for her, but he said, "Stop your weeping; she is not dead but asleep."

But Jesus gently took her by the hand and said, "Child, get up."

Her spirit returned, and she got up immediately. Then he told them to give her something to eat.

Her parents were astonished, but he ordered them to tell no one what had happened.

But I tell you most certainly, there are some standing here who will not experience death before they see the kingdom of God."

Then as the men were starting to leave, Peter said to Jesus, "Master, it is good for us to be here. Let us make three shelters, one for you and one for Moses and one for Elijah" -- not knowing what he was saying.

Jesus answered, "You unbelieving and perverse generation! How much longer must I be with you and endure you? Bring your son here."

But Martha was distracted with all the preparations she had to make, so she came up to him and said, "Lord, don't you care that my sister has left me to do all the work alone? Tell her to help me."

But the Lord answered her, "Martha, Martha, you are worried and troubled about many things,

but one thing is needed. Mary has chosen the best part; it will not be taken away from her."

because a friend of mine has stopped here while on a journey, and I have nothing to set before him.'

The queen of the South will rise up at the judgment with the people of this generation and condemn them, because she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon -- and now, something greater than Solomon is here!

The people of Nineveh will stand up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it, because they repented when Jonah preached to them -- and now, something greater than Jonah is here!

"But woe to you Pharisees! You give a tenth of your mint, rue, and every herb, yet you neglect justice and love for God! But you should have done these things without neglecting the others.

And if this is how God clothes the wild grass, which is here today and tomorrow is tossed into the fire to heat the oven, how much more will he clothe you, you people of little faith!

They will be divided, father against son and son against father, mother against daughter and daughter against mother, mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law against mother-in-law."

When Jesus saw her, he called her to him and said, "Woman, you are freed from your infirmity."

Then he placed his hands on her, and immediately she straightened up and praised God.

At that time, some Pharisees came up and said to Jesus, "Get away from here, because Herod wants to kill you."

O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those who are sent to you! How often I have longed to gather your children together as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you would have none of it!

But when you are invited, go and take the least important place, so that when your host approaches he will say to you, 'Friend, move up here to a better place.' Then you will be honored in the presence of all who share the meal with you.

Then when she has found it, she calls together her friends and neighbors, saying, 'Rejoice with me, for I have found the coin that I had lost.'

But when he came to his senses he said, 'How many of my father's hired workers have food enough to spare, but here I am dying from hunger!

"Everyone who divorces his wife and marries someone else commits adultery, and the one who marries a woman divorced from her husband commits adultery.

But Abraham said, 'Child, remember that in your lifetime you received your good things and Lazarus likewise bad things, but now he is comforted here and you are in anguish.

Besides all this, a great chasm has been fixed between us, so that those who want to cross over from here to you cannot do so, and no one can cross from there to us.'

nor will they say, 'Look, here it is!' or 'There!' For indeed, the kingdom of God is in your midst."

Then people will say to you, 'Look, there he is!' or 'Look, here he is!' Do not go out or chase after them.

yet because this widow keeps on bothering me, I will give her justice, or in the end she will wear me out by her unending pleas.'"

Then another slave came and said, 'Sir, here is your mina that I put away for safekeeping in a piece of cloth.

But as for these enemies of mine who did not want me to be their king, bring them here and slaughter them in front of me!'"

telling them, "Go to the village ahead of you. When you enter it, you will find a colt tied there that has never been ridden. Untie it and bring it here.

and then the third married her, and in this same way all seven died, leaving no children.

In the resurrection, therefore, whose wife will the woman be? For all seven had married her."

For they all offered their gifts out of their wealth. But she, out of her poverty, put in everything she had to live on."

So they said, "Look, Lord, here are two swords." Then he told them, "It is enough."

But they persisted in saying, "He incites the people by teaching throughout all Judea. It started in Galilee and ended up here!"

He is not here, but has been raised! Remember how he told you, while he was still in Galilee,

And while they still could not believe it (because of their joy) and were amazed, he said to them, "Do you have anything here to eat?"

To those who sold the doves he said, "Take these things away from here! Do not make my Father's house a marketplace!"

A Samaritan woman came to draw water. Jesus said to her, "Give me some water to drink."

Jesus answered her, "If you had known the gift of God and who it is who said to you, 'Give me some water to drink,' you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water."

The woman said to him, "Sir, give me this water, so that I will not be thirsty or have to come here to draw water."

He said to her, "Go call your husband and come back here."

The woman replied, "I have no husband." Jesus said to her, "Right you are when you said, 'I have no husband,'

Jesus said to her, "Believe me, woman, a time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem.

But a time is coming -- and now is here -- when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father seeks such people to be his worshipers.

Jesus said to her, "I, the one speaking to you, am he."

Now at that very moment his disciples came back. They were shocked because he was speaking with a woman. However, no one said, "What do you want?" or "Why are you speaking with her?"

Then the woman left her water jar, went off into the town and said to the people,

I tell you the solemn truth, a time is coming -- and is now here -- when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live.

"Here is a boy who has five barley loaves and two fish, but what good are these for so many people?"

When they found him on the other side of the lake, they said to him, "Rabbi, when did you get here?"

So Jesus' brothers advised him, "Leave here and go to Judea so your disciples may see your miracles that you are performing.

Yet here he is, speaking publicly, and they are saying nothing to him. Do the rulers really know that this man is the Christ?

The experts in the law and the Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught committing adultery. They made her stand in front of them

When they persisted in asking him, he stood up straight and replied, "Whoever among you is guiltless may be the first to throw a stone at her."

Jesus stood up straight and said to her, "Woman, where are they? Did no one condemn you?"

Jesus replied, "If God were your Father, you would love me, for I have come from God and am now here. I have not come on my own initiative, but he sent me.

Now a certain man named Lazarus was sick. He was from Bethany, the village where Mary and her sister Martha lived.

(Now it was Mary who anointed the Lord with perfumed oil and wiped his feet dry with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.)

(Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus.)

Martha said to Jesus, "Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.

Jesus said to her, "I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me will live even if he dies,

And when she had said this, Martha went and called her sister Mary, saying privately, "The Teacher is here and is asking for you."

Then the people who were with Mary in the house consoling her saw her get up quickly and go out. They followed her, because they thought she was going to the tomb to weep there.

Now when Mary came to the place where Jesus was and saw him, she fell at his feet and said to him, "Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died."

When Jesus saw her weeping, and the people who had come with her weeping, he was intensely moved in spirit and greatly distressed.

I knew that you always listen to me, but I said this for the sake of the crowd standing around here, that they may believe that you sent me."

Then Mary took three quarters of a pound of expensive aromatic oil from pure nard and anointed the feet of Jesus. She then wiped his feet dry with her hair. (Now the house was filled with the fragrance of the perfumed oil.)

So Jesus said, "Leave her alone. She has kept it for the day of my burial.

but I am doing just what the Father commanded me, so that the world may know that I love the Father. Get up, let us go from here."

When a woman gives birth, she has distress because her time has come, but when her child is born, she no longer remembers the suffering because of her joy that a human being has been born into the world.

Jesus replied, "My kingdom is not from this world. If my kingdom were from this world, my servants would be fighting to keep me from being handed over to the Jewish authorities. But as it is, my kingdom is not from here."

So Jesus came outside, wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe. Pilate said to them, "Look, here is the man!"

(Now it was the day of preparation for the Passover, about noon.) Pilate said to the Jewish leaders, "Look, here is your king!"

So when Jesus saw his mother and the disciple whom he loved standing there, he said to his mother, "Woman, look, here is your son!"

He then said to his disciple, "Look, here is your mother!" From that very time the disciple took her into his own home.

They said to her, "Woman, why are you weeping?" Mary replied, "They have taken my Lord away, and I do not know where they have put him!"

Jesus said to her, "Woman, why are you weeping? Who are you looking for?" Because she thought he was the gardener, she said to him, "Sir, if you have carried him away, tell me where you have put him, and I will take him."

Jesus said to her, "Mary." She turned and said to him in Aramaic, "Rabboni" (which means Teacher).

Mary Magdalene came and informed the disciples, "I have seen the Lord!" And she told them what Jesus had said to her.

Then he said to Thomas, "Put your finger here, and examine my hands. Extend your hand and put it into my side. Do not continue in your unbelief, but believe."

and said, "Men of Galilee, why do you stand here looking up into the sky? This same Jesus who has been taken up from you into heaven will come back in the same way you saw him go into heaven."

Peter said to her, "Tell me, were the two of you paid this amount for the land?" Sapphira said, "Yes, that much."

Peter then told her, "Why have you agreed together to test the Spirit of the Lord? Look! The feet of those who have buried your husband are at the door, and they will carry you out!"

At once she collapsed at his feet and died. So when the young men came in, they found her dead, and they carried her out and buried her beside her husband.

and when he had been abandoned, Pharaoh's daughter adopted him and brought him up as her own son.

So he got up and went. There he met an Ethiopian eunuch, a court official of Candace, queen of the Ethiopians, who was in charge of all her treasury. He had come to Jerusalem to worship,

Now there was a disciple in Damascus named Ananias. The Lord said to him in a vision, "Ananias," and he replied, "Here I am, Lord."

and here he has authority from the chief priests to imprison all who call on your name!"