Every single one of them began asking to be excused. The first told him, "I bought a field, and I need to go out and inspect it. Please excuse me.'

"So the servant went back and reported all this to his master. Then the master of the house became angry and told his servant, "Go quickly into the streets and alleys of the town and bring back the poor, the crippled, the blind, and the lame.'

Then the master told the servant, "Go out into the streets and the lanes and make the people come in, so that my house may be full.

Now large crowds were traveling with Jesus. He turned and told them,

So he told them this parable:

The younger one told his father, "Father, give me my share of the estate.' So the father divided his property between them.

Then his son told him, "Father, I have sinned against heaven and you. I don't deserve to be called your son anymore.'

But the father told his servants, "Hurry! Bring out the best robe and put it on him, and put a ring on his finger and sandals on his feet.

The servant told him, "Your brother has come home, and your father has killed the fattened calf because he got him back safely.'

"His father told him, "My child, you are always with me, and everything I have is yours.

"Then the servant manager told himself, "What should I do? My master is taking my position away from me. I'm not strong enough to plow, and I'm ashamed to beg.

The man replied, "A hundred jars of olive oil.' The manager told him, "Get your bill. Sit down quickly and write "50."'

Then he asked another debtor, "How much do you owe?' The man replied, "A hundred containers of wheat.' The manager told him, "Get your bill and write "80."'

So he told them, "You try to justify yourselves in front of people, but God knows your hearts, because what is highly valued by people is detestable to God.

"Then Abraham told him, "If your brothers do not listen to Moses and the Prophets, they will not be persuaded, even if someone were to rise from the dead.'"

Jesus told his disciples, "It is inevitable that temptations to sin will come, but how terrible it will be for the person through whom they come!

Then the apostles told the Lord, "Give us more faith!"

When Jesus saw them, he told them, "Go and show yourselves to the priests." While they were going, they were made clean.

Then he told the man, "Get up, and go home! Your faith has made you well."

Then Jesus told the disciples, "The time will come during which you will long to see one of these days when the Son of Man is with you, but you will not see it.

Then they asked him, "Where, Lord, will this take place?" He told them, "Wherever there's a corpse, there the vultures will gather."

Jesus told his disciples a parable about their need to pray all the time and never give up.

For a while the judge refused. But later, he told himself, "I don't fear God or respect people,

Jesus also told this parable to some people who trusted in themselves, thinking they were righteous, but who looked down on everyone else:

Now some people were even bringing their infants to Jesus to have him touch them. But when the disciples saw this, they sternly told the people not to do that.

When Jesus heard this, he told him, "You still need to do one thing. Sell everything you have and give the money to the destitute, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come back and follow me."

Jesus told them, "I tell all of you with certainty, there is no one who has left his home, wife, brothers, parents, or children because of the kingdom of God

Jesus took the Twelve aside and told them, "Pay attention! We're going up to Jerusalem. Everything written by the prophets about the Son of Man will be fulfilled,

They told him that Jesus from Nazareth was coming by.

The people at the front of the crowd sternly told him to be quiet, but he started shouting even louder, "Son of David, have mercy on me!"

So Jesus told him, "See again! Your faith has made you well."

Then Jesus told him, "Today salvation has come to this home, because this man is also a descendant of Abraham,

He called ten of his servants and gave them ten coins. He told them, "Invest this money until I come back.'

The king told him, "Well done, good servant! Because you have been trustworthy in a very small thing, take charge of ten cities.'

The king told him, "You take charge of five cities.'

The king told him, "I will judge you by your own words, you evil servant! You knew, did you, that I was a hard man, and that I withdraw what I didn't deposit and harvest what I didn't plant?

"So the king told those standing nearby, "Take the coin away from him and give it to the man who has the ten coins.'

So those who were sent went off and found it as Jesus had told them.

Some of the Pharisees in the crowd told Jesus, "Teacher, tell your disciples to be quiet."

He told them, "It is written, "My house is to be called a house of prayer,' but you have turned it into a hideout for bandits!"

Then Jesus told them, "Then I won't tell you by what authority I'm doing these things."

When the scribes and the high priests realized that Jesus had told this parable about them, they wanted to arrest him right then, but they were afraid of the crowd.

So he told them, "Then give back to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's."

Jesus told them, "Those who belong to this age marry and are married,

Because David himself in the book of Psalms says, "The Lord told my Lord, "Sit at my right hand,

While all the people were listening, he told his disciples,

Then he told them a parable: "Look at the fig tree and all the trees.

He told them, "Just after you go into the city, a man carrying a jug of water will meet you. Follow him into the house he enters

So they went and found everything just as Jesus had told them, and they prepared the Passover meal.

He told them, "I have eagerly desired to eat this Passover meal with you before I suffer,

But he told them, "The kings of the unbelievers lord it over them, and those who exercise authority over them are called benefactors.

Peter told him, "Lord, I am ready to go even to prison and to die with you!"

Then he told them, "But now whoever has a wallet must take it along, and his traveling bag, too. And the one who has no sword must sell his coat and buy one.

When he arrived, he told them, "Keep on praying that you may not be tempted."

Then Jesus told the high priests, the Temple police, and the elders, who had come for him, "Have you come out with swords and clubs as if I were a bandit?

Then the Lord turned and looked straight at Peter. And Peter remembered the word from the Lord, and how he had told him, "Before a rooster crows today, you will deny me three times."

But he told them, "If I tell you, you won't believe me, and if I ask you a question, you won't answer me.

Then Pilate told the high priests and crowds, "I do not find anything chargeable in this man."

and told them, "You brought this man to me as one who turns the people against the government. And here in your presence I have examined him and have found him "Not Guilty' of the charges you make against him.

Jesus told him, "I tell you with certainty, today you will be with me in Paradise."

He is not here, but has been raised. Remember what he told you while he was still in Galilee:

The women who told the apostles about it were Mary Magdalene, Joanna, Mary the mother of James, and some others.

Even some of our women have startled us by what they told us. They were at the tomb early this morning

and didn't find his body there, so they came back and told us that they had seen a vision of angels, who were saying that he was alive.

Then Jesus told them, "O, how foolish you are! How slow you are to believe everything the prophets said!

While they were all talking about this, Jesus himself stood among them and told them, "Peace be with you."

But Jesus told them, "What's frightening you? And why are you doubting?

Then he told them, "These are the words that I spoke to you while I was still with you that everything written about me in the Law of Moses, the Prophets, and the Psalms had to be fulfilled."

He told them, "This is how it is written: the Messiah was to suffer and rise from the dead on the third day,

John told the truth about him when he cried out, "This is the person about whom I said, "The one who comes after me ranks higher than me, because he existed before me.'"

I didn't recognize him, but the one who sent me to baptize with water told me, "The person on whom you see the Spirit descending and remaining is the one who baptizes with the Holy Spirit.'

He told them, "Come and see!" So they went and saw where he was staying, and they remained with him that day. It was about four o'clock in the afternoon.

The next day, Jesus decided to go away to Galilee, where he found Philip and told him, "Follow me."

Philip found Nathaniel and told him, "We have found the man about whom Moses in the Law and the Prophets wrote Jesus, the son of Joseph, from Nazareth."

Nathaniel asked him, "From Nazareth? Can anything good come from there?" Philip told him, "Come and see!"

Jesus told him, "Do you believe because I told you that I saw you under the fig tree? You will see greater things than that."

Then he told him, "Truly, I tell all of you emphatically, you will see heaven standing open and the angels of God going up and coming down to the Son of Man."

When the wine ran out, Jesus' mother told him, "They don't have any more wine."

His mother told the servants, "Do whatever he tells you."

Jesus told the servants, "Fill the jars with water." So they filled them up to the brim.

Then he told them, "Now draw some out and take it to the man in charge of the banquet." So they did.

and told him, "Everyone serves the best wine first, and the cheap kind when people are drunk. But you have kept the best wine until now!"

Then he told those who were selling the doves, "Take these things out of here! Stop making my Father's house a marketplace!"

He came to Jesus at night and told him, "Rabbi, we know that you have come from God as a teacher, because no one can perform these signs that you are doing unless God is with him."

Don't be astonished that I told you, "All of you must be born from above.'

If I have told you people about earthly things and you do not believe, how will you believe if I tell you about heavenly things?

so they went to John and told him, "Rabbi, the man who was with you on the other side of the Jordan, the one about whom you testified look, he's baptizing, and everyone is going to him!"

A Samaritan woman came to draw water, and Jesus told her, "Please give me a drink,"

The woman told him, "Sir, you don't have a bucket, and the well is deep. Where are you going to get this living water?

The woman told him, "Sir, give me this water, so that I won't get thirsty or have to keep coming here to draw water."

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

Jesus told her, "You are quite right in saying, "I don't have a husband,' because you have had five husbands, and the man you have now is not your husband. What you have said is true."

The woman told him, "Sir, I see that you are a prophet!

Jesus told her, "Believe me, dear lady, the hour is coming when you Samaritans will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem.

The woman told him, "I know that the Anointed One is coming, who is being called "the Messiah'. When that person comes, he will explain everything."

Then the woman left her water jar and went back to town. She told people,

"Come, see a man who told me everything I've ever done! Could he possibly be the Messiah?"

But he told them, "I have food to eat that you know nothing about."

Jesus told them, "My food is doing the will of the one who sent me and completing his work.

Now many of the Samaritans of that town believed in Jesus because the woman had testified, "He told me everything I've ever done."