But when you are invited, go and sit down at the place of least honor. Then, when your host comes, he will tell you, "Friend, move up higher,' and you will be honored in the presence of everyone who eats with you.

It's suitable neither for the soil nor for the manure pile. People throw it away. Let the person who has ears to hear, listen!"

When she finds it, she calls her friends and neighbors together and says, "Rejoice with me, because I have found the coin that I lost!'

"Then he came to his senses and said, "How many of my father's hired men have more food than they can eat, and here I am starving to death!

So he called for him and asked him, "What's this I hear about you? You can't be my manager any longer. Now give me a report about your management!'

Any man who divorces his wife and marries another woman commits adultery, and the man who marries a woman divorced from her husband commits adultery."

"But Abraham said, "My child, remember that during your lifetime you received blessings, while Lazarus received hardships. But now he is being comforted here, while you suffer.

People won't be saying, "Look! Here it is!' or "There it is!' because now the kingdom of God is among you."

People will say to you, "Look! There he is!' or "Look! Here he is!' But don't go and chase after him.

yet because this widow keeps bothering me, I will grant her justice. Otherwise, she will keep coming and wear me out.'"

"Then the other servant came and said, "Sir, look! Here's your coin. I've kept it in a cloth for safekeeping

But as for these enemies of mine who didn't want me to be their king bring them here and slaughter them in my presence!'"

but they couldn't find a way to do it, because all the people were eager to hear him.

But when the farmers saw him, they talked it over among themselves and said, "This is the heir. Let's kill him so that the inheritance will be ours!'

and the third married her. In the same way, all seven died and left no children.

Now in the resurrection, whose wife will the woman be, since the seven had married her?"

because all the others contributed to the offering out of their surplus, but she, in her poverty, dropped in everything she had to live on."

When you hear of wars and revolutions, never be alarmed, because these sort of things must take place first, but the end won't come right away."

And yet not a hair on your head will be lost.

Now when the hour came, Jesus took his place at the table, along with his apostles.

So they said, "Lord, look! Here are two swords." He answered them, "Enough of that!"

While I was with you day after day in the Temple, you didn't lay a hand on me. But this is your hour, when darkness reigns!"

About an hour later, another man emphatically asserted, "This man was certainly with him, because he is a Galilean!"

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.

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

Even though they were still skeptical due to their joy and astonishment, Jesus asked them, "Do you have anything here to eat?"

I am sending to you what my Father promised, so stay here in the city until you have been clothed with power from on high."

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.'"

"How does that concern us, dear lady?" Jesus asked her. "My time hasn't come yet."

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

The wind blows where it wants to. You hear its sound, but you don't know where it comes from or where it is going. That's the way it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit."

It is the bridegroom who gets the bride, yet the bridegroom's friend, who merely stands by and listens for him, is overjoyed to hear the bridegroom's voice. That's why this joy of mine is now complete.

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

Jesus answered her, "If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who is saying to you, "Please give me a drink,' you would have been the one to ask him, and he would have given you living water."

Jesus answered her, "Everyone who drinks this water will become thirsty again.

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."

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.

Yet the time is coming, and is now here, when true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth. Indeed, the Father is looking for people like that to worship him.

At this point his disciples arrived, and they were astonished that he was talking to a woman. Yet no one said, "What do you want from her?" or, "Why are you talking to her?"

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

So he asked them at what hour he had begun to recover, and they told him, "The fever left him yesterday at one o'clock in the afternoon."

Then the father realized that this was the very hour when Jesus had told him, "Your son will live." So he himself believed, along with his whole family.

Truly, I tell all of you emphatically, the time approaches, and is now here, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear it will live.

Don't be amazed at this, because the time is approaching when everyone in their graves will hear the Son of Man's voice

I can do nothing on my own accord. I judge according to what I hear, and my judgment is just, because I do not seek my own will but the will of the one who sent me."

"There's a little boy here who has five barley loaves and two small fish. But what are these among so many people?"

When they had found him on the other side of the sea, they asked him, "Rabbi, when did you get here?"

Jesus told them, "My time has not yet come, but your time is always here.

Then the Jewish leaders tried to seize him, but no one laid a hand on him because his hour had not yet come.

But the scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught in adultery. After setting her before them,

When they persisted in questioning him, he straightened up and told them, "Let the person among you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her."

Then Jesus stood up and asked her, "Dear lady, where are your accusers? Hasn't anyone condemned you?"

Jesus replied, "You don't know me or my Father. If you had known me, you would've known my Father, too." He spoke these words in the treasury, while he was teaching in the Temple. Yet no one arrested him, because his hour had not yet come.

Jesus told them, "If God were your Father, you would've loved me, because I came from God and am here. I haven't come on my own accord, but he sent me.

He answered them, "I've already told you, but you didn't listen. Why do you want to hear it again? You don't want to become his disciples, too, do you?"

It's to him the gatekeeper opens the gate, and it's his voice the sheep hear. He calls his own sheep by name and leads them out.

My sheep hear my voice. I know them, and they follow me.

Now a certain man was ill, Lazarus from Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha.

Mary was the woman who anointed the Lord with perfume and wiped his feet with her hair. Her brother Lazarus was the one who was ill.

Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus.

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

Jesus told her, "Your brother will rise again."

Jesus told her, "I am the resurrection and the life. The person who believes in me, even though he dies, will live.

When she had said this, she went away and called her sister Mary and told her privately, "The Teacher is here and is calling for you!"

When the Jews who had been with her, consoling her in the house, saw Mary get up quickly and go out, they followed her, thinking that she had gone to the tomb to cry there.

As soon as Mary came to where Jesus was and saw him, she fell down at his feet and told him, "Lord, if you had been here, my brother wouldn't have died."

When Jesus saw her crying, and the Jews who had come with her crying, he was greatly troubled in spirit and deeply moved.

Jesus told her, "I told you that if you believed you would see God's glory, didn't I?"

Then Jesus looked upward and said, "Father, I thank you for hearing me. I know that you always hear me, but I have said this for the sake of the crowd standing here, so that they may believe that you sent me."

Mary took a litron of very expensive perfume made of pure nard and anointed Jesus' feet. She wiped his feet with her hair, and the house became filled with the fragrance of the perfume.

Then Jesus said, "Leave her alone so she can observe the day of my burial,

Jesus told them, "The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified.

"Now my soul is in turmoil, and what should I say "Father, save me from this hour'? No! It was for this very reason that I came to this hour.

Now before the Passover Festival, Jesus realized that his hour had come to leave this world and return to the Father. Having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end.

When a woman is in labor she has pain, because her time has come. Yet when she has given birth to her child, she doesn't remember the agony anymore because of the joy of having brought a human being into the world.

After Jesus had said this, he looked up to heaven and said, "Father, the hour has come. Glorify your Son, so that the Son may glorify you.

Jesus answered, "My kingdom does not belong to this world. If my kingdom belonged to this world, my servants would fight to keep me from being handed over to the Jewish leaders. But for now my kingdom is not from here."

Then Jesus came outside, wearing the victor's crown of thorns and the purple robe. Pilate told them, "Here is the man!"

Now it was the Preparation Day for the Passover, about noon. He told the Jewish leaders, "Here is your king!"

When Jesus saw his mother and the disciple whom he kept loving standing there, he told his mother, "Dear lady, here is your son."

Then he told the disciple, "Here is your mother." And from that hour the disciple took her into his own home.

They asked her, "Lady, why are you crying?" She told them, "Because they have taken away my Lord, and I don't know where they have put him."

Jesus asked her, "Dear lady, why are you crying? Who are you looking for?" Thinking he was the gardener, she told him, "Sir, if you have carried him away, tell me where you have put him, and I will take him away."

Jesus told her, "Mary!" She turned around and told him in Hebrew, "Rabbouni!" (which means "Teacher").

Jesus told her, "Don't hold on to me, because I haven't yet ascended to the Father. But go to my brothers and tell them, "I'm ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.'"

So Mary Magdalene went and announced to the disciples, "I've seen the Lord!" She also told them what he had told her.

Then he told Thomas, "Put your finger here, and look at my hands. Take your hand, and put it into my side. Stop doubting, but believe."

So Peter asked her, "Tell me, did you sell the land for that price?" She answered, "Yes, that was the price."

"How could you have agreed together to test the Spirit of the Lord?" Peter asked her. "Listen! The feet of the men who buried your husband are at the door, and these men will carry you outside as well."

She instantly fell down at Peter's feet and died. When the young men came in, they found her dead. So they carried her out and buried her next to her husband.

God gave him no property here, not even a foot of land, yet he promised to give it to him and to his descendants after him as a permanent possession, even though he had no child.

When he was placed outside, Pharaoh's daughter adopted him and brought him up as her own son.

Our ancestors brought it here with Joshua when they replaced the nations that God drove out in front of our ancestors, and it was here until the time of David.

So he got up and went. Now there was an Ethiopian eunuch, who was a member of the court of Candace, queen of the Ethiopians. He was in charge of all her treasures and had come up to Jerusalem to worship.

Now in Damascus there was a disciple named Ananias. The Lord called out to him in a vision, "Ananias!" He answered, "Here I am, Lord."

He is here with authority from the high priests to put in chains all who call on your name."

Everyone who heard him was astonished and said, "This is the man who harassed those who were calling on Jesus' name in Jerusalem, isn't it? Didn't he come here to bring them in chains to the high priests?"

In Joppa there was a disciple named Tabitha, which in Greek is Dorcas. She was known for her good actions and acts of charity that she was always doing.