So he said to him, 'My man, how did you get in here without a wedding-robe?' The man was speech less.

They sent him their disciples with the Herodians, who said, "Teacher, we know you are sincere and that you teach the Way of God honestly and fearlessly; you do not court human favour.

"Caesar's," they said. Then he told them, "Give Caesar what belongs to Caesar, give God what belongs to God."

Jesus answered them, "You go wrong because you understand neither the scriptures nor the power of God.

At the resurrection people neither marry nor are married, they are like the angels of God in heaven.

And as for the resurrection of the dead, have you not read what was said to you by God,

I am the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob? He is not a God of dead people but of living."

He replied, "You must love the Lord your God with your whole heart, with your whole soul, and with your whole mind.

he who swears by heaven swears by the throne of God and by Him who sits upon it.

and a man in the field must not turn back to get his coat.

Had not those days been cut short, not a soul would be saved alive; however, for the sake of the elect, those days will be cut short.

he will cut him in two and assign him the fate of the impious. There men will wail and gnash their teeth.

to one he gave twelve hundred pounds, to another five hundred, and to another two hundred and fifty; each got according to his capacity. Then the man went abroad.

The servant who had got the twelve hundred pounds went at once and traded with them, making another twelve hundred.

Similarly the servant who had got the five hundred pounds made another five hundred.

But the servant who had got the two hundred and fifty pounds went off and dug a hole in the ground and hid his master's money.

Then the servant who had got the twelve hundred pounds came forward, bringing twelve hundred more; he said, 'You handed me twelve hundred pounds, sir; here I have gained another twelve hundred.'

Then the servant who had got the two hundred and fifty pounds came forward. He said, 'I knew you were a hard man, sir, reaping where you never sowed and gathering where you never winnowed.

Well then, you should have handed my money to the bankers and I would have got my capital with interest when I came back.

Throw the good-for-nothing servant into the darkness outside; there men will wail and gnash their teeth.

and took counsel together to get hold of Jesus by craft and have him put to death.

"the perfume might have been sold for a good sum, and the poor might have got that."

From that moment he sought a good opportunity to betray him.

He also took a cup and after thanking God he gave it to them saying, "Drink of it, all of you;

Come, get up and let us go. Here is my betrayer close at hand!"

Peter followed him at a distance as far as the courtyard of the high priest, and when he got inside he sat down beside the attendants to see the end.

and said, "This fellow declared, 'I can destroy the temple of God and build it in three days.'"

Jesus said nothing. Then the high priest addressed him, "I adjure you by the living God, tell us if you are the Christ, the Son of God!"

When he went out to the gateway another maidservant noticed him and said to those who were there, "This fellow was with Jesus the Nazarene."

Now when Pilate saw that instead of him doing any good a riot was rising, he took some water and washed his hands in presence of the crowd, saying, "I am innocent of this good man's blood. It is your affair!"

Then the soldiers of the governor took Jesus into the praetorium and got all the regiment round him;

and calling, "You were to destroy the temple and build it in three days! Save yourself, if you are God's Son! Come down from the cross!"

His trust is in God? Let God deliver him now if he cares for him! He said he was the Son of God!"

and about three o'clock Jesus gave a loud cry, "Eli, eli, lema sabachthani" (that is, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?)

Now when the army-captain and his men who were watching Jesus saw the earthquake and all that happened, they were dreadfully afraid; they said, "This man was certainly a son of God!"

and put it in his new tomb, which he had cut in the rock; then, after rolling a large boulder to the opening of the tomb, he went away.

THE beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ [the Son of God].

and the whole of Judaea and all the people of Jerusalem went out to him and got baptized by him in the Jordan river, confessing their sins.

Now it was in those days that Jesus arrived from Nazaret in Galilee and got baptized in the Jordan by John.

After John had been arrested, Jesus went to Galilee preaching the gospel of God;

he said, "The time has now come, God's reign is near: repent and believe in the gospel."

"Jesus of Nazaret, what business have you with us? Have you come to destroy us? We know who you are, you are God's holy One."

But Jesus checked it; "Be quiet," he said, "come out of him."

Then in the early morning, long before daylight, he got up and went away out to a lonely spot.

and as they could not get near Jesus on account of the crowd they tore up the roof under which he stood and through the opening they lowered the pallet on which the paralytic lay.

"What does the man mean by talking like this? It is blasphemy! Who can forgive sins, who but God alone?"

And he rose, lifted his pallet at once, and went off before them all; at this they were all amazed and glorified God saying, "We never saw the like of it!"

No one stitches a piece of undressed cloth on an old coat, otherwise the patch breaks away, the new from the old, and the tear is made worse:

He went into the house of God (Abiathar was high priest then) and ate the loaves of the Presence which no one except the priests is allowed to eat, and also shared them with his followers."

and they watched to see if he would heal him on the sabbath, so as to get a charge against him.

for he healed so many that all who had complaints were pressing on him to get a touch of him.

And whenever the unclean spirits saw him they fell down before him, screaming, "You are the Son of God!"

And when his family heard this, they set out to get hold of him, for what they said was, "He is out of his mind."

Whoever does the will of God, that is my brother and sister and mother."

but when the sun rose it got scorched and withered away, because it had no root;

some other seed fell on good soil and bore a crop that sprang up and grew, yielding at the rate of thirty, sixty, and a hundredfold."

and he said to them: "The open secret of the Realm of God is granted to you, but these outsiders get everything by way of parables,

As for those who were sown 'on good soil,' these are the people who listen to the word and take it in and bear fruit at the rate of thirty, sixty, and a hundredfold."

And he said, "It is with the Realm of God as when a man has sown seed on earth;

He said also, "To what can we compare the Realm of God? how are we to put it in a parable?

And he woke up, checked the wind, and told the sea, "Peace, be quiet." The wind fell and there was a great calm.

shrieking aloud, "Jesus, son of God most High, what business have you with me? By God, I adjure you, do not torture me."

She heard about Jesus, got behind him in the crowd, and touched his robe;

The girl got up at once and began to walk (she was twelve years old); and at once they were lost in utter amazement.

When the sabbath came, he began to teach in the synagogue, and the large audience was astounded. "Where did he get all this?" they said. "What is the meaning of this wisdom he is endowed with? And these miracles, too, that his hands perform!

And he said to them, "Come away to some lonely spot and get a little rest" (for there were many people coming and going, and they could get no time even to eat).

However a number of people who saw them start and recognized them, got to the place before them by hurrying there on foot from all the towns.

He said, "How many loaves have you got? Go and see." When they found out they told him, "Five, and two fish."

And he got into the boat beside them, and the wind dropped. They were utterly astounded,

You drop what God commands and hold to human tradition.

Yes, forsooth," he added, "you set aside what God commands, so as to maintain your own tradition.

But you say that if a man tells his father or mother, 'This money might have been at your service, but it is Korban' (that is, dedicated to God),

That is repealing the word of God in the interests of the tradition which you keep up. And you do many things like that."

His disciples replied, "Where can one get loaves to satisfy them in a desert spot like this?"

He asked them, "How many loaves have you got?" They said, "Seven."

but he turned on him and noticing his disciples reproved Peter, telling him, "Get behind me, you Satan! Your outlook is not God's but man's."

I tell you truly," he said, to them, "there are some of those standing here who will not taste death till they see the coming of God's Reign with power."

So Peter addressed Jesus, saying, "Rabbi, it is a good thing we are here; let us put up three tents, one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah"

but, taking his hand, Jesus raised him and he got up.

If your hand is a hindrance to you, cut it off: better be maimed and get into Life, than keep your two hands and go to Gehenna, to the fire that is never quenched.

If your foot is a hindrance to you, cut it off: better get into Life a cripple, than keep your two feet and be thrown into Gehenna.

If your eye is a hindrance to you, tear it out: better get into God's Realm with one eye, than keep your two eyes and be thrown into Gehenna,

But from the beginning, when God created the world, Male and female, He created them:

What God has joined, then, man must not separate."

but Jesus was angry when he saw this, and he said to them, "Let the children come to me, do not stop them: the Realm of God belongs to such as these.

I tell you truly, whoever will not submit to the Reign of God like a child will never get into it at all."

As he went out on the road a man ran up and knelt down before him. "Good teacher," he asked, "what must I do to inherit life eternal?"

Jesus said to him, "Why call me 'good'? No one is good, no one but God.

Jesus looked round and said to his disciples, "How difficult it is for those who have money to get into the Realm of God!"

The disciples were amazed at what he said; so he repeated, "My sons, how difficult it is [for those who rely on money] to get into the Realm of God!

It is easier for a camel to get through a needle's eye than for a rich man to get into the Realm of God."

Jesus looked at them and said, "For men it is impossible, but not for God: anything is possible for God."

who does not get a hundred times as much ??in this present world homes, brothers, sisters, mothers, children and lands, together with persecutions, and in the world to come life eternal.

A number of the people checked him and told him to be quiet, but he shouted all the more, "Son of David, have pity on me!"

Jesus stopped and said, "Call him." Then they called the blind man and told him, "Courage! Get up, he is calling you."

Many also spread their clothes on the road, while others strewed leaves cut from the fields;

This came to the ears of the scribes and high priests, and they tried to get him put to death, for they were afraid of him. But the multitude were all astounded at his teaching.

Jesus answered them, "Have faith in God!

So I tell you, whatever you pray for and ask, believe you have got it and you shall have it.

Then they tried to get hold of him, but they were afraid of the multitude. They knew he had meant the parable for them. So they left him and went away.