"for this might have been sold for a considerable sum, and the money given to the poor."

The poor you always have with you, but me you have not always.

But after I have risen to life again I will go before you into Galilee."

Then said Jesus to the crowds, "Have you come out as if to fight with a robber, with swords and bludgeons to apprehend me? Day after day I have been sitting teaching in the Temple, and you did not arrest me.

Then the High Priest stood up and asked Him, "Have you no answer to make? What is it these men are saying in evidence against you?"

Then the High Priest tore his robes and exclaimed, "Impious language! What further need have we of witnesses! See, you have now heard the impiety.

and said, "I have sinned, in betraying to death one who is innocent." "What does that matter to us?" they replied; it is your business."

While he was sitting on the tribunal a message came to him from his wife. "Have nothing to do with that innocent man," she said, "for during the night I have suffered terribly in a dream through him."

His trust is in God: let God deliver him now, if He will have him; for he said, 'I am God's Son.'"

He went to Pilate and begged to have the body of Jesus, and Pilate ordered it to be given to him.

"You can have a guard," said Pilate: "go and make all safe, as best you can."

And go quickly and tell His disciples that He has risen from the dead and is going before you into Galilee: there you shall see Him. Remember, I have told you."

and teach them to obey every command which I have given you. And remember, I am with you always, day by day, until the Close of the Age."

I have baptized you with water, but He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit."

"What have you to do with us, Jesus the Nazarene? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are--God's Holy One."

"Can a wedding party fast while the bridegroom is among them?" replied Jesus. "So long as they have the bridegroom with them, fasting is impossible.

"Have you never read," Jesus replied, "what David did when the necessity arose and he and his men were hungry:

They closely watched Him to see whether He would cure him on the Sabbath--so as to have a charge to bring against Him.

In solemn truth I tell you that all their sins may be pardoned to the sons of men, and all their blasphemies, however they may have blasphemed;

Those who receive the seed by the way-side are those in whom the Message is sown, but, when they have heard it, Satan comes at once and carries away the Message sown in them.

In the same way those who receive the seed on the rocky places are those who, when they have heard the Message, at once accept it joyfully,

but they have no root within them. They last for a time; then, when suffering or persecution comes because of the Message, they are immediately overthrown.

Others there are who receive the seed among the thorns: these are they who have heard the Message,

Those, on the other hand, who have received the seed on the good ground, are all who hear the Message and welcome it, and yield a return of thirty, sixty, or a hundred fold."

For those who have will have more given them; and from those who have not, even what they have will be taken away."

"Why are you so timid?" He asked; "have you still no faith?"

But Jesus, overhearing the words, said to the Warden, "Do not be afraid; only have faith."

For John had repeatedly told Herod, "You have no right to be living with your brother's wife."

So when Jesus landed, He saw a vast multitude; and His heart was moved with pity for them, because they were like sheep which have no shepherd, and He proceeded to teach them many things.

"How many loaves have you?" He inquired; "go and see." So they found out, and said, "Five; and a couple of fish."

and when they come from market they will not eat without bathing first; and they have a good many other customs which they have received traditionally and cling to, such as the rinsing of cups and pots and of bronze utensils, and the washing of beds.)

thus nullifying God's precept by your tradition which you have handed down. And many things of that kind you do."

"Have *you* also so little understanding?" He replied; "do you not understand that anything whatever that enters a man from outside cannot make him unclean,

"My heart yearns over the people," He said; "for this is now the third day they have remained with me, and they have nothing to eat.

"How many loaves have you?" He asked. "Seven," they said.

they explained His words to one another by saying, "We have no bread!"

You have eyes! can you not see? You have ears! can you not hear? and have you no memory?

He went on to say, "In solemn truth I tell you that some of those who are standing here will certainly not taste death till they have seen the Kingdom of God already come in power."

Yet I tell you that not only has Elijah come, but they have also done to him whatever they chose, as the Scriptures say about him."

"Rabbi," answered one of the crowd, "I have brought you my son. He has a dumb spirit in him;

"O unbelieving generation!" replied Jesus; "how long must I be with you? how long must I have patience with you? Bring the boy to me."

"and often it has thrown him into the fire or into pools of water to destroy him. But, if you possibly can, have pity on us and help us."

"You should not have tried to hinder him," replied Jesus, "for there is no one who will use my name to perform a miracle and be able the next minute to speak evil of me.

Salt is a good thing, but if the salt should become tasteless, what will you use to give it saltness? Have salt within you and live at peace with one another."

"Rabbi," he replied, "all these Commandments I have carefully obeyed from my youth."

Then Jesus looked at him and loved him, and said, "One thing is lacking in you: go, sell all you possess and give the proceeds to the poor, and you shall have riches in Heaven; and come and be a follower of mine."

"Remember," said Peter to Him, "that we forsook everything and have become your followers."

"What would you have me do for you?" He asked.

Hearing that it was Jesus the Nazarene, he began to cry out, "Son of David, Jesus, have pity on me."

Many angrily told him to leave off shouting; but he only cried out all the louder, "Son of David, have pity on me."

And He remonstrated with them. "Is it not written," He said, "'My House shall be called The House of Prayer for all the nations?' But you have made it what it now is--a robbers' cave."

Jesus said to them, "Have faith in God.

That is why I tell you, as to whatever you pray and make request for, if you believe that you have received it it shall be yours.

But whenever you stand praying, if you have a grievance against any one, forgive it, so that your Father in Heaven may also forgive you your offences."

Or should we say, 'human?'" They were afraid of the people; for all agreed in holding John to have been really a Prophet.

"Have you not read even this passage," He added, "'The stone which the builders rejected has become the Cornerstone:

For when they have risen from among the dead, men do not marry and women are not given in marriage, but they are as angels are in Heaven.

But as to the dead, that they rise to life, have you never read in the Book of Moses, in the passage about the Bush, how God said to him, 'I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob?'

So the Scribe said to Him, "Rightly, in very truth, Rabbi, have you said that He stands alone, and there is none but He;

David himself said, taught by the Holy Spirit, "'The Lord said to my Lord, Sit at My right hand, until I have made thy foes a footstool under thy feet.'

for they have all contributed out of what they could well spare, but she out of her need has thrown in all she possessed--all she had to live on."

"Brother will betray brother to be killed, and fathers will betray children; and children will rise against their parents and have them put to death.

And alas for the women who at that time are with child or have infants!

But as for yourselves, be on your guard: I have forewarned you of everything.

For that ointment might have been sold for fifteen pounds or more, and the money have been given to the poor." And they were exceedingly angry with her.

For you always have the poor among you, and whenever you choose you can do acts of kindness to them; but me you have not always.

But after I have risen to life again I will go before you into Galilee."

So they came to a place called Gethsemane. There He said to His disciples, "Sit down here till I have prayed."

"Have you come out," said Jesus, "with swords and cudgels to arrest me, as if you had to fight with a robber?

"We have heard him say, 'I will pull down this Sanctuary built by human hands, and three days afterwards I will erect another built without hands.'"

At last the High Priest stood up, and advancing into the midst of them all, asked Jesus, "Have you no answer to make? What is the meaning of all this that these witnesses allege against you?"

Rending his garments the High Priest exclaimed, "What need have we of witnesses after that?

Seeing that many have attempted to draw up a narrative of the facts which are received with full assurance among us

that you may fully know the truth of the things which you have been taught by word of mouth.

"I am Gabriel, who stand in the presence of God," answered the angel, "and I have been sent to talk with you and tell you this good news.

When, however, he came out, he was unable to speak to them; and they knew that he must have seen a vision in the Sanctuary; but he kept making signs to them and continued dumb.

But the angel said, "Do not be frightened, Mary, for you have found favour with God.

"How can this be," Mary replied, "seeing that I have no husband?"

to have himself registered together with Mary, who was betrothed to him and was with child.

Because mine eyes have seen Thy salvation,

When they saw Him, they were smitten with amazement, and His mother said to Him, "My child, why have you behaved thus to us? Your father and I have been searching for you in anguish."

"Why is it that you have been searching for me?" He replied; "did you not know that it is my duty to be engaged upon my Father's business?"

Live lives which shall prove your change of heart; and do not begin to say to yourselves, 'We have Abraham as our forefather,' for I tell you that God can raise up descendants for Abraham from these stones.

"Doubtless," said He, "you will quote to me the proverb, 'Physician, cure yourself: all that we hear that you have done at Capernaum, do here also in your native place.'"

"Ha! Jesus the Nazarene, what have you to do with us? I know who you are--God's Holy One!"

But He said to them, "I have to tell the Good News of the Kingdom of God to the other towns also, because for this purpose I was sent."

"Rabbi," replied Peter, "all night long we have worked hard and caught nothing; but at your command I will let down the nets."

Amazement seized them all. "Glory to God!" was the abiding feeling. Yet fear flashed through their minds and they said, "We have seen strange things to-day."

I have not come to call the righteous to repentance, but sinners."

"Can you compel the bridal party to fast," replied Jesus, "so long as they have the bridegroom among them?

"Have you never read so much as this," answered Jesus--"what David did when he and his followers were hungry;

"But alas for you rich men, because you already have your consolation!

"Alas for you who now have plenty to eat, because you will be hungry! "Alas for you who laugh now, because you will mourn and weep aloud!

"Alas for you when men shall all have spoken well of you; for that is just the way their forefathers behaved to the false Prophets!

And behave to your fellow men just as you would have them behave to you.

And they, when they came to Jesus, earnestly entreated Him, pleading, "He deserves to have this favour granted him,

For I too am a man obedient to authority, and have soldiers under me; and I say to one, 'Go,' and he goes; to another, 'Come,' and he comes; and to my slave, 'Do this or that,' and he does it."

Jesus listened to the Captain's message and was astonished at him, and He turned and said to the crowd that followed Him, "I tell you that not even in Israel have I found faith like that."

Then He answered the messengers, "Go and report to John what you have seen and heard. Blind men receive sight, the lame walk, lepers are purified, deaf persons hear, the dead are raised to life, the poor have the Good News proclaimed to them.

But the Pharisees and expounders of the Law have frustrated God's purpose as to their own lives, by refusing to be baptized.