But when the tenants saw his son, they said to one another. 'This is his heir! Come on, let us kill him, and get his inheritance!'

Jesus said to them, "Did you never read in the Scriptures, " 'That stone which the builders rejected Has become the cornerstone; This came from the Lord, And seems marvelous to us'?

And he sent his slaves to summon those who had been invited to the banquet, and they would not come.

He sent other slaves a second time, and said to them, 'Tell those who have been asked, "Here I have my banquet all ready, my bullocks and fat cattle are killed, and everything is ready. Come to the banquet!" '

But when the king came in to view the guests, he saw among them a man who did not have on wedding clothes.

And he said to him, 'My friend, how did you happen to come here without wedding clothes?' But he had nothing to say.

On the same day some Sadducees came up to him, claiming that there is no resurrection, and they asked him this question:

it is that on your heads may come all the righteous blood shed on the earth from the blood of Abel the upright to the blood of Zechariah, Barachiah's son, whom you murdered between the sanctuary and the altar!

I tell you, all this will come upon this age!

And Jesus left the Temple and was going away, when his disciples came up to him to call his attention to the Temple buildings.

As he was sitting on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came up to him by themselves, and said to him, "Tell us when this is to happen, and what will be the sign of your coming, and of the close of the age."

For many will come under my name, and say, 'I am the Christ,' and many will be misled by them.

You will hear of wars and rumors of war; do not let yourselves be alarmed. They have to come, but that is not the end.

And this good news of the kingdom will be preached all over the world, to testify to all the heathen, and then the end will come.

and knew nothing about it until the flood came and destroyed them all, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man.

that slave's master will come back some day when he does not expect him, and at some time of which he does not know

But in the middle of the night there was a shout 'Here is the bridegroom! Come out and meet him!'

Afterward the other bridesmaids came and said, 'Sir! Sir! Open the door for us!'

Long afterward, their master came back and settled accounts with them.

And the man who had received the five thousand dollars came up bringing him five thousand more, and said, 'Sir, you put five thousand dollars in my hands; here I have made five thousand more.'

His master said to him, 'Well done, my excellent, faithful slave! you have been faithful about a small amount; I will put a large one into your hands. Come, share your master's enjoyment!'

And the man who had received the two thousand came up and said, 'Sir, you put two thousand dollars into my hands; here I have made two thousand more.'

His master said to him, 'Well done, my excellent, faithful slave! you have been faithful about a small amount; I will put a large one into your hands. Come! share your master's enjoyment.'

And the man who had received the one thousand came up and said, 'Sir, I knew you were a hard man, who reaped where you had not sown, and gathered where you had not threshed,

Then you ought to have put my money in the bank, and then when I came back I would have gotten my property with interest.

Then the king will say to those at his right, 'Come, you whom my Father has blessed, take possession of the kingdom which has been destined for you from the creation of the world.

when I had no clothes, you gave me clothes, when I was sick, you looked after me, when I was in prison, you came to see me.'

"You know that in two days the Passover Festival will come, and the Son of Man will be handed over to be crucified."

a woman came up to him with an alabaster flask of very expensive perfume and poured it upon his head, while he was at table.

On the first day of the festival of Unleavened Bread, the disciples came to Jesus and said, "Where do you wish us to make the preparations for you to eat the Passover supper?"

When evening came, he took his place at table with the twelve disciples.

Then Jesus came with them to a place called Gethsemane, and he said to the disciples, "Sit down here while I go over yonder and pray."

When he came back he found them asleep again, for they could hardly keep their eyes open.

Then he came back to the disciples and said to them, "Are you still sleeping and taking your rest? See, the time has come for the Son of Man to be handed over to wicked men!

Just as he was speaking, Judas, one of the Twelve, came up, and with him a great crowd with swords and clubs, from the high priests and the elders of the people.

Jesus said to him, "My friend, what are you here for?" Then they came up and laid hands on Jesus and secured him.

At that same time Jesus said to the crowd, "Have you come out to arrest me with swords and clubs, as though I were a robber? Day after day I have sat in the Temple preaching, and you never seized me.

And Peter followed him at a distance as far as the courtyard of the high priest's house, and he went inside and sat down among the attendants to see how it came out.

And they could not, although many false witnesses presented themselves. But finally two came forward

Now Peter was sitting outside in the courtyard, and a maid came up to him, and said, "You were with Jesus the Galilean, too!"

A little while after the bystanders came up to Peter and said, "You are certainly one of them too, for your accent shows it!"

As they went out of the city they came upon a Cyrenian named Simon, and they forced him to carry Jesus' cross.

When they came to a place called Golgotha, which means the Place of the Skull,

and saying, "You who would tear down the sanctuary, and build one in three days, save yourself! If you are the Son of God, come down from the cross!"

"He saved others, but he cannot save himself! He is King of Israel; let him come down from the cross now, and we will believe in him.

But the others said, "Let us see whether Elijah will come to save him."

In the evening a rich man named Joseph, from Arimathea, who had himself been a disciple of Jesus, came.

Give orders, therefore, to have the tomb closely guarded till the third day, so that his disciples cannot come and steal him, and then tell the people that he is risen from the dead, and that delusion be worse than the other was."

And there was a great earthquake. For an angel of the Lord came down from heaven and went and rolled the stone back and sat upon it.

He is not here, he has risen, as he said he would do. Come and see the place where he was lying.

and said to them, "Tell people that his disciples came in the night and stole him away while you were asleep.

And Jesus came up to them and said, "Full authority in heaven and on the earth has been given to me.

It was in those days that Jesus came from Nazareth in Galilee, and was baptized by John in the Jordan.

and out of the heavens came a voice: "You are my Son, my Beloved! You are my Chosen!"

saying, "The time has come and the reign of God is near; repent, and believe this good news."

Jesus said to them, "Come, follow me, and I will make you fish for men."

"What do you want of us, Jesus, you Nazarene? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are, you are God's holy One!"

He said to them, "Let us go somewhere else, to the neighboring country towns, so that I may preach in them, too, for that is why I came out here."

There came to him a leper appealing to him on his knees, saying to him, "If you only choose, you can cure me."

But he went off and began to talk so much about it, and to spread the story so widely, that Jesus could no longer go into a town openly, but stayed out in unfrequented places, and people came to him from every direction.

Some days later he came back to Capernaum, and people heard that he was at home,

And some people came bringing to him a man who was paralyzed, four of them carrying him.

He went out of the town again and along the shore, and all the people came to him and he taught them.

Jesus heard it, and said to them, "It is not well people but the sick who have to have the doctor. I did not come to invite the pious but the irreligious."

Now John's disciples and the Pharisees were keeping a fast. And people came and asked him, "Why is it that when John's disciples and the disciples of the Pharisees are keeping the fast, yours are not keeping it?"

But a time will come when the bridegroom will be taken from them, and when that day comes, they will fast.

He said to the man with the withered hand, "Get up and come forward."

and Jerusalem and Idumea and from the other side of the Jordan and from the neighborhood of Tyre and Sidon a great many who had heard of the things he was doing came to him.

His relatives heard of it and came over to stop him, for they said that he was out of his mind.

And the scribes who had come down from Jerusalem said that he was possessed by Beelzebub and drove out demons by the help of the prince of demons.

And his mother and his brothers came. And they stood outside the house and sent word in to him to come outside to them.

and as he was sowing, some of the seed chanced to fall by the path, and the birds came and ate it up.

but when the sun came up, it was scorched, and withered up, because it had no root.

And some fell on good soil, and came up and grew and yielded thirty, sixty, even a hundredfold."

But as soon as the crop will let him, the man goes in with his sickle, for the harvest time has come.

And a heavy squall of wind came on and the waves dashed into the boat, so that it was beginning to fill.

As soon as he got out of the boat, a man possessed by a foul spirit came out of the burial places near by to meet him.

For he was saying to him, "You foul spirit, come out of this man."

So he gave them permission. And the foul spirits came out and went into the pigs, and the drove of about two thousand rushed over the steep bank into the sea, and were drowned.

And the men who tended them ran away and spread the news in the town and in the country around, and the people came to see what had happened.

When they came to Jesus and found the demoniac sitting quietly with his clothes on and in his right mind??he same man who had been possessed by Legion??hey were frightened.

And a man named Jairus, the leader of a synagogue, came up and seeing him threw himself at his feet,

and appealed to him, saying, "My little daughter is at the point of death. Come, lay your hands on her, so that she may get well and live!"

had heard about Jesus. And she came up in the crowd behind him and touched his coat,

The woman, knowing what had happened to her, came forward frightened and trembling, and threw herself down at his feet and told him the whole truth.

Even as he spoke people came from the house of the leader of the synagogue and said, "Your daughter is dead. Why should you trouble the Master any further?"

They came to the house of the leader of the synagogue, and there he found everything in confusion, and people weeping and wailing.

And he grasped her hand and said to her, "Taleitha, koum!"??hat is to say, "Little girl, I tell you, get up!"

When the Sabbath came he began to teach in the synagogue. And the people were astonished when they heard him, and said, "Where did he get all this? How does he come to have such wisdom? How are such marvelous things done through him?

When a holiday came and Herod on his birthday gave a banquet to his courtiers and officers and to the leading men of Galilee,

Herodias' own daughter came in and danced for them. And Herod and his guests were delighted, and the king said to the girl,

When his disciples heard of it they came and took his body away and put it in a tomb.

And he said to them, "Come away by yourselves to some quiet place, and rest a little while." For people were coming and going in large numbers, and they had no time even for meals.

When it grew late his disciples came up to him and said, "This is a lonely place and it is getting late.

When evening came on, the boat was in the middle of the sea, and he was alone on shore.

They crossed over to the other side and came to Gennesaret and moored the boat.

As soon as they came ashore, the people recognized Jesus,

The Pharisees gathered about him with some scribes who had come from Jerusalem.

and they will not eat anything from the market without first purifying it by sprinkling it, and they have a number of other observances which have come down to them, in the way of washing cups, pitchers, and basins.

For it is from inside, from men's hearts, that designs of evil come; immorality, stealing, murder, adultery,