But the Lord said to him, "Now you Pharisees clean the outside of the cup and the plate, but inside you are full of greed and wickedness.

For this reason also the wisdom of God said, 'I will send them prophets and apostles, some of whom they will kill and persecute,'

So then whatever you have said in the dark will be heard in the light, and what you have whispered in private rooms will be proclaimed from the housetops.

Then someone from the crowd said to him, "Teacher, tell my brother to divide the inheritance with me."

But Jesus said to him, "Man, who made me a judge or arbitrator between you two?"

Then he said to them, "Watch out and guard yourself from all types of greed, because one's life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions."

Then he said, 'I will do this: I will tear down my barns and build bigger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods.

But God said to him, 'You fool! This very night your life will be demanded back from you, but who will get what you have prepared for yourself?'

Then Jesus said to his disciples, "Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat, or about your body, what you will wear.

Then Peter said, "Lord, are you telling this parable for us or for everyone?"

Jesus also said to the crowds, "When you see a cloud rising in the west, you say at once, 'A rainstorm is coming,' and it does.

So he said to the worker who tended the vineyard, 'For three years now, I have come looking for fruit on this fig tree, and each time I inspect it I find none. Cut it down! Why should it continue to deplete the soil?'

When Jesus saw her, he called her to him and said, "Woman, you are freed from your infirmity."

But the president of the synagogue, indignant because Jesus had healed on the Sabbath, said to the crowd, "There are six days on which work should be done! So come and be healed on those days, and not on the Sabbath day."

When he said this all his adversaries were humiliated, but the entire crowd was rejoicing at all the wonderful things he was doing.

Again he said, "To what should I compare the kingdom of God?

Someone asked him, "Lord, will only a few be saved?" So he said to them,

At that time, some Pharisees came up and said to Jesus, "Get away from here, because Herod wants to kill you."

But he said to them, "Go and tell that fox, 'Look, I am casting out demons and performing healings today and tomorrow, and on the third day I will complete my work.

Then he said to them, "Which of you, if you have a son or an ox that has fallen into a well on a Sabbath day, will not immediately pull him out?"

Then when Jesus noticed how the guests chose the places of honor, he told them a parable. He said to them,

He said also to the man who had invited him, "When you host a dinner or a banquet, don't invite your friends or your brothers or your relatives or rich neighbors so you can be invited by them in return and get repaid.

When one of those at the meal with Jesus heard this, he said to him, "Blessed is everyone who will feast in the kingdom of God!"

But Jesus said to him, "A man once gave a great banquet and invited many guests.

But one after another they all began to make excuses. The first said to him, 'I have bought a field, and I must go out and see it. Please excuse me.'

Another said, 'I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I am going out to examine them. Please excuse me.'

Another said, 'I just got married, and I cannot come.'

So the slave came back and reported this to his master. Then the master of the household was furious and said to his slave, 'Go out quickly to the streets and alleys of the city, and bring in the poor, the crippled, the blind, and the lame.'

Then the slave said, 'Sir, what you instructed has been done, and there is still room.'

So the master said to his slave, 'Go out to the highways and country roads and urge people to come in, so that my house will be filled.

Now large crowds were accompanying Jesus, and turning to them he said,

Then Jesus said, "A man had two sons.

The younger of them said to his father, 'Father, give me the share of the estate that will belong to me.' So he divided his assets between them.

But when he came to his senses he said, 'How many of my father's hired workers have food enough to spare, but here I am dying from hunger!

Then his son said to him, 'Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you; I am no longer worthy to be called your son.'

But the father said to his slaves, 'Hurry! Bring the best robe, and put it on him! Put a ring on his finger and sandals on his feet!

Then the father said to him, 'Son, you are always with me, and everything that belongs to me is yours.

Jesus also said to the disciples, "There was a rich man who was informed of accusations that his manager was wasting his assets.

So he called the manager in and said to him, 'What is this I hear about you? Turn in the account of your administration, because you can no longer be my manager.'

Then the manager said to himself, 'What should I do, since my master is taking my position away from me? I'm not strong enough to dig, and I'm too ashamed to beg.

The man replied, 'A hundred measures of olive oil.' The manager said to him, 'Take your bill, sit down quickly, and write fifty.'

Then he said to another, 'And how much do you owe?' The second man replied, 'A hundred measures of wheat.' The manager said to him, 'Take your bill, and write eighty.'

But Jesus said to them, "You are the ones who justify yourselves in men's eyes, but God knows your hearts. For what is highly prized among men is utterly detestable in God's sight.

But Abraham said, 'Child, remember that in your lifetime you received your good things and Lazarus likewise bad things, but now he is comforted here and you are in anguish.

So the rich man said, 'Then I beg you, father -- send Lazarus to my father's house

But Abraham said, 'They have Moses and the prophets; they must respond to them.'

Then the rich man said, 'No, father Abraham, but if someone from the dead goes to them, they will repent.'

Jesus said to his disciples, "Stumbling blocks are sure to come, but woe to the one through whom they come!

The apostles said to the Lord, "Increase our faith!"

raised their voices and said, "Jesus, Master, have mercy on us."

When he saw them he said, "Go and show yourselves to the priests." And as they went along, they were cleansed.

Then Jesus said, "Were not ten cleansed? Where are the other nine?

Then he said to the man, "Get up and go your way. Your faith has made you well."

Then he said to the disciples, "The days are coming when you will desire to see one of the days of the Son of Man, and you will not see it.

Then the disciples said to him, "Where, Lord?" He replied to them, "Where the dead body is, there the vultures will gather."

He said, "In a certain city there was a judge who neither feared God nor respected people.

For a while he refused, but later on he said to himself, 'Though I neither fear God nor have regard for people,

And the Lord said, "Listen to what the unrighteous judge says!

The tax collector, however, stood far off and would not even look up to heaven, but beat his breast and said, 'God, be merciful to me, sinner that I am!'

Jesus said to him, "Why do you call me good? No one is good except God alone.

When Jesus heard this, he said to him, "One thing you still lack. Sell all that you have and give the money to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me."

When Jesus noticed this, he said, "How hard it is for the rich to enter the kingdom of God!

Those who heard this said, "Then who can be saved?"

And Peter said, "Look, we have left everything we own to follow you!"

Then Jesus said to them, "I tell you the truth, there is no one who has left home or wife or brothers or parents or children for the sake of God's kingdom

Then Jesus took the twelve aside and said to them, "Look, we are going up to Jerusalem, and everything that is written about the Son of Man by the prophets will be accomplished.

Jesus said to him, "Receive your sight; your faith has healed you."

And when Jesus came to that place, he looked up and said to him, "Zacchaeus, come down quickly, because I must stay at your house today."

But Zacchaeus stopped and said to the Lord, "Look, Lord, half of my possessions I now give to the poor, and if I have cheated anyone of anything, I am paying back four times as much!"

Then Jesus said to him, "Today salvation has come to this household, because he too is a son of Abraham!

Therefore he said, "A nobleman went to a distant country to receive for himself a kingdom and then return.

And he summoned ten of his slaves, gave them ten minas, and said to them, 'Do business with these until I come back.'

So the first one came before him and said, 'Sir, your mina has made ten minas more.'

And the king said to him, 'Well done, good slave! Because you have been faithful in a very small matter, you will have authority over ten cities.'

Then the second one came and said, 'Sir, your mina has made five minas.'

So the king said to him, 'And you are to be over five cities.'

Then another slave came and said, 'Sir, here is your mina that I put away for safekeeping in a piece of cloth.

The king said to him, 'I will judge you by your own words, you wicked slave! So you knew, did you, that I was a severe man, withdrawing what I didn't deposit and reaping what I didn't sow?

And he said to his attendants, 'Take the mina from him, and give it to the one who has ten.'

But they said to him, 'Sir, he has ten minas already!'

After Jesus had said this, he continued on ahead, going up to Jerusalem.

But some of the Pharisees in the crowd said to him, "Teacher, rebuke your disciples."

and said to him, "Tell us: By what authority are you doing these things? Or who it is who gave you this authority?"

Then Jesus said to them, "Neither will I tell you by whose authority I do these things."

Then the owner of the vineyard said, 'What should I do? I will send my one dear son; perhaps they will respect him.'

But when the tenants saw him, they said to one another, 'This is the heir; let's kill him so the inheritance will be ours!'

He will come and destroy those tenants and give the vineyard to others." When the people heard this, they said, "May this never happen!"

But Jesus looked straight at them and said, "Then what is the meaning of that which is written: 'The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone'?

But Jesus perceived their deceit and said to them,

"Show me a denarius. Whose image and inscription are on it?" They said, "Caesar's."

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

So Jesus said to them, "The people of this age marry and are given in marriage.

But he said to them, "How is it that they say that the Christ is David's son?

For David himself says in the book of Psalms, 'The Lord said to my lord, "Sit at my right hand,

As all the people were listening, Jesus said to his disciples,

He said, "I tell you the truth, this poor widow has put in more than all of them.

Now while some were speaking about the temple, how it was adorned with beautiful stones and offerings, Jesus said,

He said, "Watch out that you are not misled. For many will come in my name, saying, 'I am he,' and, 'The time is near.' Do not follow them!

Then he said to them, "Nation will rise up in arms against nation, and kingdom against kingdom.

They said to him, "Where do you want us to prepare it?"