While he was yet speaking, behold! a luminous cloud overshadowed them; and a voice out of the cloud, saying. "This is my Son, my Beloved, in whom is my delight. Listen to him."

And he answered. "Elijah is coming, and will restore all things.

"Nay, I say to you that Elijah has come already, and they did not recognize him, but did to him whatever they chose. Even so the Son of man also is about to suffer at their hands."

As they reached the crowd, a man came up to Jesus, and fell on his knees before him, saying.

"Master, take pity on my son, for he is an epileptic and sore distressed. Often he falls into the fire and often into the water.

"But this kind is driven out by prayer alone."

As they continued going from place to place in Galilee, Jesus said to them. "The Son of man is about to be betrayed into the hands of men;

As they came into Capernaum the collectors of the temple tax came to Peter and asked, "Does not your Teacher pay the temple tax?"

"Nevertheless, that we may not give offense, go to the seaside, throw in your hook; take the first fish that rises, and when you have opened its mouth, you will find a shekel in it. Take it and give it to them for us both."

At that hour his disciples came to Jesus and asked him, "Who is really greatest in the kingdom of heaven?"

"Whoever therefore will humble himself like this little child, is greatest in the kingdom of heaven;

"If your hand or your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off and cast it from you. It is better for you to enter into life maimed or crippled, than to keep both hands or both feet and be cast into the everlasting burning.

"If your eye keeps causing you to stumble, pluck it out and cast it from you. It is better for you to enter into life with only one eye, than to keep both eyes and be cast into the Gehenna of fire.

"For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost.

"Just so it is not the will of my Father in heaven that one of these little ones should perish.

"but if he will not heed the church, let him be to you as a Gentile or a tax-gatherer.

"'Ought not you also to have had pity on your fellow slave, just as I had pity on you?'

Presently some of the Pharisees came up to him, and made test of him by asking, "Is it right for a man to divorce his wife for every cause?"

"If that is the position of a man in relation to his wife," answered the disciples, "it is better not to marry."

"For there are eunuchs who have been such from birth; others who have been made such by men; and others who have made themselves eunuchs for the sake of the kingdom of God. He who is able to receive this, let him receive it."

"Let the little children come to me, and forbid them not; for it is to the childlike that the kingdom of heaven belongs."

"Why do you ask me about what is good?" asked Jesus. "There is but One who is good. But if you want to enter into life, keep the commandments."

"Honor thy father and thy mother; and, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself."

"I tell you again, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven."

"With men this is impossible," he said, "but with God all things are possible."

"And every one who has left houses, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or children, or lands, for my sake, shall many times as much, and fall heir to eternal life.

"For the kingdom of heaven is like a householder who went out at dawn to hire workmen for his vineyard.

"and he said to them, "'Do you also go into the vineyard, and whatever is just I will pay you.'

"'Because no one has hired us,' they replied. "He said to them, 'Do you also go into the vineyard.'

"And as they took it they began to grumble against the master of the house.

"'Those last men,' they said, 'have toiled only one hour, and you have made them equal to us who have borne the burden and the burning heat of the day.'

"Take your wage and begone! I chose to give to this last man the same as to you.

"Have I not the right to do what I choose with my own property? Or is your eye evil because I am generous?'

When Jesus was about to go up to Jerusalem, he took the Twelve aside by themselves, and as they went he said to them.

"What is it you wish?" he said. She answered, "Command that these my two sons may sit upon your right hand and your left in your kingdom."

My cup you indeed shall drink," he answered, "but to sit at my right hand or at my left is not mine to grant, but belongs to those for whom it has been prepared by my Father."

"just as the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life as a ransom for many."

Now as they were leaving Jericho a great crowd followed him.

And two blind men, sitting by the side of the road, heard that it was Jesus who was passing by, and cried out, "Have pity on us, Master, Son of David!"

But the crowd checked them, to make them keep still. They cried out all the louder, saying, "Master, have pity on us, Son of David!"

"Go on into the village facing you, and at once you will find an ass tied, and her colt with her. Loose them and bring them to me.

Say to the daughter of Zion, "Behold thy King cometh to thee, Gentle and sitting upon an ass, And upon a colt, the fool of a beast of burden."

So the disciples went and did as Jesus told them;

they led back the ass and her colt, and placed their cloaks on them.

And the crowds who preceded and those who followed after him shouted again and again, "Hosanna to the Son of David! Blessed be he who is coming in the name of the Lord! Hosanna in the highest!"

And as he came into Jerusalem, the whole city was stirred. "Who is this?" they said.

And the crowds answered, "This is the Prophet Jesus, from Nazareth, in Galilee."

"It is written," he said, "My house shall be called a house of prayer, but you are making it a den of thieves."

"If we say, 'From heaven,' he will ask us, 'Why then did you not believe him?' But if we say, 'From men,' we are afraid of the crowd, for they all regard John as a prophet."

But when the vine-dressers saw his son, they said to themselves: "'This is the heir. Come, let us kill him, and take his inheritance.'

"Have you never read in the Scriptures," Jesus answered, "how The stone that the builders rejected Has been made the corner-stone; This is the Lord's doing, It is wonderful in our eyes?

"He who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces; but he upon whom it falls will be scattered as dust."

As they listened to his parables, the chief priests and the Pharisees recognized that he was speaking about them;

"Again he sent out other slaves. 'Tell the invited guests,' he said, 'that my luncheon is now ready; my oxen and fat cattle are killed; everything is ready; come to the wedding-feast.'

"Then he said to his slaves, "'The wedding-feast indeed is ready, but the invited guests were not worthy.

"Give us your advice, then. Is it allowable to pay taxes to Caesar, or not?"

"Whose likeness and inscription is this?" he asked.

That very day there came to him some Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection. and they questioned him.

"Master," they said, "Moses taught that if a man dies without issue, his brother is to marry the widow, and raise up a family for his brother.

"Now there were of our number seven brothers; and the first married and died. As he had no children, he left his wife to his brother;

"In the resurrection, then, whose wife will she be? They all had her."

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

As soon as the Pharisees heard that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered themselves together,

"Master, which is the great commandment in the law?"

"This is the great and first commandment.

"The second, which is like it, is this, "Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.

"What is your opinion concerning the Christ? Whose Son is he?" "David's," they answered.

"therefore do and observe whatever they bid you; but do not do as they do, for they preach, but do not practise.

"But you are not to be called 'Rabbi'; for one is your Teacher, and you are all brothers;

"and call no one 'Father' on earth, for One is your Father in heaven.

"And call no one 'Leader,' because One is your leader, even the Christ.

"Whoever is great among you shall be your minister;

"Woe unto you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you scour sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is gained, you make him twofold more a son of hell than you are, yourselves.

"Woe unto you, blind guides, who say, If any one swears by the Sanctuary, it is nothing, but if any one swears by the gold of the Sanctuary, the oath is binding.

"You fools and blind; for which is greater, the gold, or the Sanctuary which hallows the gold?

"You say, too, that whoever swears by the offering that is upon it, his oath is binding.

"You blind! Which is greater, the offering or the altar which hallows the offering?

"For this cause, behold! I am sending you prophets and wise men and scribes. Some of them you will kill and crucify; some of them you will scourge in your synagogues, and pursue from city to city;

"O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, murdering the prophets, and stoning those who have been sent to you! How often would I have gathered your children together, as a hen gathers her chickens under her wings, and you would not!

"Behold, your house is left to you desolate!

"For I tell you that never shall you see me again until you say, "Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord." "nor did they know until the deluge came and swept them away; so will be the coming of the Son of man.

When he had seated himself on the Mount of Olives, his disciples came to him privately, saying, "Tell us, when will these things happen, and what will be the sign of your coming, and of the end of the age?"

And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars; see to it that you are not afraid. Such things must happen, but the end is not yet.

let him who is upon the housetop not go down to get the things in his house,

for then shall be a time of great tribulation, such as has not been from the beginning of the world until now, no, and never shall be again.

"If at that time any one should say to you, 'See, here is the Christ!' or 'There he is!' believe him not.

For false christs and false prophets will arise, and will work great signs and wonders, so as to mislead, if it were possible, the very elect.

"'See, He is in the desert,' do not go out there. "'See, He is in the inner room,' do not believe it.

For just as the lightning flashes from the east, and is seen even to the west; so will be the coming of the Son of man.

"Learn from the fig tree, her parable; when her branches are become soft, and put forth leaves, you know that summer is near;

so you also, when you see these signs, know that He is near, at the very doors.

And as were the days of Noah, so will be the coming of the Son of man.

For just as in the days before the deluge they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the very day when Noah entered the ark,

Keep guard then, for you do not know the day on which your Master is coming.

Therefore you also must be ready, for in an hour when you do not expect him, the Son of man is coming.

"Who, then, is the faithful and prudent slave, to whom his master has entrusted his household, to give them their food in due season?

Blessed is that slave whom his Master, when he comes, shall find so doing.

But if, because he is a bad slave, he should say to himself, 'My Master is a long time in coming,'

on a day when he is not expecting him, and at an hour which he does not know, the Master of that servant will arrive

And five of them were foolish, and five were wise.