The seventy returned with joy, saying, "Lord, even the demons are subject to us in your name."

Nevertheless do not rejoice in this, that the spirits are subject to you, but rejoice that your names are written in heaven."

Then he turned to his disciples and said privately, "Blessed are the eyes which see what you see.

But the Lord answered her, "Martha, Martha, you are worried and troubled about many things;

and he will answer from within, 'Do not bother me; the door is now shut, and my children are with me in bed; I cannot get up and give you anything'?

If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!"

When a strong man, fully armed, guards his own palace, his goods are in peace.

But he said, "Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and keep it!"

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

But give for alms those things which are within; and behold, everything is clean for you.

Woe to you! For you are like graves which are not seen, and men walk over them without knowing it."

Are not five sparrows sold for two pennies? And not one of them is forgotten before God.

Indeed, the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not; you are of more value than many sparrows.

Now when they bring you before the synagogues and rulers and authorities, do not worry about how or what you should answer, or what you are to say;

Consider the ravens: they neither sow nor reap, they have neither storehouse nor barn, and yet God feeds them. Of how much more value are you than the birds!

If you then are not able to do this very little thing, why are you anxious about the rest?

and be like men who are waiting for their master to return from the wedding feast, so that they may open to him immediately when he comes and knocks.

Blessed are those servants whom the master finds watching when he comes. Truly, I say to you that he will gird himself and have them sit at table, and will come and serve them.

If he comes in the second watch, or in the third, and finds them so, blessed are those servants.

Peter said, "Lord, are you telling this parable to us, or to all?"

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

But the ruler of the synagogue, indignant because Jesus had healed on the Sabbath, said to the people, "There are six days on which work ought to be done; come on those days and be healed, and not on the Sabbath day."

Then one said to him, "Lord, will those who are saved be few?" And he said to them,

And behold, some are last who will be first, and some are first who will be last."

O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those who are sent to you! How often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, but you were not willing!

"When you are invited by anyone to a wedding feast, do not sit down in a place of honor, lest one more distinguished than you be invited by him;

But when you are invited, go and sit in the lowest place, so that when your host comes he may say to you, 'Friend, go up higher.' Then you will be honored in the presence of all who sit at table with you.

And he said to him, 'Son, you are always with me, and all that I have is yours.

So the master commended the dishonest steward because he had dealt shrewdly. For the sons of this world are more shrewd in dealing with their own generation than the sons of light.

He said to them, "You are those who justify yourselves before men, but God knows your hearts. For what is highly esteemed among men is an abomination in the sight of God.

But Abraham said, 'Son, remember that in your lifetime you received your good things, and Lazarus received evil things; but now he is comforted here and you are in agony.

Then he said to his disciples, "Things that cause people to sin are bound to come, but woe to him through whom they do come!

So you also, when you have done all that is commanded you, say, 'We are unworthy servants; we have only done what was our duty.'"

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

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

for I was afraid of you, because you are a hard man. You take up what you did not lay down, and reap what you did not sow.'

If any one asks you, 'Why are you untying it?' you shall say to him, 'The Lord has need of it.'"

And as they were untying the colt, its owners said to them, "Why are you untying the colt?"

saying, "If you had known, even you, this day, the things that make for peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes.

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

But if we say, 'From men,' all the people will stone us, for they are persuaded that John was a prophet."

He said to them, "Then render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's."

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

But those who are considered worthy to attain that age and the resurrection from the dead neither marry nor are given in marriage,

nor can they die any more, for they are equal to the angels and are sons of God, being sons of the resurrection.

But that the dead are raised, even Moses showed, in the passage about the bush, where he calls the Lord 'the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob.'

So they asked him, "Teacher, when will these things be? And what will be the sign when they are about to take place?"

And he said: "Take heed that you not are deceived. For many will come in my name, saying, 'I am he,' and, 'The time is near.' Do not go after them.

Then let those in Judea flee to the mountains, let those who are in the city depart, and let not those who are out in the country enter it.

For these are days of vengeance, to fulfil all that is written.

Woe to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing babies in those days! For there will be great distress in the land and wrath upon this people.

They will fall by the edge of the sword, and be led captive to all nations. Jerusalem will be trampled by the Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.

When they are sprouting, you see and know for yourselves that summer is already near.

And he said to them, "The kings of the Gentiles exercise lordship over them; and those who exercise authority over them are called benefactors.

You are those who have continued with me in my trials.

They said, "Look, Lord, here are two swords." And he said to them, "It is enough."

"Father, if you are willing, take this cup from me; nevertheless not my will, but yours, be done."

but Jesus said to him, "Judas, are you betraying the Son of Man with a kiss?"

And a little later some one else saw him and said, "You also are of them." But Peter said, "Man, I am not!"

But Peter said, "Man, I do not know what you are saying!" Immediately, while he was still speaking, the rooster crowed.

"If you are the Christ, tell us." But he said to them, "If I tell you, you will not believe.

They all said, "Are you the Son of God, then?" He said to them, "You said what I am."

So Pilate asked him, "Are you the King of the Jews?" He answered him, "It is as you say."

For behold, the days are coming when they will say, 'Blessed are the barren, the wombs that never bore, and the breasts that never nursed!'

and saying, "If you are the King of the Jews, save yourself."

One of the criminals who were hanged there hurled insults at him, saying, "Are you not the Christ? Save yourself and us!"

But the other rebuked him, saying, "Do you not fear God, since you are under the same sentence of condemnation?

And we indeed justly, for we are receiving the due reward of our deeds; but this man has done nothing wrong."

And he said to them, "What is this conversation which you are exchanging with each other as you walk?" And they stood still, looking sad.

Then one of them, named Cleopas, answered him, "Are you the only visitor to Jerusalem and do not know the things that have happened there in these days?"

And he said to them, "Why are you troubled, and why do doubts rise in your hearts?

Then he said to them, "These are my words which I spoke to you, while I was still with you, that everything written about me in the law of Moses and the prophets and the psalms must be fulfilled."

You are witnesses of these things.

And behold, I send the promise of my Father upon you; but stay in the city, until you are clothed with power from on high."

Now this is the testimony of John, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, "Who are you?"

And they asked him, "What then? Are you Elijah?" He said, "I am not." "Are you the prophet?" And he answered, "No."

Then they said to him, "Who are you? Give us an answer for those who sent us. What do you say about yourself?"

They asked him, "Then why do you baptize, if you are not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the prophet?"

Jesus turned, and saw them following, and said to them, "What do you seek?" They said to him, "Rabbi" (which means Teacher), "where are you staying?"

He brought him to Jesus. Jesus looked at him and said, "You are Simon son of John. You shall be called Cephas" (which means Peter).

Nathanael answered him, "Rabbi, you are the Son of God! You are the King of Israel!"

This man came to Jesus by night and said to him, "Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God; for no one can do these signs that you do unless God is with him."

Jesus answered him, "Are you the teacher of Israel, and yet you do not understand these things?

And they came to John and said to him, "Rabbi, he who was with you beyond the Jordan, to whom you have testified behold, he is baptizing, and all are going to him."

Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well, and drank from it himself, as well as his sons and his cattle?"

The woman answered, "I have no husband." Jesus said to her, "You are right in saying, 'I have no husband';

The woman said to him, "Sir, I perceive that you are a prophet.

Just then his disciples came. And they marveled that he was talking with a woman, but no one said, "What do you wish?" or, "Why are you talking with her?"

Do you not say, 'There are yet four months and then comes the harvest'? Behold, I tell you, lift up your eyes, and look at the fields! They are already white for harvest.

Afterward, Jesus found him in the temple, and said to him, "See, you are well. Sin no more, so that nothing worse may happen to you."

Do not marvel at this; for the hour is coming when all who are in the graves will hear his voice

You search the Scriptures, because in them you think that you have eternal life; and these are they that testify of me.

"There is a lad here who has five barley loaves and two small fish, but what are they among so many?"

It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words that I have spoken to you are spirit, and they are life.

But there are some of you who do not believe." For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were who did not believe, and who would betray him.

And we believe, and have come to know, that you are the Holy One of God."

So his brothers said to him, "Leave here and go to Judea, that your disciples may see the works you are doing.

The world cannot hate you, but it hates me because I testify of it that its works are evil.

If on the Sabbath a man receives circumcision, so that the law of Moses may not be broken, are you angry with me because on the Sabbath I made a man's whole body well?