indeed there is only one thing we need. For Mary has chosen the right thing, and it must not be taken away from her."

and he answers from inside, 'Do not bother me; the door is now fastened, and my children and I have gone to bed; I cannot get up and give you any.'

Others to test him asked him for a sign from heaven.

The queen of the south will rise with the men of this generation at the Judgment and will condemn them, for she came from the very ends of the earth to listen to Solomon's wisdom, and there is more than Solomon here!

from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zechariah, who perished between the altar and the sanctuary. Yes, I tell you! This age will be charged with it all!

For what you say in the darkness will be heard in the light, and what you whisper in someone's ear, behind closed doors, will be proclaimed from the housetops.

like men waiting for their master to come home from a wedding, so that when he comes and knocks, they can open the door for him at once.

But one who does wrong without knowing them will be lightly punished. From anyone who has been given much, much will be required, and of the man to whom people have intrusted much, they will demand even more.

For from now on if there are five people in a house they will be divided three against two and two against three.

When Jesus saw her he called to her, "You are freed from your sickness!"

But the Master answered, "You hypocrites! Does not every one of you untie his ox or his donkey from the stall on the Sabbath and lead him away to water him?

And did not this woman, who is a descendant of Abraham, whom Satan has kept bound for eighteen years, have to be released from those bonds on the Sabbath day?"

when the master of the house gets up and shuts the door, and you begin to stand outside and to knock on the door, and say, 'Open it for us, sir!' Then he will answer you and say, 'I do not know where you come from,'

And he will say to you, 'I do not know where you come from. Get away from me, all you wrongdoers!'

People will come from the east and west and the north and south, and take their places in the Kingdom of God.

Just then some Pharisees came up and said to him, "Go! Get away from here, for Herod wants to kill you!"

Then the manager said to himself, 'What am I going to do, because my master is going to take my position away from me? I cannot dig; I am ashamed to beg.

I know what I will do, so that when I am removed from my position people will take me into their homes.'

Until John came, it was the Law and the Prophets. From that time the Kingdom of God has been proclaimed, and everyone has been crowding into it.

Anyone who divorces his wife and marries another woman commits adultery, and whoever marries a woman who has been divorced from her husband commits adultery.

and eager to satisfy his hunger with what was thrown away from the rich man's table. Why, the very dogs came and licked his sores.

Besides there is a great chasm set between you and us, so that those who want to go over from this side to you cannot, and they cannot cross from your side to us.'

But he said, 'No! Father Abraham, but if someone will go to them from the dead, they will repent!'

He answered, 'If they will not listen to Moses and the prophets, they will not be convinced even if someone rises from the dead!' "

"What man among you, if he has a servant ploughing or keeping sheep, will say to him when he comes in from the field, 'Come at once and sit down at the table,'

And as he was going into one village he met ten lepers, and they stood at some distance from him,

for just as when the lightning flashes, it shines from one end of the sky to the other, that will be the way with the Son of Man.

but the day Lot left Sodom, it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed them all.

There was a widow in the city and she came to him and said, 'Protect me from my opponent.'

And he said to the bystanders, 'Take the twenty dollars away from him, and give it to the man who has the two hundred!'

They said to him, 'He has two hundred, sir!'??26 'I tell you, the man who has will have more given him, and from the man who has nothing, even what he has will be taken away!

and said, "If you yourself only knew today the conditions of peace! But as it is, they are hidden from you.

Tell me, did John's baptism come from heaven or from men?"

And they argued with one another, and said, "If we say 'From heaven,' he will say, 'Why did you not believe him?'

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

So they answered that they did not know where it came from.

but those who are thought worthy to attain that other world and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry nor are married.

For they all gave from what they had to spare, but she in her want has put in all she had to live on."

And he withdrew about a stone's throw from them, and kneeling down he prayed

and said, "Father, if you are willing, take this cup away from me. But not my will but yours be done!"

When he got up from his prayer, he went to the disciples and found them asleep from sorrow.

But from this time on, the Son of Man will be seated at the right hand of God Almighty!"

Then they said, "What do we want of testimony now? We have heard it ourselves from his own mouth!"

As they led Jesus away, they seized a man named Simon, from Cyrene, who was coming in from the country, and put the cross on his back, for him to carry behind Jesus.

And all his acquaintances and the women who had come with him from Galilee, stood at a distance looking on.

who had not voted for the plan or action of the council. He came from the Jewish town of Arimathea and lived in expectation of the Kingdom of God.

Then he took it down from the cross and wrapped it in linen and laid it in a tomb hewn in the rock, where no one had yet been laid.

The women who had followed Jesus from Galilee followed and saw the tomb and how his body was put there.

But they found the stone rolled back from the tomb,

and they went back from the tomb and told all this to the eleven and all the rest.

That same day two of them were going to a village called Emmaus, about seven miles from Jerusalem,

but they were prevented from recognizing him.

Then their eyes were opened and they knew him, and he vanished from them.

and learned from them that the Master had really risen and had been seen by Simon.

and said to them, "The Scriptures said that Christ should suffer as he has done, and rise from the dead on the third day,

And I will send down upon you what my Father has promised. Wait here in the city until you are clothed with power from on high."

And as he was blessing them, he parted from them.

Everything came into existence through him, and apart from him nothing came to be.

There appeared a man by the name of John, with a message from God.

So the Word became flesh and blood and lived for a while among us, abounding in blessing and truth, and we saw the honor God had given him, such honor as an only son receives from his father.

And they did so. When the master of the feast tasted the water which had now turned into wine, without knowing where it had come from??hough the servants who had drawn the water knew??10 he called the bridegroom and said to him, "Everyone else serves his good wine first, and his poorer wine after people have drunk deeply, but you have kept back your good wine till now!"

So afterward when he had risen from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this, and they believed the passage of Scripture and what Jesus had said.

This man went to Jesus one night, and said to him, "Master, we know that you are a teacher who has come from God, for no one can show the signs that you do, unless God is with him."

Jesus answered him, "I tell you, no one can see the Kingdom of God unless he is born over again from above!"

Do not wonder at my telling you that you must be born over again from above.

The wind blows wherever it chooses, and you hear the sound of it, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes. That is the way with everyone who owes his birth to the Spirit."

Yet no one has gone up into heaven except the Son of Man who came down from heaven.

So a discussion arose between John's disciples and a man from Judea, about purification.

John answered, "A man cannot get anything unless it is given to him from heaven.

He who comes from above is above all others. A son of earth belongs to earth and speaks of earth. He who comes from heaven is above all others.

Are you a greater man than our forefather Jacob, who gave us this well, and drank from it himself, with his sons and his flocks?"

You worship something you know nothing about; we know what we worship, for salvation comes from the Jews.

When he heard that Jesus had come back from Judea to Galilee, he went to him and begged him to come down and cure his son, for he was at the point of death.

This second sign Jesus showed after coming back from Judea to Galilee.

But the testimony that I accept is not from any man; I am only saying this that you may be saved.

I do not accept any honor from men,

Yet how can you believe in me, when you accept honor from one another, instead of seeking the honor that comes from the one God?

But some boats from Tiberias landed near the place where they had eaten the bread after Jesus had given thanks for it.

for I have come down from heaven not to do what I please but what pleases him who has sent me.

In the prophets it is written, 'And all men will be taught by God!' Everyone who listens to the Father and learns from him will come to me.

Not that anyone has ever seen the Father, except him who is from God; he has seen the Father.

Yet there are some of you who will not believe." For Jesus knew from the first who would not believe, and who was going to betray him.

After this Jesus went from place to place in Galilee, for he would not do so in Judea, because the Jews were making efforts to kill him.

So Jesus answered, "My teaching is not my own; it comes from him who has sent me.

Anyone who resolves to do his will will know whether my teaching comes from God, or originates with me.

But then, we know where this man comes from, but when the Christ comes, no one will know where he is from."

So Jesus, as he was teaching in the Temple, cried out, "You do know me and you do know where I come from, and I have not come of my own accord but someone who is very real, whom you do not know, has sent me.

I do know him, because I come from him, and he has sent me here."

If anyone believes in me, streams of living water, as the Scripture says, shall flow forth from his heart."

Others said, "This is the Christ!" But they rejoined, "What! Is the Christ to come from Galilee?

Do not the Scriptures say that the Christ is to spring from the descendants of David and to come from the village of Bethlehem where David lived?"

They answered, "Are you from Galilee too? Study and you will find that no prophet is to appear from Galilee."

Jesus answered, "Even if I am testifying to myself, my testimony is true, for I know where I have come from and where I am going; but you do not know where I come from or where I am going.

He said to them, "You are from below; I am from above. You belong to this world; I do not belong to this world.

"Why do I even talk to you at all? I have a great deal to say about you and to condemn in you, yet he who sent me is truthful, and the things that I say to the world are things that I have learned from him."

They answered, "We are descended from Abraham, and have never been anyone's slaves. How can you say to us, 'You will be set free'?"

I know that you are descended from Abraham, yet you want to kill me, because there is no room in your hearts for my teaching.

It is what I have seen in the presence of my Father that I tell, and it is what you have heard from your father that you do."

But instead you are trying to kill me, a man who has told you the truth he has heard from God. Abraham would not have done that.

Jesus said to them, "If God were your father, you would love me, for I have come from God. I have not come of my own accord, but he has sent me.