The queen of the south will rise at the judgment with the men of this age and will condemn them, for she came from the very ends of the earth to listen to Solomon's wisdom; and yet, One who is more than Solomon is here.

The men of Nineveh will rise at the judgment with the men of this age and will condemn them, for they turned to the message preached by Jonah, and yet One who is more than Jonah is here.

So you, too, must always be ready, for at an hour that you are not expecting, the Son of Man will come."

his master will come back some day when he is not expecting him, and at an hour of which he is not aware, and will cut him in two, and give him his share with the unfaithful.

So he said to the vine-dresser, 'Look here! for three years I have been coming to look for figs on this fig tree, and have not found any. Cut it down. Why waste the ground with it?'

As soon as Jesus saw her, He called her to Him and said to her, "Woman, you are freed from your disease!"

Then He laid His hands on her, and at once she straightened herself up and burst into praising God.

But the leader of the synagogue, indignant because Jesus had cured her on the Sabbath, answered the crowd, "There are six days on which people must work; so come on these and be cured, but not on the Sabbath."

Just at that time some Pharisees came up and said to Him, "Get out at once! Get away from here, for Herod wants to kill you!"

But He said to them: "Go and tell that fox, 'Here I am, driving out demons and performing cures, today and tomorrow, and on the third day I will finish these tasks.

"O Jerusalem! Jerusalem! The city that continues to murder the prophets, and to stone those who are sent to her, how often I have yearned to gather your children around me, as a hen gathers her brood under her wings. But you refused!

And at the dinner hour he sent his slave to say to the invited guests, 'Come, for it is now ready.'

So the slave returned and reported these answers to his master. Then the master of the house became angry and said to his slave, 'Hurry out into the streets and lanes of the city and bring in here the poor, the maimed, the crippled, and the blind.'

It is fit for neither soil nor manure. People throw it away. Let him who has ears to hear with give heed!"

And when she finds it, she calls in her friends and neighbors, and says, 'Rejoice with me, because I have found the coin which I lost!'

Then he came to himself and said, 'How many of my father's hired men have more to eat than they need, and here I am dying of hunger!

Any man who divorces his wife to marry another woman commits adultery, and the man who marries the woman divorced from her husband commits adultery.

But Abraham said, 'My child, remember that you received in full your blessings in your lifetime, and Lazarus his hardships in his, but now he is continuously comforted here, while you are continuously tortured there.

and so people will not say, 'Look! Here it is,' nor, 'There it is,' for the kingdom of God is within you."

And men will say to you, 'Look! There he is!' or, 'Look! Here He is!' Do not start in pursuit of Him,

yet because this widow continues to bother me, I will give her justice and protection, so that she may not finally wear me out by her continual coming."

Here there was a man named Zaccheus, who was tax-commissioner of the district, and he was a rich man too.

But another one came in and said, 'Here is your twenty dollars, sir, which I kept laid away in a handkerchief.

But bring those enemies of mine here who did not want me to become king over them and slay them in my presence!'"

said, "Go on to the village in front of you, in which, just as you enter, you will find a colt tied, which no man has ever yet ridden. Untie it and bring it here to me.

But when the tenants saw him, they argued among themselves, 'This is the heir; let us kill him, so that what he inherits may be ours.'

Then the scribes and the high priests tried to arrest Him at that very hour, but they were afraid of the people, for they knew that He meant this story for them.

and the third, married her; as also the seven did who died but left no child.

Now at the resurrection which one's wife will the woman be? For the seven married her."

for all the rest of them made their contributions out of their surplus, but she out of her want dropped in all that she had to live on."

And when you hear of wars and tumults, never be panic-stricken. For this has to take place first, but the end will not come all at once."

And yet not a single hair on your head will perish.

"When you see Jerusalem being surrounded by armies, then understand that her devastation is near.

Now when the hour came, He took His place at the table, with the apostles about Him.

So they said, "Lord, look! here are two swords!" And He answered them, "Enough!"

A servant girl saw him sitting by the fire and fixed her eyes on him and said, "This fellow was with Him too."

About an hour later another man emphatically asserted, "He certainly was with Him, for he is a Galilean!"

Here they began to make the following charges against Him: "We have found this fellow corrupting our nation and forbidding to pay taxes to Caesar and claiming to be a king himself."

But they continued emphatically insisting, "He is exciting the people by teaching all over Judea. He started in Galilee and now He is here."

and said to them, "You brought this man to me on a charge of turning the people from allegiance, and here in your presence I have examined Him and do not find Him guilty of the charges you make against Him.

[He is not here but has risen.] Remember what He told you while He was still in Galilee, when

So while they were still disbelieving for sheer joy and still wondering about it, He asked them, "Have you anything here to eat?"

And I will send down upon you what my Father has promised. But you, on your part, must stay right here in the city until you are clothed with power from on high."

Jesus saw Nathaniel coming toward Him, and said of him, "Here is a genuine Israelite with no deceit in him!"

Jesus said to her, "Woman, what have you to do with me? My time to act has not yet come."

Then He said to the pigeon-dealers, "Take these things out of here! Stop using my Father's house as a market place!"

The wind blows where it pleases, and you hear the sound of it, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes. That is just the way it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit."

It is the bridegroom who has the bride, but the bridegroom's friend, who stands outside and listens to him, is very happy to hear the bridegroom's voice. So this happiness of mine is running over.

A woman of Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, "Give me a drink."

Jesus answered her, "If you just knew what God has to give and who it is that said to you, 'Give me a drink,' you would have been the one to ask Him, and He would have given you living water."

Jesus answered her, "Anyone who drinks this water will get thirsty again;

He said to her, "Go and call your husband and come back here."

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

Jesus said to her, "Believe me, woman, the time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem.

But a time is coming -- indeed, it is already here -- when the real worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and reality, for the Father is looking for just such worshipers.

Jesus said to her, "I, the very one who is talking to you, am He!"

Just then His disciples came up, and they were surprised to find Him talking with a woman, yet not one of them asked Him, "What do you want?" or "Why are you talking with her?"

The woman then left her pitcher and went back to town and said to the people,

So he asked them at what hour he began to get better, and they said to him, "Yesterday at one o'clock the fever left him."

Then the father knew that that was the very hour when Jesus had said to him, "Your son is going to live." So he and his whole household believed in Jesus.

I most solemnly say to you, a time is coming -- indeed, it is already here -- when the dead will listen to the voice of the Son of God, and those who listen to it will live.

But I have testimony that is higher than John's, for the works which my Father has committed to me to finish, the very works that I am doing, testify to me that the Father has sent me;

"There is a little boy here who has five barley loaves and a couple of fish, but what are they among so many?"

So when they had crossed the sea and found Him, they asked Him, "Teacher, when did you get here?"

But here is the bread that comes down out of heaven, so that anyone may eat it and never die.

So His brothers said to Him, "You must leave here and go to Judea, to let your disciples also see the works that you are doing;

And the scribes and Pharisees brought a woman they had caught in adultery. And standing her in the middle,

When the questioners persisted, Jesus straightened up and said to them, "Let the one of you who is sinless be the first one to cast a stone at her."

He straightened up and said to her, "Woman, where are they? Did no one condemn you?"

Then Jesus said to them, "If God were your Father, you would love me, for I came from God and now am here. No, indeed, I have not come on my own authority, but He has sent me.

He answered them, "I have already told you and you would not listen to me. Why do you want to hear it again? You do not want to become His disciples, do you?"

Now a man was sick; it was Lazarus who lived in Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha.

It was the Mary who poured the perfume upon the Lord and wiped His feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.

Now Jesus held in loving esteem Martha and her sister and Lazarus.

Then Martha said to Jesus, "Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.

Jesus said to her, "Your brother will rise again."

Jesus said to her, "I am the resurrection and the life myself. Whoever continues to believe in me will live right on even though he dies,

On saying this she went back and called her sister Mary, whispering to her, "The Teacher is here and is asking for you."

So the Jews who were with her in the house sympathizing with her, when they saw Mary jump up and go out, followed her, because they supposed that she was going to the grave to pour out her grief there.

When Mary came where Jesus was and saw Him, she threw herself at His feet, and said, "Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died."

So when Jesus saw her weeping and the Jews who had come with her weeping too, He sighed in sympathy and shook with emotion,

Jesus said to her, "Did I not promise you that if you would believe in me, you should see the glory of God?"

Then Mary took a pound of expensive perfume, made of the purest oil, and poured it on Jesus' feet, and wiped them with her hair; and the whole house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume.

Then Jesus said, "Let her alone; let her keep it for the day of my funeral,

Whoever loves his lower life will lose the higher, but whoever hates his lower life in this world preserves the higher for eternal life.

Now my soul is troubled; what shall I say? Father, save me from this hour of agony! And yet it was for this very purpose that I came to this hour of agony.

The crowd answered Him, "We have learned from the law that the Christ is to remain here forever, and so how can you say that the Son of Man must be lifted up? Who is this Son of Man?"

When a woman is in labor, she is in pain, for her time has come, but when the baby is born, she forgets her pain because of her joy that a human being has been born into the world.

Listen! A time is coming, yea, it is right here, when you will all be scattered to your homes and will leave me alone. And yet, I am not alone, because the Father is with me.

I have glorified you down here upon the earth by completing the work which you have given me to do.

So Jesus came outside still wearing the crown of thorns and the purple coat. Then Pilate said to them, "Here is the man!"

Near Jesus' cross were standing His mother and her sister Mary, the wife of Clopas, and Mary of Magdala.

Then He said to His disciple, "There is your mother." And from that very hour His disciple took her to his own home.

And they said to her, "Woman, why are you weeping?" She said to them, "They have taken away my Lord, and I do not know where they have put Him."

Jesus said to her, "Woman, why are you weeping? Whom are you looking for?" Because she supposed it was the gardener, she said to Him, "If it was you, sir, who carried Him away, tell me where you put Him, and I will remove Him."

Jesus said to her, "Mary!" At once she turned and said to Him in Hebrew, "Rabboni!" which means Teacher.

Jesus said to her, "Stop clinging to me so, for I have not yet gone up to my Father; but go to my brothers and tell them that I am going up to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God."

Mary of Magdala went and announced to the disciples that she had seen the Lord and that He had told her this.

Then He said to Thomas, "Put your finger here and look at my hands, and take your hand and put it in my side, and stop being an unbeliever, but be a believer!"

Cretans and Arabs -- we hear them all alike telling in our own tongues the great wonders of God."