If your brother sins [against you], go and reprove him, as between you and him alone. If he listens to you, then you have won your brother over;

If he refuses to listen to them, tell the church; and if he refuses to listen to the church, treat him as a pagan or a taxgatherer.

Then Peter came up and said to him, "Lord, how often is my brother to sin against me and be forgiven? Up to seven times?"

That is why the Realm of heaven may be compared to a king who resolved to settle accounts with his servants.

as he was unable to pay, his master ordered him to be sold, along with his wife and children and all he had, in payment of the sum.

But as that servant went away, he met one of his fellow-servants who owed him twenty pounds, and seizing him by the throat he said, 'Pay your debt!'

Ought you not to have had mercy on your fellow-servant, as I had on you?'

Then the Pharisees came up to tempt him. They asked, "Is it right to divorce one's wife for any reason?"

The disciples said to him, "If that is a man's position with his wife, there is no good in marrying."

He said to them, "True, but this truth is not practicable for everyone, it is only for those who have the gift.

There are eunuchs who have been eunuchs from their birth, there are eunuchs who have been made eunuchs by men, and there are eunuchs who have made themselves eunuchs for the sake of the Realm of heaven. Let anyone practice it for whom it is practicable."

but Jesus said to them, "Let the children alone, do not stop them from coming to me: the Realm of heaven belongs to such as these."

He said to him, "Why do you ask me about what is good? One alone is good. But if you want to get into Life, keep the commands."

honour your father and mother, and you must love your neighbour as yourself."

The young man said, "I have observed all these. What more is wanting?"

I tell you again, it is easier for a camel to get through a needle's eye than for a rich man to get into the Realm of God."

Jesus looked at them and said, "This is impossible for men, but anything is possible for God."

Everyone who has left brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or lands or houses for my name's sake will get a hundred times as much and inherit life eternal.

For the Realm of heaven is like a householder who went out early in the morning to hire labourers for his vineyard;

to them he said, 'You go into the vineyard too, and I will give you whatever wage is fair.' So they went in.

'Because nobody hired us,' they said. He told them, 'You go into the vineyard too.'

'These last,' they said, 'have only worked a single hour, and yet you have ranked them equal to us who have borne the brunt of the day's work and the heat!'

Take what belongs to you and be off. I choose to give this last man the same as you.

Can I not do as I please with what belongs to me? Have you a grudge because I am generous?'

Now as Jesus was about to go up to Jerusalem he took the twelve aside by themselves and said to them as they were on the road,

"You shall drink my cup," said Jesus, "but it is not for me to grant seats at my right hand and at my left; these belong to the men for whom they have been destined by my Father."

just as the Son of man has not come to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many."

As they were leaving Jericho a crowd followed him,

and when two blind men who were sitting beside the road heard Jesus was passing, they shouted, "O Lord, Son of David, have pity on us!"

The crowd checked them and told them to be quiet, but they shouted all the louder, "O Lord, Son of David, have pity on us!"

saying to them, "Go to the village in front of you and you will at once find an ass tethered with a colt alongside of her; untether them and bring them to me.

Tell the daughter of Sion, 'Here is your king coming to you, He is gentle and mounted on an ass, And on a colt the foal of a beast of burden.'

So the disciples went and did as Jesus told them;

they brought the ass and the colt and put their clothes on them. Jesus seated himself on them,

When he entered Jerusalem the whole city was in excitement over him. "Who is this?" they said,

and the crowds replied, "This is the prophet Jesus from Nazaret in Galilee!"

and told them, "It is written, My house shall be called a house of prayer, but you make it a den of robbers."

In the morning as he came back to the city he felt hungry,

When he entered the temple, the high priests and elders of the people came up to him as he was teaching, and said, "What authority have you for acting in this way? Who gave you this authority?"

Jesus replied, "Well, I will ask you a question, and if you answer me, then I will tell you what authority I have for acting as I do.

Where did the baptism of John come from? From heaven or from men?" Now they argued to themselves, "If we say, 'From heaven,' he will say to us, 'Then why did you not believe him?'

So they answered Jesus, "We do not know." He said to them, "No more will I tell you what authority I have for acting as I do.

But when the vinedressers saw his son they said to themselves, 'Here is the heir; come on, let us kill him and seize his inheritance!'

Jesus said to them, "Have you never read in the scriptures, The stone that the builders rejected is the chief stone now of the corner: this is the doing of the Lord, and a wonder to our eyes?

they tried to get hold of him, but they were afraid of the crowds, as the crowds held him to be a prophet.

Once more he sent some other servants, saying, 'Tell the invited guests, here is my supper all prepared, my oxen and fat cattle are killed, everything is ready; come to the marriage-banquet.'

Then he said to his servants, 'The marriage-banquet is all ready, but the invited guests did not deserve it.

Tell us, then, what you think about this. Is it right to pay taxes to Caesar or not?"

Then Jesus said to them, "Whose likeness, whose inscription is this?"

That same day some Sadducees came up to him, men who hold there is no resurrection. They put this question to him:

"Teacher, Moses said that if anyone dies without children, his brother is to espouse his wife and raise offspring for his brother.

Now there were seven brothers in our number. The first married and died; as he had no children he left his wife to his brother.

Now at the resurrection whose wife will she be? They all had her."

And as for the resurrection of the dead, have you not read what was said to you by God,

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

"Teacher," he said, "what is the greatest command in the Law?"

This is the greatest and chief command.

There is a second like it: you must love your neighbour as yourself.

As the Pharisees had mustered, Jesus put a question to them.

"Tell me," he said, "what you think about the Christ. Whose son is he?" They said to him, "David's."

He said to them, "How is it then that David in the Spirit calls him Lord?

so do whatever they tell you, obey them, but do not do as they do. They talk but they do not act.

Besides, all they do is done to catch the notice of men; they make their phylacteries broad, they wear large tassels,

But you are not to be called 'rabbi,' for One is your teacher, and you are all brothers;

you are not to call anyone 'father' on earth, for One is your heavenly Father;

nor must you be called 'leaders,' for One is your leader, even the Christ.

He who is greatest among you must be your servant.

Woe to you, you impious scribes and Pharisees! you traverse sea and land to make a single proselyte, and when you succeed you make him a son of Gehenna twice as bad as yourselves.

Woe to you, blind guides that you are! you say, 'Swear by the sanctuary, and it means nothing; but swear by the gold of the sanctuary, and the oath is binding.'

You are senseless and blind! for which is the greater, the gold or the sanctuary that makes the gold sacred?

You say again, 'Swear by the altar, and it means nothing; but swear by the gift upon it, and the oath is binding.'

You are blind! for which is the greater, the gift or the altar that makes the gift sacred?

Blind Pharisee! first clean the inside of the cup, so that the outside may be clean as well.

This is why I will send you prophets, wise men, and scribes, some of whom you will kill and crucify, some of whom you will flog in your synagogues and persecute from town to town;

it is that on you may fall the punishment for all the just blood shed on earth from the blood of Abel the just down to the blood of Zechariah the son of Barachiah, whom you murdered between the sanctuary and the altar.

O Jerusalem, Jerusalem! slaying the prophets and stoning those who have been sent to you! How often I would fain have gathered your children as a fowl gathers her brood under her wings! But you would not have it!

See, your House is left to you, desolate.

So as he sat on the Hill of Olives the disciples came up to him in private and said, "Tell us, when will this happen? What will be the sign of your arrival and of the end of the world?"

You will hear of wars and rumours of wars; see and do not be alarmed. These have to come, but it is not the end yet.

All that is but the beginning of the trouble.

This gospel of the Reign shall be preached all over the wide world as a testimony to all the Gentiles, and then the end will come.

a man on the housetop must not go down to fetch what is inside his house,

for there will be sore misery then, such as never has been from the beginning of the world till now ??no and never shall be.

If anyone tells you at that time, 'Here is the Christ!' or, 'there he is!' do not believe it;

for false Christs and false prophets will rise and bring forward great signs and wonders, so as to mislead the very elect, ??if that were possible.

If they tell you, 'Here he is in the desert,' do not go out; 'here he is in the chamber,' do not believe it.

Let the fig tree teach you a parable. As soon as its branches turn soft and put out leaves, you know summer is at hand;

so, whenever you see all this happen, you may be sure He is at hand, at the very door.

As were the days of Noah, so will the arrival of the Son of man be.

For as in the days before the deluge people ate and drank, married and were married, till the day Noah entered the ark;

and as they knew nothing till the deluge came and swept them all away; so will the arrival of the Son of man be.

So be ready yourselves, for the Son of man is coming at an hour you do not expect.

Now where is the trusty and thoughtful servant, whom his lord and master has set over his household to assign them their supplies at the proper time?

Blessed is that servant if his lord and master finds him so doing when he arrives!

But if the bad servant says to himself, 'My lord and master is long of coming,'

whereas the sensible took oil in their vessels as well as their lamps.

As the bridegroom was long of coming, they all grew drowsy and went to sleep.

But at midnight the cry arose, 'Here is the bridegroom! Come out to meet him!'

The stupid said to the sensible, 'Give us some of your oil, for our lamps are going out.'

But the sensible replied, 'No, there may not be enough for us and for you. Better go to the dealers and buy for yourselves.'