The disciples were amazed at what he said; so he repeated, "My sons, how difficult it is [for those who rely on money] to get into the Realm of God!

Jesus said, "I tell you truly, no one has left home or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or lands for my sake and for the sake of the gospel,

So he said, "What do you want me to do for you?"

but it is not for me to grant seats at my right or my left hand ??these belong to the men for whom they have been destined."

heard it was Jesus of Nazaret. So he started to shout, "Son of David! Jesus! have pity on me."

A number of the people checked him and told him to be quiet, but he shouted all the more, "Son of David, have pity on me!"

Jesus spoke to him and said, "What do you want me to do for you?" The blind man said, "Rabboni, I want to regain my sight."

Then he said to it, "May no one ever eat fruit from you after this!" The disciples heard him say it.

also he taught them. "Is it not written," he asked, "My house shall be called a house of prayer for all nations? You have made it a den of robbers."

Also, whenever you stand up to pray, if you have anything against anybody, forgive him, so that your Father in heaven may forgive you your trespasses."

He had still one left, a beloved son; he sent him to them last, saying, 'They will respect my son.'

Are we to pay, or are we not to pay?" But he saw their trick and said to them, "Why tempt me? Bring me a shilling. Let me see it."

David himself said in the holy Spirit, The Lord said to my Lord, 'Sit at my right hand, till I make your enemies a footstool for your feet.'

So Jesus began: "Take care that no one misleads you: ??6 many will come in my name saying, 'I am he,' and mislead many.

Look to yourselves. Men will hand you over to Sanhedrins and you will be flogged in synagogues and brought before governors and kings for my sake, to testify to them.

and you will be hated by all men on account of my name; but he will be saved who holds out to the very end.

Pray it may not be winter when it comes,

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

Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words never.

But Jesus said, "Let her alone. Why are you annoying her? She has done a beautiful thing to me.

The poor you always have beside you, and you can be kind to them whenever you want; but you will not always have me.

She has done all she could ??she has anticipated the perfuming of my body for burial.

and whatever house he goes into, tell the owner that the Teacher says, 'Where is my room, that I may eat the passover there with my disciples?'

As they were at table eating, Jesus said, "Truly I tell you, one of you is going to betray me, one who is eating with me."

They got distressed at this, and said to him one after another, "Surely it is not me?" "Surely it is not me?"

And as they were eating he took a loaf, and after the blessing he broke and gave it to them, saying, "Take this, it means my body."

he said to them, "This means my covenant-blood which is shed for many;

But after my rising I will precede you to Galilee."

Jesus said to him, "I tell you truly, to-day you will disown me three times, this very night, before the cock crows twice."

he said to them, "My heart is sad, sad even to death; stay here and watch."

"Abba, Father," he said, "thou canst do anything. Take this cup away from me. Yet, not what I will but what thou wilt."

Watch and pray, all of you, so that you may not slip into temptation. The spirit is eager but the flesh is weak."

Come, get up, here is my betrayer close at hand."

Jesus turned on them, saying, "Have you sallied out to arrest me like a robber, with swords and cudgels?

Day after day I was beside you in the temple teaching, and you never seized me. However, it is to let the scriptures be fulfilled."

At that moment the cock crowed for the second time. Then Peter remembered how Jesus had told him, "Before the cock crows twice you will disown me thrice;" and he burst into tears.

Pilate replied, "Would you like me to release the king of the Jews for you?"

and at three o'clock Jesus gave a loud cry, "El?i, El?i, lema sabachthanei" (which means, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?)

And for those who believe, these miracles will follow: they will cast out daemons in my name, they will talk in foreign tongues,

Zechariah said to the angel, "But how am I to be sure of this? I am an old man myself, and my wife is advanced in years."

"The Lord has done this for me," she said, "he has now deigned to remove my reproach among men."

What have I done to have the mother of my Lord come to me?

Why, as soon as the sound of your salutation reached my ears, the babe leapt for joy within my womb.

Then Mary said "My soul magnifies the Lord,

My spirit has joy in God my Saviour:

for he has considered the humiliation of his servant. From this time forth all generations will call me blessed,

for He who is Mighty has done great things for me. His name is holy,

And you, my child, shall be called a prophet of the Most High; for you shall go in front of the Lord to make his ways ready,

When his parents saw him they were astounded, and his mother said to him, "My son, why have you behaved like this to us? Here have your father and I been looking for you anxiously!"

"Why did you look for me?" he said, "Did you not know I had to be at my Father's house?"

John said to them all, "I baptize you with water, but after me one who is mightier will come, and I am not fit to untie the string of his sandals; he will baptize you with the holy Spirit and fire.

and the holy Spirit descended in bodily form like a dove upon him; and a voice came from heaven, "Thou art my son, the Beloved, to-day have I become thy father."

and the devil said to him, "I will give you all their power and grandeur, for it has been made over to me and I can give it to anyone I choose.

If you will worship before me, then it shall all be yours."

The Spirit of the Lord is upon me: for he has consecrated me to preach the gospel to the poor, he has sent me to proclaim release for captives and recovery of sight for the blind, to set free the oppressed,

So he said to them, "No doubt you will repeat to me this proverb, 'Doctor, cure yourself!' 'Do here in your own country all we have heard you did in Capharnahum.'"

But when Simon Peter saw it he fell at the knees of Jesus, crying, "Lord, leave me; I am a sinful man."

When he was in one of their towns, there was a man full of leprosy who, on seeing Jesus, fell on his face and besought him, "If you only choose, sir, you can cleanse me."

On going outside after this he noticed a taxgatherer called Levi sitting at the tax-office and said to him, "Follow me";

I tell you, my hearers, love your enemies, do good to those who hate you:

How dare you say to your brother, 'Brother, let me take out the splinter that is in your eye,' and you never notice the plank in your own eye? You hypocrite! take the plank out of your own eye first, and then you will see properly to take out the splinter in your brother's eye.

Why call me, 'Lord, Lord!' and obey me not?

Everyone who comes to me and listens to my words and acts upon them, I will show you whom he is like.

So Jesus went with them. But he was not far from the house when the captain sent some friends to tell him, "Do not trouble yourself, sir, I am not fit to have you under my roof,

and so I did not consider myself fit even to come to you. Just say the word, and let my servant be cured.

For though I am a man under authority myself, I have soldiers under me; I tell one man to go, and he goes, I tell another to come, and he comes, I tell my servant, 'Do this,' and he does it."

And blessed is he who is repelled by nothing in me!"

This is he of whom it is written, Here I send my messenger before your face, to prepare the way for you.

As they were unable to pay, he freely forgave them both. Tell me, now, which of them will love him most?"

Then turning to the woman he said to Simon, "You see this woman? When I came into your house, you never gave me water for my feet, while she has wet my feet with her tears and wiped them with her hair;

you never gave me a kiss, while ever since she came in she has kept pressing kisses on my feet;

you never anointed my head with oil, while she has anointed my feet with perfume.

so he said, "It is granted you to understand the open secrets of the Reign of God, but the others get it in parables, so that for all their seeing they may not see, and for all their hearing they may not understand.

Those 'on the road' are people who hear; but then the devil comes and carries off the word from their heart, that they may not believe and be saved.

But he answered, "My mother and brothers are those who listen to the word of God and obey it."

On catching sight of Jesus he shrieked aloud and prayed him with a loud cry, "Jesus, son of God most High, what business have you with me? Do not torture me, I beg of you."

Jesus said, "Who touched me?" As everyone denied it, Peter and his companions said, "Master, the crowds are all round you pressing hard!"

Jesus said, "Somebody did touch me, for I felt power had passed from me."

He said to all, "If anyone wishes to come after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross day after day, and so follow me;

for whoever wants to save his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake, he will save it.

For whoever is ashamed of me and my words, of him will the Son of man be ashamed when he comes in his glory and in the glory of the Father and of the holy angels.

but a voice came from the cloud, "This is my Son, my Chosen one; listen to him."

"Teacher," shouted a man from the crowd, "look at my son, I beg of you, for he is my only boy,

then he said to them, "Whoever receives this little child in my name receives me, and whoever receives me receives him who sent me. For it is the lowliest of you all who is great."

He said to another man, "Follow me"; but he said, "Let me go and bury my father first of all."

Another man also said to him, "I will follow you, Lord. But let me first say good-bye to my people at home."

He who listens to you listens to me, he who rejects you rejects me, and he who rejects me rejects him who sent me."

"All has been handed over to me by my Father: and no one knows who the Son is except the Father, or who the Father is except the Son, and he to whom the Son chooses to reveal him."

Anxious to make an excuse for himself, however, he said to Jesus, "But who is my neighbour?"

Next morning he took out a couple of shillings and gave them to the innkeeper, saying, 'Attend to him, and if you are put to any extra expense I will refund you on my way back.'

Now Martha was so busy attending to them that she grew worried; she came up and said, "Lord, is it all one to you that my sister has left me to do all the work alone? Come, tell her to lend me a hand."

And he said to them, "Suppose one of you has a friend, and you go to him at midnight and say to him, 'Friend, let me have three loaves;

for a friend of mine travelling has come to my house and I have nothing to set before him.'

And suppose he answers from the inside, 'Don't bother me; the door is locked by this time, and my children are in bed with me. I can't get up and give you anything.'

He who is not with me is against me, and he who does not gather with me scatters.

I tell you, my friends, have no fear of those who kill the body but after that can do no more;

I tell you, whoever acknowledges me before men, the Son of man will acknowledge him before the angels of God;

and he who disowns me before men will be disowned before the angels of God.

A man out of the crowd said to him, "Teacher, tell my brother to give me my share of our inheritance";

but he said to him, "Man, who made me a judge or arbitrator over your affairs?"