No, let us say, From men" ??but they were afraid of the multitude, for the people all held John had been really a prophet.

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

Now what will the owner of the vineyard do? He will come and destroy the vinedressers, and he will give the vineyard to others.

Have you not even read this scripture? ??The stone that the builders rejected is the chief stone now of the corner:

Then they tried to get hold of him, but they were afraid of the multitude. They knew he had meant the parable for them. So they left him and went away.

They came up and said to him, "Teacher, we know you are sincere and fearless; you do not court human favour, you teach the Way of God honestly. Is it right to pay taxes to Caesar or not?

Sadducees, men who hold there is no resurrection, also came up and put a question to him.

"Teacher," they said, "Moses has written this law for us, that if a man's brother dies leaving a wife but no child, his brother is to take the woman and raise offspring for his brother.

Now there were seven brothers. The first married a wife and died leaving no offspring:

The second is this: You must love your neighbour as yourself. There is no other command greater than these."

Jesus noted his intelligent answer and said to him, "You are not far off the Realm of God." After that no one ventured to put any more questions to him.

David here calls him Lord. Then how can he be his son?" Now the mass of the people listened with delight to him.

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

Now when they carry you off to trial, do not worry beforehand about what you are to say; say whatever comes to your lips at the moment, for he who speaks is not you but the holy Spirit.

But whenever you see the appalling Horror standing where he has no right to stand (let the reader note this), then let those who are in Judaea fly to the hills;

for those days will be days of misery, the like of which has never been from the beginning of God's creation until now ??no and never shall be.

Now take care! I am telling you of it all beforehand.

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;

Now no one knows anything about that day or hour, not even the angels in heaven, not even the Son, but only the Father.

Take care, keep awake and pray; you never know the time.

Watch then, for you never know when the Lord of the House will come, in the late evening or at midnight or at cock-crow or in the morning.

Now when he was at Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, lying at table, a woman came up with an alabaster flask of pure nard perfume, which had cost a great sum; the flask she broke and poured the perfume over his head.

truly I tell you, I will never drink the produce of the vine again till the day I drink it new within the Realm of God."

then he returned and found them once more asleep, for their eyes were heavy. They did not know what to say to him.

Then he came for the third time and said to them, "Still asleep? still resting? No more of that! The hour has come, here is the Son of man betrayed into the hands of sinners.

Now his betrayer had given them a signal; he said, "Whoever I kiss, that is the man. Seize him and get him safely away."

Now the high priests and the whole of the Sanhedrin tried to secure evidence against Jesus, in order to have him put to death; but they could find none,

So the high priest rose in their midst and asked Jesus, "Have you no reply to make? What about this evidence against you?"

He said nothing and made no answer. Again the high priest put a question to him. "Are you the Christ?" he said, "the Son of the Blessed?"

Now as Peter was downstairs in the courtyard, a maidservant of the high priest came along,

But he denied it. "I do not know," he said, "I have no idea what you mean." Then he went outside into the passage. The cock crowed.

But he broke out cursing and swearing, "I do not know the man you mean."

and once more Pilate asked him, "Have you no reply to make? Look at all their charges against you."

But, to the astonishment of Pilate, Jesus answered no more.

Now at festival time he used to release for them some prisoner whom they begged from him.

(For he knew the high priests had handed him over out of envy.)

Let 'the Christ,' 'the king of Israel' come down now from the cross! Let us see that and we will believe!" Those who were crucified with him also denounced him.

Now when the army-captain who stood facing him saw that he expired in this way, he said, "This man was certainly a son of God."

Now Mary of Magdala and Mary the mother of Joses noted where he was laid.

(a) Now after he rose early on the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary of Magdala out of whom he had cast seven daemons.

Afterwards he appeared at table to the eleven themselves and reproached them for their unbelief and dulness of mind, because they had not believed those who saw him risen from the dead. [But they excused themselves, saying, "This age of lawlessness and unbelief lies under the sway of Satan, who will not allow what lies under the unclean spirits to understand the truth and power of God; therefore," they said to Christ, "reveal your righteousness now." Christ answered them, "The term of years for Satan's power has now expired, but other terrors are at hand. I was delivered to death on behalf of sinners, that they might return to the truth and sin no more, that they might inherit that glory of righteousness which is spiritual and imperishable in heaven."]

to let you know the solid truth of what you have been taught.

but they had no child, for Elizabeth was barren. Both of them were advanced in years.

Now while he was officiating before God in the due course of his division,

Now the people were waiting for Zechariah and wondering that he stayed so long inside the sanctuary.

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

he will reign over the house of Jacob forever, and to his reign there will be no end."

"How can this be?" said Mary to the angel, "I have no husband."

Look, there is your kinswoman Elizabeth! Even she has conceived a son in her old age, and she who was called barren is now in her sixth month;

Now the time for Elizabeth's delivery had elapsed, and she gave birth to a son.

but the mother told them, "No, the child is to be called John."

Now in those days an edict was issued by Caesar Augustus for a census of the whole world.

she gave birth to her firstborn son, and as there was no room for them inside the khan she wrapped him up and laid him in a stall for cattle.

but the angel said to them, "Have no fear. This is good news I am bringing you, news of a great joy that is meant for all the People.

Now when the angels had left them and gone away to heaven, the shepherds said to one another, "Let us be off to Bethlehem to see this thing that the Lord has told us of."

Now there was a man in Jerusalem called Symeon, an upright and devout man, who was on the outlook for the Consolation of Israel. The holy Spirit was upon him;

"Now, Master, thou canst let thy servant go, and go in peace, as thou didst promise;

Now at that very hour she came up, and she offered praise to God and spoke of him to all who were on the outlook for the redemption of Jerusalem.

After spending the full number of days they came back, but the boy Jesus stayed behind in Jerusalem. His parents did not know of this;

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

Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, when Pontius Pilate was governor of Judaea, Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, Philip his brother tetrarch of the country of Ituraea and Trachonitis, and Lysias tetrarch of Abilene,

Now, produce fruits that answer to your repentance, instead of beginning to say to yourselves, 'We have a father in Abraham.' I tell you, God can raise up children for Abraham from these stones!

Now as people's expectations were roused and as everybody thought to himself about John, "Can he be the Christ,"

Now when all the people had been baptized and when Jesus had been baptized and was praying, heaven opened

the son of Kainan, the son of Arphaxad, the son of Shem, the son of Noah, the son of Lamech,

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.'"

He added, "I tell you truly, no prophet is ever welcome in his native place.

Now in the synagogue there was a man possessed by the spirit of an unclean daemon, who shrieked aloud,

"Ha! Jesus of Nazaret, what business have you with us? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are, you are God's holy One!"

From many people daemons were also driven out, clamouring aloud, "You are God's son!" But he checked them and refused to let them say anything, as they knew he was the Christ.

Now as the crowd were pressing on him to listen to the word of God, he saw, as he stood beside the lake of Gennesaret,

as was the case with James and John, the sons of Zebedaeus, who were partners of Simon. Then said Jesus to Simon, "Have no fear; from now your catch will be men."

One day he was teaching, and near him sat Pharisees and doctors of the Law who had come from every village of Galilee and Judaea as well as from Jerusalem. Now the power of the Lord was present for the work of healing.

Jesus replied to them, "Healthy people have no need of a doctor, but those who are ill:

He also told them a parable: "No one tears a piece from a new cloak and sews it on an old cloak; otherwise he will tear the new cloak, and the new piece will not match with the old.

No one pours fresh wine into old wineskins; otherwise the fresh wine will burst the wineskins, the wine will be spilt and the wineskins ruined.

No, fresh wine must be poured into new wineskins.

Besides, no one wants new wine [immediately] after drinking old; 'The old,' he says, 'is better.'"

He went into the house of God, took the loaves of the Presence and ate them, giving them to his men as well ??bread that no one is allowed to eat except the priests."

Another sabbath he happened to go into the synagogue and teach. Now a man was there who had his right hand withered,

He knew what was in their minds; so he told the man with the withered hand, "Rise and stand forward." He rose and stood before them.

No, you must love your enemies and help them, you must lend to them without expecting any return; then you will have a rich reward, you will be sons of the Most High for he is kind even to the ungrateful and the evil.

No sound tree bears rotten fruit, nor again does a rotten tree bear sound fruit:

He who has listened and has not obeyed is like a man who built a house on the earth with no foundation; the river dashed against it and it collapsed at once, and the ruin of that house was great."

Now there was an army-captain who had a servant ill whom he valued very highly. This man was at the point of death;

For John the Baptist has come, eating no bread and drinking no wine, and you say, 'He has a devil';

Now there was a woman in the town who was a sinner, and when she found out that Jesus was at table in the house of the Pharisee, she brought an alabaster flask of perfume

When his host the Pharisee noticed this, he said to himself, "If he was a prophet he would know what sort of a woman this is who is touching him; for she is a sinner."

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

some other seed dropped on the rock, but it withered away when it sprang up because it had no moisture;

Those 'on the rock' are people who on hearing the word welcome it with enthusiasm, but they have no root; they believe for a while and fall away in the hour of trial.

No one lights a lamp and hides it under a vessel or puts it below the bed: he puts it on a stand so that those who come in can see the light.

As he stepped out on land he was met by a man from the town who had daemons in him; for a long while he had worn no clothing, and he stayed not in a house but among the tombs.

Now a considerable drove of swine was grazing there on the hillside, so the daemons begged him for leave to enter them. He gave them leave,

and a woman who had had a hemorrhage for twelve years which no one could cure,

But when Jesus heard it he said to him, "Have no fear, only believe and she shall get well."

Now as the day began to decline the twelve came up to him and said, "Send the crowd off to lodge in the villages and farms around and get provisions there, for here we are in a desert place."

Now it happened that while he was praying by himself his disciples were beside him. So he inquired of them, "Who do the crowds say I am?"

Now Peter and his companions had been overpowered with sleep, but on waking up they saw his glory and the two men who were standing beside him.

Jesus knew the dispute that occupied their minds, so he took hold of a little child and set it by his side;