He fell with his face to the ground at Jesus' feet and thanked him. (Now he was a Samaritan.)

Then the disciples said to him, "Where, Lord?" He replied to them, "Where the dead body is, there the vultures will gather."

There was also a widow in that city who kept coming to him and saying, 'Give me justice against my adversary.'

Won't God give justice to his chosen ones, who cry out to him day and night? Will he delay long to help them?

Now people were even bringing their babies to him for him to touch. But when the disciples saw it, they began to scold those who brought them.

Now a certain ruler asked him, "Good teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?"

Jesus said to him, "Why do you call me good? No one is good except God alone.

When Jesus heard this, he said to him, "One thing you still lack. Sell all that you have and give the money to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me."

They will flog him severely and kill him. Yet on the third day he will rise again."

They told him, "Jesus the Nazarene is passing by."

And those who were in front scolded him to get him to be quiet, but he shouted even more, "Son of David, have mercy on me!"

So Jesus stopped and ordered the beggar to be brought to him. When the man came near, Jesus asked him,

Jesus said to him, "Receive your sight; your faith has healed you."

So he ran on ahead and climbed up into a sycamore tree to see him, because Jesus was going to pass that way.

And when Jesus came to that place, he looked up and said to him, "Zacchaeus, come down quickly, because I must stay at your house today."

Then Jesus said to him, "Today salvation has come to this household, because he too is a son of Abraham!

But his citizens hated him and sent a delegation after him, saying, 'We do not want this man to be king over us!'

So the first one came before him and said, 'Sir, your mina has made ten minas more.'

And the king said to him, 'Well done, good slave! Because you have been faithful in a very small matter, you will have authority over ten cities.'

So the king said to him, 'And you are to be over five cities.'

The king said to him, 'I will judge you by your own words, you wicked slave! So you knew, did you, that I was a severe man, withdrawing what I didn't deposit and reaping what I didn't sow?

And he said to his attendants, 'Take the mina from him, and give it to the one who has ten.'

But they said to him, 'Sir, he has ten minas already!'

But some of the Pharisees in the crowd said to him, "Teacher, rebuke your disciples."

Jesus was teaching daily in the temple courts. The chief priests and the experts in the law and the prominent leaders among the people were seeking to assassinate him,

and said to him, "Tell us: By what authority are you doing these things? Or who it is who gave you this authority?"

So they discussed it with one another, saying, "If we say, 'From heaven,' he will say, 'Why did you not believe him?'

When harvest time came, he sent a slave to the tenants so that they would give him his portion of the crop. However, the tenants beat his slave and sent him away empty-handed.

So he sent another slave. They beat this one too, treated him outrageously, and sent him away empty-handed.

So he sent still a third. They even wounded this one, and threw him out.

Then the owner of the vineyard said, 'What should I do? I will send my one dear son; perhaps they will respect him.'

But when the tenants saw him, they said to one another, 'This is the heir; let's kill him so the inheritance will be ours!'

So they threw him out of the vineyard and killed him. What then will the owner of the vineyard do to them?

Then the experts in the law and the chief priests wanted to arrest him that very hour, because they realized he had told this parable against them. But they were afraid of the people.

Then they watched him carefully and sent spies who pretended to be sincere. They wanted to take advantage of what he might say so that they could deliver him up to the authority and jurisdiction of the governor.

Thus they asked him, "Teacher, we know that you speak and teach correctly, and show no partiality, but teach the way of God in accordance with the truth.

Thus they were unable in the presence of the people to trap him with his own words. And stunned by his answer, they fell silent.

Now some Sadducees (who contend that there is no resurrection) came to him.

They asked him, "Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if a man's brother dies leaving a wife but no children, that man must marry the widow and father children for his brother.

Now he is not God of the dead, but of the living, for all live before him."

For they did not dare any longer to ask him anything.

If David then calls him 'Lord,' how can he be his son?"

So they asked him, "Teacher, when will these things happen? And what will be the sign that these things are about to take place?"

And all the people came to him early in the morning to listen to him in the temple courts.

He went away and discussed with the chief priests and officers of the temple guard how he might betray Jesus, handing him over to them.

They were delighted and arranged to give him money.

They said to him, "Where do you want us to prepare it?"

He said to them, "Listen, when you have entered the city, a man carrying a jar of water will meet you. Follow him into the house that he enters,

Now when the hour came, Jesus took his place at the table and the apostles joined him.

But Peter said to him, "Lord, I am ready to go with you both to prison and to death!"

Then Jesus went out and made his way, as he customarily did, to the Mount of Olives, and the disciples followed him.

[Then an angel from heaven appeared to him and strengthened him.

While he was still speaking, suddenly a crowd appeared, and the man named Judas, one of the twelve, was leading them. He walked up to Jesus to kiss him.

But Jesus said to him, "Judas, would you betray the Son of Man with a kiss?"

When those who were around him saw what was about to happen, they said, "Lord, should we use our swords?"

But Jesus said, "Enough of this!" And he touched the man's ear and healed him.

Then Jesus said to the chief priests, the officers of the temple guard, and the elders who had come out to get him, "Have you come out with swords and clubs like you would against an outlaw?

Then they arrested Jesus, led him away, and brought him into the high priest's house. But Peter was following at a distance.

Then a slave girl, seeing him as he sat in the firelight, stared at him and said, "This man was with him too!"

But Peter denied it: "Woman, I don't know him!"

Then a little later someone else saw him and said, "You are one of them too." But Peter said, "Man, I am not!"

And after about an hour still another insisted, "Certainly this man was with him, because he too is a Galilean."

Then the Lord turned and looked straight at Peter, and Peter remembered the word of the Lord, how he had said to him, "Before a rooster crows today, you will deny me three times."

Now the men who were holding Jesus under guard began to mock him and beat him.

They blindfolded him and asked him repeatedly, "Prophesy! Who hit you?"

They also said many other things against him, reviling him.

They began to accuse him, saying, "We found this man subverting our nation, forbidding us to pay the tribute tax to Caesar and claiming that he himself is Christ, a king."

When he learned that he was from Herod's jurisdiction, he sent him over to Herod, who also happened to be in Jerusalem at that time.

When Herod saw Jesus, he was very glad, for he had long desired to see him, because he had heard about him and was hoping to see him perform some miraculous sign.

So Herod questioned him at considerable length; Jesus gave him no answer.

The chief priests and the experts in the law were there, vehemently accusing him.

Even Herod with his soldiers treated him with contempt and mocked him. Then, dressing him in elegant clothes, Herod sent him back to Pilate.

and said to them, "You brought me this man as one who was misleading the people. When I examined him before you, I did not find this man guilty of anything you accused him of doing.

Neither did Herod, for he sent him back to us. Look, he has done nothing deserving death.

I will therefore have him flogged and release him."

But they kept on shouting, "Crucify, crucify him!"

A third time he said to them, "Why? What wrong has he done? I have found him guilty of no crime deserving death. I will therefore flog him and release him."

As they led him away, they seized Simon of Cyrene, who was coming in from the country. They placed the cross on his back and made him carry it behind Jesus.

A great number of the people followed him, among them women who were mourning and wailing for him.

Two other criminals were also led away to be executed with him.

So when they came to the place that is called "The Skull," they crucified him there, along with the criminals, one on his right and one on his left.

The people also stood there watching, but the rulers ridiculed him, saying, "He saved others. Let him save himself if he is the Christ of God, his chosen one!"

The soldiers also mocked him, coming up and offering him sour wine,

There was also an inscription over him, "This is the king of the Jews."

One of the criminals who was hanging there railed at him, saying, "Aren't you the Christ? Save yourself and us!"

But the other rebuked him, saying, "Don't you fear God, since you are under the same sentence of condemnation?

And Jesus said to him, "I tell you the truth, today you will be with me in paradise."

And all those who knew Jesus stood at a distance, and the women who had followed him from Galilee saw these things.

(but their eyes were kept from recognizing him).

Then one of them, named Cleopas, answered him, "Are you the only visitor to Jerusalem who doesn't know the things that have happened there in these days?"

and how our chief priests and rulers handed him over to be condemned to death, and crucified him.

Then some of those who were with us went to the tomb, and found it just as the women had said, but they did not see him."

but they urged him, "Stay with us, because it is getting toward evening and the day is almost done." So he went in to stay with them.

At this point their eyes were opened and they recognized him. Then he vanished out of their sight.

Then they told what had happened on the road, and how they recognized him when he broke the bread.

So they gave him a piece of broiled fish,

So they worshiped him and returned to Jerusalem with great joy,

All things were created by him, and apart from him not one thing was created that has been created.

In him was life, and the life was the light of mankind.

He came as a witness to testify about the light, so that everyone might believe through him.