But the expert, wanting to justify himself, said to Jesus, "And who is my neighbor?"

Now by chance a priest was going down that road, but when he saw the injured man he passed by on the other side.

So too a Levite, when he came up to the place and saw him, passed by on the other side.

The expert in religious law said, "The one who showed mercy to him." So Jesus said to him, "Go and do the same."

She had a sister named Mary, who sat at the Lord's feet and listened to what he said.

But Martha was distracted with all the preparations she had to make, so she came up to him and said, "Lord, don't you care that my sister has left me to do all the work alone? Tell her to help me."

Now Jesus was praying in a certain place. When he stopped, one of his disciples said to him, "Lord, teach us to pray, just as John taught his disciples."

So he said to them, "When you pray, say: Father, may your name be honored; may your kingdom come.

Then he said to them, "Suppose one of you has a friend, and you go to him at midnight and say to him, 'Friend, lend me three loaves of bread,

because a friend of mine has stopped here while on a journey, and I have nothing to set before him.'

But some of them said, "By the power of Beelzebul, the ruler of demons, he casts out demons."

But Jesus, realizing their thoughts, said to them, "Every kingdom divided against itself is destroyed, and a divided household falls.

As he said these things, a woman in the crowd spoke out to him, "Blessed is the womb that bore you and the breasts at which you nursed!"

But the Lord said to him, "Now you Pharisees clean the outside of the cup and the plate, but inside you are full of greed and wickedness.

For this reason also the wisdom of God said, 'I will send them prophets and apostles, some of whom they will kill and persecute,'

So then whatever you have said in the dark will be heard in the light, and what you have whispered in private rooms will be proclaimed from the housetops.

Then someone from the crowd said to him, "Teacher, tell my brother to divide the inheritance with me."

But Jesus said to him, "Man, who made me a judge or arbitrator between you two?"

Then he said to them, "Watch out and guard yourself from all types of greed, because one's life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions."

Then he said, 'I will do this: I will tear down my barns and build bigger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods.

But God said to him, 'You fool! This very night your life will be demanded back from you, but who will get what you have prepared for yourself?'

Then Jesus said to his disciples, "Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat, or about your body, what you will wear.

Then Peter said, "Lord, are you telling this parable for us or for everyone?"

Jesus also said to the crowds, "When you see a cloud rising in the west, you say at once, 'A rainstorm is coming,' and it does.

So he said to the worker who tended the vineyard, 'For three years now, I have come looking for fruit on this fig tree, and each time I inspect it I find none. Cut it down! Why should it continue to deplete the soil?'

When Jesus saw her, he called her to him and said, "Woman, you are freed from your infirmity."

But the president of the synagogue, indignant because Jesus had healed on the Sabbath, said to the crowd, "There are six days on which work should be done! So come and be healed on those days, and not on the Sabbath day."

When he said this all his adversaries were humiliated, but the entire crowd was rejoicing at all the wonderful things he was doing.

It is like a mustard seed that a man took and sowed in his garden. It grew and became a tree, and the wild birds nested in its branches."

Again he said, "To what should I compare the kingdom of God?

Someone asked him, "Lord, will only a few be saved?" So he said to them,

At that time, some Pharisees came up and said to Jesus, "Get away from here, because Herod wants to kill you."

But he said to them, "Go and tell that fox, 'Look, I am casting out demons and performing healings today and tomorrow, and on the third day I will complete my work.

Then he said to them, "Which of you, if you have a son or an ox that has fallen into a well on a Sabbath day, will not immediately pull him out?"

Then when Jesus noticed how the guests chose the places of honor, he told them a parable. He said to them,

He said also to the man who had invited him, "When you host a dinner or a banquet, don't invite your friends or your brothers or your relatives or rich neighbors so you can be invited by them in return and get repaid.

When one of those at the meal with Jesus heard this, he said to him, "Blessed is everyone who will feast in the kingdom of God!"

But Jesus said to him, "A man once gave a great banquet and invited many guests.

But one after another they all began to make excuses. The first said to him, 'I have bought a field, and I must go out and see it. Please excuse me.'

Another said, 'I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I am going out to examine them. Please excuse me.'

Another said, 'I just got married, and I cannot come.'

So the slave came back and reported this to his master. Then the master of the household was furious and said to his slave, 'Go out quickly to the streets and alleys of the city, and bring in the poor, the crippled, the blind, and the lame.'

Then the slave said, 'Sir, what you instructed has been done, and there is still room.'

So the master said to his slave, 'Go out to the highways and country roads and urge people to come in, so that my house will be filled.

Now large crowds were accompanying Jesus, and turning to them he said,

For which of you, wanting to build a tower, doesn't sit down first and compute the cost to see if he has enough money to complete it?

Or what king, going out to confront another king in battle, will not sit down first and determine whether he is able with ten thousand to oppose the one coming against him with twenty thousand?

Then Jesus said, "A man had two sons.

The younger of them said to his father, 'Father, give me the share of the estate that will belong to me.' So he divided his assets between them.

But when he came to his senses he said, 'How many of my father's hired workers have food enough to spare, but here I am dying from hunger!

Then his son said to him, 'Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you; I am no longer worthy to be called your son.'

But the father said to his slaves, 'Hurry! Bring the best robe, and put it on him! Put a ring on his finger and sandals on his feet!

Then the father said to him, 'Son, you are always with me, and everything that belongs to me is yours.

Jesus also said to the disciples, "There was a rich man who was informed of accusations that his manager was wasting his assets.

So he called the manager in and said to him, 'What is this I hear about you? Turn in the account of your administration, because you can no longer be my manager.'

Then the manager said to himself, 'What should I do, since my master is taking my position away from me? I'm not strong enough to dig, and I'm too ashamed to beg.

The man replied, 'A hundred measures of olive oil.' The manager said to him, 'Take your bill, sit down quickly, and write fifty.'

Then he said to another, 'And how much do you owe?' The second man replied, 'A hundred measures of wheat.' The manager said to him, 'Take your bill, and write eighty.'

But Jesus said to them, "You are the ones who justify yourselves in men's eyes, but God knows your hearts. For what is highly prized among men is utterly detestable in God's sight.

"Now the poor man died and was carried by the angels to Abraham's side. The rich man also died and was buried.

And in hell, as he was in torment, he looked up and saw Abraham far off with Lazarus at his side.

But Abraham said, 'Child, remember that in your lifetime you received your good things and Lazarus likewise bad things, but now he is comforted here and you are in anguish.

So the rich man said, 'Then I beg you, father -- send Lazarus to my father's house

But Abraham said, 'They have Moses and the prophets; they must respond to them.'

Then the rich man said, 'No, father Abraham, but if someone from the dead goes to them, they will repent.'

Jesus said to his disciples, "Stumbling blocks are sure to come, but woe to the one through whom they come!

The apostles said to the Lord, "Increase our faith!"

So the Lord replied, "If you had faith the size of a mustard seed, you could say to this black mulberry tree, 'Be pulled out by the roots and planted in the sea,' and it would obey you.

"Would any one of you say to your slave who comes in from the field after plowing or shepherding sheep, 'Come at once and sit down for a meal'?

raised their voices and said, "Jesus, Master, have mercy on us."

When he saw them he said, "Go and show yourselves to the priests." And as they went along, they were cleansed.

Then Jesus said, "Were not ten cleansed? Where are the other nine?

Then he said to the man, "Get up and go your way. Your faith has made you well."

Then he said to the disciples, "The days are coming when you will desire to see one of the days of the Son of Man, and you will not see it.

For just like the lightning flashes and lights up the sky from one side to the other, so will the Son of Man be in his day.

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

He said, "In a certain city there was a judge who neither feared God nor respected people.

For a while he refused, but later on he said to himself, 'Though I neither fear God nor have regard for people,

And the Lord said, "Listen to what the unrighteous judge says!

The tax collector, however, stood far off and would not even look up to heaven, but beat his breast and said, 'God, be merciful to me, sinner that I am!'

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."

But when the man heard this he became very sad, for he was extremely wealthy.

When Jesus noticed this, he said, "How hard it is for the rich to enter the kingdom of God!

Those who heard this said, "Then who can be saved?"

And Peter said, "Look, we have left everything we own to follow you!"

Then Jesus said to them, "I tell you the truth, there is no one who has left home or wife or brothers or parents or children for the sake of God's kingdom

Then Jesus took the twelve aside and said to them, "Look, we are going up to Jerusalem, and everything that is written about the Son of Man by the prophets will be accomplished.

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

And immediately he regained his sight and followed Jesus, praising God. When all the people saw it, they too gave praise to God.

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."

But Zacchaeus stopped and said to the Lord, "Look, Lord, half of my possessions I now give to the poor, and if I have cheated anyone of anything, I am paying back four times as much!"

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

Therefore he said, "A nobleman went to a distant country to receive for himself a kingdom and then return.

And he summoned ten of his slaves, gave them ten minas, and said to them, 'Do business with these until I come back.'

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.'

Then the second one came and said, 'Sir, your mina has made five minas.'

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

Then another slave came and said, 'Sir, here is your mina that I put away for safekeeping in a piece of cloth.