They will come from the east, west, north, and south, and will sit down in the Kingdom of God.

On that same day, some Pharisees came, saying to him, "Get out of here, and go away, for Herod wants to kill you."

When one of those who sat at the table with him heard these things, he said to him, "Blessed is he who will feast in the Kingdom of God!"

Salt is good, but if the salt becomes flat and tasteless, with what do you season it?

Even so, I tell you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner repenting."

I will get up and go to my father, and will tell him, "Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in your sight.

But he answered his father, 'Behold, these many years I have served you, and I never disobeyed a commandment of yours, but you never gave me a goat, that I might celebrate with my friends.

No servant can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to one, and despise the other. You aren't able to serve God and mammon."

He said to them, "You are those who justify yourselves in the sight of men, but God knows your hearts. For that which is exalted among men is an abomination in the sight of God.

The law and the prophets were until John. From that time the Good News of the Kingdom of God is preached, and everyone is forcing his way into it.

A certain beggar, named Lazarus, was laid at his gate, full of sores,

"But Abraham said, 'Son, remember that you, in your lifetime, received your good things, and Lazarus, in the same way, bad things. But now here he is comforted and you are in anguish.

One of them, when he saw that he was healed, turned back, glorifying God with a loud voice.

Were there none found who returned to give glory to God, except this stranger?"

Then he said to him, "Get up, and go your way. Your faith has healed you."

Being asked by the Pharisees when the Kingdom of God would come, he answered them, "The Kingdom of God doesn't come with observation;

neither will they say, 'Look, here!' or, 'Look, there!' for behold, the Kingdom of God is within you."

saying, "There was a judge in a certain city who didn't fear God, and didn't respect man.

He wouldn't for a while, but afterward he said to himself, 'Though I neither fear God, nor respect man,

Won't God avenge his chosen ones, who are crying out to him day and night, and yet he exercises patience with them?

The Pharisee stood and prayed to himself like this: 'God, I thank you, that I am not like the rest of men, extortioners, unrighteous, adulterers, or even like this tax collector.

I fast twice a week. I give tithes of all that I get.'

But the tax collector, standing far away, wouldn't even lift up his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, 'God, be merciful to me, a sinner!'

Jesus summoned them, saying, "Allow the little children to come to me, and don't hinder them, for the Kingdom of God belongs to such as these.

Most certainly, I tell you, whoever doesn't receive the Kingdom of God like a little child, he will in no way enter into it."

A certain ruler asked him, saying, "Good Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?"

Jesus asked him, "Why do you call me good? No one is good, except one -- God.

Jesus, seeing that he became very sad, said, "How hard it is for those who have riches to enter into the Kingdom of God!

For it is easier for a camel to enter in through a needle's eye, than for a rich man to enter into the Kingdom of God."

But he said, "The things which are impossible with men are possible with God."

He said to them, "Most certainly I tell you, there is no one who has left house, or wife, or brothers, or parents, or children, for the Kingdom of God's sake,

Those who led the way rebuked him, that he should be quiet; but he cried out all the more, "You son of David, have mercy on me!"

Immediately he received his sight, and followed him, glorifying God. All the people, when they saw it, praised God.

As they heard these things, he went on and told a parable, because he was near Jerusalem, and they supposed that the Kingdom of God would be revealed immediately.

"He said to him, 'Well done, you good servant! Because you were found faithful with very little, you shall have authority over ten cities.'

As he was now getting near, at the descent of the Mount of Olives, the whole multitude of the disciples began to rejoice and praise God with a loud voice for all the mighty works which they had seen,

It happened on one of those days, as he was teaching the people in the temple and preaching the Good News, that the priests and scribes came to him with the elders.

They asked him, "Teacher, we know that you say and teach what is right, and aren't partial to anyone, but truly teach the way of God.

He said to them, "Then give to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's."

For they can't die any more, for they are like the angels, and are children of God, being children of the resurrection.

But that the dead are raised, even Moses showed at the bush, when he called the Lord 'The God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.'

Now he is not the God of the dead, but of the living, for all are alive to him."

for all these put in gifts for God from their abundance, but she, out of her poverty, put in all that she had to live on."

He said, "Watch out that you don't get led astray, for many will come in my name, saying, 'I am he,' and, 'The time is at hand.' Therefore don't follow them.

Even so you also, when you see these things happening, know that the Kingdom of God is near.

for I tell you, I will no longer by any means eat of it until it is fulfilled in the Kingdom of God."

for I tell you, I will not drink at all again from the fruit of the vine, until the Kingdom of God comes."

A certain one of them struck the servant of the high priest, and cut off his right ear.

From now on, the Son of Man will be seated at the right hand of the power of God."

They all said, "Are you then the Son of God?" He said to them, "You say it, because I am."

The people stood watching. The rulers with them also scoffed at him, saying, "He saved others. Let him save himself, if this is the Christ of God, his chosen one!"

But the other answered, and rebuking him said, "Don't you even fear God, seeing you are under the same condemnation?

When the centurion saw what was done, he glorified God, saying, "Certainly this was a righteous man."

Behold, a man named Joseph, who was a member of the council, a good and righteous man

(he had not consented to their counsel and deed), from Arimathaea, a city of the Jews, who was also waiting for the Kingdom of God:

He took it down, and wrapped it in a linen cloth, and laid him in a tomb that was cut in stone, where no one had ever been laid.

But Peter got up and ran to the tomb. Stooping and looking in, he saw the strips of linen lying by themselves, and he departed to his home, wondering what had happened.

He said to them, "What things?" They said to him, "The things concerning Jesus, the Nazarene, who was a prophet mighty in deed and word before God and all the people;

and were continually in the temple, praising and blessing God. Amen.

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

The same was in the beginning with God.

There came a man, sent from God, whose name was John.

But as many as received him, to them he gave the right to become God's children, to those who believe in his name:

who were born not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.

No one has seen God at any time. The one and only Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, he has declared him.

The next day, he saw Jesus coming to him, and said, "Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!

I have seen, and have testified that this is the Son of God."

and he looked at Jesus as he walked, and said, "Behold, the Lamb of God!"

Nathanael said to him, "Can any good thing come out of Nazareth?" Philip said to him, "Come and see."

Nathanael answered him, "Rabbi, you are the Son of God! You are King of Israel!"

He said to him, "Most certainly, I tell you, hereafter you will see heaven opened, and the angels of God ascending and descending on the Son of Man."

and said to him, "Everyone serves the good wine first, and when the guests have drunk freely, then that which is worse. You have kept the good wine until now!"

The same came to him by night, and said to him, "Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do, unless God is with him."

Jesus answered him, "Most certainly, I tell you, unless one is born anew, he can't see the Kingdom of God."

Jesus answered, "Most certainly I tell you, unless one is born of water and spirit, he can't enter into the Kingdom of God!

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

For God didn't send his Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world should be saved through him.

He who believes in him is not judged. He who doesn't believe has been judged already, because he has not believed in the name of the one and only Son of God.

But he who does the truth comes to the light, that his works may be revealed, that they have been done in God."

He who has received his witness has set his seal to this, that God is true.

For he whom God has sent speaks the words of God; for God gives the Spirit without measure.

One who believes in the Son has eternal life, but one who disobeys the Son won't see life, but the wrath of God remains on him."

Jesus answered her, "If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says to you, 'Give me a drink,' you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water."

The woman said to him, "Sir, give me this water, so that I don't get thirsty, neither come all the way here to draw."

God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth."

So he inquired of them the hour when he began to get better. They said therefore to him, "Yesterday at the seventh hour, the fever left him."

Now in Jerusalem by the sheep gate, there is a pool, which is called in Hebrew, "Bethesda," having five porches.

For this cause therefore the Jews sought all the more to kill him, because he not only broke the Sabbath, but also called God his own Father, making himself equal with God.

Most certainly, I tell you, the hour comes, and now is, when the dead will hear the Son of God's voice; and those who hear will live.

and will come out; those who have done good, to the resurrection of life; and those who have done evil, to the resurrection of judgment.

But I know you, that you don't have God's love in yourselves.

How can you believe, who receive glory from one another, and you don't seek the glory that comes from the only God?

When the multitude therefore saw that Jesus wasn't there, nor his disciples, they themselves got into the boats, and came to Capernaum, seeking Jesus.

Don't work for the food which perishes, but for the food which remains to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you. For God the Father has sealed him."

They said therefore to him, "What must we do, that we may work the works of God?"

Jesus answered them, "This is the work of God, that you believe in him whom he has sent."

For the bread of God is that which comes down out of heaven, and gives life to the world."

It is written in the prophets, 'They will all be taught by God.' Therefore everyone who hears from the Father, and has learned, comes to me.

Not that anyone has seen the Father, except he who is from God. He has seen the Father.

We have come to believe and know that you are the Christ, the Son of the living God."