One said to him, "Lord, are they few who are saved?" He said to them,

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

It happened, when he went into the house of one of the rulers of the Pharisees on a Sabbath to eat bread, that they were watching him.

Behold, a certain man who had dropsy was in front of him.

But they were silent. He took him, and healed him, and let him go.

He answered them, "Which of you, if your son or an ox fell into a well, wouldn't immediately pull him out on a Sabbath day?"

They couldn't answer him regarding these things.

"When you are invited by anyone to a marriage feast, don't sit in the best seat, since perhaps someone more honorable than you might be invited by him,

He also said to the one who had invited him, "When you make a dinner or a supper, don't call your friends, nor your brothers, nor your kinsmen, nor rich neighbors, or perhaps they might also return the favor, and pay you back.

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!"

But he said to him, "A certain man made a great supper, and he invited many people.

They all as one began to make excuses. "The first said to him, 'I have bought a field, and I must go and see it. Please have me excused.'

Now great multitudes were going with him. He turned and said to them,

Or perhaps, when he has laid a foundation, and is not able to finish, everyone who sees begins to mock him,

Or what king, as he goes to encounter another king in war, will not sit down first and consider whether he is able with ten thousand to meet him who comes against him with twenty thousand?

It is fit neither for the soil nor for the manure pile. It is thrown out. He who has ears to hear, let him hear."

Now all the tax collectors and sinners were coming close to him to hear him.

He went and joined himself to one of the citizens of that country, and he sent him into his fields to feed pigs.

He wanted to fill his belly with the husks that the pigs ate, but no one gave him any.

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

"He arose, and came to his father. But while he was still far off, his father saw him, and was moved with compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him.

The son said to him, 'Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in your sight. I am no longer worthy to be called your son.'

"But the father said to his servants, 'Bring out the best robe, and put it on him. Put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his feet.

He called one of the servants to him, and asked what was going on.

He said to him, 'Your brother has come, and your father has killed the fattened calf, because he has received him back safe and healthy.'

But he was angry, and would not go in. Therefore his father came out, and begged him.

But when this, your son, came, who has devoured your living with prostitutes, you killed the fattened calf for him.'

"He said to him, 'Son, you are always with me, and all that is mine is yours.

He also said to his disciples, "There was a certain rich man who had a manager. An accusation was made to him that this man was wasting his possessions.

He called him, and said to him, 'What is this that I hear about you? Give an accounting of your management, for you can no longer be manager.'

Calling each one of his lord's debtors to him, he said to the first, 'How much do you owe to my lord?'

He said, 'A hundred batos of oil.' He said to him, 'Take your bill, and sit down quickly and write fifty.'

Then he said to another, 'How much do you owe?' He said, 'A hundred cors of wheat.' He said to him, 'Take your bill, and write eighty.'

The Pharisees, who were lovers of money, also heard all these things, and they scoffed at him.

"He said, 'I ask you therefore, father, that you would send him to my father's house;

"But Abraham said to him, 'They have Moses and the prophets. Let them listen to them.'

"He said to him, 'If they don't listen to Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded if one rises from the dead.'"

He said to the disciples, "It is impossible that no occasions of stumbling should come, but woe to him through whom they come!

It would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck, and he were thrown into the sea, rather than that he should cause one of these little ones to stumble.

Be careful. If your brother sins against you, rebuke him. If he repents, forgive him.

If he sins against you seven times in the day, and seven times returns, saying, 'I repent,' you shall forgive him."

and will not rather tell him, 'Prepare my supper, clothe yourself properly, and serve me, while I eat and drink. Afterward you shall eat and drink'?

As he entered into a certain village, ten men who were lepers met him, who stood at a distance.

He fell on his face at Jesus' feet, giving him thanks; and he was a Samaritan.

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

In that day, he who will be on the housetop, and his goods in the house, let him not go down to take them away. Let him who is in the field likewise not turn back.

They, answering, asked him, "Where, Lord?" He said to them, "Where the body is, there will the vultures also be gathered together."

A widow was in that city, and she often came to him, saying, 'Defend me from my adversary!'

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

They were also bringing their babies to him, that he might touch them. But when the disciples saw it, they rebuked them.

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.

When Jesus heard these things, he said to him, "You still lack one thing. Sell all that you have, and distribute it to the poor. You will have treasure in heaven. Come, follow me."

They will scourge and kill him. On the third day, he will rise again."

They told him that Jesus of Nazareth was passing by.

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!"

Standing still, Jesus commanded him to be brought to him. When he had come near, he asked him,

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

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

He ran on ahead, and climbed up into a sycamore tree to see him, for he was to pass that way.

When Jesus came to the place, he looked up and saw him, and said to him, "Zacchaeus, hurry and come down, for today I must stay at your house."

He hurried, came down, and received him joyfully.

Jesus said to him, "Today, salvation has come to this house, because he also is a son of Abraham.

But his citizens hated him, and sent an envoy after him, saying, 'We don't want this man to reign over us.'

"It happened when he had come back again, having received the kingdom, that he commanded these servants, to whom he had given the money, to be called to him, that he might know what they had gained by conducting business.

The first came before him, saying, 'Lord, your mina has made ten more minas.'

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

"So he said to him, 'And you are to be over five cities.'

"He said to him, 'Out of your own mouth will I judge you, you wicked servant! You knew that I am an exacting man, taking up that which I didn't lay down, and reaping that which I didn't sow.

He said to those who stood by, 'Take the mina away from him, and give it to him who has the ten minas.'

"They said to him, 'Lord, he has ten minas!'

'For I tell you that to everyone who has, will more be given; but from him who doesn't have, even that which he has will be taken away from him.

If anyone asks you, 'Why are you untying it?' say to him: 'The Lord needs it.'"

Some of the Pharisees from the multitude said to him, "Teacher, rebuke your disciples!"

He was teaching daily in the temple, but the chief priests and the scribes and the leading men among the people sought to destroy him.

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, "Tell us: by what authority do you do these things? Or who is giving you this authority?"

They reasoned with themselves, saying, "If we say, 'From heaven,' he will say, 'Why didn't you believe him?'

At the proper season, he sent a servant to the farmers to collect his share of the fruit of the vineyard. But the farmers beat him, and sent him away empty.

He sent yet another servant, and they also beat him, and treated him shamefully, and sent him away empty.

He sent yet a third, and they also wounded him, and threw him out.

The lord of the vineyard said, 'What shall I do? I will send my beloved son. It may be that seeing him, they will respect him.'

"But when the farmers saw him, they reasoned among themselves, saying, 'This is the heir. Come, let's kill him, that the inheritance may be ours.'

They threw him out of the vineyard, and killed him. What therefore will the lord of the vineyard do to them?

The chief priests and the scribes sought to lay hands on him that very hour, but they feared the people -- for they knew he had spoken this parable against them.

They watched him, and sent out spies, who pretended to be righteous, that they might trap him in something he said, so as to deliver him up to the power and authority of the governor.

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.

They weren't able to trap him in his words before the people. They marveled at his answer, and were silent.

Some of the Sadducees came to him, those who deny that there is a resurrection.

They asked him, "Teacher, Moses wrote to us that if a man's brother dies having a wife, and he is childless, his brother should take the wife, and raise up children for his brother.

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

They didn't dare to ask him any more questions.

"David therefore calls him Lord, so how is he his son?"

They asked him, "Teacher, so when will these things be? What is the sign that these things are about to happen?"

All the people came early in the morning to him in the temple to hear him.

The chief priests and the scribes sought how they might put him to death, for they feared the people.

He went away, and talked with the chief priests and captains about how he might deliver him to them.

They were glad, and agreed to give him money.

He consented, and sought an opportunity to deliver him to them in the absence of the multitude.

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