"Then you will be blessed, because they have no means to repay you, but you shall be paid in the Resurrection of the Just."

"At dinnertime he sent his slave to say to those who had been invited, 'Come, for all things are now ready.'

Now all the tax-gatherers and sinners continued to draw near him, and to listen to him.

"I say to you that even so there shall be joy in heaven over one sinner who repents, more than over ninety and nine just persons who need no repentance.

"And he was longing to be filled with the husks which the swine were eating, but no one gave him any.

"'"I am no more worthy to be called your son; only make me like one of your hired men."'

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

"He called to him to him and said: "'What is this that I hear about you? Render an account of your stewardship; for you can no longer be steward.'

"Now the steward said to himself. 'What shall I do, now that my master is taking away my stewardship? I am not strong enough to dig, to beg I am ashamed.

"'I know what I will do, so that when I am put out of my stewardship, they may receive me into their houses.'

"No one can be a household servants to two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will cling to the one and despise the other. You cannot be the slave of God and of Mammon."

Now the Pharisees who loved money listened to all this and they jeered at him.

"Now there was a certain rich man who was clothed in purple and fine linen, and made merry every day in splendor.

"'Remember my son.' said Abraham, 'that you had in your lifetime all your good things, and in the same way Lazarus his evil things; but now here he is comforted, and you are in anguish.

"'Nay, Father Abraham,' he said 'but if some one went to them from the dead they would repent.'

Now it happened that as he went his way to Jerusalem, he passed between Samaria and Galilee.

Now one of them, as he saw that he was cured, came back, glorifying God in a loud voice,

"nor will they say, 'Look here it is!' or 'See there!'??or the kingdom of God is now in your midst."

"And this was in the time of Noah, so will it be in the time of the Son of man.

"Men were eating and drinking; they were marrying and being married, until the day that Noah entered into the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all.

"Why are you calling me 'good'?" said Jesus to him; "no one is good but God.

"You know the commandments. "Do not commit adultery, Do not murder, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Honor your father and mother."

And he said to them, "In Solemn truth I tell you that there is no one who, for the sake of the kingdom of God, has left houses, or wife, or brother, or parents, or children,

But they understood none of these sayings. His words were a mystery to them, and they did not know what he meant.

"And upon his return after he had secured the royal power, he ordered the slaves to whom he had given the money to be called in, so that he might know what they had gained by trading.

"He said to him, "'By your own words I will Judge you, you wicked slave. You knew, did you, that I was a hard man taking up what I did not lay down, reaping what I did not sow.

he sent two of his disciples saying. "Go into the village in the front, and on entering it you will find an ass's colt tied, on which no one has ever ridden.

And when now he was coming near Jerusalem, and descending the Mount of Olives, the whole multitude of the disciples began to rejoice, and to praise God with a loud voice for the almighty works they had seen.

exclaiming. "Oh that at this time you knew, yes, even you, on what your peace depends! But now it is hidden from your eyes.

"you and your children within you. And they will not leave in you one stone upon the another. Because you knew not the time of your visitation."

So they answered that they did not know whence it was.

So they put a question to him saying. "Rabbi, we know that you speak and teach what is right, and that you do not regard any man's person, but teach the way of God honestly.

"Teacher, Moses wrote a law for us that if a man's brother should die, but leave no children, his brother should take up his wife and raise up his children for his brother.

"Now there were seven brothers. the first took a wife and died childless,

"and likewise all the seven, but left no children when they died.

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

for they no longer dared to ask him any questions.

"But when you see Jerusalem encompassed with armies, then know that her desolation is at hand.

"So whenever you see all these things comings to pass, you know that the kingdom of God is near.

Now the festival of Unleavened Bread, which is called the Passover, was drawing near.

He answered. "No sooner will you have entered the city than you will meet a man carrying a water-jug. Follow him into the house were he is going.

"Take this, and divide it among yourselves; for I tell you that I will drink no more of the fruit of the vine until the kingdom of God is come."

He gave them a cup in like manner, after supper saying. "This cup is the new covenant in my blood, poured out for your sake.

"I tell you, Peter," he answered. "the cock will not crow this day until you will three times deny that you know me."

Then he said to them. "But now let him who has a purse take it, and he who has a wallet, let him the do the same. And he who has no sword, let him sell his cloak and buy one.

But he denied it, saying, "Woman, I know nothing about him."

"Man," said Peter, "I do not know what you mean." And immediately, while he was still speaking, the cock crew.

And Pilate said to the chief priest and the crowd, "I find no harm in this man."

Now when Herod saw Jesus he was exceedingly glad. He had long been wanting to see him, because he had heard so much about him, and was hoping to see some miracles performed by him.

So he had been asking him many questions, but Jesus made no answers.

and said to them. "You brought before me this man as one who incited the people to rebellion. I have examined him in your presence, and I find no fault in this man regarding the charges that you brought against him.

"Now he had to release to them at the feast one prisoner."

Jesus kept saying, "Father forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing." And they divided his garments among them, casting lots for them,

But the other, answering, reproved him, saying. "Have you no fear of God even? When you are suffering the same punishment as he?

"We indeed justly, for we are receiving due retribution for what we have done. But he has done no wrong."

It was now about the sixth hour, and a darkness came over the whole land until the ninth hour.

Now there was a man named Joseph, a member of the Council, a good man and a righteous,

Then taking it down, he wrapped it in linen, and placed it in a tomb hewn in the rock, where no man has ever been laid.

They stood still, looking sad. And one of them named Cleopas, answered him, "Do you sojourn alone in Jerusalem, that you do not know what things have been happening there these days?"

But they urged him to stay with them, saying, "Abide with us, for it is toward evening, and the day is now far spent."

He was in the world, and through him the world came into being, yet the world knew him not.

No man has ever seen God; God, only begotten, who is in the bosom of the Father??e has interpreted him.

Now this is the testimony of John, when the Jews sent some priests and Levites to him from Jerusalem to ask him, "Who are you?"

"What then?" they questioned; "Are you Elijah?" He said, "I am not." "Are you the Prophet?" "No," he replied.

Now it was some of the Pharisees who had been sent to him;

Now Philip belonged to Bethsaida, the same town as Andrew and Peter.

Jesus saw Nathanael coming toward him, and said, "Behold a true Israelite in whom there is no deceit."

"How do you know me?" asked Nathanael. "Before Philip called you," replied Jesus, "when you were under the fig tree, I saw you."

Now two days after this there was a wedding in Cana of Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there;

And when the wine ran short, Jesus' mother said to him, "They have no wine."

Now there were six stone water-jars standing there, according to the Jewish rites of purification, each holding about twenty gallons.

So they filled them brimful. Then he said, "Draw some out now, and carry it to the master of the feast."

So they carried it. And when the master of the feast had tasted of the water which had been made wine, not knowing where it came from, though the attendants who had drawn it knew, he called the bridegroom and said to him.

"Everybody serves first the good wine, and when people have drunk freely, the poor wine; but you have kept the good wine until now."

Now the Passover of the Jews was near, so Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

Now when he was in Jerusalem at the feast of the Passover, many believed in his name, when they beheld the signs which he did;

but for his part Jesus was not trusting himself to them, because he knew all men,

and did not need any one's testimony concerning man, for he himself knew what was in man.

Now there was one of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler among the Jews.

This man came to Jesus by night, and said to him. "Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher sent from God; for no man can do these signs which you are continually doing, unless God is with him."

The wind blows where it wills, and you hear its voice, but you do not know where it comes from or where it is going. So it is with every one who has been born of the Spirit."

"Most solemnly I tell you we are speaking of what we know, and it is about that of which we were eyewitnesses that we give testimony. Yet all of you reject our testimony.

There is no one gone up to heaven, except the One who came down from heaven??he Son of man himself.

"Rabbi, see! The man who was with you on the other side of Jordan, and to whom you yourself have borne testimony, is now baptizing, and everybody is coming to him."

He who has the bride is the bridegroom, but the friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him, rejoices greatly because of the bridegroom's voice. So then this joy of mine has now complete fulfilment.

He bears testimony to what he has heard and seen, yet no one receives his testimony.

Accordingly when the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard it said, "Jesus is making and baptizing more disciples than John,"

Now he had to pass through Samaria;

"How is it," answered the Samaritan woman, "that you who are a Jew ask a drink from me, a woman, and a Samaritan?" (For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.)

"I have no husband," answered the woman. "You are right in saying 'I have no husband,'" Jesus said to her,

"for you have had five husbands, and the man you now have is not your husband; in this you have spoken truly."

You are worshiping something you do not know. we know what we worship, for salvation comes from the Jews.

But an hour is coming, and is now here, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and in truth. For the Father is seeking such as his worshipers.

"I know," said the woman, "that Messiah is coming, who is called the Christ; when he has come he will tell us everything."

Jesus said to her, "I who am now talking to you, am he."

"Rabbi," they said, "eat something." But he answered, "I have food to eat of which you know nothing."

"We no longer believe because of what you said, for we ourselves have heard him, and we know that this is certainly the Saviour of the world."

For Jesus himself testified that a prophet has no honor in his own country.

So he came back again to Cana of Galilee, where he made the water wine. Now there was one of the king's officers whose son was lying ill at Capernaum.

Now there is in Jerusalem a pool near the Sheep-gate, called in the Hebrew, Bethesda.