He thrilled with joy at that hour in the holy Spirit, saying, "I praise thee, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, for concealing this from the wise and learned and revealing it to the simple-minded; yes, Father, I praise thee that such was thy chosen purpose." Then turning to the disciples he said,

Then turning to the disciples he said privately, "Blessed are the eyes that see what you see!

"A right answer!" said Jesus; "do that and you will live."

Now it so chanced that a priest was going down the same road, but on seeing him he went past on the opposite side.

Now Martha was so busy attending to them that she grew worried; she came up and said, "Lord, is it all one to you that my sister has left me to do all the work alone? Come, tell her to lend me a hand."

but some of them said, "It is by Beelzebul the prince of daemons that he casts out daemons."

But if it is by the finger of God that I cast daemons out, then the Reign of God has reached you already.

Then it goes off to fetch seven other spirits worse than itself; they go in and dwell there, and the last state of that man is worse than the first."

While he was saying this, a woman shouted to him out of the crowd, "Blessed is the womb that bore you, and the breasts you sucked!"

No one lights a lamp to put it in a cellar or under a bowl, but on a stand, so that those who come in can see the light.

The Pharisee was astonished to see that he had not washed before the meal,

it was that the blood of all the prophets shed from the foundation of the world might be charged upon this generation,

Woe to you jurists! you have taken the key that unlocks the door of knowledge; you have not entered yourselves, and you have stopped those who were entering."

Nothing is hidden that shall not be revealed, or concealed that shall not be made known.

I tell you, my friends, have no fear of those who kill the body but after that can do no more;

for the holy Spirit will teach you at that hour what you should say."

pagans make food and drink their aim in life, but your Father knows quite well you need that;

Sell what you possess and give it away in alms, make purses for yourselves that never wear out: get treasure in heaven that never fails, that no thief can get at, no moth destroy.

Be sure that if the householder had known at what hour the thief was coming, he would not have allowed his house to be broken into.

Blessed is that servant if his lord and master finds him so doing when he arrives!

But if that servant says to himself, 'My lord and master is long of arriving,' and if he starts to beat the menservants and maidservants, to eat and drink and get drunk,

that servant's lord and master will arrive on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour which he does not know; he will cut him in two and assign him the fate of unbelievers.

It was at this time that some people came to tell him about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices.

But he replied to them, "Do you think, because they suffered this, that these Galileans were worse sinners than the rest of the Galileans?

"Go and tell that fox," he replied, "I cast out daemons and perform cures to-day and to-morrow, and on the third day I complete my task!

No, when you are invited, go and recline in the lowest place, so that when your host comes in he will tell you, 'Move higher up, my friend.' Then you will be honoured before your fellow guests.

Another said, 'I have married a wife; that is why I cannot come.'

For I tell you that not one of those who were invited shall taste my supper.'"

and the younger said to his father, 'Father, give me the share of the property that falls to me.' So he divided his means among them.

After he had spent his all, a severe famine set in throughout that land, and he began to feel in want;

so he went and attached himself to a citizen of that land, who sent him to his fields to feed swine.

The factor said to himself, 'What am I to do, now that my master is taking the factorship away from me? I am too weak to dig, I am ashamed to beg.

Ah, I know what I will do, so that people will welcome me to their houses when I am deposed from the factorship.'

And I tell you, use mammon, dishonest as it is, to make friends for yourselves, so that when you die they may welcome you to the eternal abodes.

and fain to eat up the crumbs that fell from the rich man's table. (The very dogs used to come and lick his ulcers.)

Now it happened that the poor man died, and he was carried by the angels to Abraham's bosom. The rich man died too, and was buried.

Besides all that, a great gulf yawns between us and you, to keep back those who want to cross from us to you and also those who want to pass from you to us.'

for I have five brothers; let him bear testimony to them, that they may not come to this place of torture as well.'

To his disciples he said, "It is inevitable that hindrances should come, but woe to the man by whom they come;

Now it happened in the course of his journey to Jerusalem that he passed between Samaria and Galilee.

for like lightning that flashes from one side of the sky to the other, so will the Son of man be on his own day.

but on the day that Lot left Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed them all.

On that day, if a man is on the housetop and his goods inside the house, he must not go down to fetch them out; nor must a man in the field turn back

On that night, I tell you, there will be two men in the one bed, the one will be taken and the other left;

And in that town there was a widow who used to go and appeal to him for 'Justice against my opponent!'

But when he heard that, he was vexed, for he was extremely rich.

As he approached Jericho, it chanced that a blind man was seated beside the road begging.

and they told him that Jesus the Nazarene was going by.

So he ran forward and climbed into a sycomore tree to get a sight of him, as he was to pass that road.

But when they saw this, everyone began to mutter that he had gone to be the guest of a sinner.

However he secured the royal power and came home. Then he ordered the servants to be called who had been given the money, that he might find out what business they had done.

He replied, 'You rascal of a servant, I will convict you by what you have said yourself. You knew, did you, that I was a hard man, picking up what I never put down, and reaping what I never sowed!

Why then did you not put my money into the bank, so that I could have got it with interest when I came back?'

saying, "Would that you too knew even to-day on what your peace depends! But no, it is hidden from you!

"Tell us," they said, "what authority you have for acting in this way? Who was it that gave you this authority?"

So they answered that they did not know where it came from.

But when the vinedressers saw him, they argued to themselves, 'Here is the heir, let us kill him, so that the inheritance may be ours.'

He will come and kill these vinedressers and give the vineyard to others." When they heard that, they said, "God forbid!"

But he looked at them and said, "Then what does this scripture mean? ??The stone that the builders rejected is the chief stone now of the corner.

Everyone who falls on that stone will be shattered, and whoever it falls upon will be crushed."

At that hour the scribes and high priests tried to lay hands on him, but they were afraid of the people. They knew he had meant this parable for them.

"Teacher," they said, "Moses has written this law for us, that if a man's married brother dies and is childless, his brother is to take the woman and raise offspring for his brother.

And that the dead are raised has been indicated by Moses in the passage on the Bush, when he calls the Lord 'God of Abraham and God of Isaac and God of Jacob.'

Some of the scribes declared, "Teacher, that was a fine answer!"

But he said to them, "How can people say that the Christ is David's son?

He said, "Take care that you are not misled; for many will come in my name saying, 'I am he' and 'the time is near' ??do not go after them.

But before all that, men will lay hands on you and persecute you, handing you over to synagogues and prisons; you will be dragged before kings and governors for the sake of my name.

That will turn out an opportunity for you to bear witness.

So resolve to yourselves that you will not rehearse your defence beforehand,

for I will give you words and wisdom that not one of your opponents will be able to meet or refute.

for these are the days of the divine Vengeance, in fulfilment of all that is written in scripture.

as soon as they put out their leaves, you can see for yourselves that summer is at hand.

Take heed to yourselves in case your hearts get overpowered by dissipation and drunkenness and worldly anxieties, and so that Day catches you suddenly like a trap.

From hour to hour keep awake, praying that you may succeed in escaping all these dangers to come and in standing before the Son of man."

So Jesus despatched Peter and John, saying, "Go and prepare the passover for us that we may eat it."

but I have prayed that your own faith may not fail. And you in turn must be a strength to your brothers."

Jesus said, "I tell you, Peter, the cock will not crow to-day before you have three times denied that you know me."

For I tell you, this word of scripture must be fulfilled in me: he was classed among criminals. Yes, there is an end to all that refers to me."

and when he reached the spot he said to them, "Pray that you may not slip into temptation."

He said to them, "Why are you sleeping? Get up and pray that you may not slip into temptation."

A maidservant who noticed him sitting by the fire took a long look at him and said, "That fellow was with him too."

About an hour had passed when another man insisted, "That fellow really was with him. Why, he is a Galilean!"

the Lord turned round and looked at Peter, and then Peter remembered what the Lord had told him, that 'Before cock-crow to-day you will disown me three times.'

When Pilate heard that, he asked if the man was a Galilean,

and ascertaining that he came under the jurisdiction of Herod, he remitted him to Herod, who himself was in Jerusalem during those days.

Herod and Pilate became friends that day ??previously they had been at enmity.

No, nor has Herod, for he has remitted him to us. He has done nothing, you see, that calls for death;

He asked them a third time, "But what crime has he committed? I have found nothing about him that deserves death; so I shall release him with a whipping."

But they loudly urged their demand that he should be crucified, and their shouts carried the day.

Pilate gave sentence that their demand was to be carried out;

For there are days coming when the cry will be, 'Blessed are the barren, the wombs that never have borne and the breasts that never have suckled!'

that the Son of man had to be betrayed into the hands of sinful men and be crucified and rise on the third day."

That very day two of them were on their way to a village called Emmaus about seven miles from Jerusalem.

"What is that?" he said to them. They replied, "All about Jesus of Nazaret! To God and all the people he was a prophet strong in action and utterance,

Our own hope was that he would be the redeemer of Israel; but he is dead, and that is three days ago!

So they got up and returned that very hour to Jerusalem, where they found the eleven and their friends all gathered,

who told them that the Lord had really risen and that he had appeared to Simon.

Then he said to them, "When I was still with you, this is what I told you, that whatever is written about me in the law of Moses and the prophets and the psalms must be fulfilled."

"Thus," he said, "it is written that the Christ has to suffer and rise from the dead on the third day,

and that repentance and the remission of sins must be preached in his name to all nations, beginning from Jerusalem.