"Then you will begin saying, 'But we have eaten and drunk in your presence, and you have taught in our streets.'

"But he will answer. "'I tell you I do not know were you came from;

"'depart from me, all of you, you evil-doers.' There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth when you shall see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets in the kingdom of God, and you yourselves cast out.

And to them he said, "Which of you when an ox or ass has fallen into a well, will at once pull him out on the Sabbath Day?"

"But when you are invited, go and sit down in the lowest place, so that when your host arrives he may say to you, 'My friend, come up higher.' Then you will be honored before the other guest.

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

"The second said: 'I have bought five yolk of oxen and am on my way to try them. I pray that you will have me excused.'

"'I will rise and go to my father, and say to him. "Father, I have sinned against Heaven and in your sight,

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

"And to you I say, Use mammon, dishonest as it is, to make yourselves friends, so that when it shall fail they will welcome you to the eternal tabernacles.

"If therefore you have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will trust to you the true riches?

"And if you are not faithful with what belongs to another, who will give you what is your own?

"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."

"'If they will not listen to Moses and the prophets,' said Father Abraham, 'neither will they be persuaded if one should rise from the dead.'"

"But who of you who has a slave plowing or keeping sheep, will say to him, when he is come in from the field, 'Come at once, sit down to dinner,'

"and will not rather tell him, 'Get ready something for me to eat, and gird yourself to wait on me until I have eaten and drunken. Then you shall eat and drink.'

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

Then he said turning to his disciples. "The days will come when you shall long to see one of the days of the Son of man, you shall not see it.

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

"Where, Master?" they asked him. "Where the dead body is," he answered, "there will the vultures be gathered together."

"'yet because this woman annoys me I will give her justice, lest by her continual coming she wear me out.'

"And will not God see justice done to his elect who are crying unto him day and night, even if he seems to delay helping them?

"I tell you that he will quickly see justice done to his elect! Nevertheless, when the Son of man comes, will he find faith upon the earth?"

"I tell you in solemn truth that whoever will not receive the kingdom of God like a little child, he will never get into it."

Then he took the twelve aside and told them. "See, we are on our way to Jerusalem, and all prophets regarding the son of Man will be fulfilled.

"He will be betrayed to the Gentiles, and be mocked, and shamefully treated, and spit upon;

"and they will scourge and kill him; and the third day he will rise again."

"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.

"The time will come for you when your enemies will throw ramparts around you, and encompass you, and shut you in on every side, and raze you to the ground,

"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."

"I will also ask you a question," he replied.

So they reasoned among themselves. "If we say, 'From heaven,' he will ask us, 'Why did you not believe in him?'

"And if we say, 'From man,' all the people will stone us, for they were persuaded that John was a prophet."

"Nor will I tell you," Jesus answered, "by whose authority I do these things."

"Then the master of the vineyard said: "'What shall I do? I will send my beloved Son; it may be that they will reverence him.'

"So they turned him out of the vineyard and killed him. "What will the master of the vineyard do to them?

"He will come and destroy those vine-dressers, and will give the vineyard to others."

"Every one who falls on that stone will be broken in pieces; but whoever it falls upon will be scattered as dust."

"As for what you are looking at, the time is coming when not one stone will be left upon another, that shall not be thrown down."

"Teacher, when will this be?" they asked him, "and what shall be the sign that these things are about to happen?"

"Take heed," he answered, "that you are not led astray, for many will come in my name, saying, 'I am he,' and 'The time is close at hand.' Do not go and follow them.

"But before all these things happen, they will apprehend you and persecute you and deliver you to the synagogues and to prisons, and bring you before kings and governors for the sake of my name.

"for I will give you utterance and a wisdom which none of your adversaries will be able to answer or withstand.

"You will be betrayed even by parents or brothers and kinsfolk, and friends.

"Some of you they will put to death. And you shall be hated by all men for the sake of my name.

"Woe to women with child and to those who are nursing infants in those days! For sore anguish will come upon the land, and wrath upon all his people.

"And there will be signs in the sun and the moon and the stars; and on the earth distress of nations in perplexity at the roar of the sea and the billows;

"Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words shall never pass away.

"For it will come upon all the dwellers on the face of the earth.

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.

"Then he will show you a large upper room furnished. There make your preparations."

For I tell you that I certainly will not eat again until it be fulfilled in the kingdom of God."

"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."

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

"Father, if thou art willing, take away this cup from me; but thy will, not mine, be done!"

Then the Lord turned and looked at Peter, and Peter recollected the word of the Lord, how he had said to him, "This very day, before the cock crows, you will deny me three times."

"Are you the Christ? Tell us!" "If I tell you," he answered, "you will not believe;

"And if I ask you, you will not answer.

"But from henceforth the Son of man will be seated at the right hand of the power of God."

I will therefore, after flogging him, release him."

For the third time he appealed to them. "But what crime has he committed? I have found in him nothing that deserves death. I will therefore flog him, and let him go."

He released the man who had been put in prison for riot and murder, the man whom they asked for; but Jesus he handed over to their will.

"Then they will begin to say to the mountains, 'Fall on us!' and to the hills, 'Cover us!'

"For if this is what they do in the green tree, what will they do in the dry?"

"And I will send forth the promise of my Father upon you. But tarry in Jerusalem until you are clothed with power from on high."

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

His disciples recalled that it is written, The zeal of thine house will devour me.

"Destroy this temple," answered Jesus, "and in three days I will raise it up."

The Jews retorted, "This Temple took forty-six years to build, and will you 'raise it in three days'?"

If I have told you earthly things and yet none of you believe me, how will you believe if I tell you concerning heavenly things?

"All who drink of this water," Jesus answered, "will thirst again;

but whoever once drinks of the water that I will give him, shall never thirst any more, but the water that I will give him shall become a living spring of water within him, welling up into eternal life."

"Woman, believe me," said Jesus, "that the hour is coming when neither in this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father.

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 them. "My food is to do the will of Him who sent me, and to accomplish his work.

Then Jesus said to him, "Unless you all see signs and wonders, you will not believe."

"For the Father loves the Son, and shows him every thing that he himself is doing. And greater deeds than these will he show him, that you may wonder.

"For just as the Father raises the dead and makes them alive, even so the Son makes whom he will alive.

"I tell you solemnly that he who listens to my messages and believes Him who sent me, has eternal life. He will not come under condemnation, but has passed out of death into life.

"I can of my own self do nothing. As I listen, I judge, and my own judgment is just, because I am not seeking my own will, but the will of Him who sent me.

"you will not come to me that you may have life.

"I am come in the name of my Father and you do not receive me. If another comes in his own name, him you will receive.

And if you do not believe his writings, how will you ever believe my words?"

"Make the men sit down," said Jesus. The ground was covered with thick grass; so the men sat down, in numbers about five thousand. "of righteousness, because I am going to my Father, and you will no longer see me;

"Labor not for food which perishes, but for the food that endures eternal life??hat which the Son of man will give you; for on the Father??od??as set his seal."

"Everyone whom the Father gives me will come to me; and him who comes to me I will never reject.

"For I am come down from heaven, not to do my own will, but the will of him who sent me.

"And this is the will of him who sent me, that I should not lose one of all those whom he has given me, but should raise them up at the last day.

"For this is my Fathers will, that every one who beholds the Son and believes on him, shall have eternal life. and I will raise him up at the last day."

answered Jesus; "no one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draw him; then I will raise him up on the last day.

"I myself am the living bread that has come down from heaven. Any one who eats this bread will live forever; and moreover, the bread which I will give is my flesh, given for the life of the world."

"He who feeds upon my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.

The Jews were amazed. They said, "How does this fellow know the sacred writings when he has never learned them?" "I am not asking that thou wilt take them out of the world, but that thou wilt protect them from the Evil One.

"If any one wills to do God's will he shall know concerning my teaching, whether it is from God, or I speak my own authority. Dedicate them in thy truth; thy word is truth."

"But we know this man and where he is from; but when the Christ comes no one will know where he comes from."

But many of the crowd believed on him and began to say, "The Christ, when he comes, will he do more signs than this man has done?"

"You will search for me and will not find me, and where I am you cannot come."

"If any man thirst let him come to me and drink. From the heart of him who believes in me will flow, as the Scripture said, rivers of living water."