And when the Lord saw her, he felt pity for her and said to her, "Do not weep."

Then he went forward and touched the bier; the bearers stopped, and he said, "Young man, I bid you rise."

All were seized with awe and glorified God. "A great prophet has appeared among us," they said, "God has visited his people."

When the men reached Jesus they said, "John the Baptist has sent us to you to ask if you are the Coming One or if we are to look out for someone else?"

When his host the Pharisee noticed this, he said to himself, "If he was a prophet he would know what sort of a woman this is who is touching him; for she is a sinner."

Then Jesus addressed him. "Simon," he said, "I have something to say to you." "Speak, teacher," he said.

"I suppose," said Simon, "the man who had most forgiven." "Quite right," he said.

Then turning to the woman he said to Simon, "You see this woman? When I came into your house, you never gave me water for my feet, while she has wet my feet with her tears and wiped them with her hair;

And he said to her, "Your sins are forgiven."

But he said to the woman, "Your faith has saved you; go in peace."

some other seed fell on sound soil, and springing up bore a crop, a hundredfold." When he said this he called out, "He who has an ear, let him listen to this."

so he said, "It is granted you to understand the open secrets of the Reign of God, but the others get it in parables, so that for all their seeing they may not see, and for all their hearing they may not understand.

It happened on one of these days that he embarked in a boat alone with his disciples and said to them, "Let us cross to the other side of the lake." So they set sail.

Then he said to them, "Where is your faith?" They marvelled in awe, saying to one another, "Whatever can he be? He gives orders to the very winds and water, and they obey him!"

So Jesus asked him, "What is your name?" "Legion," he said, for a number of daemons had entered him.

Jesus said, "Who touched me?" As everyone denied it, Peter and his companions said, "Master, the crowds are all round you pressing hard!"

Jesus said, "Somebody did touch me, for I felt power had passed from me."

"Daughter," he said to her, "your faith has made you well; depart in peace."

But when Jesus heard it he said to him, "Have no fear, only believe and she shall get well."

Everyone was weeping and bewailing her, but he said, "Stop weeping; she is not dead but asleep."

When Herod the tetrarch heard all that was going on, he was quite at a loss; for some said that John had risen from the dead,

Herod said, "John I beheaded. But who is this, of whom I hear such tales?" And he made efforts to see him.

Now as the day began to decline the twelve came up to him and said, "Send the crowd off to lodge in the villages and farms around and get provisions there, for here we are in a desert place."

He said to them, "Give them some food yourselves." They said, "We have only got five loaves and two fish. Unless ??are we to go and buy food for the whole of this people?"

(There were about five thousand men of them.) He said to his disciples, "Make them lie down in rows of about fifty."

He said to them, "And who do you say I am?" Peter replied, "The Christ of God."

The Son of man, he said, has to endure great suffering, to be rejected by the elders and high priests and scribes, to be killed, and on the third day to be raised.

He said to all, "If anyone wishes to come after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross day after day, and so follow me;

It was about eight days after he said this, when he took Peter, John, and James, and went up the hillside to pray.

who appeared in a vision of glory and said he must go through with his death and departure at Jerusalem.

When they were parting from him, Peter said to Jesus, "Master, it is a good thing we are here; let us put up three tents, one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah" (not knowing what he was saying).

And all were astounded at this grand display of God. But while all marvelled at all he did, he said to his disciples,

then he said to them, "Whoever receives this little child in my name receives me, and whoever receives me receives him who sent me. For it is the lowliest of you all who is great."

John said to him, "Master, we saw a man casting out daemons in your name, but we stopped him because he is not a follower of ours."

Jesus said to him, "Do not stop him; he who is not against you is for you."

So when the disciples James and John saw this, they said, "Lord, will you have us bid fire come down from heaven and consume them?"

And as they journeyed along the road a man said to him, "I will follow you anywhere."

Jesus said to him, "The foxes have their holes, the wild birds have their nests, but the Son of man has nowhere to lay his head."

He said to another man, "Follow me"; but he said, "Let me go and bury my father first of all."

Jesus said to him, "Leave the dead to bury their own dead; you go and spread the news of the Reign of God."

Another man also said to him, "I will follow you, Lord. But let me first say good-bye to my people at home."

Jesus said to him, "No one is any use to the Reign of God who puts his hand to the plough and then looks behind him."

He said to them, "The harvest is rich, but the labourers are few; so pray the Lord of the harvest to send labourers to gather his harvest.

The seventy came back with joy. "Lord," they said, "the very daemons obey us in your name."

He said to them, "Yes, I watched Satan fall from heaven like a flash of lightning.

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!

Now a jurist got up to tempt him. "Teacher," he said, "what am I to do to inherit life eternal?"

He said to him, "What is written in the law? What do you read there?"

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

Anxious to make an excuse for himself, however, he said to Jesus, "But who is my neighbour?"

He said, "The man who took pity on him." Jesus said to him, "Then go and do the same."

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."

He was praying at a certain place, and when he stopped one of his disciples said to him, "Lord, teach us to pray, as John taught his disciples."

He said to them, "When you pray, say, Father, thy name be revered, thy Reign begin;

And he said to them, "Suppose one of you has a friend, and you go to him at midnight and say to him, 'Friend, let me have three loaves;

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

He knew what they were thinking about, so he said to them, "Any realm divided against itself comes to ruin, house after house falls down;

But he said, "Blessed rather are those who hear and who observe the word of God!"

but the Lord said to him, "You Pharisees do clean the outside of the cup and the plate, but your inner life is filled with rapacity and malice.

One of the jurists said to him, "Teacher, when you say this you are insulting us as well."

He said, "And woe to you jurists! you load men with irksome burdens, and you will not put a single finger to their burdens.

This is why the Wisdom of God said, 'I will send them prophets and apostles, some they will kill and some they will persecute';

A man out of the crowd said to him, "Teacher, tell my brother to give me my share of our inheritance";

but he said to him, "Man, who made me a judge or arbitrator over your affairs?"

Then he said to them, "See and keep clear of covetousness in every shape and form, for a man's life is not part of his possessions because he has ample wealth."

And he said, 'This is what I will do. I will pull down my granaries and build larger ones, where I can store all my produce and my goods.

But God said to him, 'Foolish man, this very night your soul is wanted; and who will get all you have prepared?'

To his disciples he said, "Therefore I tell you, do not trouble about what you are to eat in life, nor about what you are to put on your body;

Peter said, "Lord, are you telling this parable for us, or is it for all and sundry?"

The Lord said, "Well, where is the trusty, thoughtful steward whom the lord and master will set over his establishment to give out supplies at the proper time?

And to the crowds he said, "When you see a cloud rise in the west, you say, 'There is a shower coming,' and so it is:

So he said to the vinedresser, 'Here have I come for three years in search of fruit on this fig tree without finding any; cut it down, why should it take up space?'

But the president of the synagogue was annoyed at Jesus healing on the sabbath, and he said to the crowd, "There are six days for work to be done; come during them to get healed, instead of on the sabbath."

As he said this, all his opponents were put to shame, but all the crowd rejoiced over all his splendid doings.

So he said, "What is the Reign of God like? to what shall I compare it?

A man said to him, "Is it only a few, sir, who are saved?" So he said to them,

"Which of you," he said to them, "when an ass or an ox has fallen into a well, will not pull him out at once upon the sabbath day?"

"When anyone invites you to a marriage-banquet," he said, "never lie down in the best place, in case a more distinguished guest than yourself has been invited;

He also said to his host, "When you give a dinner or supper, do not ask your friends or your brothers or your relatives or your rich neighbours, in case they invite you back again and you get repaid.

Hearing this, one of his fellow guests said to him, "Blessed is he who feasts in the Realm of God!"

Jesus said to him, "There was a man who was giving a large supper, to which he had invited a number of guests.

But they all alike proceeded to decline. The first said to him, 'I have bought a farm and I am obliged to go and look at it. Pray consider me excused.'

The second said, 'I have bought five pair of oxen and I am going to try them. Pray consider me excused.'

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

The servant went and reported this to his master. Then the master of the house was enraged, and said to his servant, 'Quick, go out to the streets and lanes of the town and bring in the poor, the maimed, the blind, and the lame.'

the master said to the servant, 'Go out to the roads and hedges and make people come in, to fill up my house.

There were large crowds travelling with him; so he turned and said to them,

He also said: "There was a man who had two sons,

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.

But when he came to his senses he said, 'How many hired men of my father have more than enough to eat, and here am I perishing of hunger!

The son said to him, 'Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you; I don't deserve to be called your son any more.'

But the father said to his servants, 'Quick, bring the best robe and put it on him, give him a ring for his hand and sandals for his feet,

The father said to him, 'My son, you and I are always together, all I have is yours.

He also said to the disciples: "There was a rich man who had a factor, and this factor, he found, was accused of misapplying his property.

So he summoned him and said, 'What is this I hear about you? Hand in your accounts; you cannot be factor any longer.'

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.

'A hundred barrels of oil,' he said. The factor told him, 'Here is your bill; sit down at once and enter fifty barrels.'

Then he asked another, 'And how much do you owe?' 'A hundred quarters of wheat,' he said. 'Here is your bill,' said the factor, 'just enter eighty.'

But Abraham said, 'Remember, my son, you got all the bliss when you were alive, just as Lazarus got the ills of life; he is in comfort now, and you are in anguish.