But some of them said, "It is with the help of Beelzebub, the prince of demons, that He is driving the demons out."

But He knew what they were thinking, and so said to them, "Any kingdom that is not united is in the process of destruction, and one house falls after another.

Just as He was saying this, a woman in the crowd lifted her voice and said, "Blessed is the mother who bore you and nursed you!"

But He said, "Yes, but better still, blessed are those who listen to God's message and practice it!"

When He had said this, a Pharisee asked Him to lunch at his house, and He went in and took His place at table.

But the Lord said to him, "Now you Pharisees have the habit of cleaning the outside of your cups and dishes, but inside you yourselves are full of greed and wickedness.

Then an expert in the law interrupted Him and said, "Teacher, in saying this you are insulting us, too."

He said, "Yes, a curse on you experts in the law, too, because you load people down with loads too heavy to carry, and yet you do not touch the loads yourselves with one of your fingers!

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

Just then a man in the crowd said to Him, "Tell my brother to share with me our inheritance."

But He said to him, "Man, who made me a judge or umpire in your affairs?"

And then He said to them, "Be ever on the alert and always on your guard against every form of greed, because a man's life does not consist in his possessions, even though they are abundant."

Then he said, 'This is what I will do: I will tear down my barns and build larger ones, and in them I will store all my grains and my goods.

But God said to him, 'You fool! This very night your soul is to be demanded of you. Then who will have all that you have prepared?'

Then He said to His disciples: "Stop worrying, then, about life, as to what you will have to eat, or about your body, as to what you will have to wear.

Peter said to Him, "Lord, do you mean this story for us, or is it for everybody?"

And the Lord said, "Who then is the faithful, thoughtful manager whom his master will put in charge of his household, to give out the supplies at the proper time?

And He said to the crowds, "When you see a cloud rising in the west, at once you say, 'It is going to rain,' and it does.

So he said to the vine-dresser, 'Look here! for three years I have been coming to look for figs on this fig tree, and have not found any. Cut it down. Why waste the ground with it?'

As soon as Jesus saw her, He called her to Him and said to her, "Woman, you are freed from your disease!"

And again He said, "To what may I compare the kingdom of God?

And someone asked Him, "Lord, are only a few to be saved?" And He said to them,

Just at that time some Pharisees came up and said to Him, "Get out at once! Get away from here, for Herod wants to kill you!"

But He said to them: "Go and tell that fox, 'Here I am, driving out demons and performing cures, today and tomorrow, and on the third day I will finish these tasks.

Then He said to them, "Which of you, if his son or ox falls into a well, will not at once pull him out on the Sabbath?"

But one of the fellow-guests heard this, and said to Him, "Happy will be the man who is fortunate enough to be at the feast in the kingdom of God."

Then Jesus said to him: "Once a man was giving a great dinner and invited many people to it.

But they all in the same attitude began to excuse themselves. The first one said, 'I have just bought a piece of land and I must go and look it over. Please excuse me.'

Another said, 'I have just bought five yoke of oxen, and I am on my way to try them. Please excuse me.'

Another said, 'I have just gotten married, and so I cannot come.'

So the slave returned and reported these answers to his master. Then the master of the house became angry and said to his slave, 'Hurry out into the streets and lanes of the city and bring in here the poor, the maimed, the crippled, and the blind.'

Then the slave said, 'Sir, what you ordered has been done, and still there is room.'

"Then the master said to his slave, 'Go out on the roads and by the hedges and make the people come in, so that my house may be filled.

Now great crowds were going along with Him, and all at once He turned and said to them:

And so the Pharisees and scribes continually grumbled, and said, "This fellow is welcoming notorious sinners, and even eating with them."

Then He said: "There was a man who had two sons.

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

Then he came to himself and said, 'How many of my father's hired men have more to eat than they need, and here I am dying of hunger!

His son said to him, 'Father, I have sinned against heaven and in your opinion; I no longer deserve to be called your son; just treat me like one of your hired men.'

But his father said to his slaves, 'Bring out at once a robe, yes, the finest one, and put it on him, and put a ring on his hand and shoes on his feet;

He said to him, 'Your brother has come back, and your father has killed the fattening calf, because he has gotten him back safe and sound.'

Then he said to him, 'My child, you have been with me all the time, and all I have is yours.

So he called the manager to him and said, 'What is this that I am hearing about you? Balance your accounts and show how you are conducting my affairs, for you cannot be manager any longer.'

Then the manager said to himself, What shall I do, because my master is going to take my position away from me? I am not strong enough to dig; I am ashamed to beg.

He answered, 'Nine hundred gallons of oil.' Then he said to him, 'Take your bill and sit right down and write four hundred and fifty.'

Then he asked another, 'And how much do you owe?' He answered, 'Twelve hundred bushels of wheat:' He said to him, 'Take your bill and write nine hundred and sixty.'

Then He said to them, "You are the men who exhibit your uprightness before the public, but God knows your hearts. For what stands high in the sight of men is detestable in the sight of God.

So he called and said, 'Father Abraham, take pity on me and send Lazarus to dip the tip of his finger in water to cool off my tongue, because I am ceaselessly tortured in this flame.'

But Abraham said, 'My child, remember that you received in full your blessings in your lifetime, and Lazarus his hardships in his, but now he is continuously comforted here, while you are continuously tortured there.

Then he said, 'For this reason, I beg you, father, to send him to my father's house

But Abraham said, 'They have Moses and the prophets; let them listen to them.'

Now He said to His disciples: "It is inevitable that snares to evil will come, but a curse be on the man through whom they come!

Then the apostles said to the Lord, "Give us more faith."

Then the Lord said to them, "If you had faith that grows like a mustard seed, you might have been saying to this mulberry tree, 'Pull yourself up by the roots and plant yourself in the sea,' and it would have obeyed you!

and raised their voices and said, "Jesus, Master, do take pity on us!"

So as soon as He saw them, He said to them, "Go at once and show yourselves to the priests." And while they were going they were cured.

And Jesus said, "Were not ten cured? Where are the other nine?

Then He said to him, "Get up and go on your way. Your faith has cured you."

Then He said to His disciples, "The time will come when you will long to see one of the days of the Son of Man, but you will not see it.

Then they asked Him, "Where, Lord, will this be?" And He said to them, "Wherever there is carrion the vultures will flock."

And he would not for a time, but afterward he said to himself, Though I have no reverence for God nor respect for men,

The Pharisee stood and said this self-centered prayer, 'O God, I thank you that I am not like the rest of men, robbers, rogues, adulterers, or even like this tax-collector.

But Jesus called them to Him and said, "Let the little children come to me, and stop preventing them from it, for to such as these the kingdom of God belongs.

Jesus said to him, "Why do you call me perfectly good? No one is perfectly good but God Himself.

But he said, "I have kept all these commandments ever since I was a child."

When Jesus heard this, He said to him, "One thing you still lack. Sell everything you have, and distribute the money among the poor, and you will have riches in heaven; then come back and follow me."

So when Jesus saw it, He said, "How hard it is for those who have money to get into the kingdom of God!

But those who heard it said, "Then who can be saved?"

So He said, "The things impossible for men are possible for God."

Then Peter said to Him, "We have left our very own, homes and all, and have followed you."

So He said to them, "I solemnly say to you, there is no one who has given up home or wife or brothers or parents or children for the kingdom of God,

Now He took the Twelve aside and said to them, "Listen! We are going up to Jerusalem, and everything written by the prophets about the Son of Man will be fulfilled.

Then Jesus stopped and ordered him to be brought to Him. And when he approached Jesus, He said to him,

Then Jesus said to him, "See again! Your faith has cured you."

And as Jesus came to the place, He looked up and said to him, "Zaccheus, come down quickly! for today I must stop at your house."

Then Zaccheus got up and said to the Lord, "Listen, Lord! I now give to the poor half of my property, and if I have defrauded anyone of anything, I will pay him back four times as much."

Then Jesus said to him, "Today salvation has come to this home, for he too is a real descendant of Abraham.

So He said: "Once upon a time a man of noble birth went off to a distant country to get for himself a kingdom and then return.

Now the first one came in and said, 'Your twenty dollars, sir, has made two hundred more.'

So he said to him, 'Well done, my good slave! Because you have proven dependable in a very small business, be governor of ten cities!'

The second one came in and said, 'Your twenty dollars, sir, has made a hundred!'

So he said to him too, 'Be governor of five cities?

But another one came in and said, 'Here is your twenty dollars, sir, which I kept laid away in a handkerchief.

He said to him, 'On the ground of what you say I will sentence you, you wicked slave! You knew that I was a stern man, that I picked up what I did not put down, and reaped what I did not sow.

So he said to the bystanders, 'Take the twenty dollars away from him and give it to the man who has the two hundred.'

And they said, 'Sir, he has two hundred already.'

said, "Go on to the village in front of you, in which, just as you enter, you will find a colt tied, which no man has ever yet ridden. Untie it and bring it here to me.

And while they were untying the colt, its owners said to them, "Why are you untying the colt?"

and said: "Blessed is the King who comes in the name of the Lord; peace in heaven and praise on high!"

Then some Pharisees in the crowd said to Him, "Teacher, reprove your disciples."

and said: "If today you yourself had only known the conditions of peace! But now they are hidden from you.

and He said to them, "The Scripture says, 'And my house shall be a house of prayer,' but you have made it a cave for robbers."

and said to Him, "Tell us what sort of authority you have for doing as you do, or who is it that gave you such authority?"

And they argued with one another, and said, "If we say, 'From heaven,' He will say, 'Why did you not believe him?'

So they answered and said that they did not know where it was from.

Then Jesus said to them, "Nor am I going to tell you what sort of authority I have for doing as I do."

Then the owner of the vineyard said, 'What shall I do? I will send my dearly loved son. They will, I should think, respect him.'

He will come and put those tenants to death and give the vineyard to others." When they heard this, they said, "May it never be so!"

But He glanced at them and said, "Then what does this Scripture mean: 'That stone which the builders threw away has now become the cornerstone'?

But He detected their cunning, and said to them,