'No, father Abraham,' he said, 'but if someone only goes to them from the dead, they will repent.'

He said to him, 'If they will not listen to Moses and the prophets, they will not be convinced, not even if one rose from the dead."

Which of you, with a servant out ploughing or shepherding, will say to him when he comes in from the field, 'Come at once and take your place at table'?

Will the man not rather say to him, 'Get some thing ready for my supper; gird yourself and wait on me till I eat and drink; then you can eat and drink yourself'?

no one will say, 'Here it is' or 'There it is,' for the Reign of God is now in your midst."

To his disciples he said, "There will come days when you will long and long in vain to have even one day of the Son of man.

Men will say, 'See, here he is!' 'See, there he is!' but do not go out or run after them,

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.

And just as it was in the days of Noah, so will it be in the days of the Son of man;

So will it be on the day the Son of man is revealed.

Whoever tries to secure his life will lose it, and whoever loses it will preserve it.

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

two women will be grinding together, the one will be taken and the other left."

They asked him, "Where, Lord?" And he said to them, "Where the body is lying, there the vultures will gather."

still, as this widow is bothering me, I will see justice done to her ??not to have her for ever coming and pestering me.'

And will not God see justice done to his elect who cry to him by day and night? Will he be tolerant to their opponents?

I tell you, he will quickly see justice done to his elect! And yet, when the Son of man does come, will he find faith on earth?"

I tell you, he went home accepted by God rather than the other man; for everyone who uplifts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be uplifted."

I tell you truly, whoever will not submit to the Reign of God like a child will never get into it at all."

When Jesus heard this he said to him, "You lack one thing more; sell all you have, distribute the money among the poor and you will have treasure in heaven; then come and follow me."

Then he took the twelve aside and told them, "We are going up to Jerusalem, and all the predictions of the prophets regarding the Son of man will be fulfilled;

he will be betrayed to the Gentiles, mocked, illtreated, and spat on;

they will scourge him and kill him, but he will rise again on the third day."

So Zacchaeus stopped and said to the Lord, "I will give the half of all I have, Lord, to the poor, and if I have cheated anybody I will give him back four times as much."

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!

saying, "Go to the village in front, and on entering it you will find a colt tethered on which no one ever has sat; untether it and bring it.

If anyone asks you, 'Why are you untethering it?' this is what you will say, 'The Lord needs it.'"

A time is coming for you when your enemies will throw up ramparts round you and encircle you and besiege you on every side

He answered them, "Well, I will ask you a question. Tell me,

Now they reasoned to themselves, "If we say, 'From heaven,' he will ask, 'Why did you not believe him?'

And if we say, 'From men,' the whole of the people will stone us, for they are convinced John was a prophet."

Jesus said to them, "No more will I tell you what authority I have for acting as I do."

Said the owner of the vineyard, 'What shall I do? I will send my beloved son; perhaps they will respect him.'

And they threw him outside the vineyard and killed him. Now what will the owner of the vineyard do to them?

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

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

Now at the resurrection whose wife will she be? She was wife to the seven of them."

they prey upon the property of widows and offer long unreal prayers. All the heavier will their sentence be!"

"As for what you see, there are days coming when not a stone will be left upon another, without being torn down."

So they asked him, "Teacher, and when will this happen? What will be the sign for this to take place?"

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.

Then he said to them, "Nation will rise against nation, and realm against realm,

there will be great earthquakes with famine and pestilence here and there, there will be awful portents and great signs from heaven.

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.

You will be betrayed by your very parents and brothers and kinsmen and friends, and some of you will be put to death.

You will be hated by all on account of my name;

but not a hair of your head will perish.

Woe to women with child and to women who give suck in those days, for sore anguish will come upon the land and Wrath on this people;

they will fall by the edge of the sword, they will be carried prisoners to all nations, and Jerusalem will be under the heel of the Gentiles till the period of the Gentiles expires.

And there will be signs in sun and moon and stars, while on earth the nations will be in dismay with bewilderment at the roar of sea and waves,

men swooning with panic and foreboding of what is to befall the universe. For the orbs of the heavens will be shaken,

and then they will see the Son of man coming in a cloud with power and great glory.

I tell you truly, the present generation will not pass away till all this happens.

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

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

He said to them, "When you enter the city you will meet a man carrying a water-jar: follow him to the house he enters,

Then he will show you a large room upstairs with couches spread; make your preparations there."

for I tell you I will never eat the passover again till the fulfilment of it in the Reign of God."

for I tell you I will never drink the produce of the vine again till such time as God's Reign comes."

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

saying, "Father, if it please thee, take this cup away from me. But thy will, not mine, be done."

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.'

"Tell us if you are the Christ." He said to them, "You will not believe me if I tell you,

and you will not answer me when I put a question to you.

But after this the Son of man will be seated at God's right hand of power."

he released the man they wanted, the man who had been imprisoned for riot and murder, and Jesus he handed over to their will.

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!'

Then will people say to the mountains, 'Fall on us!' and to the hills, 'Cover us.'

For if this is what they do when the wood is green, what will they do when the wood is dry?"

"I tell you truly," said Jesus, "you will be in paradise with me this very day."

And I will send down on you what my Father has promised; wait in the city till you are endued with power from on high."

Jesus replied, "Destroy this sanctuary and I will raise it up in three days."

If you will not believe when I speak to you about things on earth, how will you believe if I speak to you about things in heaven?

He who believes in him is not sentenced; he who will not believe is sentenced already, for having refused to believe in the name of the only Son of God.

for anyone whose practices are corrupt loathes the light and will not come out into it, in case his actions are exposed,

Jesus answered, "Anyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again,

but anyone who drinks the water I shall give him will never thirst any more; the water I shall give him will turn into a spring of water welling up to eternal life."

"Woman," said Jesus, "believe me, the time is coming when you will be worshipping the Father neither on this mountain nor at Jerusalem.

But the time is coming, it has come already, when the real worshippers will worship the Father in Spirit and in reality; for these are the worshippers that the Father wants.

The woman said to him, "Well, I know messiah (which means Christ) is coming. When he arrives, he will explain it all to us."

Jesus said, "My food is to do the will of him who sent me, and to accomplish his work.

Jesus said to him, "Unless you see signs and wonders, you never will believe."

The Father loves the Son and shows him all that he is doing himself. He will show him still greater deeds than these, to make you wonder;

Truly, truly I tell you, he who listens to my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life; he will incur no sentence of judgment, he has already passed from death across to life.

Truly, truly I tell you, the time is coming, it has come already, when the dead will listen to the voice of the Son of God, and those who listen will live;

Do not wonder at this; for there is a time coming when all who are in the tombs will listen to his voice

I can do nothing of my own accord; I pass judgment on men as I am taught by God, and my judgment is just, because my aim is not my own will but the will of him who sent me.

here am I, come in the name of my Father, and you will not accept me: let someone else come in his own name, and you will accept him!

But if you do not believe what he wrote, how will you ever believe what I say?"

Work for no perishing food, but for that lasting food which means eternal life; the Son of man will give you that, for the Father, God, has certified him."

Jesus said, "I am the bread of life; he who comes to me will never be hungry, and he who believes in me will never be thirsty again.

All those will come to me who are the Father's gift to me, and never will I reject one of them;

for I have come down from heaven not to carry out my own will but the will of him who sent me,

and the will of him who sent me is that I lose none of those who are his gift to me, but that I raise them all up on the last day.

It is the will of my Father that everyone who sees the Son and believes in him should possess eternal life, and that I should raise him up on the last day."

No one is able to come to me unless he is drawn by the Father who sent me (and I will raise him up on the last day).

In the prophets it is written, and they will be all instructed by God; everyone who has listened to the Father and learned from him, comes to me.