Are not, five sparrows, sold for two farthings? and, not one from among them, hath been forgotten before God.

but even the hairs of your head have been all numbered; therefore fear ye not, than many sparrows ye are of more value.

Fear not, little flock, for it has been the good pleasure of your Father to give you the kingdom.

“But be sure of this, that if the head of the house had known at what time the thief was coming, he [would have been awake and alert, and] would not have allowed his house to be broken into.

And that servant who has been told his Master's will and yet made no preparation and did not obey His will, will receive many lashes.

but he who knew it not, and did things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few. And to every one to whom much has been given, much shall be required from him; and to whom men have committed much, they will ask from him the more.

I have come to cast a fire on the earth; and what will I if already it has been kindled?

But I have a baptism to be baptised with, and how am I straitened until it shall have been accomplished!

Now some people who were there at that time, gave him an account of how the blood of some Galilaeans had been mixed by Pilate with their offerings.

Then Jesus told them this parable: "A man had a fig tree that had been planted in his vineyard. He went to look for fruit on it but didn't find any.

And he said to the gardener, See, for three years I have been looking for fruit from this tree, and I have not had any: let it be cut down; why is it taking up space?

a woman was there who had been disabled by a spirit for over 18 years. She was bent over and could not straighten up at all.

and Jesus having seen her, did call her near, and said to her, 'Woman, thou hast been loosed from thy infirmity;'

And the ruler of the assembly having answered, feeling pain because Jesus cured on the sabbath, said to the crowd, Six days there are in which they ought to work; in those therefore, coming, be ye cured, and not the day of the sabbath.

And ought not this woman, being a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan had bound, lo, these eighteen years, to have been loosed from this bond on the day of the sabbath?

And, as he was saying, these, things, all who had been setting themselves against him were being put to shame; and, all the multitude, were rejoicing over all the glorious things which were being brought to pass by him.

When the master of the house has got up, and the door has been shut, and you, still outside, give blows on the door, saying, Lord, let us in; he will make answer and say, I have no knowledge of where you come from.

Then you will go on to say, 'We have been entertained with you, and you have taught in our streets!'

[Then] there will be crying and excruciating pain, when you will see Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets in the kingdom of God and [you will see] yourselves thrown outside.

O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou who murderest the Prophets and stonest those who have been sent to thee, how often have I desired to gather thy children just as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you would not come!

Behold, your house has been left to you! And I tell you, you will never see me until [the time] will come when you say, 'Blessed [is] the one who comes in the name of the Lord!'"

Now he told a parable to those who had been invited [when he] noticed how they were choosing for themselves the places of honor, saying to them,

'When thou mayest be called by any one to marriage-feasts, thou mayest not recline on the first couch, lest a more honourable than thou may have been called by him,

But when thou hast been invited, go and put thyself down in the last place, that when he who has invited thee comes, he may say to thee, Friend, go up higher: then shalt thou have honour before all that are lying at table with thee;

and he sent his servant at the hour of the supper to say to those having been called, Be coming, because now are all things ready.

And another said, I have been married, and so I am not able to come.

'And that servant having come, told to his lord these things, then the master of the house, having been angry, said to his servant, Go forth quickly to the broad places and lanes of the city, and the poor, and maimed, and lame, and blind, bring in hither.

'And the servant said, Sir, it hath been done as thou didst command, and still there is room.

for I say to you, that none of those men who have been called shall taste of my supper.'

And so great was his need that he would have been glad to take the pigs' food, and no one gave him anything.

for this my son was dead and has come to life, was lost and has been found. And they began to make merry.

Now his elder brother had been in the field: and when coming home he drew near the house, he heard a concert of music, and the chorus.

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

But he replied to his father, ‘Look, I have been slaving many years for you, and I have never disobeyed your orders, yet you never gave me a young goat so I could celebrate with my friends.

But when this your son came, who has been wasting your property with bad women, you put to death the fat young ox for him.

And he said to him, ‘Son, you have always been with me, and all that is mine is yours.

But it was right to make merry and rejoice, because this thy brother was dead and has come to life again, and was lost and has been found.

I know what I will do, that when I shall have been removed from the stewardship I may be received into their houses.

And his lord was pleased with the false servant, because he had been wise; for the sons of this world are wiser in relation to their generation than the sons of light.

If therefore ye have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches?

And if ye have not been faithful in that which is another man's, who shall give you that which is your own?

Now the Pharisees, who love money, had been listening to all this and began to ridicule Jesus.

"The law and the prophets [were] until John; from that time [on] the kingdom of God has been proclaimed, and everyone is urgently pressed into it.

But it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away, than for one tiny stroke of a pen in the law to fall.

"Every person who divorces his wife and marries another woman becomes sexually unfaithful to her [i.e., because he is still regarded by God as married to his first wife. See Matt. 19:9]. And the person who marries someone who has been divorced by her husband commits sexual sin with her [i.e., because she is still rightfully married to her first husband].

Near his gateway there had been laid a beggar named Lazarus, who was covered with sores,

and he would gladly have been fed with the crumbs that fell from the rich man's table. And even the dogs came and licked his sores.

And in hell, being in great pain, lifting up his eyes he saw Abraham, far away, and Lazarus on his breast.

And he called out [and] said, 'Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus so that he could dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue, because I am suffering pain in this flame!'

But Abraham said, 'Child, remember that you received your good [things] during your life, and Lazarus likewise bad [things]. But now he is comforted here, but you are suffering pain.

And besides all this, between us and you [people] a great chasm has been fixed, so that those who want to come over from here to you will not be able, and none may cross over from there to us.’

For I have five brothers; and let him give them an account of these things, so that they may not come to this place of pain.

it is more profitable to him if a weighty millstone is put round about his neck, and he hath been cast into the sea, than that he may cause one of these little ones to stumble.

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!

Is he grateful to the slave for doing what he has been ordered to do?

Thus ye also, when ye shall have done all things that have been ordered you, say, We are unprofitable bondmen; we have done what it was our duty to do.

But one of them, when he saw that he had been healed, came back and praised God with a loud voice.

There have not been found to return and give glory to God save this stranger.

And having been asked by the Pharisees, When is the kingdom of God coming? he answered them and said, The kingdom of God does not come with observation;

And shall not God avenge His own elect who cry day and night to Him, though He has been long-suffering over them?

And he spake also unto certain who have been trusting in themselves that they were righteous, and have been despising the rest, this simile:

And the ruler replied, "I have [already] been observing all of these commandments since I was [very] young."

And having taken the twelve aside, he said unto them, 'Lo, we go up to Jerusalem, and all things shall be completed -- that have been written through the prophets -- to the Son of Man,

And Jesus said to him, That to day salvation has been to this house, as he is also a son of Abraham.

On his return, after having been appointed King, he directed that the servants to whom he had given his money should be summoned, so that he might learn what amount of trade they had done.

And he said unto him, Well, thou good servant: because thou hast been faithful in a very little, have thou authority over ten cities.

Saying, Go into the little town in front of you, and on going in you will see a young ass fixed with a cord, on which no man has ever been seated; let him loose and take him.

and those having been sent, departing, found as Jesus told them.

So, they brought the colt to Jesus and spread their clothing on it, [then] placed Jesus on it [i.e., held the animal still as Jesus mounted it, since it had never been ridden before. See verse 30].

And he answered, and said to them: I say to you, that if these had been silent, the stones would have cried out.

saying, “If you had known in this day, even you, the things which make for peace! But now they have been hidden from your eyes.

saying to them, 'It hath been written, My house is a house of prayer -- but ye made it a den of robbers.'

and if we may say, From men, all the people will stone us, for they are having been persuaded John to be a prophet.'

and he, having looked upon them, said, 'What, then, is this that hath been written: A stone that the builders rejected -- this became head of a corner?

at the resurrection therefore, to which of them will she be wife? for she had been married to all the seven.

But as for those who shall have been deemed worthy to find a place in that other age and in the Resurrection from among the dead, the men do not marry and the women are not given in marriage.

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.'

And certain saying about the temple, that with goodly stones and devoted things it hath been adorned, he said,

And before, all these things, they will thrust upon you their hands, and persecute you, delivering you up into the synagogues and prisons, - when ye have been led away before kings and governors, for the sake of my name;

because these are days of vengeance, to fulfil all things that have been written.

for I tell you that I certainly shall not eat one again till its full meaning has been brought out in the Kingdom of God."

And he took bread and, having given praise, he gave it to them when it had been broken, saying, This is my body, which is given for you: do this in memory of me.

For the Son of man indeed goeth, as it hath been determined: but woe unto that man through whom he is betrayed!

And there had been also a contention among them, which of them was thought to be the greatest.

but I have besought for thee that thy faith fail not; and thou, when once thou hast been restored, confirm thy brethren.

for I say to you, that yet this that hath been written it behoveth to be fulfilled in me: And with lawless ones he was reckoned, for also the things concerning me have an end.'

and having been in agony, he was more earnestly praying, and his sweat became, as it were, great drops of blood falling upon the ground.

And they made statements against him, saying, This man has to our knowledge been teaching our nation to do wrong, and not to make payment of taxes to Caesar, even saying that he himself is Christ, a king.

And when Herod saw Jesus he greatly rejoiced, for he had been a long while desirous of seeing him, because of hearing many things concerning him, and he hoped to see some sign done by him;

So he had been asking him many questions, but Jesus made no answers.

And Pilate and Herod became friends with one another the same day, for they had been at enmity before between themselves.

You say that this man has been teaching the people evil things: now I, after going into the question before you, see nothing wrong in this man in connection with the things which you have said against him

no, nor yet Herod: for he sent him back unto us; and behold, nothing worthy of death hath been done by him.

a man who had been thrown into prison for an insurrection in the city, and for murder.

who was one who, for a certain tumult which had taken place in the city, and for murder, had been cast into prison.

And he released the man who had been thrown into prison for insurrection and murder, the one they asked for; but Jesus he delivered up to their will.

And he released him that for insurrection and murder had been cast into prison, whom they asked for; but Jesus he delivered up to their will.

Now one of the malefactors who had been hanged spoke insultingly to him, saying, Art not thou the Christ? save thyself and us.

We have been condemned justly, because we are getting what we deserve for what we have done, but this man has done nothing wrong."

And when the centurion saw what had been done, he glorified God, saying, Truly this Man was righteous.