"Master," said another, "I will follow you; but first let me say good-bye to my family."

"The harvest," he said, "is abundant, but the laborers are few. Therefore pray to the Owner of the harvest to send laborers to gather in his harvest.

Whatever house you go to stay at, begin by praying for a blessing on it.

Whatever town you visit, if the people welcome you, eat what is set before you;

Alas for you, Chorazin! Alas for you, Bethsaida! For, if the Miracles which have been done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have sat in sackcloth and ashes and repented long ago.

At that same time, moved to exultation by the Holy Spirit, Jesus said: "I thank thee, Father, Lord of Heaven and earth, that, though thou hast hidden these things from the wise and learned, thou hast revealed them to the childlike! Yes, Father, I thank thee that this has seemed good to thee.

Then, turning to his disciples, Jesus said to them alone: "Blessed are the eyes that see what you are seeing;

For, I tell you, many Prophets and Kings wished for the sight of the things which you are seeing, yet never heard them."

Just then a Student of the Law came forward to test Jesus further. "Teacher," he said, "what must I do if I am to 'gain Immortal Life'?"

"What is said in the Law?" answered Jesus. "What do you read there?"

"You have answered right," said Jesus; "do that, and you shall live."

But the man, wanting to justify himself, said to Jesus: "And who is my neighbor?"

As it chanced, a priest was going down by that road. He saw the man, but passed by on the opposite side.

A Levite, too, did the same; he came up to the spot, but, when he saw the man, passed by on the opposite side.

The next day he took out four shillings and gave them to the inn-keeper. 'Take care of him,' he said, 'and whatever more you may spend I will myself repay you on my way back.'

"The one that took pity on him," was the answer; on which Jesus said: "Go and do the same yourself."

But Martha was distracted by the many preparations that she was making. So she went up to Jesus and said: "Master, do you approve of my sister's leaving me to make preparations alone? Tell her to help me."

One day Jesus was at a certain place praying, and, when he had finished, one of his disciples said to him: "Master, teach us to pray, as John taught his disciples."

Jesus also said to them: "Suppose that one of you who has a friend were to go to him in the middle of the night and say 'Friend, lend me three loaves,

But some of them said: "He drives out demons by the help of Baal-zebub, the chief of the demons";

Jesus himself, however, was aware of what they were thinking, and said to them: "Any kingdom wholly divided against itself becomes a desolation; and a divided house falls.

But the Master said to him: "You Pharisees do, it is true, clean the outside of the cup and of the plate, but inside you yourselves are filled with greed and wickedness.

Alas for you Pharisees! You delight to have the front seat in the Synagogues, and to be greeted in the markets with respect.

That is why the Wisdom of God said--"I will send to them Prophets and Apostles,

Hence all that you have said in the dark will be heard in the light, and what you have spoken in the ear, within closed doors, will be proclaimed upon the housetops.

"Teacher," a man in the crowd said to Jesus, "tell my brother to share the property with me."

But Jesus said to him: "Man, who made me a judge or an arbiter between you?"

This is what I will do,' he said; 'I will pull down my barns and build larger ones, and store all my grain and my goods in them;

But God said to the man 'Fool! This very night your life is being demanded; and as for all you have prepared--who will have it?'

And Jesus said to his disciples: "That is why I say to you, Do not be anxious about the life here--what you can get to eat; nor yet about your body--what you can get to wear.

"Master," said Peter, "are you telling this parable with reference to us or to every one?"

And to the people Jesus said: "When you see a cloud rising in the west, you say at once 'There is a storm coming,' and come it does.

So he said to his gardener 'Three years now I have come to look for fruit on this fig tree, without finding any! Cut it down. Why should it rob the soil?'

When Jesus saw her, he called her to him, and said: "Woman, you are released from your weakness."

But the President of the Synagogue, indignant that Jesus had worked the cure on the Sabbath, interposed and said to the people: "There are six days on which work ought to be done; come to be cured on one of those, and not on the Sabbath."

As he said this, his opponents all felt ashamed; but all the people rejoiced to see all the wonderful things that he was doing.

So Jesus said: "What is the Kingdom of God like? and to what can I liken it?

It is like a mustard-seed which a man took and put in his garden. The seed grew and became a tree, and 'the wild birds roosted in its branches.'"

And again Jesus said: "To what can I liken the Kingdom of God?

Just then some Pharisees came up to Jesus and said: "Go away and leave this place, for Herod wants to kill you."

"Is it allowable," said Jesus, addressing the Students of the Law and the Pharisees, "to work a cure on the Sabbath, or is it not?"

And he said to them: "Which of you, finding that his son or his ox has fallen into a well, will not immediately pull him out on the Sabbath Day?"

"When you are invited by any one to a wedding banquet, do not seat yourself in the best place, for fear that some one of higher rank should have been invited by your host;

One of the guests heard what he said and exclaimed: "Happy will he be who shall eat bread in the Kingdom of God!"

But Jesus said to him: "A man was once giving a great dinner. He invited many people,

They all with one accord began to ask to be excused. The first man said to the servant 'I have bought a field and am obliged to go and look at it. I must ask you to consider me excused.'

The next said 'I have bought five pairs of bullocks, and I am on my way to try them. I must ask you to consider me excused';

While the next said 'I am just married, and for that reason I am unable to come.'

On his return the servant told his master all these answers. Then in anger the owner of the house said to his servant 'Go out at once into the streets and alleys of the town, and bring in here the poor, and the crippled, and the blind, and the lame.'

Presently the servant said 'Sir, your order has been carried out, and still there is room.'

'Go out,' the master said, 'into the roads and hedgerows, and make people come in, so that my house may be filled;

One day, when great crowds of people were walking with Jesus, he turned and said to them:

Why, which of you, when he wants to build a tower, does not first sit down and reckon the cost, to see if he has enough to complete it?--

Or what king, when he is setting out to fight another king, does not first sit down and consider if with ten thousand men he is able to meet one who is coming against him with twenty thousand?

And the younger of them said to his father 'Father, give me my share of the inheritance.' So the father divided the property between them.

But, when he came to himself, he said 'How many of my father's hired servants have more bread than they can eat, while here am I starving to death!

'Father,' the son said, 'I sinned against Heaven and against you; I am no longer fit to be called your son; make me one of your hired servants.'

But the father turned to his servants and said 'Be quick and fetch a robe--the very best--and put it on him; give him a ring for his finger and sandals for his feet;

'No,' he said to his father, 'look at all the years I have been serving you, without ever once disobeying you, and yet you have never given me even a kid, so that I might have a merry-making with my friends.

Jesus said to his disciples: "There was a rich man who had a steward; and this steward was maliciously accused to him of wasting his estate.

So the master called him and said 'What is this that I hear about you? Give in your accounts, for you cannot act as steward any longer.'

'Four hundred and forty gallons of oil,' answered the man. 'Here is your agreement,' he said; 'sit down at once and make it two hundred and twenty.'

And you, the steward said to the next, 'how much do you owe?' 'Seventy quarters of wheat,' he replied. 'Here is your agreement,' the steward said; 'make it fifty-six.'

All this was said within hearing of the Pharisees, who were lovers of money, and they began to sneer at Jesus.

"You," said Jesus, "are the men who justify themselves before the world, but God can read your hearts; and what is highly esteemed among men may be an abomination in the sight of God.

In the Place of Death he looked up in his torment, and saw Abraham at a distance and Lazarus at his side.

'Then, Father,' he said, 'I beg you to send Lazarus to my father's house--

Jesus said to his disciples: "It is inevitable that there should be snares; yet alas for him who is answerable for them!

"Give us more faith," said the Apostles to the Master;

But the Master said: "If your faith were only like a mustard- seed, you could say to this mulberry tree 'Be up-rooted and planted in the sea,' and it would obey you.

When Jesus saw them, he said: "Go and show yourselves to the priest." And, as they were on their way, they were made clean.

Get up," he said to him, "and go on your way. Your faith has delivered you."

The day will come," he said to his disciples, "when you will long to see but one of the days of the Son of Man, and will not see it.

For, just as lightning will lighten and flare from one side of the heavens to the other, so will it be with the Son of Man.

"Where will it be, Master?" interposed the disciples. "Where there is a body," said Jesus, "'there will the vultures flock.'"

"There was," he said, "in a certain town a judge, who had no fear of God nor regard for man.

In the same town there was a widow who went to him again and again, and said 'Grant me justice against my opponent.'

For a time the judge refused, but afterwards he said to himself 'Although I am without fear of God or regard for man,

Jesus, however, called the little children to him. "Let the little children come to me," he said, "and do not hinder them; for it is to the childlike that the Kingdom of God belongs.

Hearing this, Jesus said to him: "There is one thing still lacking in you; sell everything that you have, and distribute to the poor, and you shall have wealth in Heaven; then come and follow me."

Seeing this, Jesus said to his disciples: "How hard it is for men of wealth to enter the Kingdom of God!

But Jesus said: "What is impossible with men is possible with God."

"But we," said Peter, "we left what belonged to us and followed you."

Gathering the Twelve round him, Jesus said to them: "Listen! We are going up to Jerusalem; and there everything that is written in the Prophets will be done to the Son of Man.

As Jesus was getting near Jericho, a blind man was sitting by the road-side, begging.

"What do you want me to do for you?" "Master," he said, "I want to recover my sight."

And Jesus said: "Recover your sight, your faith has delivered you."

Instantly he recovered his sight, and began to follow Jesus, praising God. And all the people, on seeing it, gave glory to God.

When Jesus came to the place, he looked up and said to him: "Zacchaeus, be quick and come down, for I must stop at your house to-day."

On seeing this, every one began to complain: "He has gone to stay with a man who is an outcast."

But Zacchaeus stood forward and said to the Master: "Listen, Master! I will give half my property to the poor, and, if I have defrauded any one of anything, I will give him back four times as much."

He said: "A nobleman once went to a distant country to receive his appointment to a Kingdom and then return.

The first came up, and said 'Sir, your ten pounds have made a hundred.'

When the second came, he said 'Your ten pounds, Sir, have produced fifty.'

So the master said to him 'And you I appoint over five towns.'

Another servant also came and said 'Sir, here are your ten pounds; I have kept them put away in a handkerchief.

Take away from him the ten pounds,' he said to those standing by, 'and give them to the one who has the hundred.'

"Go to the village facing us," he said, " and, when you get there, you will find a foal tethered, which no one has yet ridden; untie it and lead it here.

Some of the Pharisees in the crowd said to him: "Teacher, reprove your disciples."

When he drew near, on seeing the city, he wept over it, and said: