When the men who tended them saw what had happened, they ran away and spread the news in the town and in the country around.

And the people came out to see what had happened, and they came to Jesus and found the man out of whom the demons had gone sitting there, at Jesus' feet, with his clothes on and in his right mind, and they were frightened.

Then all the people of the neighborhood of Gerasa asked him to go away from them, for they were terribly frightened. And he got into a boat and went back.

When Jesus returned, the people welcomed him, for they were all watching for him.

Jesus said, "Who was it who touched me?" And as everyone denied having done so, Peter said, "Master, the people are all around you and they are crowding you."

And they were all wailing and beating their breasts for her. But he said, "Stop wailing! For she is not dead, she is asleep."

And they laughed at him, for they knew that she was dead.

And where they will not welcome you, leave that town and shake off the very dust from your feet as a protest against them."

And they set forth and went from village to village, telling the good news and curing people everywhere.

Then the apostles came back and told Jesus what they had done. And he took them and quietly retired to a town called Bethsaida.

But he said to them, "Give them food yourselves!" And they said, "We have only five loaves and two fish, unless we go ourselves and buy food for all these people."

And they did so, and made them all sit down.

And they all ate and had enough, and the pieces left over that were gathered up filled twelve baskets.

They answered, "John the Baptist, though others say Elijah, and others that one of the old prophets has come back to life."

And two men were talking with him. They were Moses and Elijah,

and they appeared in glory and spoke of his departure which he was to go through with at Jerusalem.

Peter and his companions had been overcome by sleep, but waking up they saw his glorious appearance and the two men standing by him.

Just as they were parting from him, Peter said to Jesus, "Master, how good it is that we are here! Let us put up three huts, one for you and one for Moses and one for Elijah!" For he did not know what he was saying.

But as he said it, a cloud came and overshadowed them, and they were frightened as they passed under the cloud.

At the sound of the voice, they saw that Jesus was alone. And they kept silence, and said nothing about it to anyone at that time.

The next day, when they had come down from the mountain, it happened that a great crowd met him.

And I begged your disciples to drive it out, and they could not."

And they were all amazed at the power of God. While everybody was full of wonder at all that he was doing, he said to his disciples,

But they did not understand what he meant, indeed it was concealed from them, in order that they might not comprehend it, and they were afraid to ask him what he meant.

and sent messengers before him. They started out and went into a Samaritan village, to make preparations for him.

When the disciples, James and John, saw this, they said, "Master, will you have us order fire to come down from heaven and consume them?"

And they went on to another village.

As they were going along the road, a man said to him, "I will follow you wherever you go."

Stay at the same house, eating and drinking what they offer you, for the workman deserves his pay. Do not change from one house to another.

Whenever you come to a town and they welcome you, eat what is offered you,

But whenever you come to a town and they do not welcome you, go out into the open streets and say,

Alas for you, Chorazin! Alas for you, Bethsaida! For if the wonders that have been done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago, sitting in sackcloth and ashes!

And he turned to his disciples when they were alone, and said, "Blessed are the eyes that see what you see!

Jesus replied, "A man was on his way down from Jerusalem to Jericho, when he fell into the hands of robbers, and they stripped him and beat him and went off leaving him half dead.

As they continued their journey, he came to a certain village, and a woman named Martha welcomed him to her house.

But he knew what they were thinking, and he said to them, "Any kingdom that is disunited is on the way to destruction, and one house falls after another.

But if it is with his aid that I drive out demons, by whose do your sons drive them out? Therefore, they shall be your judges.

Then it goes and gets seven other spirits more wicked than itself, and they go in and live there, and in the end the man is worse off than he was before."

Men of Nineveh will rise with this generation at the Judgment and will condemn it, for they repented at Jonah's preaching, and there is more than Jonah here.

But he said, "Yes, alas for you experts in the Law too! For you load men with burdens they can hardly carry, and you will not touch them yourselves with a single finger.

So you testify to what your fathers did and approve it, for they killed them and you build their monuments.

This is why the Wisdom of God said, 'I will send prophets and apostles to them, and some of them they will kill and some they will persecute'??50 so that this age may be charged with the blood of all the prophets that has been shed since the creation of the world,

Meanwhile as the people gathered in thousands, until they actually trod on one another, he proceeded to say to his disciples first of all, "Beware of the yeast of the Pharisees, that is, hypocrisy.

When they bring you before the synagogues or the magistrates or the authorities, you must have no anxiety about how to defend yourselves or what to say,

Think of the crows! They do not sow or reap, and they have no storehouses or barns, and God feeds them. How much more you are worth than the birds!

See how the lilies grow. They do not toil or spin, but, I tell you, even Solomon in all his splendor was never dressed like one of them.

like men waiting for their master to come home from a wedding, so that when he comes and knocks, they can open the door for him at once.

Whether he comes late at night or early in the morning and finds them on the watch, they are blessed.

But one who does wrong without knowing them will be lightly punished. From anyone who has been given much, much will be required, and of the man to whom people have intrusted much, they will demand even more.

For from now on if there are five people in a house they will be divided three against two and two against three.

No, I tell you; unless you repent, you will all perish as they did!

Or those eighteen people at Siloam who were killed when the tower fell upon them??o you think they were worse offenders than all the other people who live in Jerusalem?

No, I tell you; unless you repent, you will all perish as they did!"

One Sabbath, when he went to take a meal at the house of a member of the council who was a Pharisee, they were watching him closely.

But they made no answer. And he took hold of the man and cured him and sent him away.

And they could make no reply to this.

And he said to the man who had invited him, "When you give a luncheon or a dinner, do not invite your friends or your brothers or your relatives or your rich neighbors, for then they will invite you in return and you will be repaid.

Then you will be blessed, because they cannot repay you; for you will be repaid at the resurrection of the upright."

And they all immediately began to excuse themselves. The first one said to him, 'I have bought a piece of land, and I must go and look at it. Please have me excused.'

for my son here was dead, and he has come to life; he was lost, and he is found!' So they began to celebrate.

So I tell you, make friends for yourselves with your ill-gotten wealth, so that when it fails, they may take you into the eternal dwellings.

The Pharisees, who were avaricious, heard all this, and they ridiculed him.

Besides there is a great chasm set between you and us, so that those who want to go over from this side to you cannot, and they cannot cross from your side to us.'

for I have five brothers; let him warn them so that they will not also come to this place of torture.'

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

But he said, 'No! Father Abraham, but if someone will go to them from the dead, they will repent!'

He answered, 'If they will not listen to Moses and the prophets, they will not be convinced even if someone rises from the dead!' "

And as he was going into one village he met ten lepers, and they stood at some distance from him,

And when he saw them, he said to them, "Go and show yourselves to the priests." And as they went they were cured.

Or as it was in Lot's time; they went on eating, drinking, buying, selling, planting, and building,

They said to him, "Where will this be, Master?" And he said to them, "Wherever there is a dead body the vultures will flock!"

He gave them an illustration to show that they must always pray and not give up,

People brought babies to him to have him touch them, but the disciples, when they saw it, reproved them for it.

But Jesus called them up to him and said, "Let the children come to me and do not try to stop them, for the Kingdom of God belongs to such as they.

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

And they did not understand any of this; the words were obscure to them, and they did not know what he meant.

They told him that Jesus of Nazareth was coming by.

And when they saw this, everyone complained, and said, "He has gone to stay with an irreligious man!"

As they were listening to this, Jesus went on to give them an illustration, because he was near Jerusalem and they supposed that the Kingdom of God was immediately going to appear.

But his countrymen hated him, and they sent a delegation after him to say, 'We do not want this man made king over us.'

And when he had secured the appointment and returned, he ordered the slaves to whom he had given the money to be called in, so that he could find out how much they had made.

They said to him, 'He has two hundred, sir!'??26 'I tell you, the man who has will have more given him, and from the man who has nothing, even what he has will be taken away!

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

And they said, "The Master needs it!"

And they brought it to Jesus. And they threw their coats on the colt and mounted Jesus on it.

Just as he was coming down the Mount of Olives and approaching the city, the whole throng of his disciples began to praise God loudly and joyfully, for all the wonders they had seen,

And he answered, "I tell you, if they keep silence, the stones will cry out!"

and said, "If you yourself only knew today the conditions of peace! But as it is, they are hidden from you.

and they will throw you and your children within you to the ground, and they will not leave one stone upon another within you because you did not know when God visited you!"

but they could not find any way to do it, for all the people hung upon his words.

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

But if we say, 'From men,' all the people will stone us to death, for they are convinced that John was a prophet."

So they answered that they did not know where it came from.

And again he sent another slave, and they beat him also and mistreated him and sent him back empty-handed.

And again he sent a third, but they wounded him too, and threw him outside.

Then the owner of the vineyard said, 'What can I do? I will send them my dear son; perhaps they will respect him.'

But when the tenants saw him, they argued with one another, 'This is his heir! Let us kill him, so that the property will belong to us!'

So they drove him out of the vineyard and killed him. Now what will the owner of the vineyard do to them?

He will come and put those tenants to death, and give the vineyard to others." When they heard this they said, "Heaven forbid!"

And the scribes and high priests wanted to arrest him then and there, but they were afraid of the people, for they knew that he had aimed this illustration at them.