Now one of them, as he saw that he was cured, came back, glorifying God in a loud voice,

The Pharisees asked him when the kingdom of God was coming. He answered. "The kingdom of God does not come so that you can catch sight of it,

"nor will they say, 'Look here it is!' or 'See there!'??or the kingdom of God is now in your midst."

Then he said turning to his disciples. "The days will come when you shall long to see one of the days of the Son of man, you shall not see it.

"And they shall say to you, 'Lo there! Lo there!' But do not go away or follow them.

"For as the lightning when it lightens out of the one part under heaven shines to the other part under heaven, so shall the Son of man be in his day.

"And this was in the time of Noah, so will it be in the time of the Son of man.

"Remember Lot's wife!

"And will not God see justice done to his elect who are crying unto him day and night, even if he seems to delay helping them?

"I tell you that he will quickly see justice done to his elect! Nevertheless, when the Son of man comes, will he find faith upon the earth?"

"But the tax-gatherer, standing far back, would not lift up so much as his eyes to heaven, but kept beating his breast and saying, "'O God be merciful to me, the sinner!'

And they kept bringing their babies for him to touch them; but when his disciples saw it they began to rebuke them.

Then he took the twelve aside and told them. "See, we are on our way to Jerusalem, and all prophets regarding the son of Man will be fulfilled.

So Jesus stopped and ordered him to be brought to him. When he was come near to him he asked him

"What do you want me to do for you?" "Lord," he answered, "that I might see again."

Instantly he regained his sight and followed Jesus, giving glory to God; and all the people who saw it gave praise to God.

So he entered Jericho and was passing through the town.

And he kept trying to see what sort of a man Jesus was; but he could not see because he was short.

So he ran on before him and climbed up into a sycamore tree to see him; for he was about to pass that way.

When they all saw it, they began to complain, saying "He has gone in to lodge with a man who is a sinner."

So he said: "A certain nobleman went abroad to receive for himself royal power and to return.

"But this fellow citizens hated him, and sent a deputation after him to say, 'We do not wish this man to become our king.'

"And upon his return after he had secured the royal power, he ordered the slaves to whom he had given the money to be called in, so that he might know what they had gained by trading.

"'For I was afraid of you, because you are a hard man. You take what you did not sow.'

"He said to him, "'By your own words I will Judge you, you wicked slave. You knew, did you, that I was a hard man taking up what I did not lay down, reaping what I did not sow.

"'Then why did you not put my money into the bank, so that at my coming I might I might have gotten it back with interest?'

When he had so spoken he went on before, going up to Jerusalem.

he sent two of his disciples saying. "Go into the village in the front, and on entering it you will find an ass's colt tied, on which no one has ever ridden.

"Untie it and bring it here. And if any one asks you, 'Why are you untying the colt?' Simply say, 'The Master needs it.'"

So they led it to Jesus, and, after throwing their outer garments on the colt, they placed Jesus on it.

So he rode on, while they kept throwing their garments in the way.

Day after day he continued to teach in the Temple. The high priests and scribes tried to have him put to death, so did the rulers of the people.

"Was John's baptism from heaven or from man?"

So they reasoned among themselves. "If we say, 'From heaven,' he will ask us, 'Why did you not believe in him?'

"And if we say, 'From man,' all the people will stone us, for they were persuaded that John was a prophet."

So they answered that they did not know whence it was.

"But when the vine-dressers saw him, they reasoned together, saying. 'This is the heir. Let us kill him so that the inheritance may be ours.'

"So they turned him out of the vineyard and killed him. "What will the master of the vineyard do to them?

So they watched him, and sent spies who pretended to be honest men, in order to seize on his speech, and to deliver him up to authority and jurisdiction of the governor.

So they put a question to him saying. "Rabbi, we know that you speak and teach what is right, and that you do not regard any man's person, but teach the way of God honestly.

"Show me a shilling. Whose image and superscription does it bear?" "Caesar's," they replied.

"Then give to Caesar what belongs to him," he said, "to God give what is God's."

So they could not lay hold of his sayings before the people; and marveling at his answer, they held their peace.

"Teacher, Moses wrote a law for us that if a man's brother should die, but leave no children, his brother should take up his wife and raise up his children for his brother.

"How is it," he asked them, "that they say that Christ is David's son?

"for David himself say's in the book of the Psalms, "The Lord said to my Lord. Sit at my right hand,

And he looked up and saw people casting their offerings into the treasury, and they were rich.

And he saw a certain poor widow casting in two mites

"So settle it in your hearts not to prepare a defense beforehand,

"But when you see Jerusalem encompassed with armies, then know that her desolation is at hand.

"And there will be signs in the sun and the moon and the stars; and on the earth distress of nations in perplexity at the roar of the sea and the billows;

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

"Look at the fig tree and all the trees! When they put out their leaves you can see for yourselves that summer is coming.

"So whenever you see all these things comings to pass, you know that the kingdom of God is near.

"So be on your guard at all times, praying that you may be worthy to escape these things that shall come to pass, and to take your stand in the presence of the Son of man."

So Jesus went to Peter and John saying, "Go and prepare for us the Passover, that we may eat it."

"And to the good man of the house say, 'The teacher asks you, "Where is the room in which I can eat the Passover with my disciples?"'

So they went and found everything as he had told them, they prepared the Passover.

"But you shall not be so. But he who is greater among you let him become like the younger; and he who is leader like him who serves.

"so that you shall eat and drink in my kingdom, and you shall sit on thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.

"For I say to you that this word of Scripture must find it's fulfilment in me. "And he was numbered among the transgressors, For that which concerns me has its accomplishment."

But he himself withdrew from them about a stone's throw, kneeling down he prayed repeatedly, saying.

Those who were around him, when they saw what was about to happen, said to him, "Lord, shall we strike with our swords?"

Then one of them did strike a blow at the high priest's slave, and cut off his right ear.

So they seized him and led him away, and took him to the house of the high priest; while Peter was following him a long way off.

But a certain maid servant saw him taking his seat near the fire and, with a sharp glance at him, she said, "This fellow was with him, too!"

A little later a man saw him, and said, "You too are one of them" But Peter declared, "Man, I am not."

and when he learned that he belonged to Herod's jurisdiction he sent him to Herod, who himself happened to be in Jerusalem during those days.

Now when Herod saw Jesus he was exceedingly glad. He had long been wanting to see him, because he had heard so much about him, and was hoping to see some miracles performed by him.

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

So Pilate called together the chief priests and the rulers and the people,

Neither does Herod; for he sent him back to us. You see that he has done nothing worthy of death.

but they continued to shout out and say, "Crucify! Crucify him!"

So Pilate gave sentence what they wished should be done.

"but weep for yourselves and for your children. For behold, the days are coming when they shall say, 'Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that have never bore children, and the breasts that never suckled.'

"Then they will begin to say to the mountains, 'Fall on us!' and to the hills, 'Cover us!'

When the army captain saw what had happened, he glorified God, saying, "This man was really innocent!"

And all the crowds who had assembled to see this spectacle, after witnessing what had been done, were returning beating upon their breast.

Peter, however, got up and ran to the tomb, but when he stooped and looked in he saw the linen wrappings by themselves, and he departed to his home, wondering at that which was come to pass.

"Thereupon some of our own party to the tomb, and found it even so as the women had said, but him they did not see."

So he went in to stay with them. But as he sat down with them, and took bread, and had blessed and broken it, and was handing it to them,

So they rose and returned to Jerusalem that very hour, and found the Eleven and the others all met together,

"Look at my hands and my feet. It is I! Feel me and see; for a ghost has not flesh and blood as I have."

So they gave him a piece of broiled fish,

And the Word became flesh and tented with us. And we gazed on his glory??lory as of the Father's only Son??ull of grace and truth.

so they questioned him, saying, "Why then are you baptizing, if you are not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the Prophet?"

The next day he saw Jesus coming toward him, and said: "Behold, that is God's Lamb, who takes and bears away the sin of the world.

John also bore this testimony, saying. "I saw the Spirit like a dove descend from heaven and rest upon him.

And I did not recognize him, but He who sent me to baptize in water said to me, 'The one on whom you see the Spirit descending and resting upon him, is he who baptizes in the Holy Spirit.'

Then Jesus turned and saw them following him, and said, "What do you want?" They replied, "Rabbi" (which may be translated 'Teacher'), "where are you staying?"

He said to them, "Come, and you shall see." So they went and saw where he was staying, and spent that day with him. It was then about four o'clock in the afternoon.

Then Philip found Nathanael and told him, "We have found him about whom Moses wrote in the Law, as did the prophets??esus of Nazareth, Joseph's son."

And Nathanael said to him, "Can anything good come out of Nazareth?" Philip said to him, "Come and see."

Jesus saw Nathanael coming toward him, and said, "Behold a true Israelite in whom there is no deceit."

"How do you know me?" asked Nathanael. "Before Philip called you," replied Jesus, "when you were under the fig tree, I saw you."

Jesus said in reply. "Do you believe because I said to you, 'I saw you under the fig tree?'

You shall see greater things than that! Believe me," he added, "you all shall see heaven opened wide, and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of man."

So they filled them brimful. Then he said, "Draw some out now, and carry it to the master of the feast."

So they carried it. And when the master of the feast had tasted of the water which had been made wine, not knowing where it came from, though the attendants who had drawn it knew, he called the bridegroom and said to him.

Now the Passover of the Jews was near, so Jesus went up to Jerusalem.