So the slave went back, and reported this to his master. Then the master of the house was angry and said to his slave, 'Hurry out into the streets and squares of the city, and bring the poor, the maimed, the blind, and the lame in here!'

And the master said to the slave, 'Go out on the roads, and among the hedges, and make them come so that my house may be full.

What man among you if he wishes to build a tower does not first sit down and estimate the cost of it, to see whether he has enough to complete it?

and say, 'This man started to erect a building, and could not finish it!'

In just that way, no one of you who does not say goodbye to all he has can be a disciple of mine.

So in speaking to them he used this figure:

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

I will get up, and go to my father, and say to him, "Father, I have sinned against heaven and in your eyes;

And he got up and went to his father. But while he was still a long way off, his father saw him, and pitied him, and ran and fell on his neck, and kissed him.

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

And he said to his father, 'Here I have served you all these years, and have never disobeyed an order of yours, and you have never given me a kid, so that I could entertain my friends.

So he called him in and said to him, 'What is this that I hear about you? Make an accounting for your conduct of my affairs, for you cannot be manager any longer!'

I know what I will do, so that when I am removed from my position people will take me into their homes.'

Then he called in each of his master's debtors, and he said to the first one, 'How much do you owe my master?'

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.

So if you have proved untrustworthy in using your ill-gotten wealth, who will trust you with true riches?

and eager to satisfy his hunger with what was thrown away from the rich man's table. Why, the very dogs came and licked his sores.

And in Hades he looked up, tormented as he was, and saw Abraham far away, with Lazarus beside 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.'

And he said, 'Then I beg you, father, to send him to my father's house,

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

He might better have a millstone hung around his neck, and be thrown into the sea, than be a hindrance to one of these humble people.

And the Master said, "If your faith is as big as a mustard seed, you might have said to this mulberry tree, 'Be pulled up by the roots and planted in the sea,' and it would have obeyed you!

"What man among you, if he has a servant ploughing or keeping sheep, will say to him when he comes in from the field, 'Come at once and sit down at the table,'

So you also, when you do all you have been ordered to do, must say, 'We are good-for-nothing slaves! We have done only what we ought to have done!' "

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

But one of them, when he saw that he was cured, came back, loudly praising God,

and people will not say, 'Look! here it is!' or 'There it is!' for the Kingdom of God is within you."

And he said to his disciples, "The time will come when you will long to see one of the days of the Son of Man, and you will not be able to do so.

Men will say to you, 'Look! There he is!' or, 'Look! Here he is!' Do not go off in pursuit of him,

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

Remember Lot's wife!

yet because this widow bothers me, I will protect her, so that she may not finally wear me out with her coming.' "

I tell you, it was he who went back to his house with God's approval, and not the other. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but the man who humbles himself will be exalted."

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

And when Jesus saw it, he said, "How hard it will be for those who have money to get into the Kingdom of God!

And he took the Twelve aside and said to them, "See! we are going up to Jerusalem, and everything written in the prophets about the Son of Man will be fulfilled.

And he regained his sight immediately, and followed Jesus, giving thanks to God. And all the people saw it and praised God.

who wanted to see who Jesus was, and he could not because of the crowd, for he was a small man.

So he ran on ahead and climbed up into a sycamore tree, to see him, for Jesus was coming that way.

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

But Zaccheus stopped and said to the Master, "See, Master! I will give half my property to the poor, and if I have defrauded anyone of anything, I will pay him four times as much."

So he said, "A nobleman once went to a distant country to secure his appointment to a kingdom and then return.

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.

for I was afraid of you, for you are a stern man. You pick up what you did not lay down, and reap what you did not sow.'

He said to him, 'Out of your own mouth I will convict you, you wretched slave! You knew, did you, that I was a stern man, and that I pick up what I did not lay down, and harvest what I did not sow?

Then why did you not put my money in the bank, so that when I came back I could have gotten it with interest?'

And if anyone asks you why you are untying it, you are to say, 'The Master needs it.'

and to say, "Blessed is the king who comes in the Lord's name, Peace be in heaven and glory on high!"

As he approached the city and saw it, he wept over it,

Tell me, did John's baptism come from heaven or from men?"

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.

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?

So they kept watch of him and set some spies who pretended to be honest men to fasten on something that he said, so that they might hand him over to the control and authority of the governor.

And they asked him, "Master, we know that you are right in what you say and teach, and that you show no favor, but teach the way of God in sincerity.

"Show me a denarius. Whose head and title does it bear?" They said, "The emperor's."

So they could not fasten on what he said before the people, and they were amazed at his answer, and said nothing more.

Then some of the Sadducees, who say that there is no resurrection, came up and asked him,

"Master, Moses made us a law that if a man's brother die leaving a wife but no children, the man should marry the widow and raise up a family for his brother.

Now at the resurrection, which one's wife will the woman be? For all seven of them married her."

But he said to them, "How can the scribes say that the Christ is a son of David?

David then calls him lord. So how can he be his son?"

And looking up, he saw the rich people dropping their gifts into the treasury.

And he saw a poor widow drop in two coppers.

And he said, "Take care not to be misled. For many will come under my name, and say, 'I am he,' and 'The time is at hand.' Do not follow them.

So make up your minds not to prepare your defense,

But when you see Jerusalem being surrounded by armies, then you must understand that her devastation is at hand.

There will be signs too in sun, moon, and stars, and on earth dismay among the heathen, bewildered at the roar of the sea and the waves.

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

And he gave them an illustration: "See the fig tree and all the trees.

As soon as they put out their leaves, you see them and you know without being told that summer is coming.

So when you see these things happen, you must know that the Kingdom of God is at hand.

and say to the man of the house, 'Our Master says to you, "Where is the room where I can eat the Passover supper with my disciples?" '

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

But you are not to do so, but whoever is greatest among you must be like the youngest, and the leader like a servant.

So just as my Father has conferred a kingdom on me

But they said, "See, Master, here are two swords!" And he said to them, "Enough of this!"

And he withdrew about a stone's throw from them, and kneeling down he prayed

Those who were about him saw what was coming and said, "Master, shall we use our swords?"

And one of them did strike at the high priest's slave and cut his right ear off.

A maid saw him sitting by the fire and looked at him and said, "This man was with him too."

Shortly after, a man saw him and said, "You are one of them too!" But Peter said, "I am not!"

"If you are the Christ, tell us so." But he said to them, "If I tell you, you will not believe me,

And they all said, "Are you the Son of God then?" And he said to them, "I am, as you say!"

and learning that he belonged to Herod's jurisdiction he turned him over to Herod, for Herod was in Jerusalem at that time.

When Herod saw Jesus he was delighted, for he had wanted for a long time to see him, because he had heard about him and he hoped to see some wonder done by him.

Neither has Herod, for he has sent him back to us. You see he has done nothing to call for his death.

So I will teach him a lesson and let him go."

And he said to them a third time, "Why, what has he done that is wrong? For I have found nothing about him to call for his death. So I will teach him a lesson and let him go."

for a time is coming when they will say, 'Happy are the childless women, and those who have never borne or nursed children!'

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

while the people stood looking on. Even the leading councilors jeered at him, and said, "He has saved others, let him save himself, if he is really God's Christ, his Chosen One!"

When the captain saw what had happened he praised God, and said, "This man was really innocent!"

And all the crowds that had collected for the sight, when they saw what happened, returned to the city beating their breasts.

The women who had followed Jesus from Galilee followed and saw the tomb and how his body was put there.

They were Mary of Magdala and Joanna and Mary, James's mother; and the other women also told this to the apostles.