And I say to you 'Win friends for yourselves with your dishonest money,' so that, when it comes to an end, there may be a welcome for you into the Eternal Home.

So, if you have proved untrustworthy with the 'dishonest money,' who will trust you with the true?

And who longed to satisfy his hunger with what fell from the rich man's table. Even the very dogs came and licked his sores.

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

So he called out 'Pity me, Father Abraham, and send Lazarus to dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue, for I am suffering agony in this flame.'

And not only that, but between you and us there lies a great chasm, so that those who wish to pass from here to you cannot, nor can they cross from there to us.'

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

For I have five brothers to warn them, so that they may not come to this place of torture also.'

It would be good for him if he had been flung into the sea with a mill-stone round his neck, rather than that he should prove a snare to even one of these lowly ones.

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.

Which of you, if he had a servant ploughing, or tending the sheep, would say to him, when he came in from the fields, 'Come at once and take your place at table,'

And so with you--when you have done all that you have been told, still say 'We are but useless servants; we have done no more than we ought to have done.'"

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

Nor will people say 'Look, here it is!' or 'There it is!'; for the Kingdom of God is within 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.

People will say to you 'There he is! or 'Here he is!' Do not go and follow them.

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.

As it was in the days of Noah, so will it be again in the days of the Son of Man.

So, too, in the days of Lot. People were eating, drinking, buying, selling, planting, building;

Remember Lot's wife.

Yet, as this widow is so troublesome, I will grant her justice, to stop her from plaguing me with her endless visits.'"

And God--will not he see that his own People, who cry to him night and day, have justice done them--though he holds his hand?

Some of the people were bringing even their babies to Jesus, for him to touch them; but, when the disciples saw it, they began to find fault with those who had brought them.

You know the commandments--'Do not commit adultery, Do not kill, Do not steal, Do not say what is false about others, Honor thy father and thy mother.'"

It is easier, indeed, for a camel to get through a needle's eye than for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of God!"

He tried to see what Jesus was like; but, being short, he was unable to do so because of the crowd.

So he ran on ahead and climbed into a mulberry tree, to see Jesus, for he knew that he must pass that way.

So Zacchaeus got down quickly, and joyfully welcomed him.

As the people were listening to this, Jesus went on to tell them a parable. He did so because he was near Jerusalem, and because they thought that the Kingdom of God was going to be proclaimed at once.

But his subjects hated him and sent envoys after him to say 'We will not have this man as our King.'

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.

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

And, if anybody asks you 'Why are you untying it?,' you are to say this--'The Master wants it.'"

So the two who were sent went and found it as Jesus had told them.

Saying as he did so: "Scripture says--'My House shall be a House of Prayer'; but you have made it 'a den of robbers.'"

Jesus continued to teach each day in the Temple Courts; but the Chief Priests and Teachers of the Law were eager to take his life, and so also were the leading men.

Yet they could not see what to do, for the people all hung upon his words.

It is about John's baptism--was it of divine or of human origin?"

But they began arguing together: "If we say 'divine,' he will say 'Why did not you believe him?'

But, if we say 'human,' the people will all stone us, for they are persuaded that John was a Prophet."

So they answered that they did not know its origin.

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

After this the Teachers of the Law and the Chief Priest were eager to lay hands on Jesus then and there, but they were afraid of the people; for they saw that it was at them that he had aimed this parable.

Having watched their opportunity, they afterwards sent some spies, who pretended to be good men, to catch Jesus in the course of conversation, and so enable them to give him up to the Governor's jurisdiction and authority.

These men asked Jesus a question. They said: "Teacher, we know that you are right in what you say and teach, and that you do not take any account of a man's position, but teach the Way of God honestly;

"The Emperor's," they said; and Jesus replied: "Well then, pay to the Emperor what belongs to the Emperor, and to God what belongs to God."

"Teacher, Moses laid down for us in his writings that-- 'Should a man's married brother die, and should he be childless, the man should take the widow as his wife, and raise up a family for his brother.'

And so, too, did all seven--dying without children.

Nor indeed can they die again, for they are like angels and, having shared in the resurrection, they are God's Sons.

But Jesus said to them: "How is it that people say that the Christ is to be David's son?

David, then, calls him 'lord,' so how is he David's son?"

Looking up, Jesus saw the rich people putting their gifts into the chests for the Temple offerings.

He saw, too, a widow in poor circumstances putting two farthings into them.

So the disciples questioned Jesus: "But, Teacher, when will this be? and what sign will there be when this is near?"

And Jesus said: "See that you are not led astray; for many will take my name, and come saying 'I am He,' and 'The time is close at hand.' Do not follow them.

As soon, however, as you see Jerusalem surrounded by armed camps, then you may know that the hour of her desecration is at hand.

There will be signs, too, in the sun and moon and stars, and on the earth despair among the nations, in their dismay at the roar of the sea and the surge.

Men's hearts will fail them through dread of what is coming upon the world; for 'the forces of the heavens will be convulsed.'

And so may you, as soon as you see these things happening, know that the Kingdom of God is near.

So Judas assented, and looked for an opportunity to betray Jesus to them, in the absence of a crowd.

And you shall say to the owner of the house 'The Teacher says to you--Where is the room where I am to eat the Passover with my disciples?'

So Peter and John went on, and found everything just as Jesus had told them, and they prepared the Passover.

Yet see! the hand of the man that is betraying me is beside me upon the table!

But with you it must not be so. No, let the greatest among you become like the youngest, and him who leads like him who serves.

So that you may eat and drink at my table in my Kingdom, and be seated upon twelve thrones as judges of the twelve tribes of Israel.

Then he withdrew about a stone's throw, and knelt down and began to pray.

But when those who were round Jesus saw what was going to happen, they exclaimed: "Master, shall we use our swords?"

And one of them struck the High Priest's servant and cut off his right ear;

Presently a maidservant saw him sitting near the blaze of the fire. Fixing her eyes on him, she said: "Why, this man was one of his companions!"

A little while afterwards some one else--a man--saw him and said: "Why, you are one of them!" "No," Peter said, "I am not."

"If you are the Christ," they said, "tell us so." "If I tell you," replied Jesus, "you will not believe me;

But Pilate, turning to the Chief Priests and the people, said: "I do not see anything to find fault with in this man."

And, having satisfied himself that Jesus came under Herod's jurisdiction, he sent him to Herod, who also was at Jerusalem at the time.

When Herod saw Jesus, he was exceedingly pleased, for he had been wanting to see him for a long time, having heard a great deal about him; and he was hoping to see some sign given by him.

So he questioned him at some length, but Jesus made no reply.

So Pilate summoned the Chief Priests, and the leading men, and the people,

So I shall have him scourged, and then release him."

"Why, what harm has this man done?" Pilate said to them for the third time. "I have found nothing in him for which he could be condemned to death. So I will have him scourged, and then release him."

So Jesus turned and said to them: "Women of Jerusalem, do not weep for me, but weep for yourselves and for your children.

At that time people will begin to say to the mountains 'Fall on us,' and to the hills 'Cover us.'

If what you see is done while the tree is green, what will happen when it is dry?"

Meanwhile the people stood looking on. Even the leading men said with a sneer: "He saved others, let him save himself, if he is God's Christ, his Chosen One."

And saying as they did so: "If you are the King of the Jews, save yourself."

And we justly so, for we are only reaping our deserts, but this man has not done anything wrong.

All the people who had collected to see the sight watched what occurred, and then went home beating their breasts.

He now went to see Pilate, and asked for the body of Jesus;

The women who had accompanied Jesus from Galilee followed, and saw the tomb and how the body of Jesus was laid,

[But Peter got up and ran to the tomb. Stooping down he saw nothing but the linen wrappings, and he went away, wondering to himself at what had taken place.]

But their eyes were blinded so that they could not recognize him.

So some of our number went to the tomb and found everything just as the women had said; but they did not see Jesus."

But they pressed him not to do so. "Stay with us," they said, "for it is getting towards evening, and the sun in already low." So Jesus went in to stay with them.

So they also related what had happened during their walk, and how they had recognized Jesus at the Breaking of the Bread.

In their terror and alarm they thought they saw a spirit,

But Jesus said to them: "Why are you so startled? and why do doubts arise in you minds?

Look at my hands and my feet, and you will know that it is I. Feel me, and look at me, for a spirit has not flesh and bones, as you see that I have."

And the Word became Man, and dwelt among us, (We saw his glory--the glory of the Only Son sent from the Father), full of love and truth.

"Who then are you?" they continued; "tell us, that we may have some answer to give to those who have sent us. What do you say about yourself?"

John's answer was--"I baptize with water, but among you stands one whom you do not know;

The next day John saw Jesus coming towards him, and exclaimed: "Here is the Lamb of God, who is to take away the sin of the world!

I myself did not know him, but he who sent me to baptize with water, he said to me 'He upon whom you see the Spirit descending, and remaining upon him--he it is who baptizes with the Holy Spirit.'