The seventy-two came back delighted, and said, "Master, when we use your name the very demons submit to us!"

He said to them, "I saw Satan fall from heaven like a flash of lightning!

At that moment he was inspired with joy, and said, "I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, for hiding all this from the learned and intelligent, and revealing it to children! Yes, I thank you, Father, for choosing to have it so!

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

Then an expert in the Law got up to test him and said, "Master, what must I do to make sure of eternal life?"

Jesus said to him, "What does the Law say? How does it read?"

Jesus said to him, "You are right. Do that, and you will live."

But he, wishing to justify his question, said, "And who is my neighbor?"

Now a priest happened to be going that way, and when he saw him, he went by on the other side of the road.

And a Levite also came to the place, and when he saw him, he went by on the other side.

The next day he took out a dollar and gave it to the innkeeper and said, 'Take care of him, and whatever more you spend I will refund to you on my way back.'

He said, "The man who took pity on him." Jesus said to him, "Go and do so yourself!"

But Martha was worried with all she had to do for them, and she came up and said, "Master, does it make no difference to you that my sister has left me to do all the work alone? Tell her to help me."

Once as he was praying in a certain place, when he stopped, one of his disciples said to him, "Master, teach us to pray, as John taught his disciples."

He said to them, "When you pray, say, 'Father, your name be revered! Your kingdom come!

And he said to them, "Suppose one of you has a friend, and goes to him in the middle of the night, and says to him, 'Friend, lend me three loaves,

But some of them said, "It is with the aid of Beelzebub, the prince of the demons, that he drives the demons out."

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.

As he said this, a woman in the crowd raised her voice and said to him, "Blessed is the mother who bore you and nursed you!"

But he said, "You might better say, 'Blessed are those who hear God's message and observe it!' "

When he said this, a Pharisee asked him to lunch with him, and he went to his house and took his place at table.

But the Master said to him, "You Pharisees clean the outside of cups and dishes, but inside you are full of greed and wickedness.

Alas for you Pharisees! For you love to have the front seat in the synagogues and to be saluted with respect in public places.

At this, one of the experts in the Law said to him, "Master, when you say that, you affront us too."

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.

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,

Do not sparrows sell five for two cents? And yet not one of them is forgotten in God's sight.

Someone in the crowd said to him, "Master, tell my brother to give me my share of our inheritance."

But he said to him, "Who made me a judge or arbitrator of your affairs?"

And he said to them, "Take care! You must be on your guard against any form of greed, for a man's life does not belong to him, no matter how rich he is."

And he said to himself, 'What am I going to do, for I have nowhere to store my crops?'

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

But God said to him, 'You fool! This very night your soul will be demanded of you. Then who will have all you have prepared?'

And he said to his disciples, "Therefore, I tell you, do not worry about life, wondering what you will have to eat, or about your body, wondering what you will have to wear.

Peter said to him, "Master, do you mean this figure for us, or is it for everybody?"

And the Master said, "Who then will be the faithful, thoughtful manager, whom his master will put in charge of his household, to give the members of it their supplies at the proper time?

And he said to the crowds, "When you see a cloud rise in the west, you say at once, 'It is going to rain,' and it does.

And he said to the gardener, 'Here I have come three years to look for fruit on this fig tree, without finding any. Cut it down. Why should it waste the ground?'

But the leader of the synagogue, in his vexation because Jesus had cured her on the Sabbath, spoke out and said to the crowd, "There are six days on which it is right to work. Come on them and be cured, but not on the Sabbath day."

When he said this, all his opponents were humiliated, and all the people were delighted at all the splendid things that he did.

He said, therefore, "What is the Kingdom of God like, and to what can I compare it?

It is like a mustard seed that a man took and dropped in his garden, and it grew and became a tree, and the wild birds roosted on its branches."

And someone said to him, "Are only a few to be saved, Master?" He said to them,

Just then some Pharisees came up and said to him, "Go! Get away from here, for Herod wants to kill you!"

He said to them, "Go and say to that fox, 'Here I am, driving out demons and performing cures, today and tomorrow, and on the third day I will be through.

And Jesus said to the Pharisees and the experts in the Law, "Is it right to cure people on the Sabbath or not?"

Then he said to them, "Who among you, if his child or his ox falls into a well, will not pull him out at once on the Sabbath?"

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.

One of the other guests heard this, and said to him, "Blessed is the man who shall be at the banquet in the Kingdom of God!"

He said to him, "A man once gave a great dinner, and invited a large number to it,

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.'

Another said, 'I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I am going to examine them. Please have me excused.'

Another said, 'I have married, and so I cannot come.'

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 slave said, 'What you ordered, sir, has been done, and there is still room.'

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.

There were great crowds accompanying him, and once he turned and said to them,

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?

Or what king, if he is going to meet another king in battle, does not sit down first and consider whether he is able with ten thousand men to meet the other who is coming against him with twenty thousand?

And the Pharisees and scribes grumbled, and said, "This man welcomes irreligious people, and even eats with them!"

And he said, "A man had two sons.

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

When he came to himself he said, 'How many hired men my father has, who have more than enough to eat, and here I am, dying of hunger!

His son said to him, 'Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in your eyes; I no longer deserve to be called your son; treat me like one of your hired men!'

But his father said to his slaves, 'Make haste and get out the best robe, and put it on him, and put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his feet;

He said to him, 'Your brother has come, and your father has killed the calf he has been fattening, because he has gotten him back alive and well.'

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.

But he said to him, 'My child, you have been with me all the time, and everything I have is yours.

And he said to his disciples, "There was a rich man who had a manager, and it was reported to him that this man was squandering his property.

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!'

Then the manager said to himself, 'What am I going to do, because my master is going to take my position away from me? I cannot dig; I am ashamed to beg.

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

He said, 'Eight hundred gallons of oil.' And he said to him, 'Here is your agreement; sit right down and write four hundred!'

Then he said to another, 'And how much do you owe?' He answered, 'Fifteen hundred bushels of wheat.' He said to him, 'Here is your agreement; write twelve hundred.'

And he said to them, "You are the men who parade your uprightness before people, but God knows your hearts. For what men consider great is detestable in the sight of God.

And he called to him and said, 'Father Abraham! take pity on me, and send Lazarus to dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue, for I am in torment, here in the flames!'

And Abraham said, 'My child, remember that you received your blessings in your lifetime, and Lazarus had his misfortunes in his; and now he is being comforted here, while you are in anguish.

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,

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

And he said to his disciples, "It is inevitable that hindrances should arise, but alas for the man who causes them!

The apostles said to the Master, "Give us more faith."

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,'

and raising their voices, said, "Jesus, Master, take pity on us!"

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

And Jesus said, "Were not all ten cured? Where are the other nine?

And he said to him, "Stand up and go! Your faith has cured 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.

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

and he said, "There was once in a city a judge who had no fear of God and no respect for men.

There was a widow in the city and she came to him and said, 'Protect me from my opponent.'

And he would not for a time, but afterward he said to himself, 'Though I have no fear of God nor respect for men,

And the Master said, "Listen to what this dishonest judge said!

But the tax-collector stood at a distance and would not even raise his eyes to heaven, but struck his breast, and said, 'O God, have mercy on a sinner like me!'

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.

Jesus said to him, "Why do you call me good? No one is good but God himself.

And he said, "I have obeyed all these commandments ever since I was a child."

When Jesus heard this, he said to him, "There is one thing that you still lack. Sell all that you have, and divide the money among the poor, and then you will have riches in heaven; and come back and be a follower of mine."

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