When Jesus heard this he said to him, "You lack one thing more; sell all you have, distribute the money among the poor and you will have treasure in heaven; then come and follow me."

So Jesus looked at him and said, "How difficult it is for those who have money to enter the Realm of God!

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

and they told him that Jesus the Nazarene was going by.

The people in front checked him and told him to be quiet, but he shouted all the more, "Son of David, have pity on me!"

So Jesus stopped and ordered them to bring him, and asked him when he approached,

And Jesus said to him, "Regain your sight, your faith has made you well."

Instantly he regained his sight and followed him, glorifying God. And all the people gave praise to God when they saw this.

So he ran forward and climbed into a sycomore tree to get a sight of him, as he was to pass that road.

But when Jesus reached the spot he looked up and said to him, "Zacchaeus, come down at once, for I must stay at your house to-day."

He came down at once and welcomed him gladly.

So Zacchaeus stopped and said to the Lord, "I will give the half of all I have, Lord, to the poor, and if I have cheated anybody I will give him back four times as much."

And Jesus said of him, "To-day salvation has come to this house, since Zacchaeus here is a son of Abraham.

Now his people hated him and sent envoys after him to say, 'We object to him having royal power over us.'

To him he said, 'And you are set over five towns.'

Then he said to the bystanders, 'Take the five pounds from him and give it to the man with fifty.'

'I tell you, to everyone who has shall more be given, but from him who has nothing, even what he has shall be taken.

As he went forward they spread their clothes under him on the road;

Some Pharisees in the crowd said to him, "Check your disciples, teacher."

Day after day he taught within the temple. The high priests and scribes tried to have him put to death, and so did the leaders of the people,

Now they reasoned to themselves, "If we say, 'From heaven,' he will ask, 'Why did you not believe him?'

When the season came round he sent a servant to the vine dressers to receive part of the produce of the vineyard, but the vinedressers flogged him and sent him off with nothing.

He proceeded to send another servant, and they flogged him too, insulted him and sent him off with nothing.

Said the owner of the vineyard, 'What shall I do? I will send my beloved son; perhaps they will respect him.'

But when the vinedressers saw him, they argued to themselves, 'Here is the heir, let us kill him, so that the inheritance may be ours.'

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

At that hour the scribes and high priests tried to lay hands on him, but they were afraid of the people. They knew he had meant this parable for them.

So watching their chance they sent spies who pretended to be honest persons, in order to seize on what he said and get him handed over to the authority and jurisdiction of the governor.

They put this question to him, "Teacher, we know you are straight in what you say and teach, you do not look to human favour but teach the Way of God honestly.

Some of the Sadducees came up, who deny any resurrection, and put a question to him.

God is not a God of dead people but of living, for all live to him."

They no longer dared to put any question to him.

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

So they asked him, "Teacher, and when will this happen? What will be the sign for this to take place?"

And all the people used to come early in the morning to listen to him in the temple.

The high priests and scribes were trying how to get him put to death (for they were afraid of the people),

who went off to discuss with the high priests and commanders how he could betray him to them.

They were delighted and agreed to pay him for it.

He assented to this and sought a good opportunity for betraying him to them in the absence of the crowd.

They asked him, "Where do you want us to prepare it?"

He said to them, "When you enter the city you will meet a man carrying a water-jar: follow him to the house he enters,

and when the hour came he took his place, with the apostles beside him.

And he took a cup which was handed to him, gave thanks to God and said, "Take this and distribute it among yourselves,

Then he went outside and made his way to the Hill of Olives, as he was accustomed. The disciples followed him,

[And an angel from heaven appeared to strengthen him;

but Jesus said to him, "Judas! would you betray the Son of man with a kiss?"

Jesus said, "Let me do this at least," and cured him by touching his ear.

Then he said to the high priests and commanders of the temple and elders who had appeared to take him, "Have you sallied out to arrest me like a robber, with swords and cudgels?

Then they arrested him and led him away inside the house of the high priest. Peter followed at a distance

A maidservant who noticed him sitting by the fire took a long look at him and said, "That fellow was with him too."

But he disowned him, saying, "Woman, I know nothing about him."

Shortly afterwards another man noticed him and said, "Why, you are one of them!" "Man," said Peter, "I am not."

About an hour had passed when another man insisted, "That fellow really was with him. Why, he is a Galilean!"

the Lord turned round and looked at Peter, and then Peter remembered what the Lord had told him, that 'Before cock-crow to-day you will disown me three times.'

Meantime the men who had Jesus in custody flogged him and made fun of him;

blindfolding him they would ask him, "Prophesy, tell us who struck you?"

And many another insult they uttered against him.

When day broke, the elders of the people all met along with the high priests and scribes, and had him brought before their Sanhedrin. They said to him,

Then the whole body of them rose and led him to Pilate.

They proceeded to accuse him, saying, "We have discovered this fellow perverting our nation, forbidding tribute being paid to Caesar, and alleging he is king messiah."

Pilate asked him, "Are you the king of the Jews?" He replied, "Certainly."

And Pilate said to the high priests and the crowds, "I cannot find anything criminal about him."

and ascertaining that he came under the jurisdiction of Herod, he remitted him to Herod, who himself was in Jerusalem during those days.

Herod was greatly delighted to see Jesus; he had long wanted to see him, because he had heard about him and also because he hoped to see him perform some miracle.

But though he put many questions to him, Jesus gave him no answer.

Meanwhile the high priests and scribes stood and accused him with might and main.

Then Herod and his troops scoffed at him and made fun of him, and after arraying him in a bright robe he remitted him to Pilate.

Pilate said to them, "You brought me this man as being an inciter to rebellion among the people. I have examined him before you and found nothing criminal about him, for all your accusations against him.

No, nor has Herod, for he has remitted him to us. He has done nothing, you see, that calls for death;

so I shall release him with a whipping."

But they shouted one and all, "Away with him! Release Bar-Abbas for us!"

but they roared, "To the cross, to the cross with him!"

He asked them a third time, "But what crime has he committed? I have found nothing about him that deserves death; so I shall release him with a whipping."

As they led him off they caught hold of Simon a Cyrenian on his way from the country and laid the cross on him to carry after Jesus.

He was followed by a large multitude of the people and also of women who beat their breasts and lamented him;

Two criminals were also led out with him to be executed,

and when they came to the place called The Skull they crucified him there along with the criminals, one at his right and one at his left.

The people stood and looked on, and even the rulers sneered at him, saying, "He saved others, let him save himself, if he is the Christ of God, the Chosen One!"

The soldiers made fun of him too by coming up and handing him vinegar,

(For there was an inscription over him in Greek and Latin and Hebrew characters, THIS IS THE KING OF THE JEWS.)

One of the criminals who had been hung also abused him, saying, "Are you not the Christ? Save yourself and us as well."

But the other checked him, saying, "Have you no fear even of God? You are suffering the same punishment as he.

As for his acquaintances, they were all standing at a distance to look on, with the women who had accompanied him from Galilee.

This Joseph went to Pilate and asked him for the body of Jesus.

So the women who had accompanied him from Galilee and who had followed Joseph, noted the tomb and the position of the body;

They were terrified and bent their faces to the ground, but the men said to them, "Why do you look among the dead for him who is alive?

though they were prevented from recognizing him.

and one of them, called Cleopas, answered him, "Are you a lone stranger in Jerusalem, not to know what has been happening there?"

but the high priests and our rulers delivered him up to be sentenced to death and crucified him.

Some of our company did go to the tomb and found things exactly as the women had said, but they did not see him."

but they pressed him, saying, "Stay with us, for it is getting towards evening and the day has now declined." So he went in to stay with them.

Then their eyes were opened and they recognized him, but he vanished from their sight.

Then they related their own experience on the road and how they had recognized him when he broke the loaf.

And when they handed him a piece of broiled fish,

They [worshipped him and] returned with great joy to Jerusalem,

through him all existence came into being, no existence came into being apart from him.

In him life lay, and this life was the Light for men:

he came for the purpose of witnessing, to bear testimony to the Light, so that all men might believe by means of him.

he entered the world ??the world which existed through him ??yet the world did not recognize him;

he came to what was his own, yet his own folk did not welcome him.