For every man who gives himself a high place will be put down, but he who takes a low place will be lifted up.

And he said to the master of the house, When you give a feast, do not send for your friends and your brothers and your family or your neighbours who have wealth, for they may give a feast for you, and so you will get a reward.

And you will have a blessing, because they will not be able to give you any payment, and you will get your reward when the upright come back from the dead.

And, hearing these words, one of those who were at table with him said to him, Happy is the man who will be a guest in the kingdom of God.

And when the time had come, he sent his servants to say to them, Come, for all things are now ready.

And they all gave reasons why they were not able to come. The first said to him, I have got a new field, and it is necessary for me to go and see it: I am full of regret that I am unable to come.

For I say to you that not one of those who were requested to come will have a taste of my feast.

For which of you, desiring to put up a tower, does not first give much thought to the price, if he will have enough to make it complete?

For fear that if he makes a start and is not able to go on with it to the end, all who see it will be laughing at him,

Or what king, going to war with another king, will not first take thought if he will be strong enough, with ten thousand men, to keep off him who comes against him with twenty thousand?

Or while the other is still a great distance away, he sends representatives requesting conditions of peace.

And so whoever is not ready to give up all he has may not be my disciple.

Now all the tax-farmers and sinners came near to give ear to him.

What man of you, having a hundred sheep, if one of them gets loose and goes away, will not let the ninety-nine be in the waste land by themselves, and go after the wandering one, till he sees where it is?

I say to you that even so there will be more joy in heaven when one sinner is turned away from his wrongdoing, than for ninety-nine good men, who have no need of a change of heart.

Or what woman, having ten bits of silver, if one bit has gone from her hands, will not get a light, and go through her house, searching with care till she sees it?

And the younger of them said to his father, Father, give me that part of your property which will be mine. And he made division of his goods between them.

And not long after, the younger son got together everything which was his and took a journey into a far-away country, and there all his money went in foolish living.

But when he came to his senses, he said, What numbers of my father's servants have bread enough, and more, while I am near to death here through need of food!

I will get up and go to my father, and will say to him, Father, I have done wrong, against heaven and in your eyes:

And he got up and went to his father. But while he was still far away, his father saw him and was moved with pity for him and went quickly and took him in his arms and gave him a kiss.

But he made answer and said to his father, See, all these years I have been your servant, doing your orders in everything: and you never gave me even a young goat so that I might have a feast with my friends:

And he said to him, Son, you are with me at all times, and all I have is yours.

And he sent for him and said, What is this which is said about you? give me an account of all you have done, for you will no longer be the manager of my property.

I have come to a decision what to do, so that when I am put out of my position they will take me into their houses.

And he said, A hundred measures of oil. And he said, Take your account straight away and put down fifty.

If, then, you have not been true in your use of the wealth of this life, who will give into your care the true wealth?

And if you have not been true in your care of the property of other people, who will give you that which is yours?

No man may be a servant to two masters: for he will have hate for the one and love for the other; or he will keep to the one and have no respect for the other. You may not be servants of God and of wealth.

But heaven and earth will come to an end before the smallest letter of the law may be dropped out.

But Abraham said, Keep in mind, my son, that when you were living, you had your good things, while Lazarus had evil things: but now, he is comforted and you are in pain.

And he said, Father, it is my request that you will send him to my father's house;

And he said to him, If they will not give attention to Moses and the prophets, they will not be moved even if someone comes back from the dead.

It would be well for him if a great stone was put round his neck and he was dropped into the sea, before he made trouble for any of these little ones.

But which of you, having a servant who is ploughing or keeping sheep, will say to him, when he comes in from the field, Come now and be seated and have a meal,

Will he not say, Get a meal for me, and make yourself ready and see to my needs till I have had my food and drink; and after that you may have yours?

In the same way, when you have done all the things which are given you to do, say, There is no profit in us, for we have only done what we were ordered to do.

And when he saw them he said, Go, and let the priests see you. And, while they were going, they were made clean.

And he said to him, Get up, and go on your way; your faith has made you well.

And when the Pharisees put questions to him about when the kingdom of God would come, he gave them an answer and said, The kingdom of God will not come through observation:

And men will not say, See, it is here! or, There! for the kingdom of God is among you.

And he said to his disciples, The time will come when you will have a great desire to see one of the days of the Son of man, but you will not see it.

For as in a thunderstorm the bright light is seen from one end of the sky to the other, so will the Son of man be when his time comes.

But first, he will have to undergo much and be put on one side by this generation.

And as it was in the days of Noah, so will it be in the day of the Son of man.

They were feasting and taking wives and getting married, till the day of the overflowing of the waters, when Noah went into the ark, and they all came to destruction.

But on the day when Lot went out of Sodom, fire came down from heaven and destruction came on them all.

So will it be in the day of the revelation of the Son of man.

If anyone makes an attempt to keep his life, it will be taken from him, but if anyone gives up his life, he will keep it.

I say to you, In that night there will be two men sleeping in one bed, and one will be taken away and the other let go.

Two women will be crushing grain together; one will be taken away and the other let go.

And they, answering him, said, Where, Lord? And he said to them, Where the body is, there will the eagles come together.

Because this widow is a trouble to me, I will give her her right; for if not, I will be completely tired out by her frequent coming.

And will not God do right in the cause of his saints, whose cries come day and night to his ears, though he is long in doing it?

I say to you that he will quickly do right in their cause. But when the Son of man comes, will there be any faith on earth?

Twice in the week I go without food; I give a tenth of all I have.

I say to you, This man went back to his house with God's approval, and not the other: for everyone who makes himself high will be made low and whoever makes himself low will be made high.

Truly I say to you, Whoever does not put himself under the kingdom of God like a little child, will not come into it at all.

And he said, All these things I have done from the time when I was a boy.

And Jesus, hearing it, said to him, One thing you still have need of; get money for your goods, and give it away to the poor, and you will have wealth in heaven; and come after me.

Who will not get much more in this time, and in the world to come, eternal life.

And he took with him the twelve and said to them, Now we are going up to Jerusalem, and all the things which were said by the prophets will be done to the Son of man.

For he will be given up to the Gentiles, and will be made sport of and put to shame:

And he will be given cruel blows and put to death, and on the third day he will come back to life.

And those who were in front made protests and said to him, Be quiet: but he said all the more, O Son of David, have mercy on me.

And Jesus said, See again: your faith has made you well.

And straight away he was able to see, and he went after him, giving glory to God; and all the people when they saw it gave praise to God.

And when they saw it, they were all angry, saying, He has gone into the house of a sinner.

And while they were giving ear to these words, he made another story for them, because he was near Jerusalem, and because they were of the opinion that the kingdom of God was coming straight away.

But his people had no love for him, and sent representatives after him, saying, We will not have this man for our ruler.

And he said to him, You have done well, O good servant: because you have done well in a small thing you will have authority over ten towns.

And he said, You will be ruler over five towns.

He said to him, By the words of your mouth you will be judged, you bad servant. You had knowledge that I am a hard man, taking up what I have not put down and getting in grain where I have not put seed;

And I say to you that to everyone who has, more will be given, but from him who has not, even what he has will be taken away.

Saying, Go into the little town in front of you, and on going in you will see a young ass fixed with a cord, on which no man has ever been seated; let him loose and take him.

And while he went on his way they put their clothing down on the road in front of him.

And when he came near the foot of the Mountain of Olives, all the disciples with loud voices gave praise to God with joy, because of all the great works which they had seen;

And he said in answer, I say to you, if these men keep quiet, the very stones will be crying out.

For the time will come when your attackers will put a wall round you, and come all round you and keep you in on every side,

And will make you level with the earth, and your children with you; and there will not be one stone resting on another in you, because you did not see that it was your day of mercy.

But they were not able to do anything, because the people all kept near him, being greatly interested in his words.

And in answer he said to them, I will put a question to you, and do you give me an answer:

And they said among themselves, If we say, From heaven; he will say, Why did you not have faith in him?

But if we say, Of men; we will be stoned by the people, for they are certain that John was a prophet.

And Jesus said, And I will not make clear to you by what authority I do these things.

And the lord of the garden said, What am I to do? I will send my dearly loved son; they may give respect to him.

But when the workmen saw him, they said to one another, This is he who will one day be the owner of the property: let us put him to death and the heritage will be ours.

And driving him out of the garden they put him to death. Now what will the lord do to these workmen?

He will come and put them to destruction and give the garden to others. And when he said this, they said, May it not be so.

Everyone falling on that stone will be broken, but the man on whom the stone comes down will be crushed to dust.

And the third took her; and in the same way, all the seven, without having any children, came to their end.

And last of all, the woman came to her end.

When they come back from the dead, whose wife will she be? for all the seven had her.

And death has no more power over them, for they are equal to the angels, and are sons of God, being of those who will come back from the dead.

Now he is not the God of the dead but of the living: for all men are living to him.

And some of the scribes, in answer to this, said, Master, you have said well.

Till I put under your feet all those who are against you.

And in the hearing of all the people he said to his disciples,

Who take the property of widows and before the eyes of men make long prayers; they will get a greater punishment.

And he said, Truly I say to you, This poor widow has given more than all of them: