I tell you, though he will not get up and give you anything because you are a friend of his, he will at least rise and give you whatever you want, because you persist.

But he said, "Blessed rather are those who hear and who observe the word of God!"

Woe to you! you are like unsuspected tombs; men walk over them unawares."

One of the jurists said to him, "Teacher, when you say this you are insulting us as well."

Are not five sparrows sold for two farthings? Yet not one of them is forgotten by God.

But the very hairs on your head are all numbered; fear not, you are worth far more than sparrows.

To his disciples he said, "Therefore I tell you, do not trouble about what you are to eat in life, nor about what you are to put on your body;

Look at the crows! they neither sow nor reap, no storehouse or granary have they, and yet God feeds them. How much more are you worth than birds?

and be like men who are expecting their lord and master on his return from a marriage-banquet, so as to open the door for him at once when he comes and knocks.

Blessed are those servants whom the lord and master finds awake when he comes! I tell you truly, he will gird himself, make them recline at table, and come forward to wait on them.

Whether he comes in the second or the third watch of the night and finds them thus alert, blessed are they!

Peter said, "Lord, are you telling this parable for us, or is it for all and sundry?"

Jesus noticed her and called to her, "Woman, you are released from your weakness."

But the president of the synagogue was annoyed at Jesus healing on the sabbath, and he said to the crowd, "There are six days for work to be done; come during them to get healed, instead of on the sabbath."

A man said to him, "Is it only a few, sir, who are saved?" So he said to them,

Some are last who will be first, and some are first who will be last."

No, when you are invited, go and recline in the lowest place, so that when your host comes in he will tell you, 'Move higher up, my friend.' Then you will be honoured before your fellow guests.

At the hour for supper he sent his servant to tell the guests, 'Come, things are all ready.'

The father said to him, 'My son, you and I are always together, all I have is yours.

So he summoned every single one of his master's debtors. He asked the first, 'How much are you owing to my master?'

So, if you are not faithful with dishonest mammon, how can you ever be trusted with true Riches?

And if you are not faithful with what belongs to another, how can you ever be given what is your own?

So he told them, "You are the people who get men to think you are good, but God knows what your hearts are! What is lofty in the view of man is loathsome in the eyes of God.

But Abraham said, 'Remember, my son, you got all the bliss when you were alive, just as Lazarus got the ills of life; he is in comfort now, and you are in anguish.

Well, it is the same with you; when you have done all you are bidden, say, 'We are but servants; we have only done our duty.' "

So Jesus said, "Were all the ten not cleansed? Where are the other nine?

Then he took the twelve aside and told them, "We are going up to Jerusalem, and all the predictions of the prophets regarding the Son of man will be fulfilled;

'Capital,' he said, 'you excellent servant! because you have proved trustworthy in a trifle, you are placed over ten towns.'

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

for I was afraid of you, you are such a hard man ??picking up what you never put down, and reaping what you never sowed.'

If anyone asks you, 'Why are you untethering it?' this is what you will say, 'The Lord needs it.'"

As they were untethering it, the owners said to them, "Why are you untethering the colt?"

And if we say, 'From men,' the whole of the people will stone us, for they are convinced John was a prophet."

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.

Jesus said to them, "People in this world marry and are married,

but those who are considered worthy to attain yonder world and the resurrection from the dead neither marry nor are married,

for they cannot die any more; they are equal to angels and by sharing in the resurrection they are sons of God.

And that the dead are raised has been indicated by Moses in the passage on the Bush, when he calls the Lord 'God of Abraham and God of Isaac and God of Jacob.'

"Beware of the scribes! They like to walk about in long robes, they are fond of getting saluted in the market-places, of securing the front seats in the synagogues and the best places at banquets;

"As for what you see, there are days coming when not a stone will be left upon another, without being torn down."

He said, "Take care that you are not misled; for many will come in my name saying, 'I am he' and 'the time is near' ??do not go after them.

Then let those who are in Judaea fly to the hills, let those who are in the city escape, and let not those who are in the country come in to the city;

for these are the days of the divine Vengeance, in fulfilment of all that is written in scripture.

"Lord," they said, "here are two swords!" "Enough! Enough!" he answered.

He said to them, "Why are you sleeping? Get up and pray that you may not slip into temptation."

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

"Tell us if you are the Christ." He said to them, "You will not believe me if I tell you,

"Are you the Son of God then?" they all said. "Certainly," he replied, "I am."

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

For there are days coming when the cry will be, 'Blessed are the barren, the wombs that never have borne and the breasts that never have suckled!'

Jesus said, "Father, forgive them, they do not know what they are doing." Then they distributed his clothes among themselves by drawing lots.

saying, "If you are the king of the Jews, save yourself."

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.

And we suffer justly; we are getting what we deserve for our deeds. But he has done no harm."

He said to them, "What is all this you are debating on your walk?" They stopped, looking downcast,

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

but he said to them, "Why are you upset? Why do doubts invade your mind?

And I will send down on you what my Father has promised; wait in the city till you are endued with power from on high."

while the Law was given through Moses, grace and reality are ours through Jesus Christ.

Now here is John's testimony. When the Jews of Jerusalem despatched priests and Levites to ask him, "Who are you?"

They asked him, "Then what are you? Elijah?" He said, "I am not." "Are you the Prophet?" "No," he answered.

"Then who are you?" they said; "tell us, so that we can give some answer to those who sent us. What have you to say for yourself?"

so they asked him, saying, "Then why are you baptizing people, if you are neither the Christ nor Elijah nor the Prophet?"

Now Jesus turned, and when he observed them coming after him, he asked them, "What do you want?" They replied, "Rabbi" (which may be translated, 'teacher'), "where are you staying?"

He took him to Jesus; Jesus gazed at him and said, "You are Simon, the son of John? Your name is to be Cephas" (meaning 'Peter' or 'rock').

"Rabbi," said Nathanael, "you are the Son of God, you are the king of Israel!"

"This sanctuary took forty-six years to build," the Jews retorted, "and you are going to raise it up in three days!"

Truly, truly I tell you, we are speaking of what we do understand, we testify to what we have actually seen ??and yet you refuse our testimony.

for anyone whose practices are corrupt loathes the light and will not come out into it, in case his actions are exposed,

The Samaritan woman said, "What? You are a Jew, and you ask me for a drink ??me, a Samaritan!" (Jews do not associate with Samaritans.)

Are you a greater man than Jacob, our ancestor? He gave us this well, and he drank from it, with his sons and his cattle."

"Sir," said the woman, "I see you are a prophet.

You are worshipping something you do not know; we are worshipping what we do know ??for salvation comes from the Jews.

But the time is coming, it has come already, when the real worshippers will worship the Father in Spirit and in reality; for these are the worshippers that the Father wants.

At this point his disciples came up; they were surprised that he was talking to a woman, but none of them said, "What is it?" or, "Why are you talking to her?"

You have a saying, have you not, 'Four months yet, then harvest'? Look round, I tell you; see, the fields are white for harvesting!

Later on Jesus met him in the temple, and said to him, "See, you are well and strong; commit no more sins, in case something worse befalls you."

Do not wonder at this; for there is a time coming when all who are in the tombs will listen to his voice

But I possess a testimony greater than that of John, for the deeds which the Father has granted me to accomplish, the very deeds on which I am engaged, are my testimony that the Father has sent me.

On looking up and seeing a large crowd approaching, he said to Philip, "Where are we to buy bread for all these people to eat?"

Jesus answered them, "Truly, truly I tell you, it is not because you saw Signs that you are in quest of me, but because you ate these loaves and had your fill.

All those will come to me who are the Father's gift to me, and never will I reject one of them;

and the will of him who sent me is that I lose none of those who are his gift to me, but that I raise them all up on the last day.

What gives life is the Spirit: flesh is of no avail at all. The words I have uttered to you are spirit and life.

And yet there are some of you who do not believe" (for Jesus knew from the very first who the unbelieving were, and who was to betray him;

Simon Peter answered him, "Lord, who are we to go to? You have got words of eternal life,

and we believe, we are certain, that you are the holy One of God."

the world cannot hate you, but it hates me because I testify that its deeds are evil.

The crowd replied, "You are mad. Who wants to kill you?"

Jesus answered them, "I have only performed one deed, and yet you are all amazed at it.

Well, if a man gets circumcised upon the sabbath, to avoid breaking the Law of Moses, are you enraged at me for curing, not cutting, the entire body of a man upon the sabbath?

The Pharisees retorted, "Are you misled as well?

They answered him, "And are you from Galilee, too? Search and you will see that no prophet ever springs from Galilee."

Looking up, Jesus said to her, "Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?"

So the Pharisees said to him, "You are testifying to yourself; your evidence is not valid."

He said to them, "You are from the world below, I am from the world above: you belong to this world, I do not belong to this world.

They said, "Who are you?" Jesus replied, "Why should I talk to you at all?

So Jesus addressed the Jews who had believed him, saying, "If you abide by what I say, you are really disciples of mine:

"We are Abraham's offspring," they retorted, "we have never been slaves to anybody. What do you mean by saying, 'You will be free'?"