But whoever shall cause one of these little ones that believe in me to fall away, it were better for him to have a great millstone hung round his neck, and be swallowed up in the depth of the sea.

If he pays no attention to them [refusing to listen and obey], tell it to the church; and if he refuses to listen even to the church, let him be to you as a Gentile (unbeliever) and a tax collector.

Truly I tell you, whatever [truth] you disciples require [of people to believe and obey] on earth will have [already] been required [by God] in heaven. And whatever [truth] you do not require [of people to believe and obey] on earth, will not have [already] been required [by God] in heaven.

Then Peter came to Him and asked, “Lord, how many times will my brother sin against me and I forgive him and let it go? Up to seven times?”

Jesus answered him, “I say to you, not up to seven times, but seventy times seven.

So the kingdom of heaven may be compared to a king who decided to settle up his accounts with his slaves,

And when he began to make up the account, there was brought to him one debtor, ten thousand talents in arrear:

And, provoked to anger, his master delivered him up to the torturers, until he should pay all that was owing.

And Pharisees came up to him [in order to] test him, and asked if it was permitted for a man to divorce his wife for any cause.

They said to him, "Then why did Moses command us to draw up a written divorce-notice and give it to her?"

Then some children were brought up to him so that he might lay his hands on them and pray, but his disciples reproved the people for it.

Then Jesus said, “Leave the children alone, and don’t try to keep them from coming to Me, because the kingdom of heaven is made up of people like this.”

And lo, one coming up said to him, Teacher, what good thing shall I do that I may have life eternal?

Jesus answered him, "Why do you ask me about what is good? There is [only] One who is good [i.e., God]. But if you want to enter [never ending] life, [then] obey His commandments."

The young man saith unto him, All these things have I kept from my youth up: what lack I yet?

And Jesus having looked up said to them, With men this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.

Then Peter said to him, See, we have given up everything and have come after you; what then will we have?

And everyone who has given up houses, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or child, or land, for my name, will be given a hundred times as much, and have eternal life.

But many will be last [i.e., in importance and blessings] who [seem to] be first, and those [who seem to be] first will [end up] being last."

And [when] evening came, the owner of the vineyard said to his manager, 'Call the workers and pay them their wages, beginning from the last up to the first.'

Now when those who had been hired about five o'clock went up, they received two shillings each.

So, when the first went up, they thought that they would receive more, but they also received two shillings each;

saying, 'These men [you hired] last have worked only one hour and you gave them wages equal to ours when we carried the heaviest load of the day's work and [put up with] the scorching heat [all day long].'

Take up that which is thine, and go thy way; it is my will to give unto this last, even as unto thee.

So, the [person who seems to be] last will be first [i.e., in importance and blessings], but the [person who seems to be] first will [end up] being last."

And Jesus going up to Jerusalem took the twelve disciples apart in the way, and said unto them,

Behold, we go up to Jerusalem; and the Son of man shall be betrayed unto the chief priests and unto the scribes, and they shall condemn him to death,

and shall deliver him unto the Gentiles to mock, and to scourge, and to crucify: and the third day he shall be raised up.

Then [Salome] the mother of Zebedee’s children [James and John] came up to Jesus with her sons and, kneeling down [in respect], asked a favor of Him.

He told them, "You will indeed drink from my cup. But it's not up to me to grant you a seat at my right hand or at my left. These positions have already been prepared for others by my Father."

And Jesus being moved with compassion, touched their eyes: and immediately they looked up; and followed Him.

saying to them, "Go to the village you see facing you, and as you enter it you will find a she-ass tied up and a foal with her. Untie her and bring them to me.

And [when] he entered into Jerusalem, the whole city was stirred up, saying, "Who is this?"

And the blind and the lame came up to him in the temple [courts] and he healed them.

And seeing one fig-tree in the way, he came to it and found on it nothing but leaves only. And he says to it, Let there be never more fruit of thee for ever. And the fig-tree was immediately dried up.

And when the disciples saw it, they wondered, saying, How immediately is the fig-tree dried up!

And Jesus answered and said unto them, Verily I say unto you, If ye have faith, and doubt not, ye shall not only do what is done to the fig tree, but even if ye shall say unto this mountain, Be thou taken up and cast into the sea, it shall be done.

When He entered the temple area, the chief priests and elders of the people came to Him as He was teaching and said, “By what [kind of] authority are You doing these things, and who gave You this authority [to exercise this power]?”

which of the two obey'd his father? they said, the first. Jesus reply'd, I declare to you, that the publicans and licentious people enter into the gospel kingdom before you.

Hear another parable: a certain landlord planted a vineyard, hedged it round, set up a wine-press in it, and built a tower, then lett it out to tenants, and went into a foreign country.

But when the king heard thereof, he was wroth: and he sent forth his armies, and destroyed those murderers, and burned up their city.

'Then said the king to the ministrants, Having bound his feet and hands, take him up and cast forth to the outer darkness, there shall be the weeping and the gnashing of the teeth;

On that day Sadducees--who say there is no resurrection--came up to him and asked him,

Saying, Master, Moses said, If a man die, having no children, his brother shall marry his wife, and raise up seed unto his brother.

So also the second and the third, up to the seventh.

Therefore in the rising up whose of the seven shall the woman be? for they all had her.

For in the rising up they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the messengers of God in heaven.

And for the rising up of the dead, read ye not that spoken by God, saying,

Now the Pharisees came up when they heard that He had silenced the Sadducees,

The whole Law and the [writings of the] Prophets depend on these two commandments.”

so do whatever they tell you, obey them, but do not do as they do. They talk but they do not act.

The scribes and Pharisees tie up heavy loads [that are hard to bear] and place them on men’s shoulders, but they themselves will not lift a finger [to make them lighter].

But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in.

'Woe to you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye eat up the houses of the widows, and for a pretence make long prayers, because of this ye shall receive more abundant judgment.

A curse is on you, scribes and Pharisees, false ones! because you put up buildings for housing the dead bodies of the prophets, and make fair the last resting-places of good men, and say,

Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers.

"That is why I am sending you prophets, wise men, and scribes. Some of them you will kill and crucify, and some of them you will whip in your synagogues and persecute from town to town.

so that upon you will come all the righteous blood shed on the earth from the blood of righteous Abel up to the blood of Zechariah son of Barachiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar.

Jesus left the temple area and was going on His way when His disciples came up to Him to call His attention to the [magnificent and massive] buildings of the temple.

And [as] he was sitting on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came up to him privately, saying, "Tell us, when will these [things] happen, and what [will be] the sign of your coming and of the end of the age?"

For nation shall rise up against nation, and kingdom against kingdom; and there shall be famines and pestilences, and earthquakes in divers places.

Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name's sake.

And then shall many stumble, and shall deliver up one another, and shall hate one another.

Many false prophets will appear and mislead many.

But whoever bears up to the end will be saved.

"So when you see the dreadful desecration, of which the prophet Daniel spoke, set up in the Holy Place"??he reader must take note of this??16 "then those who are in Judea must fly to the hills;

he on the house-top -- let him not come down to take up any thing out of his house;

and the one who is in the field must not turn back to pick up his cloak.

There will be great trouble [during these times], such as had never been from the beginning of time up to the present, or ever will be [in the days to come].

For there will rise up false Christs and false prophets, displaying wonderful signs and prodigies, so as to deceive, were it possible, even God's own People.

At that time, before the Deluge, men were busy eating and drinking, taking wives or giving them, up to the very day when Noah entered the Ark,

But know this, that if the goodman of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken up.

and will cut him in two and put him with the hypocrites; in that place there will be weeping [over sorrow and pain] and grinding of teeth [over distress and anger].

Then all those virgins got up and put their own lamps in order [trimmed the wicks and added oil and lit them].

And while they went to buy, the bridegroom came: and they that were ready, went in with him to the wedding, and the gate was shut up.

“Later the rest of the virgins also came and said, ‘Master, master, open up for us!’

For it is, just as a man, who, going from home, called his own servants, and delivered up to them his substance;

But the one who had received the one went away [and] dug up the ground and hid his master's money.

Now after a long time the lord of those servants comes, and makes up his account with them.

And the one who had received the five talents came up [and] brought five more talents, saying, 'Master, you handed over to me five talents. See, I have gained five more talents!'

And the one [who had] the two talents also came up [and] said, 'Master, you handed over to me two talents. See, I have gained two talents more!'

And the one who had received the one talent came up also [and] said, 'Master, [because I] knew you, that you are a hard man, reaping where you did not sow and gathering from where you did not scatter [seed].

'You lazy, worthless servant!' was his master's reply. 'You knew that I reap where I have not sown, and gather up where I have not winnowed?

And put the good-for-nothing slave out into the darkness outside, to weep and grind his teeth there.'

Ye know that after two days the passover cometh, and the Son of man is delivered up to be crucified.

a woman came to Him with an alabaster vial of very expensive perfume and she poured it on Jesus’ head as He reclined at the table.

But Jesus was aware [of what they were up to], so said, "Why are you bothering this woman? For she has done a kind deed to me.

and said, What are ye willing to give me, and I will deliver him up to you? And they appointed to him thirty pieces of silver.

And from that time he sought a good opportunity that he might deliver him up.

Now on the first [day] of the feast of Unleavened Bread the disciples came up to Jesus, saying, "Where do you want us to prepare for you to eat the Passover?"

And as they were eating he said, Verily I say to you, that one of you shall deliver me up.

But he answering said, He that dips his hand with me in the dish, he it is who shall deliver me up.

The Son of man goes indeed, according as it is written concerning him, but woe to that man by whom the Son of man is delivered up; it were good for that man if he had not been born.

And Judas, who delivered him up, answering said, Is it I, Rabbi? He says to him, Thou hast said.

And after they had sung a hymn, they went up to the Mount of Olives. [Note: This was a small hill just east of Jerusalem]

Then says Jesus to them, All ye shall be scandalized in me this night; for it has been written, I will smite the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock shall be scattered up and down.

But after I am raised up, I will go before you into Galilee.

Then Peter, taking up the word, said to him, Though all should be offended at thee, yet will I never be offended.

Then He said to them, “My soul is swallowed up in sorrow —to the point of death. Remain here and stay awake with Me.”

Then he comes to the disciples and says to them, Sleep on now and take your rest; behold, the hour has drawn nigh, and the Son of man is delivered up into the hands of sinners.