Land of Zebulun, land of Naphtali; The road by the Lake; the country beyond Jordan; Galilee of the Gentiles!

And if your eye, your right eye, entices you to sin, pluck it out and cast it from you. It is better for you to lose one of your bodily organs, than to have your whole body go down into the pit.

And if your right hand entices you into sin, cut it off and cast it from you; for it is better for you to lose one of your bodily organs, than to have your whole body go down into the pit.

"But I tell you not to retaliate the injury; but whoever strikes you on the right cheek, turn the other to him also;

"But when you give alms, do not let your right hand know what your left is doing,

"Enter by the narrow gate; for broad is the gate and wide the road that leads to destruction, and many are they who go in by it;

"but the gate is narrow and the road is steep, which leads to life, and they are few who find it.

When he arrived on the other side, in the country of the Gadarenes, he was met by two demoniacs who were coming out of the tombs. They were so violently fierce that no one dared pass along that road.

"What did you go out into the desert to behold?" he asked; "A reed shaken by the wind? If not, what did you go out to see? A man clothed in soft raiment? Behold, those who wear soft raiment dwell in kings' palaces!

"for this is he of whom it is written. "Behold, I send my messenger before my face, And he will prepare thy road for thee.

"Have you not read," answered Jesus, "what David did when he was hungry, and his men, too?

"Have you not read in the Law how on the Sabbath the priests in the Temple break the Sabbath and are guiltless?

"And how much more is a man worth than a sheep? Therefore it is right to do good on the Sabbath."

The bruised reed will not break; The dimly burning wick will not quench; Till he has led justice on to victory.

but when the sun rose it was scorched, and withered away because it had no root.

"But he has no root in himself; he continues for a time, but when trouble arises, or persecutions, on account of the word, at once he stumbles and falls.

because John kept telling him, "It is not right for you to have her."

But Jesus called his disciples to him and said: "My heart yearns over the crowd, for they have been with me now three days, and they have nothing to eat. I am not willing to send them away hungry, for fear they faint on the road."

In answer he said: "In the evening you say, 'It will be fine weather, for the sky is red as fire';

and at dawn you say, 'It will storm today, for the sky is red and lowering.' You know how to discern the look of the sky, but the signs of the times you cannot read.

Presently some of the Pharisees came up to him, and made test of him by asking, "Is it right for a man to divorce his wife for every cause?"

"Have you not read." he answered, "that He who created them from the beginning made them male and female, and said,

"Have I not the right to do what I choose with my own property? Or is your eye evil because I am generous?'

"What is it you wish?" he said. She answered, "Command that these my two sons may sit upon your right hand and your left in your kingdom."

My cup you indeed shall drink," he answered, "but to sit at my right hand or at my left is not mine to grant, but belongs to those for whom it has been prepared by my Father."

And two blind men, sitting by the side of the road, heard that it was Jesus who was passing by, and cried out, "Have pity on us, Master, Son of David!"

Then Jesus seated himself upon them, and most of the crowd kept spreading their cloaks on the road, and others began cutting branches off the trees, and spreading them in the road.

they asked him, "Do you hear what they are saying?" "Surely," said Jesus, "and have you never read, Out of the mouths of babes and sucklings thou hast perfected praise?"

and when he saw a solitary fig tree beside the road, he went to it, but found nothing on it but leaves. And he said to it, "Let no man gather fruit from you forever." And at once the fig tree withered away.

"For John came to you in the road of righteousness, and you did not give credence to him; but the tax-gatherers and the harlots gave credence to him. But you, although you saw this, did not even then change your minds and give credence to him.

"Have you never read in the Scriptures," Jesus answered, "how The stone that the builders rejected Has been made the corner-stone; This is the Lord's doing, It is wonderful in our eyes?

"But concerning the resurrection of the dead, did you never read what was spoken to you by God,

"The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand Until I put thine enemies beneath thy feet?

"and he will place the sheep on his right hand, and the goats on his left.

"Then he, the King will say to those on his right hand. "'Come, my Father's blessed ones, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.

but said they, "Not during the feast, for fear of causing a riot among the people."

"I am He," Jesus answered; "yet I tell you that from this time on you will see the Son of man sitting at the right hand of Power, and coming upon the clouds of heaven."

So when Pilate saw that he was accomplishing nothing, but that on the contrary a riot was threatening, he took water and washed his hands in the presence of the crowd, saying. "I am innocent of the blood of this man; you must answer for it."

And they twisted a thorny crown for him, and put it on his head, and placed a reed in his right hand. Then they knelt before him, in mockery, crying, "Hail, King of the Jews!"

And they spit upon him, and took the reed and struck him on the head, again and again.

At that time two robbers, also, were crucified with him; one on his right hand, the other on his left.

At once, one of them ran, and took a sponge, and filling it with vinegar, put it on a reed, and gave him to drink.

The voice of one crying aloud. In the desert make ready a road for the Lord. Make his paths straight.

He answered them. "Have you never read what David did when he was needy and hungry, he and his men?

and as he sowed, it happened that some seed fell on the road, and birds came and picked it up;

but when the sun rose it was scorched and withered away because it had no root.

but because they have no root in themselves they last for a time; but when suffering or persecution ensues because of the Word, they at once fall away.

When they got to Jesus they found the demoniac sitting there clothed and in his right mind??he man who had had the "Legion"??nd they were awestruck.

For John had often told Herod, "It is not right for you to live with your brother's wife."

Then they came to Capernaum; and when he got into the house he asked them, "What were you discussing on the road?"

But they were silent, for on the road they were disputing together which one was greatest.

As he started to go forth into the road, a man came running up to him, and knelt down before him. "Good Teacher," he asked, "what must I do to inherit eternal life?"

They were still on the road going up to Jerusalem, and Jesus led the way; and they were amazed, and some, although they followed, were afraid. Then once more he took the Twelve, and began to tell them what was about to befall him.

They answered, "Allow us to sit, one at your right hand, and the other at your left hand, in your glory."

but a seat upon my right hand or my left is not mine to grant, but it is for those for whom it has been reserved."

Then they reached Jericho; and as he was leaving Jericho with his disciples and a great crowd, Bartimeus, the son of Timaeus, a blind beggar, was sitting beside the road.

"Go," said Jesus, "your own faith has saved you," and immediately he received his sight, and began to follow Jesus along the road.

Then many spread their cloaks on the road, and others, soft leafy branches, which they had cut from the fields;

and as they (he and his disciples) were passing along in the morning, they saw the fig tree already withered from the root.

"Have you not read this Scripture?" (he continued) "The very stone which the builders rejected Has now become the corner-stone;

So when they came, they said: "Teacher, we know that you are sincere and are not afraid of any one, for you do not regard the face of men; nay, but you reach the way of God in truth. Is it right to pay poll-tax to Caesar or not?

But in regard to the rising again of the dead, have you never read in the Book of Moses, in the passage about the Bush, how God spoke to him, saying, "I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob?

David himself said in the Holy Spirit, "The Lord said to my Lord, 'Sit at my right hand until I make thy foes the footstool of thy feet.'

but, "Not on a feast-day," they said, "for fear there should be a riot among the people."

"I am," Jesus answered, "and you all shall see the Son of man seated on the right hand of Power, and coming with the clouds of heaven."

They kept striking him on the head with a rod, and spitting upon him; and on bended knee they did him homage.

Now with him they crucified two robbers, one on his right hand and one on his left.

and upon entering the tomb they saw a young man sitting on the right side, clothed in a white robe.

So then the Lord Jesus, after he had spoken to them, was taken up into heaven, and sat down at the right hand of God.

it seemed good to me also accurately, from the very beginning, to write them to you in order, most excellent Theophilus,

Then there appeared to him an angel of the Lord, standing on the right side of the altar of incense.

So he asked for a writing tablet and wrote down, "His name is John."

And now truly the axe is already laid at the root of the trees. So every tree which is not bearing good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire."

Then he came to Nazareth where he had been brought up. and, as was his custom, he entered into the synagogue on the Sabbath Day, and stood up to read.

"Have you never read," answered Jesus, "what David did when he and his followers were hungry?

On another Sabbath he went into a synagogue and was teaching; and there was there a man whose right hand was withered.

When John's messengers were gone he began to speak to the crowds about John, saying, "What went out you out to the desert to behold? A reed shaken by the wind?

"Those on the rock are people who, upon hearing, receive the word with joy; but they have no root. For a time indeed they all believe, but in time of temptation they fall away.

Then the people came out to see what had happened, and came to Jesus, and found the man out of whom the demons had gone sitting clothed and in his right mind, at the feet of Jesus. And they were terrified.

And he said to him. "What is written in the Law? What do you read there?"

"You have answered right," said Jesus "do that and you shall live."

"Hypocrites! you know how to read the face of the earth and of the sky; but how is it that you do not know how to read the signs of the present time?

"And why do you not, even yourselves, judge what is right?

"'A hundred measures of oil,' he answered. "He said to him, 'Take your bill and sit down quickly and write fifty."

So he rode on, while they kept throwing their garments in the way.

So they put a question to him saying. "Rabbi, we know that you speak and teach what is right, and that you do not regard any man's person, but teach the way of God honestly.

"Teacher, Moses wrote a law for us that if a man's brother should die, but leave no children, his brother should take up his wife and raise up his children for his brother.

"for David himself say's in the book of the Psalms, "The Lord said to my Lord. Sit at my right hand,

Then one of them did strike a blow at the high priest's slave, and cut off his right ear.

"But from henceforth the Son of man will be seated at the right hand of the power of God."

(This was a man who had been thrown in prison on account of a riot which had occurred in the city, and for murder.)

He released the man who had been put in prison for riot and murder, the man whom they asked for; but Jesus he handed over to their will.

When they came to the place called "The Skull," there they crucified him and the criminals also, one upon his right hand, and one upon his left.

Then they began to tell what happened on the road, and he was known to them when he broke the bread.

But to all who receive him, to them he has given the right to become children of God, even to those who trust in his name;

Then Philip found Nathanael and told him, "We have found him about whom Moses wrote in the Law, as did the prophets??esus of Nazareth, Joseph's son."

"I have no husband," answered the woman. "You are right in saying 'I have no husband,'" Jesus said to her,

"For if you believed Moses you would believe me, for he wrote about me.

But Jesus stooped down, and began to write on the ground with his finger. When they continued to question him, he raised himself and said to them, "Let the innocent man among you be the first to throw the stone at her."

Then he stooped down again, and again began to write on the ground.