But the axe is already lying at the roots of the trees. Any tree that fails to produce good fruit is going to be cut down and thrown into the fire.

But if your right eye makes you fall, tear it out and throw it away, for you might better lose one part of your body than have it all thrown into the pit!

so that you may show yourselves true sons of your Father in heaven, for he makes his sun rise on bad and good alike, and makes the rain fall on the upright and the wrongdoers.

But when you pray, go into your own room, and shut the door, and pray to your Father who is unseen, and your Father who sees what is secret will reward you.

"Do not give what is sacred to dogs, and do not throw your pearls before pigs, or they will trample them under their feet and turn and tear you in pieces.

Ask, and what you ask will be given you. Search, and you will find what you search for. Knock, and the door will open to you.

For it is always the one who asks who receives, and the one who searches who finds, and the one who knocks to whom the door opens.

Just so any sound tree bears good fruit, but a poor tree bears bad fruit.

No sound tree can bear bad fruit, and no poor tree can bear good fruit.

Any tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and burned.

But no one sews a patch of unshrunken cloth on an old coat, for the patch will tear away from the coat, and make the hole worse than ever.

"Alas for you, Chorazin! Alas for you, Bethsaida! For if the wonders that have been done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented in sackcloth and ashes long ago!

But I tell you, Tyre and Sidon will fare better on the Day of Judgment than you will!

"You must either make the tree sound and its fruit sound, or make the tree bad and its fruit bad; a tree is judged by its fruit.

It is the smallest of all seeds, but when it is grown it is the largest of plants and grows into a tree, so that the wild birds come and roost in its branches."

And Jesus left that place and retired to the neighborhood of Tyre and Sidon.

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

and seeing a fig tree by the roadside, he went up to it, but found nothing on it but leaves. And he said to it, "No more fruit shall ever grow on you!" And the fig tree withered up at once.

When the disciples saw it, they were amazed and said, "How did the fig tree come to wither up immediately?"

Jesus answered, "I tell you, if you have faith and have no doubt, you will not only do what I have done to the fig tree, but even if you say to this mountain, 'Get up and throw yourself into the sea,' it will be done.

"Listen to another figure. There was a land owner who planted a vineyard and fenced it in, and hewed out a wine-vat in it, and built a watch-tower, and leased it to tenants, and left the neighborhood.

"Let the fig tree teach you the lesson. As soon as its branches grow soft and put forth leaves, you know that summer is coming.

So when you see all these things, you must know that he is just at the door.

But while they were gone to buy it, the bridegroom arrived, and the ones that were ready went in with him to the wedding banquet, and the door was closed.

Afterward the other bridesmaids came and said, 'Sir! Sir! Open the door for us!'

One of the men with Jesus put out his hand and drew his sword, and striking at the high priest's slave, cut his ear off.

Then Jesus said to him, "Put your sword back where it belongs! For all who draw the sword will die by the sword.

and said, "This man said, 'I can tear down the sanctuary of God, and build it up in three days.' "

Jesus said to him, "It is true. But I tell you you will soon see the Son of Man seated at the right hand of the Almighty and coming upon the clouds of the sky!"

Then the high priest tore his clothing and said, "He has uttered blasphemy! What do we want of witnesses now? Here you have heard his blasphemy!

and saying, "You who would tear down the sanctuary, and build one in three days, save yourself! If you are the Son of God, come down from the cross!"

and laid it in a new tomb that belonged to him, that he had cut in the rock, and he rolled a great stone over the doorway of the tomb, and went away.

and the whole town was gathered at the door.

and such a crowd gathered that after a while there was no room even around the door, and he was telling them his message.

and Jerusalem and Idumea and from the other side of the Jordan and from the neighborhood of Tyre and Sidon a great many who had heard of the things he was doing came to him.

He left that place and went to the neighborhood of Tyre and Sidon. And he went into a certain house, and wanted no one to know of it. And he could not keep it secret,

But she answered, "True, sir! and still the dogs under the table eat what the children leave!"

He left the neighborhood of Tyre again and went by way of Sidon to the Sea of Galilee, crossing the district of the Ten Towns.

And if your eye makes you fall, tear it out. You might better get into the Kingdom of God with only one eye than be thrown with both your eyes into the pit,

And they set off and found a colt tied in the street at the door of a house, and they untied it.

And he saw in the distance a fig tree covered with leaves, and he went up to it to see if he could find any figs on it. When he reached it he found nothing but leaves, for it was not the time for figs.

And he spoke to the tree and said to it, "May no one ever eat fruit from you any more!" And his disciples heard it.

In the morning as they were passing along, they saw that the fig tree was withered, to its very roots.

And Peter remembered about it and said to him, "Look, Master! The fig tree that you cursed is withered up!"

Then he began to speak to them in figures. "A man once planted a vineyard and fenced it in and hewed out a wine-vat and built a watch tower, and he leased it to tenants and left the neighborhood.

"Let the fig tree teach you the lesson. As soon as its branches grow soft and put forth leaves you know that summer is coming.

So when you see these things happening, you must know that he is just at the door.

But one of the bystanders drew his sword and struck at the high priest's slave and cut his ear off.

"We ourselves have heard him say, 'I will tear down this sanctuary built by men's hands, and in three days I will build another, made without hands.' "

Then the high priest tore his clothing, and said, "What do we want of witnesses now?

And the passers-by jeered at him, shaking their heads and saying, "Aha! you who would tear down the sanctuary and build one in three days!

And he bought a linen sheet and took him down from the cross and wrapped him in the sheet, and laid him in a tomb that had been hewn out of the rock, and rolled a stone against the doorway of the tomb.

And they said to one another, "Who will roll the stone back from the doorway of the tomb for us?"

But the axe is already lying at the roots of the trees. Any tree that fails to produce good fruit is going to be cut down and thrown into the fire."

the son of Jacob, the son of Isaac, the son of Abraham, the son of Terah, the son of Nahor,

He used this figure also in speaking to them: "No one tears a piece from a new coat and sews it on an old one, or if he does, he will both tear the new one and the piece from the new one will not match the old one.

And he came down with them and took his stand on a level place with a great throng of his disciples, and a large number of people from all over Judea and from Jerusalem and the seacoast district of Tyre and Sidon, who had come to hear him and to be cured of their diseases.

Every tree is known by its fruit. They do not pick figs off thorns, or gather grapes from brambles.

The ones on the rock are those who receive the message joyfully when they first hear it, but it takes no real root. They believe for a little while, and then in the time of trial they draw back.

But the seed in the good soil means those who listen to the message and keep it in good, true hearts, and yield unfailingly.

Alas for you, Chorazin! Alas for you, Bethsaida! For if the wonders that have been done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago, sitting in sackcloth and ashes!

But Tyre and Sidon will fare better than you at the Judgment!

and he answers from inside, 'Do not bother me; the door is now fastened, and my children and I have gone to bed; I cannot get up and give you any.'

So I tell you, ask, and what you ask will be given you. Search, and you will find what you search for. Knock, and the door will open to you.

For it is always the one who asks who receives, and the one who searches who finds, and the one who knocks to whom the door opens.

Alas for you experts in the Law! For you have taken the key to the door of knowledge, but you have not entered it yourselves, and you have kept out those who tried to enter."

After he left the house, the scribes and the Pharisees began to watch him closely and to try to draw him out on many subjects,

Then he said, 'This is what I will do; I will tear down my barns and build larger ones, and in them I will store all my grain and my goods.

like men waiting for their master to come home from a wedding, so that when he comes and knocks, they can open the door for him at once.

Or those eighteen people at Siloam who were killed when the tower fell upon them??o you think they were worse offenders than all the other people who live in Jerusalem?

He used this figure: "A man had a fig tree growing in his garden, and he went to look for fruit on it, and could not find any.

And he said to the gardener, 'Here I have come three years to look for fruit on this fig tree, without finding any. Cut it down. Why should it waste the ground?'

It is like a mustard seed that a man took and dropped in his garden, and it grew and became a tree, and the wild birds roosted on its branches."

"You must strain every nerve to get in through the narrow door, for I tell you many will try to get in, and will not succeed,

when the master of the house gets up and shuts the door, and you begin to stand outside and to knock on the door, and say, 'Open it for us, sir!' Then he will answer you and say, 'I do not know where you come from,'

What man among you if he wishes to build a tower does not first sit down and estimate the cost of it, to see whether he has enough to complete it?

So if you have proved untrustworthy in using your ill-gotten wealth, who will trust you with true riches?

And the Master said, "If your faith is as big as a mustard seed, you might have said to this mulberry tree, 'Be pulled up by the roots and planted in the sea,' and it would have obeyed you!

So he ran on ahead and climbed up into a sycamore tree, to see him, for Jesus was coming that way.

Then the owner of the vineyard said, 'What can I do? I will send them my dear son; perhaps they will respect him.'

For they did not dare to ask him any more questions.

And he gave them an illustration: "See the fig tree and all the trees.

Then he said to them, "This is what I told you when I was still with you??hat everything that is written about me in the Law of Moses and the Prophets and the Psalms must come true."

So they filled them full. And he said to them, "Now draw some out and take it to the master of the feast."

Whoever does accept it has thereby acknowledged that God is true.

A woman of Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, "Give me a drink."

She said to him, "You have nothing to draw water with, sir, and the well is deep. Where can you get your living water?

The woman said to him, "Give me this water, sir, so that I may never be thirsty, nor have to come all this way to draw water."

"You are right when you say you have no husband, for you have had five husbands and the man you are now living with is not your husband. What you say is true."

But a time is coming??t is already here!??hen the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and sincerity, for the Father wants such worshipers.

"If I testify to myself, my testimony is not true.

It is someone else who testifies to me, and I know that the testimony that he gives about me is true.

In consequence of this many of his disciples drew back and would not go about with him any longer.

The Pharisees said to him, "You are testifying to yourself. Your testimony is not true."

Jesus answered, "Even if I am testifying to myself, my testimony is true, for I know where I have come from and where I am going; but you do not know where I come from or where I am going.

The devil is the father you are sprung from, and you want to carry out your father's wishes. He was a murderer from the first, and he has nothing to do with the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he tells a lie, he speaks in his true character, for he is a liar and the father of them.

"I tell you, any man who does not enter the sheepfold by the door, but climbs over at some other place, is a thief and robber.

But the man who enters by the door is the shepherd of the flock.

The watchman opens the door to him, and the sheep obey his voice, and he calls to his own sheep and leads them out.

So Jesus said again, "I tell you, I am the door of the sheepfold.