The family tree of Jesus Christ, a descendant of David, a descendant of Abraham.

Now the axe is already lying at the roots of the trees. Every tree then that fails to bear good fruit is to be cut down and thrown into the fire.

But whenever you, follower of mine, pray, you must go to your most private place, shut the door, and pray to your Father in secret, and your Father who sees what is secret will reward you.

"You must never give the things that are sacred to dogs, and you must never throw your pearls before hogs, for fear they might trample them under their feet and turn and tear you to pieces.

"Keep on asking, and the gift will be given you; keep on seeking, and you will find; keep on knocking, and the door will open to you.

For everyone who keeps on asking, receives, and everyone who keeps on seeking, finds, and to the one who keeps on knocking, the door will open.

So any healthy tree bears good fruit and a sickly tree bears poor fruit.

A healthy tree cannot bear poor fruit, and a sickly tree cannot bear good fruit.

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

Nobody sews a patch of brand-new goods on an old coat, for such a patch would tear away from the coat, and the hole would be bigger than ever.

and if the house should prove deserving, may your good wish for peace upon it come true, but if not, may your good wish bring peace to yourselves.

"A curse on you, Chorazin! A curse on you, Bethsaida! For if the wonder-works done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, long ago they would have repented in sackcloth and ashes.

Moreover, I tell you, on the day of judgment the punishment will be lighter for Tyre and Sidon than for you!

"You must either make the tree healthy and its fruits healthy or make the tree sickly and its fruits sickly, for 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; yea, it grows into a tree, so that the wild birds come and roost in its branches."

which, when it was full, the fishermen drew up on the shore, and sat down and picked out the good fish for their baskets and threw the bad away.

Then Jesus left there and slipped away to the neighborhood of Tyre and Sidon.

As He saw a fig tree by the roadside, He came to it but found on it nothing but leaves, and said to it, "Never again shall a fig grow on you!" And the fig tree at once withered up.

When the disciples saw it, they were dumbfounded, and asked, "How is it that the fig tree withered up all at once?"

And Jesus answered them, "I solemnly say to you, if you have faith and do not doubt at all, you will not only do the sort of wonder 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 story. There was once an owner of an estate who planted a vineyard and built a fence around it, and hewed out a wine-vat in it, and built a tower, and rented it to tenant farmers, and then went abroad.

"Now learn what the story of the fig tree means. Just as soon as its branches grow tender, and put forth leaves, you know that summer is near.

So when you see all these things, you will know that He is right at your door.

And while they were going to buy it, the bridegroom came, and the bridesmaids that were ready went in with him to the wedding reception; and the door was closed.

At last the rest of the bridesmaids came, and kept begging, 'Master, master, open the door for us!'

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

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

Then the high priest tore his clothes, and said, "He has uttered blasphemy, What more evidence do we need? You have just heard His blasphemy.

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

and laid it in a tomb of his, which he had cut out of the rock, and he rolled a big boulder over the doorway of the tomb, and went away.

and the whole town gathered at the door.

and so many people gathered there that there was no longer any room even around the door. He was telling them His message.

and from Jerusalem, and from Idumea, and from the other side of the Jordan, and from the neighborhood of Tyre and Sidon -- yes, a vast throng of people, as they kept hearing of the great things that He was doing, came to Him.

and kept earnestly begging Him, saying, "My dear little daughter is at the point of death. Come, lay your hands on her, so that she may get well and live."

Then He left there and went into the neighborhood of Tyre and Sidon. He went into a house and wanted no one to know that He was there. But He could not escape public notice.

He left the neighborhood of Tyre and went by way of Sidon through the district of the Ten Cities down to the Sea of Galilee.

And if your eye makes you do wrong, tear it out. You might better go into the kingdom of God with only one eye than keep both your eyes and be thrown into the pit,

So off they went and found a colt tied outside a door at a street corner. They untied it,

Now in the distance He saw a fig tree covered with leaves, and He went up to it to see if He might find some figs on it, but when He got to it, He found nothing but leaves, for it was not the time for figs.

In the morning as they were passing along, they noticed that the fig tree was withered, clear down to its roots.

And Peter remembered about it, and said to Him, "Look, Teacher! The fig tree which you cursed has withered!"

"Now learn what the story of the fig tree means. Just as soon as its branches grow tender, and put forth leaves, you know that summer is near.

So when you see all these things taking place, you will know that He is right 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 temple built by men's hands, and in three days I will build another, made without hands.'"

Then the high priest tore his clothes and said, "What more evidence do we need now?

And the passers-by kept hissing at Him, shaking their heads and saying, "Aha! You are the man who would tear down the temple and build another in three days!

So he bought a linen sheet, then took Him down from the cross, wrapped Him in the linen sheet, and laid Him in a tomb that had been hewn out of the rock, and rolled a boulder up to the doorway of the tomb.

And they kept saying to one another, "Who will roll the boulder back from the doorway of the tomb for us?"

Now the axe is already lying at the roots of the trees. Every tree, then, that fails to bear good fruit is 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,

Then He told them a short story: "No one tears a piece from a new coat and puts it on an old one; or if he does, he will tear the new one too, and the patch from the new coat will not match the old one.

Then He came down with them and took His stand on a level place, where there was a great throng of His disciples and a vast crowd 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.

"For there never is a healthy tree that bears poor fruit, nor a sickly tree that bears good fruit.

For every tree is known by its fruit. People do not pick figs from thornbushes, or gather grapes from a bramble-bush.

There was a Roman captain who had a slave that was very dear to him, and he was sick and at the point of death,

Soon afterwards He chanced to be making a tour of Galilee from town to town and from village to village preaching and telling the good news of the kingdom of God. The Twelve went with Him,

A curse on you, Chorazin! A curse on you, Bethsaida! For if the wonder-works done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, long ago they would have repented, sitting in sackcloth and ashes.

But at the judgment the punishment will be lighter for Tyre and Sidon than for you.

And suppose he answers from inside, 'Stop bothering me; the door is now locked, and my children are packed about me in bed; I cannot get up and give you any.'

So I tell you, keep on asking, and the gift will be given you; keep on seeking, and you will find; keep on knocking, and the door will open to you.

For everyone who keeps on asking, receives; and the one who keeps on seeking, finds; and to the one who keeps on knocking, the door will open.

A curse on you experts in the law, because you have taken away the key to the door of knowledge! You did not go in yourselves, and you kept out those who tried to get in."

After He left the house, the scribes and the Pharisees began to be violently enraged against Him 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 grains and my goods.

and be like men waiting for their master when he comes home from the wedding, that when he comes and knocks, they at once may open the door for him.

Or those eighteen people at Siloam on whom the tower fell and whom it crushed to death, do you think that they were offenders worse than all the rest of the people who live in Jerusalem?

Then He told them this story: "A man had a fig tree planted by his vineyard, and he kept going and looking for figs on it, but did not find any.

So he said to the vine-dresser, 'Look here! for three years I have been coming to look for figs on this fig tree, and have not found any. Cut it down. Why waste the ground with it?'

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

"You must struggle on to get in through the narrow door, for I tell you, many will try to get in, but will not succeed,

when once the master of the house gets up and shuts the door, and you begin to stand on the outside and to knock on the door again and again and say, 'Lord, open it for us'; but He will answer, '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 calculate the cost, to see whether he has money enough to complete it?

So if you have not proved dependable in handling your ill-gotten riches, who will trust you with the true riches?

Then the Lord said to them, "If you had faith that grows like a mustard seed, you might have been saying to this mulberry tree, 'Pull yourself up by the roots and plant yourself in the sea,' and it would have obeyed you!

So he ran on ahead and climbed up in a mulberry tree, just to get a glimpse of Him, for Jesus was coming through on that street.

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

Then He told them a story: "Look at the fig tree and all the trees.

They drew lots to divide His clothes among them.

Nathaniel said to Him, "How do you know me?" Jesus answered him, "While you were still under the fig tree, before Philip called you, I saw you."

Jesus answered him, "Do you believe in me because I told you that I saw you under the fig tree? You will see greater things than this."

Then He said to them, "Now draw some out and take it to the manager of the feast." So they took him some.

Whoever does accept His testimony has certified with a seal 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 with, sir, and the well is deep. Where do you get your living water?

The woman said to Him, "Give me this water at once, sir, so I may never get thirsty again, nor have to come so far to draw water."

for you have had five husbands, and the man you now have is not your husband. What you have said is true."

For in this matter the adage is true, 'One sows, another reaps.'

The Pharisees then said to Him, "You are testifying to yourself; your testimony is not true."

Jesus answered them, "Even if I do testify to myself, my testimony is true, because 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.

Even in your own law it is written, 'The testimony of two persons is true.'

"I most solemnly say to you, whoever does not enter the sheepfold by the door, but climbs over at some other place is a thief and a robber.

But the one who enters by the door is the shepherd of the sheep.

The doorkeeper opens the door to him, and the sheep obey his voice; and he calls his own sheep by name, and leads them out.

So Jesus said to them again: "I most solemnly say to you, I am the door to the sheepfold myself.

All who came as such before me are thieves and robbers, but the true sheep would not listen to them.

I am the door myself. Whoever enters through me will be saved, and will go in and out and find pasture.

And many people came to Him and kept on saying, "John did not perform any wonder-works, but everything he ever said about this man was true."

And if I am lifted up from the earth, I will draw all men to me."

Dear children, I am to be with you only a little while longer. You will look for me, but, as I told the Jews, so I now tell you, you cannot just now go where I am going.