Therefore, you must always treat other people as you would like to have them treat you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets.

But I would have you know that the Son of Man has authority to forgive sins on earth." Then he said to the paralytic, "Get up, pick up your bed and go home!"

" 'We have played the flute for you, and you would not dance! We have wailed and you would not beat your breasts!'

"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!

And you, Capernaum! Are you to be exalted to the skies? You will go down among the dead! For if the wonders that have been done in you had been done in Sodom, it would have stood until today.

But if you knew what the saying means, 'It is mercy, not sacrifice, that I care for,' you would not have condemned men who are not guilty.

Then some of the scribes and Pharisees addressed him, saying, "Master, we would like to have you show us some sign."

and swore that he would give her anything she asked for.

But he would not answer her a word. And his disciples came up and urged him, saying, "Send her away, for she keeps screaming after us."

but I tell you, Elijah has come already, and they would not recognize him, but treated him just as they pleased. It is in just that way that the Son of Man is going to be treated by them!"

For John came to you with a way of uprightness, and you would not believe him. The tax-collectors and prostitutes believed him, but even after seeing that, you would not change your minds and believe him!

And he sent his slaves to summon those who had been invited to the banquet, and they would not come.

and say, 'If we had been living in the times of our fathers, we would not have joined them in the murder of the prophets.'

If those days had not been cut short, nobody would have escaped, but for the sake of God's people those days will be cut short.

But you may be sure of this, that if the master of the house had known in what part of the night the thief was coming, he would have been on the watch, and would not have let his house be broken into.

Then you ought to have put my money in the bank, and then when I came back I would have gotten my property with interest.

The Son of Man is to go away as the Scriptures say of him, but alas for the man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would have been better for that man if he had never been born!"

Do you suppose I cannot appeal to my Father, and he would at once furnish me more than twelve legions of angels?

they offered him a drink of wine mixed with gall, and when he tasted it he would not drink it.

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!"

He is not here, he has risen, as he said he would do. Come and see the place where he was lying.

And he cured many who were sick with various diseases, and drove out many demons, and he would not let the demons speak, because they knew that he was Christ.

And they were watching him closely, to see whether he would cure him on the Sabbath, in order to get a charge to bring against him.

And he would not permit it, but said to him, "Go home to your own people, and tell them all the Lord has done for you and how he took pity on you."

And whatever village or town or farm he went to, they would lay their sick in the market-place and beg him to let them touch just the tassel of his cloak, and all who touched it were cured.

and he would not allow anyone to carry anything through the Temple.

If the Lord had not cut those days short, nobody would have escaped, but for the sake of his own chosen people he has cut the days short.

For the Son of Man is indeed to go away as the Scriptures say of him, but alas for the man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would have been better for that man if he had never been born."

They offered him drugged wine, but he would not take it.

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!

When they heard that he was alive and that she had seen him, they would not believe it.

They went back and told the rest, but they would not believe them.

So he would say to the crowds that came out there to be baptized by him, "You brood of snakes! Who warned you to fly from the wrath that is coming?

The crowds would ask him, "Then what ought we to do?"

And soldiers would ask him, "And what ought we to do?" He said to them, "Do not extort money or make false charges against people, but be satisfied with your pay."

So with many varied exhortations he would preach the good news to the people,

But Jesus himself would retire into the desert and pray.

And the scribes and the Pharisees were on the watch to see whether he would cure people on the Sabbath, in order to find a charge to bring against him.

They are like children sitting about in the bazaar and calling out to one another, " 'We have played the flute for you, and you would not dance! We have wailed and you would not weep!'

When the Pharisee who had invited him saw this, he said to himself, "If this man were really a prophet, he would know who and what the woman is who is touching him, for she leads a wicked life."

For he was commanding the foul spirit to get out of the man. For it had often seized him, and though he had been fastened with chains and fetters, and was closely watched, he would snap his bonds and the demon would drive him away to the desert.

A discussion arose among them as to which of them would be the greatest.

And the people there would not receive him, because he was going to Jerusalem.

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 you may be sure of this, that if the master of the house had known what time the thief was coming, he would have been on the watch, and would not have let his house be broken into.

And he was ready to fill himself with the pods the pigs were eating, and no one would give him anything.

But he was angry and would not go into the house. And his father came out and urged him.

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!

He was once asked by the Pharisees when the Kingdom of God would come, and he answered, "The Kingdom of God is not coming visibly,

And he would not for a time, but afterward he said to himself, 'Though I have no fear of God nor respect for men,

But the tax-collector stood at a distance and would not even raise his eyes to heaven, but struck his breast, and said, 'O God, have mercy on a sinner like me!'

He would spend the days teaching in the Temple, but at night he would go out of the city and stay on the hill called the Mount of Olives.

And in the morning all the people would come to him in the Temple to listen to him.

Jesus said to him, "Would you betray the Son of Man with a kiss?"

But the story seemed to them to be nonsense and they would not believe them.

But Jesus on his part would not trust himself to them, for he knew them all,

Jesus answered, "If you knew what God has to give, and who it is that said to you, 'Give me a drink,' you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water."

For if you really believed Moses, you would believe me, for it was about me that he wrote.

Philip answered, "Forty dollars' worth of bread would not be enough for each of them to have even a little."

Yet there are some of you who will not believe." For Jesus knew from the first who would not believe, and who was going to betray him.

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

After this Jesus went from place to place in Galilee, for he would not do so in Judea, because the Jews were making efforts to kill him.

Then they said to him, "Where is your Father?" Jesus answered, "You do not know either me or my Father. If you knew me, you would know my Father too."

That is why I said to you that you would die in the midst of your sins, for unless you believe that I am what I say, you will die in the midst of your sins."

But instead you are trying to kill me, a man who has told you the truth he has heard from God. Abraham would not have done that.

Jesus said to them, "If God were your father, you would love me, for I have come from God. I have not come of my own accord, but he has sent me.

But the Jews would not believe that he had been blind and had become able to see until they summoned the parents of the man who had been given his sight,

He answered, "I have already told you and you would not listen. Why do you want to hear it again? Do you want to become disciples of his too?"

Jesus said to them, "If you were blind, you would be guilty of no sin, but as it is, you say 'We can see'; so your sin continues.

All who have come before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep would not obey them.

Martha said to Jesus, "Master, if you had been here, my brother would not have died!

When Mary came where Jesus was and saw him, she fell at his feet, and said, "Master, if you had been here, my brother would not have died!"

Yet for all that, even among the leading men, many came to believe in him, but on account of the Pharisees they would not acknowledge it, for fear of being excluded from the synagogues,

There are many rooms in my Father's house; if there were not, I would have told you, for I am going away to make ready a place for you.

If you knew me, you would know my Father also. From now on you do know him and you have seen him."

You have heard me say that I am going away and am coming back to you; if you loved me you would be glad that I am going to the Father, for the Father is greater than I.

If you belonged to the world, the world would love what was its own. But it is because you do not belong to the world, but I have selected you from the world, that the world hates you.

If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have been guilty of sin, but as it is, they have no excuse for their sin.

If I had not done things before them that no one else ever did they would not be guilty of sin. But as it is, they have seen both me and my Father, and they have hated us both.

Then they took Jesus from Caiaphas to the governor's house. It was early in the morning, and they would not go into the governor's house themselves, to avoid being ceremonially defiled and to be able to eat the Passover supper.

They answered, "If he were not a criminal, we would not have turned him over to you."

Jesus answered, "My kingdom is not a kingdom of this world. If my kingdom were a kingdom of this world, my men would have fought to keep me from being handed over to the Jews. But as it is, my kingdom has no such origin."

Jesus answered him, "You would have no power at all over me, if it were not given to you from above. So you are less guilty than the man who betrayed me to you."

There are many other things that Jesus did, so many in fact that if they were all written out, I do not suppose that the world itself would hold the books that would have to be written.

But as he was a prophet, and knew that God had promised him with an oath that he would put one of his descendants upon his throne,

No one among them was in any want, for any who owned lands or houses would sell them and bring the proceeds of the sale

They would all meet together in Solomon's Colonnade.

so that people would carry their sick out into the streets, and lay them down on beds and mats, to have at least Peter's shadow fall on some of them as he went by.

Even from the towns around Jerusalem crowds would come in bringing sick people and those who were troubled with foul spirits, and they were all cured.

When the commander of the Temple and the high priests heard this report, they were very much at a loss as to what would come of it.

He supposed that his brothers would understand that God was using him as the means of delivering them, but they did not.

Yet our forefathers would not listen to him, but thrust him off, and their hearts turned back to Egypt,

He was listening to Paul as he talked, when Paul looked at him and, seeing that he had faith that he would be cured,

and when they reached Mysia they tried to get into Bithynia, but the Spirit of Jesus would not permit it,

This girl would follow Paul and the rest of us, crying out, "These men are slaves of the Most High God, and they are making known to you a way of salvation."

Every Sabbath he would preach in the synagogue, and try to convince both Jews and Greeks.

They asked him to stay longer, but he would not consent.

Many who became believers would come and openly confess their former practices.

Paul wanted to go before the people himself, but the disciples would not allow it.

For Paul had decided to sail past Ephesus, so that he would not have to lose any time in Asia, for he was hurrying to reach Jerusalem, if possible, by the day of the Harvest Festival.