11 And it came to pass as he was in a certain place praying, when he ceased, one of his disciples said to him, Lord, teach us to pray, even as John also taught his disciples.

² And he said to them, When ye pray, say, Father, thy name be hallowed; thy kingdom come;

³ give us our needed bread for each day;

⁴ and remit us our sins, for we also remit to every one indebted to us; and lead us not into temptation.

⁵ And he said to them, Who among you shall have a friend, and shall go to him at midnight and say to him, Friend, let me have three loaves,

⁶ since a friend of mine on a journey is come to me, and I have nothing to set before him;

⁷ and he within answering should say, Do not disturb me; the door is already shut, and my children are with me in bed; I cannot rise up to give [it] thee?

⁸ —I say to you, Although he will not get up and give [them] to him because he is his friend, because of his shamelessness, at any rate, he will rise and give him as many as he wants.

⁹ And *I* say to you, Ask, and it shall be given to you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened to you.

¹⁰ For every one that asks receives; and he that seeks finds; and to him that knocks it will be opened.

¹¹ But of whom of you that is a father shall a son ask bread, and [the father] shall give him a stone? or also a fish, and instead of a fish shall give him a serpent?

¹² or if also he shall ask an egg, shall give him a scorpion?

¹³ If therefore *ye*, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much rather shall the Father who is of heaven give [the] Holy Spirit to them that ask him?

¹⁴ And he was casting out a demon, and it was dumb; and it came to pass, the demon being gone out, the dumb [man] spoke. And the crowds wondered.

¹⁵ But some from among them said, By Beelzebub the prince of the demons casts he out demons.

¹⁶ And others tempting [him] sought from him a sign out of heaven.

¹⁷ But *he*, knowing their thoughts, said to them, Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation: and a house set against a house falls;

¹⁸ and if also Satan is divided against himself, how shall his kingdom subsist? because ye say that I cast out demons by Beelzebub.

¹⁹ But if *I* by Beelzebub cast out demons, your sons—by whom do they cast [them] out? For this reason *they* shall be your judges.

²⁰ But if by the finger of God I cast out demons, then the kingdom of God is come upon you.

²¹ When the strong [man] armed keeps his own house, his goods are in peace;

²² but when the stronger than he coming upon [him] overcomes him, he takes away his panoply in which he trusted, and he will divide the spoil [he has taken] from him.

²³ He that is not with me is against me, and he that gathers not with me scatters.

²⁴ When the unclean spirit has gone out of the man, he goes through dry places seeking rest; and not finding [any] he says, I will return to my house whence I came out.

²⁵ And having come, he finds it swept and adorned.

²⁶ Then he goes and takes seven other spirits worse than himself, and entering in, they dwell there; and the last condition of that man becomes worse than the first.

²⁷ And it came to pass as he spake these things, a certain woman, lifting up her voice out of the crowd, said to him, Blessed is the womb that has borne thee, and the paps which thou hast sucked.

²⁸ But *he* said, Yea rather, blessed are they who hear the word of God and keep [it].

²⁹ But as the crowds thronged together, he began to say, This generation is a wicked generation: it seeks a sign, and a sign shall not be given to it but the sign of Jonas.

³⁰ For as Jonas was a sign to the Ninevites, thus shall also the Son of man be to this generation.

³¹ A queen of the south shall rise up in the judgment with the men of this generation, and shall condemn them: for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and behold, more than Solomon is here.

³² Men of Nineveh shall stand up in the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: for they repented at the preaching of Jonas; and behold, more than Jonas is here.

³³ But no one having lit a lamp sets it in secret, nor under the corn-measure, but on the lamp-stand, that they who enter in may see the light.

³⁴ The lamp of the body is thine eye: when thine eye is simple, thy whole body also is light; but when it is wicked, thy body also is dark.

³⁵ See therefore that the light which is in thee be not darkness.

³⁶ If therefore thy whole body [is] light, not having any part dark, it shall be all light as when the lamp lights thee with its brightness.

³⁷ But as he spoke, a certain Pharisee asked him that he would dine with him; and entering in he placed himself at table.

³⁸ But the Pharisee seeing [it] wondered that he had not first washed before dinner.

³⁹ But the Lord said to him, Now do ye Pharisees cleanse the outside of the cup and of the dish, but your inward [parts] are full of plunder and wickedness.

⁴⁰ Fools, has not he who has made the outside made the inside also?

⁴¹ But rather give alms of what ye have, and behold, all things are clean to you.

⁴² But woe unto you, Pharisees, for ye pay tithes of mint and rue and every herb, and pass by the judgment and the love of God: these ye ought to have done, and not have left those aside.

⁴³ Woe unto you, Pharisees, for ye love the first seat in the synagogues and salutations in the market-places.

⁴⁴ Woe unto you, for ye are as the sepulchres which appear not, and the men walking over them do not know [it].

⁴⁵ And one of the doctors of the law answering says to him, Teacher, in saying these things thou insultest us also.

⁴⁶ And he said, To you also woe, doctors of the law, for ye lay upon men burdens heavy to bear, and yourselves do not touch the burdens with one of your fingers.

⁴⁷ Woe unto you, for ye build the sepulchres of the prophets, but your fathers killed them.

⁴⁸ Ye bear witness then, and consent to the works of your fathers; for *they* killed them, and *ye* build [their sepulchres].

⁴⁹ For this reason also the wisdom of God has said, I will send to them prophets and apostles, and of these shall they kill and drive out by persecution,

⁵⁰ that the blood of all the prophets which has been poured out from the foundation of the world may be required of this generation,

⁵¹ from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zacharias, who perished between the altar and the house; yea, I say to you, it shall be required of this generation.

⁵² Woe unto you, the doctors of the law, for ye have taken away the key of knowledge; yourselves have not entered in, and those who were entering in ye have hindered.

⁵³ And as he said these things to them, the scribes and the Pharisees began to press him urgently, and to make him speak of many things;

⁵⁴ watching him, [and seeking] to catch something out of his mouth, [that they might accuse him].

12 In those [times], the myriads of the crowd being gathered together, so that they trod one on another, he began to say to his disciples first, Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy;

² but there is nothing covered up which shall not be revealed, nor secret that shall not be known;

³ therefore whatever ye have said in the darkness shall be heard in the light, and what ye have spoken in the ear in chambers shall be proclaimed upon the housetops.

⁴ But I say to you, my friends, Fear not those who kill the body and after this have no more that they can do.

⁵ But I will shew you whom ye shall fear: Fear him who after he has killed has authority to cast into hell; yea, I say to you, Fear *him*.

⁶ Are not five sparrows sold for two assaria? and one of them is not forgotten before God.

⁷ But even the hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not therefore, ye are better than many sparrows.

⁸ But I say to you, Whosoever shall confess me before men, the Son of man will confess him also before the angels of God;

⁹ but he that shall have denied me before men shall be denied before the angels of God;

¹⁰ and whoever shall say a word against the Son of man it shall be forgiven him; but to him that speaks injuriously against the Holy Spirit it shall not be forgiven.

¹¹ But when they bring you before the synagogues and rulers and the authorities, be not careful how or what ye shall answer, or what ye shall say;

¹² for the Holy Spirit shall teach you in the hour itself what should be said.

¹³ And a person said to him out of the crowd, Teacher, speak to my brother to divide the inheritance with me.

¹⁴ But he said to him, Man, who established me [as] a judge or a divider over you?

¹⁵ And he said to them, Take heed and keep yourselves from all covetousness, for [it is] not because a man is in abundance [that] his life is in his possessions.

¹⁶ And he spoke a parable to them, saying, The land of a certain rich man brought forth abundantly.

¹⁷ And he reasoned within himself saying, What shall I do? for I have not [a place] where I shall lay up my fruits.

¹⁸ And he said, This will I do: I will take away my granaries and build greater, and there I will lay up all my produce and my good things;

¹⁹ and I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much good things laid by for many years; repose thyself, eat, drink, be merry.

²⁰ But God said to him, Fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee; and whose shall be what thou hast prepared?

²¹ Thus is he who lays up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.

²² And he said to his disciples, For this cause I say unto you, Be not careful for life, what ye shall eat, nor for the body, what ye shall put on.

²³ The life is more than food, and the body than raiment.

²⁴ Consider the ravens, that they sow not nor reap; which have neither storehouse nor granary; and God feeds them. How much better are *ye* than the birds?

²⁵ But which of you by being careful can add to his stature one cubit?

²⁶ If therefore ye cannot [do] even what is least, why are ye careful about the rest?

²⁷ Consider the lilies how they grow: they neither toil nor spin; but I say unto you, Not even Solomon in all his glory was clothed as one of these.

²⁸ But if God thus clothe the grass, which to-day is in the field and to-morrow is cast into [the] oven, how much rather you, O ye of little faith?

²⁹ And *ye*, seek not what ye shall eat or what ye shall drink, and be not in anxiety;

³⁰ for all these things do the nations of the world seek after, and your Father knows that ye have need of these things;

³¹ but seek his kingdom, and [all] these things shall be added to you.

³² Fear not, little flock, for it has been the good pleasure of your Father to give you the kingdom.

³³ Sell what ye possess and give alms; make to yourselves purses which do not grow old, a treasure which does not fail in the heavens, where thief does not draw near nor moth destroy.

³⁴ For where your treasure is, there also will your heart be.

³⁵ Let your loins be girded about, and lamps burning;

³⁶ and *ye* like men who wait their own lord whenever he may leave the wedding, that when he comes and knocks, they may open to him immediately.

³⁷ Blessed are those bondmen whom the lord [on] coming shall find watching; verily I say unto you, that he will gird himself and make them recline at table, and coming up will serve them.

³⁸ And if he come in the second watch, and come in the third watch, and find [them] thus, blessed are those [bondmen].

³⁹ But this know, that if the master of the house had known in what hour the thief was coming, he would have watched, and not have suffered his house to be dug through.

⁴⁰ And ye therefore, be *ye* ready, for in the hour in which ye do not think [it], the Son of man comes.

⁴¹ And Peter said to him, Lord, sayest thou this parable to us, or also to all?

⁴² And the Lord said, Who then is the faithful and prudent steward, whom his lord will set over his household, to give the measure of corn in season?

⁴³ Blessed is that bondman whom his lord [on] coming shall find doing thus;

⁴⁴ verily I say unto you, that he will set him over all that he has.

⁴⁵ But if that bondman should say in his heart, My lord delays to come, and begin to beat the menservants and the maidservants, and to eat and to drink and to be drunken,

⁴⁶ the lord of that bondman shall come in a day when he does not expect it, and in an hour he knows not of, and shall cut him in two and appoint his portion with the unbelievers.

⁴⁷ But that bondman who knew his own lord's will, and had not prepared [himself] nor done his will, shall be beaten with many [stripes];

⁴⁸ but he who knew [it] not, and did things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few. And to every one to whom much has been given, much shall be required from him; and to whom [men] have committed much, they will ask from him the more.

⁴⁹ I have come to cast a fire on the earth; and what will I if already it has been kindled?

⁵⁰ But I have a baptism to be baptised with, and how am I straitened until it shall have been accomplished!

⁵¹ Think ye that I have come to give peace in the earth? Nay, I say to you, but rather division:

⁵² for from henceforth there shall be five in one house divided; three shall be divided against two, and two against three:

⁵³ father against son, and son against father; mother against daughter, and daughter against mother; a mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.

⁵⁴ And he said also to the crowds, When ye see a cloud rising out of the west, straightway ye say, A shower is coming; and so it happens.

⁵⁵ And when [ye see] the south wind blow, ye say, There will be heat; and it happens.

⁵⁶ Hypocrites, ye know how to judge of the appearance of the earth and of the heaven; how [is it then that] ye do not discern this time?

⁵⁷ And why even of yourselves judge ye not what is right?

⁵⁸ For as thou goest with thine adverse party before a magistrate, strive in the way to be reconciled with him, lest he drag thee away to the judge, and the judge shall deliver thee to the officer, and the officer cast thee into prison.

⁵⁹ I say unto thee, Thou shalt in no wise come out thence until thou hast paid the very last mite.

13 Now at the same time there were present some who told him of the Galileans whose blood Pilate mingled with [that of] their sacrifices.

² And he answering said to them, Think ye that these Galileans were sinners beyond all the Galileans because they suffered such things?

³ No, I say to you, but if ye repent not, ye shall all perish in the same manner.

⁴ Or those eighteen on whom the tower in Siloam fell and killed them, think ye that *they* were debtors beyond all the men who dwell in Jerusalem?

⁵ No, I say to you, but if ye repent not, ye shall all perish in like manner.

⁶ And he spoke this parable: A certain [man] had a fig-tree planted in his vineyard, and he came seeking fruit upon it and did not find [any].

⁷ And he said to the vinedresser, Behold, [these] three years I come seeking fruit on this fig-tree and find none: cut it down; why does it also render the ground useless?

⁸ But he answering says to him, Sir, let it alone for this year also, until I shall dig about it and put dung,

⁹ and if it shall bear fruit—but if not, after that thou shalt cut it down.

¹⁰ And he was teaching in one of the synagogues on the sabbath.

¹¹ And lo, [there was] a woman having a spirit of infirmity eighteen years, and she was bent together and wholly unable to lift her head up.

¹² And Jesus, seeing her, called to [her], and said to her, Woman, thou art loosed from thine infirmity.

¹³ And he laid his hands upon her; and immediately she was made straight, and glorified God.

¹⁴ But the ruler of the synagogue, indignant because Jesus healed on the sabbath, answering said to the crowd, There are six days in which [people] ought to work; in these therefore come and be healed, and not on the sabbath day.

¹⁵ The Lord therefore answered him and said, Hypocrites! does not each one of you on the sabbath loose his ox or his ass from the manger and leading [it] away, water [it]?

¹⁶ And this [woman], who is a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan has bound, lo, [these] eighteen years, ought she not to be loosed from this bond on the sabbath day?

¹⁷ And as he said these things, all who were opposed to him were ashamed; and all the crowd rejoiced at all the glorious things which were being done by him.

¹⁸ And he said, To what is the kingdom of God like? and to what shall I liken it?

¹⁹ It is like a grain of mustard [seed] which a man took and cast into his garden; and it grew and became a great tree, and the birds of heaven lodged in its branches.

²⁰ And again he said, To what shall I liken the kingdom of God?

²¹ It is like leaven, which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal until the whole was leavened.

²² And he went through one city and village after another, teaching, and journeying to Jerusalem.

²³ And one said to him, Sir, [are] such as are to be saved few in number? But he said unto them,

²⁴ Strive with earnestness to enter in through the narrow door, for many, I say to you, will seek to enter in and will not be able.

²⁵ From the time that the master of the house shall have risen up and shall have shut the door, and ye shall begin to stand without and to knock at the door, saying, Lord, open to us; and he answering shall say to you, I know you not whence ye are:

²⁶ then shall ye begin to say, We have eaten in thy presence and drunk, and thou hast taught in our streets;

²⁷ and he shall say, I tell you, I do not know you whence ye are; depart from me, all [ye] workers of iniquity.

²⁸ There shall be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth, when ye shall see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets in the kingdom of God, but yourselves cast out.

²⁹ And they shall come from east and west, and from north and south, and shall lie down at table in the kingdom of God.

³⁰ And behold, there are last who shall be first, and there are first who shall be last.

³¹ The same hour certain Pharisees came up, saying to him, Get out, and go hence, for Herod is desirous to kill thee.

³² And he said to them, Go, tell that fox, Behold, I cast out demons and accomplish cures to-day and to-morrow, and the third [day] I am perfected;

³³ but I must needs walk to-day and to-morrow and the [day] following, for it must not be that a prophet perish out of Jerusalem.

³⁴ Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the [city] that kills the prophets and stones those that are sent unto her, how often would I have gathered thy children together, as a hen her brood under her wings, and ye would not.

³⁵ Behold, your house is left unto you; and I say unto you, that ye shall not see me until it come that ye say, Blessed [is] he that comes in the name of [the] Lord.

14 And it came to pass, as he went into the house of one of the rulers, [who was] of the Pharisees, to eat bread on [the] sabbath, that *they* were watching him.

² And behold, there was a certain dropsical [man] before him.

³ And Jesus answering spoke unto the doctors of the law and Pharisees, saying, Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath?

⁴ But they were silent. And taking him he healed him and let him go.

⁵ And answering he said to them, Of which of you shall an ass or ox fall into a well, that he does not straightway pull him up on the sabbath day?

⁶ And they were not able to answer him to these things.

⁷ And he spoke a parable to those that were invited, remarking how they chose out the first places, saying to them,

⁸ When thou art invited by any one to a wedding, do not lay thyself down in the first place at table, lest perhaps a more honourable than thou be invited by him,

⁹ and he who invited thee and him come and say to thee, Give place to this [man], and then thou begin with shame to take the last place.

¹⁰ But when thou hast been invited, go and put thyself down in the last place, that when he who has invited thee comes, he may say to thee, Friend, go up higher: then shalt thou have honour before all that are lying at table with thee;

¹¹ for every one that exalts himself shall be abased, and he that abases himself shall be exalted.

¹² And he said also to him that had invited him, When thou makest a dinner or a supper, call not thy friends, nor thy brethren, nor thy kinsfolk, nor rich neighbours, lest it may be they also should invite thee in return, and a recompense be made thee.

¹³ But when thou makest a feast, call poor, crippled, lame, blind:

¹⁴ and thou shalt be blessed; for they have not [the means] to recompense thee; for it shall be recompensed thee in the resurrection of the just.

¹⁵ And one of those that were lying at table with [them], hearing these things, said to him, Blessed [is] he who shall eat bread in the kingdom of God.

¹⁶ And he said to him, A certain man made a great supper and invited many.

¹⁷ And he sent his bondman at the hour of supper to say to those who were invited, Come, for already all things are ready.

¹⁸ And all began, without exception, to excuse themselves. The first said to him, I have bought land, and I must go out and see it; I pray thee hold me for excused.

¹⁹ And another said, I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I go to prove them; I pray thee hold me for excused.

²⁰ And another said, I have married a wife, and on this account I cannot come.

²¹ And the bondman came up and brought back word of these things to his lord. Then the master of the house, in anger, said to his bondman, Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city, and bring here the poor and crippled and lame and blind.

²² And the bondman said, Sir, it is done as thou hast commanded, and there is still room.

²³ And the lord said to the bondman, Go out into the ways and fences and compel to come in, that my house may be filled;

²⁴ for I say to you, that not one of those men who were invited shall taste of my supper.

²⁵ And great crowds went with him; and, turning round, he said to them,

²⁶ If any man come to me, and shall not hate his own father and mother, and wife, and children, and brothers, and sisters, yea, and his own life too, he cannot be my disciple;

²⁷ and whoever does not carry his cross and come after me cannot be my disciple.

²⁸ For which of you, desirous of building a tower, does not first sit down and count the cost, if he have what [is needed] to complete it;

²⁹ in order that, having laid the foundation of it, and not being able to finish it, all who see it do not begin to mock at him,

³⁰ saying, This man began to build and was not able to finish?

³¹ Or what king, going on his way to engage in war with another king, does not, sitting down first, take counsel whether he is able with ten thousand to meet him coming against him with twenty thousand?

³² and if not, while he is yet far off, having sent an embassy, he asks for terms of peace.

³³ Thus then every one of you who forsakes not all that is his own cannot be my disciple.

³⁴ Salt [then] [is] good, but if the salt also has become savourless, wherewith shall it be seasoned?

³⁵ It is proper neither for land nor for dung; it is cast out. He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.

15 And all the tax-gatherers and the sinners were coming near to him to hear him;

² and the Pharisees and the scribes murmured, saying, This [man] receives sinners and eats with them.

³ And he spoke to them this parable, saying,

⁴ What man of you having a hundred sheep, and having lost one of them, does not leave the ninety and nine in the wilderness and go after that which is lost, until he find it?

⁵ and having found it, he lays it upon his own shoulders, rejoicing;

⁶ and being come to the house, calls together the friends and the neighbours, saying to them, Rejoice with me, for I have found my lost sheep.

⁷ I say unto you, that thus there shall be joy in heaven for one repenting sinner, [more] than for ninety and nine righteous who have no need of repentance.

⁸ Or, what woman having ten drachmas, if she lose one drachma, does not light a lamp and sweep the house and seek carefully till she find it?

⁹ and having found it she calls together the friends and neighbours, saying, Rejoice with me, for I have found the drachma which I had lost.

¹⁰ Thus, I say unto you, there is joy before the angels of God for one repenting sinner.

¹¹ And he said, A certain man had two sons;

¹² and the younger of them said to his father, Father, give to me the share of the property that falls [to me]. And he divided to them what he was possessed of.

¹³ And after not many days the younger son gathering all together went away into a country a long way off, and there dissipated his property, living in debauchery.

¹⁴ But when he had spent all there arose a violent famine throughout that country, and he began to be in want.

¹⁵ And he went and joined himself to one of the citizens of that country, and he sent him into his fields to feed swine.

¹⁶ And he longed to fill his belly with the husks which the swine were eating; and no one gave to him.

¹⁷ And coming to himself, he said, How many hired servants of my father's have abundance of bread, and *I* perish here by famine.

¹⁸ I will rise up and go to my father, and I will say to him, Father, I have sinned against heaven and before thee;

¹⁹ I am no longer worthy to be called thy son: make me as one of thy hired servants.

²⁰ And he rose up and went to his own father. But while he was yet a long way off, his father saw him, and was moved with compassion, and ran, and fell upon his neck, and covered him with kisses.

²¹ And the son said to him, Father, I have sinned against heaven and before thee; I am no longer worthy to be called thy son.

²² But the father said to his bondmen, Bring out the best robe and clothe him in [it], and put a ring on his hand and sandals on his feet;

²³ and bring the fatted calf and kill it, and let us eat and make merry:

²⁴ for this my son was dead and has come to life, was lost and has been found. And they began to make merry.

²⁵ And his elder son was in the field; and as, coming [up], he drew nigh to the house, he heard music and dancing.

²⁶ And having called one of the servants, he inquired what these things might be.

²⁷ And he said to him, Thy brother is come, and thy father has killed the fatted calf because he has received him safe and well.

²⁸ But he became angry and would not go in. And his father went out and besought him.

²⁹ But he answering said to his father, Behold, so many years I serve thee, and never have I transgressed a commandment of thine; and to me hast thou never given a kid that I might make merry with my friends:

³⁰ but when this thy son, who has devoured thy substance with harlots, is come, thou hast killed for him the fatted calf.

³¹ But he said to him, Child, *thou* art ever with me, and all that is mine is thine.

³² But it was right to make merry and rejoice, because this thy brother was dead and has come to life again, and was lost and has been found.

16 And he said also to [his] disciples, There was a certain rich man who had a steward, and *he* was accused to him as wasting his goods.

² And having called him, he said to him, What [is] this that I hear of thee? give the reckoning of thy stewardship, for thou canst be no longer steward.

³ And the steward said within himself, What shall I do; for my lord is taking the stewardship from me? I am not able to dig; I am ashamed to beg.

⁴ I know what I will do, that when I shall have been removed from the stewardship I may be received into their houses.

⁵ And having called to [him] each one of the debtors of his own lord, he said to the first, How much owest thou to my lord?

⁶ And he said, A hundred baths of oil. And he said to him, Take thy writing and sit down quickly and write fifty.

⁷ Then he said to another, And thou, how much dost thou owe? And he said, A hundred cors of wheat. And he says to him, Take thy writing and write eighty.

⁸ And the lord praised the unrighteous steward because he had done prudently. For the sons of this world are, for their own generation, more prudent than the sons of light.

⁹ And *I* say to you, Make to yourselves friends with the mammon of unrighteousness, that when it fails ye may be received into the eternal tabernacles.

¹⁰ He that is faithful in the least is faithful also in much; and he that is unrighteous in the least is unrighteous also in much.

¹¹ If therefore ye have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who shall entrust to you the true?

¹² and if ye have not been faithful in that which is another's, who shall give to you your own?

¹³ No servant can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and will love the other, or he will cleave to the one and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

¹⁴ And the Pharisees also, who were covetous, heard all these things, and mocked him.

¹⁵ And he said to them, *Ye* are they who justify themselves before men, but God knows your hearts; for what amongst men is highly thought of is an abomination before God.

¹⁶ The law and the prophets [were] until John: from that time the glad tidings of the kingdom of God are announced, and every one forces his way into it.

¹⁷ But it is easier that the heaven and the earth should pass away than that one tittle of the law should fail.

¹⁸ Every one who puts away his wife and marries another commits adultery; and every one that marries one put away from a husband commits adultery.

¹⁹ Now there was a rich man and he was clothed in purple and fine linen, making good cheer in splendour every day.

²⁰ And [there was] a poor man, by name Lazarus, [who] was laid at his gateway full of sores,

²¹ and desiring to be filled with the crumbs which fell from the table of the rich man; but the dogs also coming licked his sores.

²² And it came to pass that the poor man died, and that he was carried away by the angels into the bosom of Abraham. And the rich man also died and was buried.

²³ And in hades lifting up his eyes, being in torments, he sees Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom.

²⁴ And he crying out said, Father Abraham, have compassion on me, and send Lazarus that he may dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue, for I am suffering in this flame.

²⁵ But Abraham said, Child, recollect that *thou* hast fully received thy good things in thy lifetime, and likewise Lazarus evil things. But now he is comforted here, and *thou* art in suffering.

²⁶ And besides all this, between us and you a great chasm is fixed, so that those who desire to pass hence to you cannot, nor do they who [desire to cross] from there pass over unto us.

²⁷ And he said, I beseech thee then, father, that thou wouldest send him to the house of my father,

²⁸ for I have five brothers, so that he may earnestly testify to them, that they also may not come to this place of torment.

²⁹ But Abraham says to him, They have Moses and the prophets: let them hear them.

³⁰ But he said, Nay, father Abraham, but if one from the dead should go to them, they will repent.

³¹ And he said to him, If they hear not Moses and the prophets, not even if one rise from among [the] dead will they be persuaded.

17 And he said to his disciples, It cannot be but that offences come, but woe [to him] by whom they come!

² It would be [more] profitable for him if a millstone were hanged about his neck and he cast into the sea, than that he should be a snare to one of these little ones.

³ Take heed to yourselves: if thy brother should sin, rebuke him; and if he should repent, forgive him.

⁴ And if he should sin against thee seven times in the day, and seven times should return to thee, saying, I repent, thou shalt forgive him.

⁵ And the apostles said to the Lord, Give more faith to us.

⁶ But the Lord said, If ye have faith as a grain of mustard [seed], ye had said to this sycamine tree, Be thou rooted up, and be thou planted in the sea, and it would have obeyed you.

⁷ But which of you [is there] who, having a bondman ploughing or shepherding, when he comes in out of the field, will say, Come and lie down immediately to table?

⁸ But will he not say to him, Prepare what I shall sup on, and gird thyself and serve me that I may eat and drink; and after that *thou* shalt eat and drink?

⁹ Is he thankful to the bondman because he has done what was ordered? I judge not.

¹⁰ Thus *ye* also, when ye shall have done all things that have been ordered you, say, We are unprofitable bondmen; we have done what it was our duty to do.

¹¹ And it came to pass as he was going up to Jerusalem, that he passed through the midst of Samaria and Galilee.

¹² And as he entered into a certain village ten leprous men met him, who stood afar off.

¹³ And they lifted up [their] voice saying, Jesus, Master, have compassion on us.

¹⁴ And seeing [them] he said to them, Go, shew yourselves to the priests. And it came to pass as they were going they were cleansed.

¹⁵ And one of them, seeing that he was cured, turned back, glorifying God with a loud voice,

¹⁶ and fell on [his] face at his feet giving him thanks: and *he* was a Samaritan.

¹⁷ And Jesus answering said, Were not the ten cleansed? but the nine, where [are they]?

¹⁸ There have not been found to return and give glory to God save this stranger.

¹⁹ And he said to him, Rise up and go thy way: thy faith has made thee well.

²⁰ And having been asked by the Pharisees, When is the kingdom of God coming? he answered them and said, The kingdom of God does not come with observation;

²¹ nor shall they say, Lo here, or, Lo there; for behold, the kingdom of God is in the midst of you.

²² And he said to the disciples, Days are coming, when ye shall desire to see one of the days of the Son of man, and shall not see [it].

²³ And they will say to you, Lo here, or Lo there; go not, nor follow [them].

²⁴ For as the lightning shines which lightens from [one end] under heaven to [the other end] under heaven, thus shall the Son of man be in his day.

²⁵ But first he must suffer many things and be rejected of this generation.

²⁶ And as it took place in the days of Noe, thus also shall it be in the days of the Son of man:

²⁷ they ate, they drank, they married, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and the flood came and destroyed all [of them];

²⁸ and in like manner as took place in the days of Lot: they ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded;

²⁹ but on the day that Lot went out from Sodom, it rained fire and sulphur from heaven, and destroyed all [of them]:

³⁰ after this [manner] shall it be in the day that the Son of man is revealed.

³¹ In that day, he who shall be on the housetop, and his stuff in the house, let him not go down to take it away; and he that is in the field, let him likewise not return back.

³² Remember the wife of Lot.

³³ Whosoever shall seek to save his life shall lose it, and whosoever shall lose it shall preserve it.

³⁴ I say to you, In that night there shall be two [men] upon one bed; one shall be seized and the other shall be let go.

³⁵ Two [women] shall be grinding together; the one shall be seized and the other shall be let go.

³⁶ [Two men shall be in the field; the one shall be seized and the other let go.]

³⁷ And answering they say to him, Where, Lord? And he said to them, Where the body [is], there the eagles will be gathered together.

18 And he spoke also a parable to them to the purport that they should always pray and not faint,

² saying, There was a judge in a city, not fearing God and not respecting man:

³ and there was a widow in that city, and she came to him, saying, Avenge me of mine adverse party.

⁴ And he would not for a time; but afterwards he said within himself, If even I fear not God and respect not man,

⁵ at any rate because this widow annoys me I will avenge her, that she may not by perpetually coming completely harass me.

⁶ And the Lord said, Hear what the unjust judge says.

⁷ And shall not God at all avenge his elect, who cry to him day and night, and he bears long as to them?

⁸ I say unto you that he will avenge them speedily. But when the Son of man comes, shall he indeed find faith on the earth?

⁹ And he spoke also to some, who trusted in themselves that they were righteous and made nothing of all the rest [of men], this parable:

¹⁰ Two men went up into the temple to pray; the one a Pharisee, and the other a tax-gatherer.

¹¹ The Pharisee, standing, prayed thus to himself: God, I thank thee that I am not as the rest of men, rapacious, unjust, adulterers, or even as this tax-gatherer.

¹² I fast twice in the week, I tithe everything I gain.

¹³ And the tax-gatherer, standing afar off, would not lift up even his eyes to heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying, O God, have compassion on me, the sinner.

¹⁴ I say unto you, This [man] went down to his house justified rather than that [other]. For every one who exalts himself shall be humbled, and he that humbles himself shall be exalted.

¹⁵ And they brought to him also infants that he might touch them, but the disciples when they saw [it] rebuked them.

¹⁶ But Jesus calling them to [him] said, Suffer little children to come to me, and do not forbid them, for of such is the kingdom of God.

¹⁷ Verily I say to you, Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child shall in no wise enter therein.

¹⁸ And a certain ruler asked him saying, Good teacher, having done what, shall I inherit eternal life?

¹⁹ But Jesus said to him, Why callest thou me good? There is none good but one, God.

²⁰ Thou knowest the commandments: Do not commit adultery, Do not kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Honour thy father and thy mother.

²¹ And he said, All these things have I kept from my youth.

²² And when Jesus had heard this, he said to him, One thing is lacking to thee yet: Sell all that thou hast and distribute to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in the heavens, and come, follow me.

²³ But when he heard this he became very sorrowful, for he was very rich.

²⁴ But when Jesus saw that he became very sorrowful, he said, How difficultly shall those who have riches enter into the kingdom of God;

²⁵ for it is easier for a camel to enter through a needle's eye than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.

²⁶ And those who heard it said, And who can be saved?

²⁷ But he said, The things that are impossible with men are possible with God.

²⁸ And Peter said, Behold, *we* have left all things and have followed thee.

²⁹ And he said to them, Verily I say to you, There is no one who has left home, or parents, or brethren, or wife, or children, for the kingdom of God's sake,

³⁰ who shall not receive manifold more at this time, and in the coming age life eternal.

³¹ And he took the twelve to [him] and said to them, Behold, we go up to Jerusalem, and all things that are written of the Son of man by the prophets shall be accomplished;

³² for he shall be delivered up to the nations, and shall be mocked, and insulted, and spit upon.

³³ And when they have scourged [him] they will kill him; and on the third day he will rise again.

³⁴ And they understood nothing of these things. And this word was hidden from them, and they did not know what was said.

³⁵ And it came to pass when he came into the neighbourhood of Jericho, a certain blind man sat by the wayside begging.

³⁶ And when he heard the crowd passing, he inquired what this might be.

³⁷ And they told him that Jesus the Nazaraean was passing by.

³⁸ And he called out saying, Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me.

³⁹ And those [who were] going before rebuked him that he might be silent; but *he* cried out so much the more, Son of David, have mercy on me.

⁴⁰ And Jesus stood still, and commanded him to be led to him. And when he drew nigh he asked him [saying],

⁴¹ What wilt thou that I shall do to thee? And he said, Lord, that I may see.

⁴² And Jesus said to him, See: thy faith has healed thee.

⁴³ And immediately he saw, and followed him, glorifying God. And all the people when they saw [it] gave praise to God.

19 And he entered and passed through Jericho.

² And behold, [there was] a man by name called Zacchaeus, and he was chief tax-gatherer, and he was rich.

³ And he sought to see Jesus who he was: and he could not for the crowd, because he was little in stature.

⁴ And running on before, he got up into a sycamore that he might see him, for he was going to pass that [way].

⁵ And when he came up to the place, Jesus looked up and saw him, and said to him, Zacchaeus, make haste and come down, for to-day I must remain in thy house.

⁶ And he made haste and came down, and received him with joy.

⁷ And all murmured when they saw [it], saying, He has turned in to lodge with a sinful man.

⁸ But Zacchaeus stood and said to the Lord, Behold, Lord, the half of my goods I give to the poor, and if I have taken anything from any man by false accusation, I return [him] fourfold.

⁹ And Jesus said to him, To-day salvation is come to this house, inasmuch as he also is a son of Abraham;

¹⁰ for the Son of man has come to seek and to save that which is lost.

¹¹ But as they were listening to these things, he added and spake a parable, because he was near to Jerusalem and they thought that the kingdom of God was about to be immediately manifested.

¹² He said therefore, A certain high-born man went to a distant country to receive for himself a kingdom and return.

¹³ And having called his own ten bondmen, he gave to them ten minas, and said to them, Trade while I am coming.

¹⁴ But his citizens hated him, and sent an embassy after him, saying, We will not that this [man] should reign over us.

¹⁵ And it came to pass on his arrival back again, having received the kingdom, that he desired these bondmen to whom he gave the money to be called to him, in order that he might know what every one had gained by trading.

¹⁶ And the first came up, saying, [My] Lord, thy mina has produced ten minas.

¹⁷ And he said to him, Well [done], thou good bondman; because thou hast been faithful in that which is least, be thou in authority over ten cities.

¹⁸ And the second came, saying, [My] Lord, thy mina has made five minas.

¹⁹ And he said also to this one, And *thou*, be over five cities.

²⁰ And another came, saying, [My] Lord, lo, [there is] thy mina, which I have kept laid up in a towel.

²¹ For I feared thee because thou art a harsh man: thou takest up what thou hast not laid down, and thou reapest what thou hast not sowed.

²² He says to him, Out of thy mouth will I judge thee, wicked bondman: thou knewest that *I* am a harsh man, taking up what I have not laid down and reaping what I have not sowed.

²³ And why didst thou not give my money to [the] bank; and *I* should have received it, at my coming, with interest?

²⁴ And he said to those that stood by, Take from him the mina and give [it] to him who has the ten minas.

²⁵ And they said to him, Lord, he has ten minas.

²⁶ For I say unto you, that to every one that has shall be given; but from him that has not, that even which he has shall be taken from him.

²⁷ Moreover those mine enemies, who would not [have] me to reign over them, bring them here and slay [them] before me.

²⁸ And having said these things, he went on before, going up to Jerusalem.

²⁹ And it came to pass as he drew near to Bethphage and Bethany at the mountain called [the mount] of Olives, he sent two of his disciples,

³⁰ saying, Go into the village over against [you], in which ye will find, on entering it, a colt tied up, on which no [child] of man ever sat at any time: loose it and lead it [here].

³¹ And if any one ask you, Why do ye loose [it]? thus shall ye say to him, Because the Lord has need of it.

³² And they that were sent, having gone their way, found as he had said to them.

³³ And as they were loosing the colt, its masters said to them, Why loose ye the colt?

³⁴ And they said, Because the Lord has need of it.

³⁵ And they led it to Jesus; and having cast their own garments on the colt, they put Jesus on [it].

³⁶ And as he went, they strewed their clothes in the way.

³⁷ And as he drew near, already at the descent of the mount of Olives, all the multitude of the disciples began, rejoicing, to praise God with a loud voice for all the works of power which they had seen,

³⁸ saying, Blessed the King that comes in the name of [the] Lord: peace in heaven, and glory in the highest.

³⁹ And some of the Pharisees from the crowd said to him, Teacher, rebuke thy disciples.

⁴⁰ And he answering said to them, I say unto you, If these shall be silent, the stones will cry out.

⁴¹ And as he drew near, seeing the city, he wept over it,

⁴² saying, If thou hadst known, even thou, even at least in this thy day, the things that are for thy peace: but now they are hid from thine eyes;

⁴³ for days shall come upon thee, that thine enemies shall make a palisaded mound about thee, and shall close thee around, and keep thee in on every side,

⁴⁴ and shall lay thee even with the ground, and thy children in thee; and shall not leave in thee a stone upon a stone: because thou knewest not the season of thy visitation.

⁴⁵ And entering into the temple, he began to cast out those that sold and bought in it,

⁴⁶ saying to them, It is written, My house is a house of prayer, but *ye* have made it a den of robbers.

⁴⁷ And he was teaching day by day in the temple: and the chief priests and the scribes and the chief of the people sought to destroy him,

⁴⁸ and did not find what they could do, for all the people hung on him to hear.