And a ruler asked him, “Good Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?”
For it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the kingdom of God.”
As he drew near to Jericho, a blind man was sitting by the roadside begging.
And hearing a crowd going by, he inquired what this meant.
And behold, there was a man named Zacchaeus. He was a chief tax collector and was rich.
So he ran on ahead and climbed up into a sycamore tree to see him, for he was about to pass that way.
And when they saw it, they all grumbled, “He has gone in to be the guest of a man who is a sinner.”
And Jesus said to him, “Today salvation has come to this house, since he also is a son of Abraham.
As they heard these things, he proceeded to tell a parable, because he was near to Jerusalem, and because they supposed that the kingdom of God was to appear immediately.
He said therefore, “A nobleman went into a far country to receive for himself a kingdom and then return.
But his citizens hated him and sent a delegation after him, saying, ‘We do not want this man to reign over us.’
And he said to him, ‘Well done, good servant! Because you have been faithful in a very little, you shall have authority over ten cities.’
Then another came, saying, ‘Lord, here is your mina, which I kept laid away in a handkerchief;
for I was afraid of you, because you are a severe man. You take what you did not deposit, and reap what you did not sow.’
He said to him, ‘I will condemn you with your own words, you wicked servant! You knew that I was a severe man, taking what I did not deposit and reaping what I did not sow?
saying, “Go into the village in front of you, where on entering you will find a colt tied, on which no one has ever yet sat. Untie it and bring it here.
As he was drawing near—already on the way down the Mount of Olives—the whole multitude of his disciples began to rejoice and praise God with a loud voice for all the mighty works that they had seen,
For the days will come upon you, when your enemies will set up a barricade around you and surround you and hem you in on every side
saying to them, “It is written, ‘My house shall be a house of prayer,’ but you have made it a den of robbers.”
He answered them, “I also will ask you a question. Now tell me,
But if we say, ‘From man,’ all the people will stone us to death, for they are convinced that John was a prophet.”
And he began to tell the people this parable: “A man planted a vineyard and let it out to tenants and went into another country for a long while.
When the time came, he sent a servant to the tenants, so that they would give him some of the fruit of the vineyard. But the tenants beat him and sent him away empty-handed.
And he sent yet a third. This one also they wounded and cast out.
“Show me a denarius. Whose likeness and inscription does it have?” They said, “Caesar's.”
There came to him some Sadducees, those who deny that there is a resurrection,
and they asked him a question, saying, “Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if a man's brother dies, having a wife but no children, the man must take the widow and raise up offspring for his brother.
Now there were seven brothers. The first took a wife, and died without children.
who devour widows' houses and for a pretense make long prayers. They will receive the greater condemnation.”
and he saw a poor widow put in two small copper coins.
for I will give you a mouth and wisdom, which none of your adversaries will be able to withstand or contradict.
But not a hair of your head will perish.
And then they will see the Son of Man coming in a cloud with power and great glory.
And he told them a parable: “Look at the fig tree, and all the trees.
“But watch yourselves lest your hearts be weighed down with dissipation and drunkenness and cares of this life, and that day come upon you suddenly like a trap.
So he consented and sought an opportunity to betray him to them in the absence of a crowd.
He said to them, “Behold, when you have entered the city, a man carrying a jar of water will meet you. Follow him into the house that he enters
And he will show you a large upper room furnished; prepare it there.”
And he took a cup, and when he had given thanks he said, “Take this, and divide it among yourselves.
A dispute also arose among them, as to which of them was to be regarded as the greatest.
and I assign to you, as my Father assigned to me, a kingdom,
He said to them, “But now let the one who has a moneybag take it, and likewise a knapsack. And let the one who has no sword sell his cloak and buy one.
And he withdrew from them about a stone's throw, and knelt down and prayed,
While he was still speaking, there came a crowd, and the man called Judas, one of the twelve, was leading them. He drew near to Jesus to kiss him,
but Jesus said to him, “Judas, would you betray the Son of Man with a kiss?”
Then Jesus said to the chief priests and officers of the temple and elders, who had come out against him, “Have you come out as against a robber, with swords and clubs?
Then they seized him and led him away, bringing him into the high priest's house, and Peter was following at a distance.
And when they had kindled a fire in the middle of the courtyard and sat down together, Peter sat down among them.
Then a servant girl, seeing him as he sat in the light and looking closely at him, said, “This man also was with him.”
And a little later someone else saw him and said, “You also are one of them.” But Peter said, “Man, I am not.”
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