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Jesus Sends Out the Seventy-Two

Jesus' Teaching on Prayer

A Warning against Hypocrisy

(Matthew 10.26, 27)

Turn from Your Sins or Die

Jesus Heals a Sick Man

The Lost Sheep

The Shrewd Manager

¹ One day Jesus was standing on the shore of Lake Gennesaret while the people pushed their way up to him to listen to the word of God. ² He saw two boats pulled up on the beach; the fishermen had left them and were washing the nets. ³ Jesus got into one of the boats—it belonged to Simon—and asked him to push off a little from the shore. Jesus sat in the boat and taught the crowd.

The Parable of the Sower

Whom to Fear

⁴ When he finished speaking, he said to Simon, “Push the boat out further to the deep water, and you and your partners let down your nets for a catch.” ⁵ “Master,” Simon answered, “we worked hard all night long and caught nothing. But if you say so, I will let down the nets.”

The Man with a Paralyzed Hand

The Parable of the Unfruitful Fig Tree

⁶ They let them down and caught such a large number of fish that the nets were about to break.

Herod's Confusion

Humility and Hospitality

⁷ So they motioned to their partners in the other boat to come and help them. They came and filled both boats so full of fish that the boats were about to sink.

Confessing and Rejecting Christ

(Matthew 10.32, 33; 12.32; 10.19, 20)

The Lost Coin

⁸ When Simon Peter saw what had happened, he fell on his knees before Jesus and said, “Go away from me, Lord! I am a sinful man!”

The Purpose of the Parables

⁹ He and the others with him were all amazed at the large number of fish they had caught.

Jesus Feeds Five Thousand

Jesus Heals a Crippled Woman on the Sabbath

¹⁰ The same was true of Simon's partners, James and John, the sons of Zebedee. Jesus said to Simon, “Don't be afraid; from now on you will be catching people.”

Jesus Raises a Widow's Son

Jesus Explains the Parable of the Sower

The Lost Son

¹¹ They pulled the boats up on the beach, left everything, and followed Jesus.

Jesus Heals a Man

Jesus Chooses the Twelve Apostles

¹² Once Jesus was in a town where there was a man who was suffering from a dreaded skin disease. When he saw Jesus, he threw himself down and begged him, “Sir, if you want to, you can make me clean!”

The Unbelieving Towns

The Parable of the Rich Fool

¹³ Jesus reached out and touched him. “I do want to,” he answered. “Be clean!” At once the disease left the man.

Jesus and Beelzebul

Some Sayings of Jesus

(Matthew 11.12, 13; 5.31, 32; Mark 10.11, 12)

¹⁴ Jesus ordered him, “Don't tell anyone, but go straight to the priest and let him examine you; then to prove to everyone that you are cured, offer the sacrifice as Moses ordered.”

The Parable of the Great Feast

¹⁵ But the news about Jesus spread all the more widely, and crowds of people came to hear him and be healed from their diseases.

A Lamp under a Bowl

¹⁶ But he would go away to lonely places, where he prayed.

Jesus Heals a Paralyzed Man

Jesus Teaches and Heals

The Return of the Seventy-Two

¹⁷ One day when Jesus was teaching, some Pharisees and teachers of the Law were sitting there who had come from every town in Galilee and Judea and from Jerusalem. The power of the Lord was present for Jesus to heal the sick.

The Messengers from John the Baptist

Peter's Declaration about Jesus

The Parable of the Mustard Seed

¹⁸ Some men came carrying a paralyzed man on a bed, and they tried to carry him into the house and put him in front of Jesus.

Jesus' Mother and Brothers

The Rich Man and Lazarus

¹⁹ Because of the crowd, however, they could find no way to take him in. So they carried him up on the roof, made an opening in the tiles, and let him down on his bed into the middle of the group in front of Jesus.

Happiness and Sorrow

The Parable of the Yeast

²⁰ When Jesus saw how much faith they had, he said to the man, “Your sins are forgiven, my friend.”

Jesus Speaks about His Suffering and Death

Jesus Rejoices

²¹ The teachers of the Law and the Pharisees began to say to themselves, “Who is this man who speaks such blasphemy! God is the only one who can forgive sins!”

Jesus Calms a Storm

Trust in God

The Narrow Door

(Matthew 7.13, 14, 21-23)

²² Jesus knew their thoughts and said to them, “Why do you think such things? ²³ Is it easier to say, ‘Your sins are forgiven you,’ or to say, ‘Get up and walk’? ^*

The Return of the Evil Spirit

²⁴ I will prove to you, then, that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins.” So he said to the paralyzed man, “I tell you, get up, pick up your bed, and go home!”

The Parable of the Good Samaritan

The Cost of Being a Disciple

(Matthew 10.37, 38)

²⁵ At once the man got up in front of them all, took the bed he had been lying on, and went home, praising God.

Jesus Heals a Man with Demons

²⁶ They were all completely amazed! Full of fear, they praised God, saying, “What marvelous things we have seen today!”

Jesus Calls Levi

Love for Enemies

True Happiness

²⁷ After this, Jesus went out and saw a tax collector named Levi, sitting in his office. Jesus said to him, “Follow me.”

The Transfiguration

²⁸ Levi got up, left everything, and followed him.

The Demand for a Miracle

²⁹ Then Levi had a big feast in his house for Jesus, and among the guests was a large number of tax collectors and other people. ³⁰ Some Pharisees and some teachers of the Law who belonged to their group complained to Jesus' disciples. “Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and other outcasts?” they asked.

Jesus' Love for Jerusalem

³¹ Jesus answered them, “People who are well do not need a doctor, but only those who are sick.

Riches in Heaven

³² I have not come to call respectable people to repent, but outcasts.”

The Question about Fasting

The Light of the Body

(Matthew 5.15; 6.22, 23)

³³ Some people said to Jesus, “The disciples of John fast frequently and offer prayers, and the disciples of the Pharisees do the same; but your disciples eat and drink.”

Worthless Salt

³⁴ Jesus answered, “Do you think you can make the guests at a wedding party go without food as long as the bridegroom is with them? Of course not!

Watchful Servants

³⁵ But the day will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast.”

Jesus at the Home of Simon the Pharisee

³⁶ Jesus also told them this parable: “You don't tear a piece off a new coat to patch up an old coat. If you do, you will have torn the new coat, and the piece of new cloth will not match the old.

Judging Others

Jesus Heals a Boy with an Evil Spirit

Jesus Accuses the Pharisees and the Teachers of the Law

³⁷ Nor do you pour new wine into used wineskins, because the new wine will burst the skins, the wine will pour out, and the skins will be ruined.

Jesus Visits Martha and Mary

³⁸ Instead, new wine must be poured into fresh wineskins! ³⁹ And you don't want new wine after drinking old wine. ‘The old is better,’ you say.”

Jesus Calls the First Disciples

The Question about the Sabbath

Jesus Heals a Roman Officer's Servant

Women Who Accompanied Jesus

Jesus Sends Out the Twelve Disciples

Jesus Sends Out the Seventy-Two

Jesus' Teaching on Prayer

A Warning against Hypocrisy

(Matthew 10.26, 27)

Turn from Your Sins or Die

Jesus Heals a Sick Man

The Lost Sheep

The Shrewd Manager

¹ Jesus was walking through some wheat fields on a Sabbath. His disciples began to pick the heads of wheat, rub them in their hands, and eat the grain. ² Some Pharisees asked, “Why are you doing what our Law says you cannot do on the Sabbath?” ³ Jesus answered them, “Haven't you read what David did when he and his men were hungry?

The Parable of the Sower

Whom to Fear

⁴ He went into the house of God, took the bread offered to God, ate it, and gave it also to his men. Yet it is against our Law for anyone except the priests to eat that bread.” ⁵ And Jesus concluded, “The Son of Man is Lord of the Sabbath.”

The Man with a Paralyzed Hand

The Parable of the Unfruitful Fig Tree

⁶ On another Sabbath Jesus went into a synagogue and taught. A man was there whose right hand was paralyzed.

Herod's Confusion

Humility and Hospitality

⁷ Some teachers of the Law and some Pharisees wanted a reason to accuse Jesus of doing wrong, so they watched him closely to see if he would heal on the Sabbath.

Confessing and Rejecting Christ

(Matthew 10.32, 33; 12.32; 10.19, 20)

The Lost Coin

⁸ But Jesus knew their thoughts and said to the man, “Stand up and come here to the front.” The man got up and stood there.

The Purpose of the Parables

⁹ Then Jesus said to them, “I ask you: What does our Law allow us to do on the Sabbath? To help or to harm? To save someone's life or destroy it?”

Jesus Feeds Five Thousand

Jesus Heals a Crippled Woman on the Sabbath

¹⁰ He looked around at them all; then he said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” He did so, and his hand became well again.

Jesus Raises a Widow's Son

Jesus Explains the Parable of the Sower

The Lost Son

¹¹ They were filled with rage and began to discuss among themselves what they could do to Jesus.

Jesus Heals a Man

Jesus Chooses the Twelve Apostles

¹² At that time Jesus went up a hill to pray and spent the whole night there praying to God.

The Unbelieving Towns

The Parable of the Rich Fool

¹³ When day came, he called his disciples to him and chose twelve of them, whom he named apostles:

Jesus and Beelzebul

Some Sayings of Jesus

(Matthew 11.12, 13; 5.31, 32; Mark 10.11, 12)

¹⁴ Simon (whom he named Peter) and his brother Andrew; James and John, Philip and Bartholomew,

The Parable of the Great Feast

¹⁵ Matthew and Thomas, James son of Alphaeus, and Simon (who was called the Patriot),

A Lamp under a Bowl

¹⁶ Judas son of James, and Judas Iscariot, who became the traitor.

Jesus Heals a Paralyzed Man

Jesus Teaches and Heals

The Return of the Seventy-Two

¹⁷ When Jesus had come down from the hill with the apostles, he stood on a level place with a large number of his disciples. A large crowd of people was there from all over Judea and from Jerusalem and from the coast cities of Tyre and Sidon;

The Messengers from John the Baptist

Peter's Declaration about Jesus

The Parable of the Mustard Seed

¹⁸ they had come to hear him and to be healed of their diseases. Those who were troubled by evil spirits also came and were healed.

Jesus' Mother and Brothers

The Rich Man and Lazarus

¹⁹ All the people tried to touch him, for power was going out from him and healing them all.

Happiness and Sorrow

The Parable of the Yeast

²⁰ Jesus looked at his disciples and said,
“Happy are you poor;
the Kingdom of God is yours!

Jesus Speaks about His Suffering and Death

Jesus Rejoices

²¹ “Happy are you who are hungry now;
you will be filled!
“Happy are you who weep now;
you will laugh!

Jesus Calms a Storm

Trust in God

The Narrow Door

(Matthew 7.13, 14, 21-23)

²² “Happy are you when people hate you, reject you, insult you, and say that you are evil, all because of the Son of Man! ²³ Be glad when that happens and dance for joy, because a great reward is kept for you in heaven. For their ancestors did the very same things to the prophets.
^*

The Return of the Evil Spirit

²⁴ “But how terrible for you who are rich now;
you have had your easy life!

The Parable of the Good Samaritan

The Cost of Being a Disciple

(Matthew 10.37, 38)

²⁵ “How terrible for you who are full now;
you will go hungry!
“How terrible for you who laugh now;
you will mourn and weep!

Jesus Heals a Man with Demons

²⁶ “How terrible when all people speak well of you; their ancestors said the very same things about the false prophets.

Jesus Calls Levi

Love for Enemies

True Happiness

²⁷ “But I tell you who hear me: Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you,

The Transfiguration

²⁸ bless those who curse you, and pray for those who mistreat you.

The Demand for a Miracle

²⁹ If anyone hits you on one cheek, let him hit the other one too; if someone takes your coat, let him have your shirt as well. ³⁰ Give to everyone who asks you for something, and when someone takes what is yours, do not ask for it back.

Jesus' Love for Jerusalem

³¹ Do for others just what you want them to do for you.

Riches in Heaven

³² “If you love only the people who love you, why should you receive a blessing? Even sinners love those who love them!

The Question about Fasting

The Light of the Body

(Matthew 5.15; 6.22, 23)

³³ And if you do good only to those who do good to you, why should you receive a blessing? Even sinners do that!

Worthless Salt

³⁴ And if you lend only to those from whom you hope to get it back, why should you receive a blessing? Even sinners lend to sinners, to get back the same amount!

Watchful Servants

³⁵ No! Love your enemies and do good to them; lend and expect nothing back. You will then have a great reward, and you will be children of the Most High God. For he is good to the ungrateful and the wicked.

Jesus at the Home of Simon the Pharisee

³⁶ Be merciful just as your Father is merciful.

Judging Others

Jesus Heals a Boy with an Evil Spirit

Jesus Accuses the Pharisees and the Teachers of the Law

³⁷ “Do not judge others, and God will not judge you; do not condemn others, and God will not condemn you; forgive others, and God will forgive you.

Jesus Visits Martha and Mary

³⁸ Give to others, and God will give to you. Indeed, you will receive a full measure, a generous helping, poured into your hands—all that you can hold. The measure you use for others is the one that God will use for you.” ³⁹ And Jesus told them this parable: “One blind man cannot lead another one; if he does, both will fall into a ditch.

Jairus' Daughter and the Woman Who Touched Jesus' Cloak

⁴⁰ No pupils are greater than their teacher; but all pupils, when they have completed their training, will be like their teacher.

The Faithful or the Unfaithful Servant

⁴¹ “Why do you look at the speck in your brother's eye, but pay no attention to the log in your own eye? ⁴² How can you say to your brother, ‘Please, brother, let me take that speck out of your eye,’ yet cannot even see the log in your own eye? You hypocrite! First take the log out of your own eye, and then you will be able to see clearly to take the speck out of your brother's eye.

A Tree and Its Fruit

⁴³ “A healthy tree does not bear bad fruit, nor does a poor tree bear good fruit.

Jesus Speaks Again about His Death

⁴⁴ Every tree is known by the fruit it bears; you do not pick figs from thorn bushes or gather grapes from bramble bushes. ⁴⁵ A good person brings good out of the treasure of good things in his heart; a bad person brings bad out of his treasure of bad things. For the mouth speaks what the heart is full of.

The Two House Builders

Who Is the Greatest?

⁴⁶ “Why do you call me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ and yet don't do what I tell you? ^* ⁴⁷ Anyone who comes to me and listens to my words and obeys them—I will show you what he is like. ⁴⁸ He is like a man who, in building his house, dug deep and laid the foundation on rock. The river flooded over and hit that house but could not shake it, because it was well built.

Whoever Is Not against You Is for You

Jesus the Cause of Division

⁴⁹ But anyone who hears my words and does not obey them is like a man who built his house without laying a foundation; when the flood hit that house it fell at once—and what a terrible crash that was!”

Jesus Calls the First Disciples

The Question about the Sabbath

Jesus Heals a Roman Officer's Servant

Women Who Accompanied Jesus

Jesus Sends Out the Twelve Disciples

Jesus Sends Out the Seventy-Two

Jesus' Teaching on Prayer

A Warning against Hypocrisy

(Matthew 10.26, 27)

Turn from Your Sins or Die

Jesus Heals a Sick Man

The Lost Sheep

The Shrewd Manager

¹ When Jesus had finished saying all these things to the people, he went to Capernaum. ² A Roman officer there had a servant who was very dear to him; the man was sick and about to die. ³ When the officer heard about Jesus, he sent some Jewish elders to ask him to come and heal his servant.

The Parable of the Sower

Whom to Fear

⁴ They came to Jesus and begged him earnestly, “This man really deserves your help. ⁵ He loves our people and he himself built a synagogue for us.”

The Man with a Paralyzed Hand

The Parable of the Unfruitful Fig Tree

⁶ So Jesus went with them. He was not far from the house when the officer sent friends to tell him, “Sir, don't trouble yourself. I do not deserve to have you come into my house,

Herod's Confusion

Humility and Hospitality

⁷ neither do I consider myself worthy to come to you in person. Just give the order, and my servant will get well.

Confessing and Rejecting Christ

(Matthew 10.32, 33; 12.32; 10.19, 20)

The Lost Coin

⁸ I, too, am a man placed under the authority of superior officers, and I have soldiers under me. I order this one, ‘Go!’ and he goes; I order that one, ‘Come!’ and he comes; and I order my slave, ‘Do this!’ and he does it.”

The Purpose of the Parables

⁹ Jesus was surprised when he heard this; he turned around and said to the crowd following him, “I tell you, I have never found faith like this, not even in Israel!”

Jesus Feeds Five Thousand

Jesus Heals a Crippled Woman on the Sabbath

¹⁰ The messengers went back to the officer's house and found his servant well.

Jesus Raises a Widow's Son

Jesus Explains the Parable of the Sower

The Lost Son

¹¹ Soon afterward Jesus went to a town named Nain, accompanied by his disciples and a large crowd.

Jesus Heals a Man

Jesus Chooses the Twelve Apostles

¹² Just as he arrived at the gate of the town, a funeral procession was coming out. The dead man was the only son of a woman who was a widow, and a large crowd from the town was with her.

The Unbelieving Towns

The Parable of the Rich Fool

¹³ When the Lord saw her, his heart was filled with pity for her, and he said to her, “Don't cry.”

Jesus and Beelzebul

Some Sayings of Jesus

(Matthew 11.12, 13; 5.31, 32; Mark 10.11, 12)

¹⁴ Then he walked over and touched the coffin, and the men carrying it stopped. Jesus said, “Young man! Get up, I tell you!”

The Parable of the Great Feast

¹⁵ The dead man sat up and began to talk, and Jesus gave him back to his mother.

A Lamp under a Bowl

¹⁶ They all were filled with fear and praised God. “A great prophet has appeared among us!” they said; “God has come to save his people!”

Jesus Heals a Paralyzed Man

Jesus Teaches and Heals

The Return of the Seventy-Two

¹⁷ This news about Jesus went out through all the country and the surrounding territory.

The Messengers from John the Baptist

Peter's Declaration about Jesus

The Parable of the Mustard Seed

¹⁸ When John's disciples told him about all these things, he called two of them

Jesus' Mother and Brothers

The Rich Man and Lazarus

¹⁹ and sent them to the Lord to ask him, “Are you the one John said was going to come, or should we expect someone else?”

Happiness and Sorrow

The Parable of the Yeast

²⁰ When they came to Jesus, they said, “John the Baptist sent us to ask if you are the one he said was going to come, or should we expect someone else?”

Jesus Speaks about His Suffering and Death

Jesus Rejoices

²¹ At that very time Jesus healed many people from their sicknesses, diseases, and evil spirits, and gave sight to many blind people.

Jesus Calms a Storm

Trust in God

The Narrow Door

(Matthew 7.13, 14, 21-23)

²² He answered John's messengers, “Go back and tell John what you have seen and heard: the blind can see, the lame can walk, those who suffer from dreaded skin diseases are made clean, the deaf can hear, the dead are raised to life, and the Good News is preached to the poor. ²³ How happy are those who have no doubts about me!” ^*

The Return of the Evil Spirit

²⁴ After John's messengers had left, Jesus began to speak about him to the crowds: “When you went out to John in the desert, what did you expect to see? A blade of grass bending in the wind?

The Parable of the Good Samaritan

The Cost of Being a Disciple

(Matthew 10.37, 38)

²⁵ What did you go out to see? A man dressed up in fancy clothes? People who dress like that and live in luxury are found in palaces!

Jesus Heals a Man with Demons

²⁶ Tell me, what did you go out to see? A prophet? Yes indeed, but you saw much more than a prophet.

Jesus Calls Levi

Love for Enemies

True Happiness

²⁷ For John is the one of whom the scripture says: ‘God said, I will send my messenger ahead of you to open the way for you.’

The Transfiguration

²⁸ I tell you,” Jesus added, “John is greater than anyone who has ever lived. But the one who is least in the Kingdom of God is greater than John.”

The Demand for a Miracle

²⁹ All the people heard him; they and especially the tax collectors were the ones who had obeyed God's righteous demands and had been baptized by John. ³⁰ But the Pharisees and the teachers of the Law rejected God's purpose for themselves and refused to be baptized by John.

Jesus' Love for Jerusalem

³¹ Jesus continued, “Now to what can I compare the people of this day? What are they like?

Riches in Heaven

³² They are like children sitting in the marketplace. One group shouts to the other, ‘We played wedding music for you, but you wouldn't dance! We sang funeral songs, but you wouldn't cry!’

The Question about Fasting

The Light of the Body

(Matthew 5.15; 6.22, 23)

³³ John the Baptist came, and he fasted and drank no wine, and you said, ‘He has a demon in him!’

Worthless Salt

³⁴ The Son of Man came, and he ate and drank, and you said, ‘Look at this man! He is a glutton and wine drinker, a friend of tax collectors and other outcasts!’

Watchful Servants

³⁵ God's wisdom, however, is shown to be true by all who accept it.”

Jesus at the Home of Simon the Pharisee

³⁶ A Pharisee invited Jesus to have dinner with him, and Jesus went to his house and sat down to eat.

Judging Others

Jesus Heals a Boy with an Evil Spirit

Jesus Accuses the Pharisees and the Teachers of the Law

³⁷ In that town was a woman who lived a sinful life. She heard that Jesus was eating in the Pharisee's house, so she brought an alabaster jar full of perfume

Jesus Visits Martha and Mary

³⁸ and stood behind Jesus, by his feet, crying and wetting his feet with her tears. Then she dried his feet with her hair, kissed them, and poured the perfume on them. ³⁹ When the Pharisee saw this, he said to himself, “If this man really were a prophet, he would know who this woman is who is touching him; he would know what kind of sinful life she lives!”

Jairus' Daughter and the Woman Who Touched Jesus' Cloak

⁴⁰ Jesus spoke up and said to him, “Simon, I have something to tell you.” “Yes, Teacher,” he said, “tell me.”

The Faithful or the Unfaithful Servant

⁴¹ “There were two men who owed money to a moneylender,” Jesus began. “One owed him five hundred silver coins, and the other owed him fifty. ⁴² Neither of them could pay him back, so he canceled the debts of both. Which one, then, will love him more?”

A Tree and Its Fruit

⁴³ “I suppose,” answered Simon, “that it would be the one who was forgiven more.” “You are right,” said Jesus.

Jesus Speaks Again about His Death

⁴⁴ Then he turned to the woman and said to Simon, “Do you see this woman? I came into your home, and you gave me no water for my feet, but she has washed my feet with her tears and dried them with her hair. ⁴⁵ You did not welcome me with a kiss, but she has not stopped kissing my feet since I came.

The Two House Builders

Who Is the Greatest?

⁴⁶ You provided no olive oil for my head, but she has covered my feet with perfume. ^* ⁴⁷ I tell you, then, the great love she has shown proves that her many sins have been forgiven. But whoever has been forgiven little shows only a little love.” ⁴⁸ Then Jesus said to the woman, “Your sins are forgiven.”

Whoever Is Not against You Is for You

Jesus the Cause of Division

⁴⁹ The others sitting at the table began to say to themselves, “Who is this, who even forgives sins?” ⁵⁰ But Jesus said to the woman, “Your faith has saved you; go in peace.”

Jesus Calls the First Disciples

The Question about the Sabbath

Jesus Heals a Roman Officer's Servant

Women Who Accompanied Jesus

Jesus Sends Out the Twelve Disciples

Jesus Sends Out the Seventy-Two

Jesus' Teaching on Prayer

A Warning against Hypocrisy

(Matthew 10.26, 27)

Turn from Your Sins or Die

Jesus Heals a Sick Man

The Lost Sheep

The Shrewd Manager

¹ Some time later Jesus traveled through towns and villages, preaching the Good News about the Kingdom of God. The twelve disciples went with him, ² and so did some women who had been healed of evil spirits and diseases: Mary (who was called Magdalene), from whom seven demons had been driven out; ³ Joanna, whose husband Chuza was an officer in Herod's court; and Susanna, and many other women who used their own resources to help Jesus and his disciples.

The Parable of the Sower

Whom to Fear

⁴ People kept coming to Jesus from one town after another; and when a great crowd gathered, Jesus told this parable: ⁵ “Once there was a man who went out to sow grain. As he scattered the seed in the field, some of it fell along the path, where it was stepped on, and the birds ate it up.

The Man with a Paralyzed Hand

The Parable of the Unfruitful Fig Tree

⁶ Some of it fell on rocky ground, and when the plants sprouted, they dried up because the soil had no moisture.

Herod's Confusion

Humility and Hospitality

⁷ Some of the seed fell among thorn bushes, which grew up with the plants and choked them.

Confessing and Rejecting Christ

(Matthew 10.32, 33; 12.32; 10.19, 20)

The Lost Coin

⁸ And some seeds fell in good soil; the plants grew and bore grain, one hundred grains each.” And Jesus concluded, “Listen, then, if you have ears!”

The Purpose of the Parables

⁹ His disciples asked Jesus what this parable meant,

Jesus Feeds Five Thousand

Jesus Heals a Crippled Woman on the Sabbath

¹⁰ and he answered, “The knowledge of the secrets of the Kingdom of God has been given to you, but to the rest it comes by means of parables, so that they may look but not see, and listen but not understand.

Jesus Raises a Widow's Son

Jesus Explains the Parable of the Sower

The Lost Son

¹¹ “This is what the parable means: the seed is the word of God.

Jesus Heals a Man

Jesus Chooses the Twelve Apostles

¹² The seeds that fell along the path stand for those who hear; but the Devil comes and takes the message away from their hearts in order to keep them from believing and being saved.

The Unbelieving Towns

The Parable of the Rich Fool

¹³ The seeds that fell on rocky ground stand for those who hear the message and receive it gladly. But it does not sink deep into them; they believe only for a while but when the time of testing comes, they fall away.

Jesus and Beelzebul

Some Sayings of Jesus

(Matthew 11.12, 13; 5.31, 32; Mark 10.11, 12)

¹⁴ The seeds that fell among thorn bushes stand for those who hear; but the worries and riches and pleasures of this life crowd in and choke them, and their fruit never ripens.

The Parable of the Great Feast

¹⁵ The seeds that fell in good soil stand for those who hear the message and retain it in a good and obedient heart, and they persist until they bear fruit.

A Lamp under a Bowl

¹⁶ “No one lights a lamp and covers it with a bowl or puts it under a bed. Instead, it is put on the lampstand, so that people will see the light as they come in.

Jesus Heals a Paralyzed Man

Jesus Teaches and Heals

The Return of the Seventy-Two

¹⁷ “Whatever is hidden away will be brought out into the open, and whatever is covered up will be found and brought to light.

The Messengers from John the Baptist

Peter's Declaration about Jesus

The Parable of the Mustard Seed

¹⁸ “Be careful, then, how you listen; because those who have something will be given more, but whoever has nothing will have taken away from them even the little they think they have.”

Jesus' Mother and Brothers

The Rich Man and Lazarus

¹⁹ Jesus' mother and brothers came to him, but were unable to join him because of the crowd.

Happiness and Sorrow

The Parable of the Yeast

²⁰ Someone said to Jesus, “Your mother and brothers are standing outside and want to see you.”

Jesus Speaks about His Suffering and Death

Jesus Rejoices

²¹ Jesus said to them all, “My mother and brothers are those who hear the word of God and obey it.”

Jesus Calms a Storm

Trust in God

The Narrow Door

(Matthew 7.13, 14, 21-23)

²² One day Jesus got into a boat with his disciples and said to them, “Let us go across to the other side of the lake.” So they started out. ²³ As they were sailing, Jesus fell asleep. Suddenly a strong wind blew down on the lake, and the boat began to fill with water, so that they were all in great danger. ^*

The Return of the Evil Spirit

²⁴ The disciples went to Jesus and woke him up, saying, “Master, Master! We are about to die!” Jesus got up and gave an order to the wind and to the stormy water; they quieted down, and there was a great calm.

The Parable of the Good Samaritan

The Cost of Being a Disciple

(Matthew 10.37, 38)

²⁵ Then he said to the disciples, “Where is your faith?” But they were amazed and afraid, and said to one another, “Who is this man? He gives orders to the winds and waves, and they obey him!”

Jesus Heals a Man with Demons

²⁶ Jesus and his disciples sailed on over to the territory of Gerasa, which is across the lake from Galilee.

Jesus Calls Levi

Love for Enemies

True Happiness

²⁷ As Jesus stepped ashore, he was met by a man from the town who had demons in him. For a long time this man had gone without clothes and would not stay at home, but spent his time in the burial caves.

The Transfiguration

²⁸ When he saw Jesus, he gave a loud cry, threw himself down at his feet, and shouted, “Jesus, Son of the Most High God! What do you want with me? I beg you, don't punish me!”

The Demand for a Miracle

²⁹ He said this because Jesus had ordered the evil spirit to go out of him. Many times it had seized him, and even though he was kept a prisoner, his hands and feet tied with chains, he would break the chains and be driven by the demon out into the desert. ³⁰ Jesus asked him, “What is your name?” “My name is ‘Mob,’” he answered—because many demons had gone into him.

Jesus' Love for Jerusalem

³¹ The demons begged Jesus not to send them into the abyss.

Riches in Heaven

³² There was a large herd of pigs near by, feeding on a hillside. So the demons begged Jesus to let them go into the pigs, and he let them.

The Question about Fasting

The Light of the Body

(Matthew 5.15; 6.22, 23)

³³ They went out of the man and into the pigs. The whole herd rushed down the side of the cliff into the lake and was drowned.

Worthless Salt

³⁴ The men who had been taking care of the pigs saw what happened, so they ran off and spread the news in the town and among the farms.

Watchful Servants

³⁵ People went out to see what had happened, and when they came to Jesus, they found the man from whom the demons had gone out sitting at the feet of Jesus, clothed and in his right mind; and they were all afraid.

Jesus at the Home of Simon the Pharisee

³⁶ Those who had seen it told the people how the man had been cured.

Judging Others

Jesus Heals a Boy with an Evil Spirit

Jesus Accuses the Pharisees and the Teachers of the Law

³⁷ Then all the people from that territory asked Jesus to go away, because they were terribly afraid. So Jesus got into the boat and left.

Jesus Visits Martha and Mary

³⁸ The man from whom the demons had gone out begged Jesus, “Let me go with you.” But Jesus sent him away, saying, ³⁹ “Go back home and tell what God has done for you.” The man went through the town, telling what Jesus had done for him.

Jairus' Daughter and the Woman Who Touched Jesus' Cloak

⁴⁰ When Jesus returned to the other side of the lake, the people welcomed him, because they had all been waiting for him.

The Faithful or the Unfaithful Servant

⁴¹ Then a man named Jairus arrived; he was an official in the local synagogue. He threw himself down at Jesus' feet and begged him to go to his home, ⁴² because his only daughter, who was twelve years old, was dying. As Jesus went along, the people were crowding him from every side.

A Tree and Its Fruit

⁴³ Among them was a woman who had suffered from severe bleeding for twelve years; she had spent all she had on doctors, but no one had been able to cure her.

Jesus Speaks Again about His Death

⁴⁴ She came up in the crowd behind Jesus and touched the edge of his cloak, and her bleeding stopped at once. ⁴⁵ Jesus asked, “Who touched me?” Everyone denied it, and Peter said, “Master, the people are all around you and crowding in on you.”

The Two House Builders

Who Is the Greatest?

⁴⁶ But Jesus said, “Someone touched me, for I knew it when power went out of me.” ^* ⁴⁷ The woman saw that she had been found out, so she came trembling and threw herself at Jesus' feet. There in front of everybody, she told him why she had touched him and how she had been healed at once. ⁴⁸ Jesus said to her, “My daughter, your faith has made you well. Go in peace.”

Whoever Is Not against You Is for You

Jesus the Cause of Division

⁴⁹ While Jesus was saying this, a messenger came from the official's house. “Your daughter has died,” he told Jairus; “don't bother the Teacher any longer.” ⁵⁰ But Jesus heard it and said to Jairus, “Don't be afraid; only believe, and she will be well.”

A Samaritan Village Refuses to Receive Jesus

⁵¹ When he arrived at the house, he would not let anyone go in with him except Peter, John, and James, and the child's father and mother. ⁵² Everyone there was crying and mourning for the child. Jesus said, “Don't cry; the child is not dead—she is only sleeping!” ⁵³ They all made fun of him, because they knew that she was dead.

Understanding the Time

⁵⁴ But Jesus took her by the hand and called out, “Get up, child!” ⁵⁵ Her life returned, and she got up at once, and Jesus ordered them to give her something to eat. ⁵⁶ Her parents were astounded, but Jesus commanded them not to tell anyone what had happened.

Jesus Calls the First Disciples

The Question about the Sabbath

Jesus Heals a Roman Officer's Servant

Women Who Accompanied Jesus

Jesus Sends Out the Twelve Disciples

Jesus Sends Out the Seventy-Two

Jesus' Teaching on Prayer

A Warning against Hypocrisy

(Matthew 10.26, 27)

Turn from Your Sins or Die

Jesus Heals a Sick Man

The Lost Sheep

The Shrewd Manager

¹ Jesus called the twelve disciples together and gave them power and authority to drive out all demons and to cure diseases. ² Then he sent them out to preach the Kingdom of God and to heal the sick, ³ after saying to them, “Take nothing with you for the trip: no walking stick, no beggar's bag, no food, no money, not even an extra shirt.

The Parable of the Sower

Whom to Fear

⁴ Wherever you are welcomed, stay in the same house until you leave that town; ⁵ wherever people don't welcome you, leave that town and shake the dust off your feet as a warning to them.”

The Man with a Paralyzed Hand

The Parable of the Unfruitful Fig Tree

⁶ The disciples left and traveled through all the villages, preaching the Good News and healing people everywhere.

Herod's Confusion

Humility and Hospitality

⁷ When Herod, the ruler of Galilee, heard about all the things that were happening, he was very confused, because some people were saying that John the Baptist had come back to life.

Confessing and Rejecting Christ

(Matthew 10.32, 33; 12.32; 10.19, 20)

The Lost Coin

⁸ Others were saying that Elijah had appeared, and still others that one of the prophets of long ago had come back to life.

The Purpose of the Parables

⁹ Herod said, “I had John's head cut off; but who is this man I hear these things about?” And he kept trying to see Jesus.

Jesus Feeds Five Thousand

Jesus Heals a Crippled Woman on the Sabbath

¹⁰ The apostles came back and told Jesus everything they had done. He took them with him, and they went off by themselves to a town named Bethsaida.

Jesus Raises a Widow's Son

Jesus Explains the Parable of the Sower

The Lost Son

¹¹ When the crowds heard about it, they followed him. He welcomed them, spoke to them about the Kingdom of God, and healed those who needed it.

Jesus Heals a Man

Jesus Chooses the Twelve Apostles

¹² When the sun was beginning to set, the twelve disciples came to him and said, “Send the people away so that they can go to the villages and farms around here and find food and lodging, because this is a lonely place.”

The Unbelieving Towns

The Parable of the Rich Fool

¹³ But Jesus said to them, “You yourselves give them something to eat.” They answered, “All we have are five loaves and two fish. Do you want us to go and buy food for this whole crowd?”

Jesus and Beelzebul

Some Sayings of Jesus

(Matthew 11.12, 13; 5.31, 32; Mark 10.11, 12)

¹⁴ (There were about five thousand men there.) Jesus said to his disciples, “Make the people sit down in groups of about fifty each.”

The Parable of the Great Feast

¹⁵ After the disciples had done so,

A Lamp under a Bowl

¹⁶ Jesus took the five loaves and two fish, looked up to heaven, thanked God for them, broke them, and gave them to the disciples to distribute to the people.

Jesus Heals a Paralyzed Man

Jesus Teaches and Heals

The Return of the Seventy-Two

¹⁷ They all ate and had enough, and the disciples took up twelve baskets of what was left over.

The Messengers from John the Baptist

Peter's Declaration about Jesus

The Parable of the Mustard Seed

¹⁸ One day when Jesus was praying alone, the disciples came to him. “Who do the crowds say I am?” he asked them.

Jesus' Mother and Brothers

The Rich Man and Lazarus

¹⁹ “Some say that you are John the Baptist,” they answered. “Others say that you are Elijah, while others say that one of the prophets of long ago has come back to life.”

Happiness and Sorrow

The Parable of the Yeast

²⁰ “What about you?” he asked them. “Who do you say I am?” Peter answered, “You are God's Messiah.”

Jesus Speaks about His Suffering and Death

Jesus Rejoices

²¹ Then Jesus gave them strict orders not to tell this to anyone.

Jesus Calms a Storm

Trust in God

The Narrow Door

(Matthew 7.13, 14, 21-23)

²² He also told them, “The Son of Man must suffer much and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests, and the teachers of the Law. He will be put to death, but three days later he will be raised to life.” ²³ And he said to them all, “If you want to come with me, you must forget yourself, take up your cross every day, and follow me. ^*

The Return of the Evil Spirit

²⁴ For if you want to save your own life, you will lose it, but if you lose your life for my sake, you will save it.

The Parable of the Good Samaritan

The Cost of Being a Disciple

(Matthew 10.37, 38)

²⁵ Will you gain anything if you win the whole world but are yourself lost or defeated? Of course not!

Jesus Heals a Man with Demons

²⁶ If you are ashamed of me and of my teaching, then the Son of Man will be ashamed of you when he comes in his glory and in the glory of the Father and of the holy angels.

Jesus Calls Levi

Love for Enemies

True Happiness

²⁷ I assure you that there are some here who will not die until they have seen the Kingdom of God.”

The Transfiguration

²⁸ About a week after he had said these things, Jesus took Peter, John, and James with him and went up a hill to pray.

The Demand for a Miracle

²⁹ While he was praying, his face changed its appearance, and his clothes became dazzling white. ³⁰ Suddenly two men were there talking with him. They were Moses and Elijah,

Jesus' Love for Jerusalem

³¹ who appeared in heavenly glory and talked with Jesus about the way in which he would soon fulfill God's purpose by dying in Jerusalem.

Riches in Heaven

³² Peter and his companions were sound asleep, but they woke up and saw Jesus' glory and the two men who were standing with him.

The Question about Fasting

The Light of the Body

(Matthew 5.15; 6.22, 23)

³³ As the men were leaving Jesus, Peter said to him, “Master, how good it is that we are here! We will make three tents, one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah.” (He did not really know what he was saying.)

Worthless Salt

³⁴ While he was still speaking, a cloud appeared and covered them with its shadow; and the disciples were afraid as the cloud came over them.

Watchful Servants

³⁵ A voice said from the cloud, “This is my Son, whom I have chosen—listen to him!”

Jesus at the Home of Simon the Pharisee

³⁶ When the voice stopped, there was Jesus all alone. The disciples kept quiet about all this and told no one at that time anything they had seen.

Judging Others

Jesus Heals a Boy with an Evil Spirit

Jesus Accuses the Pharisees and the Teachers of the Law

³⁷ The next day Jesus and the three disciples went down from the hill, and a large crowd met Jesus.

Jesus Visits Martha and Mary

³⁸ A man shouted from the crowd, “Teacher! I beg you, look at my son—my only son! ³⁹ A spirit attacks him with a sudden shout and throws him into a fit, so that he foams at the mouth; it keeps on hurting him and will hardly let him go!

Jairus' Daughter and the Woman Who Touched Jesus' Cloak

⁴⁰ I begged your disciples to drive it out, but they couldn't.”

The Faithful or the Unfaithful Servant

⁴¹ Jesus answered, “How unbelieving and wrong you people are! How long must I stay with you? How long do I have to put up with you?” Then he said to the man, “Bring your son here.” ⁴² As the boy was coming, the demon knocked him to the ground and threw him into a fit. Jesus gave a command to the evil spirit, healed the boy, and gave him back to his father.

A Tree and Its Fruit

⁴³ All the people were amazed at the mighty power of God. The people were still marveling at everything Jesus was doing, when he said to his disciples,

Jesus Speaks Again about His Death

⁴⁴ “Don't forget what I am about to tell you! The Son of Man is going to be handed over to the power of human beings.” ⁴⁵ But the disciples did not know what this meant. It had been hidden from them so that they could not understand it, and they were afraid to ask him about the matter.

The Two House Builders

Who Is the Greatest?

⁴⁶ An argument broke out among the disciples as to which one of them was the greatest. ^* ⁴⁷ Jesus knew what they were thinking, so he took a child, stood him by his side, ⁴⁸ and said to them, “Whoever welcomes this child in my name, welcomes me; and whoever welcomes me, also welcomes the one who sent me. For the one who is least among you all is the greatest.”

Whoever Is Not against You Is for You

Jesus the Cause of Division

⁴⁹ John spoke up, “Master, we saw a man driving out demons in your name, and we told him to stop, because he doesn't belong to our group.” ⁵⁰ “Do not try to stop him,” Jesus said to him and to the other disciples, “because whoever is not against you is for you.”

A Samaritan Village Refuses to Receive Jesus

⁵¹ As the time drew near when Jesus would be taken up to heaven, he made up his mind and set out on his way to Jerusalem. ⁵² He sent messengers ahead of him, who went into a village in Samaria to get everything ready for him. ⁵³ But the people there would not receive him, because it was clear that he was on his way to Jerusalem.

Understanding the Time

⁵⁴ When the disciples James and John saw this, they said, “Lord, do you want us to call fire down from heaven to destroy them?” ⁵⁵ Jesus turned and rebuked them. ⁵⁶ Then Jesus and his disciples went on to another village.

The Would-Be Followers of Jesus

(Matthew 8.19-22)

Settle with Your Opponent

(Matthew 5.25, 26)

⁵⁷ As they went on their way, a man said to Jesus, “I will follow you wherever you go.” ⁵⁸ Jesus said to him, “Foxes have holes, and birds have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lie down and rest.” ⁵⁹ He said to another man, “Follow me.” But that man said, “Sir, first let me go back and bury my father.” ⁶⁰ Jesus answered, “Let the dead bury their own dead. You go and proclaim the Kingdom of God.” ⁶¹ Someone else said, “I will follow you, sir; but first let me go and say good-bye to my family.” ⁶² Jesus said to him, “Anyone who starts to plow and then keeps looking back is of no use for the Kingdom of God.”

Jesus Calls the First Disciples

The Question about the Sabbath

Jesus Heals a Roman Officer's Servant

Women Who Accompanied Jesus

Jesus Sends Out the Twelve Disciples

Jesus Sends Out the Seventy-Two

Jesus' Teaching on Prayer

A Warning against Hypocrisy

(Matthew 10.26, 27)

Turn from Your Sins or Die

Jesus Heals a Sick Man

The Lost Sheep

The Shrewd Manager

¹ After this the Lord chose another seventy-two men and sent them out two by two, to go ahead of him to every town and place where he himself was about to go. ² He said to them, “There is a large harvest, but few workers to gather it in. Pray to the owner of the harvest that he will send out workers to gather in his harvest. ³ Go! I am sending you like lambs among wolves.

The Parable of the Sower

Whom to Fear

⁴ Don't take a purse or a beggar's bag or shoes; don't stop to greet anyone on the road. ⁵ Whenever you go into a house, first say, ‘Peace be with this house.’

The Man with a Paralyzed Hand

The Parable of the Unfruitful Fig Tree

⁶ If someone who is peace-loving lives there, let your greeting of peace remain on that person; if not, take back your greeting of peace.

Herod's Confusion

Humility and Hospitality

⁷ Stay in that same house, eating and drinking whatever they offer you, for workers should be given their pay. Don't move around from one house to another.

Confessing and Rejecting Christ

(Matthew 10.32, 33; 12.32; 10.19, 20)

The Lost Coin

⁸ Whenever you go into a town and are made welcome, eat what is set before you,

The Purpose of the Parables

⁹ heal the sick in that town, and say to the people there, ‘The Kingdom of God has come near you.’

Jesus Feeds Five Thousand

Jesus Heals a Crippled Woman on the Sabbath

¹⁰ But whenever you go into a town and are not welcomed, go out in the streets and say,

Jesus Raises a Widow's Son

Jesus Explains the Parable of the Sower

The Lost Son

¹¹ ‘Even the dust from your town that sticks to our feet we wipe off against you. But remember that the Kingdom of God has come near you!’

Jesus Heals a Man

Jesus Chooses the Twelve Apostles

¹² I assure you that on the Judgment Day God will show more mercy to Sodom than to that town!

The Unbelieving Towns

The Parable of the Rich Fool

¹³ “How terrible it will be for you, Chorazin! How terrible for you too, Bethsaida! If the miracles which were performed in you had been performed in Tyre and Sidon, the people there would have long ago sat down, put on sackcloth, and sprinkled ashes on themselves, to show that they had turned from their sins!

Jesus and Beelzebul

Some Sayings of Jesus

(Matthew 11.12, 13; 5.31, 32; Mark 10.11, 12)

¹⁴ God will show more mercy on the Judgment Day to Tyre and Sidon than to you.

The Parable of the Great Feast

¹⁵ And as for you, Capernaum! Did you want to lift yourself up to heaven? You will be thrown down to hell!”

A Lamp under a Bowl

¹⁶ Jesus said to his disciples, “Whoever listens to you listens to me; whoever rejects you rejects me; and whoever rejects me rejects the one who sent me.”

Jesus Heals a Paralyzed Man

Jesus Teaches and Heals

The Return of the Seventy-Two

¹⁷ The seventy-two men came back in great joy. “Lord,” they said, “even the demons obeyed us when we gave them a command in your name!”

The Messengers from John the Baptist

Peter's Declaration about Jesus

The Parable of the Mustard Seed

¹⁸ Jesus answered them, “I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven.

Jesus' Mother and Brothers

The Rich Man and Lazarus

¹⁹ Listen! I have given you authority, so that you can walk on snakes and scorpions and overcome all the power of the Enemy, and nothing will hurt you.

Happiness and Sorrow

The Parable of the Yeast

²⁰ But don't be glad because the evil spirits obey you; rather be glad because your names are written in heaven.”

Jesus Speaks about His Suffering and Death

Jesus Rejoices

²¹ At that time Jesus was filled with joy by the Holy Spirit and said, “Father, Lord of heaven and earth! I thank you because you have shown to the unlearned what you have hidden from the wise and learned. Yes, Father, this was how you were pleased to have it happen.

Jesus Calms a Storm

Trust in God

The Narrow Door

(Matthew 7.13, 14, 21-23)

²² “My Father has given me all things. No one knows who the Son is except the Father, and no one knows who the Father is except the Son and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal him.” ²³ Then Jesus turned to the disciples and said to them privately, “How fortunate you are to see the things you see! ^*

The Return of the Evil Spirit

²⁴ I tell you that many prophets and kings wanted to see what you see, but they could not, and to hear what you hear, but they did not.”

The Parable of the Good Samaritan

The Cost of Being a Disciple

(Matthew 10.37, 38)

²⁵ A teacher of the Law came up and tried to trap Jesus. “Teacher,” he asked, “what must I do to receive eternal life?”

Jesus Heals a Man with Demons

²⁶ Jesus answered him, “What do the Scriptures say? How do you interpret them?”

Jesus Calls Levi

Love for Enemies

True Happiness

²⁷ The man answered, “ ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind'; and ‘Love your neighbor as you love yourself.’”

The Transfiguration

²⁸ “You are right,” Jesus replied; “do this and you will live.”

The Demand for a Miracle

²⁹ But the teacher of the Law wanted to justify himself, so he asked Jesus, “Who is my neighbor?” ³⁰ Jesus answered, “There was once a man who was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho when robbers attacked him, stripped him, and beat him up, leaving him half dead.

Jesus' Love for Jerusalem

³¹ It so happened that a priest was going down that road; but when he saw the man, he walked on by on the other side.

Riches in Heaven

³² In the same way a Levite also came there, went over and looked at the man, and then walked on by on the other side.

The Question about Fasting

The Light of the Body

(Matthew 5.15; 6.22, 23)

³³ But a Samaritan who was traveling that way came upon the man, and when he saw him, his heart was filled with pity.

Worthless Salt

³⁴ He went over to him, poured oil and wine on his wounds and bandaged them; then he put the man on his own animal and took him to an inn, where he took care of him.

Watchful Servants

³⁵ The next day he took out two silver coins and gave them to the innkeeper. ‘Take care of him,’ he told the innkeeper, ‘and when I come back this way, I will pay you whatever else you spend on him.’”

Jesus at the Home of Simon the Pharisee

³⁶ And Jesus concluded, “In your opinion, which one of these three acted like a neighbor toward the man attacked by the robbers?”

Judging Others

Jesus Heals a Boy with an Evil Spirit

Jesus Accuses the Pharisees and the Teachers of the Law

³⁷ The teacher of the Law answered, “The one who was kind to him.” Jesus replied, “You go, then, and do the same.”

Jesus Visits Martha and Mary

³⁸ As Jesus and his disciples went on their way, he came to a village where a woman named Martha welcomed him in her home. ³⁹ She had a sister named Mary, who sat down at the feet of the Lord and listened to his teaching.

Jairus' Daughter and the Woman Who Touched Jesus' Cloak

⁴⁰ Martha was upset over all the work she had to do, so she came and said, “Lord, don't you care that my sister has left me to do all the work by myself Tell her to come and help me!”

The Faithful or the Unfaithful Servant

⁴¹ The Lord answered her, “Martha, Martha! You are worried and troubled over so many things, ⁴² but just one is needed. Mary has chosen the right thing, and it will not be taken away from her.”

Jesus Calls the First Disciples

The Question about the Sabbath

Jesus Heals a Roman Officer's Servant

Women Who Accompanied Jesus

Jesus Sends Out the Twelve Disciples

Jesus Sends Out the Seventy-Two

Jesus' Teaching on Prayer

A Warning against Hypocrisy

(Matthew 10.26, 27)

Turn from Your Sins or Die

Jesus Heals a Sick Man

The Lost Sheep

The Shrewd Manager

¹ One day Jesus was praying in a certain place. When he had finished, one of his disciples said to him, “Lord, teach us to pray, just as John taught his disciples.” ² Jesus said to them, “When you pray, say this:
‘Father:
May your holy name be honored;
may your Kingdom come.
³ Give us day by day the food we need.

The Parable of the Sower

Whom to Fear

⁴ Forgive us our sins,
for we forgive everyone who does us wrong.
And do not bring us to hard testing.’” ⁵ And Jesus said to his disciples, “Suppose one of you should go to a friend's house at midnight and say, ‘Friend, let me borrow three loaves of bread.

The Man with a Paralyzed Hand

The Parable of the Unfruitful Fig Tree

⁶ A friend of mine who is on a trip has just come to my house, and I don't have any food for him!’

Herod's Confusion

Humility and Hospitality

⁷ And suppose your friend should answer from inside, ‘Don't bother me! The door is already locked, and my children and I are in bed. I can't get up and give you anything.’

Confessing and Rejecting Christ

(Matthew 10.32, 33; 12.32; 10.19, 20)

The Lost Coin

⁸ Well, what then? I tell you that even if he will not get up and give you the bread because you are his friend, yet he will get up and give you everything you need because you are not ashamed to keep on asking.

The Purpose of the Parables

⁹ And so I say to you: Ask, and you will receive; seek, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened to you.

Jesus Feeds Five Thousand

Jesus Heals a Crippled Woman on the Sabbath

¹⁰ For those who ask will receive, and those who seek will find, and the door will be opened to anyone who knocks.

Jesus Raises a Widow's Son

Jesus Explains the Parable of the Sower

The Lost Son

¹¹ Would any of you who are fathers give your son a snake when he asks for fish?

Jesus Heals a Man

Jesus Chooses the Twelve Apostles

¹² Or would you give him a scorpion when he asks for an egg?

The Unbelieving Towns

The Parable of the Rich Fool

¹³ As bad as you are, you know how to give good things to your children. How much more, then, will the Father in heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!”

Jesus and Beelzebul

Some Sayings of Jesus

(Matthew 11.12, 13; 5.31, 32; Mark 10.11, 12)

¹⁴ Jesus was driving out a demon that could not talk; and when the demon went out, the man began to talk. The crowds were amazed,

The Parable of the Great Feast

¹⁵ but some of the people said, “It is Beelzebul, the chief of the demons, who gives him the power to drive them out.”

A Lamp under a Bowl

¹⁶ Others wanted to trap Jesus, so they asked him to perform a miracle to show that God approved of him.

Jesus Heals a Paralyzed Man

Jesus Teaches and Heals

The Return of the Seventy-Two

¹⁷ But Jesus knew what they were thinking, so he said to them, “Any country that divides itself into groups which fight each other will not last very long; a family divided against itself falls apart.

The Messengers from John the Baptist

Peter's Declaration about Jesus

The Parable of the Mustard Seed

¹⁸ So if Satan's kingdom has groups fighting each other, how can it last? You say that I drive out demons because Beelzebul gives me the power to do so.

Jesus' Mother and Brothers

The Rich Man and Lazarus

¹⁹ If this is how I drive them out, how do your followers drive them out? Your own followers prove that you are wrong!

Happiness and Sorrow

The Parable of the Yeast

²⁰ No, it is rather by means of God's power that I drive out demons, and this proves that the Kingdom of God has already come to you.

Jesus Speaks about His Suffering and Death

Jesus Rejoices

²¹ “When a strong man, with all his weapons ready, guards his own house, all his belongings are safe.

Jesus Calms a Storm

Trust in God

The Narrow Door

(Matthew 7.13, 14, 21-23)

²² But when a stronger man attacks him and defeats him, he carries away all the weapons the owner was depending on and divides up what he stole. ²³ “Anyone who is not for me is really against me; anyone who does not help me gather is really scattering. ^*

The Return of the Evil Spirit

²⁴ “When an evil spirit goes out of a person, it travels over dry country looking for a place to rest. If it can't find one, it says to itself, ‘I will go back to my house.’

The Parable of the Good Samaritan

The Cost of Being a Disciple

(Matthew 10.37, 38)

²⁵ So it goes back and finds the house clean and all fixed up.

Jesus Heals a Man with Demons

²⁶ Then it goes out and brings seven other spirits even worse than itself, and they come and live there. So when it is all over, that person is in worse shape than at the beginning.”

Jesus Calls Levi

Love for Enemies

True Happiness

²⁷ When Jesus had said this, a woman spoke up from the crowd and said to him, “How happy is the woman who bore you and nursed you!”

The Transfiguration

²⁸ But Jesus answered, “Rather, how happy are those who hear the word of God and obey it!”

The Demand for a Miracle

²⁹ As the people crowded around Jesus, he went on to say, “How evil are the people of this day! They ask for a miracle, but none will be given them except the miracle of Jonah. ³⁰ In the same way that the prophet Jonah was a sign for the people of Nineveh, so the Son of Man will be a sign for the people of this day.

Jesus' Love for Jerusalem

³¹ On the Judgment Day the Queen of Sheba will stand up and accuse the people of today, because she traveled all the way from her country to listen to King Solomon's wise teaching; and there is something here, I tell you, greater than Solomon.

Riches in Heaven

³² On the Judgment Day the people of Nineveh will stand up and accuse you, because they turned from their sins when they heard Jonah preach; and I assure you that there is something here greater than Jonah!

The Question about Fasting

The Light of the Body

(Matthew 5.15; 6.22, 23)

³³ “No one lights a lamp and then hides it or puts it under a bowl; instead, it is put on the lampstand, so that people may see the light as they come in.

Worthless Salt

³⁴ Your eyes are like a lamp for the body. When your eyes are sound, your whole body is full of light; but when your eyes are no good, your whole body will be in darkness.

Watchful Servants

³⁵ Make certain, then, that the light in you is not darkness.

Jesus at the Home of Simon the Pharisee

³⁶ If your whole body is full of light, with no part of it in darkness, it will be bright all over, as when a lamp shines on you with its brightness.”

Judging Others

Jesus Heals a Boy with an Evil Spirit

Jesus Accuses the Pharisees and the Teachers of the Law

³⁷ When Jesus finished speaking, a Pharisee invited him to eat with him; so he went in and sat down to eat.

Jesus Visits Martha and Mary

³⁸ The Pharisee was surprised when he noticed that Jesus had not washed before eating. ³⁹ So the Lord said to him, “Now then, you Pharisees clean the outside of your cup and plate, but inside you are full of violence and evil.

Jairus' Daughter and the Woman Who Touched Jesus' Cloak

⁴⁰ Fools! Did not God, who made the outside, also make the inside?

The Faithful or the Unfaithful Servant

⁴¹ But give what is in your cups and plates to the poor, and everything will be ritually clean for you. ⁴² “How terrible for you Pharisees! You give to God one tenth of the seasoning herbs, such as mint and rue and all the other herbs, but you neglect justice and love for God. These you should practice, without neglecting the others.

A Tree and Its Fruit

⁴³ “How terrible for you Pharisees! You love the reserved seats in the synagogues and to be greeted with respect in the marketplaces.

Jesus Speaks Again about His Death

⁴⁴ How terrible for you! You are like unmarked graves which people walk on without knowing it.” ⁴⁵ One of the teachers of the Law said to him, “Teacher, when you say this, you insult us too!”

The Two House Builders

Who Is the Greatest?

⁴⁶ Jesus answered, “How terrible also for you teachers of the Law! You put onto people's backs loads which are hard to carry, but you yourselves will not stretch out a finger to help them carry those loads. ^* ⁴⁷ How terrible for you! You make fine tombs for the prophets—the very prophets your ancestors murdered. ⁴⁸ You yourselves admit, then, that you approve of what your ancestors did; they murdered the prophets, and you build their tombs.

Whoever Is Not against You Is for You

Jesus the Cause of Division

⁴⁹ For this reason the Wisdom of God said, ‘I will send them prophets and messengers; they will kill some of them and persecute others.’ ⁵⁰ So the people of this time will be punished for the murder of all the prophets killed since the creation of the world,

A Samaritan Village Refuses to Receive Jesus

⁵¹ from the murder of Abel to the murder of Zechariah, who was killed between the altar and the Holy Place. Yes, I tell you, the people of this time will be punished for them all! ⁵² “How terrible for you teachers of the Law! You have kept the key that opens the door to the house of knowledge; you yourselves will not go in, and you stop those who are trying to go in!” ⁵³ When Jesus left that place, the teachers of the Law and the Pharisees began to criticize him bitterly and ask him questions about many things,

Understanding the Time

⁵⁴ trying to lay traps for him and catch him saying something wrong.

Jesus Calls the First Disciples

The Question about the Sabbath

Jesus Heals a Roman Officer's Servant

Women Who Accompanied Jesus

Jesus Sends Out the Twelve Disciples

Jesus Sends Out the Seventy-Two

Jesus' Teaching on Prayer

A Warning against Hypocrisy

(Matthew 10.26, 27)

Turn from Your Sins or Die

Jesus Heals a Sick Man

The Lost Sheep

The Shrewd Manager

¹ As thousands of people crowded together, so that they were stepping on each other, Jesus said first to his disciples, “Be on guard against the yeast of the Pharisees—I mean their hypocrisy. ² Whatever is covered up will be uncovered, and every secret will be made known. ³ So then, whatever you have said in the dark will be heard in broad daylight, and whatever you have whispered in private in a closed room will be shouted from the housetops.

The Parable of the Sower

Whom to Fear

⁴ “I tell you, my friends, do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot afterward do anything worse. ⁵ I will show you whom to fear: fear God, who, after killing, has the authority to throw into hell. Believe me, he is the one you must fear!

The Man with a Paralyzed Hand

The Parable of the Unfruitful Fig Tree

⁶ “Aren't five sparrows sold for two pennies? Yet not one sparrow is forgotten by God.

Herod's Confusion

Humility and Hospitality

⁷ Even the hairs of your head have all been counted. So do not be afraid; you are worth much more than many sparrows!

Confessing and Rejecting Christ

(Matthew 10.32, 33; 12.32; 10.19, 20)

The Lost Coin

⁸ “I assure you that those who declare publicly that they belong to me, the Son of Man will do the same for them before the angels of God.

The Purpose of the Parables

⁹ But those who reject me publicly, the Son of Man will also reject them before the angels of God.

Jesus Feeds Five Thousand

Jesus Heals a Crippled Woman on the Sabbath

¹⁰ “Whoever says a word against the Son of Man can be forgiven; but whoever says evil things against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven.

Jesus Raises a Widow's Son

Jesus Explains the Parable of the Sower

The Lost Son

¹¹ “When they bring you to be tried in the synagogues or before governors or rulers, do not be worried about how you will defend yourself or what you will say.

Jesus Heals a Man

Jesus Chooses the Twelve Apostles

¹² For the Holy Spirit will teach you at that time what you should say.”

The Unbelieving Towns

The Parable of the Rich Fool

¹³ A man in the crowd said to Jesus, “Teacher, tell my brother to divide with me the property our father left us.”

Jesus and Beelzebul

Some Sayings of Jesus

(Matthew 11.12, 13; 5.31, 32; Mark 10.11, 12)

¹⁴ Jesus answered him, “Friend, who gave me the right to judge or to divide the property between you two?”

The Parable of the Great Feast

¹⁵ And he went on to say to them all, “Watch out and guard yourselves from every kind of greed; because your true life is not made up of the things you own, no matter how rich you may be.”

A Lamp under a Bowl

¹⁶ Then Jesus told them this parable: “There was once a rich man who had land which bore good crops.

Jesus Heals a Paralyzed Man

Jesus Teaches and Heals

The Return of the Seventy-Two

¹⁷ He began to think to himself, ‘I don't have a place to keep all my crops. What can I do?

The Messengers from John the Baptist

Peter's Declaration about Jesus

The Parable of the Mustard Seed

¹⁸ This is what I will do,’ he told himself; ‘I will tear down my barns and build bigger ones, where I will store the grain and all my other goods.

Jesus' Mother and Brothers

The Rich Man and Lazarus

¹⁹ Then I will say to myself, Lucky man! You have all the good things you need for many years. Take life easy, eat, drink, and enjoy yourself’

Happiness and Sorrow

The Parable of the Yeast

²⁰ But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night you will have to give up your life; then who will get all these things you have kept for yourself?’”

Jesus Speaks about His Suffering and Death

Jesus Rejoices

²¹ And Jesus concluded, “This is how it is with those who pile up riches for themselves but are not rich in God's sight.”

Jesus Calms a Storm

Trust in God

The Narrow Door

(Matthew 7.13, 14, 21-23)

²² Then Jesus said to the disciples, “And so I tell you not to worry about the food you need to stay alive or about the clothes you need for your body. ²³ Life is much more important than food, and the body much more important than clothes. ^*

The Return of the Evil Spirit

²⁴ Look at the crows: they don't plant seeds or gather a harvest; they don't have storage rooms or barns; God feeds them! You are worth so much more than birds!

The Parable of the Good Samaritan

The Cost of Being a Disciple

(Matthew 10.37, 38)

²⁵ Can any of you live a bit longer by worrying about it?

Jesus Heals a Man with Demons

²⁶ If you can't manage even such a small thing, why worry about the other things?

Jesus Calls Levi

Love for Enemies

True Happiness

²⁷ Look how the wild flowers grow: they don't work or make clothes for themselves. But I tell you that not even King Solomon with all his wealth had clothes as beautiful as one of these flowers.

The Transfiguration

²⁸ It is God who clothes the wild grass—grass that is here today and gone tomorrow, burned up in the oven. Won't he be all the more sure to clothe you? What little faith you have!

The Demand for a Miracle

²⁹ “So don't be all upset, always concerned about what you will eat and drink. ³⁰ (For the pagans of this world are always concerned about all these things.) Your Father knows that you need these things.

Jesus' Love for Jerusalem

³¹ Instead, be concerned with his Kingdom, and he will provide you with these things.

Riches in Heaven

³² “Do not be afraid, little flock, for your Father is pleased to give you the Kingdom.

The Question about Fasting

The Light of the Body

(Matthew 5.15; 6.22, 23)

³³ Sell all your belongings and give the money to the poor. Provide for yourselves purses that don't wear out, and save your riches in heaven, where they will never decrease, because no thief can get to them, and no moth can destroy them.

Worthless Salt

³⁴ For your heart will always be where your riches are.

Watchful Servants

³⁵ “Be ready for whatever comes, dressed for action and with your lamps lit,

Jesus at the Home of Simon the Pharisee

³⁶ like servants who are waiting for their master to come back from a wedding feast. When he comes and knocks, they will open the door for him at once.

Judging Others

Jesus Heals a Boy with an Evil Spirit

Jesus Accuses the Pharisees and the Teachers of the Law

³⁷ How happy are those servants whose master finds them awake and ready when he returns! I tell you, he will take off his coat, have them sit down, and will wait on them.

Jesus Visits Martha and Mary

³⁸ How happy they are if he finds them ready, even if he should come at midnight or even later! ³⁹ And you can be sure that if the owner of a house knew the time when the thief would come, he would not let the thief break into his house.

Jairus' Daughter and the Woman Who Touched Jesus' Cloak

⁴⁰ And you, too, must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour when you are not expecting him.”

The Faithful or the Unfaithful Servant

⁴¹ Peter said, “Lord, does this parable apply to us, or do you mean it for everyone?” ⁴² The Lord answered, “Who, then, is the faithful and wise servant? He is the one that his master will put in charge, to run the household and give the other servants their share of the food at the proper time.

A Tree and Its Fruit

⁴³ How happy that servant is if his master finds him doing this when he comes home!

Jesus Speaks Again about His Death

⁴⁴ Indeed, I tell you, the master will put that servant in charge of all his property. ⁴⁵ But if that servant says to himself that his master is taking a long time to come back and if he begins to beat the other servants, both the men and the women, and eats and drinks and gets drunk,

The Two House Builders

Who Is the Greatest?

⁴⁶ then the master will come back one day when the servant does not expect him and at a time he does not know. The master will cut him in pieces and make him share the fate of the disobedient. ^* ⁴⁷ “The servant who knows what his master wants him to do, but does not get himself ready and do it, will be punished with a heavy whipping. ⁴⁸ But the servant who does not know what his master wants, and yet does something for which he deserves a whipping, will be punished with a light whipping. Much is required from the person to whom much is given; much more is required from the person to whom much more is given.

Whoever Is Not against You Is for You

Jesus the Cause of Division

⁴⁹ “I came to set the earth on fire, and how I wish it were already kindled! ⁵⁰ I have a baptism to receive, and how distressed I am until it is over!

A Samaritan Village Refuses to Receive Jesus

⁵¹ Do you suppose that I came to bring peace to the world? No, not peace, but division. ⁵² From now on a family of five will be divided, three against two and two against three. ⁵³ Fathers will be against their sons, and sons against their fathers; mothers will be against their daughters, and daughters against their mothers; mothers-in-law will be against their daughters-in-law, and daughters-in-law against their mothers-in-law.”

Understanding the Time

⁵⁴ Jesus said also to the people, “When you see a cloud coming up in the west, at once you say that it is going to rain—and it does. ⁵⁵ And when you feel the south wind blowing, you say that it is going to get hot—and it does. ⁵⁶ Hypocrites! You can look at the earth and the sky and predict the weather; why, then, don't you know the meaning of this present time?

The Would-Be Followers of Jesus

(Matthew 8.19-22)

Settle with Your Opponent

(Matthew 5.25, 26)

⁵⁷ “Why do you not judge for yourselves the right thing to do? ⁵⁸ If someone brings a lawsuit against you and takes you to court, do your best to settle the dispute before you get to court. If you don't, you will be dragged before the judge, who will hand you over to the police, and you will be put in jail. ⁵⁹ There you will stay, I tell you, until you pay the last penny of your fine.”

Jesus Calls the First Disciples

The Question about the Sabbath

Jesus Heals a Roman Officer's Servant

Women Who Accompanied Jesus

Jesus Sends Out the Twelve Disciples

Jesus Sends Out the Seventy-Two

Jesus' Teaching on Prayer

A Warning against Hypocrisy

(Matthew 10.26, 27)

Turn from Your Sins or Die

Jesus Heals a Sick Man

The Lost Sheep

The Shrewd Manager

¹ At that time some people were there who told Jesus about the Galileans whom Pilate had killed while they were offering sacrifices to God. ² Jesus answered them, “Because those Galileans were killed in that way, do you think it proves that they were worse sinners than all other Galileans? ³ No indeed! And I tell you that if you do not turn from your sins, you will all die as they did.

The Parable of the Sower

Whom to Fear

⁴ What about those eighteen people in Siloam who were killed when the tower fell on them? Do you suppose this proves that they were worse than all the other people living in Jerusalem? ⁵ No indeed! And I tell you that if you do not turn from your sins, you will all die as they did.”

The Man with a Paralyzed Hand

The Parable of the Unfruitful Fig Tree

⁶ Then Jesus told them this parable: “There was once a man who had a fig tree growing in his vineyard. He went looking for figs on it but found none.

Herod's Confusion

Humility and Hospitality

⁷ So he said to his gardener, ‘Look, for three years I have been coming here looking for figs on this fig tree, and I haven't found any. Cut it down! Why should it go on using up the soil?’

Confessing and Rejecting Christ

(Matthew 10.32, 33; 12.32; 10.19, 20)

The Lost Coin

⁸ But the gardener answered, ‘Leave it alone, sir, just one more year; I will dig around it and put in some fertilizer.

The Purpose of the Parables

⁹ Then if the tree bears figs next year, so much the better; if not, then you can have it cut down.’”

Jesus Feeds Five Thousand

Jesus Heals a Crippled Woman on the Sabbath

¹⁰ One Sabbath Jesus was teaching in a synagogue.

Jesus Raises a Widow's Son

Jesus Explains the Parable of the Sower

The Lost Son

¹¹ A woman there had an evil spirit that had kept her sick for eighteen years; she was bent over and could not straighten up at all.

Jesus Heals a Man

Jesus Chooses the Twelve Apostles

¹² When Jesus saw her, he called out to her, “Woman, you are free from your sickness!”

The Unbelieving Towns

The Parable of the Rich Fool

¹³ He placed his hands on her, and at once she straightened herself up and praised God.

Jesus and Beelzebul

Some Sayings of Jesus

(Matthew 11.12, 13; 5.31, 32; Mark 10.11, 12)

¹⁴ The official of the synagogue was angry that Jesus had healed on the Sabbath, so he spoke up and said to the people, “There are six days in which we should work; so come during those days and be healed, but not on the Sabbath!”

The Parable of the Great Feast

¹⁵ The Lord answered him, “You hypocrites! Any one of you would untie your ox or your donkey from the stall and take it out to give it water on the Sabbath.

A Lamp under a Bowl

¹⁶ Now here is this descendant of Abraham whom Satan has kept in bonds for eighteen years; should she not be released on the Sabbath?”

Jesus Heals a Paralyzed Man

Jesus Teaches and Heals

The Return of the Seventy-Two

¹⁷ His answer made his enemies ashamed of themselves, while the people rejoiced over all the wonderful things that he did.

The Messengers from John the Baptist

Peter's Declaration about Jesus

The Parable of the Mustard Seed

¹⁸ Jesus asked, “What is the Kingdom of God like? What shall I compare it with?

Jesus' Mother and Brothers

The Rich Man and Lazarus

¹⁹ It is like this. A man takes a mustard seed and plants it in his field. The plant grows and becomes a tree, and the birds make their nests in its branches.”

Happiness and Sorrow

The Parable of the Yeast

²⁰ Again Jesus asked, “What shall I compare the Kingdom of God with?

Jesus Speaks about His Suffering and Death

Jesus Rejoices

²¹ It is like this. A woman takes some yeast and mixes it with a bushel of flour until the whole batch of dough rises.”

Jesus Calms a Storm

Trust in God

The Narrow Door

(Matthew 7.13, 14, 21-23)

²² Jesus went through towns and villages, teaching the people and making his way toward Jerusalem. ²³ Someone asked him, “Sir, will just a few people be saved?” Jesus answered them, ^*

The Return of the Evil Spirit

²⁴ “Do your best to go in through the narrow door; because many people will surely try to go in but will not be able.

The Parable of the Good Samaritan

The Cost of Being a Disciple

(Matthew 10.37, 38)

²⁵ The master of the house will get up and close the door; then when you stand outside and begin to knock on the door and say, ‘Open the door for us, sir!’ he will answer you, ‘I don't know where you come from!’

Jesus Heals a Man with Demons

²⁶ Then you will answer, ‘We ate and drank with you; you taught in our town!’

Jesus Calls Levi

Love for Enemies

True Happiness

²⁷ But he will say again, ‘I don't know where you come from. Get away from me, all you wicked people!’

The Transfiguration

²⁸ How you will cry and gnash your teeth when you see Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and all the prophets in the Kingdom of God, while you are thrown out!

The Demand for a Miracle

²⁹ People will come from the east and the west, from the north and the south, and sit down at the feast in the Kingdom of God. ³⁰ Then those who are now last will be first, and those who are now first will be last.”

Jesus' Love for Jerusalem

³¹ At that same time some Pharisees came to Jesus and said to him, “You must get out of here and go somewhere else, because Herod wants to kill you.”

Riches in Heaven

³² Jesus answered them, “Go and tell that fox: ‘I am driving out demons and performing cures today and tomorrow, and on the third day I shall finish my work.’

The Question about Fasting

The Light of the Body

(Matthew 5.15; 6.22, 23)

³³ Yet I must be on my way today, tomorrow, and the next day; it is not right for a prophet to be killed anywhere except in Jerusalem.

Worthless Salt

³⁴ “Jerusalem, Jerusalem! You kill the prophets, you stone the messengers God has sent you! How many times I wanted to put my arms around all your people, just as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you would not let me!

Watchful Servants

³⁵ And so your Temple will be abandoned. I assure you that you will not see me until the time comes when you say, ‘God bless him who comes in the name of the Lord.’”

Jesus Calls the First Disciples

The Question about the Sabbath

Jesus Heals a Roman Officer's Servant

Women Who Accompanied Jesus

Jesus Sends Out the Twelve Disciples

Jesus Sends Out the Seventy-Two

Jesus' Teaching on Prayer

A Warning against Hypocrisy

(Matthew 10.26, 27)

Turn from Your Sins or Die

Jesus Heals a Sick Man

The Lost Sheep

The Shrewd Manager

¹ One Sabbath Jesus went to eat a meal at the home of one of the leading Pharisees; and people were watching Jesus closely. ² A man whose legs and arms were swollen came to Jesus, ³ and Jesus spoke up and asked the teachers of the Law and the Pharisees, “Does our Law allow healing on the Sabbath or not?”

The Parable of the Sower

Whom to Fear

⁴ But they would not say a thing. Jesus took the man, healed him, and sent him away. ⁵ Then he said to them, “If any one of you had a child or an ox that happened to fall in a well on a Sabbath, would you not pull it out at once on the Sabbath itself”

The Man with a Paralyzed Hand

The Parable of the Unfruitful Fig Tree

⁶ But they were not able to answer him about this.

Herod's Confusion

Humility and Hospitality

⁷ Jesus noticed how some of the guests were choosing the best places, so he told this parable to all of them:

Confessing and Rejecting Christ

(Matthew 10.32, 33; 12.32; 10.19, 20)

The Lost Coin

⁸ “When someone invites you to a wedding feast, do not sit down in the best place. It could happen that someone more important than you has been invited,

The Purpose of the Parables

⁹ and your host, who invited both of you, would have to come and say to you, ‘Let him have this place.’ Then you would be embarrassed and have to sit in the lowest place.

Jesus Feeds Five Thousand

Jesus Heals a Crippled Woman on the Sabbath

¹⁰ Instead, when you are invited, go and sit in the lowest place, so that your host will come to you and say, ‘Come on up, my friend, to a better place.’ This will bring you honor in the presence of all the other guests.

Jesus Raises a Widow's Son

Jesus Explains the Parable of the Sower

The Lost Son

¹¹ For those who make themselves great will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be made great.”

Jesus Heals a Man

Jesus Chooses the Twelve Apostles

¹² Then Jesus said to his host, “When you give a lunch or a dinner, do not invite your friends or your brothers or your relatives or your rich neighbors—for they will invite you back, and in this way you will be paid for what you did.

The Unbelieving Towns

The Parable of the Rich Fool

¹³ When you give a feast, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, and the blind;

Jesus and Beelzebul

Some Sayings of Jesus

(Matthew 11.12, 13; 5.31, 32; Mark 10.11, 12)

¹⁴ and you will be blessed, because they are not able to pay you back. God will repay you on the day the good people rise from death.”

The Parable of the Great Feast

¹⁵ When one of the guests sitting at the table heard this, he said to Jesus, “How happy are those who will sit down at the feast in the Kingdom of God!”

A Lamp under a Bowl

¹⁶ Jesus said to him, “There was once a man who was giving a great feast to which he invited many people.

Jesus Heals a Paralyzed Man

Jesus Teaches and Heals

The Return of the Seventy-Two

¹⁷ When it was time for the feast, he sent his servant to tell his guests, ‘Come, everything is ready!’

The Messengers from John the Baptist

Peter's Declaration about Jesus

The Parable of the Mustard Seed

¹⁸ But they all began, one after another, to make excuses. The first one told the servant, ‘I have bought a field and must go and look at it; please accept my apologies.’

Jesus' Mother and Brothers

The Rich Man and Lazarus

¹⁹ Another one said, ‘I have bought five pairs of oxen and am on my way to try them out; please accept my apologies.’

Happiness and Sorrow

The Parable of the Yeast

²⁰ Another one said, ‘I have just gotten married, and for that reason I cannot come.’

Jesus Speaks about His Suffering and Death

Jesus Rejoices

²¹ The servant went back and told all this to his master. The master was furious and said to his servant, ‘Hurry out to the streets and alleys of the town, and bring back the poor, the crippled, the blind, and the lame.’

Jesus Calms a Storm

Trust in God

The Narrow Door

(Matthew 7.13, 14, 21-23)

²² Soon the servant said, ‘Your order has been carried out, sir, but there is room for more.’ ²³ So the master said to the servant, ‘Go out to the country roads and lanes and make people come in, so that my house will be full. ^*

The Return of the Evil Spirit

²⁴ I tell you all that none of those who were invited will taste my dinner!’”

The Parable of the Good Samaritan

The Cost of Being a Disciple

(Matthew 10.37, 38)

²⁵ Once when large crowds of people were going along with Jesus, he turned and said to them,

Jesus Heals a Man with Demons

²⁶ “Those who come to me cannot be my disciples unless they love me more than they love father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, and themselves as well.

Jesus Calls Levi

Love for Enemies

True Happiness

²⁷ Those who do not carry their own cross and come after me cannot be my disciples.

The Transfiguration

²⁸ If one of you is planning to build a tower, you sit down first and figure out what it will cost, to see if you have enough money to finish the job.

The Demand for a Miracle

²⁹ If you don't, you will not be able to finish the tower after laying the foundation; and all who see what happened will make fun of you. ³⁰ ‘You began to build but can't finish the job!’ they will say.

Jesus' Love for Jerusalem

³¹ If a king goes out with ten thousand men to fight another king who comes against him with twenty thousand men, he will sit down first and decide if he is strong enough to face that other king.

Riches in Heaven

³² If he isn't, he will send messengers to meet the other king to ask for terms of peace while he is still a long way off.

The Question about Fasting

The Light of the Body

(Matthew 5.15; 6.22, 23)

³³ In the same way,” concluded Jesus, “none of you can be my disciple unless you give up everything you have.

Worthless Salt

³⁴ “Salt is good, but if it loses its saltiness, there is no way to make it salty again.

Watchful Servants

³⁵ It is no good for the soil or for the manure pile; it is thrown away. Listen, then, if you have ears!”

Jesus Calls the First Disciples

The Question about the Sabbath

Jesus Heals a Roman Officer's Servant

Women Who Accompanied Jesus

Jesus Sends Out the Twelve Disciples

Jesus Sends Out the Seventy-Two

Jesus' Teaching on Prayer

A Warning against Hypocrisy

(Matthew 10.26, 27)

Turn from Your Sins or Die

Jesus Heals a Sick Man

The Lost Sheep

The Shrewd Manager

¹ One day when many tax collectors and other outcasts came to listen to Jesus, ² the Pharisees and the teachers of the Law started grumbling, “This man welcomes outcasts and even eats with them!” ³ So Jesus told them this parable:

The Parable of the Sower

Whom to Fear

⁴ “Suppose one of you has a hundred sheep and loses one of them—what do you do? You leave the other ninety-nine sheep in the pasture and go looking for the one that got lost until you find it. ⁵ When you find it, you are so happy that you put it on your shoulders

The Man with a Paralyzed Hand

The Parable of the Unfruitful Fig Tree

⁶ and carry it back home. Then you call your friends and neighbors together and say to them, ‘I am so happy I found my lost sheep. Let us celebrate!’

Herod's Confusion

Humility and Hospitality

⁷ In the same way, I tell you, there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine respectable people who do not need to repent.

Confessing and Rejecting Christ

(Matthew 10.32, 33; 12.32; 10.19, 20)

The Lost Coin

⁸ “Or suppose a woman who has ten silver coins loses one of them—what does she do? She lights a lamp, sweeps her house, and looks carefully everywhere until she finds it.

The Purpose of the Parables

⁹ When she finds it, she calls her friends and neighbors together, and says to them, ‘I am so happy I found the coin I lost. Let us celebrate!’

Jesus Feeds Five Thousand

Jesus Heals a Crippled Woman on the Sabbath

¹⁰ In the same way, I tell you, the angels of God rejoice over one sinner who repents.”

Jesus Raises a Widow's Son

Jesus Explains the Parable of the Sower

The Lost Son

¹¹ Jesus went on to say, “There was once a man who had two sons.

Jesus Heals a Man

Jesus Chooses the Twelve Apostles

¹² The younger one said to him, ‘Father, give me my share of the property now.’ So the man divided his property between his two sons.

The Unbelieving Towns

The Parable of the Rich Fool

¹³ After a few days the younger son sold his part of the property and left home with the money. He went to a country far away, where he wasted his money in reckless living.

Jesus and Beelzebul

Some Sayings of Jesus

(Matthew 11.12, 13; 5.31, 32; Mark 10.11, 12)

¹⁴ He spent everything he had. Then a severe famine spread over that country, and he was left without a thing.

The Parable of the Great Feast

¹⁵ So he went to work for one of the citizens of that country, who sent him out to his farm to take care of the pigs.

A Lamp under a Bowl

¹⁶ He wished he could fill himself with the bean pods the pigs ate, but no one gave him anything to eat.

Jesus Heals a Paralyzed Man

Jesus Teaches and Heals

The Return of the Seventy-Two

¹⁷ At last he came to his senses and said, ‘All my father's hired workers have more than they can eat, and here I am about to starve!

The Messengers from John the Baptist

Peter's Declaration about Jesus

The Parable of the Mustard Seed

¹⁸ I will get up and go to my father and say, “Father, I have sinned against God and against you.

Jesus' Mother and Brothers

The Rich Man and Lazarus

¹⁹ I am no longer fit to be called your son; treat me as one of your hired workers.”

Happiness and Sorrow

The Parable of the Yeast

²⁰ So he got up and started back to his father. “He was still a long way from home when his father saw him; his heart was filled with pity, and he ran, threw his arms around his son, and kissed him.

Jesus Speaks about His Suffering and Death

Jesus Rejoices

²¹ ‘Father,’ the son said, ‘I have sinned against God and against you. I am no longer fit to be called your son.’

Jesus Calms a Storm

Trust in God

The Narrow Door

(Matthew 7.13, 14, 21-23)

²² But the father called to his servants. ‘Hurry!’ he said. ‘Bring the best robe and put it on him. Put a ring on his finger and shoes on his feet. ²³ Then go and get the prize calf and kill it, and let us celebrate with a feast! ^*

The Return of the Evil Spirit

²⁴ For this son of mine was dead, but now he is alive; he was lost, but now he has been found.’ And so the feasting began.

The Parable of the Good Samaritan

The Cost of Being a Disciple

(Matthew 10.37, 38)

²⁵ “In the meantime the older son was out in the field. On his way back, when he came close to the house, he heard the music and dancing.

Jesus Heals a Man with Demons

²⁶ So he called one of the servants and asked him, ‘What's going on?’

Jesus Calls Levi

Love for Enemies

True Happiness

²⁷ ‘Your brother has come back home,’ the servant answered, ‘and your father has killed the prize calf, because he got him back safe and sound.’

The Transfiguration

²⁸ The older brother was so angry that he would not go into the house; so his father came out and begged him to come in.

The Demand for a Miracle

²⁹ But he spoke back to his father, ‘Look, all these years I have worked for you like a slave, and I have never disobeyed your orders. What have you given me? Not even a goat for me to have a feast with my friends! ³⁰ But this son of yours wasted all your property on prostitutes, and when he comes back home, you kill the prize calf for him!’

Jesus' Love for Jerusalem

³¹ ‘My son,’ the father answered, ‘you are always here with me, and everything I have is yours.

Riches in Heaven

³² But we had to celebrate and be happy, because your brother was dead, but now he is alive; he was lost, but now he has been found.’”

Jesus Calls the First Disciples

The Question about the Sabbath

Jesus Heals a Roman Officer's Servant

Women Who Accompanied Jesus

Jesus Sends Out the Twelve Disciples

Jesus Sends Out the Seventy-Two

Jesus' Teaching on Prayer

A Warning against Hypocrisy

(Matthew 10.26, 27)

Turn from Your Sins or Die

Jesus Heals a Sick Man

The Lost Sheep

The Shrewd Manager

¹ Jesus said to his disciples, “There was once a rich man who had a servant who managed his property. The rich man was told that the manager was wasting his master's money, ² so he called him in and said, ‘What is this I hear about you? Turn in a complete account of your handling of my property, because you cannot be my manager any longer.’ ³ The servant said to himself, ‘My master is going to dismiss me from my job. What shall I do? I am not strong enough to dig ditches, and I am ashamed to beg.

The Parable of the Sower

Whom to Fear

⁴ Now I know what I will do! Then when my job is gone, I shall have friends who will welcome me in their homes.’ ⁵ So he called in all the people who were in debt to his master. He asked the first one, ‘How much do you owe my master?’

The Man with a Paralyzed Hand

The Parable of the Unfruitful Fig Tree

⁶ ‘One hundred barrels of olive oil,’ he answered. ‘Here is your account,’ the manager told him; ‘sit down and write fifty.’

Herod's Confusion

Humility and Hospitality

⁷ Then he asked another one, ‘And you—how much do you owe?’ ‘A thousand bushels of wheat,’ he answered. ‘Here is your account,’ the manager told him; ‘write eight hundred.’

Confessing and Rejecting Christ

(Matthew 10.32, 33; 12.32; 10.19, 20)

The Lost Coin

⁸ As a result the master of this dishonest manager praised him for doing such a shrewd thing; because the people of this world are much more shrewd in handling their affairs than the people who belong to the light.”

The Purpose of the Parables

⁹ And Jesus went on to say, “And so I tell you: make friends for yourselves with worldly wealth, so that when it gives out, you will be welcomed in the eternal home.

Jesus Feeds Five Thousand

Jesus Heals a Crippled Woman on the Sabbath

¹⁰ Whoever is faithful in small matters will be faithful in large ones; whoever is dishonest in small matters will be dishonest in large ones.

Jesus Raises a Widow's Son

Jesus Explains the Parable of the Sower

The Lost Son

¹¹ If, then, you have not been faithful in handling worldly wealth, how can you be trusted with true wealth?

Jesus Heals a Man

Jesus Chooses the Twelve Apostles

¹² And if you have not been faithful with what belongs to someone else, who will give you what belongs to you?

The Unbelieving Towns

The Parable of the Rich Fool

¹³ “No servant can be the slave of two masters; such a slave will hate one and love the other or will be loyal to one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.”

Jesus and Beelzebul

Some Sayings of Jesus

(Matthew 11.12, 13; 5.31, 32; Mark 10.11, 12)

¹⁴ When the Pharisees heard all this, they made fun of Jesus, because they loved money.

The Parable of the Great Feast

¹⁵ Jesus said to them, “You are the ones who make yourselves look right in other people's sight, but God knows your hearts. For the things that are considered of great value by people are worth nothing in God's sight.

A Lamp under a Bowl

¹⁶ “The Law of Moses and the writings of the prophets were in effect up to the time of John the Baptist; since then the Good News about the Kingdom of God is being told, and everyone forces their way in.

Jesus Heals a Paralyzed Man

Jesus Teaches and Heals

The Return of the Seventy-Two

¹⁷ But it is easier for heaven and earth to disappear than for the smallest detail of the Law to be done away with.

The Messengers from John the Baptist

Peter's Declaration about Jesus

The Parable of the Mustard Seed

¹⁸ “Any man who divorces his wife and marries another woman commits adultery; and the man who marries a divorced woman commits adultery.

Jesus' Mother and Brothers

The Rich Man and Lazarus

¹⁹ “There was once a rich man who dressed in the most expensive clothes and lived in great luxury every day.

Happiness and Sorrow

The Parable of the Yeast

²⁰ There was also a poor man named Lazarus, covered with sores, who used to be brought to the rich man's door,

Jesus Speaks about His Suffering and Death

Jesus Rejoices

²¹ hoping to eat the bits of food that fell from the rich man's table. Even the dogs would come and lick his sores.

Jesus Calms a Storm

Trust in God

The Narrow Door

(Matthew 7.13, 14, 21-23)

²² The poor man died and was carried by the angels to sit beside Abraham at the feast in heaven. The rich man died and was buried, ²³ and in Hades, where he was in great pain, he looked up and saw Abraham, far away, with Lazarus at his side. ^*

The Return of the Evil Spirit

²⁴ So he called out, ‘Father Abraham! Take pity on me, and send Lazarus to dip his finger in some water and cool off my tongue, because I am in great pain in this fire!’

The Parable of the Good Samaritan

The Cost of Being a Disciple

(Matthew 10.37, 38)

²⁵ But Abraham said, ‘Remember, my son, that in your lifetime you were given all the good things, while Lazarus got all the bad things. But now he is enjoying himself here, while you are in pain.

Jesus Heals a Man with Demons

²⁶ Besides all that, there is a deep pit lying between us, so that those who want to cross over from here to you cannot do so, nor can anyone cross over to us from where you are.’

Jesus Calls Levi

Love for Enemies

True Happiness

²⁷ The rich man said, ‘Then I beg you, father Abraham, send Lazarus to my father's house,

The Transfiguration

²⁸ where I have five brothers. Let him go and warn them so that they, at least, will not come to this place of pain.’

The Demand for a Miracle

²⁹ Abraham said, ‘Your brothers have Moses and the prophets to warn them; your brothers should listen to what they say.’ ³⁰ The rich man answered, ‘That is not enough, father Abraham! But if someone were to rise from death and go to them, then they would turn from their sins.’

Jesus' Love for Jerusalem