14:1And it came to pass, as he went into the house of one of the rulers, who was of the Pharisees, to eat bread on the sabbath, that *they* were watching him.

14:2And behold, there was a certain dropsical man before him.

14:3And Jesus answering spoke unto the doctors of the law and Pharisees, saying, Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath?

14:4But they were silent. And taking him he healed him and let him go.

14:5And answering he said to them, Of which of you shall an ass or ox fall into a well, that he does not straightway pull him up on the sabbath day?

14:6And they were not able to answer him to these things.

14:7And he spoke a parable to those that were invited, remarking how they chose out the first places, saying to them,

14:8When thou art invited by any one to a wedding, do not lay thyself down in the first place at table, lest perhaps a more honourable than thou be invited by him,

14:9and he who invited thee and him come and say to thee, Give place to this man, and then thou begin with shame to take the last place.

14:10But when thou hast been invited, go and put thyself down in the last place, that when he who has invited thee comes, he may say to thee, Friend, go up higher: then shalt thou have honour before all that are lying at table with thee;

14:11for every one that exalts himself shall be abased, and he that abases himself shall be exalted.

14:12And he said also to him that had invited him, When thou makest a dinner or a supper, call not thy friends, nor thy brethren, nor thy kinsfolk, nor rich neighbours, lest it may be they also should invite thee in return, and a recompense be made thee.

14:13But when thou makest a feast, call poor, crippled, lame, blind:

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

14:15And one of those that were lying at table with them, hearing these things, said to him, Blessed is he who shall eat bread in the kingdom of God.

14:16And he said to him, A certain man made a great supper and invited many.

14:17And he sent his bondman at the hour of supper to say to those who were invited, Come, for already all things are ready.

14:18And all began, without exception, to excuse themselves. The first said to him, I have bought land, and I must go out and see it; I pray thee hold me for excused.

14:19And another said, I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I go to prove them; I pray thee hold me for excused.

14:20And another said, I have married a wife, and on this account I cannot come.

14:21And the bondman came up and brought back word of these things to his lord. Then the master of the house, in anger, said to his bondman, Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city, and bring here the poor and crippled and lame and blind.

14:22And the bondman said, Sir, it is done as thou hast commanded, and there is still room.

14:23And the lord said to the bondman, Go out into the ways and fences and compel to come in, that my house may be filled;

14:24for I say to you, that not one of those men who were invited shall taste of my supper.

14:25And great crowds went with him; and, turning round, he said to them,

14:26If any man come to me, and shall not hate his own father and mother, and wife, and children, and brothers, and sisters, yea, and his own life too, he cannot be my disciple;

14:27and whoever does not carry his cross and come after me cannot be my disciple.

14:28For which of you, desirous of building a tower, does not first sit down and count the cost, if he have what is needed to complete it;

14:29in order that, having laid the foundation of it, and not being able to finish it, all who see it do not begin to mock at him,

14:30saying, This man began to build and was not able to finish?

14:31Or what king, going on his way to engage in war with another king, does not, sitting down first, take counsel whether he is able with ten thousand to meet him coming against him with twenty thousand?

14:32and if not, while he is yet far off, having sent an embassy, he asks for terms of peace.

14:33Thus then every one of you who forsakes not all that is his own cannot be my disciple.

14:34Salt then is good, but if the salt also has become savourless, wherewith shall it be seasoned?

14:35It is proper neither for land nor for dung; it is cast out. He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.

15:1And all the tax-gatherers and the sinners were coming near to him to hear him;

15:2and the Pharisees and the scribes murmured, saying, This man receives sinners and eats with them.

15:3And he spoke to them this parable, saying,

15:4What man of you having a hundred sheep, and having lost one of them, does not leave the ninety and nine in the wilderness and go after that which is lost, until he find it?

15:5and having found it, he lays it upon his own shoulders, rejoicing;

15:6and being come to the house, calls together the friends and the neighbours, saying to them, Rejoice with me, for I have found my lost sheep.

15:7I say unto you, that thus there shall be joy in heaven for one repenting sinner, more than for ninety and nine righteous who have no need of repentance.

15:8Or, what woman having ten drachmas, if she lose one drachma, does not light a lamp and sweep the house and seek carefully till she find it?

15:9and having found it she calls together the friends and neighbours, saying, Rejoice with me, for I have found the drachma which I had lost.

15:10Thus, I say unto you, there is joy before the angels of God for one repenting sinner.

15:11And he said, A certain man had two sons;

15:12and the younger of them said to his father, Father, give to me the share of the property that falls to me. And he divided to them what he was possessed of.

15:13And after not many days the younger son gathering all together went away into a country a long way off, and there dissipated his property, living in debauchery.

15:14But when he had spent all there arose a violent famine throughout that country, and he began to be in want.

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

15:16And he longed to fill his belly with the husks which the swine were eating; and no one gave to him.

15:17And coming to himself, he said, How many hired servants of my father's have abundance of bread, and *I* perish here by famine.

15:18I will rise up and go to my father, and I will say to him, Father, I have sinned against heaven and before thee;

15:19I am no longer worthy to be called thy son: make me as one of thy hired servants.

15:20And he rose up and went to his own father. But while he was yet a long way off, his father saw him, and was moved with compassion, and ran, and fell upon his neck, and covered him with kisses.

15:21And the son said to him, Father, I have sinned against heaven and before thee; I am no longer worthy to be called thy son.

15:22But the father said to his bondmen, Bring out the best robe and clothe him in it, and put a ring on his hand and sandals on his feet;

15:23and bring the fatted calf and kill it, and let us eat and make merry:

15:24for this my son was dead and has come to life, was lost and has been found. And they began to make merry.

15:25And his elder son was in the field; and as, coming up, he drew nigh to the house, he heard music and dancing.

15:26And having called one of the servants, he inquired what these things might be.

15:27And he said to him, Thy brother is come, and thy father has killed the fatted calf because he has received him safe and well.

15:28But he became angry and would not go in. And his father went out and besought him.

15:29But he answering said to his father, Behold, so many years I serve thee, and never have I transgressed a commandment of thine; and to me hast thou never given a kid that I might make merry with my friends:

15:30but when this thy son, who has devoured thy substance with harlots, is come, thou hast killed for him the fatted calf.

15:31But he said to him, Child, *thou* art ever with me, and all that is mine is thine.

15:32But it was right to make merry and rejoice, because this thy brother was dead and has come to life again, and was lost and has been found.

16:1And he said also to his disciples, There was a certain rich man who had a steward, and *he* was accused to him as wasting his goods.

16:2And having called him, he said to him, What is this that I hear of thee? give the reckoning of thy stewardship, for thou canst be no longer steward.

16:3And the steward said within himself, What shall I do; for my lord is taking the stewardship from me? I am not able to dig; I am ashamed to beg.

16:4I know what I will do, that when I shall have been removed from the stewardship I may be received into their houses.

16:5And having called to him each one of the debtors of his own lord, he said to the first, How much owest thou to my lord?

16:6And he said, A hundred baths of oil. And he said to him, Take thy writing and sit down quickly and write fifty.

16:7Then he said to another, And thou, how much dost thou owe? And he said, A hundred cors of wheat. And he says to him, Take thy writing and write eighty.

16:8And the lord praised the unrighteous steward because he had done prudently. For the sons of this world are, for their own generation, more prudent than the sons of light.

16:9And *I* say to you, Make to yourselves friends with the mammon of unrighteousness, that when it fails ye may be received into the eternal tabernacles.

16:10He that is faithful in the least is faithful also in much; and he that is unrighteous in the least is unrighteous also in much.

16:11If therefore ye have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who shall entrust to you the true?

16:12and if ye have not been faithful in that which is another's, who shall give to you your own?

16:13No servant can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and will love the other, or he will cleave to the one and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

16:14And the Pharisees also, who were covetous, heard all these things, and mocked him.

16:15And he said to them, *Ye* are they who justify themselves before men, but God knows your hearts; for what amongst men is highly thought of is an abomination before God.

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

16:17But it is easier that the heaven and the earth should pass away than that one tittle of the law should fail.

16:18Every one who puts away his wife and marries another commits adultery; and every one that marries one put away from a husband commits adultery.

16:19Now there was a rich man and he was clothed in purple and fine linen, making good cheer in splendour every day.

16:20And there was a poor man, by name Lazarus, who was laid at his gateway full of sores,

16:21and desiring to be filled with the crumbs which fell from the table of the rich man; but the dogs also coming licked his sores.

16:22And it came to pass that the poor man died, and that he was carried away by the angels into the bosom of Abraham. And the rich man also died and was buried.

16:23And in hades lifting up his eyes, being in torments, he sees Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom.

16:24And he crying out said, Father Abraham, have compassion on me, and send Lazarus that he may dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue, for I am suffering in this flame.

16:25But Abraham said, Child, recollect that *thou* hast fully received thy good things in thy lifetime, and likewise Lazarus evil things. But now he is comforted here, and *thou* art in suffering.

16:26And besides all this, between us and you a great chasm is fixed, so that those who desire to pass hence to you cannot, nor do they who desire to cross from there pass over unto us.

16:27And he said, I beseech thee then, father, that thou wouldest send him to the house of my father,

16:28for I have five brothers, so that he may earnestly testify to them, that they also may not come to this place of torment.

16:29But Abraham says to him, They have Moses and the prophets: let them hear them.

16:30But he said, Nay, father Abraham, but if one from the dead should go to them, they will repent.

16:31And he said to him, If they hear not Moses and the prophets, not even if one rise from among the dead will they be persuaded.

17:1And he said to his disciples, It cannot be but that offences come, but woe to him by whom they come!

17:2It would be more profitable for him if a millstone were hanged about his neck and he cast into the sea, than that he should be a snare to one of these little ones.

17:3Take heed to yourselves: if thy brother should sin, rebuke him; and if he should repent, forgive him.

17:4And if he should sin against thee seven times in the day, and seven times should return to thee, saying, I repent, thou shalt forgive him.

17:5And the apostles said to the Lord, Give more faith to us.

17:6But the Lord said, If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye had said to this sycamine tree, Be thou rooted up, and be thou planted in the sea, and it would have obeyed you.

17:7But which of you is there who, having a bondman ploughing or shepherding, when he comes in out of the field, will say, Come and lie down immediately to table?

17:8But will he not say to him, Prepare what I shall sup on, and gird thyself and serve me that I may eat and drink; and after that *thou* shalt eat and drink?

17:9Is he thankful to the bondman because he has done what was ordered? I judge not.

17:10Thus *ye* also, when ye shall have done all things that have been ordered you, say, We are unprofitable bondmen; we have done what it was our duty to do.

17:11And it came to pass as he was going up to Jerusalem, that he passed through the midst of Samaria and Galilee.

17:12And as he entered into a certain village ten leprous men met him, who stood afar off.

17:13And they lifted up their voice saying, Jesus, Master, have compassion on us.

17:14And seeing them he said to them, Go, shew yourselves to the priests. And it came to pass as they were going they were cleansed.

17:15And one of them, seeing that he was cured, turned back, glorifying God with a loud voice,

17:16and fell on his face at his feet giving him thanks: and *he* was a Samaritan.

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

17:18There have not been found to return and give glory to God save this stranger.

17:19And he said to him, Rise up and go thy way: thy faith has made thee well.

17:20And having been asked by the Pharisees, When is the kingdom of God coming? he answered them and said, The kingdom of God does not come with observation;

17:21nor shall they say, Lo here, or, Lo there; for behold, the kingdom of God is in the midst of you.

17:22And he said to the disciples, Days are coming, when ye shall desire to see one of the days of the Son of man, and shall not see it.

17:23And they will say to you, Lo here, or Lo there; go not, nor follow them.

17:24For as the lightning shines which lightens from one end under heaven to the other end under heaven, thus shall the Son of man be in his day.

17:25But first he must suffer many things and be rejected of this generation.

17:26And as it took place in the days of Noe, thus also shall it be in the days of the Son of man:

17:27they ate, they drank, they married, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and the flood came and destroyed all of them;

17:28and in like manner as took place in the days of Lot: they ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded;

17:29but on the day that Lot went out from Sodom, it rained fire and sulphur from heaven, and destroyed all of them:

17:30after this manner shall it be in the day that the Son of man is revealed.

17:31In that day, he who shall be on the housetop, and his stuff in the house, let him not go down to take it away; and he that is in the field, let him likewise not return back.

17:32Remember the wife of Lot.

17:33Whosoever shall seek to save his life shall lose it, and whosoever shall lose it shall preserve it.

17:34I say to you, In that night there shall be two men upon one bed; one shall be seized and the other shall be let go.

17:35Two women shall be grinding together; the one shall be seized and the other shall be let go.

17:36Two men shall be in the field; the one shall be seized and the other let go.

17:37And answering they say to him, Where, Lord? And he said to them, Where the body is, there the eagles will be gathered together.