mGNT Concordance for εἶπεν

He sent them to Bethlehem and said, “Go and search carefully for the child. When you find him, report back to me so that I too can go and worship him.”[fn]

When he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them, “Brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the coming wrath?

Jesus answered him, “Allow it for now, because this is the way for us to fulfill all righteousness.” Then John allowed him to be baptized.

Then the tempter approached him and said, “If you are the Son of God, tell these stones to become bread.”

And he said to him, “I will give you all these things if you will fall down and worship me.”[fn]

Hearing this, Jesus was amazed and said to those following him, “Truly I tell you, I have not found anyone in Israel with so great a faith.

Then Jesus told the centurion, “Go. As you have believed, let it be done for you.” And his servant was healed that very moment.[fn]

A scribe approached him and said, “Teacher, I will follow you wherever you go.”

“Lord,” another of his disciples said, “first let me go bury my father.”

“Go! ” he told them. So when they had come out, they entered the pigs, and the whole herd rushed down the steep bank into the sea and perished in the water.

Just then some men[fn] brought to him a paralytic lying on a stretcher. Seeing their faith, Jesus told the paralytic, “Have courage, son, your sins are forgiven.”

Perceiving their thoughts, Jesus said, “Why are you thinking evil things in your hearts?[fn]

Now when he heard this, he said, “It is not those who are well who need a doctor, but those who are sick.

Jesus said to them, “Can the wedding guests[fn] be sad while the groom is with them? The time[fn] will come when the groom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast.

Jesus turned and saw her. “Have courage, daughter,” he said. “Your faith has saved you.”[fn] And the woman was made well from that moment.[fn]

and asked him, “Are you the one who is to come, or should we expect someone else? ”

At that time Jesus said, “I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and intelligent and revealed them to infants.

He said to them, “Haven't you read what David did when he and those who were with him were hungry:

He replied to them, “Who among you, if he had a sheep that fell into a pit on the Sabbath, wouldn't take hold of it and lift it out?

Knowing their thoughts, he told them, “Every kingdom divided against itself is headed for destruction, and no city or house divided against itself will stand.

He answered them, “An evil and adulterous generation demands a sign, but no sign will be given to it except the sign of the prophet Jonah.

Someone told him, “Look, your mother and your brothers are standing outside, wanting to speak to you.”[fn]

He answered, “Because the secrets of the kingdom of heaven have been given for you to know, but it has not been given to them.

He replied, “The one who sows the good seed is the Son of Man;

“Therefore,” he said to them, “every teacher of the law[fn] who has become a disciple in the kingdom of heaven is like the owner of a house who brings out of his storeroom treasures new and old.”

And they were offended by him.

Jesus said to them, “A prophet is not without honor except in his hometown and in his household.”

“This is John the Baptist,” he told his servants. “He has been raised from the dead, and that's why miraculous powers are at work in him.”

“They don't need to go away,” Jesus told them. “You give them something to eat.”

“Bring them here to me,” he said.

“Lord, if it's you,” Peter answered him, “command me to come to you on the water.”

He answered them, “Why do you break God's commandment because of your tradition?

Summoning the crowd, he told them, “Listen and understand:

He replied, “Every plant that my heavenly Father didn't plant will be uprooted.

Then Peter said, “Explain this parable to us.”

He replied, “I was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.”

He answered, “It isn't right to take the children's bread and throw it to the dogs.”

Jesus called his disciples and said, “I have compassion on the crowd, because they've already stayed with me three days and have nothing to eat. I don't want to send them away hungry, otherwise they might collapse on the way.”

He replied, “When evening comes you say, ‘It will be good weather because the sky is red.'

Then Jesus told them, “Watch out and beware of the leaven[fn] of the Pharisees and Sadducees.”

Aware of this, Jesus said, “You of little faith, why are you discussing among yourselves that you do not have bread?

Then they understood that he had not told them to beware of the leaven in bread, but of the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees.

Simon Peter answered, “You are the Messiah, the Son of the living God.”

Jesus turned and told Peter, “Get behind me, Satan! You are a hindrance to me because you're not thinking about God's concerns[fn] but human concerns.”

Then Peter said to Jesus, “Lord, it's good for us to be here. If you want, I will set up[fn] three shelters here: one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah.”

Jesus came up, touched them, and said, “Get up; don't be afraid.”

“Elijah is coming[fn] and will restore everything,” he replied.[fn]

Then the disciples understood that he had spoken to them about John the Baptist.

Jesus replied, “You unbelieving and perverse generation, how long will I be with you? How long must I put up with you? Bring him here to me.”

As they were gathering together[fn] in Galilee, Jesus told them, “The Son of Man is about to be betrayed into the hands of men.

“Truly I tell you,” he said, “unless you turn and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.

Then Peter approached him and asked, “Lord, how many times must I forgive my brother or sister who sins against me? As many as seven times? ”

“Haven't you read,” he replied, “that he who created[fn] them in the beginning made them male and female,

He responded, “Not everyone can accept this saying, but only those to whom it has been given.

Jesus said, “Leave the little children alone, and don't try to keep them from coming to me, because the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these.”[fn]

Just then someone came up and asked him, “Teacher, what good must I do to have eternal life? ”

Jesus said to his disciples, “Truly I tell you, it will be hard for a rich person to enter the kingdom of heaven.

Jesus looked at them and said, “With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”

“He said to them, ‘You also go into my vineyard, and I'll give you whatever is right.' So off they went.

“He replied to one of them, ‘Friend, I'm doing you no wrong. Didn't you agree with me on a denarius?

While going up to Jerusalem, Jesus took the twelve disciples aside privately and said to them on the way,

“What do you want? ” he asked her.

“Promise,”[fn] she said to him, “that these two sons of mine may sit, one on your right and the other on your left, in your kingdom.”

Jesus called them over and said, “You know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and those in high positions act as tyrants over them.

Jesus stopped, called them, and said, “What do you want me to do for you? ”

Jesus answered them, “Truly I tell you, if you have faith and do not doubt, you will not only do what was done to the fig tree, but even if you tell this mountain, ‘Be lifted up and thrown into the sea,' it will be done.

Jesus answered them, “I will also ask you one question, and if you answer it for me, then I will tell you by what authority I do these things.

“What do you think? A man had two sons. He went to the first and said, ‘My son, go work in the vineyard today.'

Once more Jesus spoke to them in parables:

“Then the king told the attendants, ‘Tie him up hand and foot,[fn] and throw him into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.'

Perceiving their malicious intent, Jesus said, “Why are you testing me, hypocrites?

“Teacher, Moses said, if a man dies, having no children, his brother is to marry his wife and raise up offspring for his brother.

Jesus answered them, “You are mistaken, because you don't know the Scriptures or the power of God.

“The Lord declared to my Lord,

‘Sit at my right hand

until I put your enemies under your feet'?[fn]

He replied to them, “Do you see all these things? Truly I tell you, not one stone will be left here on another that will not be thrown down.”

Jesus replied to them, “Watch out that no one deceives you.

“He replied, ‘Truly I tell you, I don't know you! '

“The man with two talents also approached. He said, ‘Master, you gave me two talents. See, I've earned two more talents.'

“The man who had received one talent also approached and said, ‘Master, I know you. You're a harsh man, reaping where you haven't sown and gathering where you haven't scattered seed.

“His master replied to him, ‘You evil, lazy servant! If you knew that I reap where I haven't sown and gather where I haven't scattered,

When Jesus had finished saying all these things, he told his disciples,

Aware of this, Jesus said to them, “Why are you bothering this woman? She has done a noble thing for me.

and said, “What are you willing to give me if I hand him over to you? ” So they weighed out thirty pieces of silver for him.

“Go into the city to a certain man,” he said, “and tell him, ‘The Teacher says: My time is near; I am celebrating the Passover at your place[fn] with my disciples.' ”

While they were eating, he said, “Truly I tell you, one of you will betray me.”

He replied, “The one who dipped his hand with me in the bowl ​— ​he will betray me.

Judas, his betrayer, replied, “Surely not I, Rabbi? ”

“You have said it,” he told him.

Peter told him, “Even if everyone falls away because of you, I will never fall away.”

So immediately he went up to Jesus and said, “Greetings, Rabbi! ” and kissed him.

At that time Jesus said to the crowds, “Have you come out with swords and clubs, as if I were a criminal,[fn] to capture me? Every day I used to sit, teaching in the temple, and you didn't arrest me.

The high priest stood up and said to him, “Don't you have an answer to what these men are testifying against you? ”

So when they had gathered together, Pilate said to them, “Who is it you want me to release for you ​— ​Barabbas, or Jesus who is called Christ? ”

The governor asked them, “Which of the two do you want me to release for you? ”

“Barabbas! ” they answered.

All the people answered, “His blood be on us and on our children! ”

“He trusts in God; let God rescue him now ​— ​if he takes pleasure in him![fn] For he said, ‘I am the Son of God.' ”

and said, “Sir, we remember that while this deceiver was still alive he said, ‘After three days I will rise again.'

The angel told the women, “Don't be afraid, because I know you are looking for Jesus who was crucified.

“Follow me,” Jesus told them, “and I will make you fish for[fn] people.”

Jesus said to them, “The wedding guests cannot fast while the groom is with them, can they? As long as they have the groom with them, they cannot fast.

Then he told his disciples to have a small boat ready for him, so that the crowd wouldn't crush him.

He got up, rebuked the wind, and said to the sea, “Silence! Be still! ” The wind ceased, and there was a great calm.

The woman, with fear and trembling, knowing what had happened to her, came and fell down before him, and told him the whole truth.

Then he gave them strict orders that no one should know about this and told them to give her something to eat.

When Herodias's own daughter[fn] came in and danced, she pleased Herod and his guests. The king said to the girl, “Ask me whatever you want, and I'll give it to you.”

She went out and said to her mother, “What should I ask for? ”

“John the Baptist's head,” she said.

“You give them something to eat,” he responded.

They said to him, “Should we go and buy two hundred denarii[fn] worth of bread and give them something to eat? ”

He answered them, “Isaiah prophesied correctly about you hypocrites, as it is written:

This people honors me with their lips,

but their heart is far from me.

“For Moses said: Honor your father and your mother; and Whoever speaks evil of father or mother must be put to death.

Then he told her, “Because of this reply, you may go. The demon has left your daughter.”

They also had a few small fish, and after he had blessed them, he said these were to be served as well.

Calling the crowd along with his disciples, he said to them, “If anyone wants to follow after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me.

“How long has this been happening to him? ” Jesus asked his father.

“From childhood,” he said.

Jesus said to him, “ ‘If you can'?[fn] Everything is possible for the one who believes.”

And he told them, “This kind can come out by nothing but prayer.”[fn]

He took a child, had him stand among them, and taking him in his arms, he said to them,

“Don't stop him,” said Jesus, “because there is no one who will perform a miracle in my name who can soon afterward speak evil of me.

He replied to them, “What did Moses command you? ”

But Jesus told them, “He wrote this command for you because of the hardness of your hearts.

When Jesus saw it, he was indignant and said to them, “Let the little children come to me. Don't stop them, because the kingdom of God belongs to such as these.

“Why do you call me good? ”  Jesus asked him. “No one is good except God alone.

Looking at him, Jesus loved him and said to him, “You lack one thing: Go, sell all you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come,[fn] follow me.”

“What do you want me to do for you? ” he asked them.

Jesus said to them, “You don't know what you're asking. Are you able to drink the cup I drink or to be baptized with the baptism I am baptized with? ”

Jesus stopped and said, “Call him.”

So they called the blind man and said to him, “Have courage! Get up; he's calling for you.”

Then Jesus answered him, “What do you want me to do for you? ”

“Rabboni,”[fn] the blind man said to him, “I want to see.”

They answered them just as Jesus had said; so they let them go.

He said to it, “May no one ever eat fruit from you again! ” And his disciples heard it.

Jesus said to them, “I will ask you one question; then answer me, and I will tell you by what authority I do these things.

They were looking for a way to arrest him but feared the crowd because they knew he had spoken this parable against them. So they left him and went away.

But knowing their hypocrisy, he said to them, “Why are you testing me? Bring me a denarius[fn] to look at.”

Jesus told them, “Give to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's.” And they were utterly amazed at him.

“And as for the dead being raised ​— ​haven't you read in the book of Moses, in the passage about the burning bush, how God said to him: I am the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob?

Then the scribe said to him, “You are right, teacher. You have correctly said that he is one, and there is no one else except him.

When Jesus saw that he answered wisely, he said to him, “You are not far from the kingdom of God.” And no one dared to question him any longer.

“David himself says by the Holy Spirit:

The Lord declared to my Lord,

‘Sit at my right hand

until I put your enemies under your feet.'

Summoning his disciples, he said to them, “Truly I tell you, this poor widow has put more into the treasury than all the others.

Jesus said to him, “Do you see these great buildings? Not one stone will be left upon another ​— ​all will be thrown down.”

Jesus replied, “Leave her alone. Why are you bothering her? She has done a noble thing for me.

So the disciples went out, entered the city, and found it just as he had told them, and they prepared the Passover.

While they were reclining and eating, Jesus said, “Truly I tell you, one of you will betray me ​— ​one who is eating with me.”

He said to them, “It is one of the Twelve ​— ​the one who is dipping bread in the bowl with me.

As they were eating, he took bread, blessed and broke it, gave it to them, and said, “Take it; this is my body.”

He said to them, “This is my blood of the covenant,[fn] which is poured out for many.

Jesus said to them, “Have you come out with swords and clubs, as if I were a criminal,[fn] to capture me?

“I am,” said Jesus, “and you will see the Son of Man seated at the right hand of Power and coming with the clouds of heaven.”

Immediately a rooster crowed a second time, and Peter remembered when Jesus had spoken the word to him, “Before the rooster crows twice, you will deny me three times.” And he broke down and wept.

When the centurion, who was standing opposite him, saw the way he[fn] breathed his last, he said, “Truly this man was the Son of God! ”[fn]

“But go, tell his disciples and Peter, ‘He is going ahead of you to Galilee; you will see him there just as he told you.' ”

Then he said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to all creation.

But the angel said to him, “Do not be afraid, Zechariah, because your prayer has been heard. Your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son, and you will name him John.

“How can I know this? ” Zechariah asked the angel. “For I am an old man, and my wife is well along in years.”

And the angel came to her and said, “Greetings, favored woman! The Lord is with you.”[fn]

Then the angel told her, “Do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with God.

Mary asked the angel, “How can this be, since I have not had sexual relations with a man? ”[fn]

“See, I am the Lord's servant,” said Mary. “May it happen to me as you have said.” Then the angel left her.

Then she exclaimed with a loud cry, “Blessed are you among women, and your child will be blessed![fn]

And Mary said:

My soul magnifies the Lord,

But his mother responded, “No. He will be called John.”

But the angel said to them, “Don't be afraid, for look, I proclaim to you good news of great joy that will be for all the people:[fn]

Simeon took him up in his arms, praised God, and said,

Then Simeon blessed them and told his mother Mary, “Indeed, this child is destined to cause the fall and rise of many in Israel and to be a sign that will be opposed[fn] ​— ​

When his parents saw him, they were astonished, and his mother said to him, “Son, why have you treated us like this? Your father and I have been anxiously searching for you.”

He told them, “Don't collect any more than what you have been authorized.”

The devil said to him, “If you are the Son of God, tell this stone to become bread.”

The devil said to him, “I will give you their splendor and all this authority, because it has been given over to me, and I can give it to anyone I want.

And Jesus answered him,[fn] “It is written: Worship the Lord your God, and serve him only.”

And Jesus answered him, “It is said: Do not test the Lord your God.”

Then he said to them, “No doubt you will quote this proverb[fn] to me: ‘Doctor, heal yourself. What we've heard that took place in Capernaum, do here in your hometown also.' ”

But he said to them, “It is necessary for me to proclaim the good news about the kingdom of God to the other towns also, because I was sent for this purpose.”

When he had finished speaking, he said to Simon, “Put out into deep water and let down your nets for a catch.”

and so were James and John, Zebedee's sons, who were Simon's partners.

“Don't be afraid,” Jesus told Simon. “From now on you will be catching people.”

Seeing their faith he said, “Friend,[fn] your sins are forgiven.”

But perceiving their thoughts, Jesus replied to them, “Why are you thinking this in your hearts?[fn]

“But so that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins” ​— ​he told the paralyzed man, “I tell you: Get up, take your stretcher, and go home.”

After this, Jesus went out and saw a tax collector named Levi sitting at the tax office, and he said to him, “Follow me.”

Jesus replied to them, “It is not those who are healthy who need a doctor, but those who are sick.

Jesus said to them, “You can't make the wedding guests fast while the groom is with them, can you?

Jesus answered them, “Haven't you read what David and those who were with him did when he was hungry ​— ​

But he knew their thoughts and told the man with the shriveled hand, “Get up and stand here.”[fn] So he got up and stood there.

He also told them a parable: “Can the blind guide the blind? Won't they both fall into a pit?

Jesus heard this and was amazed at him, and turning to the crowd following him, he said, “I tell you, I have not found so great a faith even in Israel.”

When the Lord saw her, he had compassion on her and said, “Don't weep.”

He replied to them, “Go and report to John what you have seen and heard: The blind receive their sight, the lame walk, those with leprosy[fn] are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, and the poor are told the good news,

When the Pharisee who had invited him saw this, he said to himself, “This man, if he were a prophet, would know who and what kind of woman this is who is touching him ​— ​she's a sinner! ”

Simon answered, “I suppose the one he forgave more.”

“You have judged correctly,” he told him.

Then he said to her, “Your sins are forgiven.”

And he said to the woman, “Your faith has saved you. Go in peace.”

As a large crowd was gathering, and people were coming to Jesus from every town, he said in a parable,

So he said, “The secrets of the kingdom of God have been given for you to know, but to the rest it is in parables, so that

Looking they may not see,

and hearing they may not understand.

But he replied to them, “My mother and my brothers are those who hear and do the word of God.”

He said to them, “Where is your faith? ”

They were fearful and amazed, asking one another, “Who then is this? He commands even the winds and the waves, and they obey him! ”

When he saw Jesus, he cried out, fell down before him, and said in a loud voice, “What do you have to do with me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I beg you, don't torment me! ”

“What is your name? ” Jesus asked him.

“Legion,” he said, because many demons had entered him.

“Who touched me? ” Jesus asked.

When they all denied it, Peter[fn] said, “Master, the crowds are hemming you in and pressing against you.”[fn]

“Daughter,” he said to her, “your faith has saved you.[fn] Go in peace.”

Everyone was crying and mourning for her. But he said, “Stop crying, because she is not dead but asleep.”

“Take nothing for the road,” he told them, “no staff, no traveling bag, no bread, no money; and don't take an extra shirt.

“I beheaded John,” Herod said, “but who is this I hear such things about? ” And he wanted to see him.

“You give them something to eat,” he told them.

“We have no more than five loaves and two fish,” they said, “unless we go and buy food for all these people.”

“But you,” he asked them, “who do you say that I am? ”

Peter answered, “God's Messiah.”

As the two men were departing from him, Peter said to Jesus, “Master, it's good for us to be here. Let's set up three shelters: one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah” ​— ​not knowing what he was saying.

Jesus replied, “You unbelieving and perverse[fn] generation, how long will I be with you and put up with you? Bring your son here.”

And they were all astonished at the greatness of God.

While everyone was amazed at all the things he was doing, he told his disciples,

He told them, “Whoever welcomes[fn] this little child in my name welcomes me. And whoever welcomes me welcomes him who sent me. For whoever is least among you ​— ​this one is great.”

Jesus told him, “Foxes have dens, and birds of the sky have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay his head.”

He said to them, “I watched Satan fall from heaven like lightning.

At that time he[fn] rejoiced in the Holy[fn] Spirit and said, “I praise[fn] you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and intelligent and revealed them to infants. Yes, Father, because this was your good pleasure.[fn]

Then turning to his disciples he said privately, “Blessed are the eyes that see the things you see!

“What is written in the law? ” he asked him. “How do you read it? ”

“The next day[fn] he took out two denarii,[fn] gave them to the innkeeper, and said, ‘Take care of him. When I come back I'll reimburse you for whatever extra you spend.'

“The one who showed mercy to him,” he said.

Then Jesus told him, “Go and do the same.”

But Martha was distracted by her many tasks, and she came up and asked, “Lord, don't you care that my sister has left me to serve alone? So tell her to give me a hand.”[fn]

He said to them, “Whenever you pray, say,

Father,[fn]

your name be honored as holy.

Your kingdom come.[fn]

He also said to them, “Suppose one of you[fn] has a friend and goes to him at midnight and says to him, ‘Friend, lend me three loaves of bread,

Knowing their thoughts, he told them, “Every kingdom divided against itself is headed for destruction, and a house divided against itself falls.

As he was saying these things, a woman from the crowd raised her voice and said to him, “Blessed is the womb that bore you and the one who nursed you! ”

But the Lord said to him, “Now you Pharisees clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside you are full of greed and evil.

Then he said, “Woe also to you experts in the law! You load people with burdens that are hard to carry, and yet you yourselves don't touch these burdens with one of your fingers.

“Because of this, the wisdom of God said, ‘I will send them prophets and apostles, and some of them they will kill and persecute,'

Someone from the crowd said to him, “Teacher, tell my brother to divide the inheritance with me.”

“I will do this,' he said. ‘I'll tear down my barns and build bigger ones and store all my grain and my goods there.

“But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night your life is demanded of you. And the things you have prepared ​— ​whose will they be? '

Then he said to his disciples, “Therefore I tell you, don't worry about your life, what you will eat; or about the body, what you will wear.

“Lord,” Peter asked, “are you telling this parable to us or to everyone? ”

And he[fn] responded to them, “Do you think that these Galileans were more sinful than all the other Galileans because they suffered these things?

“He told the vineyard worker, ‘Listen, for three years I have come looking for fruit on this fig tree and haven't found any. Cut it down! Why should it even waste the soil? '

When Jesus saw her, he called out to her,[fn] “Woman, you are free of your disability.”

But the Lord answered him and said, “Hypocrites! Doesn't each one of you untie his ox or donkey from the feeding trough on the Sabbath and lead it to water?

Again he said, “What can I compare the kingdom of God to?

“Lord,” someone asked him, “are only a few people going to be saved? ”

He said to them,

He said to them, “Go tell that fox, ‘Look, I'm driving out demons and performing healings today and tomorrow, and on the third day I will complete my work.'[fn]

In response, Jesus asked the law experts and the Pharisees, “Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath or not? ”

And to them, he said, “Which of you whose son or ox falls into a well, will not immediately pull him out on the Sabbath day? ”

When one of those who reclined at the table with him heard these things, he said to him, “Blessed is the one who will eat bread in the kingdom of God! ”

“But without exception[fn] they all began to make excuses. The first one said to him, ‘I have bought a field, and I must go out and see it. I ask you to excuse me.'

Now great crowds were traveling with him. So he turned and said to them,

So he told them this parable:

He also said, “A man had two sons.

The son said to him, ‘Father, I have sinned against heaven and in your sight. I'm no longer worthy to be called your son.'

“‘Your brother is here,' he told him, ‘and your father has slaughtered the fattened calf because he has him back safe and sound.'[fn]

“But he replied to his father, ‘Look, I have been slaving many years for you, and I have never disobeyed your orders, yet you never gave me a goat so that I could celebrate with my friends.

“ ‘Son,'[fn] he said to him, ‘you are always with me, and everything I have is yours.

“So he called the manager in and asked, ‘What is this I hear about you? Give an account of your management, because you can no longer be my manager.'

“ ‘A hundred measures of olive oil,' he said.

“ ‘Take your invoice,' he told him, ‘sit down quickly, and write fifty.'

And he told them, “You are the ones who justify yourselves in the sight of others, but God knows your hearts. For what is highly admired by people is revolting in God's sight.

“‘Father Abraham! ' he called out, ‘Have mercy on me and send Lazarus to dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue, because I am in agony in this flame! '

“ ‘Father,' he said, ‘then I beg you to send him to my father's house ​— ​

“ ‘No, father Abraham,' he said. ‘But if someone from the dead goes to them, they will repent.'

He said to his disciples, “Offenses will certainly come,[fn] but woe to the one through whom they come!

“If you have faith the size of[fn] a mustard seed,” the Lord said, “you can say to this mulberry tree, ‘Be uprooted and planted in the sea,' and it will obey you.

When he saw them, he told them, “Go and show yourselves to the priests.” And while they were going, they were cleansed.

Then Jesus said, “Were not ten cleansed? Where are the nine?

And he told him, “Get up and go on your way. Your faith has saved you.”[fn]

Then he told the disciples, “The days are coming when you will long to see one of the days of the Son of Man, but you won't see it.

“Where, Lord? ” they asked him.

He said to them, “Where the corpse is, there also the vultures will be gathered.”

“For a while he was unwilling, but later he said to himself, ‘Even though I don't fear God or respect people,

Then the Lord said, “Listen to what the unjust judge says.

He also told this parable to some who trusted in themselves that they were righteous and looked down on everyone else:

“Why do you call me good? ” Jesus asked him. “No one is good except God alone.

“I have kept all these from my youth,” he said.

Seeing that he became sad,[fn] Jesus said, “How hard it is for those who have wealth to enter the kingdom of God!

He replied, “What is impossible with man is possible with God.”

Then he took the Twelve aside and told them, “See, we are going up to Jerusalem. Everything that is written through the prophets about the Son of Man will be accomplished.

“What do you want me to do for you? ”

“Lord,” he said, “I want to see.”

When Jesus came to the place, he looked up and said to him, “Zacchaeus, hurry and come down because today it is necessary for me to stay at your house.”

But Zacchaeus stood there and said to the Lord, “Look, I'll give half of my possessions to the poor, Lord. And if I have extorted anything from anyone, I'll pay back four times as much.”

As they were listening to this, he went on to tell a parable because he was near Jerusalem, and they thought the kingdom of God was going to appear right away.

“At his return, having received the authority to be king, he summoned those servants he had given the money to, so that he could find out how much they had made in business.

“ ‘Well done, good[fn] servant! ' he told him. ‘Because you have been faithful in a very small matter, have authority over ten towns.'

“So he said to him, ‘You will be over five towns.'

“So he said to those standing there, ‘Take the mina away from him and give it to the one who has ten minas.'

So those who were sent left and found it just as he had told them.

He answered, “I tell you, if they were to keep silent, the stones would cry out.”

He answered them, “I will also ask you a question. Tell me,

And Jesus said to them, “Neither will I tell you by what authority I do these things.”

“Then the owner of the vineyard said, ‘What should I do? I will send my beloved son. Perhaps[fn] they will respect him.'

But he looked at them and said, “Then what is the meaning of this Scripture:[fn]

The stone that the builders rejected

has become the cornerstone?

Then the scribes and the chief priests looked for a way to get their hands on him that very hour, because they knew he had told this parable against them, but they feared the people.

But detecting their craftiness, he said to them,[fn]

“Well then,” he told them, “give to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's.”

Jesus told them, “The children of this age marry and are given in marriage.

Then he said to them, “How can they say that the Messiah is the son of David?

While all the people were listening, he said to his disciples,

“Truly I tell you,” he said, “this poor widow has put in more than all of them.

As some were talking about the temple, how it was adorned with beautiful stones and gifts dedicated to God, he said,

Then he said, “Watch out that you are not deceived. For many will come in my name, saying, ‘I am he,' and, ‘The time is near.' Don't follow them.

Then he told them a parable: “Look at the fig tree, and all the trees.

“Listen,” he said to them, “when you've entered the city, a man carrying a water jug will meet you. Follow him into the house he enters.

Then he said to them, “I have fervently desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer.

Then he took a cup, and after giving thanks, he said, “Take this and share it among yourselves.

But he said to them, “The kings of the Gentiles lord it over them, and those who have authority over them have themselves called[fn] ‘Benefactors.'

“Lord,” he told him, “I'm ready to go with you both to prison and to death.”

“Lord,” they said, “look, here are two swords.”

“That is enough! ” he told them.

When he reached the place, he told them, “Pray that you may not fall into temptation.”

“Why are you sleeping? ” he asked them. “Get up and pray, so that you won't fall into temptation.”

but Jesus said to him, “Judas, are you betraying the Son of Man with a kiss? ”

But Jesus responded, “No more of this! ” And touching his ear, he healed him.

When a servant saw him sitting in the light, and looked closely at him, she said, “This man was with him too.”

But Peter said, “Man, I don't know what you're talking about! ” Immediately, while he was still speaking, a rooster crowed.

They said, “If you are the Messiah, tell us.”

But he said to them, “If I do tell you, you will not believe.

Pilate then told the chief priests and the crowds, “I find no grounds for charging this man.”

and said to them, “You have brought me this man as one who misleads the people. But in fact, after examining him in your presence, I have found no grounds to charge this man with those things you accuse him of.

A third time he said to them, “Why? What has this man done wrong? I have found in him no grounds for the death penalty. Therefore, I will have him whipped and then release him.”

But turning to them, Jesus said, “Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for me, but weep for yourselves and your children.

And he said to him, “Truly I tell you, today you will be with me in paradise.”

And Jesus called out with a loud voice, “Father, into your hands I entrust my spirit.” Saying this, he breathed his last.

Then he asked them, “What is this dispute that you're having[fn] with each other as you are walking? ” And they stopped walking and looked discouraged.

He said to them, “How foolish you are, and how slow[fn] to believe all that the prophets have spoken!

“Why are you troubled? ” he asked them. “And why do doubts arise in your hearts?

But while they still were amazed and in disbelief because of their joy, he asked them, “Do you have anything here to eat? ”

He told them, “These are my words that I spoke to you while I was still with you ​— ​that everything written about me in the Law of Moses, the Prophets, and the Psalms must be fulfilled.”

He also said to them, “This is what is written:[fn] The Messiah will suffer and rise from the dead the third day,

He said, “I am a voice of one crying out in the wilderness: Make straight the way of the Lord ​— ​just as Isaiah the prophet said.”

“I didn't know him, but he who sent me to baptize with water told me, ‘The one you see the Spirit descending and resting on ​— ​he is the one who baptizes with the Holy Spirit.'

and he brought Simon to Jesus.

When Jesus saw him, he said, “You are Simon, son of John.[fn] You will be called Cephas” (which is translated “Peter”[fn]).

“Can anything good come out of Nazareth? ” Nathanael asked him.

“Come and see,” Philip answered.

“How do you know me? ” Nathanael asked.

“Before Philip called you, when you were under the fig tree, I saw you,” Jesus answered.

Jesus responded to him, “Do you believe because I told you I saw you under the fig tree? You will see greater things than this.”

He told those who were selling doves, “Get these things out of here! Stop turning my Father's house into a marketplace! ”[fn]

Jesus answered, “Destroy this temple,[fn] and I will raise it up in three days.”

So when he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this, and they believed the Scripture and the statement Jesus had made.

This man came to him at night and said, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher who has come from God, for no one could perform these signs you do unless God were with him.”

“How can these things be? ” asked Nicodemus.

John responded, “No one can receive anything unless it has been given to him from heaven.

Jesus answered, “If you knew the gift of God, and who is saying to you, ‘Give me a drink,' you would ask him, and he would give you living water.”

Jesus said, “Everyone who drinks from this water will get thirsty again.

“I don't have a husband,” she answered.

“You have correctly said, ‘I don't have a husband,' ” Jesus said.

Just then his disciples arrived, and they were amazed that he was talking with a woman. Yet no one said, “What do you want? ” or “Why are you talking with her? ”

But he said, “I have food to eat that you don't know about.”

Jesus told him, “Unless you people see signs and wonders, you will not believe.”

“Go,” Jesus told him, “your son will live.” The man believed what[fn] Jesus said to him and departed.

The father realized this was the very hour at which Jesus had told him, “Your son will live.” So he himself believed, along with his whole household.

He replied, “The man who made me well told me, ‘Pick up your mat and walk.' ”

After this, Jesus found him in the temple and said to him, “See, you are well. Do not sin anymore, so that something worse doesn't happen to you.”

Jesus said, “Have the people sit down.”

There was plenty of grass in that place; so they sat down. The men numbered about five thousand.

Jesus answered, “Truly I tell you, you are looking for me, not because you saw[fn] the signs, but because you ate the loaves and were filled.

Jesus replied, “This is the work of God ​— ​that you believe in the one he has sent.”

Jesus said to them, “Truly I tell you, Moses didn't give you the bread from heaven, but my Father gives you the true bread from heaven.

“I am the bread of life,” Jesus told them. “No one who comes to me will ever be hungry, and no one who believes in me will ever be thirsty again.

Therefore the Jews started grumbling about him because he said, “I am the bread that came down from heaven.”

Jesus answered them, “Stop grumbling among yourselves.

So Jesus said to them, “Truly I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you do not have life in yourselves.

He said these things while teaching in the synagogue in Capernaum.

Jesus, knowing in himself that his disciples were grumbling about this, asked them, “Does this offend you?

So Jesus said to the Twelve, “You don't want to go away too, do you? ”

Jesus answered them, “My teaching isn't mine but is from the one who sent me.

“I performed one work, and you are all amazed,” Jesus answered.

Then Jesus said, “I am only with you for a short time. Then I'm going to the one who sent me.

“What is this remark he made: ‘You will look for me, and you will not find me; and where I am, you cannot come'? ”

“The one who believes in me, as the Scripture has said, will have streams of living water flow from deep within him.”

“Doesn't the Scripture say that the Messiah comes from David's offspring[fn] and from the town of Bethlehem, where David lived? ”

When they persisted in questioning him, he stood up and said to them, “The one without sin among you should be the first to throw a stone at her.”

When Jesus stood up, he said to her, “Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you? ”

“Even if I testify about myself,” Jesus replied, “my testimony is true, because I know where I came from and where I'm going. But you don't know where I come from or where I'm going.

Then he said to them again, “I'm going away; you will look for me, and you will die in your sin. Where I'm going, you cannot come.”

“Who are you? ” they questioned.

“Exactly what I've been telling you from the very beginning,” Jesus told them.

So Jesus said to them, “When you lift up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am he, and that I do nothing on my own. But just as the Father taught me, I say these things.

Jesus said to them, “If God were your Father, you would love me, because I came from God and I am here. For I didn't come on my own, but he sent me.

Jesus said to them, “Truly I tell you, before Abraham was, I am.”

“Go,” he told him, “wash in the pool of Siloam” (which means “Sent”). So he left, washed, and came back seeing.

Then the Pharisees asked him again how he received his sight.

“He put mud on my eyes,” he told them. “I washed and I can see.”

Again they asked the blind man, “What do you say about him, since he opened your eyes? ”

“He's a prophet,” he said.

“This is an amazing thing! ” the man told them. “You don't know where he is from, and yet he opened my eyes.

Jesus heard that they had thrown the man out, and when he found him, he asked, “Do you believe in the Son of Man? ”[fn]

Jesus said, “I came into this world for judgment, in order that those who do not see will see and those who do see will become blind.”

“If you were blind,” Jesus told them, “you wouldn't have sin. But now that you say, ‘We see,' your sin remains.

Jesus gave them this figure of speech, but they did not understand what he was telling them.

“If he called those to whom the word of God came ‘gods' ​— ​and the Scripture cannot be broken ​— ​

Many came to him and said, “John never did a sign, but everything John said about this man was true.”

When Jesus heard it, he said, “This sickness will not end in death but is for the glory of God, so that the Son of God may be glorified through it.”

He said this, and then he told them, “Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep, but I'm on my way to wake him up.”

So Jesus then told them plainly, “Lazarus has died.

Then Thomas (called “Twin”[fn]) said to his fellow disciples, “Let's go too so that we may die with him.”

Then Martha said to Jesus, “Lord, if you had been here, my brother wouldn't have died.

Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me, even if he dies, will live.

“Where have you put him? ” he asked.

“Lord,” they told him, “come and see.”

So they removed the stone. Then Jesus raised his eyes and said, “Father, I thank you that you heard me.

One of them, Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said to them, “You know nothing at all!

He did not say this on his own, but being high priest that year he prophesied that Jesus was going to die for the nation,

He didn't say this because he cared about the poor but because he was a thief. He was in charge of the money-bag and would steal part of what was put in it.

Jesus responded, “This voice came, not for me, but for you.

Jesus answered, “The light will be with you only a little longer. Walk while you have the light so that darkness doesn't overtake you. The one who walks in darkness doesn't know where he's going.

This was to fulfill the word of Isaiah the prophet, who said:[fn]

Lord, who has believed our message?

And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?

Isaiah said these things because[fn] he saw his glory and spoke about him.

Jesus cried out, “The one who believes in me believes not in me, but in him who sent me.

Jesus answered him, “What I'm doing you don't realize now, but afterward you will understand.”

For he knew who would betray him. This is why he said, “Not all of you are clean.”

When Jesus had said this, he was troubled in his spirit and testified, “Truly I tell you, one of you will betray me.”

None of those reclining at the table knew why he said this to him.

Jesus answered, “If anyone loves me, he will keep my word. My Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him.

Jesus knew they wanted to ask him, and so he said to them, “Are you asking one another about what I said, ‘In a little while, you will not see me; again in a little while, you will see me'?

Jesus spoke these things, looked up to heaven, and said, “Father, the hour has come. Glorify your Son so that the Son may glorify you,

When Jesus told them, “I am he,” they stepped back and fell to the ground.

This was to fulfill the words he had said: “I have not lost one of those you have given me.”

At that, Jesus said to Peter, “Put your sword away! Am I not to drink the cup the Father has given me? ”