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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

³ And he spoke to them this parable, saying,

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

³² Remember the wife of Lot.

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

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

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

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

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