Jesus said to the disciples, “There was a rich man who had a steward, and he was accused of wasting his goods. He called him and said to him, ‘What is this that I heard about you? Give an account of your stewardship. You can no longer act as steward.’
“The steward said within himself, ‘What will I do? My lord takes from me the stewardship. To dig I am not able, to beg I am ashamed. I have found what I will do, that when I am put out of the stewardship, they may receive me into their houses.’
“Calling each one of his lord’s debtors, he said to the first, ‘How much do you owe my lord?’ He said, ‘A hundred baths of oil.’ He said to him, ‘Take back your note, and write fifty.’
“Then he said to another, ‘How much do you owe?’ He said, ‘A hundred homers of wheat.’ He says to him, ‘Take back your note, and write eighty.’
“The lord commended the unjust steward because he had acted prudently. The children of this age are, in reference to their generation, wiser than the children of light. I say to you, ‘Make to yourselves friends of the money of unrighteousness, that when it fails, they may receive you into the eternal habitations.’
“He that is faithful in very little is faithful also in much, and he that is unjust in very little is unjust also in much. If then you have not been faithful to the unrighteous money, who will entrust to you the true riches? If you have not been faithful in that which is another’s, who will give to you that which is your own?
“No servant can serve two masters. Either he will hate the one and love the other. Or he will love the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and Money.”
The Pharisees, who were lovers of money, heard all these things and scoffed at Him. He said to them, “You are they that justify yourselves before men, but God knows your hearts. That which is highly esteemed to men is an abomination in the sight of God.
“The law and the prophets were preached until John. From that time, the kingdom of God is preached, and everyone enters it by force, but it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away than for one point of the law to fall.
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Jesus said to His disciples, “It is impossible that offenses come not. Woe for him through whom they come; it would be better for him that a millstone was hung around his neck and he thrown into the sea than that he should offend one of these little ones.
“Take heed to yourselves. If your brother sins, scold him. If he changes his mind from his sin, forgive him. If he sins against you seven times in a day, and seven times turns to you, ‘I have changed my mind from my sin,’ you forgive him.”
The apostles said, “Increase our faith.” The Lord said, “If you have faith as a grain of mustard, you might say to this sycamine, ‘Be uprooted and be planted in the sea,’ and it would obey you.
“Which of you, in having a servant plowing or feeding a flock, will say to him when he comes from the field, ‘Come immediately and sit at the table?’
“Will he not say to him, ‘Make ready my supper, and tighten yourself and serve me until I have eaten and drunk, and after this you will eat and drink?’
“Does he thank the servant because he did the things that were commanded? So also, you, when you will have done all things that are commanded you, say that we are unprofitable servants. We have done what we should have done.”
He journeyed to Jerusalem through the midst of Samaria and Galilee. As He entered a certain village, ten leprous men met Him standing afar off. They lifted up their voices, “Jesus, Master, have mercy on us.” Seeing them, He said, “Go, show yourselves to the priests.”
As they went, they were cleansed. One of them, seeing that he was healed, returned loudly, glorifying God, and fell on his face at His feet, giving Him thanks. He was a Samaritan. Jesus said, “Were not there ten cleansed? Where are the nine? Were they not found returning to give glory to God, but only this one of another race? Rise and go; your faith has saved you.”
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Jesus spoke a parable to them, that they ought always to pray and not grow weary, “There was in a city a judge that feared not God and regarded not man. A widow came to him, saying, ‘Avenge me, on my opponent-at-law.’
“He would not for a time, but afterward he said within himself, ‘Though I fear not God, neither regard man, yet, because this widow continually gives me trouble, I will avenge her.’
“Hear what the unjust judge said. Will not God avenge his chosen ones who cry to Him, and does He bear long towards them? I say to you that He will avenge them speedily. Nevertheless, will the Son of man, when he comes, find faith on the earth?”
He also spoke this parable to some that trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and despised others, “Two men went up to the temple to pray, the one a Pharisee and other a tax collector.
“The Pharisee prayed thus, ‘God, I thank you that I am not like the rest of men, extortioners, unjust, adulterers or even as this tax collector. I fast twice a week and pay tithes of all that I possess.’
“The tax collector, standing far off, would not lift up his eyes to heaven, but hit upon his chest, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me, I am a sinner.’
“I say to you, unlike the Pharisee, the tax collector went to his house justified. Everyone that exalts himself will be humbled, but he that humbles himself will be exalted.”
They brought to Him their infants that He might touch them. The disciples forbid them, but Jesus called them to Him, “Let the little children come to me and forbid them not. Such belongs the kingdom of God. Truly I say to you, whoever will not receive the kingdom of God as a little child, will not enter into it.”
A ruler asked Him, “Good Teacher, what will I do to inherit eternal life?” Jesus said to him, “Why call me good? None is good but one, God. You know the commandments, ‘You will not commit adultery, murder, steal, bear false testimony and honor your father and your mother.’
He said, “All these I have kept from youth.” Jesus, hearing, said to him, “Yet lack one thing, sell all that you have, and distribute it to the poor and you will have treasure in the heavens, and come follow me.”
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Jesus entered Jericho. A chief tax collector named Zacchaeus, small in stature, sought to see Jesus, but could not because of the crowd. Before He passed by, he ran before them and climbed a sycamore tree so that he might see Him. When He came to the place, Jesus looked up and said to him, “Zacchaeus, make haste and come down. I must stay today at your house.” He hastened and came down and received Him joyfully.
Seeing it, they murmured, “He has gone in to be a guest with a sinful man.”
Zacchaeus said to the Lord, “Behold, half of my goods, Lord, I give to the poor. If I have taken anything falsely from anyone, I repay fourfold.” Jesus said to him, “This day has salvation come to this house, inasmuch as he also is a son of Abraham. The Son of man has come to seek and save the lost.”
He also spoke a parable because He was near Jerusalem, “A nobleman went into a distant country to receive for himself a kingdom. He called his ten servants and gave them ten pounds and said to them, ‘Engage in trade until I come back.’
“His citizens hated him and sent an embassy after him, saying, ‘We are not willing that this man will reign over us.’
“When he had returned, having received the kingdom, he also ordered that those servants called to him, that he might know what each had gained by trading. The first came to him, saying, ‘Lord, the pound has gained ten pounds.’ He said to him, ‘Well done, good servant. Because you have been faithful with very little, you will have authority over ten cities.’
“The second came, saying, ‘The pound, lord, has made five pounds.’ He said to him, ‘Be you also authority over five cities.’
“The other came, saying, ‘Lord, behold the pound, which I had laid away in a napkin. I fear you because you are a hard man, you take up what you do not deposit and reap what you do not sow.’ He says to him, ‘Out of your own mouth will I judge you, wicked servant. I am a hard man, why didn’t you give my money to the bank? I could have collected my own with interest.’
“He said to those that stood by, ‘Take from him the pound and give it to him that has ten pounds.’ They said to him, ‘Lord, but he already has ten pounds.’
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As Jesus was teaching and preaching the gospel to the people in the temple, the priests, scribes, and elders came to Him. They said to Him, “Tell us, by what authority do you do these things?” He said to them, “I also will ask you a question, and tell me, the baptism of John, was it of heaven or of men?
They reasoned among themselves, “If we say, ‘Of heaven,’ He will reply, ‘Why did you not believe him?’ If we say, ‘Of men,’ all the people will stone us. They are persuaded that John was a prophet.” They answered they knew not. Jesus said to them, “Neither will I tell you by what authority I do these things.”
He spoke a parable, “A man planted a vineyard and let it out to vinedressers and went abroad for a long time. At the season, he sent to the vinedressers a servant, that they might give him of the fruit of the vineyard, but the vinedressers scourged him and sent him forth empty.
“He sent another servant, but they scourged that one also and, having dishonored him, sent him forth empty. He sent a third, but they wounded this one also and cast him out. The lord of the vineyard said, ‘What will I do? I will send my beloved son, perhaps they will revere him.’
“Seeing him, the vinedressers reasoned with themselves, ‘This is the heir, let us kill him, that the inheritance may become ours.’ They cast him out of the vineyard and killed him.
“What then will the lord of the vineyard do to them?” They said, “He will come and destroy these vinedressers and give the vineyard to others.”
Jesus looked at them and said, “What then is this that is written: ‘A stone that the builders rejected, this became the head of the corner. Everyone that falls on that stone will be broken, but whomever it falls on, it will grind him to dust?’” Knowing that He spoke against them, the scribes and priests sought to lay their hands on Him but were afraid of the people.
Watching closely, they sent spies that assumed themselves to be just, that they might lay hold on a word of His for they wished to deliver Him up to the authority of the governor. They asked Him, “Teacher, we know that you speak rightly, and accept not a person but teach the way of God. Is it lawful for us to give tribute to Caesar or not?” Perceiving their craftiness, He said to them, “Show me a denarius. Whose image and superscription is on it?”
They said, “Caesar’s.” He said to them, “Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.” They were not able to lay hold of His speech in the presence of the people. Being amazed at His answer, they were silent.
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