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23 “Therefore the kingdom of the heavens is like a certain king who wanted to settle accounts with his servants.
24 And as he began to settle up, one debtor of ten thousand talents was brought to him.
25 But since he had nothing with which to repay, his lord commanded that he be sold, with his wife and children and everything he had, so as to be repaid.
26 So then the servant fell down and did obeisance to him saying, ‘Lord, be patient with me and I will repay you all’.
27 So the lord of that servant, having compassion, released him and forgave him the loan.
28 “But when that servant went out he found one of his fellow servants who owed him a hundred denarii; and grabbing him he started choking him saying, ‘Pay me back what you owe!’
29 So his fellow servant fell down at his feet and kept begging him saying, ‘Be patient with me and I will pay you back’.
30 But he would not; instead he went and threw him into prison until he should pay back what was owed.
31 But when his fellow servants saw what had happened they were really grieved, and they went and reported to their lord everything that had happened.
32 Then summoning him the lord says to him: ‘Malignant servant! I forgave you all that debt because you begged me.
33 Were you also not obligated to have mercy on your fellow servant, just as I had mercy on you?’
34 So in anger the lord handed him over to the torturers until he should repay all that was owed to him.
35 “My heavenly Father will handle you just like that, if each of you does not forgive his brother his trespasses, from the heart.”
19 1 Now it happened, when Jesus had finished these words, that He departed from Galilee and went to the borders of Judea beyond the Jordan.
2 And large crowds followed Him and there He healed them.
3 The Pharisees also came to Him to test Him saying to Him, “Is it permissible for a man to divorce his wife for just any cause?”
4 So in answer He said to them: “Have you never read that the Creator at the beginning made them a male and a female?
5 And He said, ‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall be turned into one flesh’.
6 So then, they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore, what God joined together let not man separate!”
7 They say to Him, “Why then did Moses command to give a certificate of divorce and to dismiss her?”
8 He says to them: “Because of your hard-heartedness Moses permitted you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it has not been so.
9 And I say to you that whoever divorces his wife, except for fornication, and marries another commits adultery; and whoever marries a divorcee commits adultery.”
10 His disciples say to Him, “If that’s the situation of a man with his wife, it is better not to marry!”
11 So He said to them: “Not all can assimilate this word, but those to whom it has been given.
12 For there are eunuchs who were born that way, from their mother’s womb; and there are eunuchs who were castrated by men; and there are eunuchs who castrated themselves for the sake of the kingdom of the heavens. He who is able to assimilate it, let him assimilate.”
13 Then little children were brought to Him, that He might lay hands on them and pray; but the disciples rebuked them.
14 So Jesus said, “Let the little children come to me and do not forbid them, for of such is the kingdom of the heavens”.
15 And after laying hands on them He moved on from there.
16 And then, a certain one came and said to Him, “Good teacher, what good thing must I do so that I may have eternal life?”
17 But He said to him: “Why do you call me good? No one is good except One, God. But if you want to enter into the life, keep the commandments.”
18 He says to Him, “Which ones?” So Jesus said: “‘You shall not murder’, ‘You shall not commit adultery’, ‘You shall not steal’, ‘You shall not give false witness’,
19 ‘Honor your father and your mother’, and ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself’.”
20 The young man says to Him: “I have kept all these things since my youth. What do I still lack?”
21 Jesus said to him, “If you want to be perfect, go sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come follow me”.
22 So upon hearing that word the young man went away sorrowful, for he had great possessions.
23 Then Jesus said to His disciples: “Assuredly I say to you that only with difficulty will a rich person enter into the kingdom of the heavens.
24 And again I say to you, it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter into the kingdom of God.”
25 Upon hearing it His disciples were really flabbergasted saying, “Who then can be saved?”
26 So looking at them Jesus said, “With men this is impossible, but with God all things are possible”.
27 Then Peter answered and said to Him: “See, we have left all and followed you. So what will we have?”
28 So Jesus said to them: “Assuredly I say to you that in the Regeneration, when the Son of the Man sits on the throne of His glory, you who have followed me will also sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.
29 And, everyone who left house or brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or fields for my name’s sake will receive a hundredfold, and will inherit life eternal.
30 But many ‘first’ will be last, and ‘last’ first.
20 1 “For the kingdom of the heavens is like a certain landowner who went out early in the morning to hire workers for his vineyard.
2 And agreeing with the workers for a denarius a day he sent them into his vineyard.
3 And going out about the third hour [9 a.m.] he saw others standing idle in the marketplace.
4 And he said to them, ‘You also go into the vineyard and I will give you whatever is right.’ So off they went.
5 He went out again about the sixth hour, and the ninth, and did the same.
6 Now about the eleventh hour he went out and found others standing idle, and he says to them, ‘Why have you stood here idle all day?’
7 They say to him, ‘Because no one hired us’. He says to them, ‘You also go into the vineyard, and you will receive whatever is right’.
8 So when evening had come the owner of the vineyard says to his foreman, ‘Call the workers and pay them their wage, beginning at the last to the first’.
9 The eleventh hour ones came and each received a denarius.
10 So when the first ones came they supposed that they would receive more; yet each of them also received a denarius.
11 When they received it they began grumbling against the landowner
12 saying, ‘These last worked only one hour, and you made them equal to us who bore the burden and the heat of the day!’
13 But in answer he said to one of them: ‘Friend, I am not wronging you. Did you not agree with me for a denarius?
14 Take what is yours and go. I wish to give to this last one just as to you.
15 Or isn’t it permissible for me to do what I want with what is mine? Is your eye evil because I am good?’
16 Just so the last will be first, and the first last. For many are called, but few are chosen.”
17 As Jesus was on His way to Jerusalem He took the twelve disciples aside on the road and said to them privately:
18 “Listen! We are going up to Jerusalem and the Son of the Man will be betrayed to the chief priests and scribes; and they will condemn Him to death,
19 and they will hand Him over to the Gentiles to mock, to scourge and to crucify. And on the third day He will rise!”
20 Then the mother of Zebedee’s sons approached Him, with her sons, and kneeling down she asked something from Him.
21 So He said to her, “What do you wish?” She says to Him, “State that these my two sons may sit one on Your right and one on Your left in Your kingdom”.
22 But in answer Jesus said: “You (pl.) do not know what you are asking. Are you able to drink the cup which I am about to drink, or to be baptized with the baptism that I am being baptized with?” They say to Him, “We are able”.
23 And He says to them: “You will indeed drink my cup, and you will be baptized with the baptism that I am being baptized with, but to sit on my right and on my left is not mine to give; rather it is for those for whom it has been prepared by my Father.”
24 Now when the ten heard it they were indignant at the two brothers.
25 But summoning them Jesus said: “You know that the rulers of the nations lord it over them, and the great exercise authority over them;
26 but it must not be so among you. Rather, whoever wants to become great among you must be your servant,
27 and whoever wants to be first among you must be your slave;
28 just like the Son of the Man—He did not come to be served but to serve, and to give His life as a ransom for many.”
29 Now as they went on from Jericho a large crowd followed Him.
30 And then, two blind men sitting alongside the road and hearing, “Jesus is passing by!” cried out saying, “Have mercy on us, Lord, Son of David!”
31 So the crowd threatened them to be quiet, but they cried out all the more saying, “Have mercy on us, Lord, Son of David!!”
32 Jesus stopped, called them and said, “What do you want me to do for you?”
33 They say to Him, “Lord, that our eyes may be opened!”
34 So Jesus had compassion and touched their eyes, and immediately their eyes received sight, and they followed Him.
21 1 Now when they drew near to Jerusalem and came to Bethsphage, opposite the Mount of Olives, then Jesus sent two disciples,
2 saying to them: “Go into the village opposite you and immediately you will find a donkey tied, and a colt with her. Loose her and bring them to me.
3 And if anyone says anything to you, just say, ‘The Lord needs them’, and immediately he will send them.”
4 Now all this happened so that what was spoken through the prophet should be fulfilled, namely:
5 “Say to the daughter of Zion, ‘Look, your King is coming to you, humble and mounted on a donkey, in fact, a young donkey, foal of a beast of burden.’”
6 So going and doing just as Jesus had commanded them,
7 the disciples brought the female donkey and the young donkey. And they placed their clothes on them and He sat down on them [the clothes].
8 And the very large crowd spread their clothes on the road, while others were cutting branches from the trees and spreading them on the road.
9 Then the crowds who went in front and those who followed kept crying out, saying: “Hosanna to the Son of David! Blessed is He who comes in the name of the LORD! Hosanna in the highest heaven!”
10 So when He came into Jerusalem the whole city was stirred up, saying, “Who is this?”
11 And the crowds kept saying, “This is Jesus, the prophet from Natsareth of Galilee.”
12 Jesus went into the temple of God and drove out all who were selling and buying in the temple, and He overturned the tables of the money changers and the seats of those who sold the doves.
13 And He says to them, “It is written, ‘My house will be called a house of prayer’, but you have made it ‘a cave of bandits’.”
14 And the lame and the blind came to Him in the temple, and He healed them.
15 But seeing the wonders that He did, and the children calling out in the temple and saying, “Hosanna to the Son of David!” the chief priests and the scribes became indignant
16 and said to Him, “Do you hear what these are saying?” So Jesus says to them: “Yes. Have you never read that ‘Out of the mouth of babies and nursing infants You have prepared praise for Yourself ’?”
17 Leaving them behind He went out of the city to Bethany and lodged there.
18 Now in the early morning, as He returned to the city, He was hungry.
19 And seeing a lone fig tree by the road, He went up to it and found nothing on it, just leaves. And He says to it, “May you never again produce fruit!” And forthwith the fig tree became withered.
20 And seeing it the disciples marveled saying, “How quickly the fig tree became withered!”
21 So in answer Jesus said to them: “Assuredly I say to you, if you (pl.) have faith and do not doubt, you will not only do what was done to the fig tree, but even if you should say to this mountain, ‘Be taken up and be thrown into the sea’, it will happen.
22 And anything whatever you may ask in the believing prayer, you will receive.”
23 So He came into the temple, and as He was teaching the chief priests and the elders of the people approached Him saying, “By what kind of authority are you doing these things ?” and “Who gave you this authority?”
24 But in answer Jesus said to them: “I also will ask you one question, which if you tell me, I also will tell you by what authority I do these things :
25 The baptism of John—where was it from; from heaven or from men?” So they reasoned among themselves saying: “If we say, ‘From heaven’, He will say to us, ‘Why then did you not believe him?’
26 But if we say, ‘From men’, we fear the crowd, for all consider John as a prophet.”
27 So in answer to Jesus they said, “We do not know”. So He said to them: “Neither do I tell you by what authority I do these things .
28 “But what do you think? A certain man had two sons, and going to the first he said, ‘Son, go work today in my vineyard’.
29 But in answer he said, ‘I don’t want to’ (but later he changed his mind and went).
30 And going to the other he said likewise. And in answer he said, ‘I go, Sir’; yet he did not go.
31 Which of the two did the will of the father?” They say to Him, “The first”. Jesus says to them: “Assuredly I say to you that the tax collectors and the prostitutes will go into the kingdom of God before you do.
32 For John came to you in the way of righteousness, and you did not believe him; but the tax collectors and the prostitutes believed him, yet when you saw it you did not afterward repent, so as to believe him.
33 “Hear another parable: There was a certain landowner who planted a vineyard and set a hedge around it, dug a winepress in it and built a tower. And he leased it to farmers and went on a journey.
34 When vintage-time drew near he sent his servants to the farmers to receive his fruits.
35 But the farmers took his servants—one they beat, one they killed, one they stoned.
36 Again he sent other servants, more than the first, and they did to them likewise.
37 So finally he sent his son to them saying, ‘They will respect my son’.
38 But when the farmers saw the son they said among themselves: ‘This is the heir. Come, let us kill him and take possession of his inheritance.’
39 And taking him they threw him out of the vineyard and killed him.
40 Therefore, when the owner of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those farmers?”
41 They say to Him: “He will miserably destroy those miserable men! And he will lease the vineyard to other farmers who will render to him the fruits in their seasons.”
42 Jesus says to them: “Did you never read in the Scriptures: ‘A stone which the builders rejected, this one became the cornerstone. This was the LORD’s doing, and it is marvelous in our eyes’?
43 Therefore I say to you that the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a nation producing the fruits of it.
44 Also, whoever falls upon this stone will be broken to pieces; but upon whomever it falls, it will grind him to powder.”
45 As the chief priests and Pharisees heard His parables they knew that He was speaking about them.
46 And although they wanted to seize Him, they were afraid of the crowds, because they considered Him as a prophet.