(for I have five brothers) to warn them so that they don’t come into this place of torment.’

“Would any one of you say to your slave who comes in from the field after plowing or shepherding sheep, ‘Come at once and sit down for a meal’?

When Jesus noticed this, he said, “How hard it is for the rich to enter the kingdom of God!

And the king said to him, ‘Well done, good slave! Because you have been faithful in a very small matter, you will have authority over ten cities.’

Then another slave came and said, ‘Sir, here is your mina that I put away for safekeeping in a piece of cloth.

And he said to his attendants, ‘Take the mina from him, and give it to the one who has ten.’

Woe to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing their babies in those days! For there will be great distress on the earth and wrath against this people.

He did not need anyone to testify about man, for he knew what was in man.

So he asked them the time when his condition began to improve, and they told him, “Yesterday at one o’clock in the afternoon the fever left him.”

When Jesus saw him lying there and when he realized that the man had been disabled a long time already, he said to him, “Do you want to become well?”

nor do you have his word residing in you, because you do not believe the one whom he sent.

You study the scriptures thoroughly because you think in them you possess eternal life, and it is these same scriptures that testify about me,

“Here is a boy who has five barley loaves and two fish, but what good are these for so many people?”

The one who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.

(Now they were asking this in an attempt to trap him, so that they could bring charges against him.) Jesus bent down and wrote on the ground with his finger.

You people are doing the deeds of your father.” Then they said to Jesus, “We were not born as a result of immorality! We have only one Father, God himself.”

The Judeans replied, “Aren’t we correct in saying that you are a Samaritan and are possessed by a demon?”

Jesus replied, “If you were blind, you would not be guilty of sin, but now because you claim that you can see, your guilt remains.”

(Now Judas said this not because he was concerned about the poor, but because he was a thief. As keeper of the money box, he used to steal what was put into it.)

While you have the light, believe in the light, so that you may become sons of light.” When Jesus had said these things, he went away and hid himself from them.