Sell your possessions<n id="1" /> and give to the poor.<n id="2" /> Provide yourselves purses that do not wear out &#8211; a treasure in heaven<n id="3" /> that never decreases,<n id="4" /> where no thief approaches and no moth<n id="5" /> destroys.

It is like a mustard seed<n id="1" /> that a man took and sowed<n id="2" /> in his garden. It<n id="3" /> grew and became a tree,<n id="4" /> and the wild birds<n id="5" /> nested in its branches.&#8221;<n id="6" />p>

O Jerusalem, Jerusalem,<n id="1" /> you who kill the prophets and stone those who are sent to you!<n id="2" /> How often I have longed<n id="3" /> to gather your children together as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but<n id="4" /> you would have none of it!<n id="5" />

&#8220;Which one<n id="1" /> of you, if he has a hundred<n id="2" /> sheep and loses one of them, would not leave the ninety-nine in the open pasture<n id="3" /> and go look for<n id="4" /> the one that is lost until he finds it?<n id="5" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">Jesus<n id="1" /> also said to the disciples, &#8220;There was a rich man who was informed of accusations<n id="2" /> that his manager<n id="3" /> was wasting<n id="4" /> his assets.

Then he said to another, &#8216;And how much do you owe?&#8217; The second man<n id="1" /> replied, &#8216;A hundred measures<n id="2" /> of wheat.&#8217; The manager<n id="3" /> said to him, &#8216;Take your bill, and write eighty.&#8217;<n id="4" />

But Jesus called for the children,<n id="1" /> saying, &#8220;Let the little children come to me and do not try to stop them, for the kingdom of God<n id="2" /> belongs to such as these.<n id="3" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">Then<n id="1" /> Jesus<n id="2" /> took the twelve aside and said to them, &#8220;Look, we are going up to Jerusalem,<n id="3" /> and everything that is written about the Son of Man by the prophets will be accomplished.<n id="4" />

But Zacchaeus stopped and said to the Lord, &#8220;Look, Lord, half of my possessions I now give<n id="1" /> to the poor, and if<n id="2" /> I have cheated anyone of anything, I am paying back four times as much!&#8221;

They will demolish you<n id="1" /> &#8211; you and your children within your walls<n id="2" /> &#8211; and they will not leave within you one stone<n id="3" /> on top of another,<n id="4" /> because you did not recognize the time of your visitation from God.&#8221;<n id="5" />p>

For they all offered their gifts out of their wealth.<n id="1" /> But she, out of her poverty, put in everything she had to live on.&#8221;<n id="2" />p>

They<n id="1" /> will fall by the edge<n id="2" /> of the sword and be led away as captives<n id="3" /> among all nations. Jerusalem<n id="4" /> will be trampled down by the Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.<n id="5" />p>

But Peter got up and ran to the tomb.<n id="1" /> He bent down<n id="2" /> and saw only the strips of linen cloth;<n id="3" /> then he went home,<n id="4" /> wondering<n id="5" /> what had happened.<n id="6" />p>

Then one of them, named Cleopas, answered him,<n id="1" /> &#8220;Are you the only visitor to Jerusalem who doesn&#8217;t know<n id="2" /> the things that have happened there<n id="3" /> in these days?&#8221;

He<n id="1" /> said to them, &#8220;What things?&#8221; &#8220;The things concerning Jesus the Nazarene,&#8221; they replied, &#8220;a man<n id="2" /> who, with his powerful deeds and words, proved to be a prophet<n id="3" /> before God and all the people;

<t /><p class="bodytext">Then<n id="1" /> he said to them, &#8220;These are my words that I spoke to you while I was still with you, that everything written about me<n id="2" /> in the law of Moses and the prophets and the psalms<n id="3" /> must be fulfilled.&#8221;

&#8220;If anyone comes to me and does not hate<n id="1" /> his own father and mother, and wife and children, and brothers and sisters, and even his own life,<n id="2" /> he cannot be my disciple.