13Jesus talked to the people that lived in some towns. He said, “You mob that live in Korazin and Bethsaida, you will be really sorry. You see, I did a lot of powerful things there in your towns, but you didn’t listen to me, and you kept on doing bad things. Do you remember those towns called Tyre and Sidon? Many years ago their people did bad things. At that time I didn’t go and do powerful things for them, so they didn’t get the chance to listen to me, so they didn’t turn around and stop doing bad things. If they got that chance they would be very sorry for the bad things they did, and they would turn to God. But that didn’t happen.
14You know, one day God will judge everybody, and he will punish those people for the bad things they did, but he will punish you mob a lot more than he will punish that mob. You mob had the chance to turn around, but you didn’t do it.
15And it’s the same for you mob that live in Capernaum. You reckon you are good, so you reckon God will take you up into heaven. But you are wrong. He knows you are no good, and he will chuck you into hell.”
25One day a man came to Jesus and tried to get him to say something wrong, so he asked a hard question. He was a man that knew a lot about the Jewish laws. He asked Jesus, “What can I do so that I will live a good life for ever, and never die?”
26Jesus said, “You know God’s laws, and you read them all the time. What do you reckon they say?”
27The man answered, “One law says this, ‘You have to love God properly, not just a little bit. You have to love God from right inside yourself. You have to love God in the way you feel, and in the way you think. And you have to love God in the way you do things.’ And another law says this, ‘You have to love the other people around you just as much as you love yourself.’”
28Jesus said, “You are right. Do what those laws say and you will live real good.”
29But the man wanted to show that he did the right thing when he asked that question, so he said, “Who are the other people around me?”
30Jesus answered that question by telling this picture story. He said, “A man was going down the road from Jerusalem city to the town called Jericho. About half way along that road some bad men grabbed him. They beat him up, and they took everything he had, even his clothes, and then they ran away. They left him lying there, half dead.
31After that, a man that looked after the Jewish ceremonies was walking down that road. He saw that man lying there, but he didn’t do anything to help him. He went over to the other side of the road to go past him, and he kept going down the road.
32After that a man that helped in the Jewish ceremonies came along the road. He looked at the man lying there, then he went to the other side of the road to go past him, and he kept going down the road.
33Then a man from Samaria country came along the road. He was riding on a donkey. He saw the man lying there and he felt sorry for him.
34He went to that man and helped him. He treated the places where he was bleeding. He put wine and oil on them, and bandaged them, to help them get better. Then he lifted him up and put him on his donkey and took him to a hotel, and they both stayed there that night.
35The next day he paid a lot of money to the boss of the hotel, and said, ‘This is for you to keep this man here and look after him till he gets better. If it costs more than this, I’ll fix you up for the rest of the cost next time I come here.’”
36Then Jesus said to the law man, “There were 3 people that saw that man on the road, which one of them treated him like he was in his family?”
37The law man said, “I reckon it was the one that felt sorry for that man and helped him.” Jesus said, “You are right. So you have to always do that same kind of thing for other people.”
38Jesus and his followers kept going along the road to Jerusalem, and they came to a community, and a woman called Martha asked him to come and have a feed, so he went with her into her house.
39Her sister, called Mary, sat down near Jesus. He was teaching the people about God, and Mary just sat there listening to everything he said.
40Martha was busy getting the big dinner ready, and she was upset because Mary wasn’t helping her. So she said to Jesus, “Teacher, my sister isn’t helping me with the work. She has left me to do it by myself. You don’t think that is all right, do you? Tell her to get up and help me.”
41Jesus said, “Martha, Martha, you think about a lot of things, and you worry about them a lot.
42But only one thing is really important, and Mary has found that thing, and nobody will take it away from her.”
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