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diff --git a/16184-8.txt b/16184-8.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..36e7b48 --- /dev/null +++ b/16184-8.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7987 @@ +The Project Gutenberg EBook of His Life +by William E. Barton, Theodore G. Soares, Sydney Strong + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: His Life + A Complete Story in the Words of the Four Gospels + +Author: William E. Barton, Theodore G. Soares, Sydney Strong + +Release Date: July 4, 2005 [EBook #16184] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HIS LIFE *** + + + + +Produced by Diane Monico and the Online Distributed +Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net. + + + + + + + + + + +=His Life= + +A COMPLETE STORY IN THE WORDS +OF THE FOUR GOSPELS + + +PREPARED BY + +WILLIAM E. BARTON, THEODORE G. 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The Text of the +American Standard Revised Bible, copyright 1901, by Thomas Nelson & +Sons, is used by special arrangement and with their permission. + + + + +PREFACE. + + +The four Gospels, each telling in its own way the story of the Life of +Jesus, are the rich heritage of Christians. No one of the Gospels +could be spared. But in reading any one of the four we miss some of +the familiar words and incidents we love. Almost from the days of the +Apostles there have been attempts to unite the Gospels in a single +narrative. The first of these efforts, so far as we know, was +undertaken by the devout scholar Tatian, soon after 173 A.D. His book +served a useful purpose in his own and later generations, and is now a +valuable witness to the antiquity and early acceptance of our four +Gospels. + +There have been many harmonies of the Gospel from the second century +to the present; and they are all but indispensable to the scholar. +Almost every minister keeps one at his elbow. But these, for the most +part, are made for purposes of scholarly comparison, and not for +general reading. Moreover, they are expensive. + +The editors of this little book have undertaken to prepare an +interwoven story of the Life of Jesus from the four Gospels for +popular reading. A booklet that may be carried in the pocket, and may +be sold, in paper binding, for ten cents, has been their ambition. +They have been led to this undertaking by the large demand for copies +of their booklet, "HIS LAST WEEK," which comprises the last third of +this volume, whose use at Easter time has brought them many requests +for the complete Gospel story, interwoven in the same manner. + +The work of preparation has been done by three ministers of Oak Park, +in suburban Chicago, who have shared equally the labor, but the +undertaking has the support and co-operation of the entire group of +fifteen local pastors, representing six different denominations. To +this larger group of brethren is due a grateful acknowledgment of +sympathy and assistance. The book has at least the value of an +illustration in practical interdenominational co-operation. In the +spirit of this fine fellowship it is commended to Christians of every +name. + + THE EDITORS + + + + +=His Life= + + +=I. His Birth and Boyhood= + +1. THE DIVINE ANNOUNCINGS + The Word made Flesh. 13 + The Promised Birth of John the Baptist. 14 + The Angel's Visit to Mary. 15 + Mary's Visit to Her Cousin. 16 + Mary's Song. 17 + The Birth of John the Baptist. 17 + The Song of Zacharias. 18 + +2. THE BIRTH AND INFANCY OF JESUS + Joseph and Mary. 20 + The Birth of Jesus. 20 + The Angels and the Shepherds. 21 + The Circumcision. 22 + The Presentation in the Temple. 22 + The Visit of the Wise Men. 23 + The Flight into Egypt. 24 + +3. THE LIFE IN NAZARETH + The Return to Nazareth. 26 + The Boyhood Visit to Jerusalem. 26 + The Eighteen Silent Years. 27 + + +=II. The Beginnings of His Ministry= + +1. JESUS AND JOHN THE BAPTIST + The Voice in the Wilderness. 28 + The Baptism of Jesus. 30 + The Temptation in the Wilderness. 30 + John's Testimony to Jesus. 31 + +2. THE BEGINNINGS OF FAITH + The First Disciples by the Jordan. 33 + The First Miracle. 34 + +3. JESUS IN JERUSALEM. + Cleansing His Father's House. 36 + The Visit of Nicodemus. 36 + +4. PREPARATORY PREACHING + Jesus Baptizing and Preaching. 39 + John's Tribute to Jesus. 39 + At Jacob's Well. 40 + Preaching to the Samaritans. 41 + + +=III. His Year of Popularity= + +1. JESUS IN GALILEE + John the Baptist Imprisoned. 43 + Reception of Jesus by the Galilæans. 43 + Healing the Nobleman's Son. 43 + The Recall of the Fishermen. 44 + A Day of Good Deeds in Capernaum. 45 + The First Leper Healed. 47 + +2. BEGINNINGS OF CONTROVERSY + The Healing of a Paralytic. 48 + The Publican Disciple. 49 + The Old and the New. 49 + A Sabbath Healing in Jerusalem. 50 + Plucking Grain on the Sabbath. 53 + +3. MANY CALLED AND FEW CHOSEN + A Multitude of Disciples. 54 + The Selection of the Twelve. 55 + +4. THE TEACHING OF THE KINGDOM + The Citizens of the Kingdom. 56 + The Righteousness of the Kingdom. 57 + The Danger of Hypocrisy. 59 + Simple Trust in God. 61 + Charitable Judgment. 62 + Prayer. 63 + Sincerity. 64 + +5. A TOUR IN GALILEE + The Worthy Centurion. 66 + Raising the Widow's Son. 67 + A Question from John the Baptist. 67 + Jesus' Estimate of John the Baptist. 68 + The Death of John the Baptist. 69 + Forgiveness of the Repentant Woman. 70 + The Ministering Women. 71 + +6. GROWING POPULARITY AND RISING OPPOSITION + The Concern of Jesus' Friends. 72 + Warning of Eternal Sin. 72 + The Demand for a Sign. 74 + +7. THE PARABLES OF THE KINGDOM + The Sower. 75 + The Tares. 77 + The Growing Grain. 77 + The Mustard Seed. 77 + The Leaven. 78 + The Understanding of Parables. 78 + The Hid Treasure. 79 + The Pearl of Great Price. 79 + The Drag Net. 79 + +8. A DAY OF MIRACLES BY THE LAKE + Jesus Stills the Storm. 80 + The Legion of Demons. 80 + The Dying Child and the Suffering Woman. 82 + Healings by the Way. 84 + +9. WIDER EVANGELIZATION OF GALILEE + A Visit to His Home. 85 + Preaching in the Villages. 86 + The Twelve Sent Forth. 87 + +10. THE CRISIS IN CAPERNAUM + The Five Thousand Fed. 91 + Jesus Walking on the Water. 92 + The Disappointment of the People. 93 + Rejection of the Tradition of the Elders. 97 + The Plot of the Pharisees. 99 + + +=IV. His Withdrawal with the Twelve= + +1. THE MINISTRY BEYOND GALILEE + The Phoenician Retirement and the Gentile Cure. 100 + Miracles and Multitudes Again. 101 + The Four Thousand Fed. 101 + The Pharisees and Sadducees Demand a Sign. 102 + The Blind Man Healed. 103 + +2. JESUS THE MESSIAH + Peter's Confession. 105 + The Passion and Resurrection Foretold. 105 + The Transfiguration. 106 + The Epileptic Boy. 108 + +3. THE TRAINING OF THE TWELVE + The Passion and Resurrection Again Foretold. 110 + The Greatest Disciple. 110 + Forgiveness. 112 + The Shekel for the Temple. 113 + + +=V. His Face Toward Jerusalem= + +1. THE FINAL DEPARTURE FROM GALILEE + The Beginning of the End. 114 + The Grateful Samaritan Leper. 114 + New Disciples. 115 + +2. IN JERUSALEM--THE ATTEMPT TO STONE HIM + Jesus at the Feast of Tabernacles. 116 + Jesus and the Accused Woman. 118 + The Light of the World. 119 + The Freedom of the Soul. 121 + +3. THE MINISTRY IN PEREA + The Mission of the Seventy. 123 + The Return of the Seventy. 124 + The Meek and Lowly. 124 + The Unrepentant Cities. 125 + The Good Samaritan. 125 + +4. IN JERUSALEM--THE ATTEMPT TO ARREST HIM + The Friends at Bethany. 127 + A Miracle in Jerusalem. 127 + The Good Shepherd. 130 + Jesus at the Feast of Dedication. 131 + +5. RENEWED MINISTRY IN PEREA + Jesus and the Pharisees. 133 + Warning Against Covetousness. 134 + The Fall of the Tower. 134 + The Uses of the Sabbath. 135 + A Question of Salvation. 136 + A Message to Herod. 136 + The Ox in the Pit. 137 + The Chief Places at the Feast. 137 + The Slighted Invitation. 138 + Counting the Cost. 139 + The Ninety and Nine. 139 + The Lost Coin. 140 + The Prodigal Son. 140 + The Unjust Steward. 142 + A Parable to the Lovers of Money. 143 + "Increase Our Faith." 144 + +6. NEAR JERUSALEM--THE PLOT TO KILL HIM + The Raising of Lazarus. 145 + The Decision of the Council. 148 + +7. HIS WITHDRAWAL TO EPHRAIM + The Coming of the Kingdom. 149 + The Unjust Judge. 149 + The Pharisee and the Publican. 150 + Concerning Divorce. 150 + Jesus and the Children. 151 + The Rich Young Ruler. 151 + The Parable of the Vineyard. 153 + +8. THE LAST JOURNEY TO JERUSALEM + The Shadow of the Cross. 155 + The Sons of Thunder. 155 + The Blind Man of Jericho. 156 + The Visit to Zacchæus. 157 + The Parable of the Pounds. 157 + Going up to Jerusalem. 159 + The Feast at Bethany. 159 + + +=VI. His Last Week= + +1. PALM SUNDAY--THE DAY OF TRIUMPH + The Triumphal Entry. 161 + +2. MONDAY--THE DAY OF AUTHORITY + The Cursing of the Fig Tree. 163 + The Cleansing of the Temple. 163 + +3. TUESDAY--THE DAY OF CONTROVERSY + The Lesson from the Withered Fig Tree. 164 + The Challenge of Christ's Authority. 164 + Three Warning Parables. 165 + (a) the two sons. 165 + (b) the wicked husbandmen. 165 + (c) the marriage of the king's son. 167 + Three Hostile Questions asked of Jesus. 167 + (a) tribute to Cæsar. 167 + (b) the question of the resurrection. 168 + (c) the greatest commandment. 169 + The Unanswerable Question of Jesus. 170 + Discourse of Jesus Against the Scribes and Pharisees. 170 + The Widow's Two Mites. 173 + The Gentiles Seek Jesus. 173 + The Jews Reject Jesus. 174 + Discourse Concerning the Future. 175 + Three Lessons to the Disciples. 179 + (a) the parable of the ten virgins. 179 + (b) the parable of the talents. 180 + (c) the judgment scene. 181 + The Conspiracy Against Jesus. 183 + +4. WEDNESDAY--THE DAY OF RETIREMENT 184 + +5. THURSDAY--THE DAY OF FELLOWSHIP + Preparation for the Passover. 185 + Strife among the Disciples. 185 + Jesus Washing the Disciples' Feet. 186 + The Betrayer Pointed Out. 187 + The Lord's Supper. 188 + The Farewell Conversation. 189 + The Intercessory Prayer. 196 + +6. FRIDAY--THE DAY OF SUFFERING + The Agony in Gethsemane. 199 + The Betrayal and Arrest. 200 + The Trial before the Jewish Authorities. 201 + The Denial of Peter. 203 + The Remorse of Judas. 204 + The Trial before Pilate. 205 + Jesus before Herod. 206 + The Trial before Pilate Resumed. 207 + The Sorrowful Way. 210 + The Crucifixion. 210 + The Burial. 214 + +7. SATURDAY--THE DAY OF SILENCE AND SORROW + The Watch at the Tomb. 215 + + +=VII. His Resurrection= + +1. SUNDAY--THE DAY OF RESURRECTION + The Earthquake. 216 + The Empty Tomb. 216 + The Appearance to Mary. 217 + The Appearance to the Women. 217 + Report of the Watch. 218 + The Appearance at Emmaus. 218 + The Appearance to the Disciples. 220 + +2. AFTER THE RESURRECTION DAY + The Appearance to the Disciples and to Thomas. 222 + The Appearance to the Seven by the Sea. 222 + The Appearance to the Eleven on the Mountain. 225 + The Last Appearance and Ascension. 225 + + + + +=His Life= + + * * * * * + +=HIS BIRTH AND BOYHOOD= + + * * * * * + +THE DIVINE ANNOUNCINGS + + +THE WORD MADE FLESH. + +In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word +was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made +through him; and without him was not anything made that hath been +made. In him was life; and the life was the light of men. And the +light shineth in the darkness; and the darkness apprehended it not. + +There came a man, sent from God, whose name was John. The same came +for witness, that he might bear witness of the light, that all might +believe through him. He was not the light, but came that he might bear +witness of the light. There was the true light, even the light which +lighteth every man, coming into the world. He was in the world, and +the world was made through him, and the world knew him not. He came +unto his own, and they that were his own received him not. But as many +as received him, to them gave he the right to become children of God, +even to them that believe on his name: who were born, not of blood, +nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. + +And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us (and we beheld his +glory, glory as of the only begotten from the Father), full of grace +and truth. John beareth witness of him, and crieth, saying, "This was +he of whom I said, He that cometh after me is become before me: for he +was before me." + +For of his fulness we all received, and grace for grace. For the law +was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ. No +man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, who is in the +bosom of the Father, he hath declared him. + + +THE PROMISED BIRTH OF JOHN THE BAPTIST. + +There was in the days of Herod, king of Judæa, a certain priest named +Zacharias, of the course of Abijah: and he had a wife of the daughters +of Aaron, and her name was Elisabeth. And they were both righteous +before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord +blameless. And they had no child, because that Elisabeth was barren, +and they both were now well stricken in years. + +Now it came to pass, while he executed the priest's office before God +in the order of his course, according to the custom of the priest's +office, his lot was to enter into the temple of the Lord and burn +incense. And the whole multitude of the people were praying without at +the hour of incense. + +And there appeared unto him an angel of the Lord standing on the right +side of the altar of incense. + +And Zacharias was troubled when he saw him, and fear fell upon him. +But the angel said unto him, "Fear not, Zacharias: because thy +supplication is heard, and thy wife Elisabeth shall bear thee a son, +and thou shalt call his name John. And thou shalt have joy and +gladness; and many shall rejoice at his birth. For he shall be great +in the sight of the Lord, and he shall drink no wine nor strong drink; +and he shall be filled with the Holy Spirit, even from his mother's +womb. And many of the children of Israel shall he turn unto the Lord +their God. And he shall go before his face in the spirit and power of +Elijah, to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the +disobedient to walk in the wisdom of the just; to make ready for the +Lord a people prepared for him." + +And Zacharias said unto the angel, "Whereby shall I know this? for I +am an old man, and my wife well stricken in years." + +And the angel answering said unto him, "I am Gabriel, that stand in +the presence of God; and I was sent to speak unto thee, and to bring +thee these good tidings. And behold, thou shalt be silent and not able +to speak, until the day that these things shall come to pass, because +thou believedst not my words, which shall be fulfilled in their +season." + +And the people were waiting for Zacharias, and they marvelled while he +tarried in the temple. And when he came out, he could not speak unto +them: and they perceived that he had seen a vision in the temple: and +he continued making signs unto them, and remained dumb. + +And it came to pass, when the days of his ministration were fulfilled, +he departed unto his house. + +And after these days Elisabeth his wife conceived; and she hid herself +five months, saying, "Thus hath the Lord done unto me in the days +wherein he looked upon me, to take away my reproach among men." + + +THE ANGEL'S VISIT TO MARY. + +Now in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God unto a city +of Galilee, named Nazareth, to a virgin betrothed to a man whose name +was Joseph, of the house of David; and the virgin's name was Mary. +And he came in unto her, and said, "Hail, thou that art highly +favored, the Lord is with thee." + +But she was greatly troubled at the saying, and cast in her mind what +manner of salutation this might be. + +And the angel said unto her, "Fear not, Mary: for thou hast found +favor with God And behold, thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and bring +forth a son, and shalt call his name JESUS. He shall be great, and +shall be called the Son of the Most High: and the Lord God shall give +unto him the throne of his father David: and he shall reign over the +house of Jacob forever; and of his kingdom there shall be no end." + +And Mary said unto the angel, "How shall this be, seeing I know not a +man?" + +And the angel answered and said unto her, "The Holy Spirit shall come +upon thee, and the power of the Most High shall overshadow thee: +wherefore also the holy thing which is begotten shall be called the +Son of God. And behold, Elisabeth thy kinswoman, she also hath +conceived a son in her old age; and this is the sixth month with her +that was called barren. For no word from God shall be void of power." + +And Mary said, "Behold, the handmaid of the Lord; be it unto me +according to thy word" + +And the angel departed from her. + + +MARY'S VISIT TO HER COUSIN. + +And Mary arose in these days and went into the hill country with +haste, into a city of Judah; and entered into the house of Zacharias +and saluted Elisabeth. And it came to pass, when Elisabeth heard the +salutation of Mary, the babe leaped in her womb; and Elisabeth was +filled with the Holy Spirit; and she lifted up her voice with a loud +cry, and said, "Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit +of thy womb. And whence is this to me, that the mother of my Lord +should come unto me? For behold, when the voice of thy salutation came +into mine ears, the babe leaped in my womb for joy. And blessed is she +that believed; for there shall be a fulfilment of the things which +have been spoken to her from the Lord." + + +MARY'S SONG. + +And Mary said, + + "My soul doth magnify the Lord. + And my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Saviour. + For he hath looked upon the low estate of his handmaid: + For behold, from henceforth all generations shall call me blessed. + For he that is mighty hath done to me great things; + And holy is his name. + And his mercy is unto generations and generations + On them that fear him. + He hath showed strength with his arm: + He hath scattered the proud in the imagination of their heart. + He hath put down princes from their thrones, + And hath exalted them of low degree. + The hungry he hath filled with good things; + And the rich he hath sent empty away. + He hath given help to Israel his servant, + That he might remember mercy + (As he spake unto our fathers) + Toward Abraham and his seed for ever." + +And Mary abode with her about three months, and returned unto her +house. + + +THE BIRTH OF JOHN THE BAPTIST. + +Now Elisabeth's time was fulfilled that she should be delivered; and +she brought forth a son. And her neighbors and her kinsfolk heard that +the Lord had magnified his mercy towards her; and they rejoiced with +her. + +And it came to pass on the eighth day, that they came to circumcise +the child; and they would have called him Zacharias, after the name of +his father. + +And his mother answered and said, "Not so; but he shall be called +John." + +And they said unto her, "There is none of thy kindred that is called +by this name." + +And they made signs to his father, what he would have him called. + +And he asked for a writing tablet, and wrote, saying, "His name is +John." + +And they marvelled all. And his mouth was opened immediately, and his +tongue loosed, and he spake, blessing God. + +And fear came on all that dwelt round about them: and all these +sayings were noised abroad throughout all the hill country of Judæa. + +And all that heard them laid them up in their heart, saying, "What +then shall this child be?" + +For the hand of the Lord was with him. + + +THE SONG OF ZACHARIAS. + +And his father Zacharias was filled with the Holy Spirit, and +prophesied, saying, + + "Blessed be the Lord the God of Israel; + For he hath visited and wrought redemption for his people, + And hath raised up a horn of salvation for us + In the house of his servant David + (As he spake by the mouth of his holy prophets that have been + from of old), + Salvation from our enemies and from the hand of all that hate us; + To show mercy towards our fathers. + And to remember his holy covenant; + The oath which he sware unto Abraham our father, + To grant unto us that we being delivered out of the hand of + our enemies + Should serve him without fear, + In holiness and righteousness before him all our days. + Yea and thou, child, shalt be called the prophet of the Most High: + For thou shalt go before the face of the Lord to make ready + his ways; + To give knowledge of salvation unto his people + In the remission of their sins, + Because of the tender mercy of our God, + Whereby the dayspring from on high shall visit us, + To shine upon them that sit in darkness and the shadow of death; + To guide our feet into the way of peace." + +And the child grew, and waxed strong in spirit, and was in the deserts +till the day of his showing unto Israel. + + + + +THE BIRTH AND INFANCY OF JESUS + + +JOSEPH AND MARY. + +Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise: When his mother Mary +had been betrothed to Joseph, before they came together she was found +with child of the Holy Spirit. And Joseph her husband, being a +righteous man, and not willing to make her a public example, was +minded to put her away privily. + +But when he thought on these things, behold, an angel of the Lord +appeared unto him in a dream, saying, "Joseph, thou son of David, fear +not to take unto thee Mary thy wife: for that which is conceived in +her is of the Holy Spirit. And she shall bring forth a son; and thou +shalt call his name JESUS; for it is he that shall save his people +from their sins." + +Now all this is come to pass, that it might be fulfilled which was +spoken by the Lord through the prophet, saying, + + "Behold, the virgin shall be with child, and shall bring + forth a son, + And they shall call his name Immanuel;" + +which is, being interpreted, "God with us." + +And Joseph arose from his sleep, and did as the angel of the Lord +commanded him, and took unto him his wife; and knew her not till she +had brought forth a son. + + +THE BIRTH OF JESUS. + +Now it came to pass in those days, there went out a decree from Cæsar +Augustus, that all the world should be enrolled. This was the first +enrolment made when Quirinius was governor of Syria. And all went to +enrol themselves, every one to his own city. And Joseph also went up +from Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth, into Judæa, to the city of +David, which is called Bethlehem, because he was of the house and +family of David; to enrol himself with Mary, who was betrothed to him, +being great with child. + +And it came to pass, while they were there, the days were fulfilled +that she should be delivered. And she brought forth her firstborn son; +and she wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger, +because there was no room for them in the inn. + + +THE ANGELS AND THE SHEPHERDS. + +And there were shepherds in the same country abiding in the field, and +keeping watch by night over their flock. And an angel of the Lord +stood by them, and the glory of the Lord shone round about them: and +they were sore afraid. + +And the angel said unto them, "Be not afraid; for behold, I bring you +good tidings of great joy which shall be to all the people: for there +is born to you this day in the city of David a Saviour, who is Christ +the Lord. And this is the sign unto you: Ye shall find a babe wrapped +in swaddling clothes, and lying in a manger." + +And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host +praising God, and saying, + + "Glory to God in the highest, + And on earth peace among men in whom he is well pleased." + +And it came to pass, when the angels went away from them into heaven, +the shepherds said one to another, "Let us now go even unto +Bethlehem, and see this thing that is come to pass, which the Lord +hath made known unto us." + +And they came with haste, and found both Mary and Joseph, and the babe +lying in the manger. And when they saw it, they made known concerning +the saying which was spoken to them about this child. + +And all that heard it wondered at the things which were spoken unto +them by the shepherds. + +But Mary kept all these sayings, pondering them in her heart. + +And the shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all the +things that they had heard and seen, even as it was spoken unto them. + + +THE CIRCUMCISION. + +And when eight days were fulfilled for circumcising him, his name was +called JESUS, which was so called by the angel before he was conceived +in the womb. + + +THE PRESENTATION IN THE TEMPLE. + +And when the days of their purification according to the law of Moses +were fulfilled, they brought him up to Jerusalem, to present him to +the Lord (as it is written in the law of the Lord, Every male that +openeth the womb shall be called holy to the Lord), and to offer a +sacrifice according to that which is said in the law of the Lord, "A +pair of turtledoves, or two young pigeons." + +And behold, there was a man in Jerusalem, whose name was Simeon: and +this man was righteous and devout, looking for the consolation of +Israel: and the Holy Spirit was upon him. And it had been revealed +unto him by the Holy Spirit, that he should not see death, before he +had seen the Lord's Christ. And he came in the Spirit into the temple: +and when the parents brought in the child Jesus, that they might do +concerning him after the custom of the law, then he received him into +his arms, and blessed God, and said, + + "Now, lettest thou thy servant depart, Lord, + According to thy word, in peace; + For mine eyes have seen thy salvation, + Which thou hast prepared before the face of all peoples; + A light for revelation to the Gentiles, + And the glory of thy people Israel." + +And his father and his mother were marvelling at the things which were +spoken concerning him; and Simeon blessed them, and said unto Mary his +mother, + + "Behold, this child is set for the falling and the rising of + many in Israel; + And for a sign which is spoken against; + Yea and a sword shall pierce through thine own soul; + That thoughts out of many hearts may be revealed." + +And there was one Anna, a prophetess, the daughter of Phanuel, of the +tribe of Asher (she was of a great age, having lived with a husband +seven years from her virginity, and she had been a widow even unto +fourscore and four years), who departed not from the temple, +worshipping with fastings and supplications night and day. And coming +up at that very hour she gave thanks unto God, and spake of him to all +them that were looking for the redemption of Jerusalem. + + +THE VISIT OF THE WISE MEN. + +Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judæa in the days of Herod the +king, behold, Wise-men from the east came to Jerusalem, saying, "Where +is he that is born King of the Jews? for we saw his star in the east, +and are come to worship him." + +And when Herod the king heard it, he was troubled, and all Jerusalem +with him. And gathering together all the chief priests and scribes of +the people, he inquired of them where the Christ should be born. And +they said unto him, "In Bethlehem of Judæa: for thus it is written +through the prophet, + + "'And thou Bethlehem, land of Judah, + Art in no wise least among the princes of Judah: + For out of thee shall come forth a governor, + Who shall be shepherd of my people Israel.'" + +Then Herod privily called the Wise-men, and learned of them exactly +what time the star appeared. And he sent them to Bethlehem, and said, +"Go and search out exactly concerning the young child; and when ye +have found him, bring me word, that I also may come and worship him." + +And they, having heard the king, went their way; and lo, the star, +which they saw in the east, went before them, till it came and stood +over where the young child was. And when they saw the star, they +rejoiced with exceeding great joy. And they came into the house and +saw the young child with Mary his mother; and they fell down and +worshipped him; and opening their treasures they offered unto him +gifts, gold and frankincense and myrrh. + +And being warned of God in a dream that they should not return to +Herod, they departed into their own country another way. + + +THE FLIGHT INTO EGYPT. + +Now when they were departed, behold, an angel of the Lord appeareth to +Joseph in a dream, saying, "Arise and take the young child and his +mother, and flee into Egypt, and be thou there until I tell thee: for +Herod will seek the young child to destroy him." He arose and took the +young child and his mother by night, and departed into Egypt; and was +there until the death of Herod: that it might be fulfilled which was +spoken by the Lord through the prophet, saying, "Out of Egypt did I +call my son." + +Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked of the Wise-men, was +exceeding wroth, and sent forth, and slew all the male children that +were in Bethlehem, and in all the borders thereof, from two years old +and under, according to the time which he had exactly learned of the +Wise-men. Then was fulfilled that which was spoken through Jeremiah +the prophet, saying, + + "A voice was heard in Ramah, + Weeping and great mourning, + Rachel weeping for her children; + And she would not be comforted, because they are not." + + + + +THE LIFE IN NAZARETH + + +THE RETURN TO NAZARETH. + +But when Herod was dead, behold, an angel of the Lord appeareth in a +dream to Joseph in Egypt, saying, "Arise and take the young child and +his mother, and go into the land of Israel: for they are dead that +sought the young child's life." + +And he arose and took the young child and his mother, and came into +the land of Israel. + +But when he heard that Archelaus was reigning over Judæa in the room +of his father Herod, he was afraid to go thither: and being warned of +God in a dream, he withdrew into the parts of Galilee, and came and +dwelt in their own city Nazareth; that it might be fulfilled which was +spoken through the prophets, that he should be called a Nazarene. + +And the child grew, and waxed strong, filled with wisdom: and the +grace of God was upon him. + + +THE BOYHOOD VISIT TO JERUSALEM. + +And his parents went every year to Jerusalem at the feast of the +passover. And when he was twelve years old, they went up after the +custom of the feast; and when they had fulfilled the days, as they +were returning, the boy Jesus tarried behind in Jerusalem; and his +parents knew it not; but supposing him to be in the company, they went +a day's journey: and they sought for him among their kinsfolk and +acquaintance: and when they found him not, they returned to Jerusalem, +seeking for him. + +And it came to pass, after three days they found him in the temple, +sitting in the midst of the teachers, both hearing them, and asking +them questions: and all that heard him were amazed at his +understanding and his answers. + +And when they saw him, they were astonished; and his mother said unto +him, "Son, why hast thou thus dealt with us? behold, thy father and I +sought thee sorrowing." + +And he said unto them, "How is it that ye sought me? knew ye not that +I must be in my Father's house?" + +And they understood not the saying which he spake unto them. + + +THE EIGHTEEN SILENT YEARS. + +And he went down with them, and came to Nazareth; and he was subject +unto them: and his mother kept all these sayings in her heart. + +And Jesus advanced in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and +men. + + + + +=THE BEGINNINGS OF HIS MINISTRY= + + * * * * * + +JESUS AND JOHN THE BAPTIST + + +THE VOICE IN THE WILDERNESS. + +Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Cæsar, Pontius +Pilate being governor of Judæa, and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, +and his brother Philip tetrarch of the region of Ituræa and +Trachonitis, and Lysanias tetrarch of Abilene, in the high-priesthood +of Annas and Caiaphas, the word of God came unto John the son of +Zacharias in the wilderness. + +And John was clothed with camel's hair, and had a leathern girdle +about his loins, and did eat locusts and wild honey. + +And he came into all the region round about the Jordan, preaching the +baptism of repentance unto remission of sins; and saying, "Repent ye; +for the kingdom of heaven is at hand." + +For this is he that was spoken of by Isaiah the prophet, saying, + + "The voice of one crying in the wilderness, + Make ye ready the way of the Lord, + Make his paths straight. + Every valley shall be filled, + And every mountain and hill shall be brought low; + And the crooked shall become straight, + And the rough ways smooth; + And all flesh shall see the salvation of God." + +And there went out to him all the country of Judæa, and all they of +Jerusalem, and they were baptized of him in the river Jordan, +confessing their sins. + +But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his +baptism he said unto them, "Ye offspring of vipers, who warned you to +flee from the wrath to come? Bring forth therefore fruits worthy of +repentance, and begin not to say within yourselves, 'We have Abraham +to our father': for I say unto you, that God is able of these stones +to raise up children unto Abraham. And even now the axe also lieth at +the root of the trees: every tree therefore that bringeth not forth +good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire." + +And the multitudes asked him, saying, "What then must we do?" + +And he answered and said unto them, "He that hath two coats, let him +impart to him that hath none; and he that hath food, let him do +likewise." + +And there came also publicans to be baptized, and they said unto him, +"Teacher, what must we do?" + +And he said unto them, "Extort no more than that which is appointed +you." + +And soldiers also asked him, saying, "And we, what must we do?" + +And he said unto them, "Extort from no man by violence, neither accuse +any one wrongfully; and be content with your wages." + +And as the people were in expectation, and all men reasoned in their +hearts concerning John, whether haply he were the Christ; John +answered, saying unto them all, "I indeed baptize you with water; but +there cometh he that is mightier than I, the latchet of whose shoes I +am not worthy to unloose: he shall baptize you in the Holy Spirit and +in fire: whose fan is in his hand, thoroughly to cleanse his +threshing-floor, and to gather the wheat into his garner; but the +chaff he will burn up with unquenchable fire." + +With many other exhortations therefore preached he good tidings unto +the people. + + +THE BAPTISM OF JESUS. + +And it came to pass in those days, when all the people were baptized, +that Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee to the Jordan unto John, to +be baptized of him. + +But John would have hindered him, saying, "I have need to be baptized +of thee, and comest thou to me?" + +But Jesus answering said unto him, "Suffer it now: for thus it +becometh us to fulfil all righteousness." + +Then he suffereth him. And Jesus, when he was baptized, went up +straightway from the water; and lo, the heavens were opened unto him, +and he saw the Spirit of God descending as a dove, and coming upon +him; and lo, a voice out of the heavens, saying, "This is my beloved +Son, in whom I am well pleased." + + +THE TEMPTATION IN THE WILDERNESS. + +Then straightway was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to +be tempted of the devil, and he was with the wild beasts, and did eat +nothing in those days. And when he had fasted forty days and forty +nights, he afterward hungered. + +And the tempter came and said unto him, "If thou art the Son of God, +command that these stones become bread." + +But he answered and said, "It is written, 'Man shall not live by bread +alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.'" + +Then the devil taketh him into the holy city; and he set him on the +pinnacle of the temple, and saith unto him, "If thou art the Son of +God, cast thyself down: for it is written, + + "'He shall give his angels charge concerning thee, to guard + thee.' + +and, + + "'On their hands they shall bear thee up, + Lest haply thou dash thy foot against a stone.'" + +Jesus said unto him, "Again it is written, 'Thou shalt not make trial +of the Lord thy God.'" + +Again, the devil taketh him unto an exceeding high mountain, and +showeth him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time, and the +glory of them. + +And the devil said unto him, "To thee will I give all this authority, +and the glory of them: for it hath been delivered unto me; and to +whomsoever I will I give it. If thou therefore wilt worship before me, +it shall all be thine." + +Then saith Jesus unto him, "Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written. +'Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.'" + +And when the devil had completed every temptation, he departed from +him for a season; and behold, angels came and ministered unto him. + + +JOHN'S TESTIMONY TO JESUS. + +And this is the witness of John, when the Jews sent unto him from +Jerusalem priests and Levites to ask him, "Who art thou?" And he +confessed and denied not; and he confessed, "I am not the Christ." + +And they asked him, "What then? Art thou Elijah?" + +And he saith, "I am not." + +"Art thou the prophet?" + +And he answered "No." + +They said therefore unto him, "Who art thou? that we may give an +answer to them that sent us? What sayest thou of thyself?" + +He said, "I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, 'Make +straight the way of the Lord,' as said Isaiah the prophet." + +And they had been sent from the Pharisees. And they asked him, and +said unto him, "Why then baptizest thou, if thou art not the Christ, +neither Elijah, neither the prophet." + +John answered them, saying, "I baptize in water: in the midst of you +standeth one whom ye know not, even he that cometh after me, the +latchet of whose shoe I am not worthy to unloose." + +These things were done in Bethany beyond the Jordan, where John was +baptizing. + +On the morrow he seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, "Behold, the +Lamb of God, that taketh away the sin of the world! This is he of whom +I said, 'After me cometh a man who is become before me: for he was +before me.' And I knew him not; but that he should be made manifest to +Israel, for this cause came I baptizing in water." + +And John bare witness, saying, "I have beheld the Spirit descending as +a dove out of heaven; and it abode upon him. And I knew him not: but +he that sent me to baptize in water, he said unto me, 'Upon whomsoever +thou shalt see the Spirit descending, and abiding upon him, the same +is he that baptizeth in the Holy Spirit.' And I have seen, and have +borne witness that this is the Son of God." + + + + +THE BEGINNINGS OF FAITH + + +THE FIRST DISCIPLES BY THE JORDAN. + +Again on the morrow John was standing, and two of his disciples; and +he looked upon Jesus as he walked and saith, "Behold, the Lamb of +God!" And the two disciples heard him speak, and they followed Jesus. + +And Jesus turned, and beheld them following, and saith unto them, +"What seek ye?" + +And they said unto him, "Rabbi" (which is to say, being interpreted, +Teacher), "where abidest thou?" + +He saith unto them, "Come, and ye shall see." + +They came therefore and saw where he abode; and they abode with him +that day: it was about the tenth hour. + +One of the two that heard John speak, and followed him, was Andrew, +Simon Peter's brother. He findeth first his own brother Simon, and +saith unto him, "We have found the Messiah" (which is, being +interpreted, Christ). He brought him unto Jesus. + +Jesus looked upon him, and said, "Thou art Simon the son of John: thou +shalt be called Cephas" (which is by interpretation, Peter). + +On the morrow he was minded to go forth into Galilee, and he findeth +Philip: and Jesus saith unto him, "Follow me." Now Philip was from +Bethsaida, of the city of Andrew and Peter. Philip findeth Nathanael, +and saith unto him, "We have found him, of whom Moses in the law and +the prophets, wrote, Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph." + +And Nathanael said unto him. "Can any good thing come out of +Nazareth?" + +Philip saith unto him, "Come and see." + +Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and saith of him, "Behold, an +Israelite indeed, in whom is no guile!" + +Nathanael saith unto him, "Whence knowest thou me?" + +Jesus answered and said unto him, "Before Philip called thee, when +thou wast under the fig tree, I saw thee." + +Nathanael answered him, "Rabbi, thou art the Son of God; thou art King +of Israel." + +Jesus answered and said unto him, "Because I said unto thee, 'I saw +thee underneath the fig tree,' believest thou? thou shalt see greater +things than these." + +And he saith unto him, "Verily, verily, I say unto you, Ye shall see +the heaven opened, and the angels of God ascending and descending upon +the Son of man." + + +THE FIRST MIRACLE. + +And the third day there was a marriage in Cana of Galilee; and the +mother of Jesus was there: and Jesus also was bidden, and his +disciples, to the marriage. + +And when the wine failed, the mother of Jesus saith unto him, "They +have no wine." + +And Jesus saith unto her, "Woman, what have I to do with thee? mine +hour is not yet come." + +His mother saith unto the servants, "Whatsoever he saith unto you, do +it." + +Now there were six waterpots of stone set there after the Jews' manner +of purifying, containing two or three firkins apiece. Jesus saith unto +them, "Fill the waterpots with water." + +And they filled them up to the brim. + +And he saith unto them, "Draw out now, and bear unto the ruler of the +feast." + +And they bare it. And when the ruler of the feast tasted the water now +become wine, and knew not whence it was (but the servants that had +drawn the water knew), the ruler of the feast calleth the bridegroom, +and saith unto him, "Every man setteth on first the good wine; and +when men have drunk freely, then that which is worse: thou hast kept +the good wine until now." + +This beginning of his signs did Jesus in Cana of Galilee, and +manifested his glory; and his disciples believed on him. + +After this he went down to Capernaum, he, and his mother, and his +brethren, and his disciples; and there they abode not many days. + + + + +JESUS IN JERUSALEM + + +CLEANSING HIS FATHER'S HOUSE. + +And the passover of the Jews was at hand, and Jesus went up to +Jerusalem. And he found in the temple those that sold oxen and sheep +and doves, and the changers of money sitting: and he made a scourge of +cords, and cast all out of the temple, both the sheep and the oxen; +and he poured out the changers' money, and overthrew their tables; and +to them that sold the doves he said, "Take these things hence; make +not my Father's house a house of merchandise." + +His disciples remembered that it was written, "Zeal for thy house +shall eat me up." + +The Jews therefore answered and said unto him, "What sign showest thou +unto us, seeing that thou doest these things?" + +Jesus answered and said unto them, "Destroy this temple, and in three +days I will raise it up." + +The Jews therefore said, "Forty and six years was this temple in +building, and wilt thou raise it up in three days?" + +But he spake of the temple of his body. When therefore he was raised +from the dead, his disciples remembered that he spake thus; and they +believed the scripture, and the word which Jesus had said. + + +THE VISIT OF NICODEMUS. + +Now when he was in Jerusalem at the passover, during the feast, many +believed on his name, beholding his signs which he did. But Jesus did +not trust himself unto them, for that he knew all men, and because he +needed not that any one should bear witness concerning man; for he +himself knew what was in man. + +Now there was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, ruler of the +Jews; the same came unto him by night, and said to him, "Rabbi, we +know that thou art a teacher come from God; for no one can do these +signs that thou doest, except God be with him." + +Jesus answered and said unto him, "Verily, verily, I say unto thee, +Except one be born anew, he cannot see the kingdom of God." + +Nicodemus saith unto him, "How can a man be born when he is old? can +he enter a second time into his mother's womb, and be born?" + +Jesus answered, "Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except one be born +of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. That +which is born of the flesh is flesh: and that which is born of the +Spirit is spirit. Marvel not that I said unto thee, 'Ye must be born +anew.' The wind bloweth where it will, and thou hearest the voice +thereof, but knowest not whence it cometh, and whither it goeth; so is +every one that is born of the Spirit." + +Nicodemus answered and said unto him, "How can these things be?" + +Jesus answered and said unto him, "Art thou the teacher of Israel, and +understandest not these things? Verily, verily, I say unto thee, We +speak that which we know, and bear witness of that which we have seen; +and ye receive not our witness. If I told you earthly things and ye +believe not, how shall ye believe if I tell you heavenly things? And +no one hath ascended into heaven but he that descended out of heaven, +even the Son of man, who is in heaven. And as Moses lifted up the +serpent in the wilderness even so must the Son of man be lifted up; +that whosoever believeth may in him have eternal life. + +"For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that +whosoever believeth on him should not perish, but have eternal life. +For God sent not the Son into the world to judge the world; but that +the world should be saved through him. He that believeth on him is not +judged: he that believeth not hath been judged already, because he +hath not believed on the name of the only begotten Son of God. And +this is the judgment, that the light is come into the world, and men +loved the darkness rather than the light; for their works were evil. +For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, and cometh not to the +light, lest his works should be reproved. But he that doeth the truth +cometh to the light, that his works may be made manifest, that they +have been wrought in God." + + + + +PREPARATORY PREACHING + + +JESUS BAPTIZING AND PREACHING. + +After these things came Jesus and his disciples into the land of +Judæa; and there he tarried with them, and baptized (although Jesus +himself baptized not, but his disciples). + +And John also was baptizing in Ænon near to Salim, because there was +much water there: and they came, and were baptized. For John was not +yet cast into prison. + +And Jesus himself, when he began to teach, was about thirty years of +age. + + +JOHN'S TRIBUTE TO JESUS. + +There arose therefore a questioning on the part of John's disciples +with a Jew about purifying. And they came unto John, and said to him, +"Rabbi, he that was with thee beyond the Jordan, to whom thou hast +borne witness, behold, the same baptizeth, and all men come to him." + +John answered and said, "A man can receive nothing, except it have +been given him from heaven. Ye yourselves bear me witness, that I +said, I am not the Christ, but, that I am sent before him. He that +hath the bride is the bridegroom: but the friend of the bridegroom, +that standeth and heareth him, rejoiceth greatly because of the +bridegroom's voice: this my joy therefore is made full. He must +increase, but I must decrease." + +He that cometh from above is above all: he that is of the earth is of +the earth, and of the earth he speaketh: he that cometh from heaven is +above all. What he hath seen and heard, of that he beareth witness; +and no man receiveth his witness. He that hath received his witness +hath set his seal to this, that God is true. For he whom God hath sent +speaketh the words of God: for he giveth not the Spirit by measure. +The Father loveth the Son, and hath given all things into his hand. He +that believeth on the Son hath eternal life; but he that obeyeth not +the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God abideth on him. + + +AT JACOB'S WELL. + +When therefore the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus +was making and baptizing more disciples than John, he left Judæa, and +departed again into Galilee. + +And he must needs pass through Samaria. So he cometh to a city of +Samaria, called Sychar, near to the parcel of ground that Jacob gave +to his son Joseph: and Jacob's well was there. Jesus therefore, being +wearied with his journey, sat thus by the well. It was about the sixth +hour. + +There cometh a woman of Samaria to draw water: Jesus saith unto her, +"Give me to drink." For his disciples were gone away into the city to +buy food. + +The Samaritan woman therefore saith unto him, "How is it that thou, +being a Jew, askest drink of me, who am a Samaritan woman?" (for Jews +have no dealings with Samaritans). + +Jesus answered and said unto her, "If thou knewest the gift of God, +and who it is that saith to thee, 'Give me to drink' thou wouldest +have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water." + +The woman saith unto him, "Sir, thou hast nothing to draw with, and +the well is deep; whence then hast thou that living water? Art thou +greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well, and drank thereof +himself, and his sons, and his cattle?" + +Jesus answered and said unto her, "Every one that drinketh of this +water shall thirst again; but whosoever drinketh of the water that I +shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him +shall become in him a well of water, springing up unto eternal life." + +The woman saith unto him, "Sir, give me this water, that I thirst not, +neither come all the way hither to draw." + +Jesus saith unto her, "Go, call thy husband, and come hither." + +The woman answered and said unto him, "I have no husband." + +Jesus saith unto her, "Thou saidst well, I have no husband: for thou +hast had five husbands; and he whom thou now hast is not thy husband: +this hast thou said truly." + +The woman saith unto him, "Sir, I perceive that thou art a prophet. +Our fathers worshipped in this mountain; and ye say, that in Jerusalem +is the place where men ought to worship." + +Jesus saith unto her, "Woman, believe me, the hour cometh, when +neither in this mountain, nor in Jerusalem, shall ye worship the +Father. Ye worship that which ye know not: we worship that which we +know; for salvation is from the Jews. But the hour cometh, and now is, +when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and +truth: for such doth the Father seek to be his worshippers. God is a +Spirit: and they that worship him must worship in spirit and truth." + +The woman saith unto him, "I know that Messiah cometh (he that is +called Christ): when he is come, he will declare unto us all things." + +Jesus saith unto her, "I that speak unto thee am he." + + +PREACHING TO THE SAMARITANS. + +And upon this came his disciples; and they marvelled that he was +speaking with a woman; yet no man said, "What seekest thou?" or, "Why +speakest thou with her?" + +So the woman left her waterpot, and went away into the city, and saith +to the people, "Come, see a man, who told me all things that ever I +did: can this be the Christ?" + +They went out of the city, and were coming to him. + +In the mean while the disciples prayed him, saying, "Rabbi, eat." + +But he said unto them, "I have meat to eat that ye know not." + +The disciples therefore said one to another, "Hath any man brought him +aught to eat?" + +Jesus saith unto them, "My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, +and to accomplish his work. Say not ye, 'There are yet four months, +and then cometh the harvest'? behold, I say unto you, Lift up your +eyes and look on the fields, that they are white already unto harvest. +He that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto life +eternal; that he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together. +For herein is the saying true, One soweth, and another reapeth. I sent +you to reap that whereon ye have not labored: others have labored and +ye are entered into their labor." + +And from that city many of the Samaritans believed on him because of +the word of the woman, who testified, "He told me all things that ever +I did." + +So when the Samaritans came unto him, they besought him to abide with +them: and he abode there two days. And many more believed because of +his word; and they said to the woman, "Now we believe, not because of +thy speaking: for we have heard for ourselves, and know that this is +indeed the Saviour of the world." + + + + +=HIS YEAR OF POPULARITY= + + * * * * * + +JESUS IN GALILEE + + +JOHN THE BAPTIST IMPRISONED. + +Herod the tetrarch sent forth and laid hold upon John, and bound him +in prison for the sake of Herodias, his brother Philip's wife; for he +had married her. For John said unto Herod, "It is not lawful for thee +to have thy brother's wife." + +And Herodias set herself against him, and desired to kill him: and she +could not; for Herod feared John, knowing that he was a righteous and +holy man, and kept him safe. + +And when he would have put him to death, he feared the multitude, +because they counted him as a prophet. + + +RECEPTION OF JESUS BY THE GALILÆANS. + +Now when Jesus heard that John was delivered up, he returned in the +power of the Spirit into Galilee, and the Galilæans received him, +having seen all the things that he did in Jerusalem at the feast: for +they also went unto the feast. + +And a fame went out concerning him through all the region round about. +And he taught in their synagogues, preaching the gospel of God, and +saying, "The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: +repent ye, and believe in the gospel." + + +HEALING THE NOBLEMAN'S SON. + +He came therefore again unto Cana of Galilee, where he made the water +wine. And there was a certain nobleman, whose son was sick at +Capernaum. When he heard that Jesus was come out of Judæa into +Galilee, he went unto him, and besought him that he would come down, +and heal his son; for he was at the point of death. + +Jesus therefore said unto him, "Except ye see signs and wonders, ye +will in no wise believe." + +The nobleman saith unto him, "Sir, come down ere my child die." + +Jesus saith unto him, "Go thy way; thy son liveth." + +The man believed the word that Jesus spake unto him, and he went his +way. And as he was now going down, his servants met him, saying that +his son lived. So he inquired of them the hour when he began to amend. + +They said therefore unto him, "Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever +left him." + +So the father knew that it was at that hour in which Jesus said unto +him, "Thy son liveth": and himself believed, and his whole house. + +This is again the second sign that Jesus did, having come out of Judæa +into Galilee. + + +THE RECALL OF THE FISHERMEN. + +And he came down to Capernaum, a city of Galilee, which is by the sea, +in the borders of Zebulun and Naphtali: that it might be fulfilled +which was spoken through Isaiah the prophet, saying, + + "The land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, + Toward the sea, beyond the Jordan, + Galilee of the Gentiles, + The people that sat in darkness + Saw a great light, + And to them that sat in the region and shadow of death, + To them did light spring up." + +Now it came to pass, while the multitude pressed upon him and heard +the word of God, that he was standing by the lake of Gennesaret; and +he saw two boats standing by the lake: but the fishermen had gone out +of them, and were washing their nets. And he entered into one of the +boats, which was Simon's, and asked him to put out a little from the +land. And he sat down and taught the multitudes out of the boat. + +And when he had left speaking, he said unto Simon, "Put out into the +deep, and let down your nets for a draught." + +And Simon answered and said, "Master, we toiled all night, and took +nothing: but at thy word I will let down the nets." + +And when they had done this, they inclosed a great multitude of +fishes; and their nets were breaking; and they beckoned unto their +partners in the other boat, that they should come and help them. And +they came, and filled both the boats, so that they began to sink. + +But Simon Peter, when he saw it, fell down at Jesus' knees, saying, +"Depart from me; for I am a sinful man, O Lord!" + +For he was amazed, and all that were with him, at the draught of the +fishes which they had taken; and so were also James and John, sons of +Zebedee, who were partners with Simon. And Jesus said unto Simon, +"Fear not; from henceforth thou shalt catch men." + +And when they had brought their boats to land, they left all, and +followed him. + + +A DAY OF GOOD DEEDS IN CAPERNAUM. + +And straightway on the sabbath day he entered into the synagogue and +taught. And they were astonished at his teaching: for his word was +with authority. + +And in the synagogue there was a man, that had a spirit of an unclean +demon; and he cried out with a loud voice, "Ah! what have we to do +with thee, Jesus thou Nazarene? art thou come to destroy us? I know +thee who thou art, the Holy One of God!" + +And Jesus rebuked him, saying, "Hold thy peace, and come out of him." + +And when the demon had thrown him down in the midst, tearing him and +crying out with a loud voice, he came out of him, having done him no +hurt. + +And amazement came upon all, and they spake together, one with +another, saying, "What is this word? for with authority and power he +commandeth the unclean spirits, and they come out." + +And there went forth a rumor concerning him into every place of the +region of Galilee round about. + +And he rose up from the synagogue, and entered into the house of +Simon. And Simon's wife's mother was holden with a great fever; and +they besought him for her. And he stood over her, and rebuked the +fever; and it left her: and immediately she rose up and ministered +unto them. + +And at even, when the sun did set, they brought unto him all that were +sick, and them that were possessed with demons. And all the city was +gathered together at the door. And he cast out many demons with a +word, and he suffered not the demons to speak, because they knew that +he was the Christ. And he laid his hands on every one of them, and +healed all that were sick of divers diseases; that it might be +fulfilled which was spoken through Isaiah the prophet, saying, +"Himself took our infirmities, and bare our diseases." + + +THE FIRST LEPER HEALED. + +And in the morning, a great while before day, he rose up and went out, +and departed into a desert place, and there prayed. And Simon and they +that were with him followed after him; and they found him, and say +unto him, "All are seeking thee." + +And he saith unto them, "Let us go elsewhere into the next towns, that +I may preach there also; for to this end came I forth." + +And he went into their synagogues throughout all Galilee, preaching +and casting out demons. + +And it came to pass, while he was in one of the cities, there cometh +to him a man full of leprosy, beseeching him, and kneeling down to +him, and saying unto him, "Lord, if thou wilt, thou canst make me +clean." + +And being moved with compassion, he stretched forth his hand, and +touched him, and saith unto him, "I will; be thou made clean." And +straightway the leprosy departed from him, and he was made clean. And +he strictly charged him, and straightway sent him out, and saith unto +him, "See thou say nothing to any man: but go show thyself to the +priest, and offer for thy cleansing the things which Moses commanded, +for a testimony unto them." + +But he went out, and began to publish it much, and to spread abroad +the matter, insomuch that Jesus could no more openly enter into a +city, but withdrew himself to desert places and prayed: and they came +to him from every quarter to hear and to be healed of their +infirmities. And the power of the Lord was with him to heal. + + + + +BEGINNINGS OF CONTROVERSY + + +THE HEALING OF A PARALYTIC. + +And when he entered again into Capernaum after some days, it was +noised that he was in the house. And many were gathered together, so +that there was no longer room for them, no, not even about the door; +and he spake the word unto them. + +And they come, bringing unto him a man sick of the palsy, borne of +four. And when they could not come nigh unto him for the crowd, they +went up to the housetop, and uncovered the roof where he was: and when +they had broken it up, they let down the bed whereon the sick of the +palsy lay. + +And Jesus seeing their faith saith unto the sick of the palsy, "Son, +thy sins are forgiven." + +But there were certain of the scribes sitting there, and reasoning in +their hearts, "Why doth this man thus speak? he blasphemeth: who can +forgive sins but one, even God?" + +And straightway Jesus, perceiving in his spirit that they so reasoned +within themselves, saith unto them, "Why reason ye these things in +your hearts? Which is easier, to say to the sick of the palsy, 'Thy +sins are forgiven,' or to say, 'Arise, and take up thy bed, and walk?' +But that ye may know that the Son of man hath authority on earth to +forgive sins (he saith to the sick of the palsy), 'I say unto thee, +Arise, take up thy bed, and go unto thy house.'" + +And he arose, and straightway took up the bed, and went forth before +them all; insomuch that they were all amazed, and were filled with +fear, and glorified God, saying, "We never saw it on this fashion: we +have seen strange things to-day." + + +THE PUBLICAN DISCIPLE. + +And Jesus went forth again by the sea side; and all the multitude +resorted unto him, and he taught them. And as he passed by, he saw a +man, called Levi Matthew, the son of Alphæus, sitting at the place of +toll, and he saith unto him, "Follow me." + +And he forsook all, and arose and followed him. + +And Levi made him a great feast in his house. And there was a great +multitude of publicans and sinners that were sitting at meat with +Jesus and his disciples. + +And when the Pharisees saw it, they said unto his disciples, "Why +eateth your Teacher with the publicans and sinners?" + +But when he heard it, he said, "They that are whole have no need of a +physician, but they that are sick. But go ye and learn what this +meaneth, 'I desire mercy, and not sacrifice': for I came not to call +the righteous, but sinners." + + +THE OLD AND THE NEW. + +And John's disciples and the Pharisees were fasting, and they come and +say unto him, "The disciples of John fast often, and make +supplications; likewise also the disciples of the Pharisees; but thine +eat and drink." + +And Jesus said unto them, "Can ye make the sons of the bride-chamber +fast, while the bridegroom is with them? But the days will come; and +when the bridegroom shall be taken away from them, then will they fast +in those days." + +And he spake also a parable unto them: "No man rendeth a piece from a +new garment and putteth it upon an old garment; else he will rend the +new, and also the piece from the new will not agree with the old. And +no man putteth new wine into old wine-skins; else the new wine will +burst the skins, and itself will be spilled, and the skins will +perish. But new wine must be put into fresh wine-skins. And no man +having drunk old wine desireth new; for he saith, The old is good." + + +A SABBATH HEALING IN JERUSALEM. + +After these things there was a feast of the Jews; and Jesus went up to +Jerusalem. + +Now there is in Jerusalem by the sheep gate a pool, which is called in +Hebrew Bethesda, having five porches. In these lay a multitude of them +that were sick, blind, halt, withered. And a certain man was there, +who had been thirty and eight years in his infirmity. When Jesus saw +him lying, and knew that he had been now a long time in that case, he +saith unto him, "Wouldest thou be made whole?" + +The sick man answered him, "Sir, I have no man, when the water is +troubled, to put me into the pool: but while I am coming, another +steppeth down before me." + +Jesus saith unto him, "Arise, take up thy bed, and walk." + +And straightway the man was made whole, and took up his bed and +walked. + +Now it was the sabbath on that day. + +So the Jews said unto him that was cured, "It is the sabbath, and it +is not lawful for thee to take up thy bed." + +But he answered them, "He that made me whole, the same said unto me, +'Take up thy bed, and walk.'" + +They asked him, "Who is the man that said unto thee, 'Take up thy bed, +and walk'?" + +But he that was healed knew not who it was; for Jesus had conveyed +himself away, a multitude being in the place. Afterward Jesus findeth +him in the temple, and said unto him, "Behold, thou art made whole: +sin no more, lest a worse thing befall thee." + +The man went away, and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had made +him whole. And for this cause the Jews persecuted Jesus, because he +did these things on the sabbath. + +But Jesus answered them, "My Father worketh even until now, and I +work." + +For this cause therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him, because +he not only brake the sabbath, but also called God his own Father, +making himself equal with God. + +Jesus therefore answered and said unto them, "Verily, verily, I say +unto you, The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the +Father doing: for what things soever he doeth, these the Son also +doeth in like manner. For the Father loveth the Son, and showeth him +all things that himself doeth: and greater works than these will he +show him, that ye may marvel. For as the Father raiseth the dead and +giveth them life, even so the Son also giveth life to whom he will. +For neither doth the Father judge any man, but he hath given all +judgment unto the Son; that all may honor the Son, even as they honor +the Father. He that honoreth not the Son honoreth not the Father that +sent him. Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and +believeth him that sent me, hath eternal life, and cometh not into +judgment, but hath passed out of death into life. Verily, verily, I +say unto you, The hour cometh, and now is, when the dead shall hear +the voice of the Son of God; and they that hear shall live. For as the +Father hath life in himself, even so gave he to the Son also to have +life in himself: and he gave him authority to execute judgment, +because he is a son of man. Marvel not at this: for the hour cometh, +in which all that are in the tombs shall hear his voice, and shall +come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; +and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of judgment. + +"I can of myself do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is +righteous; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of him that +sent me. If I bear witness of myself, my witness is not true. It is +another that beareth witness of me; and I know that the witness which +he witnesseth of me is true. Ye have sent unto John, and he hath borne +witness unto the truth. But the witness which I receive is not from +man: howbeit I say these things, that ye may be saved. He was the lamp +that burneth and shineth; and ye were willing to rejoice for a season +in his light. But the witness which I have is greater than that of +John; for the works which the Father hath given me to accomplish, the +very works that I do, bear witness of me, that the Father hath sent +me. And the Father that sent me, he hath borne witness of me. Ye have +neither heard his voice at any time, nor seen his form. And ye have +not his word abiding in you: for whom he sent, him ye believe not. + +"Ye search the scriptures, because ye think that in them ye have +eternal life; and these are they which bear witness of me; and ye will +not come to me, that ye may have life. I receive not glory from men. +But I know you, that ye have not the love of God in yourselves. I am +come in my Father's name, and ye receive me not: if another shall come +in his own name, him ye will receive. How can ye believe, who receive +glory one of another, and the glory that cometh from the only God ye +seek not? Think not that I will accuse you to the Father: there is one +that accuseth you, even Moses, on whom ye have set your hope. For if +ye believed Moses, ye would believe me; for he wrote of me. But if ye +believe not his writings, how shall ye believe my words?" + + +PLUCKING GRAIN ON THE SABBATH. + +At that season Jesus went on the sabbath day through the grainfields; +and his disciples were hungry and began to pluck ears and to eat, +rubbing them in their hands. + +But the Pharisees, when they saw it, said unto him, "Behold, thy +disciples do that which it is not lawful to do upon the sabbath." + +But he said unto them, "Have ye not read what David did, when he had +need and was hungry, and they that were with him: how he entered into +the house of God, and ate the showbread, which it was not lawful for +him to eat, neither for them that were with him, but only for the +priests? Or have ye not read in the law, that on the sabbath day the +priests in the temple profane the sabbath, and are guiltless? But I +say unto you, that one greater than the temple is here. But if ye had +known what this meaneth, 'I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,' ye would +not have condemned the guiltless." + +And he said unto them, "The sabbath was made for man, and not man for +the sabbath: so that the Son of man is lord even of the sabbath." + + + + +MANY CALLED AND FEW CHOSEN + + +A MULTITUDE OF DISCIPLES. + +And the report of him went forth into all Syria: and they brought unto +him all that were sick, holden with divers diseases and torments, +possessed with demons, and epileptic, and palsied; and he healed them. + +And Jesus with his disciples withdrew to the sea: and a great +multitude from Galilee followed; and from Judæa, and from Jerusalem, +and from Idumæa, and beyond the Jordan, and about Tyre and Sidon, a +great multitude, hearing what great things he did, came unto him. + +And he spake to his disciples, that a little boat should wait on him +because of the crowd, lest they should throng him: for he had healed +many; insomuch that as many as had plagues pressed upon him that they +might touch him: for power came forth from him, and healed them all. + +And the unclean spirits, whensoever they beheld him, fell down before +him, and cried, saying, "Thou art the Son of God." + +And he charged them much that they should not make him known: that it +might be fulfilled which was spoken through Isaiah the prophet, +saying, + + "Behold my servant whom I have chosen; + My beloved in whom my soul is well pleased; + I will put my Spirit upon him, + And he shall declare judgment to the Gentiles. + He shall not strive, nor cry aloud; + Neither shall any one hear his voice in the streets. + A bruised reed shall he not break. + And smoking flax shall he not quench. + Till he send forth judgment unto victory. + And in his name shall the nations hope." + + +SELECTION OF THE TWELVE. + +And it came to pass in these days, that he went out into the mountain +to pray; and he continued all night in prayer to God. And when it was +day, he called his disciples; and he chose from them twelve, that they +might be with him, and that he might send them forth to preach, and to +have authority to cast out demons. + +Now the names of the twelve apostles are these: Simon, whom he +surnamed Peter, and Andrew, his brother; James, the son of Zebedee, +and John his brother, and them he surnamed Boanerges, which is sons of +thunder; Philip and Bartholomew; Thomas and Matthew the publican; +James the son of Alphæus, and Thaddæus; Simon, who was called the +Zealot, and Judas Iscariot, who became a traitor. + + + + +THE TEACHING OF THE KINGDOM + + +THE CITIZENS OF THE KINGDOM. + +And he lifted up his eyes on his disciples, and said: + +"Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. + +"Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted. + +"Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth. + +"Blessed are they that hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they +shall be filled. + +"Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy. + +"Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God. + +"Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called sons of God. + +"Blessed are they that have been persecuted for righteousness' sake: +for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are ye when men shall +reproach you, and persecute you, and say all manner of evil against +you falsely, for my sake. Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is +your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets that were +before you. + +"Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost its savor, +wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but +to be cast out and trodden under foot of men. + +"Ye are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hid. +Neither do men light a lamp, and put it under the bushel, but on the +stand; and it shineth unto all that are in the house. Even so let +your light shine before men; that they may see your good works, and +glorify your Father who is in heaven. + + +THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF THE KINGDOM. + +"Think not that I came to destroy the law or the prophets: I came not +to destroy, but to fulfil. For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and +earth pass away, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass away from +the law, till all things be accomplished. Whosoever therefore shall +break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, shall +be called least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and +teach them, he shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven. For I +say unto you, that except your righteousness shall exceed the +righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no wise enter +into the kingdom of heaven. + +"Ye have heard that it was said to them of old time, 'Thou shalt not +kill; and whosoever shall kill shall be in danger of the judgment:' +but I say unto you, that every one who is angry with his brother shall +be in danger of the judgment; and whosoever shall say to his brother, +'Raca,' shall be in danger of the council; and whosoever shall say, +'Thou fool,' shall be in danger of the hell of fire. + +"If therefore thou art offering thy gift at the altar, and there +rememberest that thy brother hath aught against thee, leave there thy +gift before the altar, and go thy way, first be reconciled to thy +brother, and then come and offer thy gift. Agree with thine adversary +quickly, while thou art with him in the way; lest haply the adversary +deliver thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the officer, +and thou be cast into prison. Verily I say unto thee, Thou shalt by +no means come out thence, till thou have paid the last farthing. + +"Ye have heard that it was said, 'Thou shalt not commit adultery:' but +I say unto you, that every one that looketh on a woman to lust after +her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart. And if thy +right eye causeth thee to stumble, pluck it out, and cast it from +thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should +perish, and not thy whole body be cast into hell. And if thy right +hand causeth thee to stumble, cut it off, and cast it from thee: for +it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and +not thy whole body go into hell. + +"It was said also, 'Whosoever shall put away his wife, let him give +her a writing of divorcement:' but I say unto you, that every one that +putteth away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, maketh her +an adulteress: and whosoever shall marry her when she is put away +committeth adultery. + +"Again, ye have heard that it was said to them of old time, 'Thou +shalt not forswear thyself, but shalt perform unto the Lord thine +oaths:' but I say unto you, Swear not at all; neither by the heaven, +for it is the throne of God; nor by the earth, for it is the footstool +of his feet; nor by Jerusalem, for it is the city of the great King. +Neither shalt thou swear by thy head, for thou canst not make one hair +white or black. But let your speech be, 'Yea, yea; Nay, nay:' and +whatsoever is more than these is of the evil one. + +"Ye have heard that it was said, 'An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a +tooth:' but I say unto you, Resist not him that is evil: but whosoever +smiteth thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also. And if +any man would go to law with thee, and take away thy coat, let him +have thy cloak also. And whosoever shall compel thee to go one mile, +go with him two. Give to every one that asketh thee; and of him that +taketh away thy goods ask them not again, and from him that would +borrow of thee turn not thou away. All things therefore whatsoever ye +would that men should do unto you, even so do ye also unto them: for +this is the law and the prophets. + +"Ye have heard that it was said, 'Thou shalt love thy neighbor, and +hate thine enemy:' but I say unto you, Love your enemies, do good to +them that hate you, bless them that curse you, pray for them that +despitefully use you, that ye may be sons of your Father who is in +heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and +sendeth rain on the just and the unjust. For if ye love them that love +you, what reward have ye? do not even the publicans the same? And if +ye salute your brethren only, what do ye more than others? do not even +the Gentiles the same? And if ye do good to them that do good to you, +what thank have ye? for even sinners do the same. And if ye lend to +them of whom ye hope to receive, what thank have ye? even sinners lend +to sinners, to receive again as much. But love your enemies, and do +them good, and lend, never despairing; and your reward shall be great, +and ye shall be sons of the Most High: for he is kind toward the +unthankful and evil. Ye therefore shall be perfect, as your heavenly +Father is perfect. + + +THE DANGER OF HYPOCRISY. + +"Take heed that ye do not your righteousness before men, to be seen of +them: else ye have no reward with your Father who is in heaven. + +"When therefore thou doest alms, sound not a trumpet before thee, as +the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may +have glory of men. Verily I say unto you, They have received their +reward. But when thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy +right hand doeth: that thine alms may be in secret: and thy Father who +seeth in secret shall recompense thee. + +"And when ye pray, ye shall not be as the hypocrites: for they love to +stand and pray in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, +that they may be seen of men. Verily I say unto you, They have +received their reward. But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thine +inner chamber, and having shut thy door, pray to thy Father who is in +secret, and thy Father who seeth in secret shall recompense thee. And +in praying use not vain repetitions, as the Gentiles do: for they +think that they shall be heard for their much speaking. Be not +therefore like unto them: for your Father knoweth what things ye have +need of before ye ask him. After this manner therefore pray ye: + + Our Father who art in heaven, + Hallowed be thy name. + Thy kingdom come. + Thy will be done, as in heaven, so on earth. + Give us this day our daily bread. + And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors. + And bring us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. + +"For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will +also forgive you. But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither +will your Father forgive your trespasses. + +"Moreover when ye fast, be not, as the hypocrites, of a sad +countenance: for they disfigure their faces, that they may be seen of +men to fast. Verily I say unto you, They have received their reward. +But thou, when thou fastest, anoint thy head, and wash thy face; that +thou be not seen of men to fast, but of thy Father who is in secret: +and thy Father, who seeth in secret, shall recompense thee. + + +SIMPLE TRUST IN GOD. + +"Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon the earth, where moth and +rust consume, and where thieves break through and steal: but lay up +for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth +consume, and where thieves do not break through nor steal: for where +thy treasure is, there will thy heart be also. + +"The lamp of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, +thy whole body shall be full of light. But if thine eye be evil, thy +whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is +in thee be darkness, how great is the darkness! + +"No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and +love the other; or else he will hold to one, and despise the other. Ye +cannot serve God and mammon. + +"Therefore I say unto you, Be not anxious for your life, what ye shall +eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put +on. Is not the life more than the food, and the body than the raiment? +Behold the birds of the heaven, that they sow not, neither do they +reap, nor gather into barns; and your heavenly Father feedeth them. +Are not ye of much more value than they? And which of you by being +anxious can add one cubit unto the measure of his life? + +"And why are ye anxious concerning raiment? Consider the lilies of +the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: yet I +say unto you, that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like +one of these. But if God doth so clothe the grass of the field, which +to-day is, and to-morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more +clothe you, O ye of little faith? Be not therefore anxious, saying, +'What shall we eat?' or, 'What shall we drink?' or, 'Wherewithal shall +we be clothed?' For after all these things do the Gentiles seek; for +your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things. +But seek ye first his kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these +things shall be added unto you. Fear not, little flock; for it is your +Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom. + +"Be not therefore anxious for the morrow: for the morrow will be +anxious for itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof. + + +CHARITABLE JUDGMENT. + +"Be ye merciful, even as your Father is merciful. And judge not, and +ye shall not be judged: and condemn not, and ye shall not be +condemned: release, and ye shall be released: give, and it shall be +given unto you; good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running +over, shall they give into your bosom. For with what measure ye mete +it shall be measured to you again." + +And he spake also a parable unto them, "Can the blind guide the blind? +shall they not both fall into a pit? The disciple is not above his +teacher: but every one when he is perfected shall be as his teacher. +And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but +considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye? Or how canst thou +say to thy brother, 'Brother, let me cast out the mote that is in +thine eye,' when thou thyself beholdest not the beam that is in thine +own eye? Thou hypocrite, cast out first the beam out of thine own eye, +and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote that is in thy +brother's eye. + +"Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast your pearls +before the swine, lest haply they trample them under their feet, and +turn and rend you." + + +PRAYER. + +And he said unto them, "Which of you shall have a friend, and shall go +unto him at midnight, and say to him, 'Friend, lend me three loaves; +for a friend of mine is come to me from a journey, and I have nothing +to set before him;' and he from within shall answer and say, 'Trouble +me not: the door is now shut, and my children are with me in bed; I +cannot rise and give thee?' I say unto you, Though he will not rise +and give him because he is his friend, yet because of his importunity +he will arise and give him as many as he needeth. + +"And I say unto you, Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye +shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you: for every one that +asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that +knocketh it shall be opened. Or what man is there of you that is a +father, who, if his son shall ask him for a loaf, will give him a +stone; or if he shall ask for a fish, will give him a serpent; or if +he shall ask an egg, will give him a scorpion? If ye then, being evil, +know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall +your Father who is in heaven give good things to them that ask him? + + +SINCERITY. + +"Enter ye in by the narrow gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is +the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many are they that enter in +thereby. For narrow is the gate, and straitened the way, that leadeth +unto life, and few are they that find it. + +"Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing, but +inwardly are ravening wolves. By their fruits ye shall know them. Do +men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles? Even so every good +tree bringeth forth good fruit; but the corrupt tree bringeth forth +evil fruit. A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a +corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. Every tree that bringeth not +forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire. Therefore by +their fruits ye shall know them. + +"The good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth +that which is good; and the evil man out of the evil treasure bringeth +forth that which is evil: for out of the abundance of the heart his +mouth speaketh. + +"Not every one that saith unto me, 'Lord, Lord,' shall enter into the +kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father who is in +heaven. Many will say to me in that day, 'Lord, Lord, did we not +prophesy by thy name, and by thy name cast out demons, and by thy name +do many mighty works?' And then will I profess unto them, I never knew +you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity. + +"Every one therefore that heareth these words of mine, and doeth them, +shall be likened unto a wise man, who built his house upon the rock: +and the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and +beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon the +rock. And every one that heareth these words of mine, and doeth them +not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, who built his house upon the +sand: and the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, +and smote upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall +thereof." + +And it came to pass, when Jesus had finished these words, the +multitudes were astonished at his teaching: for he taught them as one +having authority, and not as their scribes. + + + + +A TOUR IN GALILEE + + +THE WORTHY CENTURION. + +After he had ended all his sayings in the ears of the people, he +entered into Capernaum. + +And a certain centurion's servant, who was dear unto him, was sick and +at the point of death. And when he heard concerning Jesus, he sent +unto him elders of the Jews, asking him that he would come and save +his servant. + +And they, when they came to Jesus, besought him earnestly, saying, "He +is worthy that thou shouldest do this for him; for he loveth our +nation, and himself built us our synagogue." + +And Jesus went with them. And when he was now not far from the house, +the centurion sent friends to him, saying unto him, "Lord, trouble not +thyself; for I am not worthy that thou shouldest come under my roof: +wherefore neither thought I myself worthy to come unto thee: but say +the word, and my servant shall be healed. For I also am a man set +under authority, having under myself soldiers: and I say to this one, +'Go,' and he goeth; and to another, 'Come,' and he cometh; and to my +servant, 'Do this,' and he doeth it." + +And when Jesus heard these things, he marvelled at him, and turned and +said unto the multitude that followed him, "Verily I say unto you, I +have not found so great faith, no, not in Israel. And I say unto you, +that many shall come from the east and the west, and shall sit down +with Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, in the kingdom of heaven: but the +sons of the kingdom shall be cast forth into the outer darkness: +there shall be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth." + +And they that were sent, returning to the house, found the servant +whole. + + +RAISING THE WIDOW'S SON. + +And it came to pass soon afterwards, that he went to a city called +Nain; and his disciples went with him, and a great multitude. Now when +he drew near to the gate of the city, behold, there was carried out +one that was dead, the only son of his mother, and she was a widow: +and much people of the city was with her. + +And when the Lord saw her, he had compassion on her, and said unto +her, "Weep not." + +And he came nigh and touched the bier: and the bearers stood still. +And he said, "Young man, I say unto thee, Arise." + +And he that was dead sat up, and began to speak. And he gave him to +his mother. + +And fear took hold on all: and they glorified God, saying, "A great +prophet is arisen among us: and, God hath visited his people." + +And this report went forth concerning him in the whole of Judæa, and +all the region round about. + + +A QUESTION FROM JOHN THE BAPTIST. + +And the disciples of John told him in the prison of all these things. +And John calling unto him two of his disciples sent them to the Lord, +saying, "Art thou he that cometh, or look we for another?" + +And when the men were come unto him, they said, "John the Baptist hath +sent us unto thee, saying, 'Art thou he that cometh, or look we for +another?'" + +In that hour he cured many of diseases and plagues and evil spirits; +and on many that were blind he bestowed sight. And he answered and +said unto them, "Go and tell John the things which ye have seen and +heard; the blind receive their sight, the lame walk, the lepers are +cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, the poor have +good tidings preached to them. And blessed is he, whosoever shall find +no occasion of stumbling in me." + + +JESUS' ESTIMATE OF JOHN THE BAPTIST. + +And when the messengers of John were departed, he began to say unto +the multitudes concerning John, "What went ye out into the wilderness +to behold? a reed shaken with the wind? But what went ye out to see? a +man clothed in soft raiment? Behold, they that are gorgeously +apparelled, and live delicately, are in kings' courts. But what went +ye out to see? a prophet? Yea, I say unto you, and much more than a +prophet. This is he of whom it is written. + + "'Behold, I send my messenger before thy face, + Who shall prepare thy way before thee.' + +"Verily I say unto you, Among them that are born of women there hath +not arisen a greater than John the Baptist: yet he that is but little +in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he. And all the people when +they heard, and the publicans, justified God, being baptized with the +baptism of John. But the Pharisees and the lawyers rejected for +themselves the counsel of God, being not baptized of him. + +"And from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven +suffereth violence, and men of violence take it by force. For all the +prophets and the law prophesied until John. And if ye are willing to +receive it, this is Elijah that is to come. He that hath ears to hear, +let him hear. + +"But whereunto shall I liken this generation? It is like unto +children sitting in the marketplaces, who call unto their fellows and +say, 'We piped unto you, and ye did not dance; we wailed, and ye did +not mourn.' For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, +'He hath a demon.' The Son of man came eating and drinking, and they +say, 'Behold, a gluttonous man and a winebibber, a friend of publicans +and sinners!' And wisdom is justified of all her children." + + +THE DEATH OF JOHN THE BAPTIST. + +And Herod on his birthday made a supper to his lords, and the high +captains, and the chief men of Galilee. And the daughter of Herodias +danced in the midst, and pleased Herod, and them that sat at meat with +him; and the king said unto the damsel, "Ask of me whatsoever thou +wilt, and I will give it thee." + +And he sware unto her, "Whatsoever thou shalt ask of me, I will give +it to thee, unto the half of my kingdom." + +And she went out, and said unto her mother, "What shall I ask?" + +And she said, "The head of John the Baptist." + +And she came in straightway with haste unto the king, and asked, +saying, "I will that thou forthwith give me on a platter the head of +John the Baptist." + +And the king was exceeding sorry; but for the sake of his oaths, and +of them that sat at meat, he would not reject her. And straightway the +king sent forth a soldier of his guard, and commanded to bring his +head: and he went and beheaded him in the prison, and brought his head +on a platter, and gave it to the damsel; and the damsel gave it to her +mother. + +And when his disciples heard thereof, they came and took up his +corpse, and laid it in a tomb; and they went and told Jesus. + + +FORGIVENESS OF THE REPENTANT WOMAN. + +And one of the Pharisees desired him that he would eat with him. And +he entered into the Pharisee's house, and sat down to meat. And +behold, a woman who was in the city, a sinner; and when she knew that +he was sitting at meat in the Pharisee's house, she brought an +alabaster cruse of ointment, and standing behind at his feet, weeping, +she began to wet his feet with her tears, and wiped them with the hair +of her head, and kissed his feet, and anointed them with the ointment. + +Now when the Pharisee that had bidden him saw it, he spake within +himself, saying, "This man, if he were a prophet, would have perceived +who and what manner of woman this is that toucheth him, that she is a +sinner." + +And Jesus answering said unto him, "Simon, I have somewhat to say unto +thee." + +And he saith, "Teacher, say on." + +"A certain lender had two debtors: the one owed five hundred +shillings, and the other fifty. When they had not wherewith to pay, he +forgave them both. Which of them therefore will love him most?" + +Simon answered and said, "He, I suppose, to whom he forgave the most." + +And he said unto him, "Thou hast rightly judged." And turning to the +woman, he said unto Simon, "Seest thou this woman? I entered into thy +house, thou gavest me no water for my feet: but she hath wetted my +feet with her tears, and wiped them with her hair. Thou gavest me no +kiss: but she, since the time I came in, hath not ceased to kiss my +feet. My head with oil thou didst not anoint: but she hath anointed +my feet with ointment. Wherefore I say unto thee, Her sins, which are +many, are forgiven; for she loved much: but to whom little is +forgiven, the same loveth little." + +And he said unto her, "Thy sins are forgiven." + +And they that sat at meat with him began to say within themselves, +"Who is this that even forgiveth sins?" + +And he said unto the woman, "Thy faith hath saved thee; go in peace." + + +THE MINISTERING WOMEN. + +And it came to pass soon afterwards, that he went about through cities +and villages, preaching and bringing the good tidings of the kingdom +of God, and with him the twelve, and certain women who had been healed +of evil spirits and infirmities: Mary that was called Magdalene, from +whom seven demons had gone out, and Joanna the wife of Chuzas Herod's +steward, and Susanna, and many others, who ministered unto them of +their substance. + + + + +GROWING POPULARITY AND RISING OPPOSITION + + +THE CONCERN OF JESUS' FRIENDS. + +And he cometh into a house. And the multitude cometh together again, +so that they could not so much as eat bread. And when his friends +heard it, they went out to lay hold on him: for they said, "He is +beside himself." + +And there came to him his mother and brethren, and they could not come +at him for the crowd. And it was told him, "Thy mother and thy +brethren stand without, desiring to see thee." + +But he answered and said unto him that told him, "Who is my mother? +and who are my brethren?" And he stretched forth his hand towards his +disciples, and said, "Behold, my mother and my brethren! For whosoever +shall do the will of my Father who is in heaven, he is my brother, and +sister, and mother." + + +WARNING OF ETERNAL SIN. + +Then was brought unto him one possessed with a demon, blind and dumb: +and he healed him, insomuch that the dumb man spake and saw. And all +the multitudes were amazed, and said, "Can this be the son of David?" + +But when the Pharisees heard it, and the scribes that came down from +Jerusalem, they said, "This man doth not cast out demons, but by +Beelzebub the prince of the demons." + +And knowing their thoughts he said unto them, "Every kingdom divided +against itself is brought to desolation; and every city or house +divided against itself shall not stand: and if Satan casteth out +Satan, he is divided against himself; how then shall his kingdom +stand? And if I by Beelzebub cast out demons, by whom do your sons +cast them out? therefore shall they be your judges. But if I by the +Spirit of God cast out demons, then is the kingdom of God come upon +you. + +"When the strong man fully armed guardeth his own court, his goods are +in peace: but when a stronger than he shall come upon him, and +overcome him, he taketh from him his whole armor wherein he trusted, +and divideth his spoils. He that is not with me is against me; and he +that gathereth not with me scattereth. + +"Verily I say unto you, All their sins shall be forgiven unto the sons +of men, and their blasphemies wherewith soever they shall blaspheme: +but whosoever shall blaspheme against the Holy Spirit hath never +forgiveness, but is guilty of an eternal sin:" because they said, "He +hath an unclean spirit." + +"Either make the tree good, and its fruit good; or make the tree +corrupt, and its fruit corrupt: for the tree is known by its fruit. Ye +offspring of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for +out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh. The good man out +of his good treasure bringeth forth good things: and the evil man out +of his evil treasure bringeth forth evil things. And I say unto you, +that every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account +thereof in the day of judgment. For by thy words thou shalt be +justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned." + + +THE DEMAND FOR A SIGN. + +Then certain of the scribes and Pharisees answered him, saying, +"Teacher, we would see a sign from thee." + +But he answered and said unto them, "An evil and adulterous generation +seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given to it but the +sign of Jonah the prophet; for even as Jonah became a sign unto the +Ninevites, so shall also the Son of man be to this generation. The +queen of the south shall rise up in the judgment with the men of this +generation, and shall condemn them: for she came from the ends of the +earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and behold, a greater than +Solomon is here. The men of Nineveh shall stand up in the judgment +with this generation, and shall condemn it: for they repented at the +preaching of Jonah; and behold, a greater than Jonah is here. + +"But the unclean spirit, when he is gone out of the man, passeth +through waterless places, seeking rest, and findeth it not. Then he +saith, 'I will return into my house whence I came out;' and when he is +come, he findeth it empty, swept, and garnished. Then goeth he, and +taketh with himself seven other spirits more evil than himself, and +they enter in and dwell there: and the last state of that man becometh +worse than the first. Even so shall it be also unto this evil +generation." + +And it came to pass, as he said these things, a certain woman out of +the multitude lifted up her voice, and said unto him, "Blessed is the +womb that bare thee, and the breasts which thou didst suck." + +But he said, "Yea rather, blessed are they that hear the word of God +and keep it." + + + + +THE PARABLES OF THE KINGDOM + + +THE SOWER. + +On that day went Jesus out of the house, and sat by the sea side. And +there were gathered unto him great multitudes, so that he entered into +a boat, and sat; and all the multitude stood on the beach. And he +spake to them many things in parables, saying, "Hearken: Behold, the +sower went forth to sow: and it came to pass, as he sowed, some seed +fell by the wayside, and the birds came and devoured it. And other +fell on the rocky ground, where it had not much earth; and straightway +it sprang up, because it had no deepness of earth: and when the sun +was risen, it was scorched; and because it had no root, it withered +away. And other fell among the thorns, and the thorns grew up, and +choked it, and it yielded no fruit. And others fell into the good +ground, and yielded fruit, growing up and increasing; and brought +forth, thirtyfold, and sixtyfold, and a hundredfold." And he said, +"Who hath ears to hear, let him hear." + +And when he was alone, they that were about him with the twelve came, +and said unto him, "Why speakest thou unto them in parables?" + +And he answered and said unto them, "Unto you it is given to know the +mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given. For +whosoever hath, to him shall be given, and he shall have abundance: +but whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken away even that which +he hath. Therefore speak I to them in parables; because seeing they +see not, and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand. And +unto them is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah, which saith, + + "'By hearing ye shall hear, and shall in no wise understand; + And seeing ye shall see, and shall in no wise perceive; + For this people's heart is waxed gross, + And their ears are dull of hearing, + And their eyes they have closed; + Lest haply they should perceive with their eyes. + And hear with their ears, + And understand with their heart, + And should turn again, + And I should heal them.' + +"But blessed are your eyes, for they see; and your ears, for they +hear. For verily I say unto you, that many prophets and righteous men +desired to see the things which ye see, and saw them not; and to hear +the things which ye hear, and heard them not." + +And he saith unto them, "Know ye not this parable? and how, shall ye +know all the parables? The sower soweth the word. The seed is the word +of God. When any one heareth the word of the kingdom, and +understandeth it not, then cometh the evil one, and snatcheth away +that which hath been sown in his heart. This is he that was sown by +the way side. And he that was sown upon the rocky places, this is he +that heareth the word, and straightway with joy receiveth it; yet hath +he not root in himself, but endureth for a while; and when tribulation +or persecution ariseth because of the word, straightway he stumbleth. +And he that was sown among the thorns, this is he that heareth the +word; and the care of the world, and the deceitfulness of riches, and +the pleasures of this life, choke the word, and he becometh +unfruitful. And he that was sown upon the good ground, this is he that +heareth the word in an honest and good heart, and understandeth it, +who verily beareth fruit, and bringeth forth, some a hundredfold, +some sixty, some thirty." + + +THE TARES. + +Another parable set he before them, saying, "The kingdom of heaven is +likened unto a man that sowed good seed in his field: but while men +slept, his enemy came and sowed tares also among the wheat, and went +away. But when the blade sprang up and brought forth fruit, then +appeared the tares also. And the servants of the householder came and +said unto him, 'Sir, didst thou not sow good seed in thy field? whence +then hath it tares?' And he said unto them, 'An enemy hath done this.' +And the servants say unto him, 'Wilt thou then that we go and gather +them up?' But he saith, 'Nay; lest haply while ye gather up the tares, +ye root up the wheat with them. Let both grow together until the +harvest: and in the time of the harvest I will say to the reapers, +Gather up first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them; but +gather the wheat into my barn.'" + + +THE GROWING GRAIN. + +And he said, "So is the kingdom of God, as if a man should cast seed +upon the earth; and should sleep and rise night and day, and the seed +should spring up and grow, he knoweth not how. The earth beareth fruit +of herself; first the blade, then the ear, then the full grain in the +ear. But when the fruit is ripe, straightway he putteth forth the +sickle, because the harvest is come." + + +THE MUSTARD SEED. + +And he said, "How shall we liken the kingdom of God? or in what +parable shall we set it forth? It is like a grain of mustard seed, +which, when it is sown upon the earth, though it be less than all the +seeds that are upon the earth, yet when it is sown, groweth up, and +becometh greater than all the herbs, and putteth out great branches; +so that the birds of the heaven can lodge under the shadow thereof." + + +THE LEAVEN. + +Another parable spake he unto them: "The kingdom of heaven is like +unto leaven, which a woman took, and hid in three measures of meal, +till it was all leavened." + + +THE UNDERSTANDING OF PARABLES. + +All these things spake Jesus in parables unto the multitudes; and +without a parable spake he nothing unto them: that it might be +fulfilled which was spoken through the prophet, saying, + + "I will open my mouth in parables; + I will utter things hidden from the foundation of the world." + +Then he left the multitudes, and went into the house: and his +disciples came unto him, saying, "Explain unto us the parable of the +tares of the field." + +And he answered and said, "He that soweth the good seed is the Son of +man; and the field is the world; and the good seed, these are the sons +of the kingdom; and the tares are the sons of the evil one; and the +enemy that sowed them is the devil: and the harvest is the end of the +world; and the reapers are angels. As therefore the tares are gathered +up and burned with fire; so shall it be in the end of the world. The +Son of man shall send forth his angels and they shall gather out of +his kingdom all things that cause stumbling and them that do iniquity +and shall cast them into the furnace of fire: there shall be the +weeping and the gnashing of teeth. Then shall the righteous shine +forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. He that hath ears let +him hear." + + +THE HID TREASURE. + +"The kingdom of heaven is like unto a treasure hidden in the field; +which a man found, and hid; and in his joy he goeth and selleth all +that he hath, and buyeth that field." + + +THE PEARL OF GREAT PRICE. + +"Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is a merchant +seeking goodly pearls: and having found one pearl of great price, he +went and sold all that he had, and bought it." + + +THE DRAG NET. + +"Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a net, that was cast into +the sea, and gathered of every kind: which, when it was filled, they +drew up on the beach; and they sat down, and gathered the good into +vessels, but the bad they cast away. So shall it be in the end of the +world: the angels shall come forth, and sever the wicked from among +the righteous, and shall cast them into the furnace of fire: there +shall be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth. + +"Have ye understood all these things?" + +They say unto him, "Yea." + +And he said unto them, "Therefore every scribe who hath been made a +disciple to the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is a +householder, who bringeth forth out of his treasure things new and +old." + + + + +A DAY OF MIRACLES BY THE LAKE + + +JESUS STILLS THE STORM. + +And on that day, when even was come, he saith unto them, "Let us go +over unto the other side." + +And leaving the multitude, they take him with them, even as he was, in +the boat. And other boats were with him. And there ariseth a great +storm of wind, and the waves beat into the boat, insomuch that the +boat was now filling. And he himself was in the stern, asleep on the +cushion: and they awake him, and say unto him, "Save, Lord; we +perish." + +And he awoke, and rebuked the wind, and said unto the sea, "Peace, be +still." + +And the wind ceased, and there was a great calm. And he said unto +them, "Why are ye fearful? have ye not yet faith?" + +And they feared exceedingly, and said one to another, "Who then is +this, that even the wind and the sea obey him?" + + +THE LEGION OF DEMONS. + +And they arrived at the country of the Gerasenes, which is over +against Galilee. And when he was come forth upon the land, there met +him a certain man out of the city, who had demons; and for a long time +he had worn no clothes, and abode not in any house, but in the tombs. + +And when he saw Jesus, he cried out, and fell down before him, and +with a loud voice said, "What have I to do with thee, Jesus, thou Son +of the Most High God? I beseech thee, torment me not." For he was +commanding the unclean spirit to come out from the man. For +oftentimes it had seized him; and he was kept under guard, and bound +with chains and fetters; and breaking the bands asunder, he was driven +of the demon into the deserts. + +And Jesus asked him, "What is thy name?" + +And he said, "Legion;" for many demons were entered into him. + +And they entreated him that he would not command them to depart into +the abyss. Now there was there a herd of many swine feeding on the +mountain. And the demons besought him, saying, "If thou cast us out, +send us away into the herd of swine." + +And he said unto them, "Go." + +And they came out, and went into the swine: and behold, the whole herd +rushed down the steep into the sea, in number about two thousand; and +they were drowned in the sea. + +And they that fed them fled, and told it in the city, and in the +country. And they came to see what it was that had come to pass. And +they come to Jesus, and behold him that was possessed with demons +sitting, clothed and in his right mind, even him that had the legion: +and they were afraid. And they that saw it declared unto them how it +befell him that was possessed with demons, and concerning the swine. +And they began to beseech him to depart from them; for they were +holden with great fear. + +And as he was entering into the boat, he that had been possessed with +demons besought him that he might be with him. And he suffered him +not, but saith unto him, "Go to thy house unto thy friends, and tell +them how great things the Lord hath done for thee, and how he had +mercy on thee." + +And he went his way, and began to publish in Decapolis how great +things Jesus had done for him: and all men marvelled. + + +THE DYING CHILD AND THE SUFFERING WOMAN. + +And when Jesus had crossed over again in the boat unto the other side, +the multitude welcomed him; for they were all waiting for him; and he +was by the sea. + +And there cometh one of the rulers of the synagogue, Jairus by name; +and seeing him, he falleth at his feet, and beseecheth him much, +saying, "My little daughter is at the point of death: I pray thee, +that thou come and lay thy hands on her, that she may be made whole, +and live." + +And he went with him; and a great multitude followed him, and they +thronged him. + +And a woman, who had an issue of blood twelve years, and had suffered +many things of many physicians, and had spent all that she had, and +was nothing bettered, but rather grew worse, having heard the things +concerning Jesus, came in the crowd behind, and touched the border of +his garment. For she said, "If I touch but his garments, I shall be +made whole." And straightway the fountain of her blood was dried up; +and she felt in her body that she was healed of her plague. + +And straightway Jesus, perceiving in himself that the power proceeding +from him had gone forth, turned him about in the crowd, and said, "Who +touched my garments?" + +And when all denied, Peter said, and they that were with him, "Master, +the multitudes press thee and crush thee, and sayest thou, 'Who +touched me?'" + +But Jesus said, "Some one did touch me; for I perceived that power had +gone forth from me." + +And he looked round about to see her that had done this thing. And +when the woman saw that she was not hid, she came trembling, and +falling down before him declared in the presence of all the people for +what cause she touched him, and how she was healed immediately. + +And he said unto her, "Daughter, thy faith hath made thee whole; go in +peace, and be whole of thy plague." + +While he yet spake, they come from the ruler of the synagogue's house, +saying, "Thy daughter is dead: why troublest thou the Teacher any +further?" + +But Jesus, not heeding the word spoken, saith unto the ruler of the +synagogue, "Fear not: only believe, and she shall be made whole." + +And he suffered no man to follow with him, save Peter, and James, and +John the brother of James. And when Jesus came into the ruler's house, +and saw the flute-players, and the crowd making a tumult, and many +weeping and wailing greatly, he said, "Give place: why make ye a +tumult and weep? the child is not dead, but sleepeth." + +And they laughed him to scorn, knowing that she was dead. But he, +having put them all forth, taketh the father of the child and her +mother and them that were with him, and goeth in where the child was. +And taking the child by the hand, he saith unto her. "Talitha cumi;" +which is, being interpreted, "Damsel, I say unto thee, Arise." + +And her spirit returned. And straightway the damsel rose up, and +walked: for she was twelve years old. And they were amazed straightway +with a great amazement. And he charged them much that no man should +know this: and he commanded that something should be given her to eat. + +And the fame hereof went forth into all that land. + + +HEALINGS BY THE WAY. + +And as Jesus passed by from thence, two blind men followed him, crying +out, and saying, "Have mercy on us, thou son of David." + +And when he was come into the house, the blind men came to him: and +Jesus saith unto them, "Believe ye that I am able to do this?" + +They say unto him, "Yea, Lord." + +Then touched he their eyes, saying, "According to your faith be it +done unto you." + +And their eyes were opened. And Jesus strictly charged them, saying, +"See that no man know it." + +But they went forth, and spread abroad his fame in all that land. + +And as they went forth, behold, there was brought to him a dumb man +possessed with a demon. And when the demon was cast out, the dumb man +spake: and the multitudes marvelled, saying, "It was never so seen in +Israel." + +But the Pharisees said, "By the prince of the demons casteth he out +demons." + + + + +WIDER EVANGELIZATION OF GALILEE + + +A VISIT TO HIS HOME. + +And he went out from thence; and he cometh into his own country to +Nazareth, where he had been brought up; and his disciples follow him. +And when the sabbath was come, he entered, as his custom was, into the +synagogue, and stood up to read. And there was delivered unto him the +book of the prophet Isaiah. And he opened the book, and found the +place where it was written, + + "The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, + Because he anointed me to preach good tidings to the poor; + He hath sent me to proclaim release to the captives, + And recovering of sight to the blind, + To set at liberty them that are bruised, + To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord." + +And he closed the book, and gave it back to the attendant, and sat +down: and the eyes of all in the synagogue were fastened on him. + +And he began to say unto them, "To-day hath this scripture been +fulfilled in your ears." + +And all bare him witness, and wondered at the words of grace which +proceeded out of his mouth: and they said, "Whence hath this man these +things?" and, "What is the wisdom that is given unto this man, and +what mean such mighty works wrought by his hands? Is not this the +carpenter, the son of Mary, and brother of James, and Joses, and +Judas, and Simon? and are not his sisters here with us?" And they were +offended in him. + +And he said unto them, "Doubtless ye will say unto me this parable, +Physician, heal thyself: whatsoever we have heard done at Capernaum, +do also here in thine own country." + +And he said, "Verily I say unto you, A prophet is not without honor, +save in his own country, and among his own kin, and in his own house. +But of a truth I say unto you, There were many widows in Israel in the +days of Elijah, when the heaven was shut up three years and six +months, when there came a great famine over all the land; and unto +none of them was Elijah sent, but only to Zarephath, in the land of +Sidon, unto a woman that was a widow. And there were many lepers in +Israel in the time of Elisha the prophet; and none of them was +cleansed, but only Naaman the Syrian." + +And they were all filled with wrath in the synagogue, as they heard +these things; and they rose up, and cast him forth out of the city, +and led him unto the brow of the hill whereon their city was built, +that they might throw him down headlong. But he passing through the +midst of them went his way. + +And he could there do no mighty work, save that he laid his hands upon +a few sick folk, and healed them. + + +PREACHING IN THE VILLAGES. + +And Jesus went about all the cities and the villages, teaching in +their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing +all manner of disease and all manner of sickness. But when he saw the +multitudes, he was moved with compassion for them, because they were +distressed and scattered, as sheep not having a shepherd. + +Then saith he unto his disciples, "The harvest indeed is plenteous, +but the laborers are few. Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, +that he send forth laborers into his harvest." + + +THE TWELVE SENT FORTH. + +And he calleth unto him his twelve disciples, and began to send them +forth by two and two; and he gave them power and authority over +unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal all manner of disease +and all manner of sickness. + +And he charged them, saying, "Go not into any way of the Gentiles, and +enter not into any city of the Samaritans: but go rather to the lost +sheep of the house of Israel. And as ye go, preach, saying, 'The +kingdom of heaven is at hand.' Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse +the lepers, cast out demons: freely ye received, freely give. + +"Get you no gold, nor silver, nor brass in your purses. Take nothing +for your journey, save a staff only; no bread, no wallet; neither have +two coats, nor shoes, but go shod with sandals: for the laborer is +worthy of his food. And into whatsoever city or village ye shall +enter, search out who in it is worthy; and there abide till ye go +forth. And as ye enter into the house, salute it. And if the house be +worthy, let your peace come upon it: but if it be not worthy, let your +peace return to you. And whosoever shall not receive you, nor hear +your words, as ye go forth out of that house or that city, shake off +the dust from your feet for a testimony against them. Verily I say +unto you, It shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and +Gomorrah in the day of judgment, than for that city. + +"Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye +therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves. But beware of men: +for they will deliver you up to councils, and in their synagogues they +will scourge you; yea and before governors and kings shall ye be +brought for my sake, for a testimony to them and to the Gentiles. But +when they deliver you up, be not anxious how or what ye shall speak: +for it shall be given you in that hour what ye shall speak. For it is +not ye that speak, but the Spirit of your Father that speaketh in you. +And brother shall deliver up brother to death, and the father his +child: and children shall rise up against parents, and cause them to +be put to death. And ye shall be hated of all men, for my name's sake: +but he that endureth to the end, the same shall be saved. But when +they persecute you in this city, flee into the next: for verily I say +unto you, Ye shall not have gone through the cities of Israel, till +the Son of man be come. + +"A disciple is not above his teacher, nor a servant above his lord. It +is enough for the disciple that he be as his teacher, and the servant +as his lord. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebub, +how much more them of his household? Fear them not therefore: for +there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; and hid, that +shall not be known. What I tell you in the darkness, speak ye in the +light; and what ye hear in the ear, proclaim upon the house-tops. And +be not afraid of them that kill the body, but are not able to kill the +soul: but rather fear him who is able to destroy both soul and body in +hell. Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? and not one of them shall +fall on the ground without your Father: but the very hairs of your +head are all numbered. Fear not therefore: ye are of more value than +many sparrows. Every one therefore who shall confess me before men, +him will I also confess before my Father who is in heaven. But +whosoever shall deny me before men, him will I also deny before my +Father who is in heaven. + +"I came to cast fire upon the earth; and what do I desire, if it is +already kindled? But I have a baptism to be baptized with; and how am +I straitened till it be accomplished! + +"Think not that I came to send peace on the earth: I came not to send +peace, but a sword. For there shall be from henceforth five in one +house divided, three against two, and two against three. For I came to +set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her +mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law: and a man's +foes shall be they of his own household. He that loveth father or +mother more than me is not worthy of me; and he that loveth son or +daughter more than me is not worthy of me. And he that doth not take +his cross and follow after me, is not worthy of me. He that findeth +his life shall lose it; and he that loseth his life for my sake shall +find it. + +"He that receiveth you receiveth me, and he that receiveth me +receiveth him that sent me. He that receiveth a prophet in the name of +a prophet shall receive a prophet's reward: and he that receiveth a +righteous man in the name of a righteous man shall receive a righteous +man's reward. And whosoever shall give to drink unto one of these +little ones a cup of cold water only, in the name of a disciple, +verily I say unto you he shall in no wise lose his reward." + +And they departed, and went throughout the villages, preaching the +gospel, and healing everywhere. + +And they cast out many demons, and anointed with oil many that were +sick, and healed them. + +And Jesus departed thence to teach and preach. And wheresoever he +entered, into villages, or into cities, or into the country, they laid +the sick in the marketplaces, and besought him that they might touch +if it were but the border of his garment: and as many as touched him +were made whole. + +At that season Herod the tetrarch heard the report concerning Jesus, +and said unto his servants, "This is John the Baptist; he is risen +from the dead; and therefore do these powers work in him." + +But others said, "It is Elijah." And others said, "It is a prophet, +even as one of the prophets." + +But Herod, when he heard thereof, said, "John, whom I beheaded, he is +risen." + +And he sought to see him. + + + + +THE CRISIS IN CAPERNAUM + + +THE FIVE THOUSAND FED. + +And the apostles, when they were returned unto Jesus, told him all +things, whatsoever they had done, and whatsoever they had taught. + +Now the passover, the feast of the Jews, was at hand. And he saith +unto them, "Come ye yourselves apart into a desert place, and rest a +while." For there were many coming and going, and they had no leisure +so much as to eat. + +And they went away in the boat to a desert place apart. And the people +saw them going, and many knew them, and they ran together there on +foot from all the cities, and outwent them. + +And he came forth and saw a great multitude. And he welcomed them, and +spake to them of the kingdom of God, and them that had need of healing +he cured. And he had compassion on them, because they were as sheep +not having a shepherd. + +And the day began to wear away; and the twelve came, and said unto +him, "Send the multitude away, that they may go into the villages and +country round about, and lodge, and get provisions: for we are here in +a desert place." + +But Jesus said unto them, "They have no need to go away: give ye them +to eat." + +Philip answered him, "Two hundred shillings' worth of bread is not +sufficient for them, that every one may take a little." + +Jesus saith unto them, "How many loaves have ye? go and see." + +One of his disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter's brother, saith unto him, +"There is a lad here, who hath five barley loaves, and two fishes: but +what are these among so many?" + +And Jesus said, "Bring them hither to me." + +And he commanded them that all should sit down by companies upon the +green grass. Now there was much grass in the place. And they sat down +in ranks, by hundreds, and by fifties. And he took the five loaves and +the two fishes, and looking up to heaven, he blessed, and brake the +loaves; and he gave to the disciples to set before them; and the two +fishes divided he among them all. And they all ate, and were filled. +And they took up broken pieces, twelve basketfuls, and also of the +fishes. And they that ate the loaves were five thousand men. + +When therefore the people saw the sign which he did, they said, "This +is of a truth the prophet that cometh into the world." + +Jesus therefore perceiving that they were about to come and take him +by force, to make him king, constrained the disciples to enter into +the boat, and to go before him unto the other side, till he should +send the multitudes away. + +And after he had sent the multitudes away, he went up into the +mountain apart to pray: and when even was come, he was there alone. + + +JESUS WALKING ON THE WATER. + +And his disciples were going over the sea unto Capernaum. And it was +now dark, and Jesus had not yet come to them. And the sea was rising +by reason of a great wind that blew. And in the fourth watch of the +night, when they had rowed about five and twenty or thirty furlongs, +they behold Jesus walking on the sea, and drawing nigh unto the boat. +And when the disciples saw him walking on the sea, they were troubled, +saying, "It is a ghost;" and they cried out for fear. + +But straightway Jesus spake unto them, saying, "Be of good cheer; it +is I; be not afraid." + +And Peter answered him and said, "Lord, if it be thou, bid me come +unto thee upon the waters." + +And he said, "Come." + +And Peter went down from the boat, and walked upon the waters, to come +to Jesus. But when he saw the wind, he was afraid; and beginning to +sink, he cried out, saying, "Lord, save me." + +And immediately Jesus stretched forth his hand, and took hold of him, +and saith unto him, "O thou of little faith, wherefore didst thou +doubt?" + +And when they were gone up into the boat, the wind ceased: and they +were sore amazed in themselves; for they understood not concerning the +loaves, but their heart was hardened. + +And when they had crossed over, they came to the land unto Gennesaret, +and moored to the shore. And when they were come out of the boat, +straightway the people knew him, and ran round about that whole +region, and began to carry about on their beds those that were sick, +where they heard he was. + + +THE DISAPPOINTMENT OF THE PEOPLE. + +On the morrow the multitude that stood on the other side of the sea +saw that there was no other boat there, save one, and that Jesus +entered not with his disciples into the boat, but that his disciples +went away alone (howbeit there came boats from Tiberias nigh unto the +place where they ate the bread after the Lord had given thanks): when +the multitude therefore saw that Jesus was not there, neither his +disciples, they themselves got into the boats, and came to Capernaum, +seeking Jesus. + +And when they found him on the other side of the sea, they said unto +him, "Rabbi, when camest thou hither?" + +Jesus answered them and said, "Verily, verily, I say unto you, Ye seek +me, not because ye saw signs, but because ye ate of the loaves, and +were filled. Work not for the food which perisheth, but for the food +which abideth unto eternal life, which the Son of man shall give unto +you; for him the Father, even God, hath sealed." + +They said therefore unto him, "What must we do, that we may work the +works of God?" + +Jesus answered and said unto them, "This is the work of God, that ye +believe on him whom he hath sent." + +They said therefore unto him, "What then doest thou for a sign, that +we may see, and believe thee? what workest thou? Our fathers ate the +manna in the wilderness; as it is written, 'He gave them bread out of +heaven to eat.'" + +Jesus therefore said unto them, "Verily, verily, I say unto you, It +was not Moses that gave you the bread out of heaven; but my Father +giveth you the true bread out of heaven. For the bread of God is that +which cometh down out of heaven, and giveth life unto the world." + +They said therefore unto him, "Lord, evermore give us this bread." + +Jesus said unto them, "I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me +shall not hunger, and he that believeth on me shall never thirst. But +I said unto you, that ye have seen me, and yet believe not. All that +which the Father giveth me shall come unto me; and him that cometh to +me I will in no wise cast out. For I am come down from heaven, not to +do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me. And this is the +will of him that sent me, that of all that which he hath given me I +should lose nothing, but should raise it up at the last day. For this +is the will of my Father, that every one that beholdeth the Son, and +believeth on him, should have eternal life; and I will raise him up at +the last day." + +The Jews therefore murmured concerning him, because he said, "I am the +bread which came down out of heaven." And they said, "Is not this +Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? how doth he +now say 'I am come down out of heaven'?" + +Jesus answered and said unto them, "Murmur not among yourselves. No +man can come to me, except the Father that sent me draw him: and I +will raise him up in the last day. It is written in the prophets, 'And +they shall all be taught of God.' Every one that hath heard from the +Father, and hath learned, cometh unto me. Not that any man hath seen +the Father, save he that is from God, he hath seen the Father. Verily, +verily, I say unto you, He that believeth hath eternal life. I am the +bread of life. Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and they +died. This is the bread which cometh down out of heaven, that a man +may eat thereof, and not die. I am the living bread which came down +out of heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: +yea and the bread which I will give is my flesh, for the life of the +world." + +The Jews therefore strove one with another, saying, "How can this man +give us his flesh to eat?" + +Jesus therefore said unto them, "Verily, verily, I say unto you, +Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink his blood, ye have +not life in yourselves. He that eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood +hath eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day. For my +flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed. He that eateth my +flesh and drinketh my blood abideth in me, and I in him. As the living +Father sent me, and I live because of the Father; so he that eateth +me, he also shall live because of me. This is the bread which came +down out of heaven: not as the fathers ate, and died; he that eateth +this bread shall live for ever." + +These things said he in the synagogue, as he taught in Capernaum. + +Many therefore of his disciples, when they heard this, said, "This is +a hard saying; who can hear it?" + +But Jesus knowing in himself that his disciples murmured at this, said +unto them, "Doth this cause you to stumble? What then if ye should +behold the Son of man ascending where he was before? It is the spirit +that giveth life; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I have +spoken unto you are spirit, and are life. But there are some of you +that believe not." + +For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were that believed not, and +who it was that should betray him. And he said, "For this cause have I +said unto you, that no man can come unto me, except it be given unto +him of the Father." + +Upon this many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with +him. Jesus said therefore unto the twelve, "Would ye also go away?" + +Simon Peter answered him, "Lord, to whom shall we go? thou hast the +words of eternal life. And we have believed and know that thou art the +Holy One of God." + +Jesus answered them, "Did not I choose you the twelve, and one of you +is a devil?" + +Now he spake of Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot, for he it was that +should betray him, being one of the twelve. + + +REJECTION OF THE TRADITION OF THE ELDERS. + +And there are gathered together unto him the Pharisees, and certain of +the scribes, who had come from Jerusalem, and had seen that some of +his disciples ate their bread with defiled, that is, unwashen, hands. +(For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, except they wash their hands +diligently, eat not, holding the tradition of the elders; and when +they come from the market-place, except they bathe themselves, they +eat not; and many other things there are, which they have received to +hold, washings of cups, and pots, and brasen vessels.) And the +Pharisees and the scribes ask him, "Why walk not thy disciples +according to the tradition of the elders, but eat their bread with +defiled hands?" + +And he said unto them, "Well did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as +it is written, + + 'This people honoreth me with their lips, + But their heart is far from me. + But in vain do they worship me, + Teaching as their doctrines the precepts of men.' + +"Ye leave the commandment of God, and hold fast the tradition of men." + +And he said unto them, "Full well do ye reject the commandment of God, +that ye may keep your tradition. For Moses said, 'Honor thy father and +thy mother;' and, 'He that speaketh evil of father or mother, let him +die the death;' but ye say, 'If a man shall say to his father or his +mother, That wherewith thou mightest have been profited by me is +Corban,' that is to say, Given to God; ye no longer suffer him to do +aught for his father or his mother; making void the word of God by +your tradition, which ye have delivered: and many such like things ye +do." + +And he called to him the multitude again, and said unto them, "Hear me +all of you, and understand: there is nothing from without the man, +that going into him can defile him; but the things which proceed out +of the man are those that defile the man." + +Then came the disciples, and said unto him, "Knowest thou that the +Pharisees were offended, when they heard this saying?" + +But he answered and said, "Every plant which my heavenly Father +planted not, shall be rooted up. Let them alone: they are blind +guides. And if the blind guide the blind, both shall fall into a pit." + +And when he was entered into the house from the multitude, his +disciples asked of him the parable. + +And he saith unto them, "Are ye also even yet without understanding? +Perceive ye not, that whatsoever from without goeth into the man, it +cannot defile him; because it goeth not into his heart, but into his +belly, and goeth out into the draught?" + +This he said, making all meats clean. And he said, "That which +proceedeth out of the man, that defileth the man. For from within, out +of the heart of men, evil thoughts proceed, fornications, thefts, +murders, adulteries, covetings, wickedness, deceit, false witness, +lasciviousness, an evil eye, railing, pride, foolishness: all these +evil things proceed from within, and defile the man; but to eat with +unwashen hands defileth not the man." + + +THE PLOT OF THE PHARISEES. + +And it came to pass on a sabbath, that he entered into the synagogue +and taught: and there was a man there, and his right hand was +withered. And the scribes and the Pharisees watched him, whether he +would heal on the sabbath; that they might find how to accuse him. + +But he knew their thoughts; and he said to the man that had his hand +withered, "Rise up, and stand forth in the midst." + +And he arose and stood forth. And Jesus said unto them, "I ask you, Is +it lawful on the sabbath to do good, or to do harm? to save a life or +to destroy it? What man shall there be of you, that shall have one +sheep, and if this fall into a pit on the sabbath day, will he not lay +hold on it, and lift it out? How much then is a man of more value than +a sheep! Wherefore it is lawful to do good on the sabbath day." + +But they held their peace. And when he had looked round about on them +with anger, being grieved at the hardening of their heart, he saith +unto the man, "Stretch forth thy hand." + +And he stretched it forth; and his hand was restored whole, as the +other. + +But they were filled with madness; and communed one with another what +they might do to Jesus. + +And the Pharisees went out, and straightway with the Herodians took +counsel against him, how they might destroy him. + + + + +=HIS WITHDRAWAL WITH THE TWELVE= + + * * * * * + +THE MINISTRY BEYOND GALILEE + + +THE PHOENICIAN RETIREMENT AND THE GENTILE CURE. + +And Jesus went out thence, and withdrew into the parts of Tyre and +Sidon. + +And he entered into a house, and would have no man know it; and he +could not be hid. But straightway a woman, whose little daughter had +an unclean spirit, having heard of him, came and fell down at his +feet. Now the woman was a Greek, a Syrophoenician by race. + +And she cried, saying, "Have mercy on me, O Lord, thou son of David; +my daughter is grievously vexed with a demon." + +But he answered her not a word. And his disciples came and besought +him, saying, "Send her away, for she crieth after us." + +But he answered and said, "I was not sent but unto the lost sheep of +the house of Israel." + +But she came and worshipped him, saying, "Lord help me." + +And he said unto her, "Let the children first be filled: for it is not +meet to take the children's bread and cast it to the dogs." + +But she answered and saith unto him, "Yea, Lord; even the dogs under +the table eat of the children's crumbs." + +Then Jesus answered and said unto her, "O woman, great is thy faith: +be it done unto thee as thou wilt. Go thy way; the demon is gone out +of thy daughter." + +And she went away unto her house, and found the child laid upon the +bed, and the demon gone out. + + +MIRACLES AND MULTITUDES AGAIN. + +And again he went out from the borders of Tyre, and came through Sidon +unto the sea of Galilee, through the midst of the borders of +Decapolis. + +And he went up into the mountain, and sat there. And there came unto +him great multitudes, having with them the lame, blind, dumb, maimed, +and many others, and they cast them down at his feet; and he healed +them; insomuch that the multitude wondered, when they saw the dumb +speaking, the maimed whole, and the lame walking, and the blind +seeing; and they glorified the God of Israel. + +And they bring unto him one that was deaf, and had an impediment in +his speech; and they beseech him to lay his hand upon him. And he took +him aside from the multitude privately, and put his fingers into his +ears, and he spat, and touched his tongue; and looking up to heaven, +he sighed, and saith unto him, "Ephphatha," that is, "Be opened." + +And his ears were opened, and the bond of his tongue was loosed, and +he spake plain. And he charged them that they should tell no man; but +the more he charged them, so much the more a great deal they published +it. And they were beyond measure astonished, saying, "He hath done all +things well; he maketh even the deaf to hear, and the dumb to speak." + + +THE FOUR THOUSAND FED. + +In those days, when there was again a great multitude, and they had +nothing to eat, he called unto him his disciples, and saith unto +them, "I have compassion on the multitude, because they continue with +me now three days, and have nothing to eat; and if I send them away +fasting to their home, they will faint on the way; and some of them +are come from far." + +And his disciples answered him, "Whence shall one be able to fill +these men with bread here in a desert place?" + +And he asked them, "How many loaves have ye?" + +And they said, "Seven." + +And he commandeth the multitude to sit down on the ground: and he took +the seven loaves, and having given thanks, he brake, and gave to his +disciples, to set before them; and they set them before the multitude. + +And they had a few small fishes: and having blessed them, he commanded +to set these also before them. And they ate and were filled: and they +took up, of broken pieces that remained over, seven baskets. And they +were about four thousand men, besides women and children. + +And he sent away the multitudes, and entered into the boat, and came +into the borders of Magadan. + + +THE PHARISEES AND SADUCCEES DEMAND A SIGN. + +And the Pharisees and Sadducees came forth, and began to question with +him, seeking of him a sign from heaven, trying him. + +But he answered and said unto them, "When it is evening, ye say, 'It +will be fair weather,' for the heaven is red. And in the morning, 'It +will be foul weather to-day,' for the heaven is red and lowering. Ye +know how to discern the face of the heaven; but ye cannot discern the +signs of the times." + +And he sighed deeply in his spirit, and saith. "Why doth this +generation seek a sign? verily I say unto you, There shall no sign be +given unto this generation." + +And he left them, and again entering into the boat departed to the +other side. + +And they forgot to take bread; and they had not in the boat with them +more than one loaf. And he charged them, saying, "Take heed, beware of +the leaven of the Pharisees and the leaven of Herod." + +And they reasoned one with another, saying, "We have no bread." + +And Jesus perceiving it saith unto them, "O ye of little faith, why +reason ye among yourselves, because ye have no bread? Do ye not yet +perceive, neither understand? have ye your heart hardened? Having +eyes, see ye not? and having ears, hear ye not? and do ye not +remember? When I brake the five loaves among the five thousand, how +many baskets full of broken pieces took ye up?" + +They say unto him, "Twelve." + +"And when the seven among the four thousand, how many basketfuls of +broken pieces took ye up?" + +And they say unto him, "Seven." + +And he said unto them, "How is it that ye do not perceive that I spake +not to you concerning bread? But beware of the leaven of the Pharisees +and Sadducees." + +Then understood they that he bade them not beware of the leaven of +bread, but of the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees. + + +THE BLIND MAN HEALED. + +And they come unto Bethsaida. And they bring to him a blind man, and +beseech him to touch him. And he took hold of the blind man by the +hand, and brought him out of the village; and when he had spit on his +eyes, and laid his hands upon him, he asked him, "Seest thou aught?" + +And he looked up, and said, "I see men; for I behold them as trees, +walking." + +Then again he laid his hands upon his eyes; and he looked stedfastly, +and was restored, and saw all things clearly. And he sent him away to +his home, saying, "Do not even enter into the village." + + + + +JESUS THE MESSIAH + + +PETER'S CONFESSION. + +And Jesus went forth, and his disciples, into the villages of Cæsarea +Philippi. + +And it came to pass, as he was praying apart, the disciples were with +him: and he asked them, saying, "Who do the multitudes say that I am?" + +And they answering, said, "Some say John the Baptist; some Elijah; and +others, Jeremiah; and others, that one of the old prophets is risen +again." + +And he said unto them, "But who say ye that I am?" + +And Simon Peter answered and said, "Thou art the Christ, the Son of +the living God." + +And Jesus answered and said unto him, "Blessed art thou, Simon +Bar-Jonah: for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my +Father who is in heaven. And I also say unto thee, that thou art +Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of +Hades shall not prevail against it. I will give unto thee the keys of +the kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall +be bound in heaven; and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be +loosed in heaven." + +Then charged he the disciples that they should tell no man that he was +the Christ. + + +THE PASSION AND RESURRECTION FORETOLD. + +From that time began Jesus to show unto his disciples, that he must go +unto Jerusalem, and suffer many things and be rejected by the elders, +and the chief priests, and the scribes, and be killed, and after three +days rise again. And he spake the saying openly. + +And Peter took him, and began to rebuke him, saying, "Be it far from +thee, Lord: this shall never be unto thee." + +But he turning about, and seeing his disciples, rebuked Peter, and +saith, "Get thee behind me, Satan: thou art a stumbling-block unto me: +for thou mindest not the things of God, but the things of men." + +And he called unto him the multitude with his disciples, and said unto +them, "If any man would come after me, let him deny himself, and take +up his cross daily, and follow me. For whosoever would save his life +shall lose it; and whosoever shall lose his life for my sake and the +gospel's shall save it. For what doth it profit a man to gain the +whole world, and forfeit his life? For what should a man give in +exchange for his life? For whosoever shall be ashamed of me and of my +words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of man also +shall be ashamed of him, when he cometh in his own glory, and the +glory of the Father, and of the holy angels. But I tell you of a +truth, There are some of them that stand here, who shall in no wise +taste of death, till they see the kingdom of God come with power." + + +THE TRANSFIGURATION. + +And it came to pass about eight days after these sayings, that he took +with him Peter and John and James, and went up into the mountain to +pray. And as he was praying he was transfigured before them; and his +face did shine as the sun, and his garments became glistering, white +as the light, so as no fuller on earth can whiten them. + +And behold, there talked with him two men, who were Moses and Elijah; +who appeared in glory, and spake of his decease which he was about to +accomplish at Jerusalem. + +Now Peter and they that were with him were heavy with sleep; but when +they were fully awake, they saw his glory, and the two men that stood +with him. And it came to pass, as they were parting from him, Peter +said unto Jesus, "Master, it is good for us to be here: and let us +make three tabernacles; one for thee, and one for Moses, and one for +Elijah:" not knowing what he said. + +While he was yet speaking, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them: +and they feared as they entered into the cloud. + +And behold, a voice out of the cloud, saying, "This is my beloved Son, +in whom I am well pleased; hear ye him." + +And when the disciples heard it, they fell on their face, and were +sore afraid. And Jesus came and touched them and said, "Arise, and be +not afraid." + +And suddenly looking round about, they saw no one any more, save Jesus +only with themselves. + +And as they were coming down from the mountain, he charged them that +they should tell no man what things they had seen, save when the Son +of man should have risen again from the dead. + +And they kept the saying, questioning among themselves what the rising +again from the dead should mean. And they asked him, saying, "How is +it that the scribes say that Elijah must first come?" + +And he said unto them, "Elijah indeed cometh first, and restoreth all +things: and how is it written of the Son of man, that he should +suffer many things and be set at nought? But I say unto you, that +Elijah is come, and they have also done unto him whatsoever they would +even as it is written of them." + +Then understood the disciples that he spake unto them of John the +Baptist. + + +THE EPILEPTIC BOY. + +And when they came to the disciples, they saw a great multitude about +them, and scribes questioning with them. And straightway all the +multitude, when they saw him, were greatly amazed, and running to him +saluted him. And he asked them, "What question ye with them?" + +And one of the multitude came to him kneeling, and saying, "Teacher, I +beseech thee to look upon my son: for he is mine only child: and +behold, he hath a dumb spirit; and wheresoever it taketh him, it +dasheth him down: and he foameth, and grindeth his teeth, and pineth +away: for he is epileptic, and suffereth grievously; for oft-times he +falleth into the fire, and oft-times into the water. And I brought him +to thy disciples, and they could not cure him." + +And Jesus answered and said, "O faithless and perverse generation, how +long shall I be with you? how long shall I bear with you? Bring hither +thy son." + +And they brought him unto him: and when he saw him, straightway the +spirit tare him grievously; and he fell on the ground, and wallowed +foaming. + +And he asked his father, "How long time is it since this hath come +unto him?" + +And he said, "From a child. And oft-times it hath cast him both into +the fire and into the waters, to destroy him: but if thou canst do +anything, have compassion on us, and help us." + +And Jesus said unto him, "If thou canst! All things are possible to +him that believeth." + +Straightway the father of the child cried out and said, "I believe; +help thou mine unbelief." + +And when Jesus saw that a multitude came running together, he rebuked +the unclean spirit, saying unto him, "Thou dumb and deaf spirit, I +command thee, come out of him, and enter no more into him." + +And having cried out, and torn him much, he came out: and the boy +became as one dead; insomuch that the more part said, "He is dead." + +But Jesus took him by the hand, and raised him up; and he arose, and +Jesus gave him back to his father. And they were all astonished at the +majesty of God. + +And when he was come into the house, his disciples asked him +privately, "How is it that we could not cast it out?" + +And he said unto them, "This kind can come out by nothing, save by +prayer. Verily I say unto you, If ye have faith as a grain of mustard +seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, 'Remove hence to yonder place,' +and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you." + + + + +THE TRAINING OF THE TWELVE + + +THE PASSION AND RESURRECTION AGAIN FORETOLD. + +And they went forth from thence, and passed through Galilee; and he +would not that any man should know it. For he taught his disciples, +and said unto them, "Let these words sink into your ears: for the Son +of man shall be delivered up into the hands of men, and they shall +kill him; and when he is killed, after three days he shall rise +again." + +But they understood not the saying, and were afraid to ask him. + + +THE GREATEST DISCIPLE. + +And they came to Capernaum: and when he was in the house he asked +them, "What were ye reasoning on the way?" + +But they held their peace: for they had disputed one with another on +the way, who was the greatest. + +And he sat down, and called the twelve; and he said unto them, "If any +man would be first, he shall be last of all, and servant of all." + +And he took a little child, and set him in the midst of them: and +taking him in his arms, he said unto them, "Verily I say unto you, +Except ye turn, and become as little children, ye shall in no wise +enter into the kingdom of heaven. Whosoever therefore shall humble +himself as this little child, the same is the greatest in the kingdom +of heaven. And whoso shall receive one such little child in my name +receiveth me: and whosoever receiveth me, receiveth not me, but him +that sent me." + +John said unto him, "Teacher, we saw one casting out demons in thy +name; and we forbade him, because he followed not us." + +But Jesus said, "Forbid him not: for there is no man who shall do a +mighty work in my name, and be able quickly to speak evil of me. For +he that is not against us is for us. For whosoever shall give you a +cup of water to drink, because ye are Christ's, verily I say unto you, +he shall in no wise lose his reward. But whoso shall cause one of +these little ones that believe on me to stumble, it is profitable for +him that a great mill-stone should be hanged about his neck, and that +he should be sunk in the depth of the sea. + +"Woe unto the world because of occasions of stumbling! for it must +needs be that the occasions come; but woe to that man through whom the +occasion cometh! And if thy hand or thy foot causeth thee to stumble, +cut it off, and cast it from thee: it is good for thee to enter into +life maimed or halt, rather than having two hands or two feet to be +cast into the eternal fire. And if thine eye causeth thee to stumble, +pluck it out, and cast it from thee: it is good for thee to enter into +life with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast into the +hell of fire, where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not +quenched. For every one shall be salted with fire. Salt is good; but +if the salt have lost its saltness, wherewith will ye season it? Have +salt in yourselves, and be at peace one with another. + +"See that ye despise not one of these little ones: for I say unto you, +that in heaven their angels do always behold the face of my Father who +is in heaven. How think ye? if any man have a hundred sheep, and one +of them be gone astray, doth he not leave the ninety and nine, and go +unto the mountains, and seek that which goeth astray? And if so be +that he find it, verily I say unto you, he rejoiceth over it more than +over the ninety and nine which have not gone astray. Even so it is +not the will of your Father who is in heaven, that one of these little +ones should perish. + + +FORGIVENESS. + +"And if thy brother sin against thee, go, show him his fault between +thee and him alone: if he hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother. But +if he hear thee not, take with thee one or two more, that at the mouth +of two witnesses or three every word may be established. And if he +refuse to hear them, tell it unto the church: and if he refuse to hear +the church also, let him be unto thee as the Gentile and the publican. +Verily I say unto you, What things soever ye shall bind on earth shall +be bound in heaven; and what things soever ye shall loose on earth +shall be loosed in heaven. Again I say unto you, that if two of you +shall agree on earth as touching anything that they shall ask, it +shall be done for them of my Father who is in heaven. For where two or +three are gathered together in my name, there am I, in the midst of +them." + +Then came Peter and said to him, "Lord, how oft shall my brother sin +against me, and I forgive him? until seven times?" + +Jesus saith unto him, "I say not unto thee, Until seven times; but, +Until seventy times seven. Therefore is the kingdom of heaven likened +unto a certain king, who would make a reckoning with his servants. And +when he had begun to reckon, one was brought unto him, that owed him +ten thousand talents. But forasmuch as he had not wherewith to pay, +his lord commanded him to be sold, and his wife, and children, and all +that he had, and payment to be made. The servant therefore fell down +and worshipped him, saying, 'Lord, have patience with me, and I will +pay thee all.' And the lord of that servant, being moved with +compassion, released him, and forgave him the debt. But that servant +went out, and found one of his fellow-servants, who owed him a hundred +shillings: and he laid hold on him, and took him by the throat, +saying, 'Pay what thou owest.' So his fellow-servant fell down and +besought him, saying, 'Have patience with me, and I will pay thee.' +And he would not: but went and cast him into prison, till he should +pay that which was due. So when his fellow-servants saw what was done, +they were exceeding sorry, and came and told unto their lord all that +was done. Then his lord called him unto him, and saith to him, 'Thou +wicked servant, I forgave thee all that debt, because thou besoughtest +me: shouldst not thou also have had mercy on thy fellow-servant, even +as I had mercy on thee?' And his lord was wroth, and delivered him to +the tormentors, till he should pay all that was due. So shall also my +heavenly Father do unto you, if ye forgive not every one his brother +from your hearts." + + +THE SHEKEL FOR THE TEMPLE. + +And they that received the half-shekel came to Peter, and said "Doth +not your teacher pay the half-shekel?" + +He saith, "Yea." + +And when he came into the house, Jesus spake first to him, saying, +"What thinkest thou, Simon? the kings of the earth, from whom do they +receive toll or tribute? from their sons, or from strangers?" + +And when he said, "From strangers," Jesus said unto him, "Therefore, +the sons are free. But, lest we cause them to stumble, go thou to the +sea, and cast a hook, and take up the fish that first cometh up; and +when thou hast opened his mouth, thou shalt find a shekel: that take, +and give unto them for me and thee." + + + + +=HIS FACE TOWARD JERUSALEM= + + * * * * * + +THE FINAL DEPARTURE FROM GALILEE + + +THE BEGINNING OF THE END. + +Now the feast of the Jews, the feast of tabernacles, was at hand. His +brethren therefore said unto him, "Depart hence, and go into Judæa, +that thy disciples also may behold thy works which thou doest. For no +man doeth anything in secret, and himself seeketh to be known openly. +If thou doest these things, manifest thyself to the world." For even +his brethren did not believe on him. + +Jesus therefore saith unto them, "My time is not yet come; but your +time is always ready. The world cannot hate you; but me it hateth, +because I testify of it, that its works are evil. Go ye up unto the +feast; I go not up yet unto this feast; because my time is not yet +fulfilled." And having said these things unto them, he abode still in +Galilee. + +And it came to pass, when the days were well-nigh come that he should +be received up, he stedfastly set his face to go to Jerusalem, and +sent messengers before his face: and they went, and entered into a +village of the Samaritans, to make ready for him. And they did not +receive him, because his face was as though he were going to +Jerusalem. And when his disciples James and John saw this, they said, +"Lord, wilt thou that we bid fire to come down from heaven, and +consume them?" + +But he turned, and rebuked them. And they went to another village. + + +THE GRATEFUL SAMARITAN LEPER. + +And it came to pass, as they were on the way to Jerusalem, that he was +passing along the borders of Samaria and Galilee. And as he entered +into a certain village, there met him ten men that were lepers, who +stood afar off: and they lifted up their voices, saying, "Jesus, +Master, have mercy on us." + +And when he saw them, he said unto them, "Go and show yourselves unto +the priests." + +And it came to pass, as they went, they were cleansed. And one of +them, when he saw that he was healed, turned back, with a loud voice +glorifying God; and he fell upon his face at his feet, giving him +thanks: and he was a Samaritan. + +And Jesus answering said, "Were not the ten cleansed? but where are +the nine? Were there none found that returned to give glory to God, +save this stranger?" + +And he said unto him, "Arise, and go thy way: thy faith hath made thee +whole." + + +NEW DISCIPLES. + +And as they went on the way, a certain scribe said unto him, "I will +follow thee whithersoever thou goest." + +And Jesus said unto him, "The foxes have holes, and the birds of the +heaven have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head." + +And he said unto another, "Follow me." + +But he said, "Lord, suffer me first to go and bury my father." + +But he said unto him, "Leave the dead to bury their own dead; but go +thou and publish abroad the kingdom of God." + +And another also said, "I will follow thee, Lord; but first suffer me +to bid farewell to them that are at my house." + +But Jesus said unto him, "No man, having put his hand to the plow, and +looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God." + + + + +IN JERUSALEM--THE ATTEMPT TO STONE HIM + + +JESUS AT THE FEAST OF TABERNACLES. + +Then went he up unto the feast, not publicly, but as it were in +secret. The Jews therefore sought him at the feast, and said, "Where +is he?" And there was much murmuring among the multitudes concerning +him: some said, "He is a good man;" others said, "Not so, but he +leadeth the multitude astray." Yet no man spake openly of him for fear +of the Jews. + +But when it was now the midst of the feast Jesus went up into the +temple, and taught. The Jews therefore marvelled, saying, "How knoweth +this man letters, having never learned?" + +Jesus therefore answered them, and said, "My teaching is not mine, but +his that sent me. If any man willeth to do his will, he shall know of +the teaching, whether it is of God, or whether I speak from myself. He +that speaketh from himself seeketh his own glory: but he that seeketh +the glory of him that sent him, the same is true, and no +unrighteousness is in him. Did not Moses give you the law, and yet +none of you doeth the law? Why seek ye to kill me?" + +The multitude answered, "Thou hast a demon: who seeketh to kill thee?" + +Jesus answered and said unto them, "I did one work, and ye all marvel +because thereof. Moses hath given you circumcision (not that it is of +Moses, but of the fathers); and on the sabbath ye circumcise a man. If +a man receiveth circumcision on the sabbath, that the law of Moses may +not be broken; are ye wroth with me, because I made a man every whit +whole on the sabbath? Judge not according to appearance, but judge +righteous judgment." + +Some therefore of them of Jerusalem said, "Is not this he whom they +seek to kill? And lo, he speaketh openly, and they say nothing unto +him. Can it be that the rulers indeed know that this is the Christ? +Howbeit we know this man whence he is; but when the Christ cometh, no +one knoweth whence he is." + +Jesus therefore cried in the temple, teaching and saying, "Ye both +know me, and know whence I am; and I am not come of myself, but he +that sent me is true, whom ye know not. I know him: because I am from +him, and he sent me." + +They sought therefore to take him: and no man laid his hand on him, +because his hour was not yet come. But of the multitude many believed +on him; and they said, "When the Christ shall come, will he do more +signs than those which this man hath done?" + +The Pharisees heard the multitude murmuring these things concerning +him; and the chief priests and the Pharisees sent officers to take +him. + +Jesus therefore said, "Yet a little while am I with you, and I go unto +him that sent me. Ye shall seek me, and shall not find me: and where I +am, ye can not come." + +The Jews therefore said among themselves, "Whither will this man go +that we shall not find him? will he go unto the Dispersion among the +Greeks, and teach the Greeks? What is this word that he said, 'Ye +shall seek me, and shall not find me; and where I am, ye cannot +come'?" + +Now on the last day, the great day of the feast, Jesus stood and +cried, saying, "If any man thirst, let him come unto me and drink. He +that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, from within him +shall flow rivers of living water." + +But this spake he of the Spirit, which they that believed on him were +to receive: for the Spirit was not yet given; because Jesus was not +yet glorified. + +Some of the multitude therefore, when they heard these words, said, +"This is of a truth the prophet." Others said, "This is the Christ." +But some said, "What, doth the Christ come out of Galilee? Hath not +the scripture said that the Christ cometh of the seed of David, and +from Bethlehem, the village where David was?" + +So there arose a division in the multitude because of him. And some of +them would have taken him; but no man laid hands on him. + +The officers therefore came to the chief priests and Pharisees; and +they said unto them, "Why did ye not bring him?" + +The officers answered, "Never man so spake." + +The Pharisees therefore answered them, "Are ye also led astray? Hath +any of the rulers believed on him, or of the Pharisees? But this +multitude that knoweth not the law are accursed." + +Nicodemus saith unto them (he that came to him before, being one of +them), "Doth our law judge a man, except it first hear from himself +and know what he doeth?" + +They answered and said unto him, "Art thou also of Galilee? Search, +and see that out of Galilee ariseth no prophet." + + +JESUS AND THE ACCUSED WOMAN. + +And they went every man unto his own house: but Jesus went unto the +mount of Olives. + +And early in the morning he came again into the temple, and all the +people came unto him; and he sat down, and taught them. And the +scribes and the Pharisees bring a woman taken in adultery; and having +set her in the midst, they say unto him, "Teacher, this woman hath +been taken in adultery, in the very act. Now in the law Moses +commanded us to stone such: what then sayest thou of her?" And this +they said, trying him, that they might have whereof to accuse him. + +But Jesus stooped down, and with his finger wrote on the ground. But +when they continued asking him, he lifted up himself and said unto +them, "He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at +her." + +And again he stooped down, and with his finger wrote on the ground. +And they, when they heard it, went out one by one, beginning from the +eldest, even unto the last: and Jesus was left alone, and the woman, +where she was, in the midst. And Jesus lifted up himself, and said +unto her, "Woman, where are they? did no man condemn thee?" + +And she said, "No man, Lord." + +And Jesus said, "Neither do I condemn thee: go thy way; from +henceforth sin no more." + + +THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD. + +Again therefore Jesus spake unto them, saying, "I am the light of the +world: he that followeth me shall not walk in the darkness, but shall +have the light of life." + +The Pharisees therefore said unto him, "Thou bearest witness of +thyself; thy witness is not true." + +Jesus answered and said unto them, "Even if I bear witness of myself, +my witness is true; for I know whence I came, and whither I go; but ye +know not whence I come, or whither I go. Ye judge after the flesh; I +judge no man. Yea and if I judge, my judgment is true; for I am not +alone, but I and the Father that sent me. Yea and in your law it is +written, that the witness of two men is true. I am he that beareth +witness of myself, and the Father that sent me beareth witness of me." + +They said therefore unto him, "Where is thy Father?" + +Jesus answered, "Ye know neither me, nor my Father: if ye knew me, ye +would know my Father also." + +These words spake he in the treasury, as he taught in the temple: and +no man took him; because his hour was not yet come. + +He said therefore again unto them, "I go away, and ye shall seek me, +and shall die in your sin: whither I go, ye cannot come." + +The Jews therefore said, "Will he kill himself, that he saith, +'Whither I go, ye cannot come?'" + +And he said unto them, "Ye are from beneath; I am from above: ye are +of this world; I am not of this world. I said therefore unto you, that +ye shall die in your sins: for except ye believe that I am he, ye +shall die in your sins." + +They said therefore unto him, "Who art thou?" + +Jesus said unto them, "Even that which I have also spoken unto you +from the beginning I have many things to speak and to judge concerning +you; howbeit he that sent me is true; and the things which I heard +from him, these speak I unto the world." + +They perceived not that he spake to them of the Father. + +Jesus therefore said, "When ye have lifted up the Son of man, then +shall ye know that I am he, and that I do nothing of myself, but as +the Father taught me, I speak these things. And he that sent me is +with me; he hath not left me alone; for I do always the things that +are pleasing to him." + +As he spake these things, many believed on him. + + +THE FREEDOM OF THE SOUL. + +Jesus therefore said to those Jews that had believed him, "If ye abide +in my word, then are ye truly my disciples; and ye shall know the +truth, and the truth shall make you free." + +They answered unto him, "We are Abraham's seed, and have never yet +been in bondage to any man; how sayest thou, 'Ye shall be made free'?" + +Jesus answered them, "Verily, verily, I say unto you, Every one that +committeth sin is the bondservant of sin. And the bondservant abideth +not in the house for ever: the son abideth for ever. If therefore the +Son shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed. I know that ye are +Abraham's seed; yet ye seek to kill me, because my word hath not free +course in you. I speak the things which I have seen with my Father: +and ye also do the things which ye heard from your father." + +They answered and said unto him, "Our father is Abraham." + +Jesus saith unto them, "If ye were Abraham's children, ye would do the +works of Abraham. But now ye seek to kill me, a man that hath told you +the truth, which I heard from God: this did not Abraham. Ye do the +works of your father." + +They said unto him, "We were not born of fornication; we have one +Father, even God." + +Jesus said unto them, "If God were your Father, ye would love me: for +I came forth and am come from God; for neither have I come of myself, +but he sent me. Why do ye not understand my speech? Even because ye +cannot hear my word. Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of +your father it is your will to do. He was a murderer from the +beginning, and standeth not in the truth, because there is no truth +in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a +liar, and the father thereof. But because I say the truth, ye believe +me not. Which of you convicteth me of sin? If I say truth, why do ye +not believe me? He that is of God heareth the words of God: for this +cause ye hear them not, because ye are not of God." + +The Jews answered and said unto him, "Say we not well that thou art a +Samaritan, and hast a demon?" + +Jesus answered, "I have not a demon: but I honor my Father, and ye +dishonor me. But I seek not mine own glory: there is one that seeketh +and judgeth. Verily, verily, I say unto you, If a man keep my word, he +shall never see death." + +The Jews said unto him, "Now we know that thou hast a demon. Abraham +died, and the prophets; and thou sayest, 'If a man keep my word, he +shall never taste of death.' Art thou greater than our father Abraham, +who died? and the prophets died: whom makest thou thyself?" + +Jesus answered, "If I glorify myself, my glory is nothing: it is my +Father that glorifieth me; of whom ye say, that he is your God; and ye +have not known him: but I know him; and if I should say, 'I know him +not,' I shall be like unto you, a liar; but I know him, and keep his +word. Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day; and he saw it, and +was glad." + +The Jews therefore said unto him, "Thou art not yet fifty years old, +and hast thou seen Abraham?" + +Jesus said unto them, "Verily, verily, I say unto you. Before Abraham +was born, I am." + +They took up stones therefore to cast at him; but Jesus hid himself, +and went out of the temple. + + + + +THE MINISTRY IN PEREA + + +THE MISSION OF THE SEVENTY. + +And he arose and cometh into the borders of Judæa and beyond the +Jordan; and great multitudes followed him; and he healed them there. + +And the Lord appointed seventy others, and sent them two and two +before his face into every city and place, whither he himself was +about to come. And he said unto them, "The harvest indeed is +plenteous, but the laborers are few; pray ye therefore the Lord of the +harvest, that he send forth laborers into his harvest. Go your ways; +behold, I send you forth as lambs into the midst of wolves. Carry no +purse, no wallet, no shoes; and salute no man on the way. And into +whatsoever house ye shall enter, first say, 'Peace be to this house.' +And if a son of peace be there, your peace shall rest upon him; but if +not, it shall turn to you again. And in that same house remain, eating +and drinking such things as they give: for the laborer is worthy of +his hire. Go not from house to house. And into whatsoever city ye +enter, and they receive you, eat such things as are set before you: +and heal the sick that are therein, and say unto them, 'The kingdom of +God is come nigh unto you.' But into whatsoever city ye shall enter, +and they receive you not, go out into the streets thereof and say, +'Even the dust from your city, that cleaveth to our feet, we wipe off +against you: nevertheless know this, that the kingdom of God is come +nigh.' I say unto you, It shall be more tolerable in that day for +Sodom, than for that city. He that heareth you heareth me; and he +that rejecteth you rejecteth me; and he that rejecteth me rejecteth +him that sent me." + + +THE RETURN OF THE SEVENTY. + +And the seventy returned with joy, saying, "Lord, even the demons are +subject unto us in thy name." + +And he said unto them, "I beheld Satan fallen as lightning from +heaven. Behold, I have given you authority to tread upon serpents and +scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall in +any wise hurt you. Nevertheless in this rejoice not, that the spirits +are subject unto you: but rejoice that your names are written in +heaven." + + +THE MEEK AND LOWLY. + +In that same hour he rejoiced in the Holy Spirit, and said, "I thank +thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that thou didst hide these +things from the wise and understanding, and didst reveal them unto +babes; yea, Father; for so it was well-pleasing in thy sight. All +things have been delivered unto me of my Father: and no one knoweth +who the Son is, save the Father; and who the Father is, save the Son, +and he to whomsoever the Son willeth to reveal him." + +And turning to the disciples, he said privately, "Blessed are the eyes +which see the things that ye see: for I say unto you, that many +prophets and kings desired to see the things which ye see, and saw +them not; and to hear the things which ye hear, and heard them not. + +"Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give +you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and +lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is +easy, and my burden is light." + + +THE UNREPENTANT CITIES. + +Then began he to upbraid the cities wherein most of his mighty works +were done, because they repented not. "Woe unto thee, Chorazin! woe +unto thee, Bethsaida! for if the mighty works had been done in Tyre +and Sidon which were done in you, they would have repented long ago in +sackcloth and ashes. But I say unto you, it shall be more tolerable +for Tyre and Sidon in the day of judgment, than for you. And thou, +Capernaum, shalt thou be exalted unto heaven? thou shalt go down unto +Hades: for if the mighty works had been done in Sodom which were done +in thee, it would have remained until this day. But I say unto you +that it shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom in the day of +judgment, than for thee." + + +THE GOOD SAMARITAN. + +And behold, a certain lawyer stood up and made trial of him, saying, +"Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?" + +And he said unto him, "What is written in the law? how readest thou?" + +And he answering said, "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy +heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all +thy mind; and thy neighbor as thyself." + +And he said unto him, "Thou hast answered right: this do and thou +shalt live." + +But he, desiring to justify himself, said unto Jesus, "And who is my +neighbor?" + +Jesus made answer and said, "A certain man was going down from +Jerusalem to Jericho; and he fell among robbers, who both stripped him +and beat him, and departed, leaving him half dead. And by chance a +certain priest was going down that way: and when he saw him, he passed +by on the other side. And in like manner a Levite also, when he came +to the place, and saw him, passed by on the other side. But a certain +Samaritan, as he journeyed, came where he was: and when he saw him, he +was moved with compassion, and came to him, and bound up his wounds, +pouring on them oil and wine; and he set him on his own beast, and +brought him to an inn, and took care of him. And on the morrow he took +out two shillings, and gave them to the host, and said, 'Take care of +him: and whatsoever thou spendest more, I, when I come back again, +will repay thee.' Which of these three, thinkest thou, proved neighbor +unto him that fell among the robbers?" + +And he said, "He that showed mercy on him." + +And Jesus said unto him, "Go, and do thou likewise." + + + + +IN JERUSALEM--THE ATTEMPT TO ARREST HIM. + + +THE FRIENDS AT BETHANY. + +Now as they went on their way, he entered into a certain village: and +a certain woman named Martha received him into her house. + +And she had a sister called Mary, who also sat at the Lord's feet and +heard his word. + +But Martha was cumbered about much serving; and she came up to him, +and said, "Lord, dost thou not care that my sister did leave me to +serve alone? bid her therefore that she help me." + +But the Lord answered and said unto her, "Martha, Martha, thou art +anxious and troubled about many things: but one thing is needful: for +Mary hath chosen the good part, which shall not be taken away from +her." + + +A MIRACLE IN JERUSALEM. + +And as he passed by, he saw a man blind from his birth. And his +disciples asked him, saying, "Rabbi, who sinned, this man, or his +parents, that he should be born blind?" + +Jesus answered, "Neither did this man sin, nor his parents: but that +the works of God should be made manifest in him. We must work the +works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no +man can work. When I am in the world, I am the light of the world." + +When he had thus spoken he spat on the ground, and made clay of the +spittle, and anointed his eyes with the clay, and said unto him, "Go, +wash in the pool of Siloam" (which is by interpretation, Sent). + +He went away therefore, and washed, and came seeing. + +The neighbors therefore, and they that saw him aforetime, that he was +a beggar, said, "Is not this he that sat and begged?" + +Others said, "It is he:" others said, "No, but he is like him." + +He said, "I am he." + +They said therefore unto him, "How then were thine eyes opened?" + +He answered, "The man that is called Jesus made clay and anointed mine +eyes, and said unto me, 'Go to Siloam, and wash:' so I went away and +washed, and I received sight." + +And they said unto him, "Where is he?" + +He saith, "I know not." + +They bring to the Pharisees him that aforetime was blind. Now it was +the sabbath on the day when Jesus made the clay, and opened his eyes. +Again therefore the Pharisees also asked him how he received his +sight. + +And he said unto them, "He put clay upon mine eyes, and I washed, and +I see." + +Some therefore of the Pharisees said. "This man is not from God, +because he keepeth not the sabbath." + +But others said, "How can a man that is a sinner do such signs?" + +And there was a division among them. + +They say therefore unto the blind man again, "What sayest thou of him, +in that he opened thine eyes?" + +And he said, "He is a prophet." + +The Jews therefore did not believe concerning him, that he had been +blind, and had received his sight, until they called the parents of +him that had received his sight, and asked them, saying, "Is this your +son, who ye say was born blind? how then doth he now see?" + +His parents answered and said, "We know that this is our son, and that +he was born blind: but how he now seeth, we know not; or who opened +his eyes, we know not: ask him; he is of age; he shall speak for +himself." + +These things said his parents, because they feared the Jews; for the +Jews had agreed already, that if any man should confess him to be +Christ, he should be put out of the synagogue. Therefore said his +parents, "He is of age; ask him." + +So they called a second time the man that was blind, and said unto +him, "Give glory to God: we know that this man is a sinner." + +He therefore answered, "Whether he is a sinner, I know not: one thing +I know, that, whereas I was blind, now I see." + +They said therefore unto him, "What did he to thee? how opened he +thine eyes." + +He answered them, "I told you even now, and ye did not hear; wherefore +would ye hear it again? would ye also become his disciples?" + +And they reviled him, and said, "Thou art his disciple; but we are +disciples of Moses. We know that God hath spoken unto Moses: but as +for this man, we know not whence he is." + +The man answered and said unto them. "Why, herein is the marvel, that +ye know not whence he is, and yet he opened mine eyes. We know that +God heareth not sinners: but if any man be a worshipper of God, and do +his will, him he heareth. Since the world began it was never heard +that any one opened the eyes of a man born blind. If this man were not +from God, he could do nothing." + +They answered and said unto him, "Thou wast altogether born in sins, +and dost thou teach us?" And they cast him out. + +Jesus heard that they had cast him out: and finding him, he said, +"Dost thou believe on the Son of God?" + +He answered and said, "And who is he, Lord, that I may believe on +him?" + +Jesus said unto him, "Thou hast both seen him, and he it is that +speaketh with thee." + +And he said, "Lord, I believe." + +And he worshipped him. + +And Jesus said, "For judgment came I into this world, that they that +see not may see; and that they that see may become blind." + +Those of the Pharisees who were with him heard these things, and said +unto him, "Are we also blind?" + +Jesus said unto them, "If ye were blind, ye would have no sin: but now +ye say, 'We see:' your sin remaineth." + + +THE GOOD SHEPHERD. + +"Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that entereth not by the door into +the fold of the sheep, but climbeth up some other way, the same is a +thief and a robber. But he that entereth in by the door is the +shepherd of the sheep. To him the porter openeth; and the sheep hear +his voice: and he calleth his own sheep by name, and leadeth them out. +When he hath put forth all his own, he goeth before them, and the +sheep follow him: for they know his voice. And a stranger will they +not follow, but will flee from him: for they know not the voice of +strangers." + +This parable spake Jesus unto them: but they understood not what +things they were which he spake unto them. + +Jesus therefore said unto them again, "Verily, verily, I say unto +you, I am the door of the sheep. All that came before me are thieves +and robbers: but the sheep did not hear them. I am the door; by me if +any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and go out, and +shall find pasture. The thief cometh not, but that he may steal, and +kill, and destroy: I came that they may have life, and may have it +abundantly. I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd layeth down his +life for the sheep. He that is a hireling, and not a shepherd, whose +own the sheep are not, beholdeth the wolf coming, and leaveth the +sheep, and fleeth, and the wolf snatcheth them, and scattereth them; +he fleeth because he is a hireling, and careth not for the sheep. I am +the good shepherd; and I know mine own, and mine own know me, even as +the Father knoweth me, and I know the Father; and I lay down my life +for the sheep. And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: +them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice: and they shall +become one flock, one shepherd. Therefore doth the Father love me, +because I lay down my life, that I may take it again. No one taketh it +away from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it +down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment received I +from my Father." + +There arose a division again among the Jews because of these words. +And many of them said, "He hath a demon, and is mad; why hear ye him?" + +Others said, "These are not the sayings of one possessed with a demon. +Can a demon open the eyes of the blind?" + + +JESUS AT THE FEAST OF DEDICATION. + +And it was the feast of the dedication at Jerusalem; it was winter; +and Jesus was walking in the temple, in Solomon's porch. The Jews +therefore came round about him, and said unto him, "How long dost thou +hold us in suspense? If thou art the Christ, tell us plainly." + +Jesus answered them, "I told you, and ye believe not; the works that I +do in my Father's name, these bear witness of me. But ye believe not, +because ye are not of my sheep. My sheep hear my voice, and I know +them, and they follow me: and I give unto them eternal life; and they +shall never perish, and no one shall snatch them out of my hand. My +Father, who hath given them unto me, is greater than all; and no one +is able to snatch them out of the Father's hand. I and the Father are +one." + +The Jews took up stones again to stone him. + +Jesus answered them, "Many good works have I showed you from the +Father; for which of those works do ye stone me?" + +The Jews answered him, "For a good work we stone thee not, but for +blasphemy; and because that thou, being a man, makest thyself God." + +Jesus answered them, "Is it not written in your law, 'I said, Ye are +gods?' If he called them gods, unto whom the word of God came (and the +scripture cannot be broken), say ye of him, whom the Father sanctified +and sent into the world, 'Thou blasphemest;' because I said, 'I am the +Son of God?' If I do not the works of my Father, believe me not. But +if I do them, though ye believe not me, believe the works: that ye may +know and understand that the Father is in me, and I in the Father." + +They sought again to take him: and he went forth out of their hand. + + + + +RENEWED MINISTRY IN PEREA + + +JESUS AND THE PHARISEES. + +And he went away again beyond the Jordan into the place where John was +at the first baptizing; and there he abode. And many came unto him; +and they said, "John indeed did no sign: but all things whatsoever +John spake of this man were true." And many believed on him there. + +Now a Pharisee asketh him to dine with him: and he went in, and sat +down to meat. And when the Pharisee saw it, he marvelled that he had +not first bathed himself before dinner. + +And the Lord said unto him, "Now ye the Pharisees cleanse the outside +of the cup and of the platter; but your inward part is full of +extortion and wickedness. Ye foolish ones, did not he that made the +outside make the inside also? But give for alms those things which are +within; and behold, all things are clean unto you." + +And when he was come out from thence, the scribes and the Pharisees +began to press upon him vehemently, and to provoke him to speak of +many things; laying wait for him, to catch something out of his mouth. + +In the meantime, when the many thousands of the multitude were +gathered together, insomuch that they trod one upon another, he began +to say unto his disciples first of all, "Beware ye of the leaven of +the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy. But there is nothing covered up, +that shall not be revealed; and hid, that shall not be known." + + +WARNING AGAINST COVETOUSNESS. + +And one out of the multitude said unto him, "Teacher, bid my brother +divide the inheritance with me." + +But he said unto him, "Man, who made me a judge or a divider over +you?" + +And he said unto them, "Take heed and keep yourselves from all +covetousness: for a man's life consisteth not in the abundance of the +things which he possesseth." + +And he spake a parable unto them, saying, "The ground of a certain +rich man brought forth plentifully; and he reasoned within himself, +saying, 'What shall I do, because I have not where to bestow my +fruits?' And he said, 'This will I do: I will pull down my barns, and +build greater; and there will I bestow all my grain and my goods. And +I will say to my soul, "Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many +years; take thine ease, eat, drink, be merry."' But God said unto him, +'Thou foolish one, this night is thy soul required of thee: and the +things which thou hast prepared, whose shall they be?' So is he that +layeth up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God." + + +THE FALL OF THE TOWER. + +Now there were some present at that very season who told him of the +Galilæans, whose blood Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices. And +he answered and said unto them, "Think ye that these Galilæans were +sinners above all the Galilæans, because they have suffered these +things? I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all in like +manner perish. Or those eighteen, upon whom the tower in Siloam fell, +and killed them, think ye that they were offenders above all the men +that dwell in Jerusalem? I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye +shall all likewise perish." + +And he spake this parable: "A certain man had a fig tree planted in +his vineyard; and he came seeking fruit thereon, and found none. And +he said unto the vinedresser, 'Behold, these three years I come +seeking fruit on this fig tree, and find none: cut it down; why doth +it also cumber the ground.' And he answering saith unto him, 'Lord, +let it alone this year also, till I shall dig about it, and dung it: +and if it bear fruit thenceforth, well; but if not, thou shalt cut it +down.'" + + +THE USES OF THE SABBATH. + +And he was teaching in one of the synagogues on the sabbath day. And +behold, a woman that had a spirit of infirmity eighteen years; and she +was bowed together, and could in no wise lift herself up. And when +Jesus saw her, he called her, and said to her, "Woman, thou art loosed +from thine infirmity." + +And he laid his hands upon her: and immediately she was made straight, +and glorified God. + +And the ruler of the synagogue, being moved with indignation because +Jesus had healed on the sabbath, answered and said to the multitude, +"There are six days in which men ought to work: in them therefore come +and be healed, and not on the day of the sabbath." + +But the Lord answered him and said, "Ye hypocrites, doth not each one +of you on the sabbath loose his ox or his ass from the stall, and lead +him away to watering? And ought not this woman, being a daughter of +Abraham, whom Satan had bound, lo, these eighteen years, to have been +loosed from this bond on the day of the sabbath?" + +And as he said these things, all his adversaries were put to shame: +and all the multitude rejoiced for all the glorious things that were +done by him. + + +A QUESTION OF SALVATION. + +And he went on his way through cities and villages, teaching, and +journeying on unto Jerusalem. And one said unto him, "Lord, are they +few that are saved?" + +And he said unto them, "Strive to enter in by the narrow door: for +many, I say unto you, shall seek to enter in, and shall not be able. +When once the master of the house is risen up, and hath shut to the +door, and ye begin to stand without and to knock at the door, saying, +'Lord, open to us,' and he shall answer and say to you, 'I know you +not whence ye are'; then shall ye begin to say, 'We did eat and drink +in thy presence, and thou didst teach in our streets'; and he shall +say, 'I tell you, I know not whence ye are; depart from me, all ye +workers of iniquity.' There shall be the weeping and the gnashing of +teeth, when ye shall see Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, and all the +prophets, in the kingdom of God, and yourselves cast forth without. +And they shall come from the east and west, and from the north and +south, and shall sit down in the kingdom of God. And behold, there are +last who shall be first, and there are first who shall be last." + + +A MESSAGE TO HEROD. + +In that very hour there came certain Pharisees, saying to him, "Get +thee out, and go hence: for Herod would fain kill thee." + +And he said unto them, "Go and say to that fox, 'Behold, I cast out +demons and perform cures to-day and to-morrow, and the third day I am +perfected.' Nevertheless I must go on my way to-day and to-morrow and +the day following: for it cannot be that a prophet perish out of +Jerusalem." + + +THE OX IN THE PIT. + +And it came to pass, when he went into the house of one of the rulers +of the Pharisees on a sabbath to eat bread, that they were watching +him. And behold, there was before him a certain man that had the +dropsy. And Jesus answering spake unto the lawyers and Pharisees, +saying, "Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath, or not?" + +But they held their peace. And he took him, and healed him, and let +him go. + +And he said unto them, "Which of you shall have an ass or an ox fallen +into a well, and will not straightway draw him up on a sabbath day?" +And they could not answer again unto these things. + + +THE CHIEF PLACES AT THE FEAST. + +And he spake a parable unto those that were bidden, when he marked how +they chose out the chief seats; saying unto them, "When thou art +bidden of any man to a marriage feast, sit not down in the chief seat; +lest haply a more honorable man than thou be bidden of him, and he +that bade thee and him shall come and say to thee, 'Give this man +place'; and then thou shalt begin with shame to take the lowest place. +But when thou art bidden, go and sit down in the lowest place; that +when he that hath bidden thee cometh, he may say to thee, 'Friend, go +up higher'; then shalt thou have glory in the presence of all that sit +at meat with thee. For every one that exalteth himself shall be +humbled: and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted." + +And he said to him also that had bidden him, "When thou makest a +dinner or a supper, call not thy friends, nor thy brethren, nor thy +kinsmen, nor rich neighbors; lest haply they also bid thee again, and +a recompense be made thee. But when thou makest a feast, bid the poor, +the maimed, the lame, the blind: and thou shalt be blessed; because +they have not wherewith to recompense thee: for thou shalt be +recompensed in the resurrection of the just. + + +THE SLIGHTED INVITATION. + +And when one of them that sat at meat with him heard these things, he +said unto him, "Blessed is he that shall eat bread in the kingdom of +God." + +But he said unto him, "A certain man made a great supper; and he bade +many: and he sent forth his servant at supper time to say to them that +were bidden, 'Come; for all things are now ready.' And they all with +one consent began to make excuse. The first said unto him, 'I have +bought a field, and I must needs go out and see it; I pray thee have +me excused.' And another said, 'I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I +go to prove them; I pray thee have me excused.' And another said, 'I +have married a wife, and therefore I cannot come.' And the servant +came, and told his lord these things. Then the master of the house, +being angry, said to his servant, 'Go out quickly into the streets and +lanes of the city, and bring in hither the poor and maimed and blind +and lame.' And the servant said, 'Lord, what thou didst command is +done, and yet there is room.' And the lord said unto the servant, 'Go +out into the highways and hedges, and constrain them to come in, that +my house may be filled. For I say unto you, that none of those men +that were bidden shall taste of my supper.'" + + +COUNTING THE COST. + +Now there went with him great multitudes: and he turned, and said unto +them, "If any man cometh unto me, and hateth not his own father, and +mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and +his own life also, he cannot be my disciple. Whosoever doth not bear +his own cross, and come after me, cannot be my disciple. For which of +you, desiring to build a tower, doth not first sit down and count the +cost, whether he have wherewith to complete it? Lest haply, when he +hath laid a foundation, and is not able to finish, all that behold +begin to mock him, saying, 'This man began to build, and was not able +to finish.' Or what king, as he goeth to encounter another king in +war, will not sit down first and take counsel whether he is able with +ten thousand to meet him that cometh against him with twenty thousand? +Or else, while the other is yet a great way off, he sendeth an +ambassage, and asketh conditions of peace. So therefore whosoever he +be of you that renounceth not all that he hath, he cannot be my +disciple. Salt therefore is good: but if even the salt have lost its +savor, wherewith shall it be seasoned? It is fit neither for the land +nor for the dunghill: men cast it out. He that hath ears to hear, let +him hear." + + +THE NINETY AND NINE. + +Now all the publicans and sinners were drawing near unto him to hear +him. And both the Pharisees and the scribes murmured, saying, "This +man receiveth sinners, and eateth with them." + +And he spake unto them this parable, saying, "What man of you, having +a hundred sheep, and having lost one of them, doth not leave the +ninety and nine in the wilderness, and go after that which is lost, +until he find it? And when he hath found it, he layeth it on his +shoulders, rejoicing. And when he cometh home, he calleth together his +friends and his neighbors, saying unto them, 'Rejoice with me, for I +have found my sheep which was lost.' I say unto you, that even so +there shall be joy in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, more than +over ninety and nine righteous persons, who need no repentance. + + +THE LOST COIN. + +"Or what woman having ten pieces of silver, if she lose one piece, +doth not light a lamp, and sweep the house, and seek diligently until +she find it? And when she hath found it, she calleth together her +friends and neighbors, saying, 'Rejoice with me, for I have found the +piece which I had lost.' Even so, I say unto you, there is joy in the +presence of the angels of God over one sinner that repenteth." + + +THE PRODIGAL SON. + +And he said, "A certain man had two sons: and the younger of them said +to his father, 'Father, give me the portion of thy substance that +falleth to me.' And he divided unto them his living. And not many days +after, the younger son gathered all together and took his journey into +a far country; and there he wasted his substance with riotous living. +And when he had spent all, there arose a mighty famine in that +country; and he began to be in want. And he went and joined himself to +one of the citizens of that country; and he sent him into his fields +to feed swine. And he would fain have filled his belly with the husks +that the swine did eat: and no man gave unto him. But when he came to +himself he said, 'How many hired servants of my father's have bread +enough and to spare, and I perish here with hunger! I will arise and +go to my father, and will say unto him, Father, I have sinned against +heaven, and in thy sight: I am no more worthy to be called thy son: +make me as one of thy hired servants.' And he arose, and came to his +father. But while he was yet afar off, his father saw him, and was +moved with compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him. +And the son said unto him, 'Father, I have sinned against heaven, and +in thy sight: I am no more worthy to be called thy son.' But the +father said to his servants, 'Bring forth quickly the best robe, and +put it on him; and put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his feet: and +bring the fatted calf, and kill it, and let us eat, and make merry: +for this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is +found.' And they began to be merry. Now his elder son was in the +field: and as he came and drew nigh to the house, he heard music and +dancing. And he called to him one of the servants, and inquired what +these things might be. And he said unto him, 'Thy brother is come; and +thy father hath killed the fatted calf, because he hath received him +safe and sound.' But he was angry, and would not go in: and his father +came out, and entreated him. But he answered and said to his father, +'Lo, these many years do I serve thee, and I never transgressed a +commandment of thine; and yet thou never gavest me a kid, that I might +make merry with my friends; but when this thy son came, who hath +devoured thy living with harlots, thou killedst for him the fatted +calf.' And he said unto him, 'Son, thou art ever with me, and all that +is mine is thine. But it was meet to make merry and be glad: for this +thy brother was dead, and is alive again; and was lost, and is +found.'" + + +THE UNJUST STEWARD. + +And he said also unto the disciples, "There was a certain rich man, +who had a steward; and the same was accused unto him that he was +wasting his goods. And he called him, and said unto him, 'What is this +that I hear of thee? render the account of thy stewardship; for thou +canst be no longer steward' And the steward said within himself, 'What +shall I do, seeing that my lord taketh away the stewardship from me? I +have not strength to dig; to beg I am ashamed. I am resolved what to +do, that, when I am put out of the stewardship, they may receive me +into their houses.' And calling to him each one of his lord's debtors, +he said to the first, 'How much owest thou unto my lord?' And he said, +'A hundred measures of oil.' And he said unto him, 'Take thy bond, and +sit down quickly and write fifty.' Then said he to another, 'And how +much owest thou?' And he said, 'A hundred measures of wheat.' He saith +unto him, 'Take thy bond, and write fourscore.' And his lord commended +the unrighteous steward because he had done wisely: for the sons of +this world are for their own generation wiser than the sons of the +light. And I say unto you, Make to yourselves friends by means of the +mammon of unrighteousness; that, when it shall fail, they may receive +you into the eternal tabernacles. He that is faithful in a very little +is faithful also in much: and he that is unrighteous in a very little +is unrighteous also in much. If therefore ye have not been faithful in +the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches? +And if ye have not been faithful in that which is another's, who will +give you that which is your own? No servant can serve two masters: for +either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold +to one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon." + + +A PARABLE TO THE LOVERS OF MONEY. + +And the Pharisees, who were lovers of money, heard all these things; +and they scoffed at him. + +And he said unto them, "Ye are they that justify yourselves in the +sight of men; but God knoweth your hearts: for that which is exalted +among men is an abomination in the sight of God. + +"Now there was a certain rich man, and he was clothed in purple and +fine linen, faring sumptuously every day: and a certain beggar named +Lazarus was laid at his gate, full of sores, and desiring to be fed +with the crumbs that fell from the rich man's table; yea, even the +dogs came and licked his sores. And it came to pass, that the beggar +died, and that he was carried away by the angels into Abraham's bosom: +and the rich man also died, and was buried. And in Hades he lifted up +his eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus +in his bosom. And he cried and said, 'Father Abraham, have mercy on +me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, +and cool my tongue; for I am in anguish in this flame.' But Abraham +said, 'Son, remember that thou in thy lifetime receivedst thy good +things, and Lazarus in like manner evil things; but now he is +comforted, and thou art in anguish. And besides all this, between us +and you there is a great gulf fixed, that they that would pass from +hence to you may not be able, and that none may cross over from thence +to us.' And he said, 'I pray thee therefore, father, that thou +wouldest send him to my father's house; for I have five brethren; that +he may testify unto them, lest they also come into this place of +torment.' But Abraham saith, 'They have Moses and the prophets; let +them hear them.' And he said, 'Nay, father Abraham: but if one go to +them from the dead, they will repent.' And he said unto him, 'If they +hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded, if +one rise from the dead.'" + + +"INCREASE OUR FAITH." + +And the apostles said unto the Lord, "Increase our faith." + +And the Lord said. "If ye had faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye +would say unto this sycamine tree, 'Be thou rooted up, and be thou +planted in the sea'; and it would obey you. But who is there of you, +having a servant plowing or keeping sheep, that will say unto him, +when he is come in from the field. 'Come straightway and sit down to +meat'; and will not rather say unto him, 'Make ready wherewith I may +sup, and gird thyself, and serve me, till I have eaten and drunken; +and afterward thou shalt eat and drink?' Doth he thank the servant +because he did the things that were commanded? Even so ye also, when +ye shall have done all the things that are commanded you, say, 'We are +unprofitable servants; we have done that which it was our duty to +do.'" + + + + +NEAR JERUSALEM--THE PLOT TO KILL HIM. + + +THE RAISING OF LAZARUS. + +Now a certain man was sick, Lazarus of Bethany, of the village of Mary +and her sister Martha. And it was that Mary who anointed the Lord with +ointment, and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was +sick. + +The sisters therefore sent unto him, saying, "Lord, behold, he whom +thou lovest is sick." + +But when Jesus heard it, he said, "This sickness is not unto death, +but for the glory of God, that the son of God may be glorified +thereby." + +Now Jesus loved Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus. When therefore he +heard that he was sick, he abode at that time two days in the place +where he was. + +Then after this he saith to the disciples, "Let us go into Judæa +again." + +The disciples say unto him, "Rabbi, the Jews were but now seeking to +stone thee: and goest thou thither again?" + +Jesus answered, "Are there not twelve hours in the day? If a man walk +in the day, he stumbleth not, because he seeth the light of this +world. But if a man walk in the night, he stumbleth, because the light +is not in him." + +These things spake he: and after this he saith unto them. "Our friend +Lazarus is fallen asleep; but I go, that I may awake him out of +sleep." + +The disciples therefore said unto him, "Lord, if he is fallen asleep, +he will recover." + +Now Jesus had spoken of his death: but they thought that he spake of +taking rest in sleep. + +Then Jesus therefore said unto them plainly, "Lazarus is dead. And I +am glad for your sakes that I was not there, to the intent ye may +believe; nevertheless let us go unto him." + +Thomas therefore, who is called Didymus, said unto his +fellow-disciples, "Let us also go, that we may die with him." + +So when Jesus came, he found that he had been in the tomb four days +already. + +Now Bethany was nigh unto Jerusalem, about fifteen furlongs off; and +many of the Jews had come to Martha and Mary, to console them +concerning their brother. + +Martha therefore, when she heard that Jesus was coming, went and met +him: but Mary still sat in the house. Martha therefore said unto +Jesus, "Lord, if thou hadst been here, my brother had not died. And +even now I know that, whatsoever thou shalt ask of God, God will give +thee." + +Jesus saith unto her, "Thy brother shall rise again." + +Martha saith unto him, "I know that he shall rise again in the +resurrection at the last day." + +Jesus said unto her, "I am the resurrection, and the life: he that +believeth on me, though he die, yet shall he live; and whosoever +liveth and believeth on me shall never die. Believest thou this?" + +She saith unto him, "Yea, Lord. I have believed that thou art the +Christ, the Son of God, even he that cometh into the world." + +And when she had said this, she went away, and called Mary her sister +secretly, saying, "The Teacher is here, and calleth thee." + +And she, when she heard it, arose quickly, and went unto him. (Now +Jesus was not yet come into the village, but was still in the place +where Martha met him.) The Jews then who were with her in the house, +and were consoling her, when they saw Mary, that she rose up quickly +and went out, followed her, supposing that she was going unto the tomb +to weep there. + +Mary therefore, when she came where Jesus was, and saw him, fell down +at his feet, saying unto him. "Lord, if thou hadst been here, my +brother had not died." + +When Jesus therefore saw her weeping, and the Jews also weeping who +came with her, he groaned in the spirit, and was troubled, and said, +"Where have ye laid him?" + +They say unto him, "Lord, come and see." + +Jesus wept. + +The Jews therefore said, "Behold how he loved him!" But some of them +said, "Could not this man, who has opened the eyes of him that was +blind, have caused that this man also should not die?" + +Jesus therefore again groaning in himself cometh to the tomb. Now it +was a cave, and a stone lay against it. Jesus saith, "Take ye away the +stone." + +Martha, the sister of him that was dead, saith unto him, "Lord, by +this time the body decayeth; for he hath been dead four days." + +Jesus saith unto her, "Said I not unto thee, that, if thou believedst, +thou shouldest see the glory of God?" + +So they took away the stone. And Jesus lifted up his eyes, and said, +"Father, I thank thee that thou heardest me. And I knew that thou +hearest me always: but because of the multitude that standeth around I +said it, that they may believe that thou didst send me." + +And when he had thus spoken, he cried with a loud voice, "Lazarus, +come forth." + +He that was dead came forth, bound hand and foot with grave-clothes; +and his face was bound about with a napkin. Jesus saith unto them, +"Loose him, and let him go." + +Many therefore of the Jews, who came to Mary and beheld that which he +did, believed on him. But some of them went away to the Pharisees, and +told them the things which Jesus had done. + + +THE DECISION OF THE COUNCIL. + +The chief priests therefore and the Pharisees gathered a council, and +said, "What do we? for this man doeth many signs. If we let him thus +alone, all men will believe on him: and the Romans will come and take +away both our place and our nation." + +But a certain one of them, Caiaphas, being high priest that year, said +unto them, "Ye know nothing at all, nor do ye take account that it is +expedient for you that one man should die for the people, and that the +whole nation perish not." + +Now this he said not of himself: but being high priest that year, he +prophesied that Jesus should die for the nation; and not for the +nation only, but that he might also gather together into one the +children of God that are scattered abroad. + +So from that day forth they took counsel that they might put him to +death. + + + + +HIS WITHDRAWAL TO EPHRAIM + + +THE COMING OF THE KINGDOM. + +Jesus therefore walked no more openly among the Jews, but departed +thence into the country near to the wilderness, into a city called +Ephraim; and there he tarried with the disciples. + +And being asked by the Pharisees, when the kingdom of God cometh, he +answered them and said, "The kingdom of God cometh not with +observation: neither shall they say, 'Lo, here!' or, 'There!' for lo, +the kingdom of God is within you." + +And he said unto the disciples, "The days will come, when ye shall +desire to see one of the days of the Son of man, and ye shall not see +it. And they shall say to you, 'Lo, there!' 'Lo, here!' go not away, +nor follow after them; for as the lightning, when it lighteneth out of +the one part under the heaven, shineth unto the other part under +heaven; so shall the Son of man be in his day. But first must he +suffer many things and be rejected of this generation. + +"And as it came to pass in the days of Noah, even so shall it be also +in the days of the Son of man. They ate, they drank, they married, +they were given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the +ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all. Likewise even as it +came to pass in the days of Lot; they ate, they drank, they bought, +they sold, they planted, they builded; but in the day that Lot went +out from Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed +them all: after the same manner shall it be in the day that the Son of +man is revealed. In that day, he that shall be on the housetop, and +his goods in the house, let him not go down to take them away; and let +him that is in the field likewise not return back. Remember Lot's +wife. Whosoever shall seek to gain his life shall lose it; but +whosoever shall lose his life shall preserve it." + + +THE UNJUST JUDGE. + +And he spake a parable unto them to the end that they ought always to +pray, and not to faint; saying, "There was in a city a judge, who +feared not God, and regarded not man: and there was a widow in that +city: and she came oft unto him, saying, 'Avenge me of mine +adversary.' And he would not for a while: but afterward he said within +himself, 'Though I fear not God, nor regard man; yet because this +widow troubleth me, I will avenge her, lest she wear me out by her +continual coming.'" And the Lord said, "Hear what the unrighteous +judge saith. And shall not God avenge his elect, that cry to him day +and night, and yet he is longsuffering over them? I say unto you, that +he will avenge them speedily. Nevertheless, when the Son of man +cometh, shall he find faith on the earth?" + + +THE PHARISEE AND THE PUBLICAN. + +And he spake also this parable unto certain who trusted in themselves +that they were righteous, and set all others at nought: "Two men went +up into the temple to pray; the one a Pharisee, and the other a +publican. The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, 'God, I +thank thee, that I am not as the rest of men, extortioners, unjust, +adulterers, or even as this publican. I fast twice in the week; I give +tithes of all that I get.' But the publican, standing afar off, would +not lift up so much as his eyes unto heaven, but smote his breast, +saying, 'God, be thou merciful to me a sinner.' I say unto you, This +man went down to his house justified rather than the other: for every +one that exalteth himself shall be humbled; but he that humbleth +himself shall be exalted." + + +CONCERNING DIVORCE. + +And there came unto him Pharisees, trying him, and saying, "Is it +lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause?" + +And he answered and said, "Have ye not read, that he who made them +from the beginning made them, male and female, and said, 'For this +cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave to his +wife; and the two shall become one flesh?' So that they are no more +two, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not +man put asunder." + +They say unto him, "Why then did Moses command to give a bill of +divorcement, and to put her away?" + +He saith unto them, "Moses for your hardness of heart suffered you to +put away your wives: but from the beginning it hath not been so. And I +say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except for +fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and he that +marrieth her when she is put away committeth adultery." + +The disciples say unto him, "If the case of the man is so with his +wife, it is not expedient to marry." + +But he said unto them, "Not all men can receive this saying, but they +to whom it is given. For there are eunuchs, that were so born from +their mother's womb: and there are eunuchs, that were made eunuchs by +men: and there are eunuchs, that made themselves eunuchs for the +kingdom of heaven's sake. He that is able to receive it, let him +receive it." + + +JESUS AND THE CHILDREN. + +And they were bringing unto him little children, that he should touch +them: and the disciples rebuked them. But when Jesus saw it, he was +moved with indignation, and said unto them, "Suffer the little +children to come unto me; forbid them not: for to such belongeth the +kingdom of God. Verily I say unto you, Whosoever shall not receive the +kingdom of God as a little child, he shall in no wise enter therein." + +And he took them in his arms, and blessed them, laying his hands upon +them. + + +THE RICH YOUNG RULER. + +And behold, as he was going forth into the way, a certain ruler ran to +him, and kneeled to him, and asked him, "Good Teacher, what good thing +shall I do that I may have eternal life?" + +And he said unto him, "Why askest thou me concerning that which is +good? None is good, save one, even God: but if thou wouldest enter +into life, keep the commandments." + +He saith unto him, "Which?" + +And Jesus said, "Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not commit adultery, +Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Honor thy +father and thy mother; and, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself." + +The young ruler saith unto him, "All these things have I observed from +my youth up; what lack I yet?" + +And Jesus, looking upon him, loved him, and said unto him, "One thing +thou lackest yet: if thou wouldest be perfect, go, sell that which +thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in +heaven: and come, follow me." + +But when the young man heard the saying, his countenance fell, and he +went away sorrowful; for he was one that had great possessions. + +And Jesus said unto his disciples, "Verily I say unto you, It is hard +for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of heaven." And the disciples +were amazed at his words. But Jesus answered again and said unto them, +"Children, how hard it is for them that trust in riches to enter into +the kingdom of God! It is easier for a camel to go through a needle's +eye, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God." + +And when the disciples heard it, they were astonished exceedingly, +saying, "Who then can be saved?" + +And Jesus looking upon them said to them, "With men this is +impossible: but with God all things are possible." + +Then answered Peter and said unto him, "Lo, we have left all, and +followed thee; what then shall we have?" + +And Jesus said unto them, "Verily I say unto you, that ye who have +followed me, in the regeneration when the Son of man shall sit on the +throne of his glory, ye also shall sit upon twelve thrones, judging +the twelve tribes of Israel. And every one that hath left houses, or +brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or children, or lands, for +my name's sake, shall receive a hundredfold now in this time, houses, +and brethren, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and lands, with +persecutions, and in the world to come shall inherit eternal life. But +many shall be last that are first; and first that are last. + + +THE PARABLE OF THE VINEYARD. + +"For the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that was a householder, +who went out early in the morning to hire laborers into his vineyard. +And when he had agreed with the laborers for a shilling a day, he +sent them into his vineyard. And he went out about the third hour, and +saw others standing in the market-place idle; and to them he said, 'Go +ye also into the vineyard, and whatsoever is right I will give you.' +And they went their way. Again he went out about the sixth and the +ninth hour, and did likewise. And about the eleventh hour he went out, +and found others standing; and he saith unto them, 'Why stand ye here +all the day idle?' They say unto him, 'Because no man hath hired us.' +He saith unto them, 'Go ye also into the vineyard.' And when even was +come, the lord of the vineyard saith unto his steward, 'Call the +laborers and pay them their hire, beginning from the last unto the +first.' And when they came that were hired about the eleventh hour, +they received every man a shilling. And when the first came, they +supposed that they would receive more; and they likewise received +every man a shilling. And when they received it, they murmured against +the householder, saying, 'These last have spent but one hour, and thou +hast made them equal unto us, who have borne the burden of the day and +the scorching heat.' But he answered and said to one of them, 'Friend, +I do thee no wrong: didst not thou agree with me for a shilling? Take +up that which is thine, and go thy way; it is my will to give unto +this last, even as unto thee. Is it not lawful for me to do what I +will with mine own? or is thine eye evil, because I am good?' So the +last shall be first, and the first last." + + + + +THE LAST JOURNEY TO JERUSALEM + + +THE SHADOW OF THE CROSS. + +And they were on the way, going up to Jerusalem; and Jesus was going +before them: and they were amazed; and they that followed were afraid. +And he took again the twelve, and began to tell them the things that +were to happen unto him, saying, "Behold, we go up to Jerusalem; and +all the things that are written by the prophets shall be accomplished +unto the Son of man; and he shall be delivered unto the chief priests +and the scribes; and they shall condemn him to death, and shall +deliver him unto the Gentiles: and they shall mock him, and shall spit +upon him, and shall scourge him, and shall kill him; and after three +days he shall rise again." + +And they understood none of these things: and this saying was hid from +them: and they perceived not the things that were said. + + +THE SONS OF THUNDER. + +Then came to him the mother of the sons of Zebedee with her sons James +and John, worshipping him, and asking a certain thing of him. + +And he said unto her, "What wouldest thou?" + +She saith unto him, "Command that these my two sons may sit, one on +thy right hand, and one on thy left hand, in thy kingdom." + +But Jesus answered and said, "Ye know not what ye ask. Are ye able to +drink the cup that I am about to drink? or to be baptized with the +baptism that I am baptized with?" + +And they said unto him, "We are able." + +And Jesus said unto them, "The cup that I drink ye shall drink; and +with the baptism that I am baptized withal shall ye be baptized: but +to sit on my right hand or on my left hand is not mine to give; but it +is for them for whom it hath been prepared of my Father." + +And when the ten heard it, they began to be moved with indignation +concerning James and John. + +And Jesus called them to him, and saith unto them, "Ye know that they +who are accounted to rule over the Gentiles lord it over them; and +their great ones exercise authority over them. But it is not so among +you: but whosoever would become great among you, shall be your +minister; and whosoever would be first among you, shall be servant of +all. Even as the Son of man also came not to be ministered unto, but +to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many." + + +THE BLIND MAN OF JERICHO. + +And they come to Jericho: and as they went out from Jericho, with his +disciples and a great multitude, the son of Timæus, Bartimæus, a blind +beggar, was sitting by the wayside, begging. And hearing the multitude +going by, he inquired what this meant, and they told him that Jesus of +Nazareth passeth by. And when he heard that it was Jesus the Nazarene, +he began to cry out and say, "Jesus, thou son of David, have mercy on +me." + +And Jesus stood still, and said, "Call ye him." + +And they call the blind man, saying unto him, "Be of good cheer: rise, +he calleth thee." And he, casting away his garment, sprang up, and +came to Jesus. + +And Jesus answered him, and said, "What wilt thou that I should do +unto thee?" + +And the blind man said unto him, "Rabboni, that I may receive my +sight." + +And Jesus said unto him, "Go thy way; thy faith hath made thee +whole." + +And straightway he received his sight, and followed him in the way, +glorifying God. And all the people, when they saw it, gave praise unto +God. + + +THE VISIT TO ZACCHÆUS. + +And he entered and was passing through Jericho. And behold, a man +called by name Zacchæus; and he was a chief publican, and he was rich. +And he sought to see Jesus who he was; and could not for the crowd, +because he was little of stature. And he ran on before, and climbed up +into a sycamore tree to see him: for he was to pass that way. + +And when Jesus came to the place, he looked up, and said unto him, +"Zacchæus, make haste, and come down; for to-day I must abide at thy +house." + +And he made haste, and came down, and received him joyfully. + +And when they saw it, they all murmured, saying, "He is gone in to +lodge with a man that is a sinner." + +And Zacchæus stood, and said unto the Lord, "Behold, Lord, the half of +my goods I give to the poor; and if I have wrongfully exacted aught of +any man, I restore fourfold." + +And Jesus said unto him, "To-day is salvation come to this house, +forasmuch as he also is a son of Abraham. For the Son of man came to +seek and to save that which was lost." + + +THE PARABLE OF THE POUNDS. + +And as they heard these things, he added and spake a parable, because +he was nigh to Jerusalem, and because they supposed that the kingdom +of God was immediately to appear. He said therefore, "A certain +nobleman went into a far country, to receive for himself a kingdom, +and to return. And he called ten servants of his, and gave them ten +pounds, and said unto them, 'Trade ye herewith till I come.' But his +citizens hated him, and sent an ambassage after him, saying, 'We will +not that this man reign over us.' + +"And it came to pass, when he was come back again, having received the +kingdom, that he commanded these servants, unto whom he had given the +money, to be called to him, that he might know what they had gained by +trading. And the first came before him, saying, 'Lord, thy pound hath +made ten pounds more.' And he said unto him, 'Well done, thou good +servant: because thou wast found faithful in a very little, have thou +authority over ten cities.' And the second came, saying, 'Thy pound, +Lord, hath made five pounds.' And he said unto him also, 'Be thou also +over five cities.' And another came, saying, 'Lord, behold, here is +thy pound, which I kept laid up in a napkin: for I feared thee, +because thou art an austere man: thou takest up that which thou +layedst not down, and reapest that which thou didst not sow.' He saith +unto him, 'Out of thine own mouth will I judge thee, thou wicked +servant. Thou knewest that I am an austere man, taking up that which I +laid not down, and reaping that which I did not sow; then wherefore +gavest thou not my money into the bank, and I at my coming should have +required it with interest?' And he said unto them that stood by, 'Take +away from him the pound, and give it unto him that hath the ten +pounds.' And they said unto him, 'Lord, he hath ten pounds.' 'I say +unto you, that unto every one that hath shall be given; but from him +that hath not, even that which he hath shall be taken away from him. +But these mine enemies, that would not that I should reign over them, +bring hither, and slay them before me.'" + +And when he had thus spoken, he went on before, going up to Jerusalem. + + +GOING UP TO JERUSALEM. + +Now the passover of the Jews was at hand: and many went up to +Jerusalem out of the country before the passover, to purify +themselves. They sought therefore for Jesus, and spake one with +another, as they stood in the temple, "What think ye? That he will not +come to the feast?" + +Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had given commandment, that, +if any man knew where he was, he should show it, that they might take +him. + + +THE FEAST AT BETHANY. + +Jesus therefore six days before the passover came to Bethany, where +Lazarus was, whom Jesus raised from the dead. So they made him a +supper there in the house of Simon the leper; and Martha served: but +Lazarus was one of them that sat at meat with him. Mary therefore took +a pound of ointment of pure nard, very precious, and anointed the feet +of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair; and the house was filled +with the odor of the ointment. + +But Judas Iscariot, one of his disciples, that should betray him, +saith, "Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred shillings, +and given to the poor?" + +Now this he said, not because he cared for the poor; but because he +was a thief, and having the bag took away what was put therein. + +Jesus therefore said, "Suffer her to keep it against the day of my +burying. For the poor ye have always with you; but me ye have not +always. She hath done what she could; she hath anointed my body +beforehand for the burying. And verily I say unto you, Wheresoever +the gospel shall be preached throughout the whole world, that also +which this woman hath done shall be spoken of for a memorial of her." + +The common people therefore of the Jews learned that he was there: and +they came, not for Jesus' sake only, but that they might see Lazarus +also, whom he had raised from the dead. But the chief priests took +counsel that they might put Lazarus also to death; because that by +reason of him many of the Jews went away, and believed on Jesus. + + + + +=HIS LAST WEEK= + + * * * * * + +PALM SUNDAY--THE DAY OF TRIUMPH + + +THE TRIUMPHAL ENTRY. + +On the morrow when they drew nigh unto Jerusalem, unto Bethphage and +Bethany, at the mount of Olives, he sendeth two of his disciples, and +saith unto them, "Go your way into the village that is over against +you: and straightway as ye enter into it, ye shall find a colt tied, +whereon no man ever yet sat; loose him, and bring him. And if any one +say unto you, 'Why do ye this?' say ye, 'The Lord hath need of him'; +and straightway he will send him back hither." + +Now this is come to pass, that it might be fulfilled, which was spoken +through the prophet, saying, + + "Tell ye the daughter of Zion, + Behold, thy King cometh unto thee, + Meek, and riding upon an ass, + And upon a colt the foal of an ass." + +And they went away, and found a colt tied at the door without in the +open street: and they loose him. And certain of them that stood there +said unto them, "What do ye, loosing the colt?" And they said unto +them even as Jesus had said: and they let them go. And they bring the +colt unto Jesus, and cast on him their garments; and he sat upon him. + +And the most part of the multitude spread their garments upon the way; +and others branches, which they had cut from the fields. And as he was +drawing nigh, even at the descent of the Mount of Olives, the whole +multitude of the disciples began to rejoice and praise God with a loud +voice for all the mighty works which they had seen. And they that went +before, and they that followed, cried, "Hosanna to the Son of David; +Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord; Blessed is the +kingdom that cometh, the kingdom of our father David: Hosanna in the +highest." + +These things understood not his disciples at the first: but when Jesus +was glorified, then remembered they that these things were written of +him, and that they had done these things unto him. + +The multitude, therefore, that was with him when he called Lazarus out +of the tomb, and raised him from the dead, bare witness. For this +cause also the multitude went and met him, for that they heard that he +had done this sign. + +And some of the Pharisees from the multitude said unto him, "Teacher, +rebuke thy disciples." + +And he answered and said, "I tell you that, if these shall hold their +peace, the stones will cry out." + +And when he drew nigh, he saw the city and wept over it, saying, "If +thou hadst known in this day, even thou, the things which belong unto +peace! but now they are hid from thine eyes. For the days shall come +upon thee, when thine enemies shall cast up a bank about thee, and +compass thee round, and keep thee in on every side, and shall dash +thee to the ground, and thy children within thee: and they shall not +leave in thee one stone upon another; because thou knewest not the +time of thy visitation." + +And when he was come into Jerusalem, all the city was stirred, saying, +"Who is this?" + +And the multitudes said, "This is the prophet, Jesus, from Nazareth of +Galilee." + +The Pharisees therefore said among themselves, "Behold, how ye prevail +nothing; lo, the world is gone after him." + +And he entered into Jerusalem, into the temple; and when he had looked +round about upon all things, it being now eventide, he went out unto +Bethany with the twelve. + + + + +MONDAY--THE DAY OF AUTHORITY + + +THE CURSING OF THE FIG TREE. + +And on the morrow, when they were come out from Bethany, he hungered. +And seeing a fig tree afar off having leaves, he came, if haply he +might find anything thereon: and when he came to it, he found nothing +but leaves; for it was not the season of figs. And he answered and +said unto it, "No man eat fruit from thee henceforward for ever." + +And his disciples heard it. + + +THE CLEANSING OF THE TEMPLE. + +And they come to Jerusalem: and he entered into the temple, and began +to cast out them that sold and them that bought in the temple, and +overthrew the tables of the money-changers, and the seats of them that +sold the doves: and he would not suffer that any man should carry a +vessel through the temple. And he taught, and said unto them, "Is it +not written, 'My house shall be called a house of prayer for all the +nations?' but ye have made it a den of robbers?" + +And the blind and the lame came to him in the temple; and he healed +them. But when the chief priests and the scribes saw the wonderful +things that he did, and the children that were crying in the temple +and saying, "Hosanna to the son of David": they were moved with +indignation, and said unto him, "Hearest thou what these are saying?" + +And Jesus saith unto them, "Yea: did ye never read, 'Out of the mouth +of babes and sucklings thou hast perfected praise'?" + +And the chief priests and the scribes and the principal men of the +people sought to destroy him: and they could not find what they might +do; for the people all hung upon him, listening. + +And he left them, and went forth out of the city to Bethany, and +lodged there. + + + + +TUESDAY--THE DAY OF CONTROVERSY + + +THE LESSON FROM THE WITHERED FIG TREE. + +And as they passed by in the morning, they saw the fig tree withered +away from the roots. And Peter calling to remembrance saith unto him, +"Rabbi, behold the fig tree which thou cursedst is withered away." + +And Jesus answering saith unto them, "Have faith in God. Verily I say +unto you, Whosoever shall say unto this mountain, 'Be thou taken up +and cast into the sea'; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall +believe that what he saith cometh to pass; he shall have it. Therefore +I say unto you, All things whatsoever ye pray and ask for, believe +that ye receive them, and ye shall have them. And whensoever ye stand +praying, forgive, if ye have aught against any one; that your Father +also who is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses." + + +THE CHALLENGE OF CHRIST'S AUTHORITY. + +And they came again to Jerusalem. And all the people came early in the +morning to him in the temple to hear him. And as he was teaching the +people in the temple, and preaching the gospel, there came upon him +the chief priests and the scribes with the elders; and they spake, +saying unto him, "Tell us: By what authority doest thou these things? +or who is he that gave thee this authority?" + +And Jesus answered, and said unto them, "I also will ask you one +question, which if ye tell me, I likewise will tell you by what +authority I do these things. The baptism of John, whence was it? from +heaven or from men?" + +And they reasoned with themselves, saying, "If we shall say, 'From +heaven'; he will say unto us, 'Why did ye not believe him?' But if we +shall say, 'From men'; all the people will stone us: for they are +persuaded that John was a prophet." + +And they answered Jesus, and said, "We know not." + +And Jesus said unto them, "Neither tell I you by what authority I do +these things." + + +THREE WARNING PARABLES. + + +THE TWO SONS. + +"But what think ye? A man had two sons; and he came to the first, and +said, 'Son, go work to-day in the vineyard.' And he answered and said, +'I will not': but afterward he repented himself, and went. And he came +to the second, and said likewise. And he answered and said, 'I go, +sir': and went not. Which of the two did the will of his father?" + +They say, "The first." + +Jesus saith unto them, "Verily I say unto you, that the publicans and +the harlots go into the kingdom of God before you. For John came unto +you in the way of righteousness, and ye believed him not; but the +publicans and the harlots believed him: and ye, when ye saw it, did +not even repent yourselves afterward that ye might believe him." + + +THE WICKED HUSBANDMEN. + +"Hear another parable: There was a man who was a householder, who +planted a vineyard, and set a hedge about it, and digged a winepress +in it, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into +another country. And when the season of the fruits drew near, he sent +his servants to the husbandmen, to receive his fruits. And the +husbandmen took his servants, and beat one, and killed another, and +stoned another. Again, he sent other servants more than the first: and +they did unto them in like manner. But afterward he sent unto them his +son, saying, 'They will reverence my son.' But the husbandmen, when +they saw the son, said among themselves, 'This is the heir; come, let +us kill him, and take his inheritance.' And they took him, and cast +him forth out of the vineyard, and killed him. When therefore the lord +of the vineyard shall come, what will he do unto those husbandmen?" + +They say unto him, "He will miserably destroy those miserable men, and +will let out the vineyard unto other husbandmen, who shall render him +the fruits in their seasons." + +Jesus saith unto them, "Did ye never read in the scriptures, + + 'The stone which the builders rejected, + The same was made the head of the corner; + This was from the Lord, + And it is marvellous in our eyes'? + +"Therefore say I unto you, The kingdom of God shall be taken away from +you, and shall be given to a nation bringing forth the fruits thereof. +And he that falleth on this stone shall be broken to pieces; but on +whomsoever it shall fall, it will scatter him as dust." + +And when the chief priests and the Pharisees heard his parables, they +perceived that he spake of them. And when they sought to lay hold on +him, they feared the multitudes, because they took him for a prophet. + + +THE MARRIAGE OF THE KING'S SON. + +And Jesus answered and spake again in parables unto them, saying, "The +kingdom of heaven is likened unto a certain king, who made a marriage +feast for his son, and sent forth his servants to call them that were +bidden to the marriage feast: and they would not come. Again he sent +forth other servants, saying, Tell them that are bidden, 'Behold, I +have made ready my dinner; my oxen and my fatlings are killed, and all +things are ready; come to the marriage feast.' But they made light of +it, and went their ways, one to his own farm, another to his +merchandise; and the rest laid hold on his servants, and treated them +shamefully, and killed them. But the king was wroth; and he sent his +armies, and destroyed those murderers, and burned their city. Then +saith he to his servants, 'The wedding is ready, but they that were +bidden were not worthy. Go ye therefore unto the partings of the +highways, and as many as ye shall find, bid to the marriage feast.' +And those servants went out into the highways, and gathered together +all as many as they found, both bad and good; and the wedding was +filled with guests. But when the king came in to behold the guests, he +saw there a man who had not on a wedding-garment: and he saith unto +him, 'Friend, how earnest thou in hither not having a +wedding-garment?' And he was speechless. Then the king said to the +servants, 'Bind him hand and foot and cast him out into the outer +darkness'; there shall be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth. For +many are called, but few chosen." + + +THREE HOSTILE QUESTIONS ASKED OF JESUS. + + +TRIBUTE TO CÆSAR. + +Then went the Pharisees, and took counsel how they might ensnare him +in his talk so as to deliver him up to the rule and to the authority +of the governor. And they send to him their disciples, with the +Herodians, saying, "Teacher, we know that thou art true, and teachest +the way of God in truth, and carest not for any one: for thou +regardest not the person of men. Tell us therefore, What thinkest +thou? Is it lawful to give tribute unto Cæsar, or not?" + +But Jesus perceived their craftiness, and said, "Why make ye trial of +me, ye hypocrites? Show me the tribute money." + +And they brought unto him a denarius. And he saith unto them, "Whose +is this image and superscription?" + +They say unto him, "Cæsar's." + +Then he saith unto them, "Render therefore unto Cæsar the things that +are Cæsar's; and unto God the things that are God's." + +And when they heard it, they marvelled, and left him, and went away. + + +THE QUESTION OF THE RESURRECTION. + +And there came to him certain of the Sadducees, they that say that +there is no resurrection; and they asked him, saying, "Teacher, Moses +wrote unto us, that if a man's brother die, having a wife, and he be +childless, his brother should take the wife, and raise up seed unto +his brother. There were therefore seven brethren: and the first took a +wife, and died childless; and the second; and the third took her; and +likewise the seven also left no children, and died. Afterward the +woman also died. In the resurrection therefore whose wife of them +shall she be? for the seven had her to wife." + +And Jesus said unto them, "Ye do err, not knowing the scriptures, nor +the power of God. The sons of this world marry, and are given in +marriage: but they that are accounted worthy to attain to that world, +and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry, nor are given in +marriage: for neither can they die any more: for they are equal unto +the angels; and are sons of God, being sons of the resurrection. But +that the dead are raised, even Moses showed, in the place concerning +the Bush, when he calleth the Lord the God of Abraham, and the God of +Isaac, and the God of Jacob. Now he is not the God of the dead, but of +the living: for all live unto him." + +And when the multitudes heard it, they were astonished at his +teaching. + + +THE GREATEST COMMANDMENT. + +And one of the scribes came, and heard them questioning together, and +knowing that he had answered them well, asked him, "What commandment +is the first of all?" + +Jesus answered, "The first is, 'Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the +Lord is one: and thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, +and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy +strength.' The second is this, 'Thou shalt love thy neighbor as +thyself.' There is none other commandment greater than these." + +And the scribe said unto him, "Of a truth, Teacher, thou hast well +said that he is one: and there is none other but he: and to love him +with all the heart, and with all the understanding and with all the +strength, and to love his neighbor as himself, is much more than all +whole burnt-offerings and sacrifices." + +And when Jesus saw that he answered discreetly, he said unto him, +"Thou art not far from the kingdom of God." + + +THE UNANSWERABLE QUESTION OF JESUS. + +Now while the Pharisees were gathered together Jesus asked them a +question, saying, "What think ye of the Christ? whose son is he?" + +They say unto him, "The son of David." + +He saith unto them, "How then doth David in the Spirit call him Lord, +saying, + + 'The Lord said unto my Lord, + Sit thou on my right hand, + Till I put thine enemies underneath thy feet'? + +If David then calleth him Lord, how is he his son?" + +And no one was able to answer him a word, neither durst any man from +that day forth ask him any more questions. + +And the common people heard him gladly. + + +DISCOURSE OF JESUS AGAINST THE SCRIBES AND PHARISEES. + +Then spake Jesus to the multitudes and to his disciples, saying, "The +scribes and the Pharisees sit on Moses' seat: all things therefore +whatsoever they bid you, these do and observe: but do not ye after +their works; for they say, and do not. Yea, they bind heavy burdens +and grievous to be borne, and lay them on men's shoulders; but they +themselves will not move them with their finger. But all their works +they do to be seen of men: for they make broad their phylacteries, and +enlarge the borders of their garments, and love the chief place at +feasts, and the chief seats in the synagogues, and the salutations in +the marketplaces, and to be called of men, 'Rabbi.' But be not ye +called 'Rabbi,' for one is your teacher, and all ye are brethren. And +call no man your father on the earth: for one is your Father, even he +who is in heaven. Neither be ye called masters: for one is your +master, even the Christ. But he that is greatest among you shall be +your servant. And whosoever shall exalt himself shall be humbled: and +whosoever shall humble himself shall be exalted. + +"But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye shut +the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye enter not in yourselves, +neither suffer ye them that are entering in to enter. + +"Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea +and land to make one proselyte; and when he is become so, ye make him +twofold more a son of hell than yourselves. + +"Woe unto you, ye blind guides, that say, 'Whosoever shall swear by +the temple, it is nothing; but whosoever shall swear by the gold of +the temple, he is a debtor.' Ye fools and blind: for which is greater, +the gold, or the temple that hath sanctified the gold? And, 'Whosoever +shall swear by the altar, it is nothing; but whosoever shall swear by +the gift that is upon it, he is a debtor.' Ye blind: for which is +greater, the gift, or the altar that sanctifieth the gift? He +therefore that sweareth by the altar, sweareth by it, and by all +things thereon. And he that sweareth by the temple, sweareth by it, +and by him that dwelleth therein. And he that sweareth by the heaven, +sweareth by the throne of God, and by him that sitteth thereon. + +"Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye tithe mint +and anise and cummin, and have left undone the weightier matters of +the law, justice, and mercy, and faith: but these ye ought to have +done, and not to have left the other undone. Ye blind guides that +strain out the gnat, and swallow the camel! + +"Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye cleanse the +outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full from +extortion and excess. Thou blind Pharisee, cleanse first the inside of +the cup and of the platter, that the outside thereof may become clean +also. + +"Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto +whited sepulchres, which outwardly appear beautiful, but inwardly are +full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness. Even so ye also +outwardly appear righteous unto men, but inwardly ye are full of +hypocrisy and iniquity. + +"Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye build the +sepulchres of the prophets, and garnish the tombs of the righteous, +and say, 'If we had been in the days of our fathers, we should not +have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.' Wherefore +ye witness to yourselves, that ye are sons of them that slew the +prophets. Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers. Ye serpents, ye +offspring of vipers, how shall ye escape the judgment of hell? +Therefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and +scribes: some of them shall ye kill and crucify; and some of them +shall ye scourge in your synagogues, and persecute from city to city: +that upon you may come all the righteous blood shed on the earth, from +the blood of Abel the righteous unto the blood of Zachariah son of +Barachiah, whom ye slew between the sanctuary and the altar. Verily I +say unto you, All these things shall come upon this generation. + +"O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, that killeth the prophets, and stoneth them +that are sent unto her! how often would I have gathered thy children +together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye +would not! Behold, your house is left unto you desolate. For I say +unto you, Ye shall not see me henceforth, till ye shall say, 'Blessed +is he that cometh in the name of the Lord.'" + + +THE WIDOW'S TWO MITES. + +And he sat down over against the treasury, and beheld how the +multitude cast money into the treasury: and many that were rich cast +in much. And there came a poor widow, and she cast in two mites, which +make a farthing. And he called unto him his disciples, and said unto +them, "Verily, I say unto you, This poor widow cast in more than all +they that are casting into the treasury: for they all did cast in of +their superfluity; but she of her want did cast in all that she had, +even all her living." + + +THE GENTILES SEEK JESUS. + +Now there were certain Greeks among those that went up to worship at +the feast: these therefore came to Philip, who was of Bethsaida of +Galilee, and asked him, saying, "Sir, we would see Jesus." + +Philip cometh and telleth Andrew: Andrew cometh, and Philip, and they +tell Jesus. + +And Jesus answereth them, saying, "The hour is come, that the Son of +man should be glorified. Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a +grain of wheat fall into the earth and die, it abideth by itself +alone; but if it die, it beareth much fruit. He that loveth his life +loseth it: and he that hateth his life in this world shall keep it +unto life eternal. If any man serve me, let him follow me: and where I +am, there shall also my servant be: if any man serve me, him will the +Father honor. Now is my soul troubled; and what shall I say? Father, +save me from this hour. But for this cause came I unto this hour. +Father, glorify thy name." + +There came therefore a voice out of heaven, saying, "I have both +glorified it, and will glorify it again." + +The multitude, therefore, that stood by, and heard it, said that it +had thundered: others said, "An angel hath spoken to him." + +Jesus answered and said, "This voice hath not come for my sake, but +for your sakes. Now is the judgment of this world: now shall the +prince of this world be cast out. And I, if I be lifted up from the +earth, will draw all men unto myself." + +But this he said, signifying by what manner of death he should die. + +The multitude therefore answered him, "We have heard out of the law +that the Christ abideth forever; and how sayest thou, 'The Son of man +must be lifted up'? who is this Son of man?" + +Jesus therefore said unto them, "Yet a little while is the light among +you. Walk while ye have the light, that darkness overtake you not; and +he that walketh in the darkness knoweth not whither he goeth. While ye +have the light, believe on the light, that ye may become sons of +light." + +These things spake Jesus, and he departed and hid himself from them. + + +THE JEWS REJECT JESUS. + +But though he had done so many signs before them, yet they believed +not on him: that the word of Isaiah the prophet might be fulfilled, +which he spake, + + "Lord, who hath believed our report? + And to whom hath the arm of the Lord been revealed?" + +For this cause they could not believe, for that Isaiah said again. + + "He hath blinded their eyes, and he hardened their heart; + Lest they should see with their eyes, and perceive with their + heart, + And should turn, + And I should heal them." + +These things said Isaiah, because he saw his glory; and he spake of +him. Nevertheless even of the rulers many believed on him; but because +of the Pharisees they did not confess it, lest they should be put out +of the synagogue; for they loved the glory that is of men more than +the glory that is of God. + +And Jesus cried and said, "He that believeth on me, believeth not on +me, but on him that sent me. And he that beholdeth me beholdeth him +that sent me. I am come a light into the world, that whosoever +believeth on me may not abide in the darkness. And if any man hear my +sayings, and keep them not, I judge him not: for I came not to judge +the world, but to save the world. He that rejecteth me, and receiveth +not my sayings, hath one that judgeth him: the word that I spake, the +same shall judge him in the last day. For I spake not from myself; but +the Father that sent me, he hath given me a commandment, what I should +say, and what I should speak. And I know that his commandment is life +eternal; the things therefore which I speak, even as the Father hath +said unto me, so I speak." + + +DISCOURSE CONCERNING THE FUTURE. + +And Jesus went out from the temple, and was going on his way; and his +disciples came to him to show him the buildings of the temple. + +But he answered and said unto them, "See ye not all these things? +Verily I say unto you, There shall not be left here one stone upon +another, that shall not be thrown down." + +And as he sat on the mount of Olives over against the temple, Peter +and James and John and Andrew asked him privately, "Tell us, when +shall these things be? and what shall be the sign when these things +are all about to be accomplished?" + +And Jesus began to say unto them, "Take heed that no man lead you +astray. Many shall come in my name, saying, 'I am he,' and shall lead +many astray. And when ye shall hear of wars and rumors of wars, be not +troubled: these things must needs come to pass; but the end is not +yet. For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against +kingdom; there shall be earthquakes in divers places; there shall be +famines: these things are the beginning of the travail. + +"But take ye heed to yourselves: for they shall deliver you up to +councils; and in synagogues shall ye be beaten; and before governors +and kings shall ye stand for my sake, for a testimony unto them. And +the gospel must first be preached unto all the nations. And when they +lead you to judgment, and deliver you up, be not anxious beforehand +what ye shall speak; but whatsoever shall be given you in that hour, +that speak ye; for it is not ye that speak, but the Holy Spirit. But +ye shall be delivered up even by parents, and brethren, and kinsfolk, +and friends: and some of you shall they cause to be put to death. And +ye shall be hated of all men for my name's sake. + +"And then shall many stumble, and shall deliver up one another, and +shall hate one another. And many false prophets shall arise, and shall +lead many astray. And because iniquity shall be multiplied, the love +of the many shall wax cold. But he that endureth to the end, the same +shall be saved. + +"But when ye see Jerusalem compassed with armies, then know that her +desolation is at hand. Then let them that are in Judæa flee unto the +mountains: let him that is on the housetop not go down to take out the +things that are in his house: and let him that is in the field not +return back to take his cloak. For these are days of vengeance, that +all things which are written may be fulfilled. + +"But woe unto them that are with child and to them that give suck in +those days! And pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither +on a Sabbath: for then shall be great tribulation, such as hath not +been from the beginning of the world until now, no, nor ever shall be. +And except those days had been shortened, no flesh would have been +saved: but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened. Then if +any man shall say unto you, 'Lo, here is the Christ,' or, 'Here,' +believe it not. For there shall arise false Christs, and false +prophets, and shall show great signs and wonders; so as to lead +astray, if possible, even the elect. But take ye heed: behold, I have +told you all things beforehand. If, therefore, they shall say unto +you, 'Behold, he is in the wilderness,' go not forth: 'Behold, he is +in the inner chambers,' believe it not. For as the lightning cometh +forth from the east and is seen even unto the west, so shall be the +coming of the Son of man. Wheresoever the carcase is, there will the +eagles be gathered together. + +"But immediately after the tribulation of those days the sun shall be +darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall +fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken: and +then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then +shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of +man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. And he +shall send forth his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and shall +gather together his elect from the four winds, from the uttermost part +of the earth to the uttermost part of heaven. + +"Now from the fig tree learn her parable: when her branch is now +become tender, and putteth forth its leaves, ye know that the summer +is nigh; even so ye also, when ye see all these things, know ye that +he is nigh, even at the doors. Verily I say unto you, This generation +shall not pass away till all these things be accomplished. Heaven and +earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away. But of that +day and hour knoweth no one, not even the angels of heaven, neither +the Son, but the Father only. + +"But take heed to yourselves, lest haply your hearts be overcharged +with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that day +come on you suddenly as a snare; for so shall it come upon all them +that dwell on the face of all the earth. But watch ye at every season, +making supplication, that ye may prevail to escape all these things +that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man. + +"And as were the days of Noah, so shall be the coming of the Son of +man. For as in those days which were before the flood they were eating +and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah +entered into the ark, and they knew not until the flood came, and took +them all away; so shall be the coming of the Son of man. Then shall +two men be in the field; one is taken, and one is left; two women +shall be grinding at the mill: one is taken, and one is left. Watch +therefore: for ye know not on what day your Lord cometh. + +"But know this, that if the master of the house had known in what +watch the thief was coming, he would have watched, and would not have +suffered his house to be broken through. Therefore be ye also ready; +for in an hour that ye think not the Son of man cometh. + +"Take ye heed, watch and pray: for ye know not when the time is. It is +as when a man, sojourning in another country, having left his house, +and given authority to his servants, to each one his work, commanded +also the porter to watch. Watch therefore: for ye know not when the +lord of the house cometh, whether at even, or at midnight, or at +cockcrowing, or in the morning; lest coming suddenly he find you +sleeping. And what I say unto you I say unto all, Watch. + +"Who then is the faithful and wise servant, whom the lord hath set +over his household, to give them their food in due season? Blessed is +that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find so doing. Verily +I say unto you, that he will set him over all that he hath. But if +that evil servant shall say in his heart, 'My lord tarrieth;' and +shall begin to beat his fellow-servants, and shall eat and drink with +the drunken; the lord of that servant shall come in a day when he +expecteth not, and in an hour when he knoweth not, and shall cut him +asunder, and appoint his portion with the hypocrites: there shall be +the weeping and the gnashing of teeth." + + +THREE LESSONS TO THE DISCIPLES. + + +THE PARABLE OF THE TEN VIRGINS. + +"Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins, who +took their lamps and went forth to meet the bridegroom. And five of +them were foolish, and five were wise. For the foolish, when they took +their lamps, took no oil with them: but the wise took oil in their +vessels with their lamps. Now while the bridegroom tarried, they all +slumbered and slept. But at midnight there is a cry, 'Behold, the +bridegroom! Come ye forth to meet him.' Then all those virgins arose, +and trimmed their lamps. And the foolish said unto the wise, 'Give us +of your oil; for our lamps are going out.' But the wise answered, +saying, 'Peradventure there will not be enough for us and you: go ye +rather to them that sell, and buy for yourselves.' + +"And while they went away to buy, the bridegroom came; and they that +were ready went in with him to the marriage feast: and the door was +shut. Afterward came also the other virgins, saying, 'Lord, Lord, open +to us.' But he answered and said, 'Verily I say unto you, I know you +not.' + +"Watch therefore, for ye know not the day nor the hour. + + +THE PARABLE OF THE TALENTS. + +"For it is as when a man, going into another country, called his own +servants, and delivered unto them his goods. And unto one he gave five +talents, to another two, to another one; to each according to his +several ability; and he went on his journey. Straightway he that +received the five talents went and traded with them, and made other +five talents. In like manner he also that received the two gained +other two. But he that received the one went away and digged in the +earth, and hid his lord's money. + +"Now after a long time the lord of these servants cometh, and maketh a +reckoning with them. And he that received the five talents came and +brought other five talents, saying, 'Lord, thou deliveredst unto me +five talents: lo, I have gained other five talents.' His lord said +unto him, 'Well done, good and faithful servant: thou hast been +faithful over a few things, I will set thee over many things; enter +thou into the joy of thy lord.' + +"And he also that received the two talents came and said, 'Lord, thou +deliveredst unto me two talents: lo, I have gained other two talents.' + +"His lord said unto him, 'Well done, good and faithful servant: thou +hast been faithful over a few things, I will set thee over many +things; enter thou into the joy of thy lord.' + +"And he also that had received the one talent came and said, 'Lord, I +knew thee that thou art a hard man, reaping where thou didst not sow, +and gathering where thou didst not scatter; and I was afraid, and went +away and hid thy talent in the earth: lo, thou hast thine own.' + +"But his lord answered and said unto him, 'Thou wicked and slothful +servant, thou knewest that I reap where I sowed not, and gather where +I did not scatter; thou oughtest therefore to have put my money to the +bankers, and at my coming I should have received back mine own with +interest. Take ye away therefore the talent from him, and give it unto +him that hath the ten talents. For unto every one that hath shall be +given, and he shall have abundance; but from him that hath not, even +that which he hath shall be taken away. And cast ye out the +unprofitable servant into the outer darkness: there shall be the +weeping and the gnashing of teeth.' + + +THE JUDGMENT SCENE. + +"But when the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the angels +with him, then shall he sit on the throne of his glory: and before +him shall be gathered all the nations: and he shall separate them one +from another, as the shepherd separateth the sheep from the goats; and +he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left. +Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, 'Come, ye blessed +of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation +of the world: for I was hungry, and ye gave me to eat; I was thirsty, +and ye gave me drink; I was a stranger, and ye took me in; naked, and +ye clothed me; I was sick, and ye visited me; I was in prison, and ye +came unto me.' + +"Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, 'Lord, when saw we thee +hungry, and fed thee? or athirst, and gave thee drink? And when saw we +thee a stranger, and took thee in? or naked, and clothed thee? And +when saw we thee sick, or in prison, and came unto thee?' And the King +shall answer and say unto them, 'Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye +did it unto one of these my children, even these least, ye did it unto +me.' + +"Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, 'Depart from me, +ye cursed, into the eternal fire which is prepared for the devil and +his angels: for I was hungry, and ye did not give me to eat; I was +thirsty, and ye gave me no drink; I was a stranger, and ye took me not +in; naked, and ye clothed me not; sick, and in prison, and ye visited +me not.' Then shall they also answer, saying, 'Lord, when saw we thee +hungry, or athirst, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, +and did not minister unto thee?' Then shall he answer them, saying, +'Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it not unto one of these +least, ye did it not unto me.' And these shall go away into eternal +punishment: but the righteous into eternal life." + + +THE CONSPIRACY AGAINST JESUS. + +And it came to pass, when Jesus had finished all these words, he said +unto his disciples, "Ye know that after two days the passover cometh, +and the Son of man is delivered up to be crucified." + +Then were gathered together the chief priests, the elders of the +people, unto the court of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas; +and they took counsel together that they might take Jesus by subtlety, +and kill him. But they said, "Not during the feast, lest a tumult +arise among the people." + +And Satan entered into Judas, who was called Iscariot, being of the +number of the twelve. And he went away and communed with the chief +priests and captains, how he might deliver him unto them. And they +were glad, and they weighed unto him thirty pieces of silver. And from +that time he sought opportunity to deliver him unto them in the +absence of the multitude. + + + + +WEDNESDAY--THE DAY OF RETIREMENT + + +[There is no record of the events of this day. Jesus spent it in +retirement, almost certainly in the home of his friends at Bethany.] + + + + +THURSDAY--THE DAY OF FELLOWSHIP + + +PREPARATION FOR THE PASSOVER. + +And on the first day of unleavened bread, when they sacrificed the +passover, his disciples say unto him, "Where wilt thou that we go and +make ready that thou mayest eat the passover?" + +And he sendeth two of his disciples, and saith unto them, "Go into the +city, and there shall meet you a man bearing a pitcher of water; +follow him; and wheresoever he shall enter in, say to the master of +the house, 'The Teacher saith, My time is at hand. Where is my +guest-chamber, where I shall eat the passover with my disciples?' And +he will himself show you a large upper room furnished and ready: and +there make ready for us." + +And the disciples went forth, and came into the city, and found as he +had said unto them: and they made ready the passover. + + +STRIFE AMONG THE DISCIPLES. + +And when it was evening he cometh with the twelve. And there arose +also a contention among them, which of them was accounted to be +greatest. And he said unto them, "The kings of the Gentiles have +lordship over them; and they that have authority over them are called +Benefactors. But ye shall not be so: but he that is the greater among +you, let him become as the younger: and he that is chief, as he that +doth serve. For which is greater, he that sitteth at meat, or he that +serveth? Is not he that sitteth at meat? But I am in the midst of you +as he that serveth. But ye are they that have continued with me in my +temptations; and I appoint unto you a kingdom, even as my Father +appointed unto me, that ye may eat and drink at my table in my +kingdom; and ye shall sit on thrones judging the twelve tribes of +Israel." + + +JESUS WASHING THE DISCIPLES' FEET. + +Now before the feast of the passover, Jesus knowing that his hour was +come that he should depart out of this world unto the Father, having +loved his own that were in the world, he loved them unto the end. + +And during supper, the devil having already put into the heart of +Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, to betray him, Jesus, knowing that the +Father had given all things into his hands, and that he came forth +from God, and goeth unto God, riseth from supper, and layeth aside his +garments; and he took a towel, and girded himself. Then he poureth +water into the basin, and began to wash the disciples' feet, and to +wipe them with the towel wherewith he was girded. + +So he cometh to Simon Peter. He saith unto him, "Lord, dost thou wash +my feet?" + +Jesus answered and said unto him, "What I do thou knowest not now; but +thou shall understand hereafter." + +Peter saith unto him, "Thou shalt never wash my feet." + +Jesus answered him, "If I wash thee not, thou hast no part with me." + +Simon Peter saith unto him, "Lord, not my feet only, but also my hands +and my head." + +Jesus saith to him, "He that is bathed needeth not save to wash his +feet, but is clean every whit: and ye are clean, but not all." For he +knew him that should betray him; therefore said he, "Ye are not all +clean." + +So when he had washed their feet, and taken his garments, and sat +down again, he said unto them, "Know ye what I have done to you? Ye +call me Teacher, and Lord: and ye say well; for so I am. If I then, +the Lord and the Teacher, have washed your feet, ye also ought to wash +one another's feet. For I have given you an example, that ye also +should do as I have done to you. Verily, verily, I say unto you, A +servant is not greater than his lord; neither one that is sent greater +than he that sent him. If ye know these things, blessed are ye if ye +do them. + +"I speak not of you all: I know whom I have chosen: but that the +scripture may be fulfilled, He that eateth my bread lifted up his heel +against me. From henceforth I tell you before it come to pass, that, +when it is come to pass, ye may believe that I am he. Verily, verily, +I say unto you, He that receiveth whomsoever I send receiveth me; and +he that receiveth me receiveth him that sent me." + + +THE BETRAYER POINTED OUT. + +When Jesus had thus said, he was troubled in the spirit, and +testified, and said, "Verily, verily, I say unto you, that one of you +shall betray me." + +The disciples looked one on another, doubting of whom he spake. And +they were exceeding sorrowful, and began to say unto him every one, +"Is it I, Lord?" + +And he answered and said, "He that dipped his hand with me in the +dish, the same shall betray me. The Son of man goeth, even as it is +written of him: but woe unto that man through whom the Son of man is +betrayed! Good were it for that man if he had not been born." + +And Judas, who betrayed him, answered and said, "Is it I, Rabbi?" + +He saith unto him, "Thou hast said." + +There was at the table reclining in Jesus' bosom one of his disciples, +whom Jesus loved. Simon Peter therefore beckoneth to him, and saith +unto him, "Tell us who it is of whom he speaketh." + +He leaning back, as he was, on Jesus' breast, saith unto him, "Lord, +who is it?" + +Jesus therefore answereth, "He it is, for whom I shall dip the sop, +and give it him." + +So when he had dipped the sop, he taketh and giveth it to Judas, the +son of Simon Iscariot. And after the sop, then entered Satan into him. + +Jesus therefore saith unto him, "What thou doest, do quickly." + +Now no man at the table knew for what intent he spake this unto him. +For some thought because Judas had the bag, that Jesus said unto him, +"Buy what things we have need of for the feast," or that he should +give something to the poor. He then having received the sop went out +straightway: and it was night. + +When therefore he was gone out, Jesus saith, "Now is the Son of man +glorified, and God is glorified in him; and God shall glorify him in +himself, and straightway shall he glorify him." + + +THE LORD'S SUPPER. + +And he said unto them, "With desire I have desired to eat this +passover with you before I suffer: for I say unto you, I shall not eat +it until it be fulfilled in the Kingdom of God." + +And he took bread, and when he had given thanks, he brake it, and gave +to them, saying, "This is my body; which is given for you; this do in +remembrance of me." + +And he took a cup, in like manner after supper, and gave thanks, and +gave to them, saying, "Drink ye all of it; for this is my blood of the +new covenant, which is poured out for you, for many, unto remission of +sins. Take this and divide it among yourselves; for I say unto you, I +shall not drink from henceforth of the fruit of the vine, until the +Kingdom of God shall come." + + +THE FAREWELL CONVERSATION. + +"Little children, yet a little while I am with you. Ye shall seek me: +and as I said unto the Jews, 'Whither I go, ye cannot come,' so now I +say unto you. A new commandment I give unto you, that ye love one +another; even as I have loved you, that ye also love one another. By +this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one +to another." + +Simon Peter saith unto him, "Lord, whither goest thou?" + +Jesus answered, "Whither I go, thou canst not follow me now; but thou +shalt follow afterwards." + +And Jesus saith unto them, "All ye shall be offended: for it is +written, I will smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered +abroad. Howbeit, after I am raised up, I will go before you into +Galilee." + +But Peter said unto him, "Although all shall be offended, yet will not +I." + +And Jesus saith unto him, "Verily I say unto thee, that thou to-day, +even this night, before the cock crow twice, shalt deny me thrice. +Simon, Simon, behold Satan asked to have you, that he might sift you +as wheat: but I make supplication for thee, that thy faith fail not: +and do thou, when once thou hast turned again, establish thy +brethren." + +But he spake vehemently, "If I must die with thee, I will not deny +thee." And in like manner also said they all. + + * * * * * + +And he said unto them, "When I sent you forth without purse, and +wallet, and shoes, lacked ye anything?" + +And they said, "Nothing." + +And he said unto them, "But now, he that hath a purse, let him take +it, and likewise a wallet; and he that hath none, let him sell his +cloak, and buy a sword. For I say unto you, that this which is written +must be fulfilled in me, 'And he was reckoned with transgressors': for +that which concerneth me hath fulfillment." + +And they said, "Lord, behold, here are two swords." + +And he said unto them, "It is enough." + + * * * * * + +"Let not your heart be troubled; believe in God, believe also in me. +In my Father's house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would +have told you; for I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and +prepare a place for you, I come again, and will receive you unto +myself; that where I am, there ye may be also. And whither I go, ye +know the way." + +Thomas saith unto him, "Lord, we know not whither thou goest; how know +we the way?" + +Jesus saith unto him, "I am the way, and the truth, and the life: no +one cometh unto the Father, but by me. If ye had known me, ye would +have known my Father also: from henceforth ye know him, and have seen +him." + +Philip saith unto him, "Lord, show us the Father, and it sufficeth +us." + +Jesus saith unto him, "Have I been so long time with you, and dost +thou not know me, Philip? He that hath seen me hath seen the Father: +how sayest thou, 'Show us the Father?' Believest thou not that I am +in the Father, and the Father in me? The words that I say unto you I +speak not from myself: but the Father abiding in me doeth his works. +Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me: or else +believe me for the very works' sake. Verily, verily, I say unto you, +He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also: and +greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto the Father. +And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the +Father may be glorified in the Son. If ye shall ask anything in my +name, that will I do. If ye love me, ye will keep my commandments. And +I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that +he may be with you for ever, even the Spirit of truth: whom the world +cannot receive; for it beholdeth him not, neither knoweth him: ye know +him, for he abideth with you, and shall be in you. I will not leave +you desolate: I come unto you. + +"Yet a little while, and the world beholdeth me no more; but ye behold +me: because I live, ye shall live also. In that day ye shall know that +I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you. He that hath my +commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that +loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will +manifest myself unto him." + +Judas (not Iscariot) saith unto him, "Lord, what is come to pass that +thou wilt manifest thyself unto us, and not unto the world?" + +Jesus answered and said unto him, "If a man love me, he will keep my +word: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make +our abode with him. He that loveth me not keepeth not my words: and +the word which ye hear is not mine, but the Father's who sent me. + +"These things have I spoken unto you, while yet abiding with you. But +the Comforter, even the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my +name, he shall teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all +that I said unto you. Peace I leave with you; my peace I give unto +you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be +troubled, neither let it be fearful. Ye heard how I said to you, I go +away, and I come unto you. If ye loved me, ye would have rejoiced, +because I go unto the Father: for the Father is greater than I. + +"And now I have told you before it come to pass, that, when it is come +to pass, ye may believe. I will no more speak much with you, for the +prince of the world cometh: and he hath nothing in me; but that the +world may know that I love the Father, and as the Father gave me +commandment, even so I do." + + * * * * * + +"I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman. Every branch in +me that beareth not fruit, he taketh it away: and every branch that +beareth fruit, he cleanseth it, that it may bear more fruit. Already +ye are clean because of the word which I have spoken unto you. Abide +in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except +it abide in the vine; so neither can ye, except ye abide in me. I am +the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, +the same beareth much fruit: for apart from me ye can do nothing. If a +man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; +and they gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are +burned. If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatsoever +ye will, and it shall be done unto you. Herein is my Father glorified, +that ye bear much fruit: and so shall ye be my disciples. Even as the +Father hath loved me, I also have loved you: abide ye in my love. If +ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have +kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love. + +"These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy may be in you, and +that your joy may be made full. This is my commandment, that ye love +one another, even as I have loved you. Greater love hath no man than +this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. Ye are my friends, +if ye do the things which I command you. No longer do I call you +servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have +called you friends; for all things that I heard from my Father I have +made known unto you. Ye did not choose me, but I chose you, and +appointed you, that ye should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit +should abide: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, +he may give it you. These things I command you, that ye may love one +another. If the world hated you, ye know that it hath hated me before +it hated you. If ye were of the world, the world would love its own: +but because ye are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, +therefore the world hateth you. Remember the word that I said unto +you, A servant is not greater than his lord. If they persecuted me, +they will also persecute you; if they kept my word, they will keep +yours also. But all these things will they do unto you for my name's +sake, because they know not him that sent me. If I had not come and +spoken unto them, they had not had sin: but now they have no excuse +for their sin. He that hateth me hateth my Father also. If I had not +done among them the works which none other did, they had not had sin: +but now have they both seen and hated me and my Father. But this +cometh to pass, that the word may be fulfilled that is written in +their law, 'They hated me without a cause.' But when the Comforter is +come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of +truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall bear witness of me: +and ye also bear witness, because ye have been with me from the +beginning. + +"These things have I spoken unto you, that ye should not be caused to +stumble. They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the hour +cometh, that whosoever killeth you shall think that he offereth +service unto God. And these things will they do, because they have not +known the Father, nor me. But these things have I spoken unto you, +that when their hour is come, ye may remember them, how that I told +you. And these things I said not unto you from the beginning, because +I was with you. But now I go unto him that sent me; and none of you +asketh me, 'Whither goest thou?' But because I have spoken these +things unto you, sorrow hath filled your heart. Nevertheless I tell +you the truth: It is expedient for you that I go away; for if I go not +away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I go, I will send +him unto you. And he, when he is come, will convict the world in +respect of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment: of sin, because +they believe not on me; of righteousness, because I go to the Father, +and ye behold me no more; of judgment, because the prince of this +world hath been judged. I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye +cannot bear them now. Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, +he shall guide you into all the truth: for he shall not speak from +himself; but what things soever he shall hear, these shall he speak: +and he shall declare unto you the things that are to come. He shall +glorify me: for he shall take of mine, and shall declare it unto you. +All things whatsoever the Father hath are mine: therefore said I, that +he taketh; of mine, and shall declare it unto you. A little while, and +ye behold me no more; and again a little while, and ye shall see me." + +Some of his disciples therefore said one to another. "What is this +that he saith unto us, 'A little while, and ye behold me not; and +again a little while, and ye shall see me': and 'Because I go to the +Father'?" + +They said therefore, "What is this that he saith, 'A little while'? +We know not what he saith." + +Jesus perceived that they were desirous to ask him, and he said unto +them, "Do ye inquire among yourselves concerning this, that I said, 'A +little while, and ye behold me not, and again a little while, and ye +shall see me?' Verily, verily, I say unto you, that ye shall weep and +lament, but the world shall rejoice: ye shall be sorrowful, but your +sorrow shall be turned into joy. A woman when she is in travail hath +sorrow, because her hour is come: but when she is delivered of the +child she remembereth no more the anguish, for the joy that a man is +born into the world. And ye therefore now have sorrow: but I will see +you again, and your heart shall rejoice, and your joy no one taketh +away from you. And in that day ye shall ask me no question. Verily, +verily, I say unto you, If ye shall ask anything of the Father, he +will give it you in my name. Hitherto have ye asked nothing in my +name: ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be made full. + +"These things have I spoken unto you in dark sayings: the hour cometh, +when I shall no more speak unto you in dark sayings, but shall tell +you plainly of the Father. In that day ye shall ask in my name: and I +say not unto you, that I will pray the Father for you; for the Father +himself loveth you, because ye have loved me, and have believed that I +came forth from the Father. I came out from the Father, and am come +into the world; again, I leave the world, and go unto the Father." + +His disciples say, "Lo, now speakest thou plainly, and speakest no +dark saying. Now know we that thou knowest all things, and needest not +that any man should ask thee: by this we believe that thou camest +forth from God." + +Jesus answered them, "Do ye now believe? Behold, the hour cometh, yea, +is come, that ye shall be scattered, every man to his own, and shall +leave me alone: and yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me. +These things have I spoken unto you, that in me ye may have peace. In +the world ye have tribulation: but be of good cheer: I have overcome +the world." + + +THE INTERCESSORY PRAYER. + +These things spake Jesus; and lifting up his eyes to heaven, he said, +"Father, the hour is come; glorify thy Son, that the Son may glorify +thee: even as thou gavest him authority over all flesh, that to all +whom thou hast given him, he should give eternal life. And this is +life eternal, that they should know thee the only true God, and him +whom thou didst send, even Jesus Christ. I glorified thee on the +earth, having accomplished the work which thou hast given me to do. +And now, Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory +which I had with thee before the world was. I manifested thy name unto +the men whom thou gavest me out of the world: thine they were, and +thou gavest them to me; and they have kept thy word. Now they know +that all things whatsoever thou hast given me are from thee: for the +words which thou gavest me I have given unto them; and they received +them, and knew of a truth that I came forth from thee, and they +believed that thou didst send me. I pray for them: I pray not for the +world, but for those whom thou hast given me; for they are thine: and +all things that are mine are thine, and thine are mine; and I am +glorified in them. And I am no more in the world, and these are in the +world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep them in thy name which +thou hast given me, that they may be one, even as we are. While I was +with them, I kept them in thy name which thou hast given me; and I +guarded them, and not one of them perished, but the son of perdition; +that the scripture might be fulfilled. But now I come to thee; and +these things I speak in the world, that they may have my joy made full +in themselves. I have given them thy word, and the world hated them, +because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. I +pray not that thou shouldest take them from the world, but that thou +shouldst keep them from the evil one. They are not of the world, even +as I am not of the world. Sanctify them in the truth: thy word is +truth. As thou didst send me into the world, even so sent I them into +the world. And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they themselves +also may be sanctified in truth. Neither for these only do I pray, but +for them also that believe on me through their word; that they may all +be one; even as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also +may be in us: that the world may believe that thou didst send me. And +the glory which thou hast given me I have given unto them; that they +may be one, even as we are one; I in them, and thou in me, that they +may be perfected into one; that the world may know that thou didst +send me, and lovedst them, even as thou lovedst me. Father, I desire +that they also whom thou hast given me be with me where I am, that +they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me: for thou lovedst +me before the foundation of the world. O righteous Father, the world +knew thee not, but I knew thee; and these knew that thou didst send +me; and I made known unto them thy name, and will make it known; that +the love wherewith thou lovedst me may be in them, and I in them." + +And when they had sung a hymn, they went out into the mount of Olives. + + + + +FRIDAY--THE DAY OF SUFFERING + + +THE AGONY IN GETHSEMANE. + +And they come unto a place which was named Gethsemane: and he saith +unto his disciples, "Sit ye here, while I pray." + +And he taketh with him Peter and James and John, and began to be +greatly amazed, and sore troubled. And he saith unto them, "My soul is +exceeding sorrowful, even unto death: abide ye here, and watch." + +And he went forward a little, and fell on the ground, and prayed that, +if it were possible, the hour might pass away from him. + +And he said, "Abba, Father, all things are possible unto thee; remove +this cup from me: howbeit not what I will, but what thou wilt." + +And there appeared unto him an angel from heaven, strengthening him. + +And being in an agony, he prayed more earnestly; and his sweat became +as it were great drops of blood falling down upon the ground. + +And when he rose up from his prayer, he came unto the disciples, and +found them sleeping for sorrow, and said unto Peter, "Simon, sleepest +thou? Couldest thou not watch one hour? Watch and pray, that ye enter +not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is +weak." + +Again a second time he went away, and prayed, saying, "My Father, if +this cannot pass away, except I drink it, thy will be done." + +And he came again and found them sleeping, for their eyes were heavy. +And he left them again, and went away, and prayed a third time, +saying the same words. + +Then cometh he to the disciples, and saith unto them, "Sleep on now, +and take your rest: behold, the hour is at hand, and the Son of man is +betrayed into the hands of sinners. + +"Arise, let us be going: behold, he is at hand that betrayeth me." + + +THE BETRAYAL AND ARREST. + +And straightway, while he yet spake, cometh Judas, one of the twelve, +and with him a multitude with swords and staves, from the chief +priests and the scribes and the elders. + +Now he that betrayed him had given them a token, saying, "Whomsoever I +shall kiss, that is he; take him, and lead him away safely." And when +he was come, straightway he came to him, and saith, "Rabbi," and +kissed him. + +But Jesus said unto him, "Judas, betrayest thou the Son of man with a +kiss?" + +Jesus, therefore, knowing all the things that were coming upon him, +went forth, and saith unto them. "Whom seek ye?" + +They answered him, "Jesus of Nazareth." + +Jesus saith unto them. "I am he." + +And Judas also, who betrayed him, was standing with them. When +therefore he said unto them, "I am he," they went backward, and fell +to the ground. + +Again therefore he asked them, "Whom seek ye?" + +And they said, "Jesus of Nazareth." + +Jesus answered, "I told you that I am he; if therefore ye seek me, let +these go their way": that the word might be fulfilled which he spake, +"Of those whom thou hast given me I lost not one." + +And when they that were about him saw what would follow, they said, +"Lord, shall we smite with the sword?" + +Simon Peter therefore having a sword drew it, and struck the high +priest's servant, and cut off his right ear. Now the servant's name +was Malchus. + +But Jesus answered and said, "Suffer ye them thus far." And he touched +his ear, and healed him. + +Then saith Jesus unto Peter, "Put up again thy sword into its place: +for all they that take the sword shall perish with the sword. Or +thinkest thou that I cannot beseech my Father and he shall even now +send me more than twelve legions of angels? How then should the +scriptures be fulfilled, that thus it must be? The cup which the +Father hath given me, shall I not drink it?" + +And Jesus said unto the chief priest's and captains of the temple, and +elders, that were come against him, "Are ye come out, as against a +robber, with swords and staves? When I was daily with you in the +temple, ye stretched not forth your hands against me: but this is your +hour, and the power of darkness." + +Then all the disciples left him, and fled. + +And a certain young man followed with him, having a linen cloth cast +about him, over his naked body; and they lay hold on him; but he left +the linen cloth, and fled naked. + + +THE TRIAL BEFORE THE JEWISH AUTHORITIES. + +So the band and the chief captain, and the officers of the Jews, +seized Jesus and bound him, and led him to Annas first; for he was +father in law to Caiaphas, who was high priest that year. Now Caiaphas +was he that gave counsel to the Jews, that it was expedient that one +man should die for the people. + +And Simon Peter followed Jesus, and so did another disciple. Now that +disciple was known unto the high priest, and entered in with Jesus +into the court of the high priest; but Peter was standing at the door +without. So the other disciple, who was known unto the high priest, +went out and spake unto her that kept the door, and brought in Peter. + +The maid therefore that kept the door saith unto Peter, "Art thou also +one of this man's disciples?" + +He saith, "I am not." + +Now the servants and the officers were standing there, having made a +fire of coals; for it was cold; and they were warming themselves; and +Peter also was with them standing and warming himself. + +The high priest therefore asked Jesus of his disciples, and of his +teaching. Jesus answered him, "I have spoken openly to the world; I +ever taught in synagogues, and in the temple, where all the Jews come +together; and in secret spake I nothing. Why askest thou me? Ask them +that have heard me, what I spake unto them: behold, these know the +things which I said." + +And when he had said this, one of the officers standing by struck +Jesus with his hand, saying, "Answerest thou the high priest so?" + +Jesus answered him, "If I have spoken evil, bear witness of the evil; +but if well, why smitest thou me?" + +Annas therefore sent him bound unto Caiaphas the high priest. + +Now the chief priests and the whole council sought witness against +Jesus to put him to death; and found it not. For many bare false +witness against him, and their witness agreed not together. And there +stood up certain, and bare false witness against him, saying, "We +heard him say, I will destroy this temple that is made with hands, +and in three days I will build another made without hands." And not +even so did their witness agree together. + +And the high priest stood up in the midst, and asked Jesus, saying, +"Answerest thou nothing? What is it which these witness against thee?" + +But he held his peace, and answered nothing. + +And the high priest said unto him, "I adjure thee by the living God, +that thou tell us whether thou art the Christ, the Son of God." + +And Jesus said, "I am: and ye shall see the Son of man sitting at the +right hand of Power, and coming with the clouds of heaven." + +And the high priest rent his clothes, and saith, "What further need +have we of witnesses? Ye have heard the blasphemy: what think ye?" + +And they all condemned him to be worthy of death. + +Then did they spit in his face and buffet him. And they blindfolded +him and smote him with the palms of their hands, saying, "Prophesy +unto us, thou Christ: who is he that struck thee?" + + +THE DENIAL OF PETER. + +And as Peter was beneath in the court, there cometh one of the maids +of the high priest; and seeing Peter warming himself, she looked upon +him, and saith, "Thou also wast with the Nazarene, even Jesus." + +But he denied, saying, "I neither know nor understand what thou +sayest," and he went out into the porch; and the cock crew. + +And after a little while they that stood by came and said to Peter, +"Of a truth thou also art one of them; for thy speech maketh thee +known." + +Then began he to curse and to swear, "I know not the man." And +straightway the cock crew. + +And the Lord turned, and looked upon Peter. And Peter remembered the +word of the Lord, how that he said unto him, "Before the cock crow +twice thou shalt deny me thrice." + +And he went out, and wept bitterly. + + * * * * * + +And straightway in the morning the chief priests with the elders and +scribes, and the whole council, held a consultation, and bound Jesus, +and carried him away, and delivered him up to Pilate, the governor. + + +THE REMORSE OF JUDAS. + +Then Judas, who betrayed him, when he saw that he was condemned, +repented himself, and brought back the thirty pieces of silver to the +chief priests and elders, saying, "I have sinned in that I betrayed +innocent blood." + +But they said, "What is that to us? See thou to it." + +And he cast down the pieces of silver into the sanctuary, and +departed; and he went away and hanged himself. + +And the chief priests took the pieces of silver, and said, "It is not +lawful to put them into the treasury, since it is the price of blood." +And they took counsel, and bought with them the potter's field, to +bury strangers in. Wherefore that field was called, "The field of +blood," unto this day. + +Then was fulfilled that which was spoken through Jeremiah the prophet, +saying, "And they took the thirty pieces of silver, the price of him +that was priced, whom certain of the children of Israel did price; and +they gave them for the potter's field, as the Lord appointed me." + + +THE TRIAL BEFORE PILATE. + +They lead Jesus therefore from Caiaphas into the Prætorium: and it was +early; and they themselves entered not into the Prætorium, that they +might not be defiled, but might eat the passover. Pilate therefore +went out unto them, and saith, "What accusation bring ye against this +man?" + +They answered and said unto him, "If this man were not an evil-doer, +we should not have delivered him up unto thee." + +Pilate therefore said unto them, "Take him yourselves, and judge him +according to your law." + +The Jews said unto him, "It is not lawful for us to put any man to +death": that the word of Jesus might be fulfilled, which he spake, +signifying by what manner of death he should die. + +And they began to accuse him, saying, "We found this man perverting +our nation, and forbidding to give tribute to Cæsar, and saying that +he himself is Christ a king." + +And when he was accused by the chief priests and elders, he answered +nothing. Then saith Pilate unto him, "Hearest thou not how many things +they witness against thee?" And he gave him no answer, not even to one +word: insomuch that the governor marvelled greatly. + +Pilate therefore entered again into the Prætorium, and called Jesus, +and said unto him, "Art thou the King of the Jews?" + +Jesus answered, "Sayest thou this of thyself, or did others tell it +thee concerning me?" + +Pilate answered, "Am I a Jew? Thine own nation and the chief priests +delivered thee unto me: what hast thou done?" + +Jesus answered, "My kingdom is not of this world: if my kingdom were +of this world, then would my servants fight, that I should not be +delivered to the Jews; but now is my kingdom not from hence." + +Pilate therefore said unto him, "Art thou a king then?" + +Jesus answered, "Thou sayest that I am a king. To this end have I been +born, and to this end am I come into the world, that I should bear +witness unto the truth. Every one that is of the truth heareth my +voice." + +Pilate saith unto him, "What is truth?" + +And when he had said this, he went out again unto the Jews, and saith +unto them, "I find no crime in him." + +But they were the more urgent, saying, "He stirreth up the people, +teaching throughout all Judæa, and beginning from Galilee, even unto +this place." + +But when Pilate heard it, he asked whether the man were a Galilæan. +And when he knew that he was of Herod's jurisdiction, he sent him unto +Herod, who himself also was at Jerusalem in these days. + + +JESUS BEFORE HEROD. + +Now when Herod saw Jesus, he was exceeding glad; for he was of a long +time desirous to see him, because he had heard concerning him; and he +hoped to see some miracle done by him. And he questioned him in many +words; but he answered him nothing. And the chief priests and the +scribes stood, vehemently accusing him. And Herod with his soldiers +set him at nought, and mocked him, and arraying him in gorgeous +apparel sent him back to Pilate. + +And Herod and Pilate became friends with each other that very day: for +before they were at enmity between themselves. + + +THE TRIAL BEFORE PILATE RESUMED. + +And Pilate called together the chief priests and the rulers and the +people, and said unto them, "Ye brought unto me this man, as one that +perverteth the people: and behold, I, having examined him before you, +found no fault in this man touching those things whereof ye accuse +him: no, nor yet Herod: for he sent him back unto us; and behold, +nothing worthy of death hath been done by him. I will therefore +chastise him, and release him." + +Now at the feast the governor was wont to release unto the multitude +one prisoner, whom they would. And they had then a notable prisoner, +called Barabbas, lying bound with them that had made insurrection, men +who in the insurrection had committed murder. And the multitude went +up and began to ask him to do as he was wont to do unto them. + +And Pilate answered them, saying, "Will ye that I release unto you the +King of the Jews?" For he perceived that for envy the chief priests +had delivered him up. + +Now the chief priests and the elders persuaded the multitudes that +they should ask for Barabbas, and destroy Jesus. + +But the governor answered and said unto them, "Which of the two will +ye that I release unto you?" + +And they said, "Barabbas." + +Pilate saith unto them, "What then shall I do unto Jesus who is called +Christ?" + +They all say, "Let him be crucified." + +And he said unto them a third time, "Why, what evil hath this man +done? I have found no cause of death in him: I will therefore chastise +and release him." + +Then Pilate therefore took Jesus, and scourged him. + +And the soldiers led him away within the court, which is the +Prætorium; and they call together the whole band. + +And they stripped him, and arrayed him in a purple garment. And they +platted a crown of thorns and put it upon his head, and a reed in his +right hand; and they kneeled down before him, and mocked him, saying: +"Hail, King of the Jews!" and they struck him with their hands. And +they spat upon him, and took the reed and smote him upon the head. + +And Pilate went out again, and saith unto them, "Behold, I bring him +out to you, that ye may know that I find no crime in him." + +Jesus therefore came out, wearing the crown of thorns and the purple +garment. And Pilate saith unto them, "Behold, the man!" + +When therefore the chief priests and the officers saw him, they cried +out, saying, "Crucify him, crucify him!" + +Pilate saith unto them, "Take him yourselves, and crucify him: for I +find no crime in him." + +The Jews answered him, "We have a law, and by that law he ought to +die, because he made himself the Son of God." + +When Pilate therefore heard this saying, he was the more afraid; and +he entered into the Prætorium again, and saith unto Jesus, "Whence art +thou?" + +But Jesus gave him no answer. + +Pilate therefore saith unto him, "Speakest thou not unto me? Knowest +thou not that I have power to release thee, and have power to crucify +thee?" + +Jesus answered him, "Thou wouldest have no power against me, except it +were given thee from above: therefore he that delivered me unto thee +hath greater sin." + +Upon this Pilate sought to release him: but the Jews cried out, +saying, "If thou release this man, thou art not Cæsar's friend: every +one that maketh himself a king speaketh against Cæsar." + +When Pilate therefore heard these words, he brought Jesus out, and sat +down on the judgment-seat at a place called The Pavement, but in +Hebrew, Gabbatha. + +And while he was sitting on the judgment-seat, his wife sent unto him, +saying, "Have thou nothing to do with that righteous man; for I have +suffered many things this day in a dream because of him." + +Now it was the Preparation of the passover: it was about the sixth +hour. And he saith unto the Jews, "Behold, your King." + +They therefore cried out, "Away with him, away with him, crucify him!" + +Pilate saith unto them, "Shall I crucify your King?" + +The chief priests answered, "We have no king but Cæsar." + +So when Pilate saw that he prevailed nothing, but rather that a tumult +was arising, he took water, and washed his hands before the multitude, +saying, "I am innocent of the blood of this righteous man; see ye to +it." + +And all the people answered and said, "His blood be on us, and on our +children." + +And they were urgent with loud voices asking that he might be +crucified. And their voices prevailed. + +And Pilate, wishing to content the multitude, gave sentence that what +they asked for should be done. And he released unto them Barabbas, him +that for insurrection and murder had been cast into prison, whom they +asked for; but Jesus he delivered up to their will. + +And when they had mocked him, they took off from him the robe, and put +on him his garments, and led him away to crucify him. + + +THE SORROWFUL WAY. + +They took Jesus therefore: and he went out, bearing the cross for +himself. + +And as they came out, they laid hold upon one Simon of Cyrene, the +father of Alexander and Rufus, who was passing by, coming from the +country; him they compelled to go with them, and laid on him the +cross, that he might bear it after Jesus. + +And there followed him a great multitude of the people, and of women +who bewailed and lamented him. + +But Jesus turning unto them said, "Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not +for me, but weep for yourselves, and for your children. For behold, +the days are coming, in which they shall say, 'Blessed are the barren, +and the wombs that never bare, and the breasts that never gave suck.' +Then shall they begin to say to the mountains, 'Fall on us;' and to +the hills, 'Cover us.' For if they do these things in the green tree, +what shall be done in the dry?" + +And there were also two others, malefactors, led with him to be put to +death. + + +THE CRUCIFIXION. + +And when they were come unto a place called Golgotha, that is to say, +The place of a skull, they gave him wine to drink mingled with gall: +and when he had tasted it, he would not drink. + +There they crucified him, and the malefactors, one on the right hand +and the other on the left. + +And Jesus said, "Father, forgive them; for they know not what they +do." + +And Pilate wrote a title also, and put it on the cross. And there was +written: + + JESUS OF NAZARETH, THE KING OF THE JEWS. + +This title therefore read many of the Jews, for the place where Jesus +was crucified was nigh to the city; and it was written in Hebrew, and +in Latin, and in Greek. + +The chief priests of the Jews therefore said to Pilate, "Write not, +'The King of the Jews,' but that he said, 'I am King of the Jews.'" + +Pilate answered, "What I have written I have written." + +The soldiers therefore, when they had crucified Jesus, took his +garments and made four parts, to every soldier a part; and also the +coat: now the coat was without seam, woven from the top throughout. +They said therefore one to another, "Let us not rend it, but cast lots +for it, whose it shall be": that the scripture might be fulfilled, +which saith, + + "They parted my garments among them, + And upon my vesture did they cast lots." + +These things therefore the soldiers did; and they sat and watched him +there. + +And the people stood beholding. + +And they that passed by railed on him, wagging their heads, and +saying, "Thou that destroyest the temple, and buildest it in three +days, save thyself: if thou art the Son of God, come down from the +cross." + +In like manner also, the chief priests mocking him, with the scribes +and elders, said, "He saved others; himself he cannot save. Let the +Christ, the King of Israel, now come down from the cross, that we may +see and believe. He trusteth on God; let him deliver him now, if he +desireth him: for he said, I am the Son of God." + +And one of the malefactors that were hanged railed on him, saying, +"Art not thou the Christ? Save thyself and us." + +But the other answered, and rebuking him said, "Dost thou not even +fear God, seeing thou art in the same condemnation? And we indeed +justly; for we receive the due reward of our deeds: but this man hath +done nothing amiss." And he said, "Jesus, remember me when thou comest +in thy kingdom." + +And he said unto him, "Verily I say unto thee, To-day shalt thou be +with me in Paradise." + +But there were standing by the cross of Jesus his mother, and his +mother's sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene. When +Jesus therefore saw his mother, and the disciple standing by whom he +loved, he saith unto his mother, "Woman, behold thy son!" + +Then saith he to the disciple, "Behold, thy mother!" + +And from that hour the disciple took her unto his own home. + +And when the sixth hour was come, there was darkness over the whole +land until the ninth hour. And at the ninth hour Jesus cried with a +loud voice, "Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?" which is, being +interpreted. "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me." + +And some of them that stood by, when they heard it, said, "Behold, he +calleth Elijah." + +After this, Jesus, knowing that all things are now finished, that the +scripture might be accomplished, saith, "I thirst." + +There was set there a vessel full of vinegar: so they put a sponge +full of the vinegar upon hyssop, and brought it to his mouth. When +Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, "It is finished." + +And Jesus, crying with a loud voice, said, "Father, into thy hands I +commend my spirit," and having said this, he gave up the ghost. + +And behold, the veil of the temple was rent in two from the top to +the bottom; and the earth did quake; and the rocks were rent; and the +tombs were opened; and many bodies of the saints that had fallen +asleep were raised; and coming forth out of the tombs after his +resurrection they entered into the holy city and appeared unto many. + +Now the centurion, and they that were with him watching Jesus, when +they saw the earthquake, and the things that were done, feared +exceedingly, saying, "Truly this was the Son of God." + +And all the multitudes that came together to this sight, when they +beheld the things that were done, returned smiting their breasts. And +many women were there beholding from afar, who had followed Jesus from +Galilee, ministering unto him; among whom was Mary Magdalene, and Mary +the mother of James and Joses, and the mother of the sons of Zebedee. + +The Jews therefore, because it was the Preparation, that the bodies +should not remain on the cross upon the sabbath (for the day of that +sabbath was a high day), asked of Pilate that their legs might be +broken and that they might be taken away. + +The soldiers therefore came, and brake the legs of the first, and of +the other that was crucified with him: but when they came to Jesus, +and saw that he was dead already, they brake not his legs: howbeit one +of the soldiers with a spear pierced his side, and straightway there +came out blood and water. And he that hath seen hath borne witness, +and his witness is true: and he knoweth that he saith true, that ye +also may believe. For these things came to pass, that the scripture +might be fulfilled, "A bone of him shall not be broken." And again +another scripture saith, "They shall look on him whom they pierced." + + +THE BURIAL. + +And after these things, when even was come, there came a rich man from +Arimathæa, named Joseph, a councillor of honorable estate, a disciple +of Jesus, but secretly for fear of the Jews; and he boldly went in +unto Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus. And Pilate marvelled if +he were already dead: and calling unto him the centurion, he asked him +whether he had been any while dead. And when he learned it of the +centurion, he granted the corpse to Joseph. + +He came therefore, and took away his body. And there came also +Nicodemus, he who at the first came to him by night, bringing a +mixture of myrrh and aloes, about a hundred pounds. So they took the +body of Jesus, and bound it in linen cloths with the spices, as the +custom of the Jews is to bury. + +Now in the place where he was crucified there was a garden: and in the +garden a new tomb wherein was never man yet laid. There then because +of the Jews' Preparation (for the tomb was nigh at hand), they laid +Jesus; and rolled a stone against the door of the tomb. + +And Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of Jesus beheld the tomb, and +how his body was laid. And they returned, and prepared spices and +ointments. + + + + +SATURDAY--THE DAY OF SILENCE AND SORROW + + +THE WATCH AT THE TOMB. + +Now on the morrow, which is the day after the Preparation, the chief +priests and the Pharisees were gathered together unto Pilate, saying, +"Sir, we remember that that deceiver said while he was yet alive, +'After three days I rise again.' Command therefore that the sepulchre +be made sure until the third day, lest haply his disciples come and +steal him away, and say unto the people, 'He is risen from the dead,' +and the last error will be worse than the first." + +Pilate said unto them, "Ye have a guard: go, make it as sure as ye +can." + +So they went, and made the sepulchre sure, sealing the stone, the +guard being with them. + + + + +=HIS RESURRECTION= + + * * * * * + +SUNDAY--THE DAY OF RESURRECTION + + +THE EARTHQUAKE. + +And behold, there was a great earthquake; for an angel of the Lord +descended from heaven, and came and rolled away the stone, and sat +upon it. His appearance was as lightning, and his raiment white as +snow: and for fear of him the watchers did quake, and became as dead +men. + + +THE EMPTY TOMB. + +Now on the first day of the week cometh Mary Magdalene early, while it +was yet dark, unto the tomb, and seeth the stone taken away from the +tomb. She runneth therefore, and cometh to Simon Peter, and to the +other disciple whom Jesus loved, and saith unto them, "They have taken +away the Lord out of the tomb, and we know not where they have laid +him." + +Peter therefore went forth, and the other disciple, and they went +toward the tomb. And they ran both together: and the other disciple +outran Peter, and came first to the tomb; and stooping and looking in, +he seeth the linen cloths lying; yet entered he not in. + +Simon Peter therefore also cometh, following him, and entered into the +tomb; and he beholdeth the linen cloths lying, and the napkin, that +was upon his head, not lying with the linen cloths, but rolled up in a +place by itself. Then entered in therefore the other disciple also, +who came first to the tomb, and he saw, and believed. For as yet they +knew not the scripture, that he must rise again from the dead. So the +disciples went away again unto their own home. + + +THE APPEARANCE TO MARY. + +But Mary was standing without at the tomb weeping: so, as she wept, +she stooped and looked into the tomb; and she beholdeth two angels in +white sitting, one at the head, and one at the feet, where the body of +Jesus had lain. And they say unto her, "Woman, why weepest thou?" + +She saith unto them, "Because they have taken away my Lord, and I know +not where they have laid him." + +When she had thus said, she turned herself back, and beholdeth Jesus +standing, and knew not that it was Jesus. + +Jesus saith unto her, "Woman, why weepest thou? Whom seekest thou?" + +She, supposing him to be the gardener, saith unto him, "Sir, if thou +hast borne him hence, tell me where thou hast laid him, and I will +take him away." + +Jesus saith unto her, "Mary." + +She turneth herself, and saith unto him in Hebrew, "Rabboni"; which is +to say, "Teacher." + +Jesus saith to her, "Touch me not; for I am not yet ascended unto the +Father: but go unto my brethren, and say to them, 'I ascend unto my +Father, and your Father, and my God and your God.'" + +Mary Magdalene cometh and telleth the disciples, "I have seen the +Lord"; and that he had said these things unto her. + + +THE APPEARANCE TO THE WOMEN. + +And the women which had come with him out of Galilee came unto the +tomb, bringing the spices which they had prepared. And they were +saying among themselves, "Who shall roll us away the stone from the +door of the tomb?" and looking up, they see that the stone is rolled +back: for it was exceeding great. And entering into the tomb, they saw +a young man sitting on the right side arrayed in a white robe; and +they were amazed. And he saith unto them, "Be not amazed: ye seek +Jesus, the Nazarene, who hath been crucified: he is risen; he is not +here: behold, the place where they laid him! But go, tell his +disciples and Peter, 'He goeth before you into Galilee: there shall ye +see him, as he said unto you.'" + +And they departed quickly from the tomb with fear and great joy, and +ran to bring his disciples word. + +And behold, Jesus met them, saying, "All hail." And they came and took +hold of his feet, and worshipped him. + +Then saith Jesus unto them, "Fear not: go tell my brethren that they +depart into Galilee, and there shall they see me." + + +REPORT OF THE WATCH. + +Now while they were going, behold, some of the guard came into the +city, and told unto the chief priests all the things that were come to +pass. And when they were assembled with the elders, and had taken +counsel, they gave much money unto the soldiers, saying, "Say ye, 'His +disciples came by night, and stole him away while we slept.' And if +this come to the governor's ears, we will persuade him, and rid you of +care." + +So they took the money and did as they were taught: and this saying +was spread abroad among the Jews, and continueth until this day. + + +THE APPEARANCE AT EMMAUS. + +And behold, two of them were going that very day to a village named +Emmaus, which was three-score furlongs from Jerusalem. And they +communed with each other of all these things which had happened. + +And it came to pass, while they communed and questioned together, that +Jesus himself drew near, and went with them. But their eyes were +holden that they should not know him. + +And he said unto them, "What communications are these that ye have one +with another, as ye walk?" + +And they stood still, looking sad. And one of them, named Cleopas, +answering, said unto him, "Dost thou alone sojourn in Jerusalem and +not know the things which are come to pass there in these days?" + +And he said unto them, "What things?" + +And they said unto him, "The things concerning Jesus the Nazarene, who +was a prophet mighty in deed and word before God, and all the people: +and how the chief priests and our rulers delivered him up to be +condemned to death, and crucified him. But we hoped that it was he who +should redeem Israel. Yea, and besides all this, it is now the third +day since these things came to pass. Moreover, certain women of our +company amazed us, having been early at the tomb; and when they found +not his body, they came, saying, that they had also seen a vision of +angels, who said that he was alive. And certain of them that were with +us went to the tomb, and found it even so as the women had said: but +him they saw not." + +And he said unto them, "O foolish men, and slow of heart to believe in +all that the prophets have spoken! Behooved it not the Christ to +suffer these things, and to enter into his glory?" + +And beginning from Moses and from all the prophets, he interpreted to +them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself. + +And they drew nigh unto the village, whither they were going: and he +made as though he would go further. And they constrained him, saying, +"Abide with us; for it is toward evening, and the day is now far +spent." + +And he went in to abide with them. And it came to pass, when he had +sat down with them to meat, he took the bread and blessed; and +breaking it, he gave to them. And their eyes were opened, and they +knew him; and he vanished out of their sight. + +And they said one to another, "Was not our heart burning within us, +while he spake to us in the way, while he opened to us the +scriptures?" + +And they rose up that very hour, and returned to Jerusalem, and found +the eleven gathered together, and them that were with them, saying, +"The Lord is risen indeed, and hath appeared to Simon." And they +rehearsed the things that happened in the way, and how he was known of +them in the breaking of the bread. + + +THE APPEARANCE TO THE DISCIPLES. + +When therefore it was evening, on that day, the first day of the week, +and when the doors were shut where the disciples were, for fear of the +Jews, Jesus came and stood in the midst and saith unto them, "Peace be +unto you." + +But they were terrified and affrighted, and supposed that they beheld +a spirit. And he said unto them, "Why are ye troubled? and wherefore +do questionings arise in your heart? See my hands and my feet, that it +is I myself: handle me, and see; for a spirit hath not flesh and +bones, as ye behold me having." + +And when he had said this, he showed them his hands and his feet. + +And while they still disbelieved for joy, and wondered, he said unto +them, "Have ye here anything to eat?" + +And they gave him a piece of a broiled fish. And he took it, and ate +before them. + +Jesus therefore said to them again, "Peace be unto you: as the Father +hath sent me, even so send I you." And when he had said this, he +breathed on them, and saith unto them, "Receive ye the Holy Spirit: +whose soever sins ye forgive, they are forgiven unto them; whose +soever sins ye retain, they are retained." + + + + +AFTER THE RESURRECTION DAY + + +THE APPEARANCE TO THE DISCIPLES AND TO THOMAS. + +But Thomas, one of the twelve, called Didymus, was not with them when +Jesus came. The other disciples therefore said unto him, "We have seen +the Lord." + +But he said unto them, "Except I shall see in his hands the print of +the nails, and put my finger into the print of the nails, and put my +hand into his side, I will not believe." + +And after eight days again his disciples were within, and Thomas with +them. Jesus cometh, the doors being shut, and stood in the midst, and +said, "Peace be unto you." + +Then saith he to Thomas, "Reach hither thy finger, and see my hands; +and reach hither thy hand, and put it into my side: and be not +faithless, but believing." + +Thomas answered and said unto him, "My Lord and my God." + +Jesus saith unto him, "Because thou hast seen me, thou hast believed: +blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed." + + +THE APPEARANCE TO THE SEVEN BY THE SEA. + +After these things Jesus manifested himself again to the disciples at +the sea of Tiberias; and he manifested himself on this wise. There +were together Simon Peter, and Thomas called Didymus and Nathanael of +Cana in Galilee, and the sons of Zebedee, and two other of his +disciples. + +Simon Peter saith unto them, "I go a fishing." + +They say unto him, "We also come with thee." + +They went forth, and entered into the boat; and that night they took +nothing. But when day was now breaking, Jesus stood on the beach: yet +the disciples knew not that it was Jesus. + +Jesus therefore saith unto them, "Children, have ye aught to eat?" + +They answered him, "No." + +And he said unto them, "Cast the net on the right side of the boat, +and ye shall find." + +They cast therefore, and now they were not able to draw it for the +multitude of fishes. + +That disciple therefore whom Jesus loved saith unto Peter, "It is the +Lord". So when Simon Peter heard that it was the Lord, he girt his +coat about him (for he was naked), and cast himself into the sea. + +But the other disciples came in the little boat (for they were not far +from the land, but about two hundred cubits off), dragging the net +full of fishes. + +So when they got out upon the land, they see a fire of coals there, +and fish laid thereon, and bread. Jesus saith unto them, "Bring of the +fish which ye have now taken." + +Simon Peter therefore went up, and drew the net to land, full of great +fishes, a hundred and fifty and three; and for all there were so many, +the net was not rent. + +Jesus saith unto them, "Come and break your fast." + +And none of the disciples durst inquire of him, "Who art thou?" +knowing that it was the Lord. + +Jesus cometh, and taketh the bread, and giveth them, and the fish +likewise. + +This is now the third time that Jesus was manifested to the disciples, +after that he was risen from the dead. + +So when they had broken their fast, Jesus saith to Simon Peter, +"Simon, son of John, lovest thou me more than these?" + +He saith unto him, "Yea, Lord; thou knowest that I love thee." + +He saith unto him, "Feed my lambs." + +He saith unto him again a second time, "Simon, son of John, lovest +thou me?" + +He saith unto him, "Yea, Lord, thou knowest that I love thee." + +He saith unto him, "Tend my sheep." + +He saith unto him the third time, "Simon, son of John, lovest thou +me?" + +Peter was grieved because he said unto him the third time, "Lovest +thou me?" And he said unto him, "Lord, thou knowest all things; thou +knowest that I love thee." + +Jesus saith unto him, "Feed my sheep. Verily, verily, I say unto thee, +When thou wast young, thou girdedst thyself, and walkedst whither thou +wouldest; but when thou shalt be old, thou shalt stretch forth thy +hands, and another shall gird thee, and carry thee whither thou +wouldest not." + +Now this he spake, signifying by what manner of death he should +glorify God. And when he had spoken this, he saith unto him, "Follow +me." + +Peter, turning about, seeth the disciple whom Jesus loved following; +who also leaned back on his breast at the supper, and said, "Lord, who +is he that betrayeth thee?" Peter therefore seeing him saith to Jesus, +"Lord, and what shall this man do?" + +Jesus saith unto him, "If I will that he tarry till I come, what is +that to thee? Follow thou me." + +This saying therefore went forth among the brethren, that that +disciple should not die: yet Jesus said not unto him, that he should +not die, but, "If I will that he tarry till I come, what is that to +thee?" + + +THE APPEARANCE TO THE ELEVEN ON THE MOUNTAIN. + +The eleven disciples went into Galilee, unto the mountain where Jesus +had appointed them. And when they saw him, they worshipped him; but +some doubted. And Jesus came to them and spake unto them, saying, "All +authority hath been given unto me in heaven and on earth. Go ye +therefore, and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in +the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit: teaching +them to observe all things whatsoever I commanded you: and lo, I am +with you always, even unto the end of the world." + + +THE LAST APPEARANCE AND ASCENSION. + +And he said unto them, "These are my words which I spake unto you, +while I was yet with you, that all things must needs be fulfilled, +which are written in the law of Moses, and the prophets, and the +psalms, concerning me." + +Then opened he their mind, that they might understand the scriptures; +and he said unto them, "Thus it is written, that the Christ should +suffer, and rise again from the dead the third day; and that +repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name unto +all the nations, beginning from Jerusalem. Ye are witnesses of these +things. And behold, I send forth the promise of my Father upon you: +but tarry ye in the city, until ye be clothed with power from on +high." + +And he led them out until they were over against Bethany: and he +lifted up his hands, and blessed them. + +And it came to pass, while he blessed them, he parted from them, and +was carried up into heaven. And they worshipped him, and returned to +Jerusalem with great joy: and were continually in the temple, +blessing God. + + * * * * * + +MANY OTHER SIGNS THEREFORE DID JESUS IN THE PRESENCE OF THE DISCIPLES +WHICH ARE NOT WRITTEN IN THIS BOOK, BUT THESE ARE WRITTEN, THAT YE MAY +BELIEVE THAT JESUS IS THE CHRIST, THE SON OF GOD; AND THAT BELIEVING +YE MAY HAVE LIFE IN HIS NAME. + + + + + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of His Life +by William E. Barton, Theodore G. 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