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(Luke 5.27, and Mark 2.14.) He was the +first of the Evangelists that wrote the Gospel, and that in Hebrew or +Syro-Chaldaic which the Jews in Palestine spoke at that time. The +original is not now extant; but it was translated in the time of the +Apostles into Greek, that version was of equal authority. He wrote about +six years after the Lord's Ascension. + + +Matthew Chapter 1 + +The genealogy of Christ: he is conceived and born of a virgin. + +1:1. The book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the +son of Abraham: + +1:2. Abraham begot Isaac. And Isaac begot Jacob. And Jacob begot Judas +and his brethren. + +1:3. And Judas begot Phares and Zara of Thamar. And Phares begot Esron. +And Esron begot Aram. + +1:4. And Aram begot Aminadab. And Aminadab begot Naasson. And Naasson +begot Salmon. + +1:5. And Salmon begot Booz of Rahab. And Booz begot Obed of Ruth. And +Obed begot Jesse. + +1:6. And Jesse begot David the king. And David the king begot Solomon, +of her that had been the wife of Urias. + +1:7. And Solomon begot Roboam. And Roboam begot Abia. And Abia begot +Asa. + +1:8. And Asa begot Josaphat. And Josaphat begot Joram. And Joram begot +Ozias. + +1:9. And Ozias begot Joatham. And Joatham begot Achaz. And Achaz begot +Ezechias. + +1:10. And Ezechias begot Manasses. And Manasses begot Amon. And Amon +begot Josias. + +1:11. And Josias begot Jechonias and his brethren in the transmigration +of Babylon. + +1:12. And after the transmigration of Babylon, Jechonias begot +Salathiel. And Salathiel begot Zorobabel. + +1:13. And Zorobabel begot Abiud. And Abiud begot Eliacim. And Eliacim +begot Azor. + +1:14. And Azor begot Sadoc. And Sadoc begot Achim. And Achim begot +Eliud. + +1:15. And Eliud begot Eleazar. And Eleazar begot Mathan. And Mathan +begot Jacob. + +1:16. And Jacob begot Joseph the husband of Mary, of whom was born +Jesus, who is called Christ. + +The husband of Mary... The Evangelist gives us rather the pedigree of +St. Joseph, than that of the blessed Virgin, to conform to the custom of +the Hebrews, who in their genealogies took no notice of women; but as +they were near akin, the pedigree of the one sheweth that of the other. + +1:17. So all the generations from Abraham to David, are fourteen +generations. And from David to the transmigration of Babylon, are +fourteen generations: and from the transmigration of Babylon to Christ +are fourteen generations. + +1:18. Now the generation of Christ was in this wise. When as his mother +Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they came together, she was found +with child, of the Holy Ghost. + +1:19. Whereupon Joseph her husband, being a just man, and not willing +publicly to expose her, was minded to put her away privately. + +1:20. But while he thought on these things, behold the Angel of the Lord +appeared to him in his sleep, saying: Joseph, son of David, fear not to +take unto thee Mary thy wife, for that which is conceived in her, is of +the Holy Ghost. + +1:21. And she shall bring forth a son: and thou shalt call his name +Jesus. For he shall save his people from their sins. + +1:22. Now all this was done that it might be fulfilled which the Lord +spoke by the prophet, saying: + +1:23. Behold a virgin shall be with child, and bring forth a son, and +they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with +us. + +1:24. And Joseph rising up from sleep, did as the angel of the Lord had +commanded him, and took unto him his wife. + +1:25. And he knew her not till she brought forth her first born son: and +he called his name Jesus. + +Till she brought forth her firstborn son... From these words Helvidius +and other heretics most impiously inferred that the blessed Virgin Mary +had other children besides Christ; but St. Jerome shews, by divers +examples, that this expression of the Evangelist was a manner of +speaking usual among the Hebrews, to denote by the word until, only what +is done, without any regard to the future. Thus it is said, Genesis 8. 6 +and 7, that Noe sent forth a raven, which went forth, and did not return +till the waters were dried up on the earth. That is, did not return any +more. Also Isaias 46. 4, God says: I am till you grow old. Who dare +infer that God should then cease to be: Also in the first book of +Machabees 5. 54, And they went up to mount Sion with joy and gladness, +and offered holocausts, because not one of them was slain till they had +returned in peace. That is, not one was slain before or after they had +returned. God saith to his divine Son: Sit on my right hand till I make +thy enemies thy footstool. Shall he sit no longer after his enemies are +subdued? Yea and for all eternity. St. Jerome also proves by Scripture +examples, that an only begotten son, was also called firstborn, or first +begotten: because according to the law, the firstborn males were to be +consecrated to God; Sanctify unto me, saith the Lord, every firstborn +that openeth the womb among the children of Israel, etc. Ex. 13. 2. + +Matthew Chapter 2 + +The offerings of the wise men: the flight into Egypt: the massacre of +the Innocents. + +2:1. When Jesus therefore was born in Bethlehem of Juda, in the days of +king Herod, behold, there came wise men from the East to Jerusalem, + +2:2. Saying: Where is he that is born king of the Jews? For we have seen +his star in the East, and are come to adore him. + +2:3. And king Herod hearing this, was troubled, and all Jerusalem with +him. + +2:4. And assembling together all the chief priests and the scribes of +the people, he inquired of them where Christ should be born. + +2:5. But they said to him: In Bethlehem of Juda. For so it is written by +the prophet: + +2:6. And thou Bethlehem the land of Juda art not the least among the +princes of Juda: for out of thee shall come forth the captain that shall +rule my people Israel. + +2:7. Then Herod, privately calling the wise men learned diligently of +them the time of the star which appeared to them; + +2:8. And sending them into Bethlehem, said: Go and diligently inquire +after the child, and when you have found him, bring me word again, that +I also may come and adore him. + +2:9. Who having heard the king, went their way; and behold the star +which they had seen in the East, went before them, until it came and +stood over where the child was. + +2:10. And seeing the star they rejoiced with exceeding great joy. + +2:11. And entering into the house, they found the child with Mary his +mother, and falling down they adored him: and opening their treasures, +they offered him gifts; gold, frankincense, and myrrh. + +2:12. And having received an answer in sleep that they should not return +to Herod, they went back another way into their country. + +2:13. And after they were departed, behold an angel of the Lord appeared +in sleep to Joseph, saying: Arise, and take the child and his mother, +and fly into Egypt: and be there until I shall tell thee. For it will +come to pass that Herod will seek the child to destroy him. + +2:14. Who arose, and took the child and his mother by night, and retired +into Egypt: and he was there until the death of Herod: + +2:15. That it might be fulfilled which the Lord spoke by the prophet, +saying: Out of Egypt have I called my son. + +2:16. Then Herod perceiving that he was deluded by the wise men, was +exceeding angry: and sending killed all the menchildren that were in +Bethlehem, and in all the borders thereof, from two years old and under, +according to the time which he had diligently inquired of the wise men. + +2:17. Then was fulfilled that which was spoken by Jeremias the prophet, +saying: + +2:18. A voice in Rama was heard, lamentation and great mourning; Rachel +bewailing her children, and would not be comforted, because they are +not. + +2:19. But when Herod was dead, behold an angel of the Lord appeared in +sleep to Joseph in Egypt, + +2:20. Saying: Arise, and take the child and his mother, and go into the +land of Israel. For they are dead that sought the life of the child. + +2:21. Who arose, and took the child and his mother, and came into the +land of Israel. + +2:22. But hearing that Archclaus reigned in Judea in the room of Herod +his father, he was afraid to go thither: and being warned in sleep +retired into the quarters of Galilee. + +2:23. And coming he dwelt in a city called Nazareth: that it might be +fulfilled which was said by the prophets: That he shall be called a +Nazarene. + +Matthew Chapter 3 + +The preaching of John: Christ is baptized. + +3:1. And in those days cometh John the Baptist preaching in the desert +of Judea. + +3:2. And saying: Do penance: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. + +Do penance... Paenitentiam agite. Which word, according to the use of +the scriptures and the holy fathers, does not only signify repentance +and amendment of life, but also punishing past sins by fasting, and such +like penitential exercises. + +3:3. For this is he that was spoken of by Isaias the prophet, saying: A +voice of one crying in the desert, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make +straight his paths. + +3:4. And the same John had his garment of camel's hair, and a leathern +girdle about his loins: and his meat was locusts and wild honey. + +3:5. Then went out to him Jerusalem and all Judea, and all the country +about Jordan: + +3:6. And were baptized by him in the Jordan, confessing their sins. + +3:7. And seeing many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his +baptism, he said to them: Ye brood of vipers, who hath shewed you to +flee from the wrath to come? + +Pharisees and Sadducees... These were two sects among the Jews: of which +the former were for the most part notorious hypocrites; the latter, a +kind of freethinkers in matters of religion. + +3:8. Bring forth therefore fruit worthy of penance. + +3:9. And think not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham for our +father. For I tell you that God is able of these stones to raise up +children to Abraham. + +3:10. For now the axe is laid to the root of the trees. Every tree +therefore that doth not yield good fruit, shall be cut down, and cast +into the fire. + +3:11. I indeed baptize you in water unto penance, but he that shall come +after me, is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: he +shall baptize you in the Holy Ghost and fire. + +3:12. Whose fan is in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his floor +and gather his wheat into the barn; but the chaff he will burn with +unquenchable fire. + +3:13. Then cometh Jesus from Galilee to the Jordan, unto John, to be +baptized by him. + +3:14. But John stayed him, saying: I ought to be baptized by thee, and +comest thou to me? + +3:15. And Jesus answering, said to him: Suffer it to be so now. For so +it becometh us to fulfil all justice. Then he suffered him. + +3:16. And Jesus being baptized, forthwith came out of the water: and lo, +the heavens were opened to him: and he saw the Spirit of God descending +as a dove, and coming upon him. + +3:17. And behold a voice from heaven saying: This is my beloved Son, in +whom I am well pleased. + +Matthew Chapter 4 + +Christ's fast of forty days: He is tempted. He begins to preach, to call +disciples to him, and to work miracles. + +4:1. Then Jesus was led by the spirit into the desert, to be tempted by +the devil. + +4:2. And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, afterwards he +was hungry. + +4:3. And the tempter coming said to him: If thou be the Son of God, +command that these stones be made bread. + +4:4. Who answered and said: It is written, Not in bread alone doth man +live, but in every word that proceedeth from the mouth of God. + +4:5. Then the devil took him up into the holy city, and set him upon the +pinnacle of the temple, + +4:6. And said to him: If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down, for +it is written: That he hath given his angels charge over thee, and in +their hands shall they bear thee up, lest perhaps thou dash thy foot +against a stone. + +4:7. Jesus said to him: It is written again: Thou shalt not tempt the +Lord thy God. + +4:8. Again the devil took him up into a very high mountain, and shewed +him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them, + +Shewed him, etc... That is, pointed out to him where each kingdom lay; +and set forth in words what was most glorious and admirable in each of +them. Or also set before his eyes, as it were in a large map, a lively +representation of all those kingdoms. + +4:9. And said to him: All these will I give thee, if falling down thou +wilt adore me. + +4:10. Then Jesus saith to him: Begone, Satan: for it is written: The +Lord thy God shalt thou adore, and him only shalt thou serve. + +4:11. Then the devil left him; and behold angels came and ministered to +him. + +4:12. And when Jesus had heard that John was delivered up, he retired +into Galilee: + +4:13. And leaving the city Nazareth, he came and dwelt in Capharnaum on +the sea coast, in the borders of Zabulon and of Nephthalim; + +4:14. That it might be fulfilled which was said by Isaias the prophet: + +4:15. Land of Zabulon and land of Nephthalim, the way of the sea beyond +the Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles: + +4:16. The people that sat in darkness, hath seen great light: and to +them that sat in the region of the shadow of death, light is sprung up. + +4:17. From that time Jesus began to preach, and to say: Do penance, for +the kingdom of heaven is at hand. + +4:18. And Jesus walking by the sea of Galilee, saw two brethren, Simon +who is called Peter, and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea +(for they were fishers). + +4:19. And he saith to them: Come ye after me, and I will make you to be +fishers of men. + +4:20. And they immediately leaving their nets, followed him. + +4:21. And going on from thence, he saw other two brethren, James the son +of Zebedee, and John his brother, in a ship with Zebedee their father, +mending their nets: and he called them. + +4:22. And they forthwith left their nets and father, and followed him. + +4:23. And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, +and preaching the gospel of the kingdom: and healing all manner of +sickness and every infirmity, among the people. + +4:24. And his fame went throughout all Syria, and they presented to him +all sick people that were taken with divers diseases and torments, and +such as were possessed by devils, and lunatics, and those that had the +palsy, and he cured them: + +4:25. And much people followed him from Galilee, and from Decapolis, and +from Jerusalem, and from Judea, and from beyond the Jordan. + +Matthew Chapter 5 + +Christ's sermon upon the mount. The eight beatitudes. + +5:1. And seeing the multitudes, he went up into a mountain, and when he +was set down, his disciples came unto him. + +5:2. And opening his mouth he taught them, saying: + +5:3. Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of +heaven. + +The poor in spirit... That is, the humble; and they whose spirit is not +set upon riches. + +5:4. Blessed are the meek: for they shall possess the land. + +5:5. Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted. + +5:6. Blessed are they that hunger and thirst after justice: for they +shall have their fill. + +5:7. Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy. + +5:8. Blessed are the clean of heart: they shall see God. + +5:9. Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children +of God. + +5:10. Blessed are they that suffer persecution for justice' sake: for +theirs is the kingdom of heaven. + +5:11. Blessed are ye when they shall revile you, and persecute you, and +speak all that is evil against you, untruly, for my sake: + +5:12. Be glad and rejoice for your reward is very great in heaven. For +so they persecuted the prophets that were before you. + +5:13. You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt lose its savour, +wherewith shall it be salted? It is good for nothing anymore but to be +cast out, and to be trodden on by men. + +5:14. You are the light of the world. A city seated on a mountain cannot +be hid. + +5:15. Neither do men light a candle and put it under a bushel, but upon +a candlestick, that it may shine to all that are in the house. + +5:16. So let your light shine before men, that they may see your good +works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven. + +5:17. Do not think that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets. I +am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. + +To fulfil... By accomplishing all the figures and prophecies; and +perfecting all that was imperfect. + +5:18. For amen I say unto you, till heaven and earth pass, one jot, or +one tittle shall not pass of the law, till all be fulfilled. + +Amen... That is, assuredly of a truth... This Hebrew word, amen, is here +retained by the example and authority of all the four Evangelists. It is +used by our Lord as a strong asseveration, and affirmation of the truth. + +5:19. He therefore that shall break one of these least commandments, and +shall so teach men shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven. +But he that shall do and teach, he shall be called great in the kingdom +of heaven. + +5:20. For I tell you, that unless your justice abound more than that of +the scribes and Pharisees, you shall not enter into the kingdom of +heaven. + +The scribes and Pharisees... The scribes were the doctors of the law of +Moses: the Pharisees were a precise set of men, making profession of a +more exact observance of the law: and upon that account greatly esteemed +among the people. + +5:21. You have heard that it was said to them of old: Thou shalt not +kill. And whosoever shall kill, shall be in danger of the judgment. + +Shall be in danger of the judgment... That is, shall deserve to be +punished by that lesser tribunal among the Jews, called the Judgment, +which took cognizance of such crimes. + +5:22. But I say to you, that whosoever 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 hell fire. + +Raca... A word expressing great indignation or contempt. Shall be in +danger of the council... That is, shall deserve to be punished by the +highest court of judicature, called the Council, or Sanhedrim, +consisting of seventy-two persons, where the highest causes were tried +and judged, which was at Jerusalem. Thou fool... This was then looked +upon as a heinous injury, when uttered with contempt, spite, or malice: +and therefore is here so severely condemned. Shall be in danger of hell +fire... literally, according to the Greek, shall deserve to be cast +into the Gehenna of fire. Which words our Saviour made use of to express +the fire and punishments of hell. + +5:23. If therefore thou offer thy gift at the altar, and there thou +remember that thy brother hath anything against thee; + +5:24. Leave there thy offering before the altar, and go first to be +reconciled to thy brother, and then coming thou shalt offer thy gift. + +5:25. Be at agreement with thy adversary betimes, whilst thou art in the +way with him: lest perhaps the adversary deliver thee to the judge, and +the judge deliver thee to the officer, and thou be cast into prison. + +5:26. Amen I say to thee, thou shalt not go out from thence till thou +repay the last farthing. + +5:27. You have heard that it was said to them of old: Thou shalt not +commit adultery. + +5:28. But I say to you, that whosoever shall look on a woman to lust +after her, hath already committed adultery with her in his heart. + +5:29. And if thy right eye scandalize thee, pluck it out and cast it +from thee. For it is expedient for thee that one of thy members should +perish, rather than thy whole body be cast into hell. + +Scandalize thee... That is, if it be a stumblingblock, or occasion of +sin to thee. By which we are taught to fly the immediate occasions of +sin, though they be as dear to us, or as necessary as a hand or an eye. + +5:30. And if thy right hand scandalize thee, cut it off, and cast it +from thee: for it is expedient for thee that one of thy members should +perish, rather than that thy whole body go into hell. + +5:31. And it hath been said, Whosoever shall put away his wife, let him +give her a bill of divorce. + +5:32. But I say to you, that whosoever shall put away his wife, +excepting the cause of fornication, maketh her to commit adultery: and +he that shall marry her that is put away, committeth adultery. + +5:33. Again you have heard that it was said to them of old, thou shalt +not forswear thyself: but thou shalt perform thy oaths to the Lord. + +5:34. But I say to you not to swear at all, neither by heaven for it is +the throne of God: + +Not to swear at all... It is not forbid to swear in truth, justice and +judgment; to the honour of God, or our own or neighbour's just defence: +but only to swear rashly, or profanely, in common discourse, and without +necessity. + +5:35. Nor by the earth, for it is his footstool: nor by Jerusalem, for +it is the city of the great king: + +5:36. Neither shalt thou swear by thy head, because thou canst not make +one hair white or black. + +5:37. But let your speech be yea, yea: no, no: and that which is over +and above these, is of evil. + +5:38. You have heard that it hath been said: An eye for an eye, and a +tooth for a tooth. + +5:39. But I say to you not to resist evil: but if one strike thee on thy +right cheek, turn to him also the other: + +Not to resist evil, etc... What is here commanded, is a Christian +patience under injuries and affronts, and to be willing even to suffer +still more, rather than to indulge the desire of revenge: but what is +further added does not strictly oblige according to the letter, for +neither did Christ nor St. Paul turn the other cheek. St. John 18., and +Acts 23. + +5:40. And if a man will contend with thee in judgment, and take away thy +coat, let go thy cloak also unto him. + +5:41. And whosoever will force thee one mile, go with him other two. + +5:42. Give to him that asketh of thee, and from him that would borrow of +thee turn not away. + +5:43. You have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy +neighbour, and hate thy enemy. + +5:44. But I say to you, Love your enemies: do good to them that hate +you: and pray for them that persecute and calumniate you: + +5:45. That you may be the children of your Father who is in heaven, who +maketh his sun to rise upon the good, and bad, and raineth upon the just +and the unjust. + +5:46. For if you love them that love you, what reward shall you have? do +not even the publicans this? + +The publicans... These were the gatherers of the public taxes: a set of +men, odious and infamous among the Jews, for their extortions and +injustice. + +5:47. And if you salute your brethren only, what do you more? do not +also the heathens this? + +5:48. Be you therefore perfect, as also your heavenly Father is perfect. + +Matthew Chapter 6 + +A continuation of the sermon on the mount. + +6:1. Take heed that you do not your justice before men, to be seen by +them: otherwise you shall not have a reward of your Father who is in +heaven. + +Your justice... that is, works of justice; viz., fasting, prayer, and +almsdeeds; which ought to be performed not out of ostentation, or a view +to please men, but solely to please God. + +6:2. Therefore when thou dost an alms-deed, sound not a trumpet before +thee, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that +they may be honoured by men. Amen I say to you, they have received their +reward. + +6:3. But when thou dost alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right +hand doth. + +6:4. That thy alms may be in secret, and thy Father who seeth in secret +will repay thee. + +6:5. And when ye pray, you shall not be as the hypocrites, that love to +stand and pray in the synagogues and corners of the streets, that they +may be seen by men: Amen I say to you, they have received their reward. + +6:6. But thou when thou shalt pray, enter into thy chamber, and having +shut the door, pray to thy Father in secret, and thy father who seeth in +secret will repay thee. + +6:7. And when you are praying, speak not much, as the heathens. For +they think that in their much speaking they may be heard. + +6:8. Be not you therefore like to them for your Father knoweth what is +needful for you, before you ask him. + +6:9. Thus therefore shall you pray: Our Father who art in heaven, +hallowed be thy name. + +6:10. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. + +6:11. Give us this day our supersubstantial bread. + +Supersubstantial bread... In St. Luke the same word is rendered daily +bread. It is understood of the bread of life, which we receive in the +Blessed Sacrament. + +6:12. And forgive us our debts, as we also forgive our debtors. + +6:13. And lead us not into temptation. But deliver us from evil. Amen. + +Lead us not into temptation... That is, suffer us not to be overcome by +temptation. + +6:14. For if you will forgive men their offences, your heavenly Father +will forgive you also your offences. + +6:15. But if you will not forgive men, neither will your Father forgive +you your offences. + +6:16. And when you fast, be not as the hypocrites, sad. For they +disfigure their faces, that they may appear unto men to fast. Amen I +say to you, they have received their reward. + +6:17. But thou, when thou fastest anoint thy head, and wash thy face; + +6:18. That thou appear not to men to fast, but to thy Father who is in +secret: and thy Father who seeth in secret, will repay thee. + +6:19. Lay not up to yourselves treasures on earth: where the rust, and +moth consume, and where thieves break through, and steal. + +6:20. But lay up to yourselves treasures in heaven: where neither the +rust nor moth doth consume, and where thieves do not break through, nor +steal. + +6:21. For where thy treasure is, there is thy heart also. + +6:22. The light of thy body is thy eye. If thy eye be single, thy whole +body shall be lightsome. + +6:23. But if thy eye be evil thy whole body shall be darksome. If then +the light that is in thee, be darkness: the darkness itself how great +shall it be! + +6:24. No man can serve two masters. For either he will hate the one, and +love the other: or he will sustain the one, and despise the other. You +cannot serve God and mammon. + +Mammon... That is, riches, worldly interest. + +6:25. Therefore I say to you, be not solicitous for your life, what you +shall eat, nor for your body, what you shall put on. Is not the life +more than the meat: and the body more than the raiment? + +6:26. Behold the birds of the air, for they neither sow, nor do they +reap, nor gather into barns: and your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are +not you of much more value than they? + +6:27. And which of you by taking thought, can add to his stature one +cubit? + +6:28. And for raiment why are you solicitous? Consider the lilies of the +field, how they grow: they labour not, neither do they spin. + +6:29. But I say to you, that not even Solomon in all his glory was +arrayed as one of these. + +6:30. And if the grass of the field, which is to day, and to morrow is +cast into the oven, God doth so clothe: how much more you, O ye of +little faith? + +6:31. Be not solicitous therefore, saying: What shall we eat: or what +shall we drink, or wherewith shall we be clothed? + +6:32. For after all these things do the heathens seek. For your Father +knoweth that you have need of all these things. + +6:33. Seek ye therefore first the kingdom of God, and his justice, and +all these things shall be added unto you. + +6:34. Be not therefore solicitous for to morrow; for the morrow will be +solicitous for itself. Sufficient for the day is the evil thereof. + +Matthew Chapter 7 + +The third part of the sermon on the mount. + +7:1. Judge not, that you may not be judged. + +7:2. For with what judgment you judge, you shall be judged: and with +what measure you mete, it shall be measured to you again. + +7:3. And why seest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye; and seest +not the beam that is in thy own eye? + +7:4. Or how sayest thou to thy brother: Let me cast the mote out of thy +eye; and behold a beam is in thy own eye? + +7:5. Thou hypocrite, cast out first the beam out of thy own eye, and +then shalt thou see to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye. + +7:6. Give not that which is holy to dogs; neither cast ye your pearls +before swine, lest perhaps they trample them under their feet, and +turning upon you, they tear you. + +7:7. Ask, and it shall be given you: seek, and you shall find: knock, +and it shall be opened to you. + +7:8. For every one that asketh, receiveth: and he that seeketh, findeth: +and to him that knocketh, it shall be opened. + +7:9. Or what man is there among you, of whom if his son shall ask bread, +will he reach him a stone? + +7:10. Or if he shall ask him a fish, will he reach him a serpent? + +7:11. If you then being evil, know how to give good gifts to your +children: how much more will your Father who is in heaven, give good +things to them that ask him? + +7:12. All things therefore whatsoever you would that men should do to +you, do you also to them. For this is the law and the prophets. + +7:13. Enter ye in at the narrow gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is +the way that leadeth to destruction, and many there are who go in +thereat. + +7:14. How narrow is the gate, and strait is the way that leadeth to +life: and few there are that find it! + +7:15. Beware of false prophets, who come to you in the clothing of +sheep, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. + +7:16. By their fruits you shall know them. Do men gather grapes of +thorns, or figs of thistles? + +7:17. Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit, and the evil +tree bringeth forth evil fruit. + +7:18. A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can an evil +tree bring forth good fruit. + +7:19. Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit, shall be cut down, +and shall be cast into the fire. + +7:20. Wherefore by their fruits you shall know them. + +7:21. Not every one that saith to me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the +kingdom of heaven: but he that doth the will of my Father who is in +heaven, he shall enter into the kingdom of heaven. + +7:22. Many will say to me in that day: Lord, Lord, have not we +prophesied in thy name, and cast out devils in thy name, and done many +miracles in thy name? + +7:23. And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from +me, you that work iniquity. + +7:24. Every one therefore that heareth these my words, and doth them, +shall be likened to a wise man that built his house upon a rock, + +7:25. And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and +they beat upon that house, and it fell not, for it was founded on a +rock. + +7:26. And every one that heareth these my words and doth them not, shall +be like a foolish man that built his house upon the sand, + +7:27. And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and +they beat upon that house, and it fell, and great was the fall thereof. + +7:28. And it came to pass when Jesus had fully ended these words, the +people were in admiration at his doctrine. + +7:29. For he was teaching them as one having power, and not as the +scribes and Pharisees. + +Matthew Chapter 8 + +Christ cleanses the leper, heals the centurion's servant, Peter's +mother-in-law, and many others: he stills the storm at sea, drives the +devils out of two men possessed, and suffers them to go into the swine. + +8:1. And when he was come down from the mountain, great multitudes +followed him: + +8:2. And behold a leper came and adored him, saying: Lord, if thou wilt, +thou canst make me clean. + +8:3. And Jesus stretching forth his hand, touched him, saying: I will, +be thou made clean. And forthwith his leprosy was cleansed. + +8:4. And Jesus saith to him: See thou tell no man: but go, shew thyself +to the priest, and offer the gift which Moses commanded, for a testimony +unto them. + +8:5. And when he had entered into Capharnaum, there came to him a +centurion, beseeching him, + +8:6. And saying, Lord, my servant lieth at home sick of the palsy, and +is grievously tormented. + +8:7. And Jesus saith to him: I will come and heal him. + +8:8. And the centurion, making answer, said: Lord, I am not worthy that +thou shouldst enter under my roof; but only say the word, and my servant +shall be healed. + +8:9. For I also am a man subject to authority, having under me soldiers; +and I say to this, Go, and he goeth, and to another Come, and he cometh, +and to my servant, Do this, and he doeth it. + +8:10. And Jesus hearing this, marvelled; and said to them that followed +him. Amen I say to you, I have not found so great faith in Israel. + +8:11. And I say to 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: + +8:12. But the children of the kingdom shall be cast out into the +exterior darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth. + +8:13. And Jesus said to the centurion: Go, and as thou hast believed, so +be it done to thee. And the servant was healed at the same hour. + +8:14. And when Jesus was come into Peter's house, he saw his wife's +mother lying, and sick of a fever; + +8:15. And he touched her hand, and the fever left her, and she arose and +ministered to them. + +8:16. And when evening was come, they brought to him many that were +possessed with devils: and he cast out the spirits with his word: and +all that were sick he healed: + +8:17. That it might be fulfilled, which was spoken by the prophet +Isaias, saying: He took our infirmities, and bore our diseases. + +8:18. And Jesus seeing great multitudes about him, gave orders to pass +over the water. + +8:19. And a certain scribe came and said to him: Master, I will follow +thee whithersoever thou shalt go. + +8:20. And Jesus saith to him: The foxes have holes, and the birds of the +air nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head. + +8:21. And another of his disciples said to him: Lord, suffer me first to +go and bury my father. + +8:22. But Jesus said to him: Follow me, and let the dead bury their +dead. + +8:23. And when he entered into the boat, his disciples followed him: + +8:24. And behold a great tempest arose in the sea, so that the boat was +covered with waves, but he was asleep. + +8:25. And they came to him, and awaked him, saying: Lord, save us, we +perish. + +8:26. And Jesus saith to them: Why are you fearful, O ye of little +faith? Then rising up, he commanded the winds, and the sea, and there +came a great calm. + +8:27. But the men wondered, saying: What manner of man is this, for the +winds and the sea obey him? + +8:28. And when he was come on the other side of the water, into the +country of the Gerasens, there met him two that were possessed with +devils, coming out of the sepulchres, exceeding fierce, so that none +could pass by that way. + +8:29. And behold they cried out, saying: What have we to do with thee, +Jesus Son of God? art thou come hither to torment us before the time? + +8:30. And there was, not far from them, a herd of many swine feeding. + +8:31. And the devils besought him, saying: If thou cast us out hence, +send us into the herd of swine. + +8:32. And he said to them: Go. But they going out went into the swine, +and behold the whole herd ran violently down a steep place into the sea: +and they perished in the waters. + +8:33. And they that kept them fled: and coming into the city, told every +thing, and concerning them that had been possessed by the devils. + +8:34. And behold the whole city went out to meet Jesus, and when they +saw him, they besought him that he would depart from their coast. + +Matthew Chapter 9 + +Christ heals one sick of palsy: calls Matthew: cures the issue of blood: +raises to life the daughter of Jairus: gives sight to two blind men: and +heals a dumb man possessed by the devil. + +9:1. And entering into a boat, he passed over the water and came into +his own city. + +9:2. And behold they brought to him one sick of the palsy lying in a +bed. And Jesus, seeing their faith, said to the man sick of the palsy: +Be of good heart, son, thy sins are forgiven thee. + +9:3. And behold some of the scribes said within themselves: He +blasphemeth. + +9:4. And Jesus seeing their thoughts, said: Why do you think evil in +your hearts? + +9:5. Whether is easier, to say, Thy sins are forgiven thee: or to say, +Arise, and walk? + +9:6. But that you may know that the Son of man hath power on earth to +forgive sins, (then said he to the man sick of the palsy,) Arise, take +up thy bed, and go into thy house. + +9:7. And he arose, and went into his house. + +9:8. And the multitude seeing it, feared, and glorified God that gave +such power to men. + +9:9. And when Jesus passed on from thence, he saw a man sitting in the +custom house, named Matthew; and he saith to him: Follow me. And he +arose up and followed him. + +9:10. And it came to pass as he was sitting at meat in the house, behold +many publicans and sinners came, and sat down with Jesus and his +disciples. + +9:11. And the Pharisees seeing it, said to his disciples: Why doth your +master eat with publicans and sinners? + +9:12. But Jesus hearing it, said: They that are in health need not a +physician, but they that are ill. + +9:13. Go then and learn what this meaneth, I will have mercy and not +sacrifice. For I am not come to call the just, but sinners. + +9:14. Then came to him the disciples of John, saying: Why do we and the +Pharisees, fast often, but thy disciples do not fast? + +9:15. And Jesus said to them: Can the children of the bridegroom mourn, +as long as the bridegroom is with them? But the days will come, when the +bridegroom shall be taken away from them, and then they shall fast. + +Can the children of the bridegroom... This, by a Hebraism, signifies the +friends or companions of the bridegroom. + +9:16. And nobody putteth a piece of raw cloth unto an old garment. For +it taketh away the fulness thereof from the garment, and there is made a +greater rent. + +9:17. Neither do they put new wine into old bottles. Otherwise the +bottles break, and the wine runneth out, and the bottles perish. But new +wine they put into new bottles: and both are preserved. + +9:18. As he was speaking these things unto them, behold a certain ruler +came up, and adored him, saying: Lord, my daughter is even now dead; but +come, lay thy hand upon her, and she shall live. + +9:19. And Jesus rising up followed him, with his disciples. + +9:20. And behold a woman who was troubled with an issue of blood twelve +years, came behind him, and touched the hem of his garment. + +9:21. For she said within herself: If I shall touch only his garment, I +shall be healed. + +9:22. But Jesus turning and seeing her, said: Be of good heart, +daughter, thy faith hath made thee whole. And the woman was made whole +from that hour. + +9:23. And when Jesus was come into the house of the ruler, and saw the +minstrels and the multitude making a rout, + +9:24. He said: Give place, for the girl is not dead, but sleepeth. And +they laughed him to scorn. + +9:25. And when the multitude was put forth, he went in, and took her by +the hand. And the maid arose. + +9:26. And the fame hereof went abroad into all that country. + +9:27. And as Jesus passed from thence, there followed him two blind men +crying out and saying, Have mercy on us, O Son of David. + +9:28. And when he was come to the house, the blind men came to him. And +Jesus saith to them, Do you believe, that I can do this unto you? They +say to him, Yea, Lord. + +9:29. Then he touched their eyes, saying, According to your faith, be it +done unto you. + +9:30. And their eyes were opened, and Jesus strictly charged them, +saying, See that no man know this. + +9:31. But they going out, spread his fame abroad in all that country. + +9:32. And when they were gone out, behold they brought him a dumb man, +possessed with a devil. + +9:33. And after the devil was cast out, the dumb man spoke, and the +multitudes wondered, saying, Never was the like seen in Israel. + +9:34. But the Pharisees said, By the prince of devils he casteth out +devils. + +9:35. And Jesus went about all the cities and towns, teaching in their +synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every +disease, and every infirmity. + +9:36. And seeing the multitudes, he had compassion on them: because they +were distressed, and lying like sheep that have no shepherd. + +9:37. Then he saith to his disciples, The harvest indeed is great, but +the labourers are few. + +9:38. Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he send forth +labourers into his harvest. + +Matthew Chapter 10 + +Christ sends out his twelve apostles, with the power of miracles. The +lessons he gives them. + +10:1. And having called his twelve disciples together, he gave them +power over unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal all manner of +diseases, and all manner of infirmities. + +10:2. And the names of the twelve Apostles are these: The first, Simon +who is called Peter, and Andrew his brother, + +10:3. James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother, Philip and +Bartholomew, Thomas and Matthew the publican, and James the son of +Alpheus, and Thaddeus, + +10:4. Simon the Cananean, and Judas Iscariot, who also betrayed him. + +10:5. These twelve Jesus sent: commanding them, saying: Go ye not into +the way of the Gentiles, and into the city of the Samaritans enter ye +not. + +10:6. But go ye rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. + +10:7. And going, preach, saying: The kingdom of heaven is at hand. + +10:8. Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse the lepers, cast out +devils: freely have you received, freely give. + +10:9. Do not possess gold, nor silver, nor money in your purses: + +10:10. Nor scrip for your journey, nor two coats, nor shoes, nor a +staff; for the workman is worthy of his meat. + +10:11. And into whatsoever city or town you shall enter, inquire who in +it is worthy, and there abide till you go thence. + +10:12. And when you come into the house, salute it, saying: Peace be to +this house. + +10:13. And if that house be worthy, your peace shall come upon it; but +if it be not worthy, your peace shall return to you. + +10:14. And whosoever shall not receive you, nor hear your words: going +forth out of that house or city shake off the dust from your feet. + +10:15. Amen I say to you, it shall be more tolerable for the land of +Sodom and Gomorrha in the day of judgment, than for that city. + +10:16. Behold I send you as sheep in the midst of wolves. Be ye +therefore wise as serpents and simple as doves. + +Simple... That is, harmless, plain, sincere, and without guile. + +10:17. But beware of men. For they will deliver you up in councils, and +they will scourge you in their synagogues. + +10:18. And you shall be brought before governors, and before kings for +my sake, for a testimony to them and to the Gentiles: + +10:19. But when they shall deliver you up, take no thought how or what +to speak: for it shall be given you in that hour what to speak: + +10:20. For it is not you that speak, but the spirit of your Father that +speaketh in you. + +10:21. The brother also shall deliver up the brother to death, and the +father the son; and the children shall rise up against their parents, +and shall put them to death. + +10:22. And you shall be hated by all men for my name's sake: but he that +shall persevere unto the end, he shall be saved. + +10:23. And when they shall persecute you in this city, flee into +another. Amen I say to you, you shall not finish all the cities of +Israel, till the Son of man come. + +10:24. The disciple is not above the master, nor the servant above his +lord. + +10:25. It is enough for the disciple that he be as his master, and the +servant as his lord. If they have called the good man of the house +Beelzebub, how much more them of his household? + +10:26. Therefore fear them not. For nothing is covered that shall not be +revealed: nor hid, that shall not be known. + +10:27. That which I tell you in the dark, speak ye in the light: and +that which you hear in the ear, preach ye upon the housetops. + +10:28. And fear ye not them that kill the body, and are not able to kill +the soul: but rather fear him that can destroy both soul and body in +hell. + +10:29. Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? and not one of them +shall fall on the ground without your Father. + +10:30. But the very hairs of your head are all numbered. + +10:31. Fear not therefore: better are you than many sparrows. + +10:32. Every one therefore that shall confess me before men, I will also +confess him before my Father who is in heaven. + +10:33. But he that shall deny me before men, I will also deny him before +my Father who is in heaven. + +10:34. Do not think that I came to send peace upon earth: I came not to +send peace, but the sword. + +10:35. 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. + +I came to set a man at variance, etc... Not that this was the end or +design of the coming of our Saviour; but that his coming and his +doctrine would have this effect, by reason of the obstinate resistance +that many would make, and of their persecuting all such as should adhere +to him. + +10:36. And a man's enemies shall be they of his own household. + +10:37. 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. + +10:38. And he that taketh not up his cross, and followeth me, is not +worthy of me. + +10:39. He that findeth his life, shall lose it: and he that shall lose +his life for me, shall find it. + +10:40. He that receiveth you, receiveth me: and he that receiveth me, +receiveth him that sent me. + +10:41. He that receiveth a prophet in the name of a prophet, shall +receive the reward of a prophet: and he that receiveth a just man in the +name of a just man, shall receive the reward of a just man. + +10:42. And whosoever shall give to drink to one of these little ones a +cup of cold water only in the name of a disciple, amen I say to you he +shall not lose his reward. + +Matthew Chapter 11 + +John sends his disciples to Christ, who upbraids the Jews for their +incredulity, and calls to him such as are sensible of their burdens. + +11:1. And it came to pass, when Jesus had made an end of commanding his +twelve disciples, he passed from thence, to teach and to preach in their +cities. + +11:2. Now when John had heard in prison the works of Christ: sending two +of his disciples he said to him: + +11:3. Art thou he that art to come, or look we for another? + +11:4. And Jesus making answer said to them: Go and relate to John what +you have heard and seen. + +11:5. The blind see, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf +hear, the dead rise again, the poor have the gospel preached to them. + +11:6. And blessed is he that shall not be scandalized in me. + +Scandalized in me... That is, who shall not take occasion of scandal or +offence from my humility, and the disgraceful death of the cross which I +shall endure. + +11:7. And when they went their way, Jesus began to say to the multitudes +concerning John: What went you out into the desert to see? a reed shaken +with the wind? + +11:8. But what went you out to see? a man clothed in soft garments? +Behold they that are clothed in soft garments, are in the houses of +kings. + +11:9. But what went you out to see? A prophet? Yea I tell you, and more +than a prophet. + +11:10. For this is he of whom it is written: Behold I send my angel +before my face, who shall prepare thy way before thee. + +11:11. Amen I say to you, there hath not risen among them that are born +of women a greater than John the Baptist: yet he that is the lesser in +the kingdom of heaven is greater than he. + +11:12. And from the days of John the Baptist until now, the kingdom of +heaven suffereth violence, and the violent bear it away. + +Suffereth violence, etc... It is not to be obtained but by main force, +by using violence upon ourselves, by mortification and penance, and +resisting our perverse inclinations. + +11:13. For all the prophets and the law prophesied until John: + +11:14. And if you will receive it, he is Elias that is to come. + +He is Elias, etc... Not in person, but in spirit. St. Luke 1. 17. + +11:15. He that hath ears to hear, let him hear. + +11:16. But whereunto shall I esteem this generation to be like? It is +like to children sitting in the market place. + +11:17. Who crying to their companions say: We have piped to you, and you +have not danced: we have lamented, and you have not mourned. + +11:18. For John came neither eating nor drinking; and they say: He hath +a devil. + +11:19. The Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say: Behold a +man that is a glutton and a wine drinker, a friend of publicans and +sinners. And wisdom is justified by her children. + +11:20. Then began he to upbraid the cities wherein were done the most of +his miracles, for that they had not done penance. + +11:21. Woe thee, Corozain, woe to thee, Bethsaida: for if in Tyre and +Sidon had been wrought the miracles that have been wrought in you, they +had long ago done penance in sackcloth and ashes. + +11:22. But I say unto you, it shall be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon +in the day of judgment, than for you. + +11:23. And thou Capharnaum, shalt thou be exalted up to heaven? thou +shalt go down even unto hell. For if in Sodom had been wrought the +miracles that have been wrought in thee, perhaps it had remained unto +this day. + +11:24. But I say unto you, that it shall be more tolerable for the land +of Sodom in the day of judgment than for thee. + +11:25. At that time Jesus answered and said: I confess to thee, O +Father, Lord of Heaven and earth, because thou hast hid these things +from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them to little ones. + +11:26. Yea, Father: for so hath it seemed good in thy sight. + +11:27. All things are delivered to me by my Father. And no one knoweth +the Son but the Father: neither doth any one know the Father, but the +Son, and he to whom it shall please the Son to reveal him. + +11:28. Come to me all you that labor and are burdened, and I will +refresh you. + +11:29. Take up my yoke upon you, and learn of me, because I am meek, and +humble of heart: And you shall find rest to your souls. + +11:30. For my yoke is sweet and my burden light. + +Matthew Chapter 12 + +Christ reproves the blindness of the Pharisees, and confutes their +attributing his miracles to Satan. + +12:1. At that time Jesus went through the corn on the sabbath: and his +disciples being hungry, began to pluck the ears, and to eat. + +12:2. And the Pharisees seeing them, said to him: Behold thy disciples +do that which is not lawful to do on the sabbath days. + +12:3. But he said to them: Have you not read what David did when he was +hungry, and they that were with him: + +12:4. How he entered into the house of God, and did eat the loaves of +proposition, which it was not lawful for him to eat, nor for them that +were with him, but for the priests only? + +The loaves of proposition... So were called the twelve loaves which were +placed before the sanctuary in the temple of God. + +12:5. Or have ye not read in the law, that on the sabbath days the +priests in the temple break the sabbath, and are without blame? + +12:6. But I tell you that there is here a greater than the temple. + +12:7. And if you knew what this meaneth: I will have mercy, and not +sacrifice: you would never have condemned the innocent. + +12:8. For the Son of man is Lord even of the sabbath. + +12:9. And when he had passed from thence, he came into their synagogues. + +12:10. And behold there was a man who had a withered hand, and they +asked him, saying: Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath days? that they +might accuse him. + +12:11. But he said to them: What man shall there be among you, that hath +one sheep: and if the same fall into a pit on the sabbath day, will he +not take hold on it and lift it up? + +12:12. How much better is a man than a sheep? Therefore it is lawful to +do a good deed on the sabbath days. + +12:13. Then he saith to the man: Stretch forth thy hand; and he +stretched it forth, and it was restored to health even as the other. + +12:14. And the Pharisees going out made a consultation against him, how +they might destroy him. + +12:15. But Jesus knowing it, retired from thence: and many followed him, +and he healed them all. + +12:16. And he charged them that they should not make him known. + +12:17. That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Isaias the +prophet, saying: + +12:18. Behold my servant whom I have chosen, my beloved in whom my soul +hath been well pleased. I will put my spirit upon him, and he shall shew +judgment to the Gentiles. + +12:19. He shall not contend, nor cry out, neither shall any man hear his +voice in the streets. + +12:20. The bruised reed he shall not break: and smoking flax he shall +not extinguish: till he send forth judgment unto victory. + +12:21. And in his name the Gentiles shall hope. + +12:22. Then was offered to him one possessed with a devil, blind and +dumb: and he healed him, so that he spoke and saw. + +12:23. And all the multitudes were amazed, and said: Is not this the son +of David? + +12:24. But the Pharisees hearing it, said: This man casteth not out +devils but by Beelzebub the prince of the devils. + +12:25. And Jesus knowing their thoughts, said to them: Every kingdom +divided against itself shall be made desolate: and every city or house +divided against itself shall not stand. + +12:26. And if Satan cast out Satan, he is divided against himself: how +then shall his kingdom stand? + +12:27. And if I by Beelzebub cast out devils, by whom do your children +cast them out? Therefore they shall be your judges. + +12:28. But if I by the Spirit of God cast out devils, then is the +kingdom of God come upon you. + +12:29. Or how can any one enter into the house of the strong, and rifle +his goods, unless he first bind the strong? and then he will rifle his +house. + +12:30. He that is not with me, is against me: and he that gathereth not +with me, scattereth. + +12:31. Therefore I say to you: Every sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven +men, but the blasphemy of the Spirit shall not be forgiven. + +The blasphemy of the Spirit... The sin here spoken of is that blasphemy, +by which the Pharisees attributed the miracles of Christ, wrought by the +Spirit of God, to Beelzebub the prince of devils. Now this kind of sin +is usually accompanied with so much obstinacy, and such wilful opposing +the Spirit of God, and the known truth, that men who are guilty of it, +are seldom or never converted: and therefore are never forgiven, because +they will not repent. Otherwise there is no sin, which God cannot or +will not forgive to such as sincerely repent, and have recourse to the +keys of the church. + +12:32. And whosoever shall speak a word against the Son of man, it shall +be forgiven him: but he that shall speak against the Holy Ghost, it +shall not be forgiven him neither in this world, nor in the world to +come. + +Nor in the world to come... From these words St. Augustine (De Civ. Dei, +lib. 21, c. 13) and St. Gregory (Dialog., 4, c. 39) gather, that some +sins may be remitted in the world to come; and, consequently, that there +is a purgatory or a middle place. + +12:33. Either make the tree good and its fruit good: or make the tree +evil, and its fruit evil. For by the fruit the tree is known. + +12:34. O generation of vipers, how can you speak good things, whereas +you are evil? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh. + +12:35. A good man out of a good treasure bringeth forth good things: and +an evil man out of an evil treasure bringeth forth evil things. + +12:36. But I say unto you, that every idle word that men shall speak, +they shall render an account for it in the day of judgment. + +Every idle word... This shews there must be a place of temporal +punishment hereafter where these slighter faults shall be punished. + +12:37. For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou +shalt be condemned. + +12:38. Then some of the scribes and Pharisees answered him, saying: +Master, we would see a sign from thee. + +A sign... That is, a miracle from heaven. St. Luke 11. 16. + +12:39. Who answering said to them: An evil and adulterous generation +seeketh a sign: and a sign shall not be given it, but the sign of Jonas +the prophet. + +12:40. For as Jonas was in the whale's belly three days and three +nights: so shall the Son of man be in the heart of the earth three days +and three nights. + +Three days, etc... Not complete days and nights; but part of three days, +and three nights taken according to the way that the Hebrews counted +their days and nights, viz., from evening to evening. + +12:41. The men of Ninive shall rise in judgment with this generation, +and shall condemn it: because they did penance at the preaching of +Jonas. And behold a greater than Jonas here. + +12:42. The queen of the south shall rise in judgment with this +generation, and shall condemn it: because she came from the ends of the +earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon, and behold a greater than Solomon +here. + +12:43. And when an unclean spirit is gone out of a man he walketh +through dry places seeking rest, and findeth none. + +12:44. Then he saith: I will return into my house from whence I came +out. And coming he findeth it empty, swept, and garnished. + +12:45. Then he goeth, and taketh with him seven other spirits more +wicked than himself, and they enter in and dwell there: and the last +state of that man is made worse than the first. So shall it be also to +this wicked generation. + +12:46. As he was yet speaking to the multitudes, behold his mother and +his brethren stood without, seeking to speak to him. + +12:47. And one said unto him: Behold thy mother and thy brethren stand +without, seeking thee. + +12:48. But he answering him that told him, said: Who is my mother, and +who are my brethren? + +Who is my mother?... This was not spoken by way of slighting his mother, +but to shew that we are never to suffer ourselves to be taken from the +service of God, by any inordinate affection to our earthly parents: and +that which our Lord chiefly regarded in his mother, was her doing the +will of his Father in heaven. It may also further allude to the +reprobation of the Jews, his carnal kindred, and the election of the +Gentiles. + +12:49. And stretching forth his hand towards his disciples, he said: +Behold my mother and my brethren. + +12:50. For whosoever shall do the will of my Father, that is in heaven, +he is my brother, and sister, and mother. + +Matthew Chapter 13 + +The parables of the sower and the cockle: of the mustardseed, etc. + +13:1. The same day Jesus going out of the house, sat by the sea side. + +13:2. And great multitudes were gathered together unto him, so that he +went up into a boat and sat: and all the multitude stood on the shore. + +13:3. And he spoke to them many things in parables, saying: Behold the +sower went forth to sow. + +13:4. And whilst he soweth some fell by the way side, and the birds of +the air came and ate them up. + +13:5. And other some fell upon stony ground, where they had not much +earth: and they sprung up immediately, because they had no deepness of +earth. + +13:6. And when the sun was up they were scorched: and because they had +not root, they withered away. + +13:7. And others fell among thorns: and the thorns grew up and choked +them. + +13:8. And others fell upon good ground: and they brought forth fruit, +some an hundred fold, some sixty fold, and some thirty fold. + +13:9. He that hath ears to hear, let him hear. + +13:10. And his disciples came and said to him: Why speakest thou to them +in parables? + +13:11. Who answered and said to them: Because to you it is given to know +the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven: but to them it is not given. + +13:12. For he that hath, to him shall be given, and he shall abound: but +he that hath not, from him shall be taken away that also which he hath. + +13:13. Therefore do I speak to them in parables: because seeing they see +not, and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand. + +13:14. And the prophecy of Isaias is fulfilled in them, who saith: By +hearing you shall hear, and shall not understand: and seeing you shall +see, and shall not perceive. + +13:15. For the heart of this people is grown gross, and with their ears +they have been dull of hearing, and their eyes they have shut: lest at +any time they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and +understand with their heart, and be converted, and I should heal them. + +13:16. But blessed are your eyes, because they see, and your ears, +because they hear. + +13:17. For, amen, I say to you, many prophets and just men have desired +to see the things that you see, and have not seen them: and to hear the +things that you hear and have not heard them. + +13:18. Hear you therefore the parable of the sower. + +13:19. When any one heareth the word of the kingdom, and understandeth +it not, there cometh the wicked one, and catcheth away that which was +sown in his heart: this is he that received the seed by the way side. + +13:20. And he that received the seed upon stony ground, is he that +heareth the word, and immediately receiveth it with joy. + +13:21. Yet hath he not root in himself, but is only for a time: and when +there ariseth tribulation and persecution because of the word, he is +presently scandalized. + +13:22. And he that received the seed among thorns, is he that heareth +the word, and the care of this world and the deceitfulness of riches +choketh up the word, and he becometh fruitless. + +13:23. But he that received the seed upon good ground, is he that +heareth the word, and understandeth, and beareth fruit, and yieldeth the +one an hundredfold, and another sixty, and another thirty. + +13:24. Another parable he proposed to them, saying: The kingdom of +heaven is likened to a man that sowed good seed in his field. + +13:25. But while men were asleep, his enemy came and oversowed cockle +among the wheat and went his way. + +13:26. And when the blade was sprung up, and had brought forth fruit, +then appeared also the cockle. + +13:27. And the servants of the good man of the house coming said to him. +Sir, didst thou not sow good seed in thy field? Whence then hath it +cockle? + +13:28. And he said to them: An enemy hath done this. And the servants +said to him: Wilt thou that we go and gather it up? + +13:29. And he said: No, lest perhaps gathering up the cockle, you root +up the wheat also together with it. + +13:30. Suffer both to grow until the harvest, and in the time of the +harvest I will say to the reapers: Gather up first the cockle, and bind +it into bundles to burn, but the wheat gather ye into my barn. + +13:31. Another parable he proposed unto them, saying: The kingdom of +heaven is like to a grain of mustard seed, which a man took and sowed in +his field. + +13:32. Which is the least indeed of all seeds; but when it is grown up, +it is greater than all herbs, and becometh a tree, so that the birds of +the air come, and dwell in the branches thereof. + +13:33. Another parable he spoke to them: The kingdom of heaven is like +to leaven, which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal, until +the whole was leavened. + +13:34. All these things Jesus spoke in parables to the multitudes: and +without parables he did not speak to them. + +13:35. That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, +saying: I will open my mouth in parables, I will utter things hidden +from the foundation of the world. + +13:36. Then having sent away the multitudes, he came into the house, and +his disciples came to him, saying: Expound to us the parable of the +cockle of the field. + +13:37. Who made answer and said to them: He that soweth the good seed is +the Son of man. + +13:38. And the field is the world. And the good seed are the children of +the kingdom. And the cockle are the children of the wicked one. + +13:39. And the enemy that sowed them, is the devil. But the harvest is +the end of the world. And the reapers are the angels. + +13:40. Even as cockle therefore is gathered up, and burnt with fire: so +shall it be at the end of the world. + +13:41. The Son of man shall send his angels, and they shall gather out +of his kingdom all scandals, and them that work iniquity. + +13:42. And shall cast them into the furnace of fire: there shall be +weeping and gnashing of teeth. + +13:43. Then shall the just shine as the sun, in the kingdom of their +Father. He that hath ears to hear, let him hear. + +13:44. The kingdom of heaven is like unto a treasure hidden in a field. +Which a man having found, hid it, and for joy thereof goeth, and selleth +all that he hath, and buyeth that field. + +13:45. Again the kingdom of heaven is like to a merchant seeking good +pearls. + +13:46. Who when he had found one pearl of great price, went his way, and +sold all that he had, and bought it. + +13:47. Again the kingdom of heaven is like to a net cast into the sea, +and gathering together of all kinds of fishes. + +13:48. Which, when it was filled, they drew out, and sitting by the +shore, they chose out the good into vessels, but the bad they cast +forth. + +13:49. So shall it be at the end of the world. The angels shall go out, +and shall separate the wicked from among the just. + +13:50. And shall cast them into the furnace of fire: there shall be +weeping and gnashing of teeth. + +13:51. Have ye understood all these things? They say to him: Yes. + +13:52. He said unto them: Therefore every scribe instructed in the +kingdom of heaven, is like to a man that is a householder, who bringeth +forth out of his treasure new things and old. + +13:53. And it came to pass: when Jesus had finished these parables, he +passed from thence. + +13:54. And coming into his own country, he taught them in their +synagogues, so that they wondered and said: How came this man by this +wisdom and miracles? + +13:55. Is not this the carpenter's son? Is not his mother called Mary, +and his brethren James, and Joseph, and Simon, and Jude: + +His brethren... These were the children of Mary the wife of Cleophas, +sister to our Blessed Lady, (St. Matt. 27. 56; St. John 19. 25,) and +therefore, according to the usual style of the Scripture, they were +called brethren, that is, near relations to our Saviour. + +13:56. And his sisters, are they not all with us? Whence therefore hath +he all these things? + +13:57. And they were scandalized in his regard. But Jesus said to them: +A prophet is not without honour, save in his own country, and in his own +house. + +13:58. And he wrought not many miracles there, because of their +unbelief. + +Matthew Chapter 14 + +Herod puts John to death. Christ feeds five thousand in the desert. He +walks upon the sea, and heals all the diseased with the touch of his +garment. + +14:1. At that time Herod the Tetrarch heard the fame of Jesus. + +Tetrarch... This word, derived from the Greek, signifies one that rules +over the fourth part of a kingdom: as Herod then ruled over Galilee, +which was but the fourth part of the kingdom of his father. + +14:2. And he said to his servants: This is John the Baptist: he is risen +from the dead, and therefore mighty works shew forth themselves in him. + +14:3. For Herod had apprehended John and bound him, and put him into +prison, because of Herodias, his brother's wife. + +14:4. For John said to him: It is not lawful for thee to have her. + +14:5. And having a mind to put him to death, he feared the people: +because they esteemed him as a prophet. + +14:6. But on Herod's birthday, the daughter of Herodias danced before +them: and pleased Herod. + +14:7. Whereupon he promised with an oath, to give her whatsoever she +would ask of him. + +14:8. But she being instructed before by her mother, said: Give me here +in a dish the head of John the Baptist. + +14:9. And the king was struck sad: yet because of his oath, and for them +that sat with him at table, he commanded it to be given. + +14:10. And he sent, and beheaded John in the prison. + +14:11. And his head was brought in a dish: and it was given to the +damsel, and she brought it to her mother. + +14:12. And his disciples came and took the body, and buried it, and came +and told Jesus. + +14:13. Which when Jesus had heard, he retired from thence by a boat, +into a desert place apart, and the multitudes having heard of it, +followed him on foot out of the cities. + +14:14. And he coming forth saw a great multitude, and had compassion on +them, and healed their sick. + +14:15. And when it was evening, his disciples came to him, saying: This +is a desert place, and the hour is now passed: send away the multitudes, +that going into the towns, they may buy themselves victuals. + +14:16. But Jesus said to them, They have no need to go: give you them to +eat. + +14:17. They answered him: We have not here, but five loaves, and two +fishes. + +14:18. Who said to them: Bring them hither to me. + +14:19. And when he had commanded the multitude to sit down upon the +grass, he took the five loaves and the two fishes, and looking up to +heaven, he blessed, and brake, and gave the loaves to his disciples, and +the disciples to the multitudes. + +14:20. And they did all eat, and were filled. And they took up what +remained, twelve full baskets of fragments. + +14:21. And the number of them that did eat, was five thousand men, +besides women and children. + +14:22. And forthwith Jesus obliged his disciples to go up into the boat, +and to go before him over the water, till he dismissed the people. + +14:23. And having dismissed the multitude, he went into a mountain alone +to pray. And when it was evening, he was there alone. + +14:24. But the boat in the midst of the sea was tossed with the waves: +for the wind was contrary. + +14:25. And in the fourth watch of the night, he came to them walking +upon the sea. + +14:26. And they seeing him walking upon the sea, were troubled, saying: +It is an apparition. And they cried out for fear. + +14:27. And immediately Jesus spoke to them, saying: Be of good heart: it +is I, fear ye not. + +14:28. And Peter making answer, said: Lord, if it be thou, bid me come +to thee upon the waters. + +14:29. And he said: Come. And Peter going down out of the boat walked +upon the water to come to Jesus. + +14:30. But seeing the wind strong, he was afraid: and when he began to +sink, he cried out, saying: Lord, save me. + +14:31. And immediately Jesus stretching forth his hand took hold of him, +and said to him: O thou of little faith, why didst thou doubt? + +14:32. And when they were come up into the boat, the wind ceased. + +14:33. And they that were in the boat came and adored him, saying: +Indeed thou art the Son of God. + +14:34. And having passed the water, they came into the country of +Genesar. + +14:35. And when the men of that place had knowledge of him, they sent +into all that country, and brought to him all that were diseased. + +14:36. And they besought him that they might touch but the hem of his +garment. And as many as touched, were made whole. + +Matthew Chapter 15 + +Christ reproves the Scribes. He cures the daughter of the woman of +Canaan: and many others: and feeds four thousand with seven loaves. + +15:1. Then came to him from Jerusalem scribes and Pharisees, saying: + +15:2. Why do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the ancients? For +they wash not their hands when they eat bread. + +15:3. But he answering, said to them: Why do you also transgress the +commandment of God for your tradition? For God said: + +15:4. Honour thy father and mother: And: He that shall curse father or +mother, let him die the death. + +15:5. But you say: Whosoever shall say to father or mother, The gift +whatsoever proceedeth from me, shall profit thee. + +The gift, etc... That is, the offering that I shall make to God, shall +be instead of that which should be expended for thy profit. This +tradition of the Pharisees was calculated to enrich themselves; by +exempting children from giving any further assistance to their parents, +if they once offered to the temple and the priests, that which should +have been the support of their parents. But this was a violation of the +law of God, and of nature, which our Saviour here condemns. + +15:6. And he shall not honour his father or his mother: and you have +made void the commandment of God for your tradition. + +15:7. Hypocrites, well hath Isaias prophesied of you, saying: + +15:8. This people honoureth me with their lips: but their heart is far +from me. + +15:9. And in vain do they worship me, teaching doctrines and +commandments of men. + +Commandments of men... The doctrines and commandments here reprehended +are such as are either contrary to the law of God, (as that of +neglecting parents, under pretence of giving to God,) or at least are +frivolous, unprofitable, and no ways conducing to true piety, as that of +often washing hands, etc., without regard to the purity of the heart. +But as to the rules and ordinances of the holy church, touching fasts, +festivals, etc., these are no ways repugnant to, but highly agreeable to +God's holy word, and all Christian piety: neither are they to be counted +among the doctrines and commandments of men; because they proceed not +from mere human authority; but from that which Christ has established in +his church; whose pastors he has commanded us to hear and obey, even as +himself. St. Luke 10. 16; St. Matt. 18. 17. + +15:10. And having called together the multitudes unto him, he said to +them: Hear ye and understand. + +15:11. Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man: but what +cometh out of the mouth, this defileth a man. + +Not that which goeth into, etc... No uncleanness in meat, nor any dirt +contracted by eating it with unwashed hands, can defile the soul: but +sin alone; or a disobedience of the heart to the ordinance and will of +God. And thus when Adam took the forbidden fruit, it was not the apple, +which entered into the mouth, but the disobedience to the law of God +which defiled him. The same is to be said if a Jew, in the time of the +old law, had eaten swine's flesh; or a Christian convert, in the days of +the apostles, contrary to their ordinance, had eaten blood; or if any of +the faithful at present should transgress the ordinance of God's church, +by breaking the fasts: for in all these cases the soul would be defiled; +not indeed by that which goeth into the mouth; but by the disobedience +of the heart, in wilfully transgressing the ordinance of God, or of +those who have their authority from him. + +15:12. Then came his disciples, and said to him: Dost thou know that the +Pharisees, when they heard this word, were scandalized? + +15:13. But he answering, said: Every plant which my heavenly Father hath +not planted, shall be rooted up. + +15:14. Let them alone: they are blind, and leaders of the blind. And if +the blind lead the blind, both fall into the pit. + +15:15. And Peter answering, said to him: Expound to us this parable. + +15:16. But he said: Are you also yet without understanding? + +15:17. Do you not understand, that whatsoever entereth into the mouth, +goeth into the belly, and is cast out into the privy? + +15:18. But the things which proceed out of the mouth, come forth from +the heart, and those things defile a man. + +15:19. For from the heart come forth evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, +fornications, thefts, false testimonies, blasphemies. + +15:20. These are the things that defile a man. But to eat with unwashed +hands doth not defile a man. + +15:21. And Jesus went from thence, and retired into the coast of Tyre +and Sidon. + +15:22. And behold a woman of Canaan who came out of those coasts, crying +out, said to him: Have mercy on me, O Lord, thou son of David: my +daughter is grievously troubled by a devil. + +15:23. Who answered her not a word. And his disciples came and besought +him, saying: Send her away, for she crieth after us: + +15:24. And he answering, said: I was not sent but to the sheep, that are +lost of the house of Israel. + +15:25. But she came and adored him, saying: Lord, help me. + +15:26. Who answering, said: It is not good to take the bread of the +children, and to cast it to the dogs. + +15:27. But she said: Yea, Lord; for the whelps also eat of the crumbs +that fall from the table of their masters. + +15:28. Then Jesus answering, said to her: O woman, great is thy faith: +be it done to thee as thou wilt: and her daughter was cured from that +hour. + +15:29. And when Jesus had passed away from thence, he came nigh the sea +of Galilee: and going up into a mountain, he sat there. + +15:30. And there came to him great multitudes, having with them the +dumb, the blind, the lame, the maimed, and many others: and they cast +them down at his feet, and he healed them: + +15:31. So that the multitudes marvelled seeing the dumb speak, the lame +walk, the blind see: and they glorified the God of Israel. + +15:32. And Jesus called together his disciples, and said: I have +compassion on the multitudes, because they continue with me now three +days, and have not what to eat, and I will not send them away fasting, +lest they faint in the way. + +15:33. And the disciples say unto him: Whence then should we have so +many loaves in the desert, as to fill so great a multitude? + +15:34. And Jesus said to them: How many loaves have you? But they said: +Seven, and a few little fishes. + +15:35. And he commanded the multitude to sit down upon the ground. + +15:36. And taking the seven loaves and the fishes, and giving thanks, he +brake, and gave to his disciples, and the disciples gave to the people. + +15:37. And they did all eat, and had their fill. And they took up seven +baskets full, of what remained of the fragments. + +15:38. And they that did eat, were four thousand men, beside children +and women. + +15:39. And having dismissed the multitude, he went up into a boat, and +came into the coasts of Magedan. + +Matthew Chapter 16 + +Christ refuses to shew the Pharisees a sign from heaven. Peter's +confession is rewarded. He is rebuked for opposing Christ's passion. All +his followers must deny themselves. + +16:1. And there came to him the Pharisees and Sadducees tempting: and +they asked him to shew them a sign from heaven. + +16:2. But he answered and said to them: When it is evening, you say, It +will be fair weather, for the sky is red. + +16:3. And in the morning: To day there will be a storm, for the sky is +red and lowering. You know then how to discern the face of the sky: and +can you not know the signs of the times? + +16:4. A wicked and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign: and a +sign shall not be given it, but the sign of Jonas the prophet. And he +left them, and went away. + +16:5. And when his disciples were come over the water, they had +forgotten to take bread. + +16:6. Who said to them: Take heed and beware of the leaven of the +Pharisees and Sadducees. + +16:7. But they thought within themselves, saying: Because we have taken +no bread. + +16:8. And Jesus knowing it, said: Why do you think within yourselves, O +ye of little faith, for that you have no bread? + +16:9. Do you not yet understand, neither do you remember the five loaves +among five thousand men, and how many baskets you took up? + +16:10. Nor the seven loaves, among four thousand men, and how many +baskets you took up? + +16:11. Why do you not understand that it was not concerning bread I said +to you: Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees? + +16:12. Then they understood that he said not that they should beware of +the leaven of bread, but of the doctrine of the Pharisees and Sadducees. + +16:13. And Jesus came into the quarters of Cesarea Philippi: and he +asked his disciples, saying: Whom do men say that the Son of man is? + +16:14. But they said: Some John the Baptist, and other some Elias, and +others Jeremias, or one of the prophets. + +16:15. Jesus saith to them: But whom do you say that I am? + +16:16. Simon Peter answered and said: Thou art Christ, the Son of the +living God. + +16:17. And Jesus answering said to him: Blessed art thou, Simon +Bar-Jona: because flesh and blood hath not revealed it to thee, but my +Father who is in heaven. + +16:18. And I say to thee: That thou art Peter; and upon this rock I will +build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. + +Thou art Peter, etc... As St. Peter, by divine revelation, here made a +solemn profession of his faith of the divinity of Christ; so in +recompense of this faith and profession, our Lord here declares to him +the dignity to which he is pleased to raise him: viz., that he to whom +he had already given the name of Peter, signifying a rock, St. John 1. +42, should be a rock indeed, of invincible strength, for the support of +the building of the church; in which building he should be, next to +Christ himself, the chief foundation stone, in quality of chief pastor, +ruler, and governor; and should have accordingly all fulness of +ecclesiastical power, signified by the keys of the kingdom of heaven. +Upon this rock, etc... The words of Christ to Peter, spoken in the +vulgar language of the Jews which our Lord made use of, were the same as +if he had said in English, Thou art a Rock, and upon this rock I will +build my church. So that, by the plain course of the words, Peter is +here declared to be the rock, upon which the church was to be built: +Christ himself being both the principal foundation and founder of the +same. Where also note, that Christ, by building his house, that is, his +church, upon a rock, has thereby secured it against all storms and +floods, like the wise builder, St. Matt. 7. 24, 25. The gates of hell, +etc... That is, the powers of darkness, and whatever Satan can do, +either by himself, or his agents. For as the church is here likened to a +house, or fortress, built on a rock; so the adverse powers are likened +to a contrary house or fortress, the gates of which, that is, the whole +strength, and all the efforts it can make, will never be able to prevail +over the city or church of Christ. By this promise we are fully assured, +that neither idolatry, heresy, nor any pernicious error whatsoever shall +at any time prevail over the church of Christ. + +16:19. And I will give to thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven. And +whatsoever thou shalt bind upon earth, it shall be bound also in heaven: +and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth, it shall be loosed also in +heaven. + +Loose on earth... The loosing the bands of temporal punishments due to +sins, is called an indulgence; the power of which is here granted. + +16:20. Then he commanded his disciples, that they should tell no one +that he was Jesus the Christ. + +16:21. From that time Jesus began to shew to his disciples, that he must +go to Jerusalem, and suffer many things from the ancients and scribes +and chief priests, and be put to death, and the third day rise again. + +16:22. And Peter taking him, began to rebuke him, saying: Lord, be it +far from thee, this shall not be unto thee. + +And Peter taking him... That is, taking him aside, out of a tender love, +respect and zeal for his Lord and Master's honour, began to expostulate +with him, as it were to rebuke him, saying, Lord, far be it from thee to +suffer death; but the Lord said to Peter, ver. 23, Go behind me, Satan. +These words may signify, Begone from me; but the holy Fathers expound +them otherwise, that is, come after me, or follow me; and by these words +the Lord would have Peter to follow him in his suffering, and not to +oppose the divine will by contradiction; for the word satan means in +Hebrew an adversary, or one that opposes. + +16:23. Who turning, said to Peter: Go behind me, Satan, thou art a +scandal unto me: because thou savourest not the things that are of God, +but the things that are of men. + +16:24. Then Jesus said to his disciples: If any man will come after me, +let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me. + +16:25. For he that will save his life, shall lose it: and he that shall +lose his life for my sake, shall find it. + +16:26. For what doth it profit a man, if he gain the whole world and +suffer the loss of his own soul? Or what exchange shall a man give for +his soul? + +16:27. For the Son of man shall come in the glory of his Father with his +angels: and then will he render to every man according to his works. + +16:28. Amen I say to you, there are some of them that stand here, that +shall not taste death, till they see the Son of man coming in his +kingdom. + +Matthew Chapter 17 + +The Transfiguration of Christ: He cures the lunatic child: foretells his +passion; and pays the didrachma. + +17:1. And after six days Jesus taketh unto him Peter and James, and John +his brother, and bringeth them up into a high mountain apart: + +17:2. And he was transfigured before them. And his face did shine as the +sun: and his garments became white as snow. + +17:3. And behold there appeared to them Moses and Elias talking with +him. + +17:4. And Peter answering, said to Jesus: Lord, it is good for us to be +here: if thou wilt, let us make here three tabernacles, one for thee, +and one for Moses, and one for Elias. + +17:5. And as he was yet speaking, behold a bright cloud overshadowed +them. And lo a voice out of the cloud, saying: This is my beloved Son, +in whom I am well pleased: hear ye him. + +17:6. And the disciples hearing fell upon their face, and were very much +afraid. + +17:7. And Jesus came and touched them: and said to them: Arise, and fear +not. + +17:8. And they lifting up their eyes, saw no one, but only Jesus. + +17:9. And as they came down from the mountain, Jesus charged them, +saying: Tell the vision to no man, till the Son of man be risen from the +dead. + +17:10. And his disciples asked him, saying: Why then do the scribes say +that Elias must come first? + +17:11. But he answering, said to them: Elias indeed shall come, and +restore all things. + +17:12. But I say to you, that Elias is already come, and they knew him +not, But have done unto him whatsoever they had a mind. So also the Son +of man shall suffer from them. + +17:13. Then the disciples understood, that he had spoken to them of John +the Baptist. + +17:14. And when he was come to the multitude, there came to him a man +falling down on his knees before him saying: Lord, have pity on my son, +for he is a lunatic, and suffereth much: for he falleth often into the +fire, and often into the water. + +17:15. And I brought him to thy disciples, and they could not cure him. + +17:16. Then Jesus answered and said: O unbelieving and perverse +generation, how long shall I be with you? How long shall I suffer you? +Bring him hither to me. + +17:17. And Jesus rebuked him, and the devil went out of him, and the +child was cured from that hour. + +17:18. Then came the disciples to Jesus secretly, and said: Why could +not we cast him out? + +17:19. Jesus said to them: Because of your unbelief. For, amen I say to +you, if you have faith as a grain of mustard seed, you shall say to this +mountain: Remove from hence hither, and it shall remove: and nothing +shall be impossible to you. + +As a grain of mustard seed... That is, a perfect faith; which in its +properties, and its fruits, resembles the grain of mustard seed, in the +parable, chap. 13. 31. + +17:20. But this kind is not cast out but by prayer and fasting. + +17:21. And when they abode together in Galilee, Jesus said to them: The +Son of man shall be betrayed into the hands of men: + +17:22. And they shall kill him, and the third day he shall rise again. +And they were troubled exceedingly. + +17:23. And when they were come to Capharnaum, they that received the +didrachmas, came to Peter, and said to him: Doth not your master pay the +didrachma? + +The didrachmas... A didrachma was half a sicle, or half a stater; that +is, about 15d. English: which was a tax laid upon every head for the +service of the temple. + +17:24. He said: Yes. And when he was come into the house, Jesus +prevented him, saying: What is thy opinion, Simon? The kings of the +earth, of whom do they receive tribute or custom, of their own children, +or of strangers? + +17:25. And he said: Of strangers. Jesus said to him: Then the children +are free. + +17:26. But that we may not scandalize them, go to the sea, and cast in a +hook: and that fish which shall first come up, take: and when thou hast +opened it's mouth, thou shalt find a stater: take that, and give it to +them for me and thee. + +Matthew Chapter 18 + +Christ teaches humility, to beware of scandal, and to flee the occasions +of sin: to denounce to the church incorrigible sinners, and to look upon +such as refuse to hear the church as heathens. He promises to his +disciples the power of binding and loosing: and that he will be in the +midst of their assemblies. No forgiveness for them that will not +forgive. + +18:1. At that hour the disciples came to Jesus, saying: Who, thinkest +thou, is the greater in the kingdom of heaven? + +18:2. And Jesus, calling unto him a little child, set him in the midst +of them. + +18:3. And said: amen I say to you, unless you be converted, and become +as little children, you shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven. + +18:4. Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, he +is the greater in the kingdom of heaven. + +18:5. And he that shall receive one such little child in my name, +receiveth me. + +18:6. But he that shall scandalize one of these little ones that believe +in me, it were better for him that a millstone should be hanged about +his neck, and that he should be drowned in the depth of the sea. + +Shall scandalize... That is, shall put a stumblingblock in their way, +and cause them to fall into sin. + +18:7. Woe to the world because of scandals. For it must needs be that +scandals come: but nevertheless woe to that man by whom the scandal +cometh. + +It must needs be, etc... Viz., considering the wickedness and corruption +of the world. + +18:8. And if thy hand, or thy foot, scandalize thee, cut it off, and +cast it from thee. It is better for thee to go into life maimed or lame, +than having two hands or two feet, to be cast into everlasting fire. + +Scandalize thee... That is, cause thee to offend. + +18:9. And if thy eye scandalize thee, pluck it out, and cast it from +thee. It is better for thee having one eye to enter into life, than +having two eyes to be cast into hell fire. + +18:10. See that you despise not one of these little ones: for I say to +you, that their angels in heaven always see the face of my Father who is +in heaven. + +18:11. For the Son of man is come to save that which was lost. + +18:12. What think you? If a man have an hundred sheep, and one of them +should go astray: doth he not leave the ninety-nine in the mountains, +and goeth to seek that which is gone astray? + +18:13. And if it so be that he find it: Amen I say to you, he rejoiceth +more for that, than for the ninety-nine that went not astray. + +18:14. Even so it is not the will of your Father, who is in heaven, that +one of these little ones should perish. + +18:15. But if thy brother shall offend against thee, go, and rebuke him +between thee and him alone. If he shall hear thee, thou shalt gain thy +brother. + +18:16. And if he will not hear thee, take with thee one or two more: +that in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may stand. + +18:17. And if he will not hear them: tell the church. And if he will not +hear the church, let him be to thee as the heathen and publican. + +18:18. Amen I say to you, whatsoever you shall bind upon earth, shall be +bound also in heaven: and whatsoever you shall loose upon earth, shall +be loosed also in heaven. + +18:19. Again I say to you, that if two of you shall consent upon earth, +concerning anything whatsoever they shall ask, it shall be done to them +by my Father who is in heaven. + +18:20. For where there are two or three gathered together in my name, +there am I in the midst of them. + +There am I in the midst of them... This is understood of such assemblies +only as are gathered in the name and authority of Christ; and in unity +of the church of Christ. St. Cyprian, De Unitate Ecclesiae. + +18:21. Then came Peter unto him and said: Lord, how often shall my +brother offend against me, and I forgive him? till seven times? + +18:22. Jesus saith to him: I say not to thee, till seven times; but till +seventy times seven times. + +18:23. Therefore is the kingdom of heaven likened to a king, who would +take an account of his servants. + +18:24. And when he had begun to take the account, one as brought to him, +that owed him ten thousand talents. + +Talents... A talent was seven hundred and fifty ounces of silver, which +at the rate of five shillings to the ounce is a hundred and eighty-seven +pounds ten shillings sterling. + +18:25. And as he had not wherewith to pay it, his lord commanded that he +should be sold, and his wife and children, and all that he had, and +payment to be made. + +18:26. But that servant falling down, besought him, saying: Have +patience with me, and I will pay thee all. + +18:27. And the lord of that servant being moved with pity, let him go +and forgave him the debt. + +18:28. But when that servant was gone out, he found one of his fellow- +servants that owed him an hundred pence: and laying hold of him, he +throttled him, saying: Pay what thou owest. + +Pence... The Roman penny was the eighth part of an ounce, that is, about +sevenpence half-penny English. + +18:29. And his fellow-servant falling down, besought him, saying: Have +patience with me, and I will pay thee all. + +18:30. And he would not: but went and cast him into prison, till he paid +the debt. + +18:31. Now his fellow servants seeing what was done, were very much +grieved, and they came, and told their lord all that was done. + +18:32. Then his lord called him: and said to him: Thou wicked servant, I +forgave thee all the debt, because thou besoughtest me: + +18:33. Shouldst not thou then have had compassion also on thy fellow +servant, even as I had compassion on thee? + +18:34. And his lord being angry, delivered him to the torturers until he +paid all the debt. + +18:35. So also shall my heavenly Father do to you, if you forgive not +every one his brother from your hearts. + +Matthew Chapter 19 + +Christ declares matrimony to be indissoluble: he recommends the making +one's self an eunuch for the kingdom of heaven; and parting with all +things for him. He shews the danger of riches, and the reward of leaving +all to follow him. + +19:1. And it came to pass when Jesus had ended these words, he departed +from Galilee and came into the coasts of Judea, beyond Jordan. + +19:2. And great multitudes followed him: and he healed them there. + +19:3. And there came to him the Pharisees tempting him, saying: Is it +lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause? + +19:4. Who answering, said to them: Have ye not read, that he who made +man from the beginning, made them male and female? And he said: + +19:5. For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall +cleave to his wife, and they two shall be in one flesh. + +19:6. Therefore now they are not two, but one flesh. What therefore God +hath joined together, let no man put asunder. + +19:7. They say to him: Why then did Moses command to give a bill of +divorce, and to put away? + +19:8. He saith to them: Because Moses by reason of the hardness of your +heart permitted you to put away your wives: but from the beginning it +was not so. + +19:9. And I say to you, that whosoever shall put away his wife, except +it be for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and +he that shall marry her that is put away, committeth adultery. + +Except it be, etc... In the case of fornication, that is, of adultery, +the wife may be put away: but even then the husband cannot marry another +as long as the wife is living. + +19:10. His disciples say unto him: If the case of a man with his wife be +so, it is not expedient to marry. + +19:11. Who said to them: All men take not this word, but they to whom it +is given. + +All men take not this word... That is, all receive not the gift of +living singly and chastely, unless they pray for the grace of God to +enable them to live so, and for some it may be necessary to that end to +fast as well as pray: and to those it is given from above. + +19:12. For there are eunuchs, who were born so from their mothers womb: +and there are eunuchs, who were made so by men: and there are eunuchs, +who have made themselves eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven. He that can +take, let him take it. + +There are eunuchs, who have made themselves eunuchs, for the kingdom of +heaven... This text is not to be taken in the literal sense; but means, +that there are such, who have taken a firm and commendable resolution of +leading a single and chaste life, in order to serve God in a more +perfect state than those who marry: as St. Paul clearly shews. 1 Cor. 7. +37, 38. + +19:13. Then were little children presented to him, that he should impose +hands upon them and pray. And the disciples rebuked them. + +19:14. But Jesus said to them: Suffer the little children, and forbid +them not to come to me: for the kingdom of heaven is for such. + +19:15. And when he had imposed hands upon them, he departed from thence. + +19:16. And behold one came and said to him: Good master, what good shall +I do that I may have life everlasting? + +19:17. Who said to him: Why askest thou me concerning good? One is good, +God. But if thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments. + +19:18. He said to him: Which? And Jesus said: Thou shalt do no murder, +Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not +bear false witness. + +19:19. Honour thy father and thy mother: and, Thou shalt love thy +neighbor as thyself. + +19:20. The young man saith to him: All these have I kept from my youth, +what is yet wanting to me? + +19:21. Jesus saith to him: If thou wilt be perfect, go sell what thou +hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and +come, follow me. + +19:22. And when the young man had heard this word, he went away sad: for +he had great possessions. + +19:23. Then Jesus said to his disciples: Amen, I say to you, that a rich +man shall hardly enter into the kingdom of heaven. + +19:24. And again I say to you: It is easier for a camel to pass through +the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of +heaven. + +19:25. And when they had heard this, the disciples wondered much, +saying: Who then can be saved? + +19:26. And Jesus beholding, said to them: With men this is impossible: +but with God all things are possible. + +19:27. Then Peter answering, said to him: Behold we have left all +things, and have followed thee: what therefore shall we have? + +19:28. And Jesus said to them: Amen I say to you, that you who have +followed me, in the regeneration, when the Son of man shall sit on the +seat of his majesty, you also shall sit on twelve seats judging the +twelve tribes of Israel. + +19:29. And every one that hath left house, or brethren, or sisters, or +father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands for my name's sake, +shall receive an hundredfold, and shall possess life everlasting. + +19:30. And many that are first, shall be last: and the last shall be +first. + +Matthew Chapter 20 + +The parable of the labourers in the vineyard. The ambition of the two +sons of Zebedee. Christ gives sight to two blind men. + +20:1. The kingdom of heaven is like to an householder, who went out +early in the morning to hire labourers into his vineyard. + +20:2. And having agreed with the labourers for a penny a day, he sent +them into his vineyard. + +20:3. And going out about the third hour, he saw others standing in the +marketplace idle. + +20:4. And he said to them: Go you also into my vineyard, and I will give +you what shall be just. + +20:5. And they went their way. And again he went out about the sixth and +the ninth hour, and did in like manner. + +20:6. But about the eleventh hour he went out and found others standing, +and he saith to them: Why stand you here all the day idle? + +20:7. They say to him: Because no man hath hired us. He saith to them: +Go ye also into my vineyard. + +20:8. And when evening was come, the lord of the vineyard saith to his +steward: Call the labourers and pay them their hire, beginning from the +last even to the first. + +20:9. When therefore they were come that came about the eleventh hour, +they received every man a penny. + +20:10. But when the first also came, they thought that they should +receive more: And they also received every man a penny. + +20:11. And receiving it they murmured against the master of the house, + +20:12. Saying: These last have worked but one hour and thou hast made +them equal to us, that have borne the burden of the day and the heats. + +20:13. But he answering said to one of them: friend, I do thee no wrong: +didst thou not agree with me for a penny? + +20:14. Take what is thine, and go thy way: I will also give to this last +even as to thee. + +20:15. Or, is it not lawful for me to do what I will? Is thy eye evil, +because I am good? + +What I will... Viz., with my own, and in matters that depend on my own +bounty. + +20:16. So shall the last be first and the first last. For many are +called but few chosen. + +20:17. And Jesus going up to Jerusalem, took the twelve disciples apart +and said to them: + +20:18. Behold we go up to Jerusalem, and the Son of man shall be +betrayed to the chief priests and the scribes: and they shall condemn +him to death. + +20:19. And shall deliver him to the Gentiles to be mocked and scourged +and crucified: and the third day he shall rise again. + +20:20. Then came to him the mother of the sons of Zebedee with her sons, +adoring and asking something of him. + +20:21. Who said to her: What wilt thou? She saith to him: say that these +my two sons may sit, the one on thy right hand, and the other on thy +left, in thy kingdom. + +20:22. And Jesus answering, said: You know not what you ask. Can you +drink the chalice that I shall drink? They say to him: We can. + +20:23. He saith to them: My chalice indeed you shall drink; but to sit +on my right or left hand is not mine to give to you, but to them for +whom it is prepared by my Father. + +20:24. And the ten, hearing it, were moved with indignation against the +two brethren. + +20:25. But Jesus called them to him and said: You know that the princes +of the Gentiles lord it over them; and that they that are the greater, +exercise power upon them. + +20:26. It shall not be so among you: but whosoever is the greater among +you, let him be your minister. + +20:27. And he that will be first among you shall be your servant. + +20:28. Even as the Son of man is not come to be ministered unto, but to +minister and to give his life a redemption for many. + +20:29. And when they went out from Jericho, a great multitude followed +him. + +20:30. And behold two blind men sitting by the way side heard that Jesus +passed by. And they cried out, saying: O Lord, thou son of David, have +mercy on us. + +20:31. And the multitude rebuked them that they should hold their peace. +But they cried out the more, saying: O Lord, thou son of David, have +mercy on us. + +20:32. And Jesus stood and called them and said: What will ye that I do +to you? + +20:33. They say to him: Lord, that our eyes be opened. + +20:34. And Jesus having compassion on them, touched their eyes. And +immediately they saw and followed him. + +Matthew Chapter 21 + +Christ rides into Jerusalem upon an ass. He casts the buyers and sellers +out of the temple, curses the fig tree and puts to silence the priests +and scribes. + +21:1. And when they drew nigh to Jerusalem and were come to Bethphage, +unto mount Olivet, then Jesus sent two disciples, + +21:2. Saying to them: Go ye into the village that is over against you: +and immediately you shall find an ass tied and a colt with her. Loose +them and bring them to me. + +21:3. And if any man shall say anything to you, say ye that the Lord +hath need of them. And forthwith he will let them go. + +21:4. Now all this was done that it might be fulfilled which was spoken +by the prophet, saying: + +21:5. Tell ye the daughter of Sion: Behold thy king cometh to thee, meek +and sitting upon an ass and a colt, the foal of her that is used to the +yoke. + +21:6. And the disciples going, did as Jesus commanded them. + +21:7. And they brought the ass and the colt and laid their garments upon +them and made him sit thereon. + +21:8. And a very great multitude spread their garments in the way: and +others cut boughs from the trees and strewed them in the way. + +21:9. And the multitudes that went before and that followed cried, +saying: Hosanna to the son of David: Blessed is he that cometh in the +name of the Lord: Hosanna in the highest. + +21:10. And when he was come into Jerusalem, the whole city was moved, +saying: Who is this? + +21:11. And the people said: This is Jesus, the prophet from Nazareth of +Galilee. + +21:12. And Jesus went into the temple of God and cast out all them that +sold and bought in the temple and overthrew the tables of the money +changers and the chairs of them that sold doves. + +21:13. And he saith to them: It is written, My house shall be called the +house of prayer; but you have made it a den of thieves. + +21:14. And there came to him the blind and the lame in the temple: and +he healed them. + +21:15. And the chief priests and scribes, seeing the wonderful things +that he did and the children crying in the temple and saying: Hosanna to +the son of David, were moved with indignation, + +21:16. And said to him: Hearest thou what these say? And Jesus said to +them: Yea, have you never read: Out of the mouth of infants and of +sucklings thou hast perfected praise? + +21:17. And leaving them, he went out of the city into Bethania and +remained here. + +21:18. And in the morning, returning into the city, he was hungry. + +21:19. And seeing a certain fig tree by the way side, he came to it and +found nothing on it but leaves only. And he saith to it: May no fruit +grow on thee henceforward for ever. And immediately the fig tree +withered away. + +21:20. And the disciples seeing it wondered, saying: How is it presently +withered away? + +21:21. And Jesus answering, said to them: Amen, I say to you, if you +shall have faith and stagger not, not only this of the fig tree shall +you do, but also if you shall say to this mountain, Take up and cast +thyself into the sea, it shall be done. + +21:22. And all things whatsoever you shall ask in prayer believing, you +shall receive. + +21:23. And when he was come into the temple, there came to him, as he +was teaching, the chief priests and ancients of the people, saying: By +what authority dost thou these things? And who hath given thee this +authority? + +21:24. Jesus answering, said to them: I also will ask you one word, +which if you shall tell me, I will also tell you by what authority I do +these things. + +21:25. The baptism of John, whence was it? From heaven or from men? But +they thought within themselves, saying: + +21:26. If we shall say, from heaven, he will say to us: Why then did you +not believe him? But if we shall say, from men, we are afraid of the +multitude: for all held John as a prophet. + +21:27. And answering Jesus, they said: We know not. He also said to +them: Neither do I tell you by what authority I do these things. + +21:28. But what think you? A certain man had two sons: and coming to the +first, he said: Son, go work to day in my vineyard. + +21:29. And he answering, said: I will not. But afterwards, being moved +with repentance, he went. + +21:30. And coming to the other, he said in like manner. And he answering +said: I go, Sir. And he went not. + +21:31. Which of the two did the father's will? They say to him: The +first. Jesus saith to them: Amen I say to you that the publicans and the +harlots shall go into the kingdom of God before you. + +21:32. For John came to you in the way of justice: and you did not +believe him. But the publicans and the harlots believed him: but you, +seeing it, did not even afterwards repent, that you might believe him. + +21:33. Hear ye another parable. There was a man, an householder, who +planted a vineyard and made a hedge round about it and dug in it a press +and built a tower and let it out to husbandmen and went into a strange +country. + +21:34. And when the time of the fruits drew nigh, he sent his servants +to the husbandmen that they might receive the fruits thereof. + +21:35. And the husbandmen laying hands on his servants, beat one and +killed another and stoned another. + +21:36. Again he sent other servants, more than the former; and they did +to them in like manner. + +21:37. And last of all he sent to them his son, saying: They will +reverence my son. + +21:38. But the husbandmen seeing the son, said among themselves: This is +the heir: come, let us kill him, and we shall have his inheritance. + +21:39. And taking him, they cast him forth out of the vineyard and +killed him. + +21:40. When therefore the lord of the vineyard shall come, what will he +do to those husbandmen? + +21:41. They say to him: He will bring those evil men to an evil end and +let out his vineyard to other husbandmen that shall render him the fruit +in due season. + +21:42. Jesus saith to them: Have you never read in the Scriptures: The +stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the +corner? By the Lord this has been done; and it is wonderful in our eyes. + +21:43. Therefore I say to you that the kingdom of God shall be taken +from you and shall be given to a nation yielding the fruits thereof. + +21:44. And whosoever shall fall on this stone shall be broken: but on +whomsoever it shall fall, it shall grind him to powder. + +21:45. And when the chief priests and Pharisees had heard his parables, +they knew that he spoke of them. + +21:46. And seeking to lay hands on him, they feared the multitudes, +because they held him as a prophet. + +Matthew Chapter 22 + +The parable of the marriage feast. Christ orders tribute to be paid to +Caesar. He confutes the Sadducees, shews which is the first commandment +in the law and puzzles the Pharisees. + +22:1. And Jesus answering, spoke again in parables to them, saying: + +22:2. The kingdom of heaven is likened to a king who made a marriage for +his son. + +22:3. And he sent his servants to call them that were invited to the +marriage: and they would not come. + +22:4. Again he sent other servants, saying: Tell them that were invited, +Behold, I have prepared my dinner: my beeves and fatlings are killed, +and all things are ready. Come ye to the marriage. + +22:5. But they neglected and went their ways, one to his farm and +another to his merchandise. + +22:6. And the rest laid hands on his servants and, having treated them +contumeliously, put them to death. + +22:7. But when the king had heard of it, he was angry: and sending his +armies, he destroyed those murderers and burnt their city. + +22:8. Then he saith to his servants: The marriage indeed is ready; but +they that were invited were not worthy. + +22:9. Go ye therefore into the highways; and as many as you shall find, +call to the marriage. + +22:10. And his servants going forth into the ways, gathered together all +that they found, both bad and good: and the marriage was filled with +guests. + +22:11. And the king went in to see the guests: and he saw there a man +who had not on a wedding garment. + +22:12. And he saith to him: Friend, how camest thou in hither not having +on a wedding garment? But he was silent. + +22:13. Then the king said to the waiters: Bind his hands and feet, and +cast him into the exterior darkness. There shall be weeping and gnashing +of teeth. + +22:14. For many are called, but few are chosen. + +22:15. Then the Pharisees going, consulted among themselves how to +insnare him in his speech. + +22:16. And they sent to him their disciples with the Herodians, saying: +Master, we know that thou art a true speaker and teachest the way of God +in truth. Neither carest thou for any man: for thou dost not regard the +person of men. + +The Herodians... That is, some that belonged to Herod, and that joined +with him in standing up for the necessity of paying tribute to Caesar, +that is, to the Roman emperor. Some are of opinion that there was a sect +among the Jews called Herodians, from their maintaining that Herod was +the Messias. + +22:17. Tell us therefore what dost thou think? Is it lawful to give +tribute to Caesar, or not? + +22:18. But Jesus knowing their wickedness, said: Why do you tempt me, ye +hypocrites? + +22:19. Shew me the coin of the tribute. And they offered him a penny. + +22:20. And Jesus saith to them: Whose image and inscription is this? + +22:21. They say to him: Caesar's. Then he saith to them: Render +therefore to Caesar the things that are Caesar's; and to God, the things +that are God's. + +22:22. And hearing this, they wondered and, leaving him, went their +ways. + +22:23. That day there came to him the Sadducees, who say there is no +resurrection; and asked him, + +22:24. Saying: Master, Moses said: If a man die having no son, his +brother shall marry his wife and raise up issue to his brother. + +22:25. Now there were with us seven brethren: and the first having +married a wife, died; and not having issue, left his wife to his +brother. + +22:26. In like manner the second and the third and so on, to the +seventh. + +22:27. And last of all the woman died also. + +22:28. At the resurrection therefore, whose wife of the seven shall she +be? For they all had her. + +22:29. And Jesus answering, said to them: You err, not knowing the +Scriptures nor the power of God. + +22:30. For in the resurrection they shall neither marry nor be married, +but shall be as the angels of God in heaven. + +22:31. And concerning the resurrection of the dead, have you not read +that which was spoken by God, saying to you: + +22:32. I am the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of +Jacob? He is not the God of the dead but of the living. + +22:33. And the multitudes hearing it were in admiration at his doctrine. + +22:34. But the Pharisees, hearing that he had silenced the Sadducees, +came together. + +22:35. And one of them, a doctor of the law, asked him, tempting him: + +22:36. Master, which is the great commandment in the law? + +22:37. Jesus said to him: Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with thy +whole heart and with thy whole soul and with thy whole mind. + +22:38. This is the greatest and the first commandment. + +22:39. And the second is like to this: Thou shalt love thy neighbour as +thyself. + +22:40. On these two commandments dependeth the whole law and the +prophets. + +22:41. And the Pharisees being gathered together, Jesus asked them, + +22:42. Saying: What think you of Christ? Whose son is he? They say to +him: David's. + +22:43. He saith to them: How then doth David in spirit call him Lord, +saying: + +22:44. The Lord said to my Lord: Sit on my right hand, until I make thy +enemies thy footstool? + +22:45. If David then call him Lord, how is he his son? + +22:46. And no man was able to answer him a word: neither durst any man +from that day forth ask him any more questions. + +Matthew Chapter 23 + +Christ admonishes the people to follow the good doctrine, not the bad +example of the scribes and Pharisees. He warns his disciples not to +imitate their ambition and denounces divers woes against them for their +hypocrisy and blindness. + +23:1. Then Jesus spoke to the multitudes and to his disciples, + +23:2. Saying: The scribes and the Pharisees have sitten on the chair of +Moses. + +23:3. All things therefore whatsoever they shall say to you, observe and +do: but according to their works do ye not. For they say, and do not. + +23:4. For they bind heavy and insupportable burdens and lay them on +men's shoulders: but with a finger of their own they will not move them. + +23:5. And all their works they do for to be seen of men. For they make +their phylacteries broad and enlarge their fringes. + +Phylacteries... that is, parchments, on which they wrote the ten +commandments, and carried them on their foreheads before their eyes: +which the Pharisees affected to wear broader than other men; so to seem +more zealous for the law. + +23:6. And they love the first places at feasts and the first chairs in +the synagogues, + +23:7. And salutations in the market place, and to be called by men, +Rabbi. + +23:8. But be not you called Rabbi. For one is your master: and all you +are brethren. + +23:9. And call none your father upon earth; for one is your father, who +is in heaven. + +Call none your father--Neither be ye called masters, etc... The +meaning is that our Father in heaven is incomparably more to be +regarded, than any father upon earth: and no master to be followed, who +would lead us away from Christ. But this does not hinder but that we are +by the law of God to have a due respect both for our parents and +spiritual fathers, (1 Cor. 4. 23:15,) and for our masters and teachers. + +23:10. Neither be ye called masters: for one is your master, Christ. + +23:11. He that is the greatest among you shall be your servant. + +23:12. And whosoever shall exalt himself shall be humbled: and he that +shall humble himself shall be exalted. + +23:13. But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, because you +shut the kingdom of heaven against men: for you yourselves do not enter +in and those that are going in, you suffer not to enter. + +23:14. Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, because you devour +the houses of widows, praying long prayers. For this you shall receive +the greater judgment. + +23:15. Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, because you go +round about the sea and the land to make one proselyte. And when he is +made, you make him the child of hell twofold more than yourselves. + +23:16. Woe to you, blind guides, that say, Whosoever shall swear by the +temple, it is nothing; but he that shall swear by the gold of the temple +is a debtor. + +23:17. Ye foolish and blind: for whether is greater, the gold or the +temple that sanctifieth the gold? + +23:18. And whosoever shall swear by the altar, it is nothing; but +whosoever shall swear by the gift that is upon it is a debtor. + +23:19. Ye foolish and blind: for whether is greater, the gift or the +altar that sanctifieth the gift? + +23:20. He therefore that sweareth by the altar sweareth by it and by all +things that are upon it. + +23:21. And whosoever shall swear by the temple sweareth by it and by him +that dwelleth in it. + +23:22. And he that sweareth by heaven sweareth by the throne of God and +by him that sitteth thereon. + +23:23. Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites; because you tithe +mint and anise and cummin and have left the weightier things of the law: +judgment and mercy and faith. These things you ought to have done and +not to leave those undone. + +23:24. Blind guides, who strain out a gnat and swallow a camel. + +23:25. Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites; because you make +clean the outside of the cup and of the dish, but within you are full of +rapine and uncleanness. + +23:26. Thou blind Pharisee, first make clean the inside of the cup and +of the dish, that the outside may become clean. + +23:27. Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites; because you are +like to whited sepulchres, which outwardly appear to men beautiful but +within are full of dead men's bones and of all filthiness. + +23:28. So you also outwardly indeed appear to men just: but inwardly you +are full of hypocrisy and iniquity. + +23:29. Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, that build the +sepulchres of the prophets and adorn the monuments of the just, + +Build the sepulchres, etc... This is not blamed, as if it were in itself +evil to build or adorn the monuments of the prophets: but the hypocrisy +of the Pharisees is here taxed; who, whilst they pretended to honour the +memory of the prophets, were persecuting even unto death the Lord of the +prophets. + +23:30. And say: If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not +have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets. + +23:31. Wherefore you are witnesses against yourselves, that you are the +sons of them that killed the prophets. + +23:32. Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers. + +23:33. You serpents, generation of vipers, how will you flee from the +judgment of hell? + +23:34. Therefore behold I send to you prophets and wise men and scribes: +and some of them you will put to death and crucify: and some you will +scourge in your synagogues and persecute from city to city. + +23:35. That upon you may come all the just blood that hath been shed +upon the earth, from the blood of Abel the just, even unto the blood of +Zacharias the son of Barachias, whom you killed between the temple and +the altar. + +That upon you may come, etc... Not that they should suffer more than +their own sins justly deserved; but that the justice of God should now +fall upon them with such a final vengeance, once for all, as might +comprise all the different kinds of judgments and punishments, that had +at any time before been inflicted for the shedding of just blood. + +23:36. Amen I say to you, all these things shall come upon this +generation. + +23:37. Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets and stonest +them that are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered together +thy children, as the hen doth gather her chickens under her wings, and +thou wouldst not? + +23:38. Behold, your house shall be left to you, desolate. + +23:39. For I say to you, you shall not see me henceforth till you say: +Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord. + +Matthew Chapter 24 + +Christ foretells the destruction of the temple, with the signs that +shall come before it and before the last judgment. We must always watch. + +24:1. And Jesus being come out of the temple, went away. And his +disciples came to shew him the buildings of the temple. + +24:2. And he answering, said to them: Do you see all these things? Amen +I say to you, there shall not be left here a stone upon a stone that +shall not be destroyed. + +24:3. And when he was sitting on mount Olivet, the disciples came to him +privately, saying: Tell us when shall these things be? And what shall +be the sign of thy coming and of the consummation of the world? + +24:4. And Jesus answering, said to them: Take heed that no man seduce +you. + +24:5. For many will come in my name saying, I am Christ. And they will +seduce many. + +24:6. And you shall hear of wars and rumours of wars. See that ye be not +troubled. For these things must come to pass: but the end is not yet. + +24:7. For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: +And there shall be pestilences and famines and earthquakes in places. + +24:8. Now all these are the beginnings of sorrows. + +24:9. Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted and shall put you +to death: and you shall be hated by all nations for my name's sake. + +24:10. And then shall many be scandalized and shall betray one another +and shall hate one another. + +24:11. And many false prophets shall rise and shall seduce many. + +24:12. And because iniquity hath abounded, the charity of many shall +grow cold. + +24:13. But he that shall persevere to the end, he shall be saved. + +24:14. And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in the whole +world, for a testimony to all nations: and then shall the consummation +come. + +24:15. When therefore you shall see the abomination of desolation, which +was spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place: he that +readeth let him understand. + +24:16. Then they that are in Judea, let them flee to the mountains: + +24:17. And he that is on the housetop, let him not come down to take any +thing out of his house: + +24:18. And he that is in the field, let him not go back to take his +coat. + +24:19. And woe to them that are with child and that give suck in those +days. + +24:20. But pray that your flight be not in the winter or on the sabbath. + +24:21. For there shall be then great tribulation, such as hath not been +from the beginning of the world until now, neither shall be. + +24:22. And unless those days had been shortened, no flesh should be +saved: but for the sake of the elect those days shall be shortened. + +24:23. Then if any man shall say to you, Lo here is Christ, or there: do +not believe him. + +24:24. For there shall arise false Christs and false prophets and shall +shew great signs and wonders, insomuch as to deceive (if possible) even +the elect. + +24:25. Behold I have told it to you, beforehand. + +24:26. If therefore they shall say to you, Behold he is in the desert: +go ye not out. Behold he is in the closets: believe it not. + +24:27. For as lightning cometh out of the east and appeareth even into +the west: so shall also the cowling of the Son of man be. + +24:28. Wheresoever the body shall be, there shall the eagles also be +gathered together. + +Wheresoever, etc... The coming of Christ shall be sudden, and manifest +to all the world, like lightning: and wheresoever he shall come, thither +shall all mankind be gathered to him, as eagles are gathered about a +dead body. + +24:29. And 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 heaven shall be moved. + +The stars... Or flaming meteors resembling stars. + +24:30. And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven. And +then shall all tribes of the earth mourn: and they shall see the Son of +man coming in the clouds of heaven with much power and majesty. + +The sign, etc... The cross of Christ. + +24:31. And he shall send his angels with a trumpet and a great voice: +and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from the +farthest parts of the heavens to the utmost bounds of them. + +24:32. And from the fig tree learn a parable: When the branch thereof is +now tender and the leaves come forth, you know that summer is nigh. + +24:33. So you also, when you shall see all these things, know ye that it +is nigh, even at the doors. + +24:34. Amen I say to you that this generation shall not pass till all +these things be done. + +24:35. Heaven and earth shall pass: but my words shall not pass. + +Shall pass... Because they shall be changed at the end of the world into +a new heaven and new earth. + +24:36. But of that day and hour no one knoweth: no, not the angels of +heaven, but the Father alone. + +24:37. And as in the days of Noe, so shall also the coming of the Son of +man be. + +24:38. For, as in the days before the flood they were eating and +drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, even till that day in which +Noe entered into the ark: + +24:39. And they knew not till the flood came and took them all away: so +also shall the coming of the Son of man be. + +24:40. Then two shall be in the field. One shall be taken and one shall +be left. + +24:41. Two women shall be grinding at the mill. One shall be taken and +one shall be left. + +24:42. Watch ye therefore, because you know not what hour your Lord will +come. + +24:43. But this know ye, that, if the goodman of the house knew at what +hour the thief would come, he would certainly watch and would not suffer +his house to be broken open. + +24:44. Wherefore be you also ready, because at what hour you know not +the Son of man will come. + +24:45. Who, thinkest thou, is a faithful and wise servant, whom his lord +hath appointed over his family, to give them meat in season? + +24:46. Blessed is that servant, whom when his lord shall come he shall +find so doing. + +24:47. Amen I say to you: he shall place him over all his goods. + +24:48. But if that evil servant shall say in his heart: My lord is long +a coming: + +24:49. And shall begin to strike his fellow servants and shall eat and +drink with drunkards: + +24:50. The lord of that servant shall come in a day that he hopeth not +and at an hour that he knoweth not: + +24:51. And shall separate him and appoint his portion with the +hypocrites. There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth. + +Matthew Chapter 25 + +The parable of the ten virgins and of the talents. The description of +the last judgment. + +25:1. Then shall the kingdom of heaven be like to ten virgins, who +taking their lamps went out to meet the bridegroom and the bride. + +25:2. And five of them were foolish and five wise. + +25:3. But the five foolish, having taken their lamps, did not take oil +with them. + +25:4. But the wise took oil in their vessels with the lamps. + +25:5. And the bridegroom tarrying, they all slumbered and slept. + +25:6. And at midnight there was a cry made: Behold the bridegroom +cometh. Go ye forth to meet him. + +25:7. Then all those virgins arose and trimmed their lamps. + +25:8. And the foolish said to the wise: Give us of your oil, for our +lamps are gone out. + +25:9. The wise answered, saying: Lest perhaps there be not enough for us +and for you, go ye rather to them that sell and buy for yourselves. + +25:10. Now whilst they went to buy the bridegroom came: and they that +were ready went in with him to the marriage. And the door was shut. + +25:11. But at last came also the other virgins, saying: Lord, Lord, open +to us. + +25:12. But he answering said: Amen I say to you, I know you not. + +25:13. Watch ye therefore, because you know not the day nor the hour. + +25:14. For even as a man going into a far country called his servants +and delivered to them his goods; + +25:15. And to one he gave five talents, and to another two, and to +another one, to every one according to his proper ability: and +immediately he took his journey. + +25:16. And he that had received the five talents went his way and traded +with the same and gained other five. + +25:17. And in like manner he that had received the two gained other two. + +25:18. But he that had received the one, going his way, digged into the +earth and hid his lord's money. + +25:19. But after a long time the lord of those servants came and +reckoned with them. + +25:20. And he that had received the five talents coming, brought other +five talents, saying: Lord, thou didst deliver to me five talents. +Behold I have gained other five over and above. + +25:21. His lord said to him: Well done, good and faithful servant, +because thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will place thee +over many things. Enter thou into the joy of thy lord. + +25:22. And he also that had received the two talents came and said: +Lord, thou deliveredst two talents to me. Behold I have gained other +two. + +25:23. His lord said to him: Well done, good and faithful servant: +because thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will place thee +over many things. Enter thou into the joy of thy lord. + +25:24. But he that had received the one talent, came and said: Lord, I +know that thou art a hard man; thou reapest where thou hast not sown and +gatherest where thou hast not strewed. + +25:25. And being afraid, I went and hid thy talent in the earth. Behold +here thou hast that which is thine. + +25:26. And his lord answering, said to him: Wicked and slothful servant, +thou knewest that I reap where I sow not and gather where I have not +strewed. + +25:27. Thou oughtest therefore to have committed my money to the +bankers: and at my coming I should have received my own with usury. + +25:28. Take ye away therefore the talent from him and give it him that +hath ten talents. + +25:29. For to every one that hath shall be given, and he shall abound: +but from him that hath not, that also which he seemeth to have shall be +taken away. + +25:30. And the unprofitable servant, cast ye out into the exterior +darkness. There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth. + +25:31. And when the Son of man shall come in his majesty, and all the +angels with him, then shall he sit upon the seat of his majesty. + +25:32. And all nations shall be gathered together before him: and he +shall separate them one from another, as the shepherd separateth the +sheep from the goats: + +25:33. And he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on +his left. + +25:34. Then shall the king say to them that shall be on his right hand: +Come, ye blessed of my Father, possess you the kingdom prepared for you +from the foundation of the world. + +25:35. For I was hungry, and you gave me to eat: I was thirsty, and you +gave me to drink: I was a stranger, and you took me in: + +25:36. Naked, and you covered me: sick, and you visited me: I was in +prison, and you came to me. + +25:37. Then shall the just answer him, saying: Lord, when did we see +thee hungry and fed thee: thirsty and gave thee drink? + +25:38. Or when did we see thee a stranger and took thee in? Or naked and +covered thee? + +25:39. Or when did we see thee sick or in prison and came to thee? + +25:40. And the king answering shall say to them: Amen I say to you, as +long as you did it to one of these my least brethren, you did it to me. + +25:41. Then he shall say to them also that shall be on his left hand: +Depart from me, you cursed, into everlasting fire, which was prepared +for the devil and his angels. + +25:42. For I was hungry and you gave me not to eat: I was thirsty and +you gave me not to drink. + +25:43. I was a stranger and you took me not in: naked and you covered me +not: sick and in prison and you did not visit me. + +25:44. Then they also shall answer him, saying: Lord, when did we see +thee hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison and +did not minister to thee? + +25:45. Then he shall answer them, saying: Amen: I say to you, as long as +you did it not to one of these least, neither did you do it to me. + +25:46. And these shall go into everlasting punishment: but the just, +into life everlasting. + +Matthew Chapter 26 + +The Jews conspire against Christ. He is anointed by Mary. The treason of +Judas. The last supper. The prayer in the garden. The apprehension of +our Lord. His treatment in the house of Caiphas. + +26:1. And it came to pass, when Jesus had ended all these words, he said +to his disciples: + +26:2. You know that after two days shall be the pasch: and the Son of +man shall be delivered up to be crucified. + +26:3. Then were gathered together the chief priests and ancients of the +people, into the court of the high priest, who was called Caiphas: + +26:4. And they consulted together that by subtilty they might apprehend +Jesus and put him to death. + +26:5. But they said: Not on the festival day, lest perhaps there should +be a tumult among the people. + +26:6. And when Jesus was in Bethania, in the house of Simon the leper, + +26:7. There came to him a woman having an alabaster box of precious +ointment and poured it on his head as he was at table. + +26:8. And the disciples seeing it had indignation, saying: To what +purpose is this waste? + +26:9. For this might have been sold for much and given to the poor. + +26:10. And Jesus knowing it, said to them: Why do you trouble this +woman? For she hath wrought a good work upon me. + +26:11. For the poor you have always with you: but me you have not +always. + +Me you have not always... Viz., in a visible manner, as when conversant +here on earth; and as we have the poor, whom we may daily assist and +relieve. + +26:12. For she in pouring this ointment on my body hath done it for my +burial. + +26:13. Amen I say to you, wheresoever this gospel shall be preached in +the whole world, that also which she hath done shall be told for a +memory of her. + +26:14. Then went one of the twelve, who was called Judas Iscariot, to +the chief priests. + +26:15. And said to them: What will you give me, and I will deliver him +unto you? But they appointed him thirty pieces of silver. + +26:16. And from thenceforth he sought opportunity to betray him. + +26:17. And on the first day of the Azymes, the disciples came to Jesus, +saying: Where wilt thou that we prepare for thee to eat the pasch? + +Azymes... Feast of the unleavened bread. Pasch... The paschal lamb. + +26:18. But Jesus said: Go ye into the city to a certain man and say to +him: The master saith, My time is near at hand. With thee I make the +pasch with my disciples. + +26:19. And the disciples did as Jesus appointed to them: and they +prepared the pasch. + +26:20. But when it was evening, he sat down with his twelve disciples. + +26:21. And whilst they were eating, he said: Amen I say to you that one +of you is about to betray me. + +26:22. And they being very much troubled began every one to say: Is it +I, Lord? + +26:23. But he answering said: He that dippeth his hand with me in the +dish, he shall betray me. + +26:24. The Son of man indeed goeth, as it is written of him. But woe to +that man by whom the Son of man shall be betrayed. It were better for +him, if that man had not been born. + +26:25. And Judas that betrayed him answering, said: Is it I, Rabbi? He +saith to him: Thou hast said it. + +26:26. And whilst they were at supper, Jesus took bread and blessed and +broke and gave to his disciples and said: Take ye and eat. This is my +body. + +This is my body... He does not say, This is the figure of my body--but +This is my body. (2 Council of Nice, Act. 6.) Neither does he say in +this, or with this is my body; but absolutely, This is my body: which +plainly implies transubstantiation. + +26:27. And taking the chalice, he gave thanks and gave to them, saying: +Drink ye all of this. + +Drink ye all of this... This was spoken to the twelve apostles; who were +the all then present; and they all drank of it, says St. Mark 14. 23. +But it no ways follows from these words spoken to the apostles, that all +the faithful are here commanded to drink of the chalice; any more than +that all the faithful are commanded to consecrate, offer and administer +this sacrament; because Christ upon this same occasion, and at the same +time, bid the apostles do so; in these words, St. Luke 22. 19, Do this +for a commemoration of me. + +26:28. For this is my blood of the new testament, which shall be shed +for many unto remission of sins. + +Blood of the new testament... As the old testament was dedicated with +the blood of victims, by Moses, in these words: This is the blood of the +testament, etc., Heb. 9. 20; so here is the dedication and institution +of the new testament, in the blood of Christ, here mystically shed by +these words: This is the blood of the new testament, etc. + +26:29. And I say to you, I will not drink from henceforth of this fruit +of the vine until that day when I shall drink it with you new in the +kingdom of my Father. + +Fruit of the vine... These words, by the account of St. Luke 26:22. 18, +were not spoken of the sacramental cup, but of the wine that was drunk +with the paschal lamb. Though the sacramental cup might also be called +the fruit of the vine, because it was consecrated from wine, and retains +the likeness, and all the accidents or qualities of wine. + +26:30. And a hymn being said, they went out unto mount Olivet. + +26:31. Then Jesus saith to them: All you shall be scandalized in me this +night. For it is written: I will strike the shepherd: and the sheep of +the flock shall be dispersed. + +Scandalized in me, etc... Forasmuch as my being apprehended shall make +you all run away and forsake me. + +26:32. But after I shall be risen again, I will go before you into +Galilee. + +26:33. And Peter answering, said to him: Although all shall be +scandalized in thee, I will never be scandalized. + +26:34. Jesus said to him: Amen I say to thee that in this night before +the cock crow, thou wilt deny me thrice. + +26:35. Peter saith to him: Yea, though I should die with thee, I will +not deny thee. And in like manner said all the disciples. + +26:36. Then Jesus came with them into a country place which is called +Gethsemani. And he said to his disciples: Sit you here, till I go yonder +and pray. + +26:37. And taking with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, he began +to grow sorrowful and to be sad. + +26:38. Then he saith to them: My soul is sorrowful even unto death. Stay +you here and watch with me. + +26:39. And going a little further, he fell upon his face, praying and +saying: My Father, if it be possible, let this chalice pass from me. +Nevertheless, not as I will but as thou wilt. + +26:40. And he cometh to his disciples and findeth them asleep. And he +saith to Peter: What? Could you not watch one hour with me? + +26:41. Watch ye: and pray that ye enter not into temptation. The spirit +indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak. + +26:42. Again the second time, he went and prayed, saying: My Father, if +this chalice may not pass away, but I must drink it, thy will be done. + +26:43. And he cometh again and findeth them sleeping: for their eyes +were heavy. + +26:44. And leaving them, he went again: and he prayed the third time, +saying the selfsame word. + +26:45. Then he cometh to his disciples and said to them: Sleep ye now +and take your rest. Behold the hour is at hand: and the Son of man shall +be betrayed into the hands of sinners. + +26:46. Rise: let us go. Behold he is at hand that will betray me. + +26:47. As he yet spoke, behold Judas, one of the twelve, came, and with +him a great multitude with swords and clubs, sent from the chief priests +and the ancients of the people. + +26:48. And he that betrayed him gave them a sign, saying: Whomsoever I +shall kiss, that is he. Hold him fast. + +26:49. And forthwith coming to Jesus, he said: Hail, Rabbi. And he +kissed him. + +26:50. And Jesus said to him: Friend, whereto art thou come? Then they +came up and laid hands on Jesus and held him. + +26:51. And behold one of them that were with Jesus, stretching forth his +hand, drew out his sword: and striking the servant of the high priest, +cut off his ear. + +26:52. Then Jesus saith to him: Put up again thy sword into its place: +for all that take the sword shall perish with the sword. + +26:53. Thinkest thou that I cannot ask my Father, and he will give me +presently more than twelve legions of angels? + +26:54. How then shall the scriptures be fulfilled, that so it must be +done? + +26:55. In that same hour, Jesus said to the multitudes: You are come +out, as it were to a robber, with swords and clubs to apprehend me. I +sat daily with you, teaching in the temple: and you laid not hands on +me. + +26:56. Now all this was done that the scriptures of the prophets might +be fulfilled. Then the disciples, all leaving him, fled. + +26:57. But they holding Jesus led him to Caiphas the high priest, where +the scribes and the ancients were assembled. + +26:58. And Peter followed him afar off, even to the court of the high +priest, And going in, he sat with the servants, that he might see the +end. + +26:59. And the chief priests and the whole council sought false witness +against Jesus, that they might put him to death. + +26:60. And they found not, whereas many false witnesses had come in. And +last of all there came two false witnesses: + +26:61. And they said: This man said, I am able to destroy the temple of +God and after three days to rebuild it. + +26:62. And the high priest rising up, said to him: Answerest thou +nothing to the things which these witness against thee? + +26:63. But Jesus held his peace. And the high priest said to him: I +adjure thee by the living God, that thou tell us if thou be the Christ +the Son of God. + +26:64. Jesus saith to him: Thou hast said it. Nevertheless I say to you, +hereafter you shall see the Son of man sitting on the right hand of the +power of God and coming in the clouds of heaven. + +26:65. Then the high priest rent his garments, saying: He hath +blasphemed: What further need have we of witnesses? Behold, now you have +heard the blasphemy. + +26:66. What think you? But they answering, said: He is guilty of death. + +26:67. Then did they spit in his face and buffeted him. And others +struck his face with the palms of their hands, + +26:68. Saying: Prophesy unto us, O Christ. Who is he that struck thee? + +26:69. But Peter sat without in the court. And there came to him a +servant maid, saying: Thou also wast with Jesus the Galilean. + +26:70. But he denied before them all, saying: I know not what thou +sayest. + +26:71. And as he went out of the gate, another maid saw him; and she +saith to them that were there: This man also was with Jesus of Nazareth. + +26:72. And again he denied with an oath: I know not the man. + +26:73. And after a little while, they came that stood by and said to +Peter: Surely thou also art one of them. For even thy speech doth +discover thee. + +26:74. Then he began to curse and to swear that he knew not the man. And +immediately the cock crew. + +26:75. And Peter remembered the word of Jesus which he had said: Before +the cock crow, thou wilt deny me thrice. And going forth, he wept +bitterly. + +Matthew Chapter 27 + +The continuation of the history of the passion of Christ. His death and +burial. + +27:1. And when morning was come, all the chief priests and ancients of +the people took counsel against Jesus, that they might put him to death. + +27:2. And they brought him bound and delivered him to Pontius Pilate the +governor. + +27:3. Then Judas, who betrayed him, seeing that he was condemned, +repenting himself, brought back the thirty pieces of silver to the chief +priests and ancients, + +27:4. Saying: I have sinned in betraying innocent blood. But they said: +What is that to us? Look thou to it. + +27:5. And casting down the pieces of silver in the temple, he departed +and went and hanged himself with an halter. + +27:6. But the chief priests having taken the pieces of silver, said: It +is not lawful to put them into the corbona, because it is the price of +blood. + +Corbona... A place in the temple where the people put in their gifts or +offerings. + +27:7. And after they had consulted together, they bought with them the +potter's field, to be a burying place for strangers. + +27:8. For this cause that field was called Haceldama, that is, the field +of blood, even to this day. + +27:9. Then was fulfilled that which was spoken by Jeremias the prophet, +saying: And they took the thirty pieces of silver, the price of him that +was prized, whom they prized of the children of Israel. + +27:10. And they gave them unto the potter's field, as the Lord appointed +to me. + +27:11. And Jesus stood before the governor, and the governor asked him, +saying: Art thou the king of the Jews? Jesus saith to him: Thou sayest +it. + +27:12. And when he was accused by the chief priests and ancients, he +answered nothing. + +27:13. Then Pilate saith to him: Dost not thou hear how great +testimonies they allege against thee? + +27:14. And he answered him to never a word, so that the governor +wondered exceedingly. + +27:15. Now upon the solemn day the governor was accustomed to release to +the people one prisoner, whom they would. + +27:16. And he had then a notorious prisoner that was called Barabbas. + +27:17. They therefore being gathered together, Pilate said: Whom will +you that I release to You: Barabbas, or Jesus that is called Christ? + +27:18. For he knew that for envy they had delivered him. + +27:19. And as he was sitting in the place of judgment, his wife sent to +him, saying: Have thou nothing to do with that just man; for I have +suffered many things this day in a dream because of him. + +27:20. But the chief priests and ancients persuaded the people that they +should ask Barabbas and make Jesus away. + +27:21. And the governor answering, said to them: Whether will you of the +two to be released unto you? But they said: Barabbas. + +27:22. Pilate saith to them: What shall I do then with Jesus that is +called Christ? They say all: Let him be crucified. + +27:23. The governor said to them: Why, what evil hath he done? But they +cried out the more, saying: Let him be crucified. + +27:24. And Pilate seeing that he prevailed nothing, but that rather a +tumult was made, taking water washed his hands before the people, +saying: I am innocent of the blood of this just man. Look you to it. + +27:25. And the whole people answering, said: His blood be upon us and +upon our children. + +27:26. Then he released to them Barabbas: and having scourged Jesus, +delivered him unto them to be crucified. + +27:27. Then the soldiers of the governor, taking Jesus into the hall, +gathered together unto him the whole band. + +27:28. And stripping him, they put a scarlet cloak about him. + +27:29. And platting a crown of thorns, they put it upon his head, and a +reed in his right hand. And bowing the knee before him, they mocked him, +saying: Hail, King of the Jews. + +27:30. And spitting upon him, they took the reed and struck his head. + +27:31. And after they had mocked him, they took off the cloak from him +and put on him his own garments and led him away to crucify him. + +27:32. And going out, they found a man of Cyrene, named Simon: him they +forced to take up his cross. + +27:33. And they came to the place that is called Golgotha, which is the +place of Calvary. + +27:34. And they gave him wine to drink mingled with gall. And when he +had tasted, he would not drink. + +27:35. And after they had crucified him, they divided his garments, +casting lots; that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the +prophet, saying: They divided my garments among them; and upon my +vesture they cast lots. + +27:36. And they sat and watched him. + +27:37. And they put over his head his cause written: THIS IS JESUS THE +KING OF THE JEWS. + +27:38. Then were crucified with him two thieves: one on the right hand +and one on the left. + +27:39. And they that passed by blasphemed him, wagging their heads, + +27:40. And saying: Vah, thou that destroyest the temple of God and in +three days dost rebuild it: save thy own self. If thou be the Son of +God, come down from the cross. + +27:41. In like manner also the chief priests, with the scribes and +ancients, mocking said: + +27:42. He saved others: himself he cannot save. If he be the king of +Israel, let him now come down from the cross: and we will believe him. + +27:43. He trusted in God: let him now deliver him if he will have him. +For he said: I am the Son of God. + +27:44. And the selfsame thing the thieves also that were crucified with +him reproached him with. + +27:45. Now from the sixth hour, there was darkness over the whole earth, +until the ninth hour. + +27:46. And about the ninth hour, Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying: +Eli, Eli, lamma sabacthani? That is, My God, My God, why hast thou +forsaken me? + +27:47. And some that stood there and heard said: This man calleth Elias. + +27:48. And immediately one of them running took a sponge and filled it +with vinegar and put it on a reed and gave him to drink. + +27:49. And the others said: Let be. Let us see whether Elias will come +to deliver him. + +27:50. And Jesus again crying with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost. + +27:51. And behold the veil of the temple was rent in two from the top +even to the bottom: and the earth quaked and the rocks were rent. + +27:52. And the graves were opened: and many bodies of the saints that +had slept arose, + +27:53. And coming out of the tombs after his resurrection, came into the +holy city and appeared to many. + +27:54. Now the centurion and they that were with him watching Jesus, +having seen the earthquake and the things that were done, were sore +afraid, saying: Indeed this was the Son of God. + +27:55. And there were there many women afar off, who had followed Jesus +from Galilee, ministering unto him: + +27:56. Among whom was Mary Magdalen and Mary the mother of James and +Joseph and the mother of the sons of Zebedee. + +27:57. And when it was evening, there came a certain rich man of +Arimathea, named Joseph, who also himself was a disciple of Jesus. + +27:58. He went to Pilate and asked the body of Jesus. Then Pilate +commanded that the body should be delivered. + +27:59. And Joseph taking the body wrapped it up in a clean linen cloth: + +27:60. And laid it in his own new monument, which he had hewed out in a +rock. And he rolled a great stone to the door of the monument and went +his way. + +27:61. And there was there Mary Magdalen and the other Mary, sitting +over against the sepulchre. + +27:62. And the next day, which followed the day of preparation, the +chief priests and the Pharisees came together to Pilate, + +The day of preparation... The eve of the sabbath; so called, because on +that day they prepared all things necessary; not being allowed so much +as to dress their meat on the sabbath day. + +27:63. Saying: Sir, we have remembered, that that seducer said, while he +was yet alive: After three days I will rise again. + +27:64. Command therefore the sepulchre to be guarded until the third +day: lest perhaps his disciples come and steal him away and say to the +people: He is risen from the dead. And the last error shall be worse +than the first. + +27:65. Pilate saith to them: You have a guard. Go, guard it as you know. + +27:66. And they departing, made the sepulchre sure, sealing the stone +and setting guards. + +Matthew Chapter 28 + +The resurrection of Christ. His commission to his disciples. + +28:1. And in the end of the sabbath, when it began to dawn towards the +first day of the week, came Mary Magdalen and the other Mary, to see the +sepulchre. + +28:2. And behold there was a great earthquake. For an angel of the Lord +descended from heaven and coming rolled back the stone and sat upon it. + +28:3. And his countenance was as lightning and his raiment as snow. + +28:4. And for fear of him, the guards were struck with terror and became +as dead men. + +28:5. And the angel answering, said to the women: Fear not you: for I +know that you seek Jesus who was crucified. + +28:6. He is not here. For he is risen, as he said. Come, and see the +place where the Lord was laid. + +28:7. And going quickly, tell ye his disciples that he is risen. And +behold he will go before you into Galilee. There you shall see him. Lo, +I have foretold it to you. + +28:8. And they went out quickly from the sepulchre with fear and great +joy, running to tell his disciples. + +28:9. And behold, Jesus met them, saying: All hail. But they came up and +took hold of his feet and adored him. + +28:10. Then Jesus said to them: Fear not. Go, tell my brethren that they +go into Galilee. There they shall see me. + +28:11. Who when they were departed, behold, some of the guards came into +the city and told the chief priests all things that had been done. + +28:12. And they being assembled together with the ancients, taking +counsel, gave a great sum of money to the soldiers, + +28:13. Saying: Say you, His disciples came by night and stole him away +when we were asleep. + +28:14. And if the governor shall hear of this, we will persuade him and +secure you. + +28:15. So they taking the money, did as they were taught: and this word +was spread abroad among the Jews even unto this day. + +28:16. And the eleven disciples went into Galilee, unto the mountain +where Jesus had appointed them. + +28:17. And seeing him they adored: but some doubted. + +28:18. And Jesus coming, spoke to them, saying: All power is given to me +in heaven and in earth. + +All power, etc... See here the warrant and commission of the apostles +and their successors, the bishops and pastors of Christ's church. He +received from his Father all power in heaven and in earth: and in virtue +of this power, he sends them (even as his Father sent him, St. John 20. +21) to teach and disciple, not one, but all nations; and instruct them +in all truths: and that he may assist them effectually in the execution +of this commission, he promises to be with them, not for three or four +hundred years only, but all days, even to the consummation of the world. +How then could the Catholic Church ever go astray; having always with +her pastors, as is here promised, Christ himself, who is the way, the +truth, and the life. St. John 14. + +28:19. Going therefore, teach ye all nations: baptizing them in the name +of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost. + +28:20. Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded +you. 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