And behold, you shall be dumb and not able to speak, till the day in which these things shall take place, because you did not believe my words, which shall be fulfilled in their proper time.

And he said to them: Why did you seek for me? Did you not know that I must be in my Father's house?

And they did not understand the words which he spoke to them.

But Herod the tetrarch having been reproved by him on account of Herodias, the wife of his brother Philip, and for all the wicked deeds which Herod did,

Demons also came out of many, crying out and saying: Thou art the Christ, the Son of God. And he rebuked them, and did not permit them to speak, because they knew that he was the Christ.

And Jesus answered and said to them: Have you not read even that which David did, when he was hungry him self, and those who were with him,

And looking round upon them all, he said to him: Stretch forth your hand. And he did so; and his hand was restored like the other.

Rejoice in that day, and leap for joy; for behold, your reward is great in heaven: for so did their fathers to the prophets.

Alas for you, when men shall speak well of you! for so did their fathers to the false prophets.

For which reason, neither did I count myself worthy to go to thee; but command in a word, and my servant shall be healed.

And when he came near the gate of tho city, behold, they were carrying out a dead man, the only son of his mother, and she was a widow; and a great multitude from the city was with her.

And he that had been dead, sat up and began to speak; and he gave him to his mother.

And Jesus answered and said to them: Go and tell John what you have seen and heard; that the blind receive their sight, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, the poor have the gospel preached to them;

And when the messengers of John had departed, he began to say to the multitudes concerning John: What did you go out into the wilderness to see? A reed shaken by the wind?

But what did you go out to see? A man clothed in soft raiment? Behold, they that wear splendid apparel, and live in luxury, are in kings houses.

But what did you go out to see? A prophet? Yes, I say to you, and much more than a prophet.

You did not anoint my head with oil; but she has anointed my feet with ointment.

While he was yet speaking, there came some one from the house of the ruler of the synagogue, and said to him: Your daughter is dead; trouble not the Teacher.

And all were weeping and lamenting her. Bat he said: Weep not; she is not dead, but sleeps.

And they derided him, knowing that she was dead.

And Herod the tetrarch heard of all things that were done by him; and he was perplexed, because it was said by some, that John had risen from the dead;

And they did so, and made them all recline.

And they were all amazed at the mighty power of God And while they were all wondering at every thing that Jesus did, he said to his disciples:

But they did not understand this saying, and it was concealed from them, that they might not understand it; and they were afraid to ask him about this saying.

And they did not receive him, because his face was turned toward Jerusalem.

And when his disciples James and John saw this, they said: Lord, is it thy will that we command fire to come down from heaven and destroy them, even as Elijah did?

Jesus said: Let the dead bury their own dead; but do you go and publish abroad the kingdom of God.

For I say to you, that many prophets and kings desired to see what you see, and did not see; and to hear what you hear, and did not hear.

And Jesus answered and said: A certain man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell among; robbers, who stripped him of his raiment, and wounded him, and went away, leaving him half dead.

Senseless men, did not he who made the outside, make the inside also?

Alas for you, lawyers! for you have taken away the key of knowledge; you did not go in yourselves, and those who were entering in, you prevented.

And that servant who knew his lord's will, but made no preparation, nor did according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes;

but he that knew not, and did things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few. To whomever much has been given, of him shall much be required; and to whom men have intrusted much, of him will they ask the more.

And he would gladly have filled his stomach with the pods which the swine did eat. And no one gave to him.

for this my son was dead, and is alive again: he was lost, and is found. And they began to be merry.

But it became us to make merry and rejoice; for this your brother was dead, and is alive again: was lost, and is found.

But he said, Not so, Father Abraham; but if one should go to them from the dead, they would repent.

But he said to him, If they hear not Moses and the prophets, they will not be persuaded, though one should rise from the dead.

Does he thank that servant, because he did what was commanded? I think not.

For I was afraid of you, because you are a hard man; you take up that which you did not lay down, and reap that which you did not sow.

Then he said to him: Out of your own mouth will I judge you, you wicked servant. You knew that I was a hard man, taking up what I did not lay down, and reaping what I did not sow.

And why then did you not put my money into the bank, that, when I came, I could have collected it with inter est?

And they reasoned among themselves, saying: If we say, From heaven, he will reply: Why, then, did you not believe him?

But those who shall be accounted worthy to attain that age, and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry, nor are given in marriage.

But: that the dead are raised, even Moses showed at The Bush, since he calls the Lord the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.

He is not a God of the dead, but of the living; for all live to him.

And he said to them: When I sent you without purse and bag and sandals, did you need any thing? They replied: Nothing.

While I was daily with you in the temple, you did not lay hands on me. But this is your hour, and the authority of darkness.

nor indeed did Herod; for I sent you to him, and behold, nothing worthy of death has been done by him.

(he had not given his consent to their counsel and deed;) he was of Arimathea, a city of the Jews, and he himself also waited for the kingdom of God:

And while they feared and bowed their faces to the earth, they said to them: Why seek you among the dead for him that lives?

But their eyes were restrained, so that they did not recognize him.

And he said to them: What things? They said to him: The things concerning Jesus the Nazarene, who was a prophet mighty in deed and in word before God and all the people;

And they said one to an other, Did not our heart burn within us while he talked with us by the way, and while he opened to us the scriptures?

And while they did not believe as yet for joy, and were astonished, he said to them: Have you any thing here to eat?

And he took it, and did eat before them.

and he said to them: Thus it is written, and thus was it necessary that the Christ should suffer, and rise again from the dead the third day,