new cloth is never patch'd upon an old garment: for the patch will draw the garment, and rend it still worse.

is not this the carpenter's son? is not Mary his mother? and James, and Joses, and Simon, and Judas, are they not his brothers?

But whoever shall occasion such an humble believer to fall off from the faith, it were better for him that a mill-stone were hang'd about his neck, and that he were plung'd to the bottom of the sea.

wo unto you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites; for ye are like whited sepulchres, which to outward appearance are fine. but within are full of dead mens bones, and all sort of filth.

indeed no man ever sews a piece of new cloth on an old garment: because the new piece that is patch'd on, draws the old, and rends it still worse.

is not he the carpenter, the son of Mary, the brother of James and Joses, of Juda and Simon? are not these his sisters, who are here with us? and they were scandalized at him.

his raiment was of an exceeding bright whiteness, like that of snow, and such as no fuller upon earth could imitate.

so that Peter staid there a considerable time with one Simon a tanner.

send therefore to Joppa, for one Simon, whose surname is Peter; he is lodged in the house of one Simon a tanner, by the sea-side, who, when he is arriv'd, will give you information."

and being of the same trade, he liv'd with them, and follow'd the business of tent-making. every sabbath he disputed in the synagogue,

summon'd the company, and thus address'd them, "tho' you know, sirs, it is by this craft that we are in such plight,

which made Paul say, "may God strike thee, thou plaister'd wall: you sit to judge me according to law, and in defiance of the law you order me to be struck!"

whatever is sold in the shambles, that eat, without making any scrupulous enquiry.

Alexander the copper-smith did me many injuries: the Lord may reward him according to his actions.