Whoever therefore heareth these words of mine, and performeth them, I will compare him to a prudent man, who built his house on a rock:

And whoever heareth these words of mine, and performeth them not, shall be likened to a foolish man, who built his house upon the sand:

(And lo, a woman who had had a flux of blood for twelve years, came close behind Him, and touched the hem of his garment:

Now when the blade shot forth, and produced the corn, then the tares also appeared.

And Jesus replied and said unto him, Blessed art thou Simon son of Jonas, for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father who is in heaven.

And I also say unto thee, as thou art called Peter, so upon this rock, which thou hast confessed, will I build my church, and the gates of death shall not prevail against it.

Hear another parable, There was a certain man, a master of a family, that planted a vineyard, and made a fence about it, and put a wine-press in it, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and travelled abroad.

Wo unto you scribes and pharisees, hypocrites; who build the tombs of the prophets, and adorn the monuments of the just,

and say, If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been concerned with them in shedding the blood of the prophets:

that upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel, to the blood of Zacharias the son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar.

for this is my blood, the blood of the new covenant, which is to be shed for many for the remission of sins:

This fellow said, I am able to destroy the temple of God, and to build it in three days.

saying, I have sinned, for I have betrayed innocent blood: but they said, What is that to us? see thou to that.

But the chief priests took up the pieces of silver, and said, It is not lawful to put them into the treasury of the temple, because it is the price of blood:

and therefore that field is called the field of blood to this day.

Pilate seeing that he prevailed nothing, but that rather a tumult was made, took water and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, I am innocent of the blood of this just man, look ye to it:

and all the people answered and said, His blood be on us, and on our children.