Josiah, of Jechoniah and his brethren, at the time of the carrying away to Babylon.

But when John saw that many of the Pharisees and Sadducees were coming for baptism, he said: "O brood of vipers! Who has warned you to flee from the wrath to come?

"Come to terms with your opponent quickly, while you are yet with him on the way [to the court], to prevent your opponent from handing you over to the judge, and the judge to the jailer, and so you be thrown into prison.

And if your eye, your right eye, entices you to sin, pluck it out and cast it from you. It is better for you to lose one of your bodily organs, than to have your whole body go down into the pit.

And if your right hand entices you into sin, cut it off and cast it from you; for it is better for you to lose one of your bodily organs, than to have your whole body go down into the pit.

"Whoever impresses you to go one mile, go two miles with him.

"You Son of God," they shouted, "what have you to do with us? Are you come to torment us before the time?"

"but rather be on your way to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.

"Are you the Coming One, or are we to look for someone else?"

because John kept telling him, "It is not right for you to have her."

"If your hand or your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off and cast it from you. It is better for you to enter into life maimed or crippled, than to keep both hands or both feet and be cast into the everlasting burning.

"If your eye keeps causing you to stumble, pluck it out and cast it from you. It is better for you to enter into life with only one eye, than to keep both eyes and be cast into the Gehenna of fire.

"Moses," said Jesus, "permitted you to divorce your wives on account of the hardness of your hearts, but from the beginning it was not so.

Then they will deliver you up to suffer affliction, and will put you to death, and you will be hated by all nations for my name's sake.

"And while they were going away to buy, the bridegroom came; and those who were ready went in with him to the wedding-feast. And the door was shut.

"The Son of man is indeed to go as it is written concerning him, but woe to that man by whom the Son of man shall be betrayed. It were good for that man if he had never been born."

Then all his disciples forsook him and fled; but those who had apprehended Jesus led him away to Caiaphas, the high priest, where the scribes and the elders had assembled.

At last, when they had finished their mocking, they took the robe off, and put his own garments on him, and led him away to crucify him.

But the eleven disciples went away to Galilee, to the mountain where Jesus had appointed them.