When they had entered the house, they saw the child with Mary, his mother, and opening their treasure-chests they gave him gifts, gold and frankincense and myrrh.

"No slave can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will pay heed to the one and despise the other. You cannot be the slaves both of God and of gold.

"Take no gold or silver or coppers in your purses;

"And whoever gives to drink to one of these little ones a cup of cold water only, because he is a disciple, I tell you in solemn truth, he shall not lose his reward.

While he was yet speaking, behold! a luminous cloud overshadowed them; and a voice out of the cloud, saying. "This is my Son, my Beloved, in whom is my delight. Listen to him."

"And I brought him to your disciples, but they could not cure him."

"Go on into the village facing you, and at once you will find an ass tied, and her colt with her. Loose them and bring them to me.

Say to the daughter of Zion, "Behold thy King cometh to thee, Gentle and sitting upon an ass, And upon a colt, the fool of a beast of burden."

they led back the ass and her colt, and placed their cloaks on them.

No one could answer him a word, nor did any one dare from that day to ask him another question.

"Woe unto you, blind guides, who say, If any one swears by the Sanctuary, it is nothing, but if any one swears by the gold of the Sanctuary, the oath is binding.

"You fools and blind; for which is greater, the gold, or the Sanctuary which hallows the gold?

and because of the increase of iniquity the love of the majority will grow cold;

"Why is this waste? This perfume could have been sold for a good sum, and the money given to the poor."

"But if I did, how could the Scriptures be fulfilled that say that thus it must happen?"