And when Joseph awoke from his sleep, he did as the angel of the Lord had commanded him, and took his wife,

And when they had departed, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream, saying, Arise, and take the young child and his mother, and flee into Egypt, and remain there till I tell you; for Herod will seek the young child to destroy it.

Then Herod seeing that he was despised by the Magi, was exceedingly angry, and sent and destroyed all the children in Bethlehem, and in all its borders, from two years old and under, according to the precise time which he had learned of the Magi.

And when Herod had died, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream, in Egypt, saying,

And this John had his clothes of camel's hair, and a leather girdle about his loins, and his food was locusts and wild honey.

You are the light of the world. A city situated on a mountain cannot be hid.

nor swear by your head, for you cannot make one hair white or black.

You have heard that it was said, You shall love your neighbor, and hate your enemy.

But take heed not to perform your righteousness before men, to be seen by them; otherwise indeed, you have no reward from your Father in heaven.

But when you fast, anoint your head, and wash your face,

No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the first, and love the other, or he will adhere to the first, and despise the other. You cannot serve God and riches.

And when Jesus had finished these words the multitudes were astonished at his teaching;

And Jesus said to him, The foxes have holes, and the birds of heaven have places of shelter, but the Son of man has not where to lay his head.

And when he had come to the other side, into the country of the Gadarenes, two demoniacs met him, coming out of the tombs, exceedingly fierce, so that no man could pass that way.

And when the multitudes saw it they were afraid, and glorified God who had given such power to men.

And when he had gone into the house the blind men came to him, and Jesus said to them, Do you believe that I am able to do this? They said to him, Yes, Lord.

And when they had gone away, behold, the people brought to him a man, a dumb demoniac.

And seeing the multitudes he had compassion on them because they were faint and scattered, like sheep without a shepherd.

Fear them not, therefore, for there is nothing concealed that shall not be revealed, nor hid that shall not be known.

Even the hairs of your head are all numbered.

And when Jesus had finished his charge to his twelve disciples, he departed thence to teach and preach in their cities.

And when they had gone, Jesus began to say to the multitudes, concerning John, What went you out to the wilderness to see? A reed shaken with the wind?

Then he began to rebuke those cities in which most of his mighty works had been done, because they changed not their minds.

Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! for if the mighty works which have been done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have changed their minds long ago in sackcloth and ashes.

And you, Capernaum, which are exalted even to heaven, shall go down even to hades; for if the mighty works which have been done in you had been done in Sodom, it would have remained to this day.

At that time Jesus answering said, I thank thee, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that thou hast hid these things from the wise and intelligent, and hast revealed them to babes.

But if you had known what, I wish for mercy and not a sacrifice, means, you would not have condemned the innocent;

And some fell on rocky places, where it had not much earth, and it came up immediately, because it had no depth of earth;

and when the sun arose it was scorched, and because it had no root it was dried up.

He spoke another parable to them; The kingdom of heaven is like leaven which a woman took and hid in three sata [33 quarts] of flour, till the whole was leavened.

The kingdom of heaven is like a treasure hid in a field, which a man found, and concealed, and went away with joy, and sold all that he had and bought that field.

who, finding one very costly, went and sold all that he had and bought it.

And when Jesus had finished these parables he departed thence,

For Herod having seized John, had bound him, and put him in prison, on account of Herodias, his brother Philip's wife.

For John had said to him, It is not lawful for you to have her.

and she, having been put forward by her mother, said, Give me here on a plate the head of John the Baptist.

and his head was brought on a plate and given to the girl, and she carried it to her mother.

And going out he saw a great multitude, and had compassion on them, and cured their sick.

And he having nothing to pay, the lord commanded him to be sold, and his wife and children, and all that he had, and payment to be made.

AND when Jesus had finished these words he departed from Galilee, and came into the bounds of Judea beyond the Jordan;

And when the young man heard [this] he went away sad, for he had great possessions.

and when they had received it, they complained of the householder,

saying, These last have worked but one hour, and you have made them equal with us, who have borne the burden and heat of the day.

But what do you think? A man had two sons; and he went to the first, and said, Son, go and work to-day in the vineyard.

Jesus said to them, Have you never read in the Scriptures, The stone which the builders rejected, the same has become the head of a corner? this is from the Lord, and is wonderful in our eyes?

And the king coming in to see the guests observed there a man who had not on a wedding garment,

In the resurrection, therefore, whose wife will she be of the seven? for they all had her.

And the Pharisees hearing that he had silenced the Sadducees, were assembled together,

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

and then many shall be offended, and shall betray one another, and hate one another;

But know this, that if the householder had known in what watch the thief comes, he would have watched, and not have suffered his house to be broken into.

but he that received the one went away and dug in the earth and hid his lord's money.

And after a long time the lord of those servants came, and had a settlement with them.

and being afraid I went away and hid your talent in the earth; behold, you have what is yours.

WHEN Jesus had finished all these words he said to his disciples,

a woman came to him having a vase of very costly ointment, and poured it on his head, as he reclined.

The Son of man goes indeed, as it is written of him, but woe to that man by whom the Son of man is betrayed! it would be good for him if that man had not been born.

and he then had a noted prisoner called Barabbas.

For he knew that they had delivered him up from envy.

and making a crown of thorns they put it on his head, and a reed in his right hand; and they knelt before him, and mocked him, saying, Hail, King of the Jews!

And they spit on him, and took the reed and beat him on his head.

And when they had mocked him, they took the cloak off from him, and put on him his own clothes, and led him away to crucify him.

they gave him vinegar to drink mixed with gall; and when he had tasted of it he would not drink.

And they put over his head his accusation, written; THIS IS JESUS THE KING OF THE JEWS.

And there were many women there, beholding from afar, who had followed Jesus from Galilee, to wait upon him;

and placed it in a new tomb of his which he had excavated in a rock, and having rolled a great stone to the door of the tomb he went away;

And as they went, behold, some of the guard came into the city and told the chief priests all the things which had happened.

And the eleven disciples went to Galilee on the mountain where Jesus had appointed them;