And, when He came to the other side, into the country of the Gadarenes, there met Him two demoniacs, coming out of the tombs, exceedingly fierce, so that no one could pass along that way;

Procure neither gold, nor silver, nor brass, for your girdles;

And whosoever shall give to drink a cup of cold water to one of these little ones in the name of a disciple, verily I say to you, he shall in no wise lose his reward."

While he was yet speaking, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them. And, behold, a voice out of the cloud, saying, "This is My beloved Son, in Whom I delighted; hear Him."

And I brought him to Thy disciples, and they could not heal him."

Then the disciples, coming near, said to Jesus privately, "Why could not we cast it out?"

saying to them, "Go into the village over against you, and straightway ye will find an ass tied, and a colt with her; having loosed them, lead them to Me.

"Say to the daughter of Zion, 'Behold, your King is coming to you, meek and mounted upon an ass, and on a colt, a foal of a beast of burden.'"

led the ass and the colt, and put upon them their garments; and He sat thereon.

"Woe to you, blind guides, who say, 'Whosoever swears by the temple, it is nothing; but whosoever swears by the gold of the temple, he is a debtor!'

Fools, and blind! for which is greater??he gold or the temple that sanctified the gold?

and, because lawlessness abounds, the love of many will grow cold.

And, unless those days should be shortened, no flesh could be saved: but, for the sake of the elect, those days will be shortened.

How, then, could the Scriptures be fulfilled, that thus it must be?"