"What did you go out into the desert to behold?" he asked; "A reed shaken by the wind? If not, what did you go out to see? A man clothed in soft raiment? Behold, those who wear soft raiment dwell in kings' palaces!

The bruised reed will not break; The dimly burning wick will not quench; Till he has led justice on to victory.

And they twisted a thorny crown for him, and put it on his head, and placed a reed in his right hand. Then they knelt before him, in mockery, crying, "Hail, King of the Jews!"

And they spit upon him, and took the reed and struck him on the head, again and again.

At once, one of them ran, and took a sponge, and filling it with vinegar, put it on a reed, and gave him to drink.

"for with what judgment you judge, you will be judged, and in what measure you measure, others will measure to you.

He told them another parable. He said, "The kingdom of heaven is like leaven which a woman took and hid in three measures of flour, until the whole was leavened."

"Fill up then the measure of your fathers!