Jesus said to the multitudes concerning John, What went ye out into the wilderness to see? A reed shaken by the wind?

He shall not break a bruised reed, and smoking flax he shall not quench, till he send forth judgment unto victory.

ye shall be judged, and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you.

Are ye not much better than they? And which of you by taking thought can add to his age the smallest measure?

He spake another parable to them: the kingdom of heaven is like leaven, which a woman taking, covered up in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened.

Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers. Ye serpents, ye brood of vipers,