"A voice was heard in Ramah, wailing and bitter lamentation: It was Rachel bewailing her children, and she refused to be comforted because there were no more."

And walking along the shore of the Lake of Galilee He saw two brothers--Simon called Peter and his brother Andrew--throwing a drag-net into the Lake; for they were fishers.

If therefore your eye, even the right eye, is a snare to you, tear it out and away with it; it is better for you that one member should be destroyed rather than that your whole body should be thrown into Gehenna.

And if your right hand is a snare to you, cut it off and away with it; it is better for you that one member should be destroyed rather than that your whole body should go into Gehenna.

After this Jesus went to the house of Peter, whose mother-in-law he found ill in bed with fever.

Now the names of the twelve Apostles were these: first, Simon called Peter, and his brother Andrew; James the son of Zabdi, and his brother John;

Brother will betray brother to death, and father, child; and children will rise against their own parents and will put them to death.

"Master," answered Peter, "if it is you, bid me come to you upon the water."

"Come," said Jesus. Then Peter climbed down from the boat and walked upon the water to go to Him.

"Explain to us this figurative language," said Peter.

"You," replied Simon Peter, "are the Christ, the Son of the ever-living God."

And I declare to you that you are Peter, and that upon this Rock I will build my Church, and the might of Hades shall not triumph over it.

Then Peter took Him aside and began taking Him to task. "Master," he said, "God forbid; this will not be your lot."

But He turned and said to Peter, "Get behind me, Adversary; you are a hindrance to me, because your thoughts are not God's thoughts, but men's."

Six day later, Jesus took with Him Peter and the brothers James and John, and brought them up a high mountain to a solitary place.

Then Peter said to Jesus, "Master, we are thankful to you that we are here. If you approve, I will put up three tents here, one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah."

After their arrival at Capernaum the collectors of the half-shekel came and asked Peter, "Does not your Teacher pay the half-shekel?"

But whoever shall occasion the fall of one of these little ones who believe in me, it would be better for him to have a millstone hung round his neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea.

If your hand or your foot is causing you to fall into sin, cut it off and away with it. It is better for you to enter into Life crippled in hand or foot than to remain in possession of two sound hands or feet but be thrown into the fire of the Ages.

And if your eye is causing you to fall into sin, tear it out and away with it; it is better for you to enter into Life with only one eye, than to remain in possession of two eyes but be thrown into the Gehenna of fire.

At this point Peter came to Him with the question, "Master, how often shall my brother act wrongly towards me and I forgive him? seven times?"

"If this is the case with a man in relation to his wife," said the disciples to Him, "it is better not to marry."

Then Peter said to Jesus, "See, *we* have forsaken everything and followed you; what then will be *our* reward?"

Then will many stumble and fall, and they will betray one another and hate one another.

and said, "What are you willing to give me if I betray him to you?" So they weighed out to him thirty shekels,

and from that moment he was on the look out for an opportunity to betray Him.

and the meal was proceeding, when Jesus said, "In solemn truth I tell you that one of you will betray me."

"The one who has dipped his fingers in the bowl with me," He answered, "is the man who will betray me.

"All may stumble and fail," said Peter, "but I never will."

"Even if I must die with you," declared Peter, "I will never disown you." In like manner protested all the disciples.

And He took with Him Peter and the two sons of Zabdi. Then He began to be full of anguish and distress,

Then He came to the disciples and found them asleep, and He said to Peter, "Alas, none of you could keep awake with me for even a single hour!

And Peter kept following Him at a distance, till he came even to the court of the High Priest's palace, where he entered and sat down among the officers to see the issue.

Peter meanwhile was sitting outside in the court of the palace, when one of the maidservants came over to him and said, "You too were with Jesus the Galilaean."

A short time afterwards the people standing there came and said to Peter, "Certainly you too are one of them, for your brogue shows it."

and Peter recollected the words of Jesus, how He had said, "Before the cock crows you will three times disown me." And he went out and wept aloud, bitterly.

So after consulting together they spent the money in the purchase of the Potter's Field as a burial place for people not belonging to the city;

and gave them for the potter's field, as the Lord directed me."