the ax is already laid to the root of the trees: every tree then which does not produce good fruit, will be hewn down, and cast into the fire.

and Jesus answer'd, Let it be so for the present, for it becometh us to do whatever is right. then John consented.

If your right eye insnare you, it is better to pull it out, and to suffer the loss of that single part, than that thy whole body should be cast into Gehenna.

and if thy right hand insnare thee, it is better to saw it off, and to suffer the loss of that single part, than that thy whole body should be thrown into Gehenna.

but I say unto you, don't return evil for evil; on the contrary, if any one strike thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other likewise.

but when you give alms, "let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doth:"

thou hypocrite, first get rid of the beam in your own eye; and then see how to remove the mote out of thy brother's eye.

As they departed, Jesus said to the people, speaking of John, what did ye go to see in the desert? a reed shaken with the wind?

he answer'd them, have ye not read what David and the rest of the company did when they were hungry,

a bruised reed shall he not break, and smoaking flax shall he not quench, till he hath made justice victorious.

so that as the sun arose it was scorched, and for want of root, withered away.

but having no root in him he has only an occasional faith: for as soon as any oppression or persecution arises upon account of the gospel, he presently relapses.

no, said he, lest in pulling up the tares, you should root

but he answered them, in the evening you foretel fair weather: when the sky is of a bright red.

and in the morning, a foul day: when the sky is of a dusky red. hypocrites, can ye judge of the appearance of the sky, and yet not discern the signs of these times?

Jesus answered, 'tis true, Elias was to come first and set all things right.

and he answered them, have ye not read, that when the creator, at the beginning, made male and female,

why then, said they, did Moses permit to give a writ of divorce to repudiate the wife?

and he said to her, what would you have? grant, said she, when you are upon the throne, that these my two sons may sit, the one on thy right hand, and the other on the left.

he replied, ye shall indeed drink of my cup, and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with: but to sit on my right hand, and on my left, I cannot grant to any but those whom my father has destin'd thereto.

and said to him, do you hear what they say? yes, said Jesus; have ye never read, "out of the mouth of babes and sucklings I will make a consort of praise?"

Jesus reply'd, did ye never read in the scriptures, " that very stone which the builders rejected, is become the principal stone of the angle, this the Lord effected, and it is marvellous in our eyes."

now as to the state of life after death, have ye not read that expression of God himself,

" the Lord said unto my Lord, sit thou on my right hand, till I make thine enemies thy footstool?"

and he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left.

the king shall say to those on his right hand, come, ye blessed of my father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.

Jesus reply'd, I am: moreover I declare to you, within a while ye shall see the son of man sitting on the right hand of God, and coming on the clouds of heaven.

then pleating a crown of thorns, they set it on his head, and a reed in his right hand: and they bowed the knee before him, in mockery, saying, hail king of the Jews.

and they spit upon him, and took the reed, and smote him on the head.

At the same time, two robbers were crucified with him: one on his right hand, the other on his left.