And on their having withdrawn, lo, a messenger of the Lord doth appear in a dream to Joseph, saying, 'Having risen, take the child and his mother, and flee to Egypt, and be thou there till I may speak to thee, for Herod is about to seek the child to destroy him.'

Happy those persecuted for righteousness' sake -- because theirs is the reign of the heavens.

Happy are ye whenever they may reproach you, and may persecute, and may say any evil thing against you falsely for my sake --

for all these do the nations seek for, for your heavenly Father doth know that ye have need of all these;

but seek ye first the reign of God and His righteousness, and all these shall be added to you.

'Ask, and it shall be given to you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened to you;

and the multitudes having seen, wondered, and glorified God, who did give such power to men.

and before governors and kings ye shall be brought for my sake, for a testimony to them and to the nations.

'He who found his life shall lose it, and he who lost his life for my sake shall find it.

And he answering said to them, 'A generation, evil and adulterous, doth seek a sign, and a sign shall not be given to it, except the sign of Jonah the prophet;

'A generation evil and adulterous doth seek a sign, and a sign shall not be given to it, except the sign of Jonah the prophet;' and having left them he went away.

for whoever may will to save his life, shall lose it, and whoever may lose his life for my sake shall find it,

'And he who may receive one such child in my name, doth receive me,

What think ye? if a man may have an hundred sheep, and there may go astray one of them, doth he not -- having left the ninety-nine, having gone on the mountains -- seek that which is gone astray?

But Jesus said, 'Suffer the children, and forbid them not, to come unto me, for of such is the reign of the heavens;'

and every one who left houses, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or fields, for my name's sake, an hundredfold shall receive, and life age-during shall inherit;

'And woe to those with child, and to those giving suck in those days;

for there shall be then great tribulation, such as was not from the beginning of the world till now, no, nor may be.

and he said, 'Go away to the city, unto such a one, and say to him, The Teacher saith, My time is nigh; near thee I keep the passover, with my disciples;'

And the messenger answering said to the women, 'Fear not ye, for I have known that Jesus, who hath been crucified, ye seek;