and said, "Wake up! Take the child and his mother and go to the land of Israel, for those who sought the child's life are dead."

In those days John the Baptist appeared, and preached in the desert of Judea.

The people that were living in darkness Have seen a great light, And on those who were living in the land of the shadow of death A light has dawned!"

"Blessed are those who feel their spiritual need, for the Kingdom of Heaven belongs to them!

"Blessed are those who are hungry and thirsty for uprightness, for they will be satisfied!

"Blessed are those who have endured persecution for their uprightness, for the Kingdom of Heaven belongs to them!

For if you love only those who love you, what reward can you expect? Do not the very tax-collectors do that?

So if you, bad as you are, know enough to give your children what is good, how much more surely will your Father in heaven give what is good to those who ask him for it!

It is not everyone who says to me 'Lord! Lord!' who will get into the Kingdom of Heaven, but only those who do the will of my Father in heaven.

Have no fear of those who kill the body, but cannot kill the soul. You had better be afraid of one who can destroy both soul and body in the pit.

"I tell you, among men born of women no one greater than John the Baptist has ever appeared. And yet those who are of little importance in the Kingdom of Heaven are greater than he.

So when he got out of the boat he found a great crowd gathered, and his heart was touched at the sight of them, and he cured those of them that were sick.

Then great crowds came to him bringing with them those who were lame, crippled, blind, or dumb, and many others. And they laid them down at his feet, and he cured them,

He said to them, "It is not everyone who can accept that, but only those who have a special gift.

When those who were hired about five o'clock came they received a dollar apiece.

And when those who were hired first came they expected to get more, but they too got a dollar apiece.

So those who are last now will be first then, and those who are first will be last."

He said to them, "Then what I drink you shall drink, but as for sitting at my right or my left, that is not mine to give, but belongs to those for whom it is destined by my Father."

And he sent his slaves to summon those who had been invited to the banquet, and they would not come.

He sent other slaves a second time, and said to them, 'Tell those who have been asked, "Here I have my banquet all ready, my bullocks and fat cattle are killed, and everything is ready. Come to the banquet!" '

This made the king angry, and he sent his troops and put those murderers to death and burned their city.

Then he said to his slaves, 'The banquet is ready, but those who were invited have proved unworthy of it.

"But alas for you, you hypocritical scribes and Pharisees, for you lock the doors of the Kingdom of Heaven in men's faces, for you will neither go in yourselves nor let those enter who are trying to do so.

"O Jerusalem, Jerusalem! murdering the prophets, and stoning those who are sent to her, how often I have longed to gather your children around me, as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, but you refused!

"So when you see the dreadful desecration, of which the prophet Daniel spoke, set up in the Holy Place"??he reader must take note of this??16 "then those who are in Judea must fly to the hills;

If those days had not been cut short, nobody would have escaped, but for the sake of God's people those days will be cut short.

"But immediately after the misery of those days, the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not shed its light, and the stars will fall from the sky, and the forces of the sky will shake.

For just as in those days before the flood people were eating and drinking, marrying and being married, until the very day Noah entered the ark,

Then the king will say to those at his right, 'Come, you whom my Father has blessed, take possession of the kingdom which has been destined for you from the creation of the world.

Then he will say to those at his left, 'Begone, you accursed people, to the everlasting fire destined for the devil and his angels!