saying, "Rise, 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 came on the scene, preaching in the desert of Judaea,

The people who sat in darkness saw a great light, yea light dawned on those who sat in the land and the shadow of death.

The fame of him spread all through the surrounding country, and people brought him all their sick, those who suffered from all manner of disease and pain, demoniacs, epileptics, and paralytics; he healed them all.

"Blessed are those who feel poor in spirit! the Realm of heaven is theirs.

Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for goodness! they will be satisfied.

Blessed are those who have been persecuted for the sake of goodness! the Realm of heaven is theirs.

But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you,

For if you love only those who love you, what reward do you get for that? do not the very taxgatherers do as much?

Well, if for all your evil you know to give your children what is good, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask him?

When Jesus heard it he said, "Those who are strong have no need of a doctor, but those who are ill.

Have no fear of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul: rather fear Him who can destroy both soul and body in Gehenna.

I tell you truly, there are some of those standing here who will not taste death till they see the Son of man coming himself to reign."

He said to them, "True, but this truth is not practicable for everyone, it is only for those who have the gift.

When those who had been hired about five o'clock came, they got a shilling each.

Then Jesus went into the temple of God and drove out all who were buying and selling inside the temple; he upset the tables of the money-changers and the stalls of those who sold doves,

The king was enraged; he sent his troops and destroyed those murderers and burned up their city.

And those servants went out on the roads and gathered all they met, bad and good alike. Thus the marriage-banquet was supplied with guests.

Woe to you, you impious scribes and Pharisees! you shut the Realm of heaven in men's faces; you neither enter yourselves, nor will you let those enter who are on the point of entering.

So you are witnesses against yourselves, that you are sons of those who killed the prophets!

O Jerusalem, Jerusalem! slaying the prophets and stoning those who have been sent to you! How often I would fain have gathered your children as a fowl gathers her brood under her wings! But you would not have it!

then let those who are in Judaea fly to the hills;

Woe to women with child and to women who give suck in those days!

Had not those days been cut short, not a soul would be saved alive; however, for the sake of the elect, those days will be cut short.

Immediately after the misery of those days the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not yield her light, the stars will drop from heaven and the orbs of the heavens will be shaken.

Now while they were away buying oil, the bridegroom arrived; those maidens who were ready accompanied him to the marriage-banquet, and the door was shut.

Now a long time afterwards the master of those servants came back and settled accounts with them.

Then shall the King say to those on his right, 'Come, you whom my Father has blessed, come into your inheritance in the realm prepared for you from the foundation of the world.

Then he will say to those on the left, 'Begone from me, you accursed ones, to the eternal fire which has been prepared for the devil and his angels!

but those who had seized Jesus took him away to the house of Caiaphas the high priest, where the scribes and elders had gathered.

When he went out to the gateway another maidservant noticed him and said to those who were there, "This fellow was with Jesus the Nazarene."

Those who passed by scoffed at him, nodding at him in derision