Azor, of Sadoc; Sadoc, of Achim; Achim, of Eliud;

Eliud, of Eleazar; Eleazar, of Matthan; Matthan, of Jacob;

As soon as Herod saw that he had been mocked by the Magi, he was furious. He sent and put to death all the boys in Bethlehem and all the neighborhood who were two years old or under, in accordance with the date which he had ascertained from the Magi.

This John it was of whom it was said through Isaiah, the prophet, The voice of one who cries aloud in the desert, "Prepare a way for the Lord, Make the paths straight for him."

This John wore a garment of camel's hair, and a leather belt around his waist, and his food was locusts and wild honey.

"I tell you truly that you would certainly not get out from there until you had paid back the last cent.

"Again you have heard that it was said to the men of old, "You must not forswear yourselves, but must perform your vows to the Lord.

"Therefore everything that you would have men do to you, do you also the same to them; for this is the Law and the Prophets.

"Foxes have their holes," answered Jesus, "and wild birds their roosting-places, but the Son of man has not where to lay his head."

"No one ever sews a piece of undressed cloth on an old cloak. If they did, the patch put on to fill it up would tear away from the cloak, and the rent be made worse.

"Nor do they put new wine into old wine-skins; if they did, the wine-skins would split, the wine would run out, and the skins be ruined. Instead, they put new wine into fresh wine-skins and both are preserved."

"Woe unto you, Chorazin! Woe unto you, Bethsaida! Because if the mighty works which have been done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented, long ago, in sackcloth and ashes.

"And you too, Capernaum! Will you be exalted even to heaven? You shall go down to the Place of Death! For if the mighty works had been done in Sodom which have been done in you, it would have remained until this day.

"you would not have condemned the guiltless. For the Son of man is Lord of the Sabbath."

He will not strive nor cry aloud, Nor shall anyone hear is voice in the streets.

"Then," said he, "every scribe who has been instructed in the kingdom of heaven is like a householder who brings out of his storehouse new things and old."

"But whoever shall cause one of these little ones who believe in me to stumble, it would be better for him if a great millstone were hung about his neck, and he were drowned in the depths of the sea.

"But he would not; on the contrary he went and threw him into prison until he should pay the debt.

"and when the first came they supposed that they would get more, but they also received each two shillings.

"'If we had lived in the days of our fathers, we would not have been their comrades in the murder of the prophets.'

"O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, murdering the prophets, and stoning those who have been sent to you! How often would I have gathered your children together, as a hen gathers her chickens under her wings, and you would not!

And if these days had not been shortened, no flesh would have been saved; but for the elect's sake these days will be cut short.

But know this, that if the master of the house had known in what watch the thief was coming, he would have been on his guard, and would not have allowed his house to be broken into.

and will scourge him severely, and allot him a place among hypocrites, where will be weeping and gnashing of teeth."

Then he went forward a short distance, and fell on his face and prayed. "O, my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me; nevertheless, not as I will, but as thou wilt."

The chief priests took the money, and said, "It would be wrong to put it into the temple-treasury, because it is the price of blood."