"Where is the new-born King of the Jews? for we saw his star in the east, and have come to do homage to him."

He called together all the Chief Priests and Teachers of the Law in the nation, and questioned them as to where the Christ was to be born.

I tell you, no one born of a woman has yet appeared who is greater than John the Baptist; and yet the lowliest in the Kingdom of Heaven is greater than he.

'These last,' they said, 'have done only one hour's work, and yet you have put them on the same footing with us, who have borne the brunt of the day's work, and the heat.'

True, the Son of Man must go, as Scripture says of him, yet alas for that man by whom the Son of Man is being betrayed! For that man 'it would be better never to have been born!'"