"The voice of one crying aloud: 'In the Desert prepare a road for the Lord: Make His highways straight.'"

As for John, his garment was of camel's hair, and he wore a loincloth of leather; and his food was locusts and wild honey.

where He remained for forty days, tempted by Satan; and He was among the wild beasts, but the angels waited upon Him.

No one mends an old garment with a piece of unshrunk cloth. Otherwise, the patch put on would tear away from it--the new from the old--and a worse hole would be made.

And no one pours new wine into old wineskins. Otherwise the wine would burst the skins, and both wine and skins would be lost. New wine needs fresh skins!"

They closely watched Him to see whether He would cure him on the Sabbath--so as to have a charge to bring against Him.

Those, on the other hand, who have received the seed on the good ground, are all who hear the Message and welcome it, and yield a return of thirty, sixty, or a hundred fold."

But He would not allow it. "Go home to your family," He said, "and report to them all that the Lord has done for you, and the mercy He has shown you."

So they come to the Warden's house. Here He gazes on a scene of uproar, with people weeping aloud and wailing.

Instantly the little girl rises to her feet and begins to walk (for she was twelve years old)

Then the King, though intensely sorry, yet for the sake of his oaths, and of his guests, would not break faith with her.

If I were to send them home hungry, they would faint on the way, some of them having come a great distance."

"And whoever shall occasion the fall of one of these little ones who believe, he would be better off if, with a millstone round his neck, he were lying at the bottom of the sea.

If your hand should cause you to sin, cut it off: it would be better for you to enter into Life maimed, than remain in possession of both your hands and go away into Gehenna, into the fire which cannot be put out.

Or if your foot should cause you to sin, cut it off: it would be better for you to enter into Life crippled, than remain in possession of both your feet and be thrown into Gehenna.

Or if your eye should cause you to sin, tear it out. It would be better for you to enter into the Kingdom of God half-blind than remain in possession of two eyes and be thrown into Gehenna,

Then James and John, the sons of Zabdi, came up to Him and said, "Rabbi, we wish you would grant us whatever request we make of you."

"What would you have me do for you?" He asked.

and would not allow any one to carry anything through the Temple.

and but for the fact that the Lord has cut short those days, no one would escape; but for the sake of His own People whom He has chosen for Himself He has cut short the days.

No sooner had he spoken than a cock crowed for the second time, and Peter recollected the words of Jesus, "Before the cock crows twice, you will three times disown me." And as he thought of it, he wept aloud.