"Listen: the sower goes out to sow.

"What the sower sows is the Message.

He even swore to her, "Whatever you ask me for I will give you, up to half my kingdom."

She was a Gentile woman, a Syro-phoenician by nation: and again and again she begged Him to expel the demon from her daughter.

"True, Sir," she replied, "and yet the dogs under the table eat the children's scraps."

So also do you, when you see these things happening, be sure that He is near, at your very door.

They were filled with sorrow, and began asking Him, one by one, "Not I, is it?"

"This is my blood," He said, "which is to be poured out on behalf of many--the blood which makes the Covenant sure.

Then a man ran to fill a sponge with sour wine, and he put it on the end of a cane and placed it to His lips, saying at the same time, "Wait! let us see whether Elijah will come and take him down."