The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare the way of the Lord, make his paths strait."

And there came to him a leper, beseeching him, and kneeling down to him, and saying unto him, If thou wilt, thou canst make me clean.

And he repeatedly charged them, that they should not make him known.

And entering in he saith, Why make ye this uproar, and weep? the damsel is not dead, but sleepeth.

And he said to them, Strangely do ye make void the command of God, that ye may observe your tradition.

There is nothing from without a man, that entering into him, can make him unclean: but the things which come out from him, these are the things which make a man unclean.

And he saith to them, Are ye also so defective of intelligence? Do you not consider, that every thing from without that entereth into a man, cannot make him unclean?

But, said he, what cometh out of a man, that makes a man unclean.

for David himself saith by the Spirit, The Lord said to my Lord, Sit thou at my right hand, until I make thy enemies the foot-stool for thy feet.

who devour widows' houses, and in pretence make long prayers: such shall receive greater damnation.

And he will shew you a large upper room ready furnished: there make preparation for us.

Then began he to make the most dreadful imprecations, and to swear, I know not the man of whom ye speak.