John was clad in clothing of camels' hair, with a belt of leather round his waist, and lived on locusts and wild honey;

Immediately on leaving the Synagogue, the Pharisees and the Herodians united in laying a plot against Jesus, to put him to death.

The ground bears the crop of itself--first the blade, then the ear, and then the full grain in the ear;

And Jesus began to speak to them in parables: "A man once planted a vineyard, put a fence round it, dug a wine-press, built a tower, and then let it out to tenants and went abroad.

"This is my Covenant-blood," he said, "which is poured out on behalf of many.

"We ourselves heard him say 'I will destroy this Temple made with hands, and in three days build another made without hands.'"

The passers-by railed at him, shaking their heads, as they said: "Ah! you who 'destroy the Temple and build one in three days,