and lo, Elisabeth, thy kinswoman, she also hath conceived a son in her old age, and this is the sixth month to her who was called barren;

and they were making signs to his father, what he would wish him to be called,

and when he became twelve years old, they having gone up to Jerusalem, according to the custom of the feast,

And he spake also a simile unto them -- 'No one a patch of new clothing doth put on old clothing, and if otherwise, the new also doth make a rent, and with the old the patch doth not agree, that is from the new.

'And no one doth put new wine into old skins, and if otherwise, the new wine will burst the skins, and itself will be poured out, and the skins will be destroyed;

and no one having drunk old wine, doth immediately wish new, for he saith, The old is better.'

And the Pharisee who did call him, having seen, spake within himself, saying, 'This one, if he were a prophet, would have known who and of what kind is the woman who doth touch him, that she is a sinner.'

because he had an only daughter about twelve years old, and she was dying. And in his going away, the multitudes were thronging him,

And his disciples James and John having seen, said, 'Sir, wilt thou that we may command fire to come down from the heaven, and to consume them, as also Elijah did?'

sell your goods, and give alms, make to yourselves bags that become not old, a treasure unfailing in the heavens, where thief doth not come near, nor moth destroy;

'And this know, that if the master of the house had known what hour the thief doth come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken through;

'And he was angry, and would not go in, therefore his father, having come forth, was entreating him;

and the Lord said, 'If ye had faith as a grain of mustard, ye would have said to this sycamine, Be uprooted, and be planted in the sea, and it would have obeyed you.

and he would not for a time, but after these things he said in himself, Even if God I do not fear, and man do not regard,

And the tax-gatherer, having stood afar off, would not even the eyes lift up to the heaven, but was smiting on his breast, saying, God be propitious to me -- the sinner!

saying, 'What wilt thou I shall do to thee?' and he said, 'Sir, that I may receive sight.'

and they said to him, 'Where wilt thou that we might prepare?'