that you may have a distinct view of those things about which you have been inform'd.

when Joseph and his mother saw him, great was their surprize: and his mother said to him, son, why did you leave us thus? your father and I have been looking for you with great concern.

being come to Nazareth, where he had been brought up; according to his custom, he went into the synagogue on the sabbath-day, and standing up to read,

so no-body that has been drinking old wine, will immediately call for new: for 'tis his maxim, "the old is best."

and they that were sent, being return'd to the house, they found the servant, who had been sick, in good health.

you did not salute me, but this woman, since she came in, has been continually kissing my feet.

and several women, who had been delivered from evil spirits and cured of their diseases: particularly Mary Magdalene, who had been dispossess'd of seven demons:

when he was landed, there met him a man, who belong'd to the city Gadara, and had been for a long time possessed by demons. he did not wear any cloaths, nor dwell in any house, but among the tombs.

and country, whence numbers went to see the fact: being come to Jesus, they found the man, who had been dispossess'd of the demons, sitting at Jesus's feet, cloathed, and in his right senses: at which they were much surpriz'd,

being inform'd by those that were present, by what means the demoniac had been cured.

now the man, who had been dispossess'd, begg'd to take him with him. but Jesus dismissed him,

and among the rest a woman, who had been troubled with an hemorrhage twelve years, having consum'd her whole fortune upon physicians, who could none of them cure her; she getting behind him,

and cry, "we shake off the dust, that sticks to our feet, against you: but take notice, the kingdom of God has been near you."

wo unto thee Chorazin; wo unto thee Bethsaida: for if the miracles, which have been wrought among you, had been wrought in Tyre and Sidon, they would long since have lain repenting in sackcloth and ashes.

At length the seventy return'd with great joy, saying, Lord, even the demons have been made subject to us by virtue of your name.

One day Jesus had been praying in a certain place, and as soon as he had done, one of his disciples said to him, instruct us about prayer, as John the baptist instructed his disciples.

" so that the blood of all the prophets, which has been shed since the creation of the world, may be required of this generation,

whereas he that does not know it, and does things worthy of chastisement, shall receive fewer stripes. for to whom much is given, of him shall much be required, and the more a man has been trusted, the greater will be the demand.

then he said to the vine-dresser, you see, I have been looking these three years for fruit from this fig-tree, but find none: hew it down, why should it cumber my ground?

who had been kept infirm by a spirit eighteen years: and stooped in such a manner, she was not able to hold up her head strait.

at length the servant said, sir, your orders have been executed, and still there is room.

for he would have been contented to have liv'd upon the carruways, with which they usually fed the swine: but nobody would supply him.

the law and the prophets were the only rule till John's time: since when, the kingdom of God has been proclaim'd, and all sorts of people strive to be members.

at the resurrection therefore, to which of them will she be wife? for she had been married to all the seven.

Now there had been a dispute among the disciples, which of them should be accounted the greatest.

and from that day the enmity that had been between Pilate and Herod ended in friendship.

for I referr'd you to him, and you see nothing that is capital, has been made out against him.

Barabbas had been imprison'd for murder in a riot he had rais'd in the city.

as for us, it is with justice, that we suffer the penalty due to our crimes: but as for him, what misdemeanour has he been guilty of?

and he took it down, and wrapp'd it in linnen, and laid it in a sepulchre, hewn out of a rock, wherein nobody had ever yet been deposited.

and having found that the stone had been remov'd from the sepulchre, they entred in,

though we expected he would have been the Messiah, that was to deliver Israel: and besides all this, it is now three days since these things were done.

then Jesus said to them, how stupidly incredulous are you not to believe things that have been all predicted by the prophets!

then he said, this is what I told you, while I was yet with you, that what has been written concerning me in the law of Moses, in the prophets, and in the psalms, must be all accomplished.