"For he has regarded the humiliation of his slave, And from this hour all ages will count me blessed.

So, after exhausting on him every kind of temptation, the devil left him for a time.

"And if you are kind to those who are kind to you, what credit is it to you? Even sinners do the same.

"But you must love even your enemies and be kind to them, And lend, despairing of no man. Then your reward will be great, And you will be the sons of the Most High; For he is kind even to the ungrateful and to the evil.

"You know not what kind of spirit you share, for the Son of man came not to destroy men's lives, but to save them." And they went to another village.

"and he from indoors shall answer. 'Do not pester me. The door is now closed, and my children are with me in bed. I cannot rise and give to you.'

"If then you cannot do even that which is least, why are you anxious concerning the rest?

"If any one comes to me and does not hate father and his mother, his wife and children, his brothers and sisters, yes, and his own very life also, he cannot be a disciple of mine.

"Whoever does not carry his own cross and come after me, cannot be a disciple of mine.

"Which of you who is desirous of building a tower, does not sit down first and count the cost, to see if he has the means to complete it?

"If he cannot, while the other king is yet a great way off, he sends an embassy to ask conditions of peace.

"Just so any one of you who does not renounce all that he has cannot be my disciple.

"No one can be a household servants to two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will cling to the one and despise the other. You cannot be the slave of God and of Mammon."

"But besides all this, between us and you there is a great chasm fixed, so that those who want to cross from here to you cannot, nor can those who would cross from you to us.'

"For indeed they cannot die any more; they are equal to the angels, and through being sons of the resurrection are sons of God.

"What kind of things?" he answered. And they said: "The things concerning Jesus of Nazareth, who was a prophet mighty in deed and word before God and all the people;