And now also the ax is lying at the root of the trees; therefore, every tree that does not produce good fruit, is cut down and cast into the fire.

For a good tree does not produce unsound fruit; nor does an unsound tree produce good fruit.

Every one that comes to me, and hears my words, and does them, I will show you to whom he is like.

But he that hears, and does not, is like a man that built a house upon the earth, without a foundation, against which the torrent dashed with violence, and immediately it fell, and the ruin of that house was great.

For I am a man placed under authority, and have soldiers under me; and I say to this one, Go, and he goes; and to another, Come, and he comes; and to my servant, Do this, and he does it.

And the disciples asked him, saying: What does this parable mean?

And John answered and said: Master, we saw a certain one casting out demons in thy name; and we forbade him, because he does not follow with us.

Then he said to his vine-dresser, Behold, for three years I have come and sought fruit on this fig-tree, and I have found none; cut it down; why does it occupy the ground unprofitably?

Hypocrites, does not each one of you, on the sabbath, loose his ox or his ass from the stable, and lead him away, and give him water?

And whoever does not bear his cross, and come after me, can not be my disciple.

For which of you, intending to build a tower, does not first sit down, and count the cost, whether he has the means to finish it?

Or, what king, going to make war against another king, does not first sit down, and deliberate whether he is able, with ten thousand, to meet him that is coming; against him with twenty thousand?

So, then, whoever of you does not forsake all that he has, can not be my disciple.

What man of you that has a hundred sheep, and loses one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the desert, and go after that which is lost, till he find it?

Or, what woman that has ten drachmas, if she lose one drachma, does not light a lamp, and sweep the house, and search carefully till she find it?

Does he thank that servant, because he did what was commanded? I think not.

And he looked on them and said: What, then, does this mean, which is written, The stone which the builders rejected has become the head of the corner?