And there were shepherds in the same region, lodging in the field, and keeping the night-watches over their flock,

he is like to a man building a house, who did dig, and deepen, and laid a foundation upon the rock, and a flood having come, the stream broke forth on that house, and was not able to shake it, for it had been founded upon the rock.

And other fell upon the good ground, and having sprung up, it made fruit an hundred fold.' These things saying, he was calling, 'He having ears to hear -- let him hear.'

And those feeding them, having seen what was come to pass, fled, and having gone, told it to the city, and to the fields;

And he spake a simile unto them, saying, 'Of a certain rich man the field brought forth well;

and if the herbage in the field, that to-day is, and to-morrow into an oven is cast, God doth so clothe, how much more you -- ye of little faith?

'And they began with one consent all to excuse themselves: The first said to him, A field I bought, and I have need to go forth and see it; I beg of thee, have me excused.

'And his elder son was in a field, and as, coming, he drew nigh to the house, he heard music and dancing,

But, who is he of you -- having a servant ploughing or feeding -- who, to him having come in out of the field, will say, Having come near, recline at meat?

in that day, he who shall be on the house top, and his vessels in the house, let him not come down to take them away; and he in the field, in like manner, let him not turn backward;

two men shall be in the field, the one shall be taken, and the other left.'

And Pilate said unto the chief priests, and the multitude, 'I find no fault in this man;'

said unto them, 'Ye brought to me this man as perverting the people, and lo, I before you having examined, found in this man no fault in those things ye bring forward against him;

And as they led him away, having taken hold on Simon, a certain Cyrenian, coming from the field, they put on him the cross, to bear it behind Jesus.