"But woe to you, Pharisees, because you pay a tenth of mint and rue and every garden herb, and neglect justice and love for God! But it was necessary to do these [things] without neglecting those things also.

And He gave them the following parable. "A man," He said, "who had a fig-tree growing in his garden came to look for fruit on it and could find none.

It is like a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and cast into his garden; and it grew, and waxed a great tree; and the fowls of the air lodged in the branches of it.

And he gave the people this story: A man made a vine-garden and gave the use of it to some field-workers and went into another country for a long time.

And the lord of the garden said, What am I to do? I will send my dearly loved son; they may give respect to him.

And driving him out of the garden they put him to death. Now what will the lord do to these workmen?

He will come and put them to destruction and give the garden to others. And when he said this, they said, May it not be so.

for the sun was darkened; and the curtain of the temple was torn in two.

because the sun was obscured; and the veil [of the Holy of Holies] of the temple was torn in two [from top to bottom].