when the angel said to her. "Fear not Mary, for you have found grace with God.

And the child grew and became strong, becoming full of wisdom, and the grace of God was upon him.

Now it happened that one of these days he got into a boat, And him his disciples, and he said to them, "Let us cross to the other side of the lake."

And he said to all. "If any man wills to follow me, Let him renounce self and take up his cross daily and follow me.

After he had gone away, the Scribes and the Pharisee began to set themselves vehemently against him, and to cross-question him upon many points,

"Now if God so clothe the grass in the field, which today is, and tomorrow is cast into the oven, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?

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

"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.'

And when they led him away they took hold of Simon, a Cyrenean, who was coming in from the country, and laid the cross on him to carry it behind Jesus.