Seeing that many did take in hand to set in order a narration of the matters that have been fully assured among us,

And the messenger answering said to him, 'I am Gabriel, who have been standing near before God, and I was sent to speak unto thee, and to proclaim these good news to thee,

As He spake by the mouth of His holy prophets, Which have been from the age;

make, therefore, fruits worthy of the reformation, and begin not to say within yourselves, We have a father -- Abraham; for I say to you, that God is able out of these stones to raise children to Abraham;

saying, 'Away, what -- to us and to thee, Jesus, O Nazarene? thou didst come to destroy us; I have known thee who thou art -- the Holy One of God.'

and he said unto them -- 'Also to the other cities it behoveth me to proclaim good news of the reign of God, because for this I have been sent;'

and Simon answering said to him, 'Master, through the whole night, having laboured, we have taken nothing, but at thy saying I will let down the net.'

and he having seen their faith, said to him, 'Man, thy sins have been forgiven thee.'

which is easier -- to say, Thy sins have been forgiven thee? or to say, Arise, and walk?

And Jesus answering said unto them, 'They who are well have no need of a physician, but they that are ill:

But woe to you -- the rich, because ye have got your comfort.

Woe to you who have been filled -- because ye shall hunger. 'Woe to you who are laughing now -- because ye shall mourn and weep.

and -- if ye love those loving you, what grace have ye? for also the sinful love those loving them;

and if ye do good to those doing good to you, what grace have ye? for also the sinful do the same;

and if ye lend to those of whom ye hope to receive back, what grace have ye? for also the sinful lend to sinners -- that they may receive again as much.

And Jesus answering said to them, 'Having gone on, report to John what ye saw and heard, that blind men do see again, lame do walk, lepers are cleansed, deaf do hear, dead are raised, poor have good news proclaimed;

And the messengers of John having gone away, he began to say unto the multitudes concerning John: 'What have ye gone forth to the wilderness to look on? a reed by the wind shaken?

but what have ye gone forth to see? a man in soft garments clothed? lo, they in splendid apparellings, and living in luxury, are in the houses of kings!

'But what have ye gone forth to see? a prophet? Yes, I say to you, and much more than a prophet:

And the Pharisee who did call him, having seen, spake within himself, saying, 'This one, if he were a prophet, would have known who and of what kind is the woman who doth touch him, that she is a sinner.'

And Jesus answering said unto him, 'Simon, I have something to say to thee;' and he saith, 'Teacher, say on.'

therefore I say to thee, her many sins have been forgiven, because she did love much; but to whom little is forgiven, little he doth love.'

And he said to her, 'Thy sins have been forgiven;'

and he said unto the woman, 'Thy faith have saved thee, be going on to peace.'

'And those upon the rock: They who, when they may hear, with joy do receive the word, and these have no root, who for a time believe, and in time of temptation fall away.

'And that which fell to the thorns: These are they who have heard, and going forth, through anxieties, and riches, and pleasures of life, are choked, and bear not to completion.

'See, therefore, how ye hear, for whoever may have, there shall be given to him, and whoever may not have, also what he seemeth to have, shall be taken from him.'

And he said unto them, 'Take nothing for the way, neither staff, nor scrip, nor bread, nor money; neither have two coats each;

And he said unto them, 'Give ye them to eat;' and they said, 'We have no more than five loaves, and two fishes: except, having gone, we may buy for all this people victuals;'

and when the voice was past, Jesus was found alone; and they were silent, and declared to no one in those days anything of what they have seen.

and having turned, he rebuked them, and said, 'Ye have not known of what spirit ye are;

and Jesus said to him, 'The foxes have holes, and the fowls of the heaven places of rest, but the Son of Man hath not where he may recline the head.'

And in that house remain, eating and drinking the things they have, for worthy is the workman of his hire; go not from house to house,

'Who, then, of these three, seemeth to thee to have become neighbour of him who fell among the robbers?'

And he said unto them, 'Who of you shall have a friend, and shall go on unto him at midnight, and may say to him, Friend, lend me three loaves,

seeing a friend of mine came out of the way unto me, and I have not what I shall set before him,

If, then, ye, being evil, have known good gifts to be giving to your children, how much more shall the Father who is from heaven give the Holy Spirit to those asking Him!'

But what ye have give ye as alms, and, lo, all things are clean to you.

'Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, because ye are as the unseen tombs, and the men walking above have not known.'

but even the hairs of your head have been all numbered; therefore fear ye not, than many sparrows ye are of more value.

and he was reasoning within himself, saying, What shall I do, because I have not where I shall gather together my fruits?

for all these things do the nations of the world seek after, and your Father hath known that ye have need of these things;

'And this know, that if the master of the house had known what hour the thief doth come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken through;

but I have a baptism to be baptized with, and how am I pressed till it may be completed!

hypocrites! the face of the earth and of the heaven ye have known to make proof of, but this time -- how do ye not make proof of it?

and Jesus answering said to them, 'Think ye that these Galileans became sinners beyond all the Galileans, because they have suffered such things?

from the time the master of the house may have risen up, and may have shut the door, and ye may begin without to stand, and to knock at the door, saying, Lord, lord, open to us, and he answering shall say to you, I have not known you whence ye are,

and he shall say, I say to you, I have not known you whence ye are; depart from me, all ye workers of the unrighteousness.

'When thou mayest be called by any one to marriage-feasts, thou mayest not recline on the first couch, lest a more honourable than thou may have been called by him,

'But, when thou mayest be called, having gone on, recline in the last place, that when he who called thee may come, he may say to thee, Friend, come up higher; then thou shalt have glory before those reclining with thee;

and happy thou shalt be, because they have not to recompense thee, for it shall be recompensed to thee in the rising again of the righteous.'

'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 another said, Five yoke of oxen I bought, and I go on to prove them; I beg of thee, have me excused:

for I say to you, that none of those men who have been called shall taste of my supper.'

'For who of you, willing to build a tower, doth not first, having sat down, count the expence, whether he have the things for completing?

'I say to you, that so joy shall be in the heaven over one sinner reforming, rather than over ninety-nine righteous men, who have no need of reformation.

'And having come to himself, he said, How many hirelings of my father have a superabundance of bread, and I here with hunger am perishing!

I have known what I shall do, that, when I may be removed from the stewardship, they may receive me to their houses.

for I have five brothers, so that he may thoroughly testify to them, that they also may not come to this place of torment.

'Abraham saith to him, They have Moses and the prophets, let them hear them;

and the Lord said, 'If ye had faith as a grain of mustard, ye would have said to this sycamine, Be uprooted, and be planted in the sea, and it would have obeyed you.

So also ye, when ye may have done all the things directed you, say -- We are unprofitable servants, because that which we owed to do -- we have done.'

And he spake also unto certain who have been trusting in themselves that they were righteous, and have been despising the rest, this simile:

and having heard these things, Jesus said to him, 'Yet one thing to thee is lacking; all things -- as many as thou hast -- sell, and distribute to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven, and come, be following me;'

And having taken the twelve aside, he said unto them, 'Lo, we go up to Jerusalem, and all things shall be completed -- that have been written through the prophets -- to the Son of Man,

and wherefore didst thou not give my money to the bank, and I, having come, with interest might have received it?

and they questioned him, saying, 'Teacher, we have known that thou dost say and teach rightly, and dost not accept a person, but in truth the way of God dost teach;

because these are days of vengeance, to fulfil all things that have been written.

verily I say to you -- This generation may not pass away till all may have come to pass;

And ye -- ye are those who have remained with me in my temptations,

for I say to you, that yet this that hath been written it behoveth to be fulfilled in me: And with lawless ones he was reckoned, for also the things concerning me have an end.'

And Jesus said to those having come upon him -- chief priests, and magistrates of the temple, and elders -- 'As upon a robber have ye come forth, with swords and sticks?

and he disowned him, saying, 'Woman, I have not known him.'

and Peter said, 'Man, I have not known what thou sayest;' and presently, while he is speaking, a cock crew.

and they said, 'What need yet have we of testimony? for we ourselves did hear it from his mouth.'

And Jesus said, 'Father, forgive them, for they have not known what they do;' and parting his garments they cast a lot.

and the women also who have come with him out of Galilee having followed after, beheld the tomb, and how his body was placed,

and they were conversing with one another about all these things that have happened.

and not having found his body, they came, saying also to have seen an apparition of messengers, who say he is alive,

and while they are not believing from the joy, and wondering, he said to them, 'Have ye anything here to eat?'