She was greatly agitated at his words, and wondered what such a greeting meant.

But Mary treasured up all these things, often dwelling on them in her mind.

He also spoke in figurative language to them. "No one," He said, "tears a piece from a new garment to mend an old one. Otherwise he would not only spoil the new, but the patch from the new would not match the old.

The disciples proceeded to ask Him what this parable meant.

whereupon the people came out to see what had happened. They came to Jesus, and they found the man from whom the demons had gone out sitting at the feet of Jesus, clothed and in his right mind; and they were terrified.

"'Thou shalt love the Lord thy God,'" he replied, "'with thy whole heart, thy whole soul, thy whole strength, and thy whole mind; and thy fellow man as much as thyself.'"

But he, desiring to justify himself, said, "But what is meant by my 'fellow man'?"

"But alas for you Pharisees! for you pay tithes on your mint and rue and every kind of garden vegetable, and are indifferent to justice and the love of God. These are the things you ought to have attended to, while not neglecting the others.

Then he called one of the lads to him and asked what all this meant.

Nothing of this did they understand. The words were a mystery to them, nor could they see what He meant.

He heard a crowd of people going past, and inquired what it all meant.

And when he was come near Bethphage and Bethany, at the Mount called the Oliveyard, He sent two of the disciples on in front,

And when He was now getting near Jerusalem, and descending the Mount of Olives, the whole multitude of the disciples began in their joy to praise God in loud voices for all the mighty deeds they had witnessed.

His habit at this time was to teach in the Temple by day, but to go out and spend the night on the Mount called the Oliveyard.

On going out, He proceeded as usual to the Mount of Olives, and His disciples followed Him.