that you might know the certainty of the things in which you have been instructed.

for He that is Mighty has done great things for me, and holy is his name:

He has done mighty deeds with his arm; he has scattered those who are proud in the understanding of their hearts.

He has cast down the mighty from their thrones, and exalted the lowly.

that he would grant to us, that being delivered from the hands of our enemies, we might serve him without fear,

and arose, and drove him out of the city, and brought him to the brow of the hill on which their city was built, that they might throw him down headlong.

And behold, men brought, on a bed, a man who was a paralytic. And they sought how they might bring him in, and lay him before him.

And the scribes and Pharisees watched closely, whether he would heal on the sabbath-day, that they might find an accusation against him.

And the man out of whom the demons had gone, besought him that he might be with him. But Jesus sent him away, saying:

And they were all amazed at the mighty power of God And while they were all wondering at every thing that Jesus did, he said to his disciples:

But they did not understand this saying, and it was concealed from them, that they might not understand it; and they were afraid to ask him about this saying.

Alas for thee, Chorazin! alas for thee, Bethsaida! for, if the mighty works which have been done in you, had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago, sitting in sackcloth and ashes.

And others, that they might tempt him, asked of him a sign from heaven.

trying to entrap him, and seeking to lay hold on something from his mouth, that they might accuse him.

But he answered and said to his father, Behold, for so many years do I serve you, and never have I transgressed your commandment, and yet you never gave me a kid, that I might make merry with my friends.

And the Lord said: If you had faith like a grain of mustard, you might say to this sycamine-tree, Be uprooted, and be planted in the sea, and it should obey you.

And they brought to him infants also, that he might touch them. But when his disciples saw it, they rebuked them.

And he ran before, and climbed up a sycamore-tree, that he might see him, for he was about to pass that way.

And it came to pass, that, when he had returned, having received the kingdom, he commanded those servants to be called, to whom he had given the money, that he might know what each had gained by trading.

And when he was now near the descent of the mount of Olives, the whole multitude of the disciples began to rejoice and to praise God, with a loud voice, for all the mighty deeds which they had seen,

And they watched him, and sent spies, who feigned them selves to be just men, that they might take hold of his words, in order to deliver him up to the power and authority of the governor.

And the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might kill him; for they feared the people.

And he went away, and conferred with the chief priests and the captains how he might deliver him up to them.

And as they led him away, they laid hold of Simon, a certain Cyrenian, who was coming from the country, and on him they laid the cross, that he might carry it after Jesus.

And he said to them: What things? They said to him: The things concerning Jesus the Nazarene, who was a prophet mighty in deed and in word before God and all the people;

Then he opened their mind, that they might understand the scriptures,