and whence is this to me, that the mother of my Lord might come unto me?

For He who is mighty did to me great things, And holy is His name,

He brought down the mighty from thrones, And He exalted the lowly,

and the scribes and the Pharisees were watching him, if on the sabbath he will heal, that they might find an accusation against him.

and they were filled with madness, and were speaking with one another what they might do to Jesus.

and having heard about Jesus, he sent unto him elders of the Jews, beseeching him, that having come he might thoroughly save his servant.

And a certain one of the Pharisees was asking him that he might eat with him, and having gone into the house of the Pharisee he reclined (at meat),

and there was there a herd of many swine feeding in the mountain, and they were calling on him, that he might suffer them to enter into these, and he suffered them,

and I besought thy disciples that they might cast it out, and they were not able.'

And they were not knowing this saying, and it was veiled from them, that they might not perceive it, and they were afraid to ask him about this saying.

'Woe to thee, Chorazin; woe to thee, Bethsaida; for if in Tyre and Sidon had been done the mighty works that were done in you, long ago, sitting in sackcloth and ashes, they had reformed;

And in his speaking, a certain Pharisee was asking him that he might dine with him, and having gone in, he reclined (at meat),

laying wait for him, and seeking to catch something out of his mouth, that they might accuse him.

and he having spent all, there came a mighty famine on that country, and himself began to be in want;

and having called near one of the young men, he was inquiring what these things might be,

and he answering said to the father, Lo, so many years I do serve thee, and never thy command did I transgress, and to me thou didst never give a kid, that with my friends I might make merry;

and those going before were rebuking him, that he might be silent, but he was much more crying out, 'Son of David, deal kindly with me.'

'And it came to pass, on his coming back, having taken the kingdom, that he commanded these servants to be called to him, to whom he gave the money, that he might know what any one had done in business.

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

and as he is coming nigh now, at the descent of the mount of the Olives, the whole multitude of the disciples began rejoicing to praise God with a great voice for all the mighty works they had seen,

And, having watched him, they sent forth liers in wait, feigning themselves to be righteous, that they might take hold of his word, to deliver him up to the rule and to the authority of the governor,

and he, having gone away, spake with the chief priests and the magistrates, how he might deliver him up to them,

and they said to him, 'Where wilt thou that we might prepare?'