"And the oath that he swore to our forefather Abraham,

It was the first census, taken when Quirinius was governor of Syria.

When he was in one of the towns, he came upon a man covered with leprosy. And when he saw Jesus he fell down on his face, and begged him, saying, "If you only choose, sir, you can cure me!"

"A sower went out to sow his seed. As he was sowing, some of the seed fell by the path and was trodden on, and the wild birds ate it up.

Then an expert in the Law got up to test him and said, "Master, what must I do to make sure of eternal life?"

But you may be sure of this, that if the master of the house had known what time the thief was coming, he would have been on the watch, and would not have let his house be broken into.

He answered, 'Let it stand this one year more, sir, till I dig around it and manure it;

when the master of the house gets up and shuts the door, and you begin to stand outside and to knock on the door, and say, 'Open it for us, sir!' Then he will answer you and say, 'I do not know where you come from,'

And the slave said, 'What you ordered, sir, has been done, and there is still room.'

A member of the council asked him, "Good master, what must I do to make sure of eternal life?"

The first one came in and said, 'Your twenty dollars has made two hundred, sir!'

The second came in and said, 'Your twenty dollars has made a hundred, sir!'

And the other one came in and said, 'Here is your twenty dollars, sir. I have kept it put away in a handkerchief,

They said to him, 'He has two hundred, sir!'??26 'I tell you, the man who has will have more given him, and from the man who has nothing, even what he has will be taken away!

When he got up from his prayer, he went to the disciples and found them asleep from sorrow.

The soldiers also made sport of him, coming up and offering him sour wine,