the oath which He swore to our forefather Abraham,

This, the first census, was taken while Quirinius was governor of Syria.

"A sower went out to sow his seed. As he was sowing, some of the seed fell along the path, and were trodden down, and the wild birds ate them up.

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

But he answered, 'Leave it, sir, just one more year, till I dig around it and manure it.

Then the slave said, 'Sir, what you ordered has been done, and still there is room.'

Now the first one came in and said, 'Your twenty dollars, sir, has made two hundred more.'

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

But another one came in and said, 'Here is your twenty dollars, sir, which I kept laid away in a handkerchief.

And they said, 'Sir, he has two hundred already.'

When He rose from His prayer, He went to the disciples and found them asleep from sorrow.