Happy are ye when men shall hate you, and when they shall separate you, and shall reproach, and shall cast forth your name as evil, for the Son of Man's sake --

and Herod said, 'John I did behead, but who is this concerning whom I hear such things?' and he was seeking to see him.

for whoever may will to save his life, shall lose it, and whoever may lose his life for my sake, he shall save it;

and I say to you, Ask, and it shall be given to you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened to you;

And it came to pass, in his saying these things, a certain woman having lifted up the voice out of the multitude, said to him, 'Happy the womb that carried thee, and the paps that thou didst suck!'

And the multitudes crowding together upon him, he began to say, 'This generation is evil, a sign it doth seek after, and a sign shall not be given to it, except the sign of Jonah the prophet,

And ye -- seek not what ye may eat, or what ye may drink, and be not in suspense,

for all these things do the nations of the world seek after, and your Father hath known that ye have need of these things;

but, seek ye the reign of God, and all these things shall be added to you.

and Jesus answering said to them, 'Think ye that these Galileans became sinners beyond all the Galileans, because they have suffered such things?

'Be striving to go in through the straight gate, because many, I say to you, will seek to go in, and shall not be able;

'Or what woman having ten drachms, if she may lose one drachm, doth not light a lamp, and sweep the house, and seek carefully till that she may find?

Whoever may seek to save his life, shall lose it; and whoever may lose it, shall preserve it.

and Jesus having called them near, said, 'Suffer the little children to come unto me, and forbid them not, for of such is the reign of God;

and he said to them, 'Verily I say to you, that there is not one who left house, or parents, or brothers, or wife, or children, for the sake of the reign of God,

for the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.'

and before all these, they shall lay on you their hands, and persecute, delivering up to synagogues and prisons, being brought before kings and governors for my name's sake;

'And woe to those with child, and to those giving suck, in those days; for there shall be great distress on the land, and wrath on this people;

for, lo, days do come, in which they shall say, Happy the barren, and wombs that did not bare, and paps that did not give suck;

and on their having become afraid, and having inclined the face to the earth, they said to them, 'Why do ye seek the living with the dead?

And the one, whose name was Cleopas, answering, said unto him, 'Art thou alone such a stranger in Jerusalem, that thou hast not known the things that came to pass in it in these days?'