Whereas several have undertaken to draw up a narrative of those transactions, which pass'd among us;

and you, dear babe, you shall be the prophet of the most high: for you shall go before the Lord, in order to prepare his way,

the ax is already laid to the root of the trees: every tree then, which does not produce good fruit, shall be hewn down, and cast into the fire.

At length he came down the hill with them, and stayed with the rest of his disciples in the plain, where a great multitude of people from all Judea, from Jerusalem, and the maritime country of Tyre and Sidon, came to hear him, and to have their diseases cured.

Certainly a good tree does not produce bad fruit: nor does a bad tree produce good fruit.

for every tree is known by its fruit: it is not on thorns that men gather figs, nor do they gather grapes on a bramble bush.

as he drew near the gate of the city, there was a dead man just then carrying out to be buried, who was his mother's only son, and she a widow: and many people of the town came with her.

wo unto thee Chorazin; wo unto thee Bethsaida: for if the miracles, which have been wrought among you, had been wrought in Tyre and Sidon, they would long since have lain repenting in sackcloth and ashes.

therefore Tyre and Sidon shall be treated with less severity in the day of judgment, than you.

and he within should give this answer, don't trouble me now: the door is made fast, and my family are all in bed: I can't get up to supply you.

I tell you likewise, ask, and it shall be given: seek, and ye shall find: knock, and the door shall be opened.

but wo unto you Pharisees: for you will pay the tythes of mint, and rue, and all sorts of herbs, but as for justice and true piety, those you neglect. these you ought to have practised, without omitting however the other.

and draw something from his own mouth, that might be brought as evidence against him.

imitate those servants who stand waiting for their master's return from the wedding, to let him in as soon as he comes to the door.

or those eighteen, upon whom the tower of Siloam fell, and slew them, do you think they were greater criminals than the other inhabitants of Jerusalem?

He proposed likewise this parable: a certain man had a fig-tree planted in his vineyard, and he came expecting it should have had fruit, but he found none.

then he said to the vine-dresser, you see, I have been looking these three years for fruit from this fig-tree, but find none: hew it down, why should it cumber my ground?

when once the master of the family is enter'd in, and has fastned the door, you will stand without beating at the door, and cry, Lord, Lord, let us in: but he will answer, you are strangers to me.

Then continuing his discourse, which of you, said he, if his child or his ox fell into a pit, would not immediately draw him out, though it were on the sabbath-day?

for who of you would resolve to build a tower, without taking the trouble first of all to compute the expence, and whether he is able to finish it?

if your faith improv'd like a grain of mustard-seed, you might say to this sycamine-tree, be thou rooted up, and planted in the sea; and it should obey you.

so he ran before, and climb'd up a mulberry-tree to view him; for he was to pass that way.

then said Jesus, speaking of him, this day is salvation come to this family, since he is now become a true son of Abraham.

as he drew nigh, he beheld the city, and bewail'd its fate,

Then by way of similitude, consider, said he, the fig-tree, and all the other trees;

now that day was the preparation, and the sabbath then drew on.

'tis true, some women of our company threw us into a surprize: for going to the sepulchre early in the morning,

and they drew nigh the village where they were going: and he seemed as if he would have pass'd on further.