Inasmuch as a number of writers have essayed to draw up a narrative of the established facts in our religion

The axe is lying all ready at the root of the trees; any tree that is not producing good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire."

the son of Jacob, the son of Isaac, the son of Abraham, the son of Terah, the son of Nachor,

He also told them a parable: "No one tears a piece from a new cloak and sews it on an old cloak; otherwise he will tear the new cloak, and the new piece will not match with the old.

With them he came down the hill and stood on a level spot. There was a great company of his disciples with him, and a large multitude of people from all Judaea, from Jerusalem, and from the coast of Tyre and Sidon, who had come to hear him and to get cured of their diseases.

How dare you say to your brother, 'Brother, let me take out the splinter that is in your eye,' and you never notice the plank in your own eye? You hypocrite! take the plank out of your own eye first, and then you will see properly to take out the splinter in your brother's eye.

No sound tree bears rotten fruit, nor again does a rotten tree bear sound fruit:

each tree is known by its fruit. Figs are not gathered from thorns, and grapes are not plucked from a bramble-bush.

Woe to you, Khorazin! woe to you, Bethsaida! Had the miracles performed in you been performed in Tyre and Sidon, they would long ago have been sitting penitent in sackcloth and ashes.

But it will be more bearable for Tyre and Sidon at the judgment than for you.

And suppose he answers from the inside, 'Don't bother me; the door is locked by this time, and my children are in bed with me. I can't get up and give you anything.'

So I tell you, ask and the gift will be yours, seek and you will find, knock and the door will open to you;

for everyone who asks receives, the seeker finds, the door is opened to anyone who knocks.

Woe to you jurists! you have taken the key that unlocks the door of knowledge; you have not entered yourselves, and you have stopped those who were entering."

and be like men who are expecting their lord and master on his return from a marriage-banquet, so as to open the door for him at once when he comes and knocks.

Or those eighteen men killed by the fall of the tower at Siloam? do you think they were worse offenders than the rest of the residents in Jerusalem?

And he told this parable. "A man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard; he came in search of fruit on it but he found none.

So he said to the vinedresser, 'Here have I come for three years in search of fruit on this fig tree without finding any; cut it down, why should it take up space?'

It is like a grain of mustard-seed which a man took and put into his orchard, where it grew up and became a tree, and the wild birds roosted in its branches."

"Strive to get in through the narrow door, for I tell you many will try to get in and not be able,

once the master of the House has got up and closed the door. You may stand outside and knock at the door, crying, 'Lord, open for us,' but he will answer you, 'I do not know where you come from.'

For which of you wants to build a tower and does not first sit down to calculate the expense, to see if he has enough money to complete it? ??29 in case, after he has laid the foundation and then is unable to finish the building, all the spectators start to make fun of him,

So, if you are not faithful with dishonest mammon, how can you ever be trusted with true Riches?

Outside his door lay a poor man called Lazarus; he was a mass of ulcers,

The Lord said, "If you had faith the size of a grain of mustard-seed, you would say to this mulberry tree, 'Be uprooted and planted in the sea,' and it would obey you.

So he ran forward and climbed into a sycomore tree to get a sight of him, as he was to pass that road.

And he told them a parable. "Look at the fig tree and indeed all the trees;