And the scribes and Pharisees were watching Him, whether He would heal on the sabbath: that they might find how to accuse Him.

And, having heard about Jesus, he sent to Him elders of the Jews, asking Him, that, having come, He would thoroughly save his servant.

But, seeing it, the Pharisee who invited Him, spake in himself, saying, "This Man, if He were a prophet, would know who and what sort of woman this is that is touching Him, because she is a sinner."

And they were entreating Him, that He would not command them to go away into the abyss.

And there was there a herd of many swine in the mountains; and they besought Him that He would permit them to enter into them. And He permitted them.

"Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you Bethsaida! because, if the mighty works done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago, sitting in sackcloth and ashes.

And, if Satan also were divided against himself, how would his kingdom stand? because ye say that by Beelzebub I am casting out the demons!

But know this, that, if the householder had known at what hour the thief was coming, he would have watched, and not have suffered his house to be broken through.

O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, that kills the prophets, and stones those sent to her; how often I wished to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her own brood under her wings, and ye would not! Behold, your house is abandoned to you!

And he said, 'I pray you, therefore, father, that you would send him to my father's house;

And the Lord said, "If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye would say to this sycamine tree, 'Be rooted up, and be planted in the sea,' and it would obey you.

And he would not for a time; but afterward he said within himself, 'Though I fear not God, nor regard man;

"But the tax-collector, standing afar off, would not lift up even his eyes to heaven, but was smiting his breast, saying, 'God, be merciful to me, the sinner!'

and wherefore did you not put my money in bank; and I, at my coming, would have exacted it with interest.'

And they drew near to the village whither they were going; and He acted as if He would go further.