Yea and thou, child, shalt be called the prophet of the Most High: For thou shalt go before the face of the Lord to make ready his ways;

yea and a sword shall pierce through thine own soul; that thoughts out of many hearts may be revealed.

And his parents went every year to Jerusalem at the feast of the passover.

Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judaea, and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip tetrarch of the region of Ituraea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias tetrarch of Abilene,

To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord.

But what went ye out to see? a prophet? Yea, I say unto you, and much more than a prophet.

In that same hour he rejoiced in the Holy Spirit, and said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that thou didst hide these things from the wise and understanding, and didst reveal them unto babes: yea, Father; for so it was well-pleasing in thy sight.

But he said, Yea rather, blessed are they that hear the word of God, and keep it.

from the blood of Abel unto the blood of Zachariah, who perished between the altar and the sanctuary: yea, I say unto you, it shall be required of this generation.

But I will warn you whom ye shall fear: Fear him, who after he hath killed hath power to cast into hell; yea, I say unto you, Fear him.

And he answering saith unto him, Lord, let it alone this year also, till I shall dig about it, and dung it:

If any man cometh unto me, and hateth not his own father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.

and desiring to be fed with the crumbs that fell from the rich man's table; yea, even the dogs come and licked his sores.

But we hoped that it was he who should redeem Israel. Yea and besides all this, it is now the third day since these things came to pass.