Yea, and a sword shall pierce through your own soul also, that the thoughts out of many hearts may be revealed."

Now his parents were accustomed to go up to Jerusalem every year at the feast of the Passover.

Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, when Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea, and Herod was tetrarch of Galilee, his brother Philip, tetrarch of Ituraea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias, tetrarch of Abilene;

To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord.

In the same hour he thrilled with joy in the Holy Ghost. "I praise thee, Father, Lord of Heaven and Earth," he said "for hiding these things from the wise and prudent, and for revealing them to babes. Yea, Father, for so it was well pleasing in thy sight!

"But the gardener answered him. 'Lord, let it alone this year also, till I have dug around it, and fertilized it.