yea, a sword will pierce your heart -- so that the secret purposes of many hearts will be revealed."

His parents were in the habit of going to Jerusalem every year at the feast of the Passover.

In the fifteenth year of the reign of the Emperor Tiberius, when Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea, and Herod was governor of Galilee, and his brother Philip was governor of the territory of Iturea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias was governor of Abilene,

to announce the year of favor from the Lord."

But He particularly warned, yea, even commanded, them not to tell this to anybody,

But the one who does wrong without knowing it will be lightly punished. Much will be demanded from anyone to whom much has been given; yea, people will demand much more from anyone to whom they have entrusted much.

But he answered, 'Leave it, sir, just one more year, till I dig around it and manure it.