And Zacharias said unto the angel, Whereby shall I know this? for I am an old man, and my wife far advanced in years.

thy cousin Elisabeth also hath conceived a son in her old age, and this is the sixth month with her that was called barren;

and on the eighth day they came to circumcise the child: and they would have called him Zacharias, after the name of his father:

And they made signs to his father, what name he would have him called by.

and when He was twelve years old, going up to Jerusalem, as usual at the feast, and having finished the time,

And now the ax is laid to the root of the trees: every tree therefore which doth not yield good fruit, is cut down and cast into the fire.

Therefore, if thou wilt but worship me, they all shall be thine.

And when the day was coming on, He went out and retired into a solitary place; and the people sought for Him, and came to Him, and would fain have detained Him, that He might not go from them.

And when He was in one of the cities of that country, behold a man full of leprosy: who seeing Jesus, fell prostrate to Him, and besought Him, saying, Lord, if thou wilt, thou canst cleanse me.

Then He spake a parable to them, That no one putteth a piece of new cloth upon an old garment: otherwise, the new maketh a rent, and doth not match the old:

nor doth any one put new wine in to old vessels; otherwise, the new wine will burst the casks, and be spilled, and the vessels will be destroyed:

And no one that has been drinking old wine, immediately desireth new; for he saith, the old is better.

And the scribes and pharisees watched Him to see if He would work a cure on the sabbath: that they might find an accusation against Him.

And as ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to them in like manner.

or how canst thou say to thy brother, Brother let me take out the splinter that is in thine eye, when thou thyself seest not the beam that is in thine own eye? Thou hypocrite, first take out the beam from thine own eye, and then thou wilt see distinctly how to take out the chaff that is in thy brother's eye.

and having heard of Jesus, he sent unto Him the elders of the Jews, beseeching him that He would come and heal his servant.

But when the pharisee that invited Him saw it, he said within himself, This man, if he were a prophet, would have known who and what sort of a woman this is that toucheth Him; for she is a notorious sinner.

And they besought Him that He would not command them to go into the abyss:

but as there was there an herd of many swine feeding on the mountain, they intreated Him that He would suffer them to enter into them, and He permitted them.

for he had an only daughter, about twelve years old, and she was dying. (But as He was going, the people crouded Him:

for he that would save his life shall lose it, but he that would lose his life for my sake shall save it.

But they would not entertain Him, because his face was towards Jerusalem.

And when his disciples James and John saw it, they said, Lord, wilt thou that we command fire to come down from heaven and consume them, as Elias did?

And He said unto them, The harvest indeed is great, but the laborers are few: pray therefore to the Lord of the harvest, that He would send out workmen to his harvest.

Wo unto thee, Chorazin, wo unto thee, Bethsaida, for if the miracles wrought among you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would long ago have repented, sitting in sackcloth and ashes.

Sell what ye have, and give alms: provide yourselves bags which wax not old, a never-failing treasure in the heavens, where no thief approacheth nor moth corrupteth:

And this ye know, that if the master of a house had known at what hour the thief would come, he would have watched, and not have suffered his house to be broke open:

O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, that killest the prophets and stonest them that are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children, as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and ye would not?

But when thou art invited, go and sit down at the lowest place, that, when he who invited thee cometh, he may say to thee, Friend, go up higher: then wilt thou have honor before them that sit at table with thee:

And he would gladly have filled his belly with the husks which the swine did eat: and no man relieved him.

And he said to him, Thy brother is come, and thy father hath killed the fatted calf, because he hath received him safe and well: but he was angry, and would not go in.

And besides, there is a great gulf fixed between us and you; so that they, who would pass from hence to you, cannot; nor can they pass to us, who would come from thence.

And the Lord said, If ye had faith but as a grain of mustard-seed, ye might say to this sycamine-tree, Be thou rooted up and planted in the sea; and it would obey you.

And he would not for a time: but afterwards he said within himself, Though I fear not God,

And as they listened to these things, He proceeded and spake a parable; because He was nigh to Jerusalem, and they thought that the kingdom of God would immediately be manifested.

But those mine enemies, who would not have me to reign over them, bring hither, and slay them before me.

And He answered them, I tell you, that if these were silent, the very stones would cry out.

And the chief priests and the scribes would have laid hands on Him at that very time, but were afraid of the people: for they perceived that He had spoken this parable against them.

But when they that were about Him saw what would follow, they said to Him, Lord, shall we smite with the sword?

And the Lord turned and looked upon Peter; and Peter called to mind the word of the Lord, how He had said to him, Before the cock crow thou wilt deny me thrice.

and said to Him, Art thou the Messiah? tell us. And He said unto them, If I should tell you, ye would not believe:

and if I should put any question to you, ye would not answer me, nor discharge me.

But we hoped that it was He that would have delivered Israel: and besides all this, to-day is the third day since these things were done.