And Jesus answering said, 'Ye have not known what ye ask for yourselves; are ye able to drink of the cup that I am about to drink? and with the baptism that I am baptized with, to be baptized?' They say to him, 'We are able.'

And she, having gone forth, said to her mother, 'What shall I ask for myself?' and she said, 'The head of John the Baptist;'

and Jesus said to them, 'Ye have not known what ye ask; are ye able to drink of the cup that I drink of, and with the baptism that I am baptized with -- to be baptized?'

and I say to you, Ask, and it shall be given to you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened to you;

But what ye have give ye as alms, and, lo, all things are clean to you.

and I appoint to you, as my Father did appoint to me, a kingdom,

if ye ask anything in my name I will do it.

remain in me, and I in you, as the branch is not able to bear fruit of itself, if it may not remain in the vine, so neither ye, if ye may not remain in me.

and in that day ye will question me nothing; verily, verily, I say to you, as many things as ye may ask of the Father in my name, He will give you;

'I ask in regard to them; not in regard to the world do I ask, but in regard to those whom Thou hast given to me, because Thine they are,

'And not in regard to these alone do I ask, but also in regard to those who shall be believing, through their word, in me;

therefore also without gainsaying I came, having been sent for; I ask, therefore, for what matter ye did send for me?'

And Paul, having stood in the midst of the Areopagus, said, 'Men, Athenians, in all things I perceive you as over-religious;

now, therefore, ye, signify ye to the chief captain, with the sanhedrim, that to-morrow he may bring him down unto you, as being about to know more exactly the things concerning him; and we, before his coming nigh, are ready to put him to death.'

are ye ignorant that we, as many as were baptized to Christ Jesus, to his death were baptized?

And I, brethren, was not able to speak to you as to spiritual, but as to fleshly -- as to babes in Christ;

neither murmur ye, as also some of them did murmur, and did perish by the destroyer.

Followers of me become ye, as I also am of Christ.

In like manner also the cup after the supping, saying, 'This cup is the new covenant in my blood; this do ye, as often as ye may drink it -- to the remembrance of me;'

wherefore, I ask you not to faint in my tribulations for you, which is your glory.

and to Him who is able above all things to do exceeding abundantly what we ask or think, according to the power that is working in us,

and whoredom, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be named among you, as becometh saints;

and I ask also thee, genuine yoke-fellow, be assisting those women who in the good news did strive along with me, with Clement also, and the others, my fellow-workers, whose names are in the book of life.

which is present to you, as also in all the world, and is bearing fruit, as also in you, from the day in which ye heard, and knew the grace of God in truth;

See that no one shall be carrying you away as spoil through the philosophy and vain deceit, according to the deliverance of men, according to the rudiments of the world, and not according to Christ,

even as ye have known, how each one of you, as a father his own children, we are exhorting you, and comforting, and testifying,

and ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that the day may catch you as a thief;

And we ask you, brethren, to know those labouring among you, and leading you in the Lord, and admonishing you,

And we ask you, brethren, in regard to the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ, and of our gathering together unto him,

and ye have forgotten the exhortation that doth speak fully with you as with sons, 'My son, be not despising chastening of the Lord, nor be faint, being reproved by Him,

ye ask, and ye receive not, because evilly ye ask, that in your pleasures ye may spend it.

Beloved, I call upon you, as strangers and sojourners, to keep from the fleshly desires, that war against the soul,

having your behaviour among the nations right, that in that which they speak against you as evil-doers, of the good works having beheld, they may glorify God in a day of inspection.

having a good conscience, that in that in which they speak against you as evil-doers, they may be ashamed who are traducing your good behaviour in Christ;

Beloved, think it not strange at the fiery suffering among you that is coming to try you, as if a strange thing were happening to you,