and of all the seeds [planted in the region] it is the smallest, but when it has grown it is the largest of the garden herbs and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air find shelter in its branches.”

For the kingdom of heaven is like the master of a house, who went out early in the morning to get workers into his vine-garden.

And when he had made an agreement with the workmen for a penny a day, he sent them into his vine-garden.

And he said to them, Go into the vine-garden with the others, and whatever is right I will give you. And they went to work.

They say to him, Because no man has given us work. He says to them, Go in with the rest, into the vine-garden.

And when evening came, the lord of the vine-garden said to his manager, Let the workers come, and give them their payment, from the last to the first.

But how does it seem to you? A man had two sons; and he came to the first, and said, Son, go and do work today in the vine-garden.

Give ear to another story. A master of a house made a vine garden, and put a wall round it, and made a place for crushing out the wine, and made a tower, and let it out to field-workers, and went into another country.

And they took him and, driving him out of the vine-garden, put him to death.

When, then, the lord of the vine-garden comes, what will he do to those workmen?

They say to him, He will put those cruel men to a cruel death, and will let out the vine-garden to other workmen, who will give him the fruit when it is ready.

"It is too bad for you hypocritical experts in the law of Moses and [you] Pharisees! For you give a tenth of your mint, dill and cumin [i.e., small garden herbs used for seasoning or fragrance], and [yet] neglect the heavier responsibilities required by the law, [such as] justice, mercy and faith. You should have done these ["lighter"] things and not neglected to do the other ["heavier"] things [as well].

Then Jesus came with them to a garden called Gethsemane, and he said to his disciples: "Sit down here while I go and pray yonder."

And [at once] the veil [of the Holy of Holies] of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom; the earth shook and the rocks were split apart.

yet when it is sown, it grows up and becomes larger than all the garden herbs; and it puts out large branches, so that the birds of the sky are able to make nests and live under its shade.”

They sat down in groups of hundreds and of fifties [so that the crowd resembled an orderly arrangement of colorful garden plots].

And he gave them teaching in the form of stories. A man had a vine-garden planted, and put a wall about it, and made a place for crushing out the wine, and put up a tower, and let it out to field-workers, and went into another country.

And when the time came, he sent a servant to get from the workmen some of the fruit of the garden.

And they took him and put him to death, pushing his body out of the garden.

What then will the master of the garden do? He will come and put the workmen to death, and will give the garden into the hands of others.

Presently they came to a garden known as Gethsemane, and Jesus said to his disciples "Sit down here while I pray."

And the veil [of the Holy of Holies] of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom.

"But woe to you, Pharisees, because you pay a tenth of mint and rue and every garden herb, and neglect justice and love for God! But it was necessary to do these [things] without neglecting those things also.

And He gave them the following parable. "A man," He said, "who had a fig-tree growing in his garden came to look for fruit on it and could find none.

It is like a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and cast into his garden; and it grew, and waxed a great tree; and the fowls of the air lodged in the branches of it.

And he gave the people this story: A man made a vine-garden and gave the use of it to some field-workers and went into another country for a long time.

And the lord of the garden said, What am I to do? I will send my dearly loved son; they may give respect to him.

And driving him out of the garden they put him to death. Now what will the lord do to these workmen?

He will come and put them to destruction and give the garden to others. And when he said this, they said, May it not be so.

for the sun was darkened; and the curtain of the temple was torn in two.

because the sun was obscured; and the veil [of the Holy of Holies] of the temple was torn in two [from top to bottom].

You belong to your father the devil, and you are [always] wanting to do what your father desires. He was a murderer from the [very] beginning [Note: This is probably a reference to Satan's influence on Adam, Eve and Cain in the Garden of Eden] and does not stand for the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he only speaks what is part of his nature, because he is a liar and the father of [all] liars.

When Jesus had spoken these words, he went forth with his disciples over the brook Cedron, where was a garden, into the which he entered, and his disciples.

One of the servants of the high priest, being his kinsman whose ear Peter cut off, saith, Did not I see thee in the garden with him?

Now in the place where he was crucified there was a garden; and in the garden a new sepulchre, wherein was never man yet laid.

To these [men] He also showed Himself alive after His suffering [in Gethsemane and on the cross], by [a series of] many infallible proofs and unquestionable demonstrations, appearing to them over a period of forty days and talking to them about the things concerning the kingdom of God.

"You are mad," they said. But she strenuously maintained that it was true. "It is his guardian angel," they said.

After the town clerk had quieted the crowd, he said, “Men of Ephesus, what person is there who does not know that the city of the Ephesians is the guardian of the temple of the great Artemis and of that [sacred stone image of her] which fell from the sky?

And, as the harbor was not a suitable one to winter in, the majority were in favor of continuing the voyage, in hope of being able to reach Phoenix, and winter there. Phoenix was a Cretan harbor, open to the north-east and south-east.

For if you have been cut from an olive which is naturally wild, and grafted, contrary to nature, upon a garden olive, how much more will the natural branches be grafted into their proper olive?

For we are God’s fellow workers [His servants working together]; you are God’s cultivated field [His garden, His vineyard], God’s building.

For this reason the woman ought to have authority over her head, because of her guardian angels.

with the result that the Law has become our tutor and our disciplinarian to guide us to Christ, so that we may be justified [that is, declared free of the guilt of sin and its penalty, and placed in right standing with God] by faith.

But now that faith has come, we are no longer under [the control and authority of] a tutor and disciplinarian.

It was a Cretan--one of their own teachers--who said: 'Cretans are always liars, base brutes, and gluttonous idlers'; and his statement is true.

which we have like an anchor of the soul, both firm and steadfast, and entering into the inside of the curtain,

Behind the second veil there was another tabernacle [the inner one or second section] known as the Holy of Holies,

by this new and living way which He initiated and opened for us through the veil [as in the Holy of Holies], that is, through His flesh,

For you were continually wandering like [so many] sheep, but now you have come back to the Shepherd and Guardian of your souls.

by which he went with guardian spirits to preach to

The secret meaning of the seven stars that you saw in my right hand, and of the seven gold lampstands is this: The seven stars are the guardian angels of the seven churches and the seven lampstands are the seven churches.

He who has an ear, let him listen to what the Spirit is saying to the churches. To him that overcomes, to him will I give to eat from the tree of life which is in the garden of God.