Go and learn what this means--'I desire mercy, and not sacrifice'; for I did not come to call the religious, but the outcast."

And do not be afraid of those who kill the body, but are unable to kill the soul; rather be afraid of him who is able to destroy both soul and body in the Pit.

"What commandments?" asked the man. "These," answered Jesus:-- "'Thou shalt not kill. Thou shalt not commit adultery. Thou shalt not steal. Thou shalt not say what is false about others.

In the evening the owner of the vineyard said to his steward 'Call the laborers, and pay them their wages, beginning with the last, and ending with the first.

But the tenants, on seeing his son, said to each other 'Here is the heir! Come, let us kill him, and get his inheritance.'

He sent his servants to call those who had been invited to the banquet, but they were unwilling to come.

And do not call any one Father, the heavenly Father.

That is why I send you Prophets, wise men, and Teachers of the Law, some of whom you will crucify and kill, and some of whom you will scourge in your Synagogues, and persecute from town to town;

But the Chief Priests and the Councillors persuaded the crowds to ask for Barabbas, and to kill Jesus.

they gave him some wine to drink which had been mixed with gall; but after tasting it, Jesus refused to drink it.

Hearing this, Jesus said: "It is not those who are in health that need a doctor, but those who are ill. I did not come to call the religious, but the outcast."

"Why do you call me good?" answered Jesus. "No one is good but God.

You know the commandments--'Do not kill. Do not commit adultery. Do not steal. Do not say what is false about others. Do not cheat. Honor thy father and thy mother.'"

Hearing that it was Jesus of Nazareth, he began to call out: "Jesus, Son of David, take pity on me."

Many of the people kept telling him to be quiet; but the man continued to call out all the louder: "Son of David, take pity on me."

Then Jesus stopped. "Call him," he said. So they called the blind man. "Courage!" they exclaimed. "Get up; he is calling you."

But those tenants said to one another 'Here is the heir! Come, let us kill him, and his inheritance will be ours.'

On the first day of the Festival of the Unleavened bread, when it was customary to kill the Passover lambs, his disciples said to Jesus: "Where do you wish us to go and make preparations for your eating the Passover?"

Pilate, however, spoke to them again: "What shall I do then with the man whom you call the 'King of the Jews'?"

But the angel said to him: " Do not be afraid, Zechariah; your prayer has been heard, and your wife Elizabeth shall bear you a son, whom you shall call by the name John.

A week later they met to circumcise the child, and were about to call him 'Zechariah' after his father,

I have not come to call the religious, but the outcast, to repent."

Why do you call me 'Master! Master!' and yet fail to do what I tell you?

When James and John saw this, they said: "Master, do you wish us to call for fire to come down from the heavens and consume them?"

Some of whom they will persecute and kill, in order that the 'blood' of all the prophets 'that has been spilt' since the creation of the world may be exacted from this generation--

To you who are my friends I say, Do not be afraid of those who kill the body, but after that can do no more.

Just then some Pharisees came up to Jesus and said: "Go away and leave this place, for Herod wants to kill you."

And bring the fattened calf and kill it, and let us eat and make merry;

So he called out 'Pity me, Father Abraham, and send Lazarus to dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue, for I am suffering agony in this flame.'

"Why do you call me good?" answered Jesus. "No one is good but God.

You know the commandments--'Do not commit adultery, Do not kill, Do not steal, Do not say what is false about others, Honor thy father and thy mother.'"

Those who were in front kept telling him to be quiet, but he continued to call out the louder: "Son of David, take pity on me!"

But Jesus answered: "I tell you that if these men are silent, the very stones will call out."

But, on seeing him, the tenants consulted with one another. 'Here is the heir!' they said. 'Let us kill him, and then the inheritance will become ours.'

But they began to shout as one man: "Kill this fellow, but release Barabbas for us."

"Go and call your husband," said Jesus, "and then come back."

This made the Jews all the more eager to kill him, because not only was he doing away with the Sabbath, but he actually called God his own Father--putting himself on an equality with God.

"Is he going to kill himself," the Jews exclaimed, "that he says-- 'You cannot go where I am going'?"

Saying this, Jesus spat on the ground, made clay with the saliva, and put it on the man's eyes.

"The man whom they call Jesus," he answered, "made clay, and anointed my eyes, and said to me 'Go to Siloam and wash your eyes.' So I went and washed my eyes, and gained my sight."

Now it was a Sabbath when Jesus made the clay and gave him his sight.

So the Pharisees also questioned the man as to how he had gained his sight. "He put clay on my eyes," he answered, "and I washed them, and I can see."

The thief comes only to steal, to kill, and to destroy; I have come that they may have Life, and may have it in greater fullness.

"You yourselves call me 'the Teacher' and 'the Master', and you are right, for I am both.

I no longer call you 'servants,' because a servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have given you the name of 'friends,' because I made known to you everything that I learned from my Father.

The servants and police-officers were standing round a char- coal fire (which they had made because it was cold), and were warming themselves. Peter, too, was with them, standing and warming himself.

At that the people shouted: "Kill him! Kill him! Crucify him!" "What! shall I crucify your King?" exclaimed Pilate. "We have no King but the Emperor," replied the Chief Priests;

While they had found the goal barred securely and the guards posted at the doors, yet, on opening them, they had not found any one inside.

Every one, high and low, paid attention to him. 'This man,' they used to say, 'must be that Power of God which men call "The Great Power."'

After some time the Jews laid a plot to kill Saul,

But it became known to him. They even watched the gates day and night, to kill him;

Talking and arguing with the Jews of foreign birth, who, however, made attempts to kill him.

One afternoon, about three o'clock, he distinctly saw in a vision an angel from God come to him, and call him by name.

Then he was aware of a voice which said-- "Stand up, Peter, kill something, and eat."

"You are doubtless aware that it is forbidden for a Jew to be intimate with a foreigner, or even to enter his house; and yet God has shown me that I ought not to call any man 'defiled' or 'unclean.'

And I also heard a voice saying to me-- 'Stand up, Peter, kill something and eat.'

Then a second time there came a voice from the heavens. "What God has pronounced 'clean'," it said, "you must not call 'defiled'."

Roused from his sleep, and seeing the prison doors open, the Governor drew his sword intending to kill himself, in the belief that the prisoners had escaped.

While Gallio was governor of Greece, the Jews made a combined attack on Paul, and brought him before the Governor's Bench,

Just as Paul was on the point of speaking, Gallio said to the Jews: "Jews, if this were a case of misdemeanor or some serious crime, there would be some reason for my listening patiently to you;

Then they all set upon Sosthenes, the President of the Synagogue, and beat him in front of the Bench, but Gallio did not trouble himself about any of these things.

For the people were following in a mass, shouting out: "Kill him!"

Up to this point the people had been listening to Paul, but at these words they called out: "Kill him! A fellow like this ought not to have been allowed to live!"

This, however, I do acknowledge to you, that it is as a believer in the Cause which they call heretical, that I worship the God of my ancestors. At the same time, I believe everything that is in accordance with the Law and that is written in the prophets;

As neither sun nor stars were visible for several days, and, as the gale still continued severe, all hope of our being saved was at last abandoned.

But we do know that God causes all things to work together for the good of those who love him-those who have received the Call in accordance with his purpose.

For in order that the purpose of God, working through selection, might not fail-a selection depending, not on obedience, but on his Call-Rebecca was told, before her children were born and before they had done anything either right or wrong,

Has not the potter absolute power over his clay, so that out of the same lump he makes one thing for better, and another for common, use?

This, indeed, is what he says in the Book of Hosea-'I will call those my People who were not my People, and her my beloved who was not beloved.

For God never regrets his gifts or his Call.

The commandments, 'Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not covet,' and whatever other commandment there is, are all summed up in the words--'Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thou dost thyself.'

For I have been informed, my Brothers, by the members of Chloe's household, that party feeling exists among you.

But to those who have received the Call, whether Jews or Greeks, Christ, the Power of God and the Wisdom of God!

Look at the facts of your Call, Brothers. There are not many among you who are wise, as men reckon wisdom, not many who are influential, not many who are high-born;

Let every one remain in that condition of life in which he was when the Call came to him.

If the bugle sounds a doubtful call, who will prepare for battle?

At the last trumpet-call; for the trumpet will sound, and the dead will rise immortal, and we, also, shall be transformed.

But, as my life shall answer for it, I call God to witness that it was to spare you that I deferred my visit to Corinth.

(As to what I am now writing to you, I call God to witness that I am speaking the truth).

Remember, Brothers, to you the Call came to give you freedom. Only do not make your freedom an opportunity for self-indulgence, but serve one another in a loving spirit.

That your minds may be so enlightened that you may realize the hope given by God's Call, the wealth of the glory of his heritage among Christ's People,

I urge you, then--I who am a prisoner in the Master's cause-- to live lives worthy of the Call that you have received;

There is but one Body and one Spirit, just as there was but one hope set before you when you received your Call.

I press on to the goal, to gain the prize of that heavenward Call which God gave me through Christ Jesus.

For God's Call to us does not permit of an impure life, but demands purity.

For, with a loud summons, with the shout of an archangel, and with the trumpet-call of God, the Lord himself will come down from Heaven.

With this in view, our constant prayer for you is that our God may count you worthy of the Call that you have received, and by his power make perfect your delight in all goodness and the efforts that have resulted from your faith.

The object of all instruction is to call forth that love which comes from a pure heart, a clear conscience, and a sincere faith.

Those are the points on which you should dwell, that there may be no call for your censure.

Run the great race of the Faith, and win the Immortal Life. It was for this that you received the Call, and, in the presence of many witnesses, made the great profession of Faith.

It was God who saved us, and from him we received our solemn Call--not as a reward for anything that we had done, but in fulfillment of his own loving purpose. For that love was extended to us, through Christ Jesus, before time began,

For he who purifies, and those whom he purifies, all spring from One; and therefore he is not ashamed to call them 'Brothers.'

Therefore, Christian Brothers, you who, all alike, have received the Call from Heaven, fix your attention on Jesus, the Apostle and High Priest of our Religion.

And that is why he is the intermediary of a new Covenant; in order that, as a death has taken place to effect a deliverance from the offenses committed under the first Covenant, those who have received the Call may obtain the eternal inheritance promised to them.

Call to mind those early days in which, after you had received the Light, you patiently underwent a long and painful conflict.

It was faith that enabled Abraham to obey the Call that he received, and to set out for the place which he was afterwards to obtain as his own; and he set out not knowing where he was going.

but in your whole life show yourselves to be holy, after the pattern of the Holy One from whom you received your Call.

And since you call upon him as 'Father,' who judges every one impartially by what he has done, let reverence be the spirit of your lives during the time of your stay upon earth.

Therefore, Brothers, do your best to put God's Call and Selection of you beyond all doubt; for, if you do this, you will never fall.

So I will do my best to enable you, at any time after my departure, to call these truths to mind.