His winnowing-fan is in his hand, he will clean out his threshing-floor, his wheat he will gather into the granary, but the straw he will burn with fire unquenchable."

Again, the Realm of heaven is like a trader in search of fine pearls;

vain is their worship of me, for the doctrines they teach are but human precepts."

O Jerusalem, Jerusalem! slaying the prophets and stoning those who have been sent to you! How often I would fain have gathered your children as a fowl gathers her brood under her wings! But you would not have it!

I tell you, after this I will never drink this produce of the vine till the day I drink it new with you in the Realm of my Father."

and after making fun of him they stripped him of the mantle, put on his own clothes, and took him off to be crucified.

So, too, the high priests made fun of him with the scribes and the elders of the people.

vain is their worship of me, for the doctrines they teach are but human precepts.

When the season came round he sent a servant to the vine dressers to collect from the vine dressers some of the produce of the vineyard,

truly I tell you, I will never drink the produce of the vine again till the day I drink it new within the Realm of God."

Then, after making fun of him, they stripped off the purple, put on his own clothes, and took him away to crucify him.

So, too, the high priests made fun of him to themselves with the scribes; "he saved others," they said, "but he cannot save himself!

His winnowing-fan is in his hand to purge his threshing-floor, to gather the wheat into his granary and burn the straw with fire unquenchable."

O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, slaying the prophets and stoning those who have been sent to you! How often I would fain have gathered your children as a fowl gathers her brood under her wings! But you would not have it!

For which of you wants to build a tower and does not first sit down to calculate the expense, to see if he has enough money to complete it? ??29 in case, after he has laid the foundation and then is unable to finish the building, all the spectators start to make fun of him,

And he was fain to fill his belly with the pods the swine were eating; no one gave him anything.

There was a rich man, clad in purple and fine linen, who lived sumptuously every day.

and fain to eat up the crumbs that fell from the rich man's table. (The very dogs used to come and lick his ulcers.)

To his disciples he said, "There will come days when you will long and long in vain to have even one day of the Son of man.

When the season came round he sent a servant to the vine dressers to receive part of the produce of the vineyard, but the vinedressers flogged him and sent him off with nothing.

Some of the scribes declared, "Teacher, that was a fine answer!"

for I tell you I will never drink the produce of the vine again till such time as God's Reign comes."

Meantime the men who had Jesus in custody flogged him and made fun of him;

Then Herod and his troops scoffed at him and made fun of him, and after arraying him in a bright robe he remitted him to Pilate.

The soldiers made fun of him too by coming up and handing him vinegar,

Remain in me, as I remain in you: just as a branch cannot bear fruit by itself, without remaining on the vine, neither can you, unless you remain in me.

I am the vine, you are the branches. He who remains in me, as I in him, bears rich fruit (because apart from me you can do nothing).

are placed in the middle of verse 13:31] "I am the real Vine, and my Father is the vine-dresser;

Christ did not send me to baptize but to preach the gospel. And to preach it with no fine rhetoric, lest the cross of Christ should lose its power!

and in this confidence I would fain get away from the body and reside with the Lord.

I appeal to you too, as a worker with God, do not receive the grace of God in vain.

No, I intend to go on as I am doing, in order to checkmate those who would fain make out that in the apostolate of which they boast they work on the same terms as I do.

Now it is fine for you to be made much of honestly and all the time ??not simply when I can be with you.

fain, in our yearning affection for you, to impart not only the gospel of God to you but our very souls as well ??you had so won our love.

Can a fig tree, my brothers, bear olives? Or a vine, figs? No more can salt water yield fresh.

and another angel came from the altar ??he who has power over fire ??and called loudly to the one who had the sharp sickle, "Thrust your sharp sickle in, cull the clusters from the Vine of earth, for its grapes are fully ripe."

So the angel swung his sickle on the earth and culled the clusters from the Vine of earth, flinging the grapes into the great winepress of God's wrath;

freights of gold, silver, jewels, pearls, fine linen, purples, silk, scarlet stuff, all sorts of citron wood and ivory wares, all articles of costly wood, of bronze, of iron and of marble,

with cinnamon, balsam, spices, myrrh, frankincense, wines, olive-oil, fine flour and wheat, with cattle, sheep, horses, carriages, slaves, and the souls of men.

Yea, she is allowed to put on fine linen, dazzling white" (the white linen is the righteous conduct of the saints).