But, if your eye is diseased, your whole body will be darkened. And, if the inner light is darkness, how intense must that darkness be!

Therefore pray to the Owner of the harvest to send laborers to gather in his harvest."

On this the owner's servants came to him, and said 'Was not it good seed that you sowed in your field? Where, then, do the tares in it come from?'

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.

A second time the owner sent some servants, a larger number than before, and the tenants treated them in the same way.

Now, when the owner of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those tenants?"

Therefore, if people say to you 'He is in the Wilderness!', do not go out there; or 'He is in an inner room!', do not believe it;

But this you do know, that, had the owner of the house known at what time of night the thief was coming, he would have been on the watch, and would not have allowed his house to be broken into.

A second time the owner sent a servant to them; this man, too, the tenants struck on the head, and insulted.

What will the owner of the vineyard do? He will come and put the tenants to death, and he will let the vineyard to others.

and, wherever he goes in, say to the owner of the house 'The Teacher says--Where is my room where I am to eat the Passover with my disciples?'

"The harvest," he said, "is abundant, but the laborers are few. Therefore pray to the Owner of the harvest to send laborers to gather in his harvest.

Take care, therefore, that the inner Light is not darkness.

This you do know, that, had the owner of the house known at what time the thief was coming, he would have been on the watch, and would not have let his house be broken into.

On his return the servant told his master all these answers. Then in anger the owner of the house said to his servant 'Go out at once into the streets and alleys of the town, and bring in here the poor, and the crippled, and the blind, and the lame.'

The owner afterwards sent another servant; but the tenants beat and insulted this man too, and sent him away empty-handed.

'What shall I do?' said the owner of the vineyard. 'I will send my son, who is very dear to me. Perhaps they will respect him.'

So they threw him outside the vineyard and killed him. Now what will the owner of the vineyard do to them?

And you shall say to the owner of the house 'The Teacher says to you--Where is the room where I am to eat the Passover with my disciples?'

On receiving so strict an order, the Governor put them into the inner cell, and secured their feet in the stocks.

The Roman Officer, however, was more influenced by the captain and the owner than by what was said by Paul.

If, then, a man has escaped from the pollution of such errors as I have mentioned, he will be like a thing kept for better use, set apart, serviceable to its owner, ready for any good purpose.

The part of the Tabernacle behind the second Curtain is called the Inner Sanctuary.

but into the inner only the High Priest goes, and that but once a year, and never without taking the blood of a victim, which he offers on his own behalf, and on behalf of the errors of the People.

but the inner life with the imperishable beauty of a quiet and gentle spirit; for this is very precious in God's sight.