No one under sixty is to be put on the church's list of widows; and she must have been only once married,

and she herself fled to the desert, where a place has been prepared for her by God, in which she is to be nourished for twelve hundred and sixty days.

Now for the gift of interpretation! Let the discerning calculate the cipher of the Beast; it is the cipher of a man, and the figures are six hundred and sixty-six.

But I will allow my two witnesses to prophesy for twelve hundred and sixty days, clad in sackcloth

some other seed fell on good soil and bore a crop that sprang up and grew, yielding at the rate of thirty, sixty, and a hundredfold."

As for those who were sown 'on good soil,' these are the people who listen to the word and take it in and bear fruit at the rate of thirty, sixty, and a hundredfold."

Some other seeds fell on good soil and bore a crop, some a hundredfold, some sixty, and some thirtyfold.

As for him who is sown 'on good soil,' that is the man who hears the word and understands it; he bears fruit, producing now a hundredfold, now sixty, and now thirtyfold."

Then the servant with the five hundred pounds came forward. He said, 'You handed me five hundred pounds, sir; here I have gained another five hundred.'

Do you not understand even yet? Do you not remember the five loaves of the five thousand and how many baskets you took up?

Five of them were stupid and five were sensible.

Similarly the servant who had got the five hundred pounds made another five hundred.

Then the second came and said, 'Your five pounds has made twenty-five, sir.'