but he was hindering Him, saying, "I have need to be immersed by Thee; and dost Thou come to me?"

And the Tempter, having come near, said to Him, "If Thou art God's Son, speak, that these stones may become loaves of bread."

and says to Him, "If Thou art a Son of God, cast Thyself down; for it has been written, 'He shall give His angels charge concerning Thee; and on their hands they shall bear Thee up; lest at any time Thou shouldest dash Thy foot against a stone.'"

and he said to Him, "All these things will I give Thee, if, falling down, Thou wilt worship me."

And, behold, a leper, coming near, was worshiping Him, saying, "Lord, if Thou art willing, Thou art able to cleanse me."

And the centurion, answering, said, "Lord, I am not worthy that Thou shouldest enter under my roof, but only speak in a word, and my boy shall be healed;

And a scribe, coming near, said to Him, "Teacher, I will follow Thee wheresoever Thou mayst go."

and, behold, they cried out, saying, "What is there to us and to Thee, O Son of God? Didst Thou come here to torment us before the time?"

And the demons were entreating Him, saying, "If Thou cast us out, send us away into the herd of swine."

said to Him, "Art Thou the Coming One, or are we to look for another?"

At that season Jesus, answering, said, "I thank Thee, O Father, Lord of the heaven and of the earth, because Thou didst hide these things from the wise and discerning, and didst reveal them to babes.

And the disciples, having come near, said to Him, "Wherefore dost Thou speak to them in parables?"

And Peter, answering Him, said, "Lord, if it be Thou, bid me come to Thee on the water."

And these in the boat worshiped Him, saying, "Truly Thou art God's Son."

Then, His disciples, coming near, say to Him, "Knowest Thou that the Pharisees, having heard the saying, were made to stumble?"

And Simon Peter, answering, said, "Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God."

And Peter, answering, said to Jesus," Lord, it is good that we are here. If Thou wilt, I will make here three tents??ne for Thee, and one for Moses, and one for Elijah."

And, behold, two blind men, sitting by the road, hearing that Jesus was passing by, cried, saying, "Lord, have mercy on us, Thou Son of David!"

But the multitude rebuked them, that they should be silent. But they cried the more, "Lord, have mercy on us, Thou Son of David!"

and said to Him, "Dost Thou hear what these are saying?" And Jesus saith to them, "Yes; did ye never read, 'Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings Thou didst perfect praise!'"

And, when He came into the temple, the high-priests and the elders of the people came to Him while He was teaching, saying, "By what authority art Thou doing these things? And who gave Thee this authority?"

And they send to Him their disciples with the Herodians, saying, "Teacher, we know that Thou art true, and teachest the way of God in truth, and carest not for any one; for Thou dost not look into the face of men:

tell us, therefore, what thinkest Thou: Is it lawful to give tribute to Caesar or not?"

And on the first day of the unleavened bread the disciples came to Jesus, saying, "Where dost Thou wish that we should prepare for Thee to eat the passover?"

And, going forward a little, He fell on His face, praying, and saying, "My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass away from Me: nevertheless not as I will, but as Thou wilt."

And the high priest, standing up, said to Him, "Answerest Thou nothing? What are these testifying against Thee?"

But Jesus was silent. And the high priest said to Him, "I adjure Thee by the living God, that Thou tell us whether Thou art the Christ, the Son of God"

And Jesus stood before the governor, and the governor questioned Him, saying, "Art Thou the King of the Jews?" And Jesus said to him, "You say it."

Then says Pilate to Him, "Hearest Thou not how many things they testify against Thee?"

and saying, "Thou Who destroyest the temple and buildest it in three days, save Thyself: if Thou art the Son of God, come down from the cross."

And, about the ninth hour, Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, "ELI, ELI, LAMA SABACHTHANI?" that is, "My God! My God! Why didst Thou forsake Me?"

And a voice came out of Heaven, saying, "Thou art My Son, the beloved, in Whom I was well pleased."

saying, "What is there to us and Thee, Jesus, Nazarene? didst Thou come to destroy us? I know Thee Who Thou art, the Holy One of God."

And there comes to Him a leper, beseeching Him, and kneeling down to Him, and saying to Him, "If Thou wilt, Thou canst cleanse me!"

And the unclean spirits, whensoever they were beholding Him, were falling down before Him, and crying, saying, "Thou art the Son of God."

and, crying with a loud voice, he says, "What is there to me and Thee, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I adjure Thee by God, that Thou torment me not!"

and beseeches Him much, saying, "My little daughter is extremely ill; I pray that, coming, Thou wilt lay Thy hands upon her, that she may be healed and live."

And His disciples said to Him, "Thou seest the multitude thronging Thee, and sayest Thou, 'Who touched Me?'"

And He asked them, "But Who do ye say that I am?" Peter, answering, says to Him, "Thou art the Christ."

And oft-times it cast him both into the fire and into the water, to destroy him; but, if Thou canst do anything, having compassion on us, help us!"

Jesus said to him, "'If thou canst!' All things are possible to him that believes."

Straight-way the father of the child, crying out, said, "I believe; help Thou my unbelief!"

And James and John, the sons of Zebedee, come to Him, saying to Him, "Teacher, we wish that Thou wouldest do for us whatsoever we ask."

And Peter, calling to remembrance, says to Him, "Rabbi, behold, the fig tree which Thou didst curse has withered away!"

and said to Him, "By what authority art Thou doing these things! Or who gave Thee this authority to do these things!"

And, coming, they say to Him, "Teacher, we know that Thou art true, and carest not for any one; for Thou lookest not into the face of men, but in truth teachest the way of God. Is it lawful to give tribute to Caesar, or not?

The scribe said to Him, "Well, Teacher, Thou didst say truly that He is One, and there is not another beside Him;

And, on the first day of the unleavened bread, when they were slaying the passover, His disciples say to Him, "Where dost Thou wish that we, going, prepare, that Thou mayest eat the passover?"

And He said, "Abba, Father, all things are possible to Thee; take away this cup from Me; yet not what I will, but what Thou wilt."

And the high priest stood up in the midst, and asked Jesus, saying, "Dost Thou answer nothing? What do these testify against Thee?"

But He was silent, and answered nothing. Again the high priest asked Him, and says to Him, "Art Thou the Christ, the Son of the Blessed?"

And Pilate again asked Him, saying, "Answerest Thou nothing? Behold how many things they accuse Thee of!"

And those passing by railed on Him, wagging their beads, and saying, "Aha! Thou Who destroyest the temple, and buildest it in three days!

And at the ninth hour Jesus cried with aloud voice, "ELOI, ELOI, LAMA SABACHTHANI!" which is, being interpreted, "My God! My God! why didst Thou forsake Me!"

and the Holy Spirit descended upon Him in bodily form, as a dove; and a voice came out of Heaven, "Thou art My Son, the Beloved, in Whom I delighted."

And the Devil said to Him, "If Thou art God's Son, command this stone, that it become bread."

If Thou, therefore, wilt worship before me, it shall all be Thine."

And he led Him to Jerusalem, and set Him on the pinnacle of the temple, and said to Him, "If Thou art God's Son, cast Thyself down hence;

"Ha! what is there to us and to Thee, Jesus, Nazarene! Didst Thou come to destroy us? I know Thee, Who Thou art, the Holy One of God!"

And demons also came out from many, crying out, and saying, "Thou art the Son of God." And, rebuking them, He was not suffering them to speak, because they knew Him to be the Christ.

And it came to pass, while He was in one of the cities, behold, a man full of leprosy; and, when he saw Jesus, falling on his face, he besought Him, saying, "Lord, if Thou wilt, Thou canst make me clean."

And they, coming to Jesus, were earnestly beseeching Him, saying, "He is worthy for whom Thou shalt do this;

And Jesus was going with them. And now, when He was not far distant from the house, the centurion sent friends, saying to Him, "Lord, trouble not Thyself; for I am not worthy that Thou shouldest come under my roof.

And, calling to him two of his disciples, John sent them to the Lord, saying, "Art Thou the Coming One, or are we to expect another?"

And, coming near to Him, the men said, "John, the Immerser, sent us to Thee, saying, 'Art Thou the Coming One, or are we to expect another?'"

And, seeing it, His disciples, James and John, said, "Lord, dost Thou wish that we bid fire come down from heaven, and consume them?"

And, as they were journeying in the way, a certain one said to Him, "I will follow Thee wheresoever Thou goest."

In that same hour He exulted in the Holy Spirit, and said, "I thank Thee, O Father Lord of Heaven and earth, because Thou didst hide these things from the wise and discerning, and didst reveal them to babes: yea, Father, because it was well-pleasing in Thy sight.

But Martha was being distracted about much serving; and, coming up suddenly, she said, "Lord, carest Thou not that my sister left me to serve alone? Speak to her, therefore, that she assist me!"

And it came to pass, as He was saying these things, that a certain woman, out of the multitude, lifting up her voice, said to Him, "Happy the womb that carried Thee, and the breasts which Thou didst suck!"

And one of the lawyers, answering, says to Him, "Teacher, in saying these things, Thou insultest us also!"

And Peter said, "Lord, speakest Thou this parable to us, or to all?"

then ye will begin to say, 'We ate and drank in Thy presence, and Thou didst teach in our streets.'

And he said also to this man, 'Be thou also over five cities.'

and spake, saying to Him, "Tell us by what authority Thou art doing these things, or who gave Thee this authority?"

And they asked Him, saying, "Teacher, we know that Thou sayest and teachest rightly, and regardest no person, but teachest the way of God in truth.

And some of the scribes, answering, said, "Teacher, Thou spakest well;"

For David himself says in the book of Psalms, 'The Lord said to my Lord, Sit Thou on My right hand,

And they said to Him, "Where dost Thou wish that we make ready?"

saying, "Father, if Thou art willing, remove this cup from Me; nevertheless, not My will, but Thine, be done."

"If Thou art the Christ, tell us." But He said to them, "If I tell you, ye will not believe.

And they all said, "Art Thou, therefore, the Son of God?" And He said to them, "Ye say that I am."

And Pilate asked Him, saying, "Art Thou the King of the Jews?" And He, answering, said to him, "You say it."

and saying, "If Thou art the King of the Jews, save Thyself!"

And one of the suspended malefactors kept reviling Him, saying, "Art not Thou the Christ? Save Thyself and us!"

And he said, "Jesus, remember me, when Thou comest in Thy Kingdom."

And one of them, Cleopas by name, said to Him, "Art Thou only a Stranger in Jerusalem, and knowest not the things that came to pass there in these days?"

And Jesus, turning and beholding them following, saith to them, "What are ye seeking?" They said to Him, "Rabbi," (which, being translated, means Teacher), "where abidest Thou?"

Nathanael says to Him, "Whence knowest Thou me?" Jesus answered, and said to him, "Before Philip called you, when you were under the fig tree, I saw you."

Nathaniel answered Him, "Rabbi, Thou art the Son of God; Thou art the King of Israel."

The Jews, therefore, answered and said to Him, "What sign dost Thou show to us, seeing that Thou doest these things?

The Jews, therefore, said, "In forty-six years this temple was built, and wilt Thou raise it up in three days?"

This man came to Jesus by night, and said to Him, "Rabbi, we know that Thou hast come, as a Teacher, from God; for no one can do the signs which Thou art doing, unless God be with Him."

The Samaritan woman, therefore, says to Him, "How is it that Thou, being a Jew, askest drink of me, who am a Samaritan woman?" (For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans).

She says to Him, "Sir, Thou hast nothing to draw with, and the well is deep. Whence, therefore, hast Thou the living water

Art Thou greater than our Father Jacob, who gave us the well, and himself drank of it, and his sons, and his cattle?"

The woman says to Him, "Sir, I perceive that Thou art a Prophet.

And upon this came His disciples: and they were wondering that He was talking with a woman; yet no one said, "What seekest Thou?" or, "Why talkest Thou with her?"

And, having found Him on the other side of the sea, they said to Him, "Rabbi, when camest Thou hither?"

They said, therefore, to Him, "What sign doest Thou, then, that we may see, and believe Thee? What doest Thou?