and so with craftiness to get him to the fattest place of the land, and to deal otherwise than either his fathers or grandfathers did. For he shall destroy the thing that they had robbed and spoiled, yea and all their substance: imagining thoughts against the strongholds, and that for a time.

Now when she had weaned Loruhamah, she conceived again, and bare a son.

Israel was a goodly vine, but he hath brought forth unprofitable fruit: yea, the more fruit he had the more altars he made; the more good I did to their land, the more friendship showed they to their Images.

But at Gilead is the abomination, they are fallen to vanity. At Gilgal they have slain oxen: and as many heaps of stones as they had in their land furrows, so many altars have they made.

But when they were well fed and had enough, they waxed proud, and forgot me.

had not I defended him from the grave, and delivered him from death. O death, I will be thy death: O hell, I will be thy sting.

And the LORD envied for his land's sake and had compassion on his people.

Ye made a thank offering of leaven, ye promised free will offerings, and proclaimed them. Such lust had ye, O ye children of Israel,' sayeth the LORD God.

'I have smitten you with drought and blasting: and look how many orchards, vineyards, fig trees, and olive trees ye had: the caterpillar hath eaten them up. But yet will ye not turn unto me,' sayeth the LORD.

The LORD God showed me such a vision: behold, there stood one that made grasshoppers, even when the corn was shooting forth, after the king had clipped his sheep.

If the thieves and robbers came to thee by night, thou taking thy rest: should they not steal, till they had enough? If the grape gatherers came upon thee, would they not leave thee some grapes?

For likewise as ye have drunken upon mine holy hill, so shall all Heathen drink continually: yea drink shall they, and swallow up, so that ye shall be as though ye had never been.

But upon the mount Zion, there shall a remnant escape: these shall be holy, and the house of Jacob shall possess even those, that had themselves afore in possession.

Then were the men exceedingly afraid and said unto him, "Why didst thou so?" For they knew that he was fled from the presence of the LORD, because he had told them.

And I thought that I had been cast away out of thy sight. But I will yet again look toward thy holy temple.

Now therefore take my life from me, for I had better die than live."

Remember, O my people, what Balak the king of Moab had imagined against thee, and what answer that Balaam the son of Beor gave him, from Shittim unto Gilgal, that ye may know the loving-kindness of the LORD.

But the lion spoiled enough for his young ones, and devoured for his lioness: he filled his dens with his prey, and his dwelling place with that he had ravished.

Art thou better than the great city of Alexandria: that lay in the waters, and had the waters round about it? Which was strongly fenced and walled with the sea?

Wast thou not angry, O LORD, in the waters? Was not thy wrath in the floods, and thy displeasure in the sea? Yes, when thou sattest upon thine horse, and when thy chariots had the victory.

Now when Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Joshua the son of Jozadak the high priest, with the remnant of the people, heard the voice of the LORD their God, and the words of the Prophet Haggai, like as the LORD their God had sent him, the people did fear the LORD.

Then lift I up mine eyes, and looked: and behold, there came out two women, and the wind was in their wings, for they had wings like the wings of a stork: and they lift up the measure betwixt the earth and the heaven.

"I will comfort the house of Judah, and preserve the house of Joseph. I will turn them also, for I pity them: and they shall be like as they were, when I had not cast them off. For I the LORD am their God, and will hear them.

Three shepherds destroyed I in one month, for I might not away with them, neither had they any delight in me.

And so it was broken in that day. Then the poor simple sheep that had a respect unto me, knew thereby that it was the word of the LORD.

I made a covenant of life and peace with him: this I gave him, that he might stand in awe of me: and so he did fear me, and had my name in reverence.

So did not the one, and yet had he an excellent spirit. What did then the one? He sought the seed promised of God. Therefore look well to your spirit, and let no man despise the wife of his youth.

and knew her not till she had brought forth her first son: and called his name Jesus.

When Herod the king had heard this, he was troubled, and all Jerusalem with him.

When they had heard the king, they departed; And, lo, the star, which they saw in the East, went before them, till it came and stood over the place where the child was.

Then Herod, perceiving that he was mocked of the wise men, was exceeding wroth, and sent forth, and slew all the children that were in Bethlehem, and in all the coasts thereof, as many as were two years old and under according to the time which he had diligently searched out of the wise men.

This John had his garment of camel's hair, and a girdle of a skin about his loins; his meat was locusts and wild honey.

And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward a hungered.

When Jesus had heard that John was taken, he departed into Galilee;

And his fame spread abroad throughout all Syria: and they brought unto him all sick people that were taken with divers diseases and gripings, and them that were possessed with devils and those which were lunatic and those that had the palsy: and he healed them.

And it came to pass, that when Jesus had ended these sayings, the people were astonished at his doctrine:

Then the herdsmen fled and went their ways into the city, and told everything, and what had fortuned unto them that were possessed of the devils.

And when the people saw it, they marveled and glorified God, which had given such power to men.

But when he saw the people, he had compassion on them, because they were pined away, and scattered abroad, even as sheep having no shepherd.

And it came to pass, when Jesus had made an end of commanding his twelve disciples, that he departed thence, to teach and preach in their cities.

"Woe be to thee, Chorazsin! Woe be to thee, Bethsaida! for if the miracles, which were showed in you, had been done in Tyre and in Sidon: they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.

And thou, Capernaum, which art lift up unto heaven, shalt be brought down to hell: for if the miracles, which have been done in thee, had been showed in Sodom, they had remained to this day.

Wherefore if ye had wist, what this saying meaneth, 'I require mercy and not sacrifice,' ye would never have condemned innocents.

and behold, there was a man, which had his hand dried up. And they asked him, saying, "Is it lawful to heal upon the Sabbath days?" Because they might accuse him.

And he said unto them, "Which of you would it be, if he had a sheep fallen into a pit on the Sabbath day, that would not take him and lift him out?

Some fell upon stony ground where it had not much earth, and anon it sprung up, because it had no depth of earth:

When the blade was sprung up, and had brought forth fruit, then appeared the tares also.

which when he had found one precious pearl, went and sold all that he had, and bought it.

And it came to pass, when Jesus had finished these similitudes, that he departed thence,

For Herod had taken John and bound him, and put him in prison for Herodias' sake, his brother Philip's wife.

When Jesus had heard that, he departed thence by ship into a desert place out of the way. And when the people had heard thereof, they followed him afoot out of their cities.

And as soon as he had sent the people away, he went up into a mountain alone to pray. And when night was come he was there himself alone.

And when the men of that place had knowledge of him, they sent out into all that country round about, and brought unto him all that were sick,

And when his disciples were come to the other side of the water, they had forgotten to take bread with them.

Jesus said unto them, "Because of your unbelief. For I say verily unto you, if ye had faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye should say unto this mountain, remove hence to yonder place, and he should remove: Neither should any thing be impossible for you to do.

And when he had begun to reckon, one was brought unto him, which owed him ten thousand talents:

Whom, because he had nought to pay, his Master commanded him to be sold: and his wife, and his children, and all that he had; and payment to be made.

Then had the Lord pity on that servant, and loosed him, and forgave him the debt.

When his other fellows saw what was done, they were very sorry, and came and told unto their Lord all that had happened.

Was it not mete also, that thou shouldest have had compassion on thy fellow, even as I had pity on thee?'

And it came to pass, when Jesus had finished those sayings, he got him from Galilee, and came in to the coasts of Jewry beyond Jordan;

And when he had put his hands on them, he departed thence.

When the young man heard that saying, he went away mourning. For he had great possessions.

And when they had received it, they murmured against the good man of the house, saying,

Jesus had compassion on them, and touched their eyes. And immediately their eyes received sight: And they followed him.

And he left them, and went out of the city unto Bethany, and had his abiding there.

"What say ye to this? A certain man had two sons, and came to the elder and said, 'Son, go and work today in my vineyard.'

Then the King came in, to visit the guests, and spied there a man which had not on a wedding garment,

Now in the resurrection whose wife shall she be of the seven? For all had her."

When the Pharisees had heard, how that he had put the Sadducees to silence, they drew together,

and say, 'If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partners with them in the blood of the prophets.'

Then he that had received the five talents, went and bestowed them, and won other five talents.

Then came he that had received five talents, and brought other five talents saying, 'Master, thou deliveredst unto me five talents: Behold, I have gained with them five talents more.'

Then he which had received the one talent came also, and said, 'Master, I considered that thou wast a hard man, which reapest where thou sowedst not, and gatherest where thou strawedst not,

Thou oughtest therefore to have had my money to the changers, and then at my coming should I have received my mine own with vantage.

And it came to pass, when Jesus had finished all these sayings, he said unto his disciples,

there came unto him a woman, which had an alabaster box of precious ointment, and poured it on his head, as he sat at the board.

When his disciples saw that, they had indignation saying, "What needed this waste?

And the disciples did as Jesus had appointed them, and made ready the Easter lamb.

The son of man goeth as it is written of him: but woe be to that man, by whom the son of man shall be betrayed. It had been good for that man, if he had never been born."

And when they had said grace, they went out into Mount Olivet.

He had then a notable prisoner called Barabbas.

For he knew well, that for envy they had delivered him.

But the chief priests and the elders had persuaded the people, that they should ask Barabbas, and should destroy Jesus.

And when they had mocked him, they took the robe off him again, and put his own raiment on him, and led him away to crucify him.

they gave him vinegar to drink, mingled with gall. And when he had tasted thereof, he would not drink.

When they had crucified him, they parted his garments, and did cast lots. To fulfill that was spoken by the prophet, "They divided my garments among them: and upon my vesture did cast lots."

and put it in his new tomb, which he had hewn out even in the rock, and rolled a great stone to the door of the sepulchre and departed.

Then the eleven disciples went away into Galilee, into a mountain where Jesus had appointed them.

And when he had gone a little further thence, he saw James, the son of Zebedee, and John his brother, even as they were in the ship mending their nets.

And they marveled at his learning. For he taught them as one that had power with him, and not as the scribes did.

And when they had found him, they said unto him, "All men seek for thee."

And Jesus had compassion on him, and put forth his hand, touched him, and said unto him, "I will, be thou clean."

And as soon as he had spoken, immediately the leprosy departed from him, and he was cleansed.

and because they could not come nigh unto him for press, they uncovered the roof of the house where he was. And when they had broken it open, they let down the bed wherein the sick of the palsy lay.

And he said to them, "Have ye never read what David did, when he had need, and was a hungered both he and they that were with him?

And he entered again into the synagogue, and there was a man there which had a withered hand:

And he said unto the man which had the withered hand, "Arise and stand in the midst."

and from Jerusalem, and from Idumaea, and from beyond Jordan: and they that dwelled about Tyre and Sidon, a great multitude: which when they had heard what things he did, came unto him.

For he had healed many, insomuch that they pressed upon him, for to touch him, as many as had plagues.