but, that we may not cause them to stumble; having gone to the sea, cast a hook, and take up the fish first coming up; and, opening its mouth, you will find a shekel; taking that, give it to them for Me and you."

At that time the disciples came near to Jesus, saying, "Who then is greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven?"

And, having called a little child to Him, He placed it in the midst of them,

But whosoever causes one of these little ones who believe in Me to stumble, it is profitable for him that a large millstone be hanged about his neck, and he be sunk in the depth of the sea.

"And, if your hand or your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off, and cast it from you; it is good for you to enter into life maimed or lame, rather than having two hands or two feet to be cast into the eternal fire.

"And, if your eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out, and cast it from you; it is good for you to enter into life with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast into the Hell of fire.

"What think ye? If a hundred sheep belong to a certain man, and one of them goes astray, will he not leave the ninety and nine on the mountains, and, going, seek the straying one?

And, if it happen that he find it, verily I say to you, he rejoices over it more than over the ninety and nine that have not gone astray.

In like manner it is not the will of your Father Who is in Heaven, that one of these little ones should perish.

but, if he hear you not, take with you yet one or two, that at the mouth of two witnesses or three, every word may be established.

And, if he disregard them, tell it to the assembly; and, if he disregard the assembly also, let him be to you as the gentile and the tax-collector.

"Again, I say to you, that, if two of you shall agree on the earth concerning any matter which ye ask, it shall be done for them by My Father Who is in Heaven;

And he would not; but, going away, he cast him into prison, till he should pay what was due.

Therefore, his fellow-servants, seeing what was done, were exceedingly grieved; and, going, they made known to their lord all that was done.

And it came to pass that, when Jesus finished these words, He departed from Galilee, and came into the borders of Judaea, beyond the Jordan.

And the Pharisees came to Him, tempting Him, and saying, "Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause"

so that they are no longer two, but one flesh. What, therefore, God joined together, let not man put asunder."

He saith to them, "Moses, in view of the hardness of your heart, permitted you to put away your wives; but from the beginning it has not been so.

The disciples say to Him, "If the case of the man is so with his wife, it is not expedient to marry."

But He said to them, "Not all can receive this saying, but those to whom it has been given;

for there are eunuchs who were so born from their mother's womb; and there are eunuchs who were made eunuchs by men; and there are eunuchs who made themselves eunuchs for the sake of the Kingdom of Heaven. He who is able to receive it, let him receive it."

And, behold, one, having come near, said to Him, "Teacher, what good thing shall I do, that I may have eternal life?"

The young man says to Him, "I observed all these things; what yet do I lack?"

Jesus said to him, "If you wish to be perfect, go, sell what you have, and give to the poor, and you shall have treasure in Heaven; and come, follow Me."

And again I say to you, It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter into the Kingdom of God."

And the disciples, having heard it, were amazed exceedingly, saying, "Who, then, can be saved? "

Then Peter, answering, said to Him, "Behold, we left all, and followed Thee; what, then, shall we have?"

And, having received it, they murmured against the householder,

Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with my own? Or is your eye evil, because I am good?'

And He said to her, "What do you wish?" She says to Him, "Command, that these my two sons may sit, one on Thy right hand, and one on Thy left, in Thy Kingdom."

But Jesus, answering, said, "Ye know not what ye are asking. Are ye able to drink the cup that I am about to drink?" They say to Him, "We are able."

He saith to them, "My cup, indeed, ye shall drink; but to sit on My right hand, and on My left, is not Mine to give, but it is for those for whom it has been prepared by My Father."

And the ten, hearing it, were much displeased with the two brothers.

Not so shall it be among you;

And, standing still, Jesus called them, and said, "What do you wish that I should do to you?"

Now this has come to pass, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through the prophet, saying,

And Jesus entered into the temple, and cast out all those selling and buying in the temple, and overturned the tables of the money-changers, and the seats of those selling the doves.

And He saith to them, "It has been written, 'My house, shall be called a house of prayer; but ye are making it a den of robbers!'"

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, leaving them, He went forth out of the city to Bethany, and lodged there.

And, seeing one fig tree by the way, He came to it, and found nothing thereon except leaves only. And He saith to it, "No more may fruit come from you forever." And immediately the fig tree withered away!

And the disciples, seeing it, wondered, saying, "How quickly the fig tree withered away!"

And Jesus, answering, said to them, "Verily I say to you, if ye have faith, and do not doubt, not only the withering of the fig tree shall ye accomplish, but, even if ye say to this mountain, 'Be lifted up, and be cast into the sea,' it shall be done.

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 Jesus, answering, said, "I also will ask you one thing, which if ye tell Me, I also will tell you by what authority I do these things:

The immersion of John??hence was it? from Heaven or from men?" And they were reasoning among themselves, saying, "If we say, 'From Heaven,' He will say to us, 'Why, then, did ye not believe him?'

And, answering Jesus, they said, "We do not know." He also said to them, "Neither do I tell you by what authority I do these things."

"But what think ye? A man had two children; and to the first, he said, 'Child, go, work today in the vineyard.'

"Hear another parable. There was a man?? householder??ho planted a vineyard, and placed a fence around it, and dug a wine-press, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went abroad.

And, taking him, they cast him forth out of the vineyard, and killed him.

When, therefore, the lord of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those husband-men?"

They say to Him, "He will miserably destroy those miserable men, and will let out the vineyard to other husbandmen, who will render to him the fruits in their seasons."

Jesus saith to them, "Did ye never read in the Scriptures, 'The stone which the builders rejected, the same was made head of a corner; this was from the Lord, and it is marvellous in our eyes?'

And he who falls on this stone shall be broken in pieces; but on whomsoever it falls, it will scatter him as dust."

"But they, neglecting it, went away; one, indeed, to his own farm, another to his merchandise;

And the servants, going out into the highways, gathered together all whom they found, both bad and good; and the bridal-hall was filled with guests.

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

And, hearing it, they wondered: and, leaving Him, they went away.

And the multitudes, hearing Him, were astonished at His teaching.

A second like it is this: You shall love your neighbor as yourself.

saying, "What think ye concerning the Christ? Whose Son is He?" They say to Him, "David's."

"Woe to you, blind guides, who say, 'Whosoever swears by the temple, it is nothing; but whosoever swears by the gold of the temple, he is a debtor!'

'And whosoever swears by the altar, it is nothing; but whosoever swears by the gift that is upon it, is a debtor!'

He, therefore, who swears by the altar swears by it and by all things on it;

and he who swears by the temple swears by it and by Him dwelling therein;

"Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin; and have omitted the weightier things of the law??he judgment, and the mercy, and the faith; but these it was proper to have done, and those not to have omitted.

Blind guides! straining out the gnat, and swallowing the camel!

"Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye are like white-washed sepulchres, which outwardly, indeed, appear beautiful, but within are full of bones of the dead and of all uncleanness.

that upon you may come all the righteous blood poured out upon the earth, from the blood of Abel, the righteous, unto the blood of Zachariah, son of Barachiah, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar.

And Jesus, going out, was departing from the temple; and His disciples came near to show Him the buildings of the temple.

And, while He was sitting on the mount of Olives, the disciples came to Him privately, saying, "Tell us when shall these things be, and what is the sign of Thy coming and of the end of the age."

And ye will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that ye be not troubled, for these things must come to pass; but the end is not yet.

let him who is on the house-top not go down to take away the things out of his house;

Then, if any one shall say to you, 'Behold, here is the Christ!' or 'Here,' believe it not;

If, therefore, they say to you, 'Behold, He is in the wilderness;' go not forth; 'Behold, He is in the secret chambers,' believe it not,

even so ye, when ye see all these things, know that it is near, at the doors.

two women will be grinding at the mill, one is carried off, and one is left behind.

Watch ye, therefore, because ye know not in what day your Lord is coming.

But know this, that, had the householder known at what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken through.

and shall begin to beat his fellow-servants, and shall eat and drink with the drunken;

but at midnight a cry has been made, 'Behold, the bridegroom! Come ye forth to meet him!'

And the foolish said to the wise, 'Give us of your oil, because our lamps are going out.'

"For it is as when a man, going abroad, called his own servants, and delivered to them his goods:

It behooved you, therefore, to put my money to the bankers; and, at my coming, I would have received my own with interest.

Take from him, therefore, the talent, and give it to him who has the ten talents.'

For, to every one that has, shall be given, and he shall be made to abound; but from him that has not shall be taken away even what he has;

and cast out the unprofitable servant into the outer darkness: there will be the weeping, and the gnashing of teeth!

for I hungered, and ye gave Me to eat; I thirsted, and ye gave Me drink; I was a stranger, and ye took Me in;

"And, answering, the King will say to them, 'Verily I say to you, inasmuch as ye did it to one of My brethren, even the least, ye did it to Me.'

for I hungered, and ye did not give Me to eat; I thirsted, and ye gave Me no drink;

"Then will He answer them, saying, 'Verily I say to you, inasmuch as ye did it not to one of these least, ye did it not to Me!'

And it came to pass when Jesus finished all these words, He said to His disciples,

there came to Him a woman having an alabaster cruse of very precious ointment, and poured it down upon His head, while reclining at table.

And the disciples, seeing it, were much displeased, saying, "To what purpose is this waste?

But Jesus, perceiving it, said to them, "Why do ye give trouble to the woman? for she wrought a good work for Me;

For she, in pouring this ointment upon My body, did it with reference to My burial.

said, "What are ye willing to give me, and I will deliver Him up to you?" And they paid him thirty pieces of silver.

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 He said, "Go away into the city to such a one, and say to him, 'The Teacher saith, My time is at hand; with you I observe the passover together with My disciples.'"

And, evening coming on, He was reclining at table with the twelve;