Let no one have any evil thought in his heart against his neighbour; and have no love for false oaths: for all these things are hated by me, says the Lord.

A word of the Lord: The Lord has come to the land of Hadrach, and Damascus is his resting-place: for the towns of Aram are the Lord's,

As well as Hamath, which is by its limit, and Tyre and Zidon, because they are very wise.

For the images have said what is not true, and the readers of signs have seen deceit; they have given accounts of false dreams, they give comfort to no purpose: so they go out of the way like sheep, they are troubled because they have no keeper.

The word of the Lord about Israel. The Lord by whom the heavens are stretched out and the bases of the earth put in place, and the spirit of man formed inside him, has said:

And if anyone goes on acting as a prophet, then his father and his mother who gave him life will say to him, You may not go on living, for you are saying what is false in the name of the Lord; and his father and his mother will put a sword through him when he does so.

And if anyone says to him, What are these wounds between your hands? then he will say, Those with which I was wounded in the house of my friends.

And this will be the disease which the Lord will send on all the peoples which have been warring against Jerusalem: their flesh will be wasted away while they are on their feet, their eyes will be wasted in their heads and their tongues in their mouths.

Though Edom says, We are crushed down but we will come back, building up the waste places; this is what the Lord of armies has said: They may put up buildings, but I will have them pulled down; and they will be named The land of evil-doing, and The people against whom the Lord keeps his wrath for ever.

But you are turned out of the way; you have made the law hard for numbers of people; you have made the agreement of Levi of no value, says the Lord of armies.

Have we not all one father? has not one God made us? why are we, every one of us, acting falsely to his brother, putting shame on the agreement of our fathers?

See, I am sending my servant, and he will make ready the way before me; and the Lord, whom you are looking for, will suddenly come to his Temple; and the angel of the agreement, in whom you have delight, see, he is coming, says the Lord of armies.

And I will come near to you for judging; I will quickly be a witness against the wonder-workers, against those who have been untrue in married life, against those who take false oaths; against those who keep back from the servant his payment, and who are hard on the widow and the child without a father, who do not give his rights to the man from a strange country, and have no fear of me, says the Lord of armies.

From the days of your fathers you have been turned away from my rules and have not kept them. Come back to me, and I will come back to you, says the Lord of armies. But you say, How are we to come back?

You are cursed with a curse; for you have kept back from me what is mine, even all this nation.

And now to us the men of pride seem happy; yes, the evil-doers are doing well; they put God to the test and are safe.

So all the generations from Abraham to David are fourteen generations; and from David to the taking away to Babylon, fourteen generations; and from the taking away to Babylon to the coming of Christ, fourteen generations.

You Beth-lehem, in the land of Judah, are not the least among the chiefs of Judah: out of you will come a ruler, who will be the keeper of my people Israel.

Saying, Get up and take the young child and his mother, and go into the land of Israel: because they who were attempting to take the young child's life are dead.

But when he saw a number of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them, Offspring of snakes, at whose word are you going in flight from the wrath to come?

Truly, I give baptism with water to those of you whose hearts are changed; but he who comes after me is greater than I, whose shoes I am not good enough to take up: he will give you baptism with the Holy Spirit and with fire:

And the Evil One came and said to him, If you are the Son of God, give the word for these stones to become bread.

If you are the Son of God, let yourself go down; for it is in the Writings, He will give his angels care over you; and, In their hands they will keep you up, so that your foot may not be crushed against a stone.

Happy are the poor in spirit: for the kingdom of heaven is theirs.

Happy are those who are sad: for they will be comforted.

Happy are the gentle: for the earth will be their heritage.

Happy are those whose heart's desire is for righteousness: for they will have their desire.

Happy are those who have mercy: for they will be given mercy.

Happy are the clean in heart: for they will see God.

Happy are the peacemakers: for they will be named sons of God.

Happy are those who are attacked on account of righteousness: for the kingdom of heaven will be theirs.

Happy are you when men give you a bad name, and are cruel to you, and say all evil things against you falsely, because of me.

You are the salt of the earth; but if its taste goes from the salt, how will you make it salt again? it is then good for nothing but to be put out and crushed under foot by men.

You are the light of the world. A town put on a hill may be seen by all.

And a burning light is not put under a vessel, but on its table; so that its rays may be shining on all who are in the house.

Truly I say to you, Till heaven and earth come to an end, not the smallest letter or part of a letter will in any way be taken from the law, till all things are done.

If then you are making an offering at the altar and there it comes to your mind that your brother has something against you,

Come to an agreement quickly with him who has a cause against you at law, while you are with him on the way, for fear that he may give you up to the judge and the judge may give you to the police and you may be put into prison.

But I say to you that everyone whose eyes are turned on a woman with desire has had connection with her in his heart.

You may not take an oath by your head, because you are not able to make one hair white or black.

But I say to you, Have love for those who are against you, and make prayer for those who are cruel to you;

And make us free of our debts, as we have made those free who are in debt to us.

And when you go without food, be not sad-faced as the false-hearted are. For they go about with changed looks, so that men may see that they are going without food. Truly I say to you, They have their reward.

So that no one may see that you are going without food, but your Father in secret; and your Father, who sees in secret, will give you your reward.

See the birds of heaven; they do not put seeds in the earth, they do not get in grain, or put it in store-houses; and your Father in heaven gives them food. Are you not of much more value than they?

And why are you troubled about clothing? See the flowers of the field, how they come up; they do no work, they make no thread:

Then do not be full of care, saying, What are we to have for food or drink? or, With what may we be clothed?

Make a request, and it will be answered; what you are searching for you will get; give the sign, and the door will be open to you:

If you, then, being evil, are able to give good things to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good things to those who make requests to him?

Be on the watch for false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing, but inside they are cruel wolves.

And he said to them, Why are you full of fear, O you of little faith? Then he got up and gave orders to the winds and the sea; and there was a great calm.

And Jesus, having knowledge of what was in their minds, said, Why are your thoughts evil?

But on hearing this he said, Those who are well have no need of a medical man, but those who are ill.

And men do not put new wine into old wine-skins; or the skins will be burst and the wine will come out, and the skins are of no more use: but they put new wine into new wine-skins, and so the two will be safe.

Now the names of the twelve are these: The first, Simon, who is named Peter, and Andrew, his brother; James, the son of Zebedee, and John, his brother;

Make well those who are ill, give life to the dead, make lepers clean, send evil spirits out of men; freely it has been given to you, freely give.

But when you are given up into their hands, do not be troubled about what to say or how to say it: for in that hour what you are to say will be given to you;

But when they are cruel to you in one town, go in flight to another: for truly, I say to you, You will not have gone through the towns of Israel before the Son of man comes.

And have no fear of those who put to death the body, but are not able to put to death the soul. But have fear of him who has power to give soul and body to destruction in hell.

Are not sparrows two a farthing? and not one of them comes to an end without your Father:

But the hairs of your head are all numbered.

Then have no fear; you are of more value than a flock of sparrows.

To say to him, Are you he who is to come, or are we waiting for another?

And Jesus, answering, said to them, Go and give news to John of the things which you are seeing and hearing:

The blind see; those who were not able to, are walking; lepers are made clean; those who were without hearing, now have their ears open; the dead come to life again, and the poor have the good news given to them.

But what went you out to see? a man delicately clothed? Those who have fair robes are in kings' houses.

And if you are able to see it, this is Elijah who was to come.

Unhappy are you, Chorazin! Unhappy are you, Beth-saida! For if the works of power which were done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have been turned from their sins in days gone by, clothing themselves in haircloth and putting dust on their heads.

Come to me, all you who are troubled and weighted down with care, and I will give you rest.

You offspring of snakes, how are you, being evil, able to say good things? because out of the heart's store come the words of the mouth.

And I say to you that in the day when they are judged, men will have to give an account of every foolish word they have said.

Then some of the scribes and Pharisees, hearing this, said to him, Master, we are looking for a sign from you.

And one said to him, See, your mother and your brothers are outside, desiring to have talk with you.

But he in answer said to him who gave the news, Who is my mother and who are my brothers?

For the heart of this people has become fat and their ears are slow in hearing and their eyes are shut; for fear that they might see with their eyes and give hearing with their ears and become wise in their hearts and be turned again to me, so that I might make them well.

But a blessing be on your eyes, because they see; and on your ears, because they are open.

And the field is the world; and the good seed is the sons of the kingdom; and the evil seeds are the sons of the Evil One;

And he who put them in the earth is Satan; and the getting in of the grain is the end of the world; and those who get it in are the angels.

As then the evil plants are got together and burned with fire, so will it be in the end of the world.

Are all these things now clear to you? They say to him, Yes.

And his sisters, are they not all with us? from where, then, has he all these things?

And he said to his servants, This is John the Baptist; he has come back from the dead, and so these powers are working in him.

And those who were in the boat gave him worship, saying, Truly you are the Son of God.

Let them be: they are blind guides. And if a blind man is guiding a blind man, the two will go falling into a hole together.

And he said, Are you, like them, still without wisdom?

These are the things which make a man unclean; but to take food with unwashed hands does not make a man unclean.

And in the morning, The weather will be bad today, for the sky is red and angry. You are able to see the face of heaven, but not the signs of the times.

And Jesus, seeing it, said, O you of little faith, why are you reasoning among yourselves, because you have no bread?

And Simon Peter made answer and said, You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.

And I say to you that you are Peter, and on this rock will my church be based, and the doors of hell will not overcome it.

But he, turning to Peter, said, Get out of my way, Satan: you are a danger to me because your mind is not on the things of God, but on the things of men.

Truly I say to you, There are some of those here who will not have a taste of death, till they see the Son of man coming in his kingdom.

And when he said, From other people, Jesus said to him, Then are the sons free.

Truly I say to you, Whatever things are fixed by you on earth will be fixed in heaven: and whatever you make free on earth will be made free in heaven.

Again, I say to you, that if two of you are in agreement on earth about anything for which they will make a request, it will be done for them by my Father in heaven.

For where two or three are come together in my name, there am I among them.

So that they are no longer two, but one flesh. Then let not that which has been joined by God be parted by man.

But he said to them, Not all men are able to take in this saying, but only those to whom it is given.

For there are men who, from birth, were without sex: and there are some who were made so by men: and there are others who have made themselves so for the kingdom of heaven. He who is able to take it, let him take it.

And he said to him, Why are you questioning me about what is good? One there is who is good: but if you have a desire to go into life, keep the rules of the law.