for this is he of whom it hath been written, Lo, I do send My messenger before thy face, who shall prepare thy way before thee.

Truly I say to you, among men born of women there has not been raised a greater than John the immerser. Yet the smaller in the kingdom of the heavens is greater than he.

And from the days of John the Baptist until the present moment the kingdom of heaven has been continuously taken by storm, and those who take it by storm are seizing it as a precious prize.

The Son of man has come eating and drinking, and they say, Behold, a man that is eating and wine-drinking, a friend of tax-gatherers, and of sinners: and wisdom has been justified by her children.

Then he began to reproach the towns in which the majority of his miracles had been done, because they did not repent:

"Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the miracles done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.

And you, Capernaum, will you be exalted to heaven? No, you will be brought down to Hades! For if the miracles done in you had been done in Sodom, it would have remained until today.

Yea, Father, for thus has it been well-pleasing in thy sight.

All [things] have been handed over to me by my Father, and no one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and {anyone to whom} the Son wants to reveal [him].

Come to me, all ye who labor and have been burdened, and I will give you rest.

But if these words had been in your minds, My desire is for mercy and not for offerings, you would not have been judging those who have done no wrong.

charging them strictly not to make him known ??17 it was for the fulfilment of what had been said by the prophet Isaiah,

Then one who had been demon-possessed was brought to Him, blind and dumb. And He healed him, so much so that the blind and dumb one both spoke and saw.

And Jesus, knowing their thoughts, said to them, 'Every kingdom having been divided against itself is desolated, and no city or house having been divided against itself, doth stand,

But when an evil spirit has been driven out of a person, it roams through desert regions trying to find rest but cannot find it.

Then he says, I will go back into my house from which I came out; and when he comes, he sees that there is no one in it, but that it has been made fair and clean.

And he answered [and] said to them, "To you it has been granted to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to those [people] it has not been granted.

For the heart of this people has been thickened, and with their ears have they heard heavily, and their eyes have they closed; lest perhaps they should see with the eyes, and hear with the ears, and understand with the heart, and turn back, and I should heal them.

Every one hearing the word of the reign, and not understanding -- the evil one doth come, and doth catch that which hath been sown in his heart; this is that sown by the way.

And the one having been sown on good ground, is he that heareth the word, and understandeth it; who truly bears fruit, and produces, some a hundred, some sixty, and some thirty.

He spoke another parable to them: The kingdom of the heavens is like leaven, which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal until it had been all leavened.

Jesus said all this to the crowds in parables; he never spoke to them except in a parable ??35 to fulfil what had been said by the prophet, I will open my mouth in parables, I will speak out what has been hidden since the foundation of the world.

in order that what was spoken through the prophet would be fulfilled, who said, "I will open my mouth in parables; I will proclaim what has been hidden since the creation."

The kingdom of the heavens is like unto a treasure having been hidden in a field; which a man having found, concealed; and from his joy he goes and sells all things so many as he has, and buys that field.

Again, the kingdom of the heavens is like a seine which has been cast into the sea, and which has gathered together of every kind,

which, when it has been filled, having drawn up on the shore and sat down, they gathered the good into vessels and cast the worthless out.

And he said to them, "For this [reason] every scribe who has been trained for the kingdom of heaven is like the master of the house who brings out of his storeroom new [things] and old [things]."

and governor of that district] heard the report about what Jesus had been saying and doing.

and he said to his servants, "This is John the Baptist! He has been raised from the dead, and for this [reason] miraculous powers are at work in him."

because John had been saying to him, "It is not permitted for you to have her."

And she having been instigated by her mother -- 'Give me (says she) here upon a plate the head of John the Baptist;

Why do thy disciples transgress what has been delivered by the ancients? for they do not wash their hands when they eat bread.

But He answered, "Why do you too break God's command for the sake of the rules that have been handed down to you?

But ye say, Whosoever shall say to his father or mother, It is a gift, by whatsoever thou mightest have been profited by me:

is under no obligation at all to help his parent.' So you have set aside what God has said for the sake of what has been handed down to you.

Then his disciples, coming up, said to him, Dost thou know that the Pharisees, having heard this word, have been offended?

But he answering said, I have not been sent save to the lost sheep of Israel's house.

On leaving that place, Jesus went to the shore of the Sea of Galilee; and then went up the hill, and sat down., you will do what not only what has been done to the fig tree, but, even if you should say to this hill 'Be lifted up and hurled into the sea!' it would be done.

Then Jesus called His disciples to Him, and said, "My heart is moved with pity for the crowd, for it is now three days they have been staying with me, and they have nothing at all left to eat, and I fear they might give out on the way home."

A wicked and adulterous generation seeketh for a sign; and there shall no sign been to it, but the sign of the prophet Jonah. And he left them, and departed.

and I will give to thee the keys of the reign of the heavens, and whatever thou mayest bind upon the earth shall be having been bound in the heavens, and whatever thou mayest loose upon the earth shall be having been loosed in the heavens.'

While he was still speaking, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them, and a voice from the cloud said, “This is My beloved Son, with whom I am well-pleased and delighted! Listen to Him!”

And as they were coming down from the mountain, Jesus ordered them, saying, "Do not tell anyone about the vision [you have just seen] until the Son of man has been raised from the dead."

Then the disciples divined that he had been speaking to them about John, the Baptist.

And I brought him to your disciples and they have not been able to cure him."

But whosoever shall offend one of these little ones who believe in me, it were profitable for him that a great millstone had been hanged upon his neck and he be sunk in the depths of the sea.

What does it seem to you? if there be to any man a hundred sheep, and one of them have been led astray, does he not, having left the ninety-nine upon the mountains, having gone, seek the one led astray?

'Verily I say to you, Whatever things ye may bind upon the earth shall be having been bound in the heavens, and whatever things ye may loose on the earth shall be having been loosed in the heavens.

Therefore the kingdom of Heaven has been compared to a certain king who desired to make an accounting with his servants.

and the lord of that servant having been moved with compassion did release him, and the debt he forgave him.

His fellow-servants, therefore, seeing, the things that were done, were grieved exceedingly, - and went and made quite plain to their master all the things which had been done.

'And having been wroth, his lord delivered him to the inquisitors, till he might pay all that was owing to him;

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

He saith to them -- 'Moses for your stiffness of heart did suffer you to put away your wives, but from the beginning it hath not been so.

'And I say to you, that, whoever may put away his wife, if not for whoredom, and may marry another, doth commit adultery; and he who did marry her that hath been put away, doth commit adultery.'

But he said to them, "Not everyone can accept this saying but [those] to whom it has been given.

for there are eunuchs which have been born thus from their mother's womb; and there are eunuchs who have been made eunuchs of men; and there are eunuchs who have made eunuchs of themselves for the sake of the kingdom of the heavens. He that is able to receive it, let him receive it.

The young man said to Him, "I have [already] been observing all of these commandments. What do I [still] lack?"

About five he went out again and found still others standing around, and he said to them, 'Why have you been standing here all day doing nothing?'

And they who had been hired at five o'clock came and received twenty cents each.

But when those came who had been hired first, they thought that they would receive more; and they received each one a denarius.

"These last fellows worked only one hour, but you paid them the same as us, and we've been working all day, enduring the scorching heat!'

He said to them, "You will indeed drink my cup, but to sit at my right hand and at my left is not mine to grant, but [is] for those for whom it has been prepared by my Father."

and having been moved with compassion, Jesus touched their eyes, and immediately their eyes received sight, and they followed him.

This took place for the fulfilment of what had been spoken by the prophet,

and he saith to them, 'It hath been written, My house a house of prayer shall be called, but ye did make it a den of robbers.'

And Jesus in answer said to them, Truly I say to you, If you have faith, without doubting, not only may you do what has been done to the fig-tree, but even if you say to this mountain, Be taken up and put into the sea, it will be done.

and if we say 'a human origin' we have the people to fear, for they all hold John to have been a Prophet."

Jesus says to them, Did you never see in the Writings, The stone which the builders put on one side, the same has been made the chief stone of the building: this was the Lord's doing, and it is a wonder in our eyes?

And he sent his slaves to summon those who had been invited to the wedding celebration, and they did not want to come.

Again he sent out other servants, with orders to say to the guests, See, I have made ready my feast: my oxen and my fat beasts have been put to death, and all things are ready: come to the feast.

Then he said to his slaves, 'The wedding celebration is ready, but those who had been invited were not worthy.

The crowds, who had been listening to him, were greatly struck with his teaching.

But the Pharisees, hearing how the mouths of the Sadducees had been stopped, came together;

Now the Pharisees having been gathered together, Jesus interrogated them, saying,

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! You pay a tenth of mint, dill, and cumin, yet you have neglected the more important matters of the law—justice, mercy, and faith. These things should have been done without neglecting the others.

“Woe to you, [self-righteous] scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed tombs which look beautiful on the outside, but inside are full of dead men’s bones and everything unclean.

If we had been living in the days of our fathers, we would not have taken part with them in the blood of the prophets.

that upon you may come all the righteous blood which has been shed upon the earth, from the blood of Abel the just to the blood of Zachariah, the son of Barachiah, whom you slew between the temple and the altar.

O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets, and stones those who have been sent to her. How often I wanted to gathered thy children together the way a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and ye would not.

Behold, your house has been left to you desolate

Because in those days there will be great sorrow, such as there has not been from the start of the world till now, or ever will be.

And if those days had not been made short there would have been no salvation for any, but because of the saints those days will be made short.

But be certain of this, that if the master of the house had had knowledge of the time when the thief was coming, he would have been watching, and would not have let his house be broken into.

Who, then is that trustworthy, careful servant, who has been placed by his master over his household, to give them their food at the proper time?

"But if that wicked servant says to himself, "My master has been delayed,'

the master of that servant will arrive on a day when he is not expecting him and at an hour of which he has not been informed;

And, at midnight, an outcry hath been made - Lo! the bridegroom! Be going forth to meet him!

Straight away he who had been given the five talents went and did trade with them, and made five more.

In the same way he who had been given the two got two more.

The one who had been given five talents came bringing another five and reported, 'Master, you entrusted me with five talents. Look, I have earned five more with them.'

His lord said to him, Well done, good and true servant: you have been true in a small thing, I will give you control over great things: take your part in the joy of your lord.

His lord said to him, Well done, good and true servant: you have been true in a small thing, I will give you control over great things: take your part in the joy of your lord.

and having been afraid, having gone away, I hid thy talent in the earth; lo, thou hast thine own!

'Then shall the king say to those on his right hand, Come ye, the blessed of my Father, inherit the reign that hath been prepared for you from the foundation of the world;

Then he will also say to those on [his] left, 'Depart from me, [you] accursed ones, into the eternal fire that has been prepared for the devil and his angels!

And Jesus having been in Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper,

For this could have been sold for a large sum and given to the poor!"

The Son of Man is going just as it is written about him, but woe to that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would be better for him if that man had not been born."

For this is my blood, that of the new covenant, having been poured out for many, for the remission of sins.