And coming in at the very same time, gave thanks unto the Lord, and spake of Him to all that were looking for redemption in Jerusalem.

Now his parents went every year to Jerusalem at the feast of the passover:

and when He was twelve years old, going up to Jerusalem, as usual at the feast, and having finished the time,

when they returned, the child Jesus stayed behind in Jerusalem: and Joseph and his mother did not know it;

And all that heard Him were astonished at his understanding and his answers.

as it is written in the book of Esaias the prophet, saying, "The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight:

And the people asked him, saying, What shall we do then?

And there came publicans to be baptized, and said unto him, Master, what shall we do?

And He said unto them, Exact no more than what is appointed you.

And the soldiers also asked him, saying, And what shall we do? and He said unto them, Do violence to no man, neither accuse any falsely, and be content with your pay.

whose fan is in his hand, and He will thoroughly cleanse his floor, and will gather the wheat into his granary, but will burn up the chaff in unquenchable fire.

the son of Addi, the son of Kosam, the son of Elmodam,

and He did eat nothing in all those days: and when they were ended, at last He was hungry.

And Jesus answered him, saying, It is written, that man shall not live by bread only, but on every word of God.

and said to Him, All this power will I give thee, and the glory of them: for it is committed to me, and I give it to whomsoever I will.

And Jesus answering him said with indignation, Get thee behind me, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and Him only shalt thou serve.

for it is written, He shall give his angels charge concerning thee,

And Jesus answered him, it is said, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.

And there was delivered to Him the book of the prophet Esaias; and opening the book, He found the place where it was written,

And He folded up the book, and gave it again to the minister, and sat down: and the eyes of all in the synagogue were fixed upon Him.

And they all bare witness to Him, and wondered at the gracefulness of the words, which proceeded from his mouth, and said, Is not this the son of Joseph?

And He said unto them, No doubt ye will apply to me this proverb, "Physician, cure thyself, and do here in thy own country what we have heard were done at Capernaum."

but Elias was sent to none of those widows, but to a widow-woman at Sarepta in the territory of Sidon.

and they rose up and drove Him out of the city, and dragged Him to the brow of the hill, on which their city was built, in order to throw Him down the precipice.

and they were astonished at his doctrine; for He spake with authority.

And there was a man in the synagogue possessed by the spirit of an impure demon, and he cried out with a loud voice,

saying, Let us alone, what hast thou to do with us, Jesus of Nazareth? art thou come to destroy us? I know who thou art, the holy one of God:

but Jesus rebuked him, saying, Be silent, and come out of him. And the demon threw him down in the midst of the assembly, and came out of him, having done him no hurt.

And they were all amazed, and said one to another, What a speech is this? for with authority and power He commandeth the impure spirits, and they come out!

And He rose up and went out of the synagogue, and came into the house of Simon: now Simon's wife's mother had a violent fever, and they intreated Him on her behalf.

And he stood over her, and rebuked the fever, and it left her: and immediately she arose and waited upon them.

And at sun-set all that had any persons sick of any diseases, brought them to Him: and He laid his hands on every one of them and healed them.

And demons also came out from many, crying out, Thou art the Messiah the Son of God. And He rebuked them, and suffered them not to say, that they knew Him to be the Christ.

And when the day was coming on, He went out and retired into a solitary place; and the people sought for Him, and came to Him, and would fain have detained Him, that He might not go from them.

And when the people were pressing on Him to hear the word of God, as He stood by the lake of Gennesareth, seeing two vessels at the edge of the lake,

(but the fishermen were gone out of them, and were washing their nets:)

And when He had done speaking, He said to Simon, Put out into the deep, and let down your nets for a draught.

And Simon answered and said unto Him, Master, we have been toiling all the night, and have caught nothing; however at thy word I will cast the net.

And they beckoned to their partners that were in the other ship, to come and help them; and they came, and filled both the ships, so that they were even sinking: and when Simon Peter saw it,

he fell at the knees of Jesus, saying, Lord, depart from me, for I am a sinful man;

for he was astonished, and all that were with him, at the draught of fishes which they had taken;

And Jesus stretched out his hand and touched him, saying, I will; be thou cleansed: and immediately the leprosy departed from him.

And one day, as He was teaching, there were pharisees and doctors of the law sitting by, who were come out of every town of Galilee, and Judea, and from Jerusalem; and the power of the Lord was present to heal the people:

but when they could not find what way to bring him in because of the croud, they went up on the battlements of the house, and let him down from the roof with his couch, into the midst before Jesus,

but Jesus knowing their thoughts, answered and said unto them, What are ye disputing in your hearts?

After these things He went out and saw a publican named Levi, sitting at the custom-house, and said to him, Follow me:

And Levi made Him a great feast in his own house: and there was a great number of publicans, and others at table with them.

And their scribes and pharisees murmured at his disciples, saying, Why do ye eat and drink with publicans and sinners?

And they said unto Him, Why do the disciples of John frequently fast and pray, and likewise those of the pharisees; but thine eat and drink?

And it came to pass on the second-sabbath after the first, that as He was passing through the corn-fields, his disciples plucked the ears of corn, and rubbed them in their hands and ate them.

And Jesus answering them said, Have ye not read what David did, when he himself was hungry and those that were with him? how he went into the house of God,

and did take and eat the shew-bread, and gave also to his attendants, which it is not lawful for any to eat but the priests.

And it came to pass also on another sabbath, that He went into a synagogue and taught; and there was a man there, whose right hand was withered.

Then said Jesus unto them, I will ask you one thing, Is it lawful on the sabbath days to do good, or to do evil? to save life, or to let it be lost?

And looking round upon them all, He said to the man, Stretch out thine hand: and he did so, and his hand was made as sound as the other.

And they were filled with confusion: and consulted together, what they might do to Jesus.

And in those days He went out to a mountain to pray, and He continued all night in prayer to God.

And when it was day, He called his disciples to Him: and chose out twelve from among them, whom He also named his apostles:

(to wit, Simon called Peter, and Andrew his brother, James and John, Philip and Bartholomew,

And all the people endeavoured to touch Him, for there went a divine virtue out of Him, and healed them all.

Blessed are ye when men shall hate you, and reject you, and reproach you, and cast out your name as infamous on account of the Son of man.

If ye love only them that love you, what thanks are due to you? for even the wicked love those that love them:

and if ye do good offices to them that do good to you, what thanks are due to you? for even wicked men do the same.

And if ye lend to those from whom ye expect to receive, what thanks are due to you? for sinners also lend to sinners that they may receive an equivalent.

But do ye love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing from it: and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be the sons of the most High; for He is kind even to the ungrateful and the wicked:

give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed and shaken down and running over, shall they give into your bosom: for by the same measure, which ye measure with, shall it be measured back again to you.

But why dost thou look at the chaff in thy brother's eye, and takest no notice of the beam that is in thine own?

or how canst thou say to thy brother, Brother let me take out the splinter that is in thine eye, when thou thyself seest not the beam that is in thine own eye? Thou hypocrite, first take out the beam from thine own eye, and then thou wilt see distinctly how to take out the chaff that is in thy brother's eye.

for every tree is known by it's fruit; for men do not gather figs from thorns, nor grapes from a bramble.

A good man, out of the good treasure of his heart, bringeth forth that which is good; and an evil man, out of the evil treasure of his heart, bringeth forth that which is evil: for out of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaketh.

But why do ye call me, Lord, Lord, and do not practise what I teach you?

he is like a man who in building an house digged deep, and laid the foundation upon a rock; and when a flood came, the torrent beat violently against that house, but could not shake it, for it was founded upon a rock.

But he that heareth and observeth not, is like a man that built an house upon the ground without any foundation, which the flood beat violently upon, and immediately it fell down, and the ruin of that house was great.

For I also am a man placed under the authority of others, and have soldiers under me; and I say to one, Go, and he goeth; and to another, Come, and he cometh; and to my servant, Do this, and he doth it.

and as He came near to the gate of the city, behold, there was a dead man carrying out to be buried, his mother's only son, and she was a widow: and many of the people of the city were with her.

(Now at that very time He cured many of their diseases and plagues, and of evil spirits, and gave sight to many that were blind.)

And Jesus answering said unto them, Go and tell John what ye have seen and heard: that the blind recover sight, the lame walk, lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, the poor have the gospel preached to them,

and happy is he who shall not be offended at any thing in me.

When the messengers of John were departed, He began to speak unto the people concerning John, what went ye out into the wilderness to see?

a reed shaken by the wind? but what did ye go out to see? a man clothed in soft raiment? behold, they that are dressed in fine clothes and live delicately, are in palaces, not in deserts: but what went ye out to see?

This is he of whom it is written, "Behold I send my messenger before thy face, who shall prepare thy way before thee:"

and to what are they like? they are like children sitting in the market-place, and calling to one another, and saying, "We have played pleasant tunes to you, and ye have not danced; we have sung mournful ones and ye have not wept:"

And one of the pharisees asked Him to eat with him: and He went into the pharisee's house, and sat down.

And behold a woman in the city, that was a sinner, when she knew that He was at table in the pharisee's house,

brought an alabaster-box of ointment, and stood at his feet behind Him, weeping, and washed his feet with tears, and wiped them with the hairs of her head, and kissed his feet, and anointed them with the ointment.

But when the pharisee that invited Him saw it, he said within himself, This man, if he were a prophet, would have known who and what sort of a woman this is that toucheth Him; for she is a notorious sinner.

And they that sat at table with Him, said within themselves, Who is this that forgiveth sins also?

And it came to pass afterwards that He went through every city and village, preaching and declaring the good tidings of the kingdom of God: and the twelve were with Him;

and some women that had been cured of evil spirits and other infirmities, as Mary Magdalene, out of whom were cast seven demons,

And when a great multitude was gathered together, of those that came to Him out of every city, He spake a parable saying,

A sower went out to sow his seed, and as he was sowing, some fell by the way-side, and was trodden down, and the birds of the air devoured it.

And some fell upon stony ground, and as soon as it sprung up, it withered away, because it had no moisture.

And some fell among thorns, and the thorns sprang up with it and choked it.

But some fell on good ground, and sprang up and yielded fruit an hundred-fold. And as He said these things He cried out, "He that hath ears to hear, let him hear."

And his disciples asked Him, what might be the meaning of this parable.

And He said, To you it is granted to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God: but I speak to others in parables, that in seeing they may not see, and hearing they may not understand.

But that on the good ground, are those who having heard the word, retain it in a good and honest heart, and bring forth fruit with patience.

No man when he hath lighted a candle covereth it with a vessel, or putteth it under a couch; but setteth it on a candlestick, that they who come in may see the light.

Take heed therefore how ye hear: for whosoever improveth what he hath, to him shall more be given; and whosoever hath not, even what he seemeth to have shall be taken from him.

Now his mother and his brethren came to Him, and could not come at Him for the croud: