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

Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly-minded, and 'you shall find rest for your souls';

For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light."

A bruised reed he will not break, And a smoldering wick he will not quench, Till he has brought the judgment to a victorious issue,

So, also, will my heavenly Father do to you, unless each one of you forgives his Brother from his heart."

Now when those who had been hired about five o'clock went up, they received two shillings each.

So, when the first went up, they thought that they would receive more, but they also received two shillings each;

But the tenants, on seeing his son, said to each other 'Here is the heir! Come, let us kill him, and get his inheritance.'

He gave three thousand pounds to one, twelve hundred to another, and six hundred to a third, in proportion to the ability of each. Then he set out on his travels.

Watch and pray, that you may not fall into temptation. True, the spirit is eager, but human nature is weak."

After the Sabbath, as the first day of the week began to dawn, Mary of Magdala and the other Mary had gone to look at the grave,

It is like a man going on a journey, who leaves his home, puts his servants in charge--each having his special duty--and orders the porter to watch.

Watch and pray," he said to them all, "that you may not fall into temptation. True, the spirit is eager, but human nature is weak."

Then they crucified him, and divided his clothes among them, casting lots for them, to settle what each should take.

And very early on the first day of the week they went to the tomb, after sunrise.

After his rising again, early on the first day of the week, Jesus appeared first of all to Mary of Magdala, from whom he had driven out seven demons.

A week later they met to circumcise the child, and were about to call him 'Zechariah' after his father,

(For the men among them were about five thousand.) "Get them seated in companies," was his reply, "about fifty in each."

Alas for you, Chorazin! Alas for you, Bethsaida! For, if the Miracles which have been done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have sat in sackcloth and ashes and repented long ago.

Give us each day the bread that we shall need;

Or, if he asks for an egg, will give him a scorpion?

I fast twice a week, and give a tenth of everything I get to God.'

He called ten of his servants and gave them ten pounds each, and told them to trade with them during his absence.

Jesus continued to teach each day in the Temple Courts; but the Chief Priests and Teachers of the Law were eager to take his life, and so also were the leading men.

But very early on the first day of the week they went to the tomb, taking with them the spices that they had prepared.

"What is this that you are saying to each other as you walk along?" Jesus asked. They stopped, with sad looks on their faces,

"How our hearts glowed," the disciples said to each other, "while he was talking to us on the road, and when he explained the Scriptures to us!"

There were standing there six stone water-jars, in accordance with the Jewish rule of 'purification,' each holding twenty or thirty gallons.

"Twenty pounds' worth of bread," answered Philip, "would not be enough for each of them to have a little."

About the middle of the Festival week, Jesus went up into the Temple Courts, and began teaching.

And, when he had said this, he added: "Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep; but I am going that I may wake him."

"Listen! a time is coming--indeed it has already come--when you are to be scattered, each going his own way, and to leave me alone; and yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me.

There they crucified him, and two others with him--one on each side, and Jesus between them.

When the soldiers had crucified Jesus, they took his clothes and divided them into four shares--a share for each soldier--and they took the coat also. The coat had no seam, being woven in one piece from top to bottom.

On the first day of the week, early in the morning, while it was still dark, Mary of Magdala went to the tomb, and saw that the stone had been removed.

In the evening of the same day--the first day of the week-- after the doors of the room, in which the disciples were, had been shut for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood among them and said: "Peace be with you";

A week later the disciples were again in the house, and Thomas with them. After the doors had been shut, Jesus came and stood among them, and said: "Peace be with you."

Then there appeared tongues of what seemed to be flame, separating, so that one settled on each of them;

And, when this sound was heard, numbers of people collected, in the greatest excitement, because each of them heard the disciples speaking in his own language.

Then how is it that we each of us hear them in our own native language?

But it was in this way that God fulfilled all that he had long ago foretold, as to the sufferings of his Christ, by the lips of all the Prophets.

For you, first, God raised up his Servant, and sent him to bless you, by turning each one of you from his wicked ways."

Yet only to do what thou, by thy power and of thy own will, didst long ago destine to be done.

For not long ago Theudas appeared, professing to be somebody, and was joined by a body of some four hundred men. But he was killed; and all his followers scattered and dwindled away.

"Just three days ago this very hour," Cornelius said, "I was in my house, saying the Afternoon Prayers, when a man in dazzling clothing suddenly stood before me.

After seizing Peter, Herod put him in prison, and entrusted him to the keeping of four Guards of four soldiers each, intending, after the Passover, to bring him up before the people.

After much discussion, Peter rose and said: "You, my Brothers, know well that long ago God singled me out--that through my lips the Gentiles should hear the Message of the Good News, and become believers in Christ.

Why, then, do you now provoke God, by putting on the necks of these disciples a yoke which neither our ancestors nor we were able to bear?

While we ourselves sailed from Philippi after the Passover, and joined them five days later at Troas, where we stayed for a week.

On the first day of the week, when we had met for the Breaking of Bread, Paul, who was intending to leave the next day, began to address those who were present, and prolonged his address till midnight.

Therefore, be on your guard, remembering how for three years, night and day, I never ceased, even with tears, to warn each one of you.

I left nothing undone to show you that, laboring as I labored, you ought to help the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said himself-- 'It is more blessed to give than to receive.'"

There we found the disciples and stayed a week with them. Speaking under the influence of the Spirit, they warned Paul not to set foot in Jerusalem.

On this, Paul joined the men, and the next day shared their purification, and went into the Temple, and gave notice of the expiration of the period of purification when the usual offering should have been made on behalf of each of them.

"Are not you, then, the Egyptian who some time ago raised an insurrection and led the four thousand Bandits out into the Wilderness?"

For you can easily ascertain that it is not more than twelve days ago that I went up to worship at Jerusalem,

There we found some of the Brethren, and were urged to stay a week with them; after which we went on to Rome.

This Good News God promised long ago through his Prophets in the sacred Scriptures,

Or rather that both you and I may find encouragement in each other's faith.

And so the Law is holy, and each Commandment is also holy, and just, and good.

In fulfillment of the charge with which I have been entrusted, I bid every one of you not to think more highly of himself than he ought to think, but to think till he learns to think soberly--in accordance with the measure of faith that God has allotted to each.

For, just as in the human body there is a union of many parts, and each part has its own function,

As for those whose faith is weak, always receive them as friends, but not for the purpose of passing judgment on their scruples.

One man's faith permits of his eating food of all kinds, while another whose faith is weak eats only vegetable food.

So, then, each one of us will have to render account of himself to God.

Let each of us please his neighbor for his neighbor's good, to help in the building up of his character.

But God chose what the world counts foolish to put its wise men to shame, and God chose what the world counts weak to put its strong things to shame,

Indeed, when I came among you, I was weak, and full of fears, and in great anxiety.

What, I ask, is Apollos? or what is Paul? Servants through whom you were led to accept the Faith; and that only as the Lord helped each of you.

In this the man who plants and the man who waters are one; yet each will receive his own reward in proportion to his own labor.

The quality of each man's work will become known, for the Day will make it plain; because that Day is to be ushered in with fire, and the fire itself will test the quality of every man's work.

We, for Christ's sake, are 'fools,' but you, by your union with Christ, are men of discernment. We are weak, but you are strong. You are honored, but we are despised.

Do not deprive each other of what is due-unless it is only for a time and by mutual consent, so that your minds may be free for prayer till you again live as man and wife-lest Satan should take advantage of your want of self-control and tempt you.

Still, it is not every one that has this knowledge. Some people, because of their association with idols, continued down to the present time, eat the food as food offered to an idol; and their consciences, while still weak, are dulled.

But take care that this right of yours does not become in any way a stumbling-block to the weak.

For if some one should see you who possess this knowledge, feasting in an idol's temple, will not his conscience, if he is a weak man, become so hardened that he, too, will eat food offered to idols?

And so, through this knowledge of yours, the weak man is ruined-your Brother for whose sake Christ died!

In this way, by sinning against your Brothers and injuring their consciences, while still weak, you sin against Christ.

To the weak I became weak, to win the weak. I have become all things to all men, so as at all costs to save some.

For, as you eat, each of you tries to secure his own supper first, with the result that one has too little to eat, and another has too much to drink!

Let each man look into his own heart, and only then eat of the bread and drink from the cup.

That is why so many among you are weak and ill, and why some are sleeping.

To each man there is given spiritual illumination for the general good.

All these result from one and the same Spirit, who distributes his gifts to each individually as he wills.

But in fact God has placed each individual part just where he thought fit in the body.

What do I suggest, then, Brothers? Whenever you meet for worship, each of you comes, either with a hymn, or a lesson, or a revelation, or the gift of 'tongues,' or the interpretation of them; let everything be directed to the building up of faith.

If any of you use the gift of 'tongues,' not more than two, or at the most three, should do so-each speaking in his turn-and some one should interpret them.

But each in his proper order-Christ the first-fruits; afterwards, at his Coming, those who belong to the Christ.

God gives it the body that he pleases-to each seed its special body.

Sown weak, it rises strong; sown a human body, it rises a spiritual body.

On the first day of every week each of you should put by what he can afford, so that no collections need be made after I have come.

For at the Bar of the Christ we must all appear in our true characters, that each may reap the results of the life which he has lived in the body, in accordance with his actions--whether good or worthless.

I admit, to my shame, that we have been weak. But whatever the subject on which others are not afraid to boast--though it is foolish to say so--I am not afraid either!

Who is weak without my being weak? Who is led astray without my burning with indignation?

I know a man in union with Christ, who, fourteen years ago-- whether in the body or out of the body I do not know; God knows-- was caught up (this man of whom I am speaking) to the third Heaven.

That is why I delight in weakness, ill-treatment, hardship, persecution, and difficulties, when borne for Christ. For, when I am weak, then it is that I am strong!

For the third time I am coming to see you. 'By the word of two or three witnesses each statement shall be established.'

For though his crucifixion was due to weakness, his life is due to the power of God. And we, also, are weak in his weakness, but with him we shall live for you through the power of God.

We are glad when we are weak, if you are strong. And what we pray for is that you may become perfect.

It is for freedom that Christ set us free; stand firm therefore, and do not again be held under the yoke of slavery.