Azor, of Sadoc; Sadoc, of Achim; Achim, of Eliud;

Eliud, of Eleazar; Eleazar, of Matthan; Matthan, of Jacob;

As soon as Herod saw that he had been mocked by the Magi, he was furious. He sent and put to death all the boys in Bethlehem and all the neighborhood who were two years old or under, in accordance with the date which he had ascertained from the Magi.

This John it was of whom it was said through Isaiah, the prophet, The voice of one who cries aloud in the desert, "Prepare a way for the Lord, Make the paths straight for him."

This John wore a garment of camel's hair, and a leather belt around his waist, and his food was locusts and wild honey.

"I tell you truly that you would certainly not get out from there until you had paid back the last cent.

"Again you have heard that it was said to the men of old, "You must not forswear yourselves, but must perform your vows to the Lord.

"Therefore everything that you would have men do to you, do you also the same to them; for this is the Law and the Prophets.

"Foxes have their holes," answered Jesus, "and wild birds their roosting-places, but the Son of man has not where to lay his head."

"No one ever sews a piece of undressed cloth on an old cloak. If they did, the patch put on to fill it up would tear away from the cloak, and the rent be made worse.

"Nor do they put new wine into old wine-skins; if they did, the wine-skins would split, the wine would run out, and the skins be ruined. Instead, they put new wine into fresh wine-skins and both are preserved."

"Woe unto you, Chorazin! Woe unto you, Bethsaida! Because if the mighty works which have been done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented, long ago, in sackcloth and ashes.

"And you too, Capernaum! Will you be exalted even to heaven? You shall go down to the Place of Death! For if the mighty works had been done in Sodom which have been done in you, it would have remained until this day.

"you would not have condemned the guiltless. For the Son of man is Lord of the Sabbath."

He will not strive nor cry aloud, Nor shall anyone hear is voice in the streets.

"Then," said he, "every scribe who has been instructed in the kingdom of heaven is like a householder who brings out of his storehouse new things and old."

"But whoever shall cause one of these little ones who believe in me to stumble, it would be better for him if a great millstone were hung about his neck, and he were drowned in the depths of the sea.

"But he would not; on the contrary he went and threw him into prison until he should pay the debt.

"and when the first came they supposed that they would get more, but they also received each two shillings.

"'If we had lived in the days of our fathers, we would not have been their comrades in the murder of the prophets.'

"O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, murdering the prophets, and stoning those who have been sent to you! How often would I have gathered your children together, as a hen gathers her chickens under her wings, and you would not!

And if these days had not been shortened, no flesh would have been saved; but for the elect's sake these days will be cut short.

But know this, that if the master of the house had known in what watch the thief was coming, he would have been on his guard, and would not have allowed his house to be broken into.

and will scourge him severely, and allot him a place among hypocrites, where will be weeping and gnashing of teeth."

Then he went forward a short distance, and fell on his face and prayed. "O, my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me; nevertheless, not as I will, but as thou wilt."

The chief priests took the money, and said, "It would be wrong to put it into the temple-treasury, because it is the price of blood."

The voice of one crying aloud. In the desert make ready a road for the Lord. Make his paths straight.

and he remained in the desert for forty days, tempted by Satan; and he was among the wild beasts, but the angels were ministering to him.

No one ever sews a piece of unshrunk cloth onto an old garment, otherwise the patch tears away from it??he new from the old??nd a worse tear is made.

And no one ever pours new wine into old wine-skins, else the wine would burst the skins, and both wine and skins would be lost. New wine is poured into fresh wine-skins.

And they kept watching Jesus to see whether he would cure him on the Sabbath; so as to have some charge to bring against him.

yet when sown shoots up and becomes larger than any plant, sending out such branches that the wild birds build their nests under its shadow."

He would not permit any one to go with him, except Peter and James and John, the brother of James.

And instantly the little girl stood up, and began to walk, for she was twelve years old, They were at once beside themselves with utter amazement.

He bade them take nothing but a staff for their journey; no bread, no wallet, no coins in their purse;

"He is Elijah," said others. And still others were saying, "He is a prophet, like one of the old prophets."

He even swore to her that whatever she asked, he would give it to her, up to half his kingdom.

they thought it was an apparition and shrieked aloud, for they all saw him and were terrified.

And whenever he entered into villages or cities or the fields they would lay the sick in the market-places and beseech him to let them touch even the tassel of his cloak, and all who touched him were made well.

you say that if a man tells his father or mother, 'This money which otherwise you would have received from me, is Korban' (that is, a thing devoted to God),

for he was explaining to his disciples that the Son of man was to be betrayed into the hands of men, and that they would put him to death, but that after he had been put to death, he would rise again after three days,

"And if any one shall cause one of these little ones who believe on me to stumble, it would be better for him if he were thrown out into the sea with a great millstone about his neck.

Presently there came up to him James and John, the sons of Zebedee, and said, "Teacher, we wish you would do for us whatever we ask you."

Not so shall it be among you. On the contrary whoever would become great among you shall be your servant;

and whoever among you would be first, shall be slave of all,

and he would not allow any one to carry a vessel through the Temple courts, Then he began to teach.

And had not the Lord cut short those days, not a single person would escape; but for the elect's sake whom he has chosen, he has cut them short.

"Abba, Father," he said, "all things are possible with thee. Take this cup away from me. Yet not what I will, but what thou wilt."

At that instant for the second time a cock crew. Then Peter recalled the word which Jesus had spoken to him, "Before the cock crows twice you will disown me thrice." And as he thought of it, he began to weep aloud.

"How shall I be sure of this?" said Zachariah to the Angel. "For I am an old man and my wife is advanced in years."

"And behold your kinswoman, Elizabeth, she also has conceived a son in her old age, and this was the sixth month with her that was called barren.

"And blessed is she who believed that the Lord's words spoken to her would be fulfilled."

And when he was twelve years old they went up, as was customary, at the time of the feast

He also told them a parable. "No one," he said, "tears a piece from a new garment, and patches it upon an old one; otherwise he will tear the new garment, and the patch from the new will not mend the old.

"Nor does any one pour new wine into old wine-skins; otherwise the new wine will burst the skins, and will itself be spilled, and the skins be destroyed

"And no man after drinking old wine, wishes for new; for he says, "The old is better.""

Now the Scribes and Pharisees kept watching to see if he would heal on the Sabbath, so that they might be able to bring on accusations to him.

And as you would like men to do to you, So do you also to them.

When he noticed this the Pharisee, who had invited him, said to himself, "If this man were really a prophet he would have perceived who and what sort of woman this is who is touching him, and would know that she is a sinner."

"A sower went out to sow his seed, and as he sowed some fell by the wayside, and was trodden under foot, and the wild birds ate it up.

For Jesus was already commanding the unclean spirit to come out of the man. For many times it had seized him and held him, and they again and again kept him under guard, and put him in chains and fetters. But he would break his bonds asunder, as he was driven by the demon in to the desert.

So he came to the house, and would not permit anyone to go in with him except Peter and John and James, and the father and Mother of the little girl.

"The foxes have their holes," Jesus answered, "and the wild birds have their nest, but the Son of man has not where to lay his head."

"Woe unto you, Chorazin! Woe unto you, Bethsaida! For had the mighty been done in Tyre and Sidon which were done in you, they would have repented long ago, sitting in sackcloth and ashes.

"Sell what you have and give alms. Provide yourselves with purses which do not grow old, a treasure inexhaustible in the heavens, where no thief draws near, nor does moth destroy.

"However, you know this, that if the master of the house had known in what hour the thief would come, he would have watched and not have allowed his house to be broken into.

"Would it were already kindled! But I have a baptism to be baptized with, and how am I straitened till it is accomplished!

"It is like a grain of mustard seed, which a man took and cast into his own garden. It grew and became a tree, and the wild birds nested in its branches."

"Yet I must continue my journey today, tomorrow, and the day following; for it would never do for a prophet to perish outside of Jerusalem!

"O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those who are sent to you! How often would I have gathered your children, as a hen gathers her chickens under her wings, and you would not!

"But he was angry and would not go in; so his father came out, and attempted to plead with him; but he said to his father.

"But besides all this, between us and you there is a great chasm fixed, so that those who want to cross from here to you cannot, nor can those who would cross from you to us.'

"'Nay, Father Abraham,' he said 'but if some one went to them from the dead they would repent.'

"If your faith," answered Jesus, "were like a grain of mustard-seed, you would say to this tree, 'Tear yourself up and be planted in the sea,' and it would obey you.

"For a while he would not, but afterwards he said to himself, 'Though I have neither reverence for God nor regard for man,

"But the tax-gatherer, standing far back, would not lift up so much as his eyes to heaven, but kept beating his breast and saying, "'O God be merciful to me, the sinner!'

"I tell you," he answered, "that if these should hold their peace, the very stones would cry out."

Moreover, he said to them, "When I sent you out without purse or wallet or sandals, did you lack anything?" They answered him, "We lacked nothing.'

Then he said to them. "But now let him who has a purse take it, and he who has a wallet, let him the do the same. And he who has no sword, let him sell his cloak and buy one.

They would blindfold him and ask him. "Prophesy! Tell who struck you!"

John bore witness concerning him, and cried aloud, saying, "This is he of whom I said, 'He who is coming after me has been put before me, for he was before me.'"

He said, "I am a voice of one who cries aloud in the desert, 'Make straight the way of the Lord,' as said the prophet Isaiah."

"How can a man be born when he is old?" Nicodemus replied; "Can he enter a second time into his mother's womb, and be born?"

"If you had known the free gift of God," Jesus answered, "and who it is that says to you, 'Give me a drink,' you would have asked of him, and he would have given you living water."

"For if you believed Moses you would believe me, for he wrote about me.

and there was much disputing about him among the crowd. Some would say, "He is a good man." Others. "No! he is misleading the people." "While I was with them I kept them by the power of thy name which thou hast given me. I guarded them, and none of them was lost except the son of perdition, that the Scripture might be fulfilled.

The Jews were amazed. They said, "How does this fellow know the sacred writings when he has never learned them?" "I am not asking that thou wilt take them out of the world, but that thou wilt protect them from the Evil One.

So Jesus cried aloud as he was teaching in the Temple, and said: "You both know me and you know where I am from; and I am not come on my own authority, but he who sent me is trustworthy, and him you do not know.

"Where is your Father?" they asked him. "You have neither known me nor my Father," answered Jesus. "If you had known me, you would have known my father also."

"That is why I said that you would die in your sins. For if you do not believe that I am He, you will die in your sins."

Jesus said to them. "If God were your Father, you would love me, for I proceeded forth and am now come from God. I did not come on my own authority, but God himself sent me.

"You are not yet fifty years old," said the Jews to him, "and you have seen Abraham?"

"If you were blind," Jesus answered them, "you would have no sin. But now you are declaring, 'We see'; so your sin remains.

Then Martha said to Jesus. "Master, had you been here my brother would not have died;

When Mary came to the place where Jesus was, and saw him, she fell at his feet, saying, "Master had you been here, my brother would not have died."

Jesus answered her, "Did I not tell you that if you would believe you should see the glory of God?"

In my Father's house there are many rooms If it were not so, would I have told you that I went to prepare a place for you?

If you had known me, you would have known my Father too; from now on you know him and have seen him."

"You heard me tell you, 'I am going away, and yet I am coming to you.' If you loved me you would have been glad because I said 'I am going to the Father,' for my Father is greater than I.

"If you belonged to the world, the world would love its own; but because you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, for that reason the world hates you.