Therefore, whoever hears these words of mine and does them, I will liken him to a wise man, who built his house on the rock:

And every one that hears these words of mine, and does them not, shall be likened to a foolish man, who built his house upon the sand.

And behold, a woman that had been diseased with an issue of blood for twelve years, came behind him, and touched the fringe of his mantle.

But when the blade sprung up, and produced fruit, then appeared the tares also.

And Jesus answered and said to him: Blessed are you, Simon, son of Jonah; for flesh and blood did not reveal this to you, but my Father who is in heaven.

And I say to you, That you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church: and the gates of hades shall not prevail against it.

Hear another parable: There was a master of a house who planted a vineyard, and put a hedge around it, and rigged in it a wine-press, and built a tower, and let it out to vine-dressers, and went into another country.

Alas for you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you make clean the outside of the cup and the plate; but within they are full of rapine and excess.

Blind Pharisee! first make clean the inside of the cup and the plate, that the outside of them also may be clean.

Alas for you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you build the tombs of the prophets, and adorn the sepulchers of the righteous,

and say: If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers 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.

for this is my blood of the new covenant, which is poured out for many in order to the remission of sins.

and said: This man said, I am able to destroy the temple of God, and to build it in three days.

saying: I have sinned in having delivered up innocent blood. They replied: What is that to us? You will see to that.

And the chief priests took the money, and said: It is not lawful to put it into the sacred treasury, because it is the price of blood.

For this reason, that field is called the field of blood, to this day.

When Pilate saw that he gained nothing, but rather that a tumult was rising, he took water, and washed his hands before the multitude, and said: I am innocent of the blood of this just man; you will see to it.

And all the people answered and said: His blood be upon us and upon our children.

and saying: You that destroy the temple, and build it in three days, save yourself; if you are the Son of God, come down from the cross.