Then every one who hears these words of mine, and does them, I will liken him unto a wise man, who built his house upon the rock.

And every one hearing these words of mine, and doing them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, who built his house upon the sand.

And behold, a woman, having an issue of blood twelve years, and coming to Him behind, touched the hem of His garment.

And Jesus responding said to him, Blessed art thou, Simon the son of Jonah: because flesh and blood did not reveal it to thee, but my Father who is in the heavens.

And I say to thee, that thou art Peter, and upon this rock will I build my Church, and the gates of Hades shall not prevail against it.

Hear ye another parable. A man was a landlord, who planted a vineyard, and placed a hedge around it, and dug a wine-trough in it, and built a tower, and gave it out to husbandmen, and went away.

Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because you purify the exterior of the cup and the plate, and within they are full of extortion and impurity.

Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because you build the tombs of the prophets, and ornament the sepulchers of the righteous,

and you say, If we were in the days of our fathers we would not have been their fellow-partakers in the blood of the prophets.

in order that all the righteous blood shed upon the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel, unto the blood of Zachariah the son of the blessed, whom they slew between the temple and the altar, may come upon you.

for this is my blood which belongs to the new covenant, which is shed for many unto the remission of sin.

And afterwards two false witnesses having come forward, said, He said, I am able to destroy the temple of God, and build it in three days.

saying, I sinned betraying the innocent blood. And they said, What is that to us? See thou to it.

And the chief priests, taking the pieces of silver, said, It is not lawful to put them in the treasury, because it is the price of blood.

Therefore that field has been called, The field of blood, to this day.

And Pilate seeing that he profits nothing, but rather an uproar supervenes, having taken water, washed his hands in the presence of the multitude, saying, For I am free from the blood of this just one: you shall see to it.

And all the people responding said, His blood be upon us, and upon our children.