"Behold! the birds in the sky! They neither sow, nor reap, nor gather into barns, yet your heavenly Father feeds them; and are not you worth more than they?

"Have you not read," answered Jesus, "what David did when he was hungry, and his men, too?

"Have you not read in the Law how on the Sabbath the priests in the Temple break the Sabbath and are guiltless?

and at dawn you say, 'It will storm today, for the sky is red and lowering.' You know how to discern the look of the sky, but the signs of the times you cannot read.

"Have you not read." he answered, "that He who created them from the beginning made them male and female, and said,

they asked him, "Do you hear what they are saying?" "Surely," said Jesus, "and have you never read, Out of the mouths of babes and sucklings thou hast perfected praise?"

"Have you never read in the Scriptures," Jesus answered, "how The stone that the builders rejected Has been made the corner-stone; This is the Lord's doing, It is wonderful in our eyes?

"But concerning the resurrection of the dead, did you never read what was spoken to you by God,

"'You wicked and lazy slave,' said his master. 'You say you knew that I reap where I have not sowed, and gather where I have not scattered?'

He answered them. "Have you never read what David did when he was needy and hungry, he and his men?

"Have you not read this Scripture?" (he continued) "The very stone which the builders rejected Has now become the corner-stone;

But in regard to the rising again of the dead, have you never read in the Book of Moses, in the passage about the Bush, how God spoke to him, saying, "I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob?

Then he came to Nazareth where he had been brought up. and, as was his custom, he entered into the synagogue on the Sabbath Day, and stood up to read.

"Have you never read," answered Jesus, "what David did when he and his followers were hungry?

And he said to him. "What is written in the Law? What do you read there?"

"Consider the ravens; they neither sow nor reap; they have no storehouse nor barn. And yet God feeds them. How much more are you worth than the birds?

"Hypocrites! you know how to read the face of the earth and of the sky; but how is it that you do not know how to read the signs of the present time?

I sent you to reap a crop on which you have not toiled. Others have toiled, and you have reaped the benefit of their toil."

This inscription was read by many of the Jews, because the place where they crucified Jesus was near the city, and the inscription was written in Hebrew, Latin, and Greek.

So Peter went out, following him, but did not realize that what the angel was doing was real, but supposed that he was seeing a vision.

"For those who dwell in Jerusalem, and their rulers, because they knew him not, nor the utterances of the prophets which are read every Sabbath, fulfilled them by condemning him.

"For Moses from the earliest times has had his preachers in every town where he is read aloud, Sabbath after Sabbath, in the synagogues."

and when they had read it they rejoiced at the comfort it brought.

The next day, as he wished to learn the real reason why the Jews accused Paul, he unbound him, and commanded the chief priests and all the Sanhedrin to come together, and brought Paul down, and placed him before them.

For the real Jew is not the man who is one outwardly, and the real circumcision is not outward in the flesh;

but the real Jew is one inwardly, and real circumcision is heart??ircumcision, spiritual, not literal, praised not by men, but by God.

Now as to eating food that has been offered to idols, we know well that an idol has no real existence in the universe, and that there is no God but One.

If I have sown for you the seeds of spiritual good, is it a great thing if I reap from you temporal goods?

For I am writing to you nothing different from what you read aloud and very well recognize, and I hope will continue to recognize to the very end,

You are my letter, written on my heart, known and read by all men.

Yes, to this very day, whenever Moses is read, a veil lies on their hearts;

Mark this; he who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly; and he who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully.

But once, when you Gentiles had no knowledge of God, you were slaves to gods which have no real being.

Be not deceived. God is not mocked. Whatever a man sows, that will he also reap.

The man who is sowing to his flesh will of the flesh reap corruption; but he who is sowing to the Spirit will of the Spirit reap life eternal.

And let us not be weary in well-doing, for in due season we shall reap if we faint not.

For these precepts, although they have a show of wisdom with their self-imposed devotions and fastings and bodily austerities, are of no real value against the indulgence of the carnal appetites.

And when this letter has been read to you, see that it is read also in the church of Laodiceans, and that you also read the letter from Laodicea.

I adjure you, in the name of the Lord, to have this letter read to all the brothers.

And another angel came out of the temple, shouting with a loud voice to him who sat on the cloud. "Thrust in your sickle, and reap; for the time to reap is come. The harvest of the earth is overripe."