He it is who was spoken of through the Prophet Isaiah when he said, "The voice of one crying aloud, 'In the desert prepare ye a road for the Lord: make His highway straight.'"

And already the axe is lying at the root of the trees, so that every tree which does not produce good fruit will quickly be hewn down and thrown into the fire.

"Zebulun's land and Naphtali's land; the road by the Lake; the country beyond the Jordan; Galilee of the Nations!

If therefore your eye, even the right eye, is a snare to you, tear it out and away with it; it is better for you that one member should be destroyed rather than that your whole body should be thrown into Gehenna.

And if your right hand is a snare to you, cut it off and away with it; it is better for you that one member should be destroyed rather than that your whole body should go into Gehenna.

But I tell you not to resist a wicked man, but if any one strikes you on the right cheek, turn the other to him as well.

that so you may become true sons of your Father in Heaven; for He causes His sun to rise on the wicked as well as the good, and sends rain upon those who do right and those who do wrong.

But when you are giving in charity, let not your left hand perceive what your right hand is doing,

"Enter by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad the road which leads to ruin, and many there are who enter by it;

because narrow is the gate and contracted the road which leads to Life, and few are those who find it.

So by their fruits at any rate, you will easily recognize them.

When the messengers had taken their leave, Jesus proceeded to say to the multitude concerning John, "What did you go out into the Desert to gaze at? A reed waving in the wind?

This is he of whom it is written, "'See I am sending My messenger before Thy face, and he will make Thy road ready before Thee.'

"Have you never read," He replied, "what David did when he and his men were hungry?

And have you not read in the Law how on the Sabbath the priests in the Temple break the Sabbath without incurring guilt?

where there was a man with a shrivelled arm. And they questioned Him, "Is it right to cure people on the Sabbath?" Their intention was to bring a charge against Him.

Is not a man, however, far superior to a sheep? Therefore it is right to do good on the Sabbath."

A crushed reed He will not utterly break, nor will He quench the still smouldering wick, until He has led on Justice to victory.

but when the sun is risen, it is scorched by the heat, and through having no root it withers up.

When a man hears the Message concerning the Kingdom and does not understand it, the Evil one comes and catches away what has been sown in his heart. This is he who has received the seed by the road-side.

It has struck no root, however, within him. He continues for a time, but when suffering comes, or persecution, because of the Message, he at once stumbles and falls.

"'No,' he replied, 'for fear that while collecting the darnel you should at the same time root up the wheat with it.

"It is not right," He said, "to take the children's bread and throw it to the dogs."

But Jesus called His disciples to Him and said, "My heart yearns over this mass of people, for it is now the third day that they have been with me and they have nothing to eat. I am unwilling to send them away hungry, lest they should faint on the road."

He replied, "In the evening you say, 'It will be fine weather, for the sky is red;'

and in the morning, 'It will be rough weather to-day, for the sky is red and murky.' You learn how to distinguish the aspect of the heavens, but the signs of the times you cannot.

Then came some of the Pharisees to Him to put Him to the proof by the question, "Has a man a right to divorce his wife whenever he chooses?"

"Have you not read," He replied, "that He who made them 'made them' from the beginning 'male and female,

To these also he said, "'You also, go into the vineyard, and whatever is right I will give you.'

Have I not a right to do what I choose with my own property? Or are you envious because I am generous?'

"What is it you desire?" He asked. "Command," she replied, "that these my two sons may sit one at your right hand and one at your left in your Kingdom."

"You shall drink out of my cup," He said, "but a seat at my right hand or at my left it is not for me to allot, but it belongs to those for whom it has been prepared by my Father."

and most of the crowd kept spreading their garments along the road, while others cut branches from the trees and carpeted the road with them,

"Do you hear," they asked Him, "what these children are saying?" "Yes," He replied; "have you never read, 'Out of the mouths of infants and of babes at the breast Thou hast brought forth the praise which is due'?"

and seeing a fig-tree on the road-side He went up to it, but found nothing on it but leaves. "On you," He said, "no fruit shall ever again grow." And immediately the fig-tree withered away.

"Have you never read in the Scriptures," said Jesus, "'The Stone which the builders rejected has been made the Cornerstone: this Cornerstone came from the Lord, and is wonderful in our eyes'?

But as to the Resurrection of the dead, have you never read what God says to you,

"'The Lord said to my Lord, sit at My right hand until I have put thy foes beneath thy feet'?

and will make the sheep stand at His right hand, and the goats at His left.

"Then the King will say to those at His right, "'Come, my Father's blessed ones, receive your inheritance of the Kingdom which has been divinely intended for you ever since the creation of the world.

But they said, "Not during the Festival, lest there be a riot among the people."

Keep awake, and pray that you may not enter into temptation: the spirit is right willing, but the body is frail."

"I am He," replied Jesus. "But I tell you that, later on, you will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of Omnipotence, and coming on the clouds of the sky."

So when he saw that he could gain nothing, but that on the contrary there was a riot threatening, he called for water and washed his hands in sight of them all, saying, "I am not responsible for this murder: you must answer for it."

They twisted a wreath of thorny twigs and put it on His head, and they put a sceptre of cane in His right hand, and kneeling to Him they shouted in mockery, "Long live the King of the Jews!"

At the same time two robbers were crucified with Him, one at His right hand and the other at His left.

"The voice of one crying aloud: 'In the Desert prepare a road for the Lord: Make His highways straight.'"

"Have you never read," Jesus replied, "what David did when the necessity arose and he and his men were hungry:

but when the sun is risen, it is scorched, and through having no root it withers away.

but they have no root within them. They last for a time; then, when suffering or persecution comes because of the Message, they are immediately overthrown.

For John had repeatedly told Herod, "You have no right to be living with your brother's wife."

"Let the children first eat all they want," He said; "it is not right to take the children's bread and throw it to the dogs."

They were still on the road going up to Jerusalem, and Jesus was walking ahead of them; they were full of wonder, and some, though they followed, did so with fear. Then, once more calling to Him the Twelve, He began to tell them what was about to happen to Him.

"Allow us," they replied, "to sit one at your right hand and the other at your left hand, in your glory."

but as to sitting at my right hand or at my left, that is not mine to give: it will be for those for whom it is reserved."

"Go," said Jesus, "your faith has cured you." Instantly he regained his sight, and followed Him along the road.

Then many spread their outer garments to carpet the road, and others leafy branches which they had cut down in the fields;

"Have you not read even this passage," He added, "'The stone which the builders rejected has become the Cornerstone:

But as to the dead, that they rise to life, have you never read in the Book of Moses, in the passage about the Bush, how God said to him, 'I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob?'

David himself said, taught by the Holy Spirit, "'The Lord said to my Lord, Sit at My right hand, until I have made thy foes a footstool under thy feet.'

But they said, "Not on the Festival-day, for fear there should be a riot among the people."

Be wakeful, all of you, and keep on praying, that you may not come into temptation: the spirit is right willing, but the body is frail."

"I am," replied Jesus, "and you and others will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of the divine Power, and coming amid the clouds of the sky."

And together with Jesus they crucified two robbers, one at His right hand and one at His left.

Upon entering the tomb, they saw a young man sitting at their right hand, clothed in a long white robe. They were astonished and terrified.

So the Lord Jesus after having thus spoken to them was taken up into Heaven, and sat down at the right hand of God.

it has seemed right to me also, after careful investigation of the facts from their commencement, to write for you, most noble Theophilus, a connected account,

Then there appeared to him an angel of the Lord standing on the right side of the altar of incense;

So he asked for a writing-tablet, and wrote, "His name is John." And they all wondered.

as it is written in the book of the prophet Isaiah, "The voice of one crying aloud! 'In the Desert prepare ye a road for the Lord: make His highway straight.

And even now the axe is lying at the root of the trees, so that every tree which fails to yield good fruit will quickly be hewn down and thrown into the fire."

He came to Nazareth also, where He had been brought up; and, as was His custom, He went to the synagogue on the Sabbath, and stood up to read.

"Have you never read so much as this," answered Jesus--"what David did when he and his followers were hungry;

On another Sabbath He had gone to the synagogue and was teaching there; and in the congregation was a man whose right arm was withered.

When John's messengers were gone, He proceeded to say to the multitude concerning John, "What did you go out into the Desert to gaze at? A reed waving in the wind?

Those on the rock are the people who on hearing the Message receive it joyfully; but they have no root: for a time they believe, but when trial comes they fall away.

But as for that in the good ground, it means those who, having listened to the Message with open minds and in a right spirit, hold it fast, and patiently yield a return.

whereupon the people came out to see what had happened. They came to Jesus, and they found the man from whom the demons had gone out sitting at the feet of Jesus, clothed and in his right mind; and they were terrified.

"Go to the Law," said Jesus; "what is written there? how does it read?"

"A right answer," said Jesus; "do that, and you shall live."

"I tell you that even if he will not rise and give him the loaves because he is his friend, at any rate because of his persistency he will rouse himself and give him as many as he requires.

Vain pretenders! You know how to read the aspect of earth and sky. How is it you cannot read this present time?

So He rode on, while they carpeted the road with their garments.

So they put a question to Him. "Rabbi," they said, "we know that you say and teach what is right and that you make no distinctions between one man and another, but teach God's way truly.

Why, David himself says in the Book of Psalms, "'The Lord said to my Lord, Sit at My right hand

And one of them struck a blow at the High Priest's servant and cut off his right ear.

But from this time forward the Son of Man will be seated at the right hand of God's omnipotence."

The man who was lying in prison charged with riot and murder and for whom they clamoured he set free, but Jesus he gave up to be dealt with as they desired.

When they reached the place called 'The Skull,' there they nailed Him to the cross, and the criminals also, one at His right hand and one at His left.

Then Philip found Nathanael, and said to him, "We have found him about whom Moses in the Law wrote, as well as the Prophets--Jesus, the son of Joseph, a man of Nazareth."

But he who does what is honest and right comes to the light, in order that his actions may be plainly shown to have been done in God.

His road lay through Samaria,

they who have done what is right to the resurrection of Life, and they whose actions have been evil to the resurrection of judgement.

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

Consider therefore. Moses gave you the rite of circumcision (not that it began with Moses, but with your earlier forefathers)

They asked this in order to put Him to the test, so that they might have some charge to bring against Him. But Jesus leant forward and began to write with His finger on the ground.

Then He leant forward again, and again began to write on the ground.

"Are we not right," answered the Jews, "in saying that you are a Samaritan and are possessed by a demon?"

Believe me, all of you, that I am in the Father and that the Father is in me; or at any rate, believe me because of what I do.

Simon Peter, however, having a sword, drew it, and, aiming at the High Priest's servant, cut off his right ear. The servant's name was Malchus.