and having assembled all the high-priests and scribes of the people, he was inquiring of them, "Where the Christ should be born,"

"And, if your right eye is causing you to stumble, pluck it out, and cast it from you; for it is profitable for you that one of your members should perish, and not your whole body be cast into Hell.

"And, if your right hand causes you to stumble, cut it off, and cast it from you; for it is profitable for you that one of your members should perish, and not your whole body go away into Hell.

and to him who is desirous that you should be sued at the law, and to take your coat, grant your cloak also;

"All things, therefore, whatsoever ye wish that men should do to you, so do ye also to them; for this is the law and the prophets.

And He said to them "What man of you who shall have one sheep; and, if this should fall into a pit on the sabbath, will not lay hold of it, and raise it up?

And He charged them, that they should not make Him known;

for the heart of this people was made gross, and with their ears they heard heavily, and their eyes they closed; lest they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and turn, and I should heal them.'

And he said to them, 'An enemy did this.' The servants say to him, 'Do you wish, then, that we, going, should gather them up?'

Whereupon he promised with an oath to give her whatever she should ask.

And straightway He constrained the disciples to enter into a boat, and to go before Him to the other side, while He should dismiss the multitudes.

And His disciples say to Him, "Whence should we, in a wilderness, have so many loaves as to satisfy so great a multitude?"

Then He charged the disciples that they should tell no one that He was the Christ.

In like manner it is not the will of your Father Who is in Heaven, that one of these little ones should perish.

And he would not; but, going away, he cast him into prison, till he should pay what was due.

Should you not also have had mercy on your fellow-servant, as I had mercy on you?'

And, being angry, his lord delivered him to the tormentors, until he should pay all the debt.

But the multitude rebuked them, that they should be silent. But they cried the more, "Lord, have mercy on us, Thou Son of David!"

And, standing still, Jesus called them, and said, "What do you wish that I should do to you?"

And, unless those days should be shortened, no flesh could be saved: but, for the sake of the elect, those days will be shortened.

And on the first day of the unleavened bread the disciples came to Jesus, saying, "Where dost Thou wish that we should prepare for Thee to eat the passover?"

But Peter, answering, said to Him, "If all should be made to stumble because of Thee, I will never be made to stumble."

Again, a second time, going away, He prayed, saying, "My Father, if it is not possible that this cup should pass away except I drink it, Thy will be done,"

When, therefore, they were gathered together, Pilate said to them, "Whom do ye desire that I should release to you? Barabbas or Jesus Who is called Christ?"

But the high priests and the elders persuaded the multitudes, that they should ask for Barabbas, and destroy Jesus.

And the governor, answering, said to them, "Which of the two do ye desire that I should release to you?" And they said, Barabbas."

order, therefore, that the sepulchre be made secure until the third day, lest haply His disciples, coming, should steal Him away, and say to the people, 'He was raised from the dead;' and the last error will be worse than the first."