and was now on his way home; and as he sat in his chariot he was reading the Prophet Isaiah.

So Philip ran up and heard the eunuch reading the Prophet Isaiah. "Do you understand what you are reading?" he asked.

After the reading of the Law and the Prophets, the Wardens of the synagogue sent word to them. "Brethren," they said, "if you have anything encouraging to say to the people, speak."

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

For the people of Jerusalem and their rulers, by the judgement they pronounced on Jesus, have actually fulfilled the predictions of the Prophets which are read Sabbath after Sabbath, through ignorance of those predictions and of Him.

Blessed is he who reads and blessed are those who listen to the words of this prophecy and lay to heart what is written in it; for the time for its fulfillment is now close at hand.

Till I come, bestow your attention on reading, exhortation and teaching.

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," 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?

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

"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,

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

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

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

"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'?"

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?'

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

Nay, their minds were made dull; for to this very day during the reading of the book of the ancient Covenant, the same veil remains unlifted, because it is only in Christ that it is to be abolished.

Yes, to this day, whenever Moses is read, a veil lies upon their hearts.