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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Jesus of Nazareth - A Biography + +Author: John Mark + +Release Date: June 5, 2006 [EBook #18513] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK JESUS OF NAZARETH - A BIOGRAPHY *** + + + + +Produced by Al Haines + + + + + +</pre> + + +<A NAME="img-front"></A> +<CENTER> +<IMG SRC="images/img-front.jpg" ALT="Jesus of Nazareth" BORDER="2" WIDTH="377" HEIGHT="629"> +<H4> +[Frontispiece: Jesus of Nazareth] +</H4> +</CENTER> + +<BR><BR> + +<H1 ALIGN="center"> +JESUS OF NAZARETH +</H1> + +<H3 ALIGN="center"> +A BIOGRAPHY +</H3> + +<BR> + +<H4 ALIGN="center"> +BY +</H4> + +<H3 ALIGN="center"> +JOHN MARK +</H3> + +<BR> +<BR> + +<H4 ALIGN="center"> +D. APPLETON AND COMPANY +<BR> +NEW YORK : : LONDON : : MCMXXII +</H4> + +<BR> +<BR> +<BR> + +<H5 ALIGN="center"> +COPYRIGHT 1922, BY +<BR> +D. APPLETON AND COMPANY +</H5> + +<BR> +<BR> +<BR> + +<H3 ALIGN="center"> +FOREWORD +</H3> + +<P> +"Jesus of Nazareth, a Biography, by John Mark," recognizes the author +of the second Gospel as that "John, whose surname was Mark" (Acts +15:37), whom Barnabas chose as companion when he sailed for Cyprus on +his second missionary journey. In making use of the new title, the +plan of the Editor is to present "The Gospel: According to Mark" as it +would be printed were it written in the twentieth rather than the first +century. +</P> + +<P> +Mark's Gospel has been chosen for this purpose to make available in +more readable form this timely portion of the Bible. In John Mark the +missionary is revealed a man of action. This characteristic influences +strongly the point of view and style of his writing. As John, the +beloved disciple, in "The Revelation" beholds the victorious Christ as +"the Lion of the tribe of Judah," foretold by the prophets, so Mark +sees Jesus of Nazareth as the strong, vigorous man of action; he writes +of His mighty works in swift narrative at times so vivid it flashes +like a burst of flame, as though the facts presented must have been on +fire in the heart of the author. Written for the practical, energetic +Roman, the Editor feels that this biography of Jesus of Nazareth +exactly fits the mood of our own time, with its emphasis upon the +practical and its insistence that the man of action, the doer, is the +man for the hour. +</P> + +<P> +Printed like a modern book, but in the fine old King James' version, it +is believed that all Bible lovers will welcome their old friend, "The +Gospel: According to Mark," in its new literary dress; it is hoped, +too, that in this popular form book buyers and lovers of good +literature may be led to purchase a book which needs only to be +thoroughly and thoughtfully read to be greatly reverenced. +</P> + +<BR> +<BR> +<BR> + +<H2 ALIGN="center"> +CONTENTS +</H2> + +<BR> + +<CENTER> + +<TABLE WIDTH="80%"> +<TR> +<TD ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top">CHAPTER</TD> +<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> </TD> +</TR> + +<TR> +<TD ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top">I. </TD> +<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> +<A HREF="#chap01">HAIL, THE GALILEAN</A></TD> +</TR> + +<TR> +<TD ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top">II. </TD> +<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> +<A HREF="#chap02">A TEACHER WITH AUTHORITY</A></TD> +</TR> + +<TR> +<TD ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top">III. </TD> +<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> +<A HREF="#chap03">A BROTHER TO ALL WHO DO THE WILL OF GOD</A></TD> +</TR> + +<TR> +<TD ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top">IV. </TD> +<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> +<A HREF="#chap04">THE WISDOM OF THE AGES</A></TD> +</TR> + +<TR> +<TD ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top">V. </TD> +<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> +<A HREF="#chap05">LORD OF LIFE AND LOVE</A></TD> +</TR> + +<TR> +<TD ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top">VI. </TD> +<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> +<A HREF="#chap06">IS NOT HE THE CARPENTER?</A></TD> +</TR> + +<TR> +<TD ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top">VII. </TD> +<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> +<A HREF="#chap07">NEVER A MAN LIKE HIM</A></TD> +</TR> + +<TR> +<TD ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top">VIII. </TD> +<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> +<A HREF="#chap08">"THOU ART THE CHRIST"</A></TD> +</TR> + +<TR> +<TD ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top">IX. </TD> +<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> +<A HREF="#chap09">STRONG SON OF GOD</A></TD> +</TR> + +<TR> +<TD ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top">X. </TD> +<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> +<A HREF="#chap10">MASTER OF MEN BUT SERVANT OF ALL</A></TD> +</TR> + +<TR> +<TD ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top">XI. </TD> +<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> +<A HREF="#chap11">HE THAT COMETH IN THE NAME OF THE LORD</A></TD> +</TR> + +<TR> +<TD ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top">XII. </TD> +<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> +<A HREF="#chap12">IN CONFLICT WITH SCRIBES AND PHARISEES</A></TD> +</TR> + +<TR> +<TD ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top">XIII. </TD> +<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> +<A HREF="#chap13">JERUSALEM THAT KILLETH THE PROPHETS</A></TD> +</TR> + +<TR> +<TD ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top">XIV. </TD> +<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> +<A HREF="#chap14">DESPISED AND REJECTED BY FRIEND AND FOE</A></TD> +</TR> + +<TR> +<TD ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top">XV. </TD> +<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> +<A HREF="#chap15">CRUCIFIED, DEAD AND BURIED</A></TD> +</TR> + +<TR> +<TD ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top">XVI. </TD> +<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> +<A HREF="#chap16">JESUS OF NAZARETH RISES FROM THE DEAD</A></TD> +</TR> + +</TABLE> + +</CENTER> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<A NAME="chap01"></A> +<H1 ALIGN="center"> +JESUS OF NAZARETH +</H1> + +<BR> + +<H3 ALIGN="center"> +CHAPTER I +</H3> + +<H3 ALIGN="center"> +HAIL, THE GALILEAN +</H3> + +<P> +The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God; as it is +written in the prophets, "Behold, I send my messenger before thy face, +which shall prepare thy way before thee. The voice of one crying in +the wilderness. Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths +straight." +</P> + +<P> +John did baptize in the wilderness, and preach the baptism of +repentance for the remission of sins. And there went out unto him all +the land of Judaea, and they of Jerusalem, and were all baptized of him +in the river of Jordan, confessing their sins. And John was clothed +with camel's hair, and with a girdle of a skin about his loins; and he +did eat locusts and wild honey; and preached, saying: +</P> + +<P> +"There cometh one mightier than I after me, the latchet of whose shoes +I am not worthy to stoop down and unloose. I indeed have baptized you +with water: but he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost." +</P> + +<P> +And it came to pass in those days, that Jesus came from Nazareth of +Galilee, and was baptized of John in Jordan. And straightway coming up +out of the water, he saw the heavens opened, and the Spirit like a dove +descending upon him: and there came a voice from heaven, saying: +</P> + +<P> +"Thou art my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased." +</P> + +<P> +And immediately the spirit driveth him into the wilderness. And he was +there in the wilderness forty days, tempted of Satan; and was with the +wild beasts; and the angels ministered unto him. +</P> + +<P> +Now after that John was put in prison, Jesus came into Galilee, +preaching the gospel of the kingdom of God, and saying: +</P> + +<P> +"The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, +and believe the gospel." +</P> + +<P> +Now as he walked by the sea of Galilee, he saw Simon and Andrew his +brother casting a net into the sea: for they were fishers. And Jesus +said unto them: +</P> + +<P> +"Come ye after me, and I will make you to become fishers of men." +</P> + +<P> +And straightway they forsook their nets, and followed him. +</P> + +<P> +And when he had gone a little farther thence, he saw James the son of +Zebedee, and John his brother, who also were in the ship mending their +nets. And straightway he called them: and they left their father +Zebedee in the ship with the hired servants, and went after him. +</P> + +<P> +And they went into Capernaum; and straightway on the sabbath day he +entered into the synagogue, and taught. And they were astonished at +his doctrine: for he taught them as one that had authority, and not as +the scribes. And there was in their synagogue a man with an unclean +spirit; and he cried out, saying: +</P> + +<P> +"Let us alone; what have we to do with thee, thou Jesus of Nazareth? +Art thou come to destroy us? I know thee who thou art, the Holy One of +God." +</P> + +<P> +And Jesus rebuked him, saying, "Hold thy peace, and come out of him." +And when the unclean spirit had torn him, and cried with a loud voice, +he came out of him. And they were all amazed, insomuch that they +questioned among themselves, saying: +</P> + +<P> +"What thing is this? what new doctrine is this? for with authority +commandeth he even the unclean spirits, and they do obey him." +</P> + +<P> +And immediately his fame spread abroad throughout all the region round +about Galilee. +</P> + +<P> +And forthwith, when they were come out of the synagogue, they entered +into the house of Simon and Andrew, with James and John. But Simon's +wife's mother lay sick of a fever, and anon they tell him of her. And +he came and took her by the hand, and lifted her up; and immediately +the fever left her, and she ministered unto them. +</P> + +<P> +And at even, when the sun did set, they brought unto him all that were +diseased, and them that were possessed with devils. And all the city +was gathered together at the door. And he healed many that were sick +of divers diseases, and cast out many devils; and suffered not the +devils to speak, because they knew him. +</P> + +<P> +And in the morning, rising up a great while before day, he went out, +and departed into a solitary place, and there prayed. And Simon and +they that were with him followed after him. And when they had found +him, they said unto him, "All men seek for thee." +</P> + +<P> +And he said unto them, "Let us go into the next towns, that I may +preach there also; for therefore came I forth." +</P> + +<P> +And he preached in their synagogues throughout all Galilee, and cast +out devils. And there came a leper to him, beseeching him, and +kneeling down to him, and saying unto him, "If thou wilt, thou canst +make me clean." And Jesus, moved with compassion, put forth his hand, +and touched him, and saith unto him, "I will; be thou clean." +</P> + +<P> +And as soon as he had spoken, immediately the leprosy departed from +him, and he was cleansed. And he straitly charged him, and forthwith +sent him away; and saith unto him, "See thou say nothing to any man: +but go thy way, shew thyself to the priest, and offer for thy cleansing +those things which Moses commanded, for a testimony unto them." +</P> + +<P> +But he went out, and began to publish it much, and to blaze abroad the +matter, insomuch that Jesus could no more openly enter into the city, +but was without in desert places: and they came to him from every +quarter. +</P> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<A NAME="chap02"></A> +<H3 ALIGN="center"> +CHAPTER II +</H3> + +<H3 ALIGN="center"> +A TEACHER WITH AUTHORITY +</H3> + + +<P> +And again he entered into Capernaum after some days; and it was noised +that he was in the house. And straightway many were gathered together, +insomuch that there was no room to receive them, no, not so much as +about the door: and he preached the word unto them. And they come unto +him, bringing one sick of the palsy, which was borne of four. And when +they could not come nigh unto him for the press, they uncovered the +roof where he was: and when they had broken it up, they let down the +bed wherein the sick of the palsy lay. When Jesus saw their faith, he +said unto the sick of the palsy: +</P> + +<P> +"Son, thy sins be forgiven thee." +</P> + +<P> +But there were certain of the scribes sitting there, and reasoning in +their hearts: +</P> + +<P> +"Why doth this man thus speak blasphemies? Who can forgive sins but +God only?" +</P> + +<P> +And immediately when Jesus perceived in his spirit that they so +reasoned within themselves, he said unto them: +</P> + +<P> +"Why reason ye these things in your hearts? Whether is it easier to +say to the sick of the palsy, 'Thy sins be forgiven thee;' or to say, +'Arise, and take up thy bed, and walk?' But that ye may know that the +Son of man hath power on earth to forgive sins, (he saith to the sick +of the palsy,) I say unto thee, 'Arise, and take up thy bed, and go thy +way into thine house.'" +</P> + +<P> +And immediately he arose, took up the bed, and went forth before them +all; insomuch that they were all amazed, and glorified God, saying: +</P> + +<P> +"We never saw it on this fashion." +</P> + +<P> +And he went forth again by the sea side; and all the multitude resorted +unto him, and he taught them. +</P> + +<P> +And as he passed by, he saw Levi the son of Alphaeus sitting at the +receipt of custom, and said unto him: +</P> + +<P> +"Follow me." +</P> + +<P> +And he arose and followed him. +</P> + +<P> +And it came to pass, that, as Jesus sat at meat in his house, many +publicans and sinners sat also together with Jesus and his disciples: +for there were many, and they followed him. And when the scribes and +Pharisees saw him eat with publicans and sinners, they said unto his +disciples: +</P> + +<P> +"How is it that he eateth and drinketh with publicans and sinners?" +</P> + +<P> +When Jesus heard it, he saith unto them; +</P> + +<P> +"They that are whole have no need of the physician, but they that are +sick: I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance." +</P> + +<P> +And the disciples of John and of the Pharisees used to fast: and they +come and say unto him: +</P> + +<P> +"Why do the disciples of John and of the Pharisees fast, but thy +disciples fast not?" +</P> + +<P> +And Jesus said unto them: +</P> + +<P> +"Can the children of the bridechamber fast, while the bridegroom is +with them? As long as they have the bridegroom with them, they cannot +fast. But the days will come, when the bridegroom shall be taken away +from them, and then shall they fast in those days. No man also seweth +a piece of new cloth on an old garment: else the new piece that filled +it up taketh away from the old, and the rent is made worse. And no man +putteth new wine into old bottles: else the new wine doth burst the +bottles, and the wine is spilled, and the bottles will be marred: but +new wine must be put into new bottles." +</P> + +<P> +And it came to pass, that he went through the corn fields on the +sabbath day; and his disciples began, as they went, to pluck the ears +of corn. And the Pharisees said unto him: +</P> + +<P> +"Behold, why do they on the sabbath day that which is not lawful?" +</P> + +<P> +And he said unto them: +</P> + +<P> +"Have ye never read what David did, when he had need, and was an +hungered, he, and they that were with him? How he went into the house +of God in the days of Abiathar the high priest, and did eat the +shewbread, which is not lawful to eat but for the priests, and gave +also to them which were with him?" +</P> + +<P> +And he said unto them: +</P> + +<P> +"The sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath: therefore +the Son of man is Lord also of the sabbath." +</P> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<A NAME="chap03"></A> +<H3 ALIGN="center"> +CHAPTER III +</H3> + +<H3 ALIGN="center"> +A BROTHER TO ALL WHO DO THE WILL OF GOD +</H3> + + +<P> +And he entered again into the synagogue; and there was a man there +which had a withered hand. And they watched him, whether he would heal +him on the sabbath day; that they might accuse him. +</P> + +<P> +And he saith unto the man which had the withered hand: +</P> + +<P> +"Stand forth." +</P> + +<P> +And he saith unto them: +</P> + +<P> +"Is it lawful to do good on the sabbath days, or to do evil? to save +life, or to kill?" +</P> + +<P> +But they held their peace. +</P> + +<P> +And when he had looked round about on them with anger, being grieved +for the hardness of their hearts, he saith unto the man: +</P> + +<P> +"Stretch forth thine hand." +</P> + +<P> +And he stretched it out: and his hand was restored whole as the other. +And the Pharisees went forth, and straightway took counsel with the +Herodians against him, how they might destroy him. +</P> + +<P> +But Jesus withdrew himself with his disciples to the sea: and a great +multitude from Galilee followed him, and from Judaea, and from +Jerusalem, and from Idumaea, and from beyond Jordan; and they about +Tyre and Sidon, a great multitude, when they had heard what great +things he did, came unto him. And he spake to his disciples, that a +small ship should wait on him because of the multitude, lest they +should throng him. For he had healed many; insomuch that they pressed +upon him for to touch him, as many as had plagues. And unclean +spirits, when they saw him, fell down before him, and cried, saying: +</P> + +<P> +"Thou art the Son of God." +</P> + +<P> +And he straitly charged them that they should not make him known. +</P> + +<P> +And he goeth up into a mountain, and calleth unto him whom he would: +and they came unto him. And he ordained twelve, that they should be +with him, and that he might send them forth to preach, and to have +power to heal sicknesses, and to cast out devils: and Simon he surnamed +Peter; and James the son of Zebedee, and John the brother of James; and +he surnamed them Boanerges, which is. The sons of thunder: and Andrew, +and Philip, and Bartholomew, and Matthew, and Thomas, and James the son +of Alphaeus, and Thaddaeus, and Simon the Canaanite, and Judas +Iscariot, which also betrayed him. +</P> + +<P> +And they went into an house. And the multitude cometh together again, +so that they could not so much as eat bread. And when his friends +heard of it, they went out to lay hold on him: for they said: +</P> + +<P> +"He is beside himself." +</P> + +<P> +And the scribes which came down from Jerusalem said: +</P> + +<P> +"He hath Beelzebub, and by the prince of the devils casteth he out +devils." +</P> + +<P> +And he called them unto him, and said unto them in parables: +</P> + +<P> +"How can Satan cast out Satan? And if a kingdom be divided against +itself, that kingdom cannot stand. And if a house be divided against +itself, that house cannot stand. And if Satan rise up against himself, +and be divided, he cannot stand, but hath an end. No man can enter +into a strong man's house, and spoil his goods, except he will first +bind the strong man; and then he will spoil his house. Verily I say +unto you. All sins shall be forgiven unto the sons of men, and +blasphemies wherewith soever they shall blaspheme: but he that shall +blaspheme against the Holy Ghost hath never forgiveness, but is in +danger of eternal damnation." +</P> + +<P> +Because they said, "He hath an unclean spirit." +</P> + +<P> +There came then his brethren and his mother, and, standing without, +sent unto him, calling him. And the multitude sat about him, and they +said unto him: +</P> + +<P> +"Behold, thy mother and thy brethren without seek for thee." +</P> + +<P> +And he answered them, saying: +</P> + +<P> +"Who is my mother, or my brethren?" +</P> + +<P> +And he looked round about on them which sat about him, and said: +</P> + +<P> +"Behold my mother and my brethren! For whosoever shall do the will of +God, the same is my brother, and my sister, and mother." +</P> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<A NAME="chap04"></A> +<H3 ALIGN="center"> +CHAPTER IV +</H3> + +<H3 ALIGN="center"> +THE WISDOM OF THE AGES +</H3> + + +<P> +And he began again to teach by the sea side: and there was gathered +unto him a great multitude, so that he entered into a ship, and sat in +the sea; and the whole multitude was by the sea on the land. And he +taught them many things by parables, and said unto them in his doctrine: +</P> + +<P> +"Hearken; Behold, there went out a sower to sow: and it came to pass, +as he sowed, some fell by the way side, and the fowls of the air came +and devoured it up. And some fell on stony ground, where it had not +much earth; and immediately it sprang up, because it had no depth of +earth: but when the sun was up, it was scorched; and because it had no +root, it withered away. And some fell among thorns, and the thorns +grew up, and choked it, and it yielded no fruit. And other fell on +good ground, and did yield fruit that sprang up and increased; and +brought forth, some thirty, and some sixty, and some an hundred." +</P> + +<P> +And he said unto them: +</P> + +<P> +"He that hath ears to hear, let him hear." +</P> + +<P> +And when he was alone, they that were about him with the twelve asked +of him the parable. And he said unto them: +</P> + +<P> +"Unto you it is given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God: but +unto them that are without, all these things are done in parables: that +seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they may hear, and +not understand; lest at any time they should be converted, and their +sins should be forgiven them." +</P> + +<P> +And he said unto them: +</P> + +<P> +"Know ye not this parable? And how then will ye know all parables? +The sower soweth the word. And these are they by the way side, where +the word is sown; but when they have heard, Satan cometh immediately, +and taketh away the word that was sown in their hearts. And these are +they likewise which are sown on stony ground; who, when they have heard +the word, immediately receive it with gladness; and have no root in +themselves, and so endure but for a time: afterward, when affliction or +persecution ariseth for the word's sake, immediately they are offended. +And these are they which are sown among thorns; such as hear the word, +and the cares of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the +lusts of other things entering in, choke the word, and it becometh +unfruitful. And these are they which are sown on good ground; such as +hear the word, and receive it, and bring forth fruit, some thirtyfold, +some sixty, and some an hundred." +</P> + +<P> +And he said unto them: +</P> + +<P> +"Is a candle brought to be put under a bushel, or under a bed? and not +to be set on a candlestick? For there is nothing hid, which shall not +be manifested; neither was anything kept secret, but that it should +come abroad. If any man have ears to hear, let him hear." +</P> + +<P> +And he said unto them: +</P> + +<P> +"Take heed what ye hear: with what measure ye mete, it shall be +measured to you; and unto you that hear shall more be given. For he +that hath, to him shall be given: and he that hath not, from him shall +be taken even that which he hath." +</P> + +<P> +And he said: +</P> + +<P> +"So is the kingdom of God, as if a man should cast seed into the +ground; and should sleep, and rise night and day, and the seed should +spring and grow up, he knoweth not how. For the earth bringeth forth +fruit of herself; first the blade, then the ear, after that the full +corn in the ear. But when the fruit is brought forth, immediately he +putteth in the sickle, because the harvest is come." +</P> + +<P> +And he said: +</P> + +<P> +"Whereunto shall we liken the kingdom of God? or with what comparison +shall we compare it? It is like a grain of mustard seed, which, when +it is sown in the earth, is less than all the seeds that be in the +earth: but when it is sown, it groweth up, and becometh greater than +all herbs, and shooteth out great branches; so that the fowls of the +air may lodge under the shadow of it." +</P> + +<P> +And with many such parables spake he the word unto them, as they were +able to hear it. But without a parable spake he not unto them: and +when they were alone, he expounded all things to his disciples. +</P> + +<P> +And the same day, when the even was come, he saith unto them: +</P> + +<P> +"Let us pass over unto the other side." +</P> + +<P> +And when they had sent away the multitude, they took him even as he was +in the ship. And there were also with him other little ships. And +there arose a great storm of wind, and the waves beat into the ship, so +that it was now full. And he was in the hinder part of the ship, +asleep on a pillow; and they awake him, and say unto him: +</P> + +<P> +"Master, carest thou not that we perish?" +</P> + +<P> +And he arose, and rebuked the wind, and said unto the sea: +</P> + +<P> +"Peace, be still." +</P> + +<P> +And the wind ceased, and there was a great calm. +</P> + +<P> +And he said unto them: +</P> + +<P> +"Why are ye so fearful? How is it that ye have no faith?" +</P> + +<P> +And they feared exceedingly, and said one to another: +</P> + +<P> +"What manner of man is this, that even the wind and the sea obey him?" +</P> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<A NAME="chap05"></A> +<H3 ALIGN="center"> +CHAPTER V +</H3> + +<H3 ALIGN="center"> +LORD OF LIFE AND LOVE +</H3> + + +<P> +And they came over unto the other side of the sea, into the country of +the Gadarenes. And when he was come out of the ship, immediately there +met him out of the tombs a man with an unclean spirit, who had his +dwelling among the tombs; and no man could bind him, no, not with +chains: because that he had been often bound with fetters and chains, +and the chains had been plucked asunder by him, and the fetters broken +in pieces: neither could any man tame him. And always, night and day, +he was in the mountains, and in the tombs, crying, and cutting himself +with stones. But when he saw Jesus afar off, he ran and worshipped +him, and cried with a loud voice, and said: +</P> + +<P> +"What have I to do with thee, Jesus, thou Son of the most high God? I +adjure thee by God, that thou torment me not." +</P> + +<P> +For he said unto him: "Come out of the man, thou unclean spirit," And +he asked him: "What is thy name?" +</P> + +<P> +And he answered, saying: +</P> + +<P> +"My name is Legion: for we are many." +</P> + +<P> +And he besought him much that he would not send them away out of the +country. Now there was there nigh unto the mountains a great herd of +swine feeding. And all the devils besought him, saying: +</P> + +<P> +"Send us into the swine, that we may enter into them." +</P> + +<P> +And forthwith Jesus gave them leave. And the unclean spirits went out, +and entered into the swine: and the herd ran violently down a steep +place into the sea, (they were about two thousand;) and were choked in +the sea. And they that fed the swine fled, and told it in the city, +and in the country. And they went out to see what it was that was +done. And they come to Jesus, and see him that was possessed with the +devil, and had the legion, sitting, and clothed, and in his right mind: +and they were afraid. And they that saw it told them how it befell to +him that was possessed with the devil, and also concerning the swine. +And they began to pray him to depart out of their coasts. +</P> + +<P> +And when he was come into the ship, he that had been possessed with the +devil prayed him that he might be with him. Howbeit Jesus suffered him +not, but saith unto him: +</P> + +<P> +"Go home to thy friends, and tell them how great things the Lord hath +done for thee, and hath had compassion on thee." +</P> + +<P> +And he departed, and began to publish in Decapolis how great things +Jesus had done for him: and all men did marvel. +</P> + +<P> +And when Jesus was passed over again by ship unto the other side, much +people gathered unto him: and he was nigh unto the sea. And, behold, +there cometh one of the rulers of the synagogue, Jairus by name; and +when he saw him, he fell at his feet, and besought him greatly, saying: +</P> + +<P> +"My little daughter lieth at the point of death: I pray thee, come and +lay thy hands on her, that she may be healed; and she shall live." +</P> + +<P> +And Jesus went with him; and much people followed him, and thronged +him. And a certain woman, which had an issue of blood twelve years, +and had suffered many things of many physicians, and had spent all that +she had, and was nothing bettered, but rather grew worse, when she had +heard of Jesus, came in the press behind, and touched his garment. For +she said: +</P> + +<P> +"If I may touch but his clothes, I shall be whole." +</P> + +<P> +And straightway the fountain of her blood was dried up; and she felt in +her body that she was healed of that plague. And Jesus, immediately +knowing in himself that virtue had gone out of him, turned him about in +the press, and said: +</P> + +<P> +"Who touched my clothes?" +</P> + +<P> +And his disciples said unto him: +</P> + +<P> +"Thou seest the multitude thronging thee, and sayest thou, 'Who touched +me?'" +</P> + +<P> +And he looked round about to see her that had done this thing. But the +woman fearing and trembling, knowing what was done in her, came and +fell down before him, and told him all the truth. And he said unto her: +</P> + +<P> +"Daughter, thy faith hath made thee whole; go in peace, and be whole of +thy plague." +</P> + +<P> +While he yet spake, there came from the ruler of the synagogue's house +certain which said: +</P> + +<P> +"Thy daughter is dead: why troublest thou the Master any further?" +</P> + +<P> +As soon as Jesus heard the word that was spoken, he saith unto the +ruler of the synagogue: +</P> + +<P> +"Be not afraid, only believe." +</P> + +<P> +And he suffered no man to follow him, save Peter, and James, and John +the brother of James. And he cometh to the house of the ruler of the +synagogue, and seeth the tumult, and them that wept and wailed greatly. +And when he was come in, he saith unto them: +</P> + +<P> +"Why make ye this ado, and weep? The damsel is not dead, but sleepeth." +</P> + +<P> +And they laughed him to scorn. But when he had put them all out, he +taketh the father and the mother of the damsel, and them that were with +him, and entereth in where the damsel was lying. And he took the +damsel by the hand, and said unto her: +</P> + +<P> +"<I>Talitha cumi</I>;" which is, being interpreted, "Damsel, I say unto +thee, arise." +</P> + +<P> +And straightway the damsel arose, and walked; for she was of the age of +twelve years. And they were astonished with a great astonishment. And +he charged them straitly that no man should know it; and commanded that +something should be given her to eat. +</P> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<A NAME="chap06"></A> +<H3 ALIGN="center"> +CHAPTER VI +</H3> + +<H3 ALIGN="center"> +IS NOT HE THE CARPENTER? +</H3> + + +<P> +And he went out from thence, and came into his own country; and his +disciples follow him. And when the sabbath day was come, he began to +teach in the synagogue: and many hearing him were astonished, saying: +</P> + +<P> +"From whence hath this man these things and what wisdom is this which +is given unto him, that even such mighty works are wrought by his +hands? Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary, the brother of +James, and Joses, and of Juda, and Simon? And are not his sisters here +with us?" +</P> + +<P> +And they were offended at him. +</P> + +<P> +But Jesus said unto them: +</P> + +<P> +"A prophet is not without honour, but in his own country, and among his +own kin, and in his own house." +</P> + +<P> +And he could there do no mighty work, save that he laid his hands upon +a few sick folk, and healed them. And he marvelled because of their +unbelief. +</P> + +<P> +And he went round about the villages, teaching. +</P> + +<P> +And he called unto him the twelve, and began to send them forth by two +and two; and gave them power over unclean spirits; and commanded them +that they should take nothing for their journey, save a staff only; no +scrip, no bread, no money in their purse: but be shod with sandals; and +not put on two coats. And he said unto them: +</P> + +<P> +"In what place soever ye enter into an house, there abide till ye +depart from that place. And whosoever shall not receive you, nor hear +you, when ye depart thence, shake off the dust under your feet for a +testimony against them. Verily I say unto you, It shall be more +tolerable for Sodom and Gomorrha in the day of judgment, than for that +city." +</P> + +<P> +And they went out, and preached that men should repent. And they cast +out many devils, and anointed with oil many that were sick, and healed +them. +</P> + +<P> +And king Herod heard of him; (for his name was spread abroad;) and he +said: +</P> + +<P> +"That John the Baptist was risen from the dead, and therefore mighty +works do shew forth themselves in him." Others said: "That it is +Elias." And others said: +</P> + +<P> +"That it is a prophet, or as one of the prophets." But when Herod +heard thereof, he said: "It is John, whom I beheaded: he is risen from +the dead." +</P> + +<P> +For Herod himself had sent forth and laid hold upon John, and bound him +in prison for Herodias' sake, his brother Philip's wife: for he had +married her. For John had said unto Herod: "It is not lawful for thee +to have thy brother's wife." Therefore Herodias had a quarrel against +him, and would have killed him; but she could not: for Herod feared +John, knowing that he was a just man and an holy, and observed him; and +when he heard him, he did many things, and heard him gladly. And when +a convenient day was come that Herod on his birthday made a supper to +his lords, high captains, and chief estates of Galilee; and when the +daughter of the said Herodias came in, and danced, and pleased Herod +and them that sat with him, the king said unto the damsel: "Ask of me +whatsoever thou wilt and I will give it thee." And he sware unto her, +"Whatsoever thou shalt ask of me, I will give it thee, unto the half of +my kingdom." And she went forth, and said unto her mother, "What shall +I ask?" And she said, "The head of John the Baptist." And she came in +straightway with haste unto the king, and asked, saying, "I will that +thou give me by and by in a charger the head of John the Baptist." And +the king was exceeding sorry; yet for his oath's sake, and for their +sakes which sat with him, he would not reject her. And immediately the +king sent an executioner, and commanded his head to be brought: and he +went and beheaded him in the prison, and brought his head in a charger, +and gave it to the damsel: and the damsel gave it to her mother. And +when his disciples heard of it, they came and took up his corpse, and +laid it in a tomb. +</P> + +<P> +And the apostles gathered themselves together unto Jesus, and told him +all things, both what they had done, and what they had taught. And he +said unto them: +</P> + +<P> +"Come ye yourselves apart into a desert place, and rest awhile." +</P> + +<P> +For there were many coming and going, and they had no leisure so much +as to eat. And they departed into a desert place by ship privately. +And the people saw them departing, and many knew him, and ran afoot +thither out of all cities, and outwent them, and came together unto +him. And Jesus, when he came out, saw much people, and was moved with +compassion toward them, because they were as sheep not having a +shepherd: and he began to teach them many things. And when the day was +now far spent, his disciples came unto him, and said: +</P> + +<P> +"This is a desert place, and now the time is far passed: send them +away, that they may go into the country round about, and into the +villages, and buy themselves bread: for they have nothing to eat." +</P> + +<P> +He answered and said unto them: +</P> + +<P> +"Give ye them to eat." +</P> + +<P> +And they say unto him: +</P> + +<P> +"Shall we go and buy two hundred pennyworth of bread, and give them to +eat?" +</P> + +<P> +He saith unto them: +</P> + +<P> +"How many loaves have ye? Go and see." And when they know, they say, +"Five, and two fishes." +</P> + +<P> +And he commanded them to make all sit down by companies upon the green +grass. And they sat down in ranks, by hundreds, and by fifties. And +when he had taken the five loaves and the two fishes, he looked up to +heaven, and blessed, and brake the loaves, and gave them to his +disciples to set before them; and the two fishes divided he among them +all. And they did all eat, and were filled. And they took up twelve +baskets full of the fragments, and of the fishes. And they that did +eat of the loaves were about five thousand men. +</P> + +<P> +And straightway he constrained his disciples to get into the ship, and +to go to the other side before unto Bethsaida, while he sent away the +people. And when he had sent them away, he departed into a mountain to +pray. And when even was come, the ship was in the midst of the sea, +and he alone on the land. And he saw them toiling in rowing; for the +wind was contrary unto them: and about the fourth watch of the night he +cometh unto them, walking upon the sea, and would have passed by them. +But when they saw him walking upon the sea, they supposed it had been a +spirit, and cried out: for they all saw him, and were troubled. And +immediately he talked with them, and saith unto them: +</P> + +<P> +"Be of good cheer: it is I; be not afraid." +</P> + +<P> +And he went up unto them into the ship; and the wind ceased: and they +were sore amazed in themselves beyond measure, and wondered. For they +considered not the miracle of the loaves: for their heart was hardened. +</P> + +<P> +And when they had passed over, they came into the land of Gennesaret, +and drew to the shore. And when they were come out of the ship, +straightway they knew him, and ran through that whole region round +about, and began to carry about in beds those that were sick, where +they heard he was. And whithersoever he entered, into villages, or +cities, or country, they laid the sick in the streets, and besought him +that they might touch if it were but the border of his garment: and as +many as touched him were made whole. +</P> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<A NAME="chap07"></A> +<H3 ALIGN="center"> +CHAPTER VII +</H3> + +<H3 ALIGN="center"> +NEVER A MAN LIKE HIM +</H3> + + +<P> +Then came together unto him the Pharisees, and certain of the scribes, +which came from Jerusalem. And when they saw some of his disciples eat +bread with defiled, that is to say, with unwashen, hands, they found +fault. (For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, except they wash their +hands oft, eat not, holding the tradition of the elders. And when they +come from the market, except they wash, they eat not, and many other +things there be, which they have received to hold, as the washing of +cups, and pots, brasen vessels, and of tables.) Then the Pharisees and +scribes asked him: +</P> + +<P> +"Why walk not thy disciples according to the tradition of the elders, +but eat bread with unwashen hands?" +</P> + +<P> +He answered and said unto them: +</P> + +<P> +"Well hath Esaias prophesied of you hypocrites, as it is written, 'This +people honoureth me with their lips, but their heart is far from me. +Howbeit in vain do they worship me, teaching for doctrines the +commandments of men.' For laying aside the commandment of God, ye hold +the tradition of men, as the washing of pots and cups; and many other +such like things ye do." +</P> + +<P> +And he said unto them: +</P> + +<P> +"Full well ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your own +tradition. For Moses said: 'Honour thy father and thy mother'; and, +'Whoso curseth father or mother, let him die the death:' but ye say, +'If a man shall say to his father or mother, "It is Corban," (that is +to say, a gift,) by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me; he +shall be free.' And ye suffer him no more to do ought for his father +or his mother; making the word of God of none effect through your +tradition, which ye have delivered: and many such like things do ye." +</P> + +<P> +And when he had called all the people unto him, he said unto them: +</P> + +<P> +"Hearken unto me every one of you, and understand: there is nothing +from without a man, that entering into him can defile him: but the +things which come out of him, those are they that defile the man. If +any man have ears to hear, let him hear." +</P> + +<P> +And when he was entered into the house from the people, his disciples +asked him concerning the parable. And he saith unto them: +</P> + +<P> +"Are ye so without understanding also? Do ye not perceive, that +whatsoever thing from without entereth into the man, it cannot defile +him; because it entereth not into his heart, but into the belly, and +goeth out into the draught, purging all meats?" And he said, "That +which cometh out of the man, that defileth the man. For from within, +out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, +fornications, murders, thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, +lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness: all these +evil things come from within, and defile the man." +</P> + +<P> +And from thence he arose, and went into the borders of Tyre and Sidon, +and entered into an house, and would have no man know it: but he could +not be hid. For a certain woman, whose young daughter had an unclean +spirit, heard of him, and came and fell at his feet: the woman was a +Greek, a Syrophenician by nation; and she besought him that he would +cast forth the devil out of her daughter. But Jesus said unto her: +</P> + +<P> +"Let the children first be filled: for it is not meet to take the +children's bread, and to cast it unto the dogs." +</P> + +<P> +And she answered and said unto him: +</P> + +<P> +"Yes, Lord: yet the dogs under the table eat of the children's crumbs." +</P> + +<P> +And he said unto her, "For this saying go thy way; the devil is gone +out of thy daughter." And when she was come to her house, she found +the devil gone out, and her daughter laid upon the bed. +</P> + +<P> +And again, departing from the coasts of Tyre and Sidon, he came unto +the sea of Galilee, through the midst of the coasts of Decapolis. And +they bring unto him one that was deaf, and had an impediment in his +speech; and they beseech him to put his hand upon him. And he took him +aside from the multitude, and put his fingers into his ears, and he +spit, and touched his tongue; and looking up to heaven, he sighed, and +saith unto him, "Ephphatha," that is, "Be opened." +</P> + +<P> +And straightway his ears were opened, and the string of his tongue was +loosed, and he spake plain. And he charged them that they should tell +no man: but the more he charged them, so much the more a great deal +they published it; and were beyond measure astonished, saying: +</P> + +<P> +"He hath done all things well: he maketh both the deaf to hear, and the +dumb to speak." +</P> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<A NAME="chap08"></A> +<H3 ALIGN="center"> +CHAPTER VIII +</H3> + +<H3 ALIGN="center"> +"THOU ART THE CHRIST" +</H3> + + +<P> +In those days the multitude being very great, and having nothing to +eat, Jesus called his disciples unto him, and saith unto them: +</P> + +<P> +"I have compassion on the multitude, because they have now been with me +three days, and have nothing to eat: and if I send them away fasting to +their own houses, they will faint by the way: for divers of them came +from far." +</P> + +<P> +And his disciples answered him: "From whence can a man satisfy these +men with bread here in the wilderness?" +</P> + +<P> +And he asked them: "How many loaves have ye?" +</P> + +<P> +And they said: "Seven." +</P> + +<P> +And he commanded the people to sit down on the ground: and he took the +seven loaves, and gave thanks, and brake, and gave to his disciples to +set before them; and they did set them before the people. And they had +a few small fishes: and he blessed, and commanded to set them also +before them. So they did eat, and were filled: and they took up of the +broken meat that was left seven baskets. And they that had eaten were +about four thousand: and he sent them away. +</P> + +<P> +And straightway he entered into a ship with his disciples, and came +into the parts of Dalmanutha. And the Pharisees came forth, and began +to question with him, seeking of him a sign from heaven, tempting him. +And he sighed deeply in his spirit, and saith: +</P> + +<P> +"Why doth this generation seek after a sign? Verily I say unto you. +There shall no sign be given unto this generation." +</P> + +<P> +And he left them, and entering into the ship again departed to the +other side. +</P> + +<P> +Now the disciples had forgotten to take bread, neither had they in the +ship with them more than one loaf. And he charged them, saying: +</P> + +<P> +"Take heed, beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, and of the leaven of +Herod." +</P> + +<P> +And they reasoned among themselves, saying, "It is because we have no +bread." And when Jesus knew it, he saith unto them: +</P> + +<P> +"Why reason ye, because ye have no bread? Perceive ye not yet, neither +understand? Have ye your heart yet hardened? Having eyes, see ye not, +and having ears, hear ye not, and do ye not remember? When I brake the +five loaves among five thousand, how many baskets full of fragments +took ye up?" +</P> + +<P> +They say unto him, "Twelve." +</P> + +<P> +"And when the seven among four thousand, how many baskets full of +fragments took ye up?" +</P> + +<P> +And they said, "Seven." +</P> + +<P> +And he said unto them, "How is it that ye do not understand?" +</P> + +<P> +And he cometh to Bethsaida; and they bring a blind man unto him, and +besought him to touch him. And he took the blind man by the hand, and +led him out of the town; and when he had spit on his eyes, and put his +hands upon him, he asked him if he saw ought. And he looked up, and +said: +</P> + +<P> +"I see men as trees, walking." +</P> + +<P> +After that he put his hands again upon his eyes, and made him look up: +and he was restored, and saw every man clearly. And he sent him away +to his house, saying: "Neither go into the town, nor tell it to any in +the town." +</P> + +<P> +And Jesus went out, and his disciples, into the towns of Caesarea +Philippi: and by the way he asked his disciples, saying unto them: +</P> + +<P> +"Whom do men say that I am?" +</P> + +<P> +And they answered, "John the Baptist: but some say, Elias; and others, +One of the prophets." +</P> + +<P> +And he saith unto them, "But whom say ye that I am?" +</P> + +<P> +And Peter answereth and saith unto him, "Thou art the Christ." +</P> + +<P> +And he charged them that they should tell no man of him. +</P> + +<P> +And he began to teach them, that the Son of man must suffer many +things, and be rejected of the elders, and of the chief priests, and +scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise again. And he spake +that saying openly. And Peter took him and began to rebuke him. But +when he had turned about and looked on his disciples, he rebuked Peter, +saying: +</P> + +<P> +"Get thee behind me, Satan: for thou savourest not the things that be +of God, but the things that be of men." +</P> + +<P> +And when he had called the people unto him with his disciples also, he +said unto them: +</P> + +<P> +"Whosoever will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his +cross, and follow me. For whosoever will save his life shall lose it; +but whosoever shall lose his life for my sake and the gospel's, the +same shall save it. For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain +the whole world, and lose his own soul? Or what shall a man give in +exchange for his soul? Whosoever therefore shall be ashamed of me and +of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation; of him also shall +the Son of man be ashamed, when he cometh in the glory of his Father +with the holy angels." +</P> + +<P> +And he said unto them: +</P> + +<P> +"Verily I say unto you. That there be some of them that stand here, +which shall not taste of death, till they have seen the kingdom of God +come with power." +</P> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<A NAME="chap09"></A> +<H3 ALIGN="center"> +CHAPTER IX +</H3> + +<H3 ALIGN="center"> +STRONG SON OF GOD +</H3> + + +<P> +And after six days, Jesus taketh with him Peter, and James, and John, +and leadeth them up into an high mountain apart by themselves: and he +was transfigured before them. And his raiment became shining, +exceeding white as snow; so as no fuller on earth can white them. And +there appeared unto them Elias with Moses: and they were talking with +Jesus. +</P> + +<P> +And Peter answered and said to Jesus, "Master, it is good for us to be +here: and let us make three tabernacles; one for thee, and one for +Moses, and one for Elias." For he wist not what to say; for they were +sore afraid. And there was a cloud that overshadowed them: and a voice +came out of the cloud, saying: +</P> + +<P> +"This is my beloved Son: hear him." +</P> + +<P> +And suddenly, when they had looked round about, they saw no man any +more, save Jesus only with themselves. +</P> + +<P> +And as they came down from the mountain, he charged them that they +should tell no man what things they had seen, till the Son of man were +risen from the dead. And they kept that saying with themselves, +questioning one with another what the rising from the dead should mean. +</P> + +<P> +And they asked him, saying, "Why say the scribes that Elias must first +come?" +</P> + +<P> +And he answered and told them, "Elias verily cometh first, and +restoreth all things; and how it is written of the Son of man, that he +must suffer many things, and be set at nought. But I say unto you, +That Elias is indeed come, and they have done unto him whatsoever they +listed, as it is written of him." +</P> + +<P> +And when he came to his disciples, he saw a great multitude about them, +and the scribes questioning with them. And straightway all the people, +when they beheld him, were greatly amazed, and running to him saluted +him. +</P> + +<P> +And he asked the scribes, "What question ye with them?" +</P> + +<P> +And one of the multitude answered and said, "Master, I have brought +unto thee my son, which hath a dumb spirit; and wheresoever he taketh +him he teareth him: and he foameth, and gnasheth with his teeth, and +pineth away: and I spake to thy disciples that they should cast him +out; and they could not." +</P> + +<P> +He answereth him, and saith, "O faithless generation, how long shall I +be with you? How long shall I suffer you? Bring him unto me." +</P> + +<P> +And they brought him unto him: and when he saw him, straightway the +spirit tare him; and he fell on the ground, and wallowed foaming. And +he asked his father, "How long is it ago since this came unto him?" +</P> + +<P> +And he said, "Of a child. And ofttimes it hath cast him into the fire, +and into the waters, to destroy him: but if thou canst do any thing, +have compassion on us, and help us." +</P> + +<P> +Jesus said unto him, "If thou canst believe, all things are possible to +him that believeth." +</P> + +<P> +And straightway the father of the child cried out, and said with tears, +"Lord, I believe; help thou mine unbelief." +</P> + +<P> +When Jesus saw that the people came running together, he rebuked the +foul spirit, saying unto him: +</P> + +<P> +"Thou dumb and deaf spirit, I charge thee, come out of him, and enter +no more into him." +</P> + +<P> +And the spirit cried, and rent him sore, and came out of him: and he +was as one dead; insomuch that many said, "He is dead." But Jesus took +him by the hand, and lifted him up; and he arose. And when he was come +into the house, his disciples asked him privately: +</P> + +<P> +"Why could not we cast him out?" +</P> + +<P> +And he said unto them, "This kind can come forth by nothing, but by +prayer and fasting." +</P> + +<P> +And they departed thence, and passed through Galilee; and he would not +that any man should know it. For he taught his disciples, and said +unto them: +</P> + +<P> +"The Son of man is delivered into the hands of men, and they shall kill +him; and after that he is killed, he shall rise the third day." +</P> + +<P> +But they understood not that saying, and were afraid to ask him. +</P> + +<P> +And he came to Capernaum: and being in the house he asked them, "What +was it that ye disputed among yourselves by the way?" +</P> + +<P> +But they held their peace: for by the way they had disputed among +themselves, who should be the greatest. And he sat down, and called +the twelve, and saith unto them: +</P> + +<P> +"If any man desire to be first, the same shall be last of all, and +servant of all." +</P> + +<P> +And he took a child, and set him in the midst of them; and when he had +taken him in his arms, he said unto them: +</P> + +<P> +"Whosoever shall receive one of such children in my name, receiveth me: +and whosoever shall receive me, receiveth not me, but him that sent me." +</P> + +<P> +And John answered him, saying, "Master, we saw one casting out devils +in thy name, and he followeth not us: and we forbade him, because he +followeth not us." +</P> + +<P> +But Jesus said, "Forbid him not: for there is no man which shall do a +miracle in my name, that can lightly speak evil of me. For he that is +not against us is on our part. For whosoever shall give you a cup of +water to drink in my name, because ye belong to Christ, verily I say +unto you, he shall not lose his reward. And whosoever shall offend one +of these little ones that believe in me, it is better for him that a +millstone were hanged about his neck, and he were cast into the sea. +And if thy hand offend thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter +into life maimed, than having two hands to go into hell, into the fire +that never shall be quenched: where their worm dieth not, and the fire +is not quenched. And if thy foot offend thee, cut it off: it is better +for thee to enter halt into life, than having two feet to be cast into +hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched: where their worm +dieth not, and the fire is not quenched. And if thine eye offend thee, +pluck it out: it is better for thee to enter into the kingdom of God +with one eye, than having two eyes to be cast into hell fire: where +their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched. For every one +shall be salted with fire, and every sacrifice shall be salted with +salt. Salt is good: but if the salt have lost his saltness, wherewith +will ye season it? Have salt in yourselves, and have peace one with +another." +</P> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<A NAME="chap10"></A> +<H3 ALIGN="center"> +CHAPTER X +</H3> + +<H3 ALIGN="center"> +MASTER OF MEN BUT SERVANT OF ALL +</H3> + + +<P> +And he arose from thence, and cometh into the coasts of Judaea by the +farther side of Jordan: and the people resort unto him again; and, as +he was wont, he taught them again. And the Pharisees came to him, and +asked him, "Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife?" tempting him. +</P> + +<P> +And he answered and said unto them: +</P> + +<P> +"What did Moses command you?" +</P> + +<P> +And they said, "Moses suffered to write a bill of divorcement, and to +put her away." +</P> + +<P> +And Jesus answered and said unto them: +</P> + +<P> +"For the hardness of your heart he wrote you this precept. But from +the beginning of the creation God made them male and female. For this +cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife; +and they twain shall be one flesh: so then they are no more twain, but +one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put +asunder." +</P> + +<P> +And in the house his disciples asked him again of the same matter. +</P> + +<P> +And he saith unto them: +</P> + +<P> +"Whosoever shall put away his wife, and marry another, committeth +adultery against her. And if a woman shall put away her husband, and +be married to another, she committeth adultery." +</P> + +<P> +And they brought young children to him, that he should touch them: and +his disciples rebuked those that brought them. But when Jesus saw it, +he was much displeased, and said unto them: +</P> + +<P> +"Suffer the little children to come unto me, and forbid them not: for +of such is the kingdom of God. Verily I say unto you. Whosoever shall +not receive the kingdom of God as a little child, he shall not enter +therein." +</P> + +<P> +And he took them up in his arms, put his hands upon them, and blessed +them. +</P> + +<P> +And when he was gone forth into the way, there came one running, and +kneeled to him, and asked him, "Good Master, what shall I do that I may +inherit eternal life?" +</P> + +<P> +And Jesus said unto him, "Why callest thou me good? There is none good +but one, that is, God. Thou knowest the commandments, 'Do not commit +adultery,' 'Do not kill,' 'Do not steal,' 'Do not bear false witness,' +'Defraud not,' 'Honour thy father and mother.'" +</P> + +<P> +And he answered and said unto him, "Master, all these have I observed +from my youth." +</P> + +<P> +Then Jesus beholding him loved him, and said unto him, "One thing thou +lackest: go thy way, sell whatsoever thou hast, and give to the poor, +and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come, take up the cross, +and follow me." +</P> + +<P> +And he was sad at that saying, and went away grieved: for he had great +possessions. +</P> + +<P> +And Jesus looked round about, and saith unto his disciples: +</P> + +<P> +"How hardly shall they that have riches enter into the kingdom of God!" +</P> + +<P> +And the disciples were astonished at his words. But Jesus answereth +again, and saith unto them: +</P> + +<P> +"Children, how hard is it for them that trust in riches to enter into +the kingdom of God! It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of +a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God." +</P> + +<P> +And they were astonished out of measure, saying among themselves, "Who +then can be saved?" +</P> + +<P> +And Jesus looking upon them saith, "With men it is impossible, but not +with God: for with God all things are possible." +</P> + +<P> +Then Peter began to say unto him, "Lo, we have left all, and have +followed thee." And Jesus answered and said: +</P> + +<P> +"Verily I say unto you. There is no man that hath left house, or +brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or +lands, for my sake, and the gospel's, but he shall receive an +hundredfold now in this time, houses, and brethren, and sisters, and +mothers, and children, and lands, with persecutions; and in the world +to come eternal life. But many that are first shall be last; and the +last first." +</P> + +<P> +And they were in the way going up to Jerusalem; and Jesus went before +them: and they were amazed; and as they followed, they were afraid. +And he took again the twelve, and began to tell them what things should +happen unto him, saying: +</P> + +<P> +"Behold, we go up to Jerusalem; and the Son of man shall be delivered +unto the chief priests, and unto the scribes; and they shall condemn +him to death, and shall deliver him to the Gentiles: and they shall +mock him, and shall scourge him, and shall spit upon him, and shall +kill him: and the third day he shall rise again." +</P> + +<P> +And James and John, the sons of Zebedee, come unto him, saying, +"Master, we would that thou shouldest do for us whatsoever we shall +desire." +</P> + +<P> +And he said unto them, "What would ye that I should do for you?" +</P> + +<P> +They said unto him, "Grant unto us that we may sit, one on thy right +hand, and the other on thy left hand, in thy glory." +</P> + +<P> +But Jesus said unto them, "Ye know not what ye ask; can ye drink of the +cup that I drink of, and be baptized with the baptism that I am +baptized with?" +</P> + +<P> +And they said unto him, "We can." +</P> + +<P> +And Jesus said unto them, "Ye shall indeed drink of the cup that I +drink of; and with the baptism that I am baptized withal shall ye be +baptized: but to sit on my right hand and on my left hand is not mine +to give; but it shall be given to them for whom it is prepared." +</P> + +<P> +And when the ten heard it, they began to be much displeased with James +and John. But Jesus called them to him, and saith unto them: +</P> + +<P> +"Ye know that they which are accounted to rule over the Gentiles +exercise lordship over them; and their great ones exercise authority +upon them. But so shall it not be among you: but whosoever will be +great among you, shall be your minister: and whosoever of you will be +the chiefest, shall be servant of all. For even the Son of man came +not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a +ransom for many." +</P> + +<P> +And they came to Jericho: and as he went out of Jericho with his +disciples and a great number of people, blind Bartimaeus, the son of +Timasus, sat by the highway side begging. And when he heard that it +was Jesus of Nazareth, he began to cry out, and say, "Jesus, thou son +of David, have mercy on me." +</P> + +<P> +And many charged him that he should hold his peace: but he cried the +more a great deal, "Thou son of David, have mercy on me." +</P> + +<P> +And Jesus stood still, and commanded him to be called. And they call +the blind man, saying unto him, "Be of good comfort, rise; he calleth +thee." And he, casting away his garment, rose, and came to Jesus. +</P> + +<P> +And Jesus answered and said unto him, "What wilt thou that I should do +unto thee?" +</P> + +<P> +The blind man said unto him, "Lord, that I might receive my sight." +</P> + +<P> +And Jesus said unto him, "Go thy way; thy faith hath made thee whole." +And immediately he received his sight, and followed Jesus in the way. +</P> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<A NAME="chap11"></A> +<H3 ALIGN="center"> +CHAPTER XI +</H3> + +<H3 ALIGN="center"> +HE THAT COMETH IN THE NAME OF THE LORD +</H3> + + +<P> +And when they came nigh to Jerusalem, unto Bethphage and Bethany, at +the mount of Olives, he sendeth forth two of his disciples, and saith +unto them: +</P> + +<P> +"Go your way into the village over against you: and as soon as ye be +entered into it, ye shall find a colt tied, whereon never man sat; +loose him, and bring him. And if any man say unto you, 'Why do ye +this?' say ye, 'The Lord hath need of him;' and straightway he will +send him hither." +</P> + +<P> +And they went their way, and found the colt tied by the door without in +a place where two ways met; and they loose him. And certain of them +that stood there said unto them, "What do ye, loosing the colt?" And +they said unto them even as Jesus had commanded: and they let them go. +And they brought the colt to Jesus, and cast their garments on him; and +he sat upon him. And many spread their garments in the way: and others +cut down branches off the trees, and strawed [Transcriber's note: +strewed?] them in the way. And they that went before and they that +followed, cried, saying: +</P> + +<P> +"Hosanna; Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord: blessed be +the kingdom of our father David, that cometh in the name of the Lord: +Hosanna in the highest." +</P> + +<P> +And Jesus entered into Jerusalem, and into the temple; and when he had +looked round about upon all things, and now the eventide was come, he +went out unto Bethany with the twelve. +</P> + +<P> +And on the morrow, when they were come from Bethany, he was hungry: and +seeing a fig tree afar off having leaves, he came, if haply he might +find any thing thereon: and when he came to it, he found nothing but +leaves; for the time of figs was not yet. And Jesus answered and said +unto it: +</P> + +<P> +"No man eat fruit of thee hereafter for ever." And his disciples heard +it. +</P> + +<P> +And they come to Jerusalem: and Jesus went into the temple, and began +to cast out them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew +tables of the money changers, and the seats of them that sold doves; +and would not suffer that any man should carry any vessel through the +temple. And he taught, saying unto them: +</P> + +<P> +"Is it not written, 'My house shall be called of all nations the house +of prayer?' but ye have made it a den of thieves." +</P> + +<P> +And the scribes and chief priests heard it, and sought how they might +destroy him: for they feared him because all the people was astonished +at his doctrine. And when even was come, he went out of the city. +</P> + +<P> +And in the morning, as they passed by, they saw the fig tree dried up +from the roots. And Peter calling to remembrance saith unto him, +"Master, behold, the fig tree which thou cursedst is withered away." +</P> + +<P> +And Jesus answering saith unto them, "Have faith in God. For verily I +say unto you, that whosoever shall say unto this mountain, 'Be thou +removed, and be thou cast into the sea;' and shall not doubt in his +heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to +pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith. Therefore I say unto you, +what things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive +them, and ye shall have them. And when ye stand praying, forgive, if +ye have ought against any: that your Father also which is in heaven may +forgive you your trespasses. But if ye do not forgive, neither will +your Father which is in heaven forgive your trespasses." +</P> + +<P> +And they come again to Jerusalem: and as he was walking in the temple, +there come to him the chief priests, and the scribes, and the elders, +and say unto him: +</P> + +<P> +"By what authority doest thou these things and who gave thee this +authority to do these things?" +</P> + +<P> +And Jesus answered and said unto them, "I will also ask of you one +question, and answer me, and I will tell you by what authority I do +these things. The baptism of John, was it from heaven, or of men? +Answer me." +</P> + +<P> +And they reasoned with themselves, saying, "If we shall say, 'From +heaven;' he will say, 'Why then did ye not believe him?' But if we +shall say, 'Of men;' they feared the people: for all men counted John, +that he was a prophet indeed." And they answered and said unto Jesus, +"We cannot tell." +</P> + +<P> +And Jesus answering saith unto them, "Neither do I tell you by what +authority I do these things." +</P> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<A NAME="chap12"></A> +<H3 ALIGN="center"> +CHAPTER XII +</H3> + +<H3 ALIGN="center"> +IN CONFLICT WITH SCRIBES AND PHARISEES +</H3> + + +<P> +And he began to speak unto them by parables. +</P> + +<P> +"A certain man planted a vineyard, and set an hedge about it, and +digged a place for the winefat, and built a tower, and let it out to +husbandmen, and went into a far country. And at the season he sent to +the husbandmen a servant, that he might receive from the husbandman of +the fruit of the vineyard. And they caught him, and beat him, and sent +him away empty. And again he sent unto them another servant; and at +him they cast stones, and wounded him in the head, and sent him away +shamefully handled. And again he sent another; and him they killed, +and many others; beating some, and killing some. Having yet therefore +one son, his well beloved, he sent him also last unto them, saying, +'They will reverence my son.' But those husbandmen said among +themselves, 'This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and the +inheritance shall be ours.' And they took him, and killed him, and +cast him out of the vineyard. What shall therefore the lord of the +vineyard do? He will come and destroy the husbandmen, and will give +the vineyard unto others. And have ye not read this scripture; 'The +stone which the builders rejected is become the head of the corner: +this was the Lord's doing, and it is marvellous in our eyes?'" +</P> + +<P> +And they sought to lay hold on him, but feared the people: for they +knew that he had spoken the parable against them: and they left him, +and went their way. +</P> + +<P> +And they send unto him certain of the Pharisees and of the Herodians, +to catch him in his words. And when they were come, they say unto him: +</P> + +<P> +"Master, we know that thou art true, and carest for no man: for thou +regardest not the person of men, but teachest the way of God in truth: +is it lawful to give tribute to Caesar, or not? Shall we give, or +shall we not give?" +</P> + +<P> +But he, knowing their hypocrisy, said unto them: "Why tempt ye me? +Bring me a penny, that I may see it." +</P> + +<P> +And they brought it. And he saith unto them, "Whose is this image and +superscription?" And they said unto him, "Caesar's." And Jesus +answering said unto them: +</P> + +<P> +"Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things +that are God's." +</P> + +<P> +And they marvelled at him. +</P> + +<P> +Then come unto him the Sadducees, which say there is no resurrection; +and they asked him, saying: +</P> + +<P> +"Master, Moses wrote unto us, 'If a man's brother die, and leave his +wife behind him, and leave no children, that his brother should take +his wife, and raise up seed unto his brother.' Now there were seven +brethren: and the first took a wife, and dying left no seed. And the +second took her, and died, neither left he any seed: and the third +likewise. And the seven had her, and left no seed: last of all the +woman died also. In the resurrection therefore, when they shall rise, +whose wife shall she be of them, for the seven had her to wife?" +</P> + +<P> +And Jesus answering said unto them, "Do ye not therefore err, because +ye know not the scriptures, neither the power of God? For when they +shall rise from the dead, they neither marry, nor are given in +marriage; but are as the angels which are in heaven. And as touching +the dead, that they rise: have ye not read in the book of Moses, how in +the bush God spake unto him, saying, 'I am the God of Abraham, and the +God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob?' He is not the God of the dead, +but the God of the living: ye therefore do greatly err." +</P> + +<P> +And one of the scribes came, and having heard them reasoning together, +and perceiving that he had answered them well, asked him, "Which is the +first commandment of all?" +</P> + +<P> +And Jesus answered him, "The first of all the commandments is, 'Hear, O +Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord:' and 'thou shalt love the Lord +thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy +mind, and with all thy strength:' this is the first commandment. +</P> + +<P> +"And the second is like, namely this, 'Thou shalt love thy neighbour as +thyself.' There is none other commandment greater than these." +</P> + +<P> +And the scribe said unto him, "Well, Master, thou hast said the truth: +for there is one God; and there is none other but he: and to love Him +with all the heart, and with all the understanding, and with all the +soul, and with all the strength, and to love his neighbour as himself, +is more than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices." +</P> + +<P> +And when Jesus saw that he answered discreetly, he said unto him, "Thou +art not far from the kingdom of God." +</P> + +<P> +And no man after that durst ask him any question. +</P> + +<P> +And Jesus answered and said, while he taught in the temple: +</P> + +<P> +"How say the scribes that Christ is the son of David? For David +himself said by the Holy Ghost, 'The Lord said to my Lord, "Sit thou on +my right hand, till I make thine enemies thy footstool."' David +therefore himself calleth him 'Lord'; and whence is he then his son?" +</P> + +<P> +And the common people heard him gladly. And he said unto them in his +doctrine: +</P> + +<P> +"Beware of the scribes, which love to go in long clothing, and love +salutations in the market places, and the chief seats in the +synagogues, and the uppermost rooms at feasts: which devour widows' +houses, and for a pretence make long prayers: these shall receive +greater damnation." +</P> + +<P> +And Jesus sat over against the treasury, and beheld how the people cast +money into the treasury: and many that were rich cast in much. And +there came a certain poor widow, and she threw in two mites, which make +a farthing. And he called unto him his disciples, and saith unto them: +</P> + +<P> +"Verily I say unto you, that this poor widow hath cast more in, than +all they which have cast into the treasury: for all they did cast in of +their abundance; but she of her want did cast in all that she had, even +all her living." +</P> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<A NAME="chap13"></A> +<H3 ALIGN="center"> +CHAPTER XIII +</H3> + +<H3 ALIGN="center"> +JERUSALEM THAT KILLETH THE PROPHETS +</H3> + + +<P> +And as he went out of the temple, one of his disciples saith unto him, +"Master, see what manner of stones and what buildings are here!" +</P> + +<P> +And Jesus answering said unto him, "Seest thou these great buildings? +There shall not be left one stone upon another, that shall not be +thrown down." +</P> + +<P> +And as he sat upon the mount of Olives over against the temple, Peter +and James and John and Andrew asked him privately, "Tell us, when shall +these things be, and what shall be the sign when all these things shall +be fulfilled?" +</P> + +<P> +And Jesus answering them began to say: +</P> + +<P> +"Take heed lest any man deceive you: for many shall come in my name, +saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many. And when ye shall hear of +wars and rumours of wars, be ye not troubled: for such things must +needs be; but the end shall not be yet. For nation shall rise against +nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be earthquakes in +divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the +beginnings of sorrows. +</P> + +<P> +"But take heed to yourselves: for they shall deliver you up to +councils; and in the synagogues ye shall be beaten: and ye shall be +brought before rulers and kings for my sake, for a testimony against +them. And the gospel must first be published among all nations. But +when they shall lead you, and deliver you up, take no thought +beforehand what ye shall speak, neither do ye premeditate: but +whatsoever shall be given you in that hour, that speak ye: for it is +not ye that speak, but the Holy Ghost. Now the brother shall betray +the brother to death, and the father the son; and children shall rise +up against their parents, and shall cause them to be put to death. And +ye shall be hated of all men for my name's sake: but he that shall +endure unto the end, the same shall be saved. +</P> + +<P> +"But when ye shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by +Daniel the prophet, standing where it ought not, (let him that readeth +understand,) then let them that be in Judaea flee to the mountains: and +let him that is on the housetop not go down into the house, neither +enter therein, to take any thing out of his house: and let him that is +in the field not turn back again for to take up his garment. But woe +to them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days! +And pray ye that your flight be not in the winter. For in those days +shall be affliction, such as was not from the beginning of the creation +which God created unto this time, neither shall be. And except that +the Lord had shortened those days, no flesh should be saved: but for +the elect's sake, whom he hath chosen, he hath shortened the days. And +then if any man shall say to you, 'Lo, here is Christ;' or, 'lo, he is +there;' believe him not: for false Christs and false prophets shall +rise, and shall shew signs and wonders, to seduce, if it were possible, +even the elect. But take ye heed: behold, I have foretold you all +things. +</P> + +<P> +"But in those days, after that tribulation, the sun shall be darkened, +and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars of heaven shall +fall, and the powers that are in heaven shall be shaken. And then +shall they see the Son of man coming in the clouds with great power and +glory. And then shall he send his angels, and shall gather together +his elect from the four winds, from the uttermost part of the earth to +the uttermost part of heaven. +</P> + +<P> +"Now, learn a parable of the fig tree; when her branch is yet tender, +and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is near: so ye in like +manner, when ye shall see these things come to pass, know that it is +nigh, even at the doors. Verily I say unto you, that this generation +shall not pass, till all these things be done. Heaven and earth shall +pass away: but my words shall not pass away. But of that day and that +hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels which are in heaven, neither +the Son, but the Father. Take ye heed, watch and pray: for ye know not +when the time is. For the Son of man is as a man taking a far journey, +who left his house, and gave authority to his servants, and to every +man his work, and commanded the porter to watch. Watch ye therefore: +for ye know not when the master of the house cometh, at even, or at +midnight, or at the cock-crowing, or in the morning: lest coming +suddenly he find you sleeping. And what I say unto you I say unto all, +Watch." +</P> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<A NAME="chap14"></A> +<H3 ALIGN="center"> +CHAPTER XIV +</H3> + +<H3 ALIGN="center"> +DESPISED AND REJECTED BY FRIEND AND FOE +</H3> + + +<P> +After two days was the feast of the passover, and of unleavened bread: +and the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might take him by +craft, and put him to death. But they said, "Not on the feast day, +lest there be an uproar of the people." +</P> + +<P> +And being in Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at +meat, there came a woman having an alabaster box of ointment of +spikenard, very precious; and she brake the box, and poured it on his +head. And there were some that had indignation within themselves, and +said, "Why was this waste of the ointment made? For it might have been +sold for more than three hundred pence, and have been given to the +poor." And they murmured against her. +</P> + +<P> +And Jesus said, "Let her alone; why trouble ye her? She hath wrought a +good work on me. For ye have the poor with you always, and whensoever +ye will ye may do them good: but me ye have not always. She hath done +what she could: she is come aforehand to anoint my body to the burying. +Verily I say unto you, wheresoever this gospel shall be preached +throughout the whole world, this also that she hath done shall be +spoken of for a memorial of her." +</P> + +<P> +And Judas Iscariot, one of the twelve, went unto the chief priests, to +betray him unto them. And when they heard it, they were glad, and +promised to give him money. And he sought how he might conveniently +betray him. +</P> + +<P> +And the first day of unleavened bread, when they killed the passover, +his disciples said unto him, "Where wilt thou that we go and prepare +that thou mayest eat the passover?" And he sendeth forth two of his +disciples, and saith unto them: +</P> + +<P> +"Go ye into the city, and there shall meet you a man bearing a pitcher +of water: follow him. And wheresoever he shall go in, say ye to the +good man of the house, 'The Master saith, "Where is the guestchamber, +where I shall eat the passover with my disciples?"' And he will shew +you a large upper room furnished and prepared: there make ready for us." +</P> + +<P> +And his disciples went forth, and came into the city, and found as he +had said unto them: and they made ready the passover. And in the +evening he cometh with the twelve. And as they sat and did eat, Jesus +said: +</P> + +<P> +"Verily I say unto you, one of you which eateth with me shall betray +me." +</P> + +<P> +And they began to be sorrowful, and to say unto him one by one, "Is it +I?" and another said, "Is it I?" And he answered and said unto them, +"It is one of the twelve, that dippeth with me in the dish. The Son of +man indeed goeth, as it is written of him; but woe to that man by whom +the Son of man is betrayed! Good were it for that man if he had never +been born." +</P> + +<P> +And as they did eat, Jesus took bread, and blessed, and brake it, and +gave to them, and said: +</P> + +<P> +"Take, eat: this is my body." +</P> + +<P> +And he took the cup, and when he had given thanks, he gave it to them: +and they all drank of it. And he said unto them: +</P> + +<P> +"This is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many. Verily +I say unto you, I will drink no more of the fruit of the vine, until +that day that I drink it new in the kingdom of God." +</P> + +<P> +And when they had sung an hymn, they went out into the mount of Olives. +And Jesus saith unto them, "All ye shall be offended because of me this +night: for it is written, 'I will smite the shepherd, and the sheep +shall be scattered.' But after that I am risen, I will go before you +into Galilee." +</P> + +<P> +But Peter said unto him, "Although all shall be offended, yet will not +I." And Jesus saith unto him, "Verily I say unto thee, that this day, +even in this night, before the cock crow twice, thou shalt deny me +thrice." But he spake the more vehemently, "If I should die with thee, +I will not deny thee in any wise." +</P> + +<P> +Likewise also said they all. +</P> + +<P> +And they came to a place which was named Gethsemane: and he saith to +his disciples, "Sit ye here, while I shall pray." And he taketh with +him Peter and James and John, and began to be sore amazed, and to be +very heavy; and saith unto them, "My soul is exceeding sorrowful unto +death: tarry ye here, and watch." +</P> + +<P> +And he went forward a little, and fell on the ground, and prayed that +if it were possible, the hour might pass from him. And he said: +</P> + +<P> +"Abba, Father, all things are possible unto thee; take away this cup +from me: nevertheless not what I will, but what thou wilt." +</P> + +<P> +And he cometh, and findeth them sleeping, and saith unto Peter, "Simon, +sleepest thou? Couldest not thou watch one hour? Watch ye and pray, +lest ye enter into temptation. The spirit truly is ready, but the +flesh is weak." +</P> + +<P> +And again he went away, and prayed, and spake the same words. And when +he returned, he found them asleep again, (for their eyes were heavy,) +neither wist they what to answer him. And he cometh the third time, +and saith unto them: +</P> + +<P> +"Sleep on now, and take your rest: it is enough, the hour is come; +behold, the Son of man is betrayed into the hands of sinners. Rise up, +let us go; lo, he that betrayeth me is at hand." +</P> + +<P> +And immediately, while he yet spake, cometh Judas, one of the twelve, +and with him a great multitude with swords and staves, from the chief +priests and the scribes and the elders. And he that betrayed him had +given them a token, saying, "Whomsoever I shall kiss, that same is he; +take him, and lead him away safely." +</P> + +<P> +And as soon as he was come, he goeth straightway to him, and saith, +"Master, master;" and kissed him. And they laid their hands on him, +and took him. And one of them that stood by drew a sword, and smote a +servant of the high priest, and cut off his ear. And Jesus answered +and said unto them: +</P> + +<P> +"Are ye come out, as against a thief, with swords and with staves to +take me? I was daily with you in the temple teaching, and ye took me +not: but the scriptures must be fulfilled." +</P> + +<P> +And they all forsook him, and fled. And there followed him a certain +young man, having a linen cloth cast about his naked body; and the +young men laid hold on him: and he left the linen cloth, and fled from +them naked. +</P> + +<P> +And they led Jesus away to the high priest: and with him were assembled +all the chief priests and the elders and the scribes. And Peter +followed him afar off, even into the palace of the high priest; and he +sat with the servants, and warmed himself at the fire. And the chief +priests and all the council sought for witness against Jesus to put him +to death; and found none. For many bare false witness against him, but +their witness agreed not together. And there arose certain, and bare +false witness against him, saying: +</P> + +<P> +"We heard him say, 'I will destroy this temple that is made with hands, +and within three days I will build another made without hands.'" +</P> + +<P> +But neither so did their witness agree together. And the high priest +stood up in the midst, and asked Jesus, saying: +</P> + +<P> +"Answerest thou nothing? What is it which these witness against thee?" +</P> + +<P> +But he held his peace, and answered nothing. Again the high priest +asked him, and said unto him: +</P> + +<P> +"Art thou the Christ, the Son of the Blessed?" +</P> + +<P> +And Jesus said, "I am: and ye shall see the Son of man sitting on the +right hand of power, and coming in the clouds of heaven." +</P> + +<P> +Then the high priest rent his clothes, and saith, "What need we any +further witnesses? Ye have heard the blasphemy: what think ye?" And +they all condemned him to be guilty of death. And some began to spit +on him, and to cover his face, and to buffet him, and to say unto him, +"Prophesy:" and the servants did strike him with the palms of their +hands. +</P> + +<P> +And as Peter was beneath in the palace, there cometh one of the maids +of the high priest: and when she saw Peter warming himself, she looked +upon him, and said, "And thou also wast with Jesus of Nazareth." But +he denied, saying, "I know not, neither understand I what thou sayest." +And he went out into the porch; and the cock crew. +</P> + +<P> +And a maid saw him again, and began to say to them that stood by, "This +is one of them." And he denied it again. And a little after, they +that stood by said again to Peter, "Surely thou art one of them: for +thou art a Galilaean, and thy speech agreeth thereto." But he began to +curse and to swear, saying, "I know not this man of whom ye speak." +</P> + +<P> +And the second time the cock crew. And Peter called to mind the word +that Jesus said unto him, "Before the cock crow twice, thou shalt deny +me thrice." And when he thought thereon, he wept. +</P> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<A NAME="chap15"></A> +<H3 ALIGN="center"> +CHAPTER XV +</H3> + +<H3 ALIGN="center"> +CRUCIFIED, DEAD AND BURIED +</H3> + + +<P> +And straightway in the morning the chief priests held a consultation +with the elders and scribes and the whole council, and bound Jesus, and +carried him away, and delivered him to Pilate. +</P> + +<P> +And Pilate asked him, "Art thou the King of the Jews?" +</P> + +<P> +And he answering said unto him, "Thou sayest it." +</P> + +<P> +And the chief priests accused him of many things: but he answered +nothing. And Pilate asked him again, saying, "Answerest thou nothing? +Behold how many things they witness against thee." +</P> + +<P> +But Jesus yet answered nothing; so that Pilate marvelled. +</P> + +<P> +Now at that feast he released unto them one prisoner, whomsoever they +desired. And there was one named Barabbas, which lay bound with them +that had made insurrection with him, who had committed murder in the +insurrection. And the multitude crying aloud began to desire him to do +as he had ever done unto them. But Pilate answered them, saying: +</P> + +<P> +"Will ye that I release unto you the King of the Jews?" +</P> + +<P> +For he knew that the chief priests had delivered him for envy. But the +chief priests moved the people, that he should rather release Barabbas +unto them. And Pilate answered and said again unto them: +</P> + +<P> +"What will ye then that I shall do unto him who ye call the King of the +Jews?" +</P> + +<P> +And they cried out again, "Crucify him." +</P> + +<P> +Then Pilate said unto them, "Why, what evil hath he done?" And they +cried out the more exceedingly, "Crucify him." And so Pilate, willing +to content the people, released Barabbas unto them, and delivered +Jesus, when he had scourged him, to be crucified. +</P> + +<P> +And the soldiers led him away into the hall, called Praetorium; and +they call together the whole band. And they clothed him with purple, +and platted a crown of thorns, and put it about his head, and began to +salute him: +</P> + +<P> +"Hail, King of the Jews!" +</P> + +<P> +And they smote him on the head with a reed, and did spit upon him, and +bowing their knees worshipped him. And when they had mocked him, they +took off the purple from him, and put his own clothes on him, and led +him out to crucify him. +</P> + +<P> +And they compel one Simon a Cyrenian, who passed by, coming out of the +country, the father of Alexander and Rufus, to bear his cross. And +they bring him unto the place Golgotha, which is, being interpreted, +"The place of a skull." And they gave him to drink wine mingled with +myrrh: but he received it not. And when they had crucified him, they +parted his garments, casting lots upon them, what every man should +take. And it was the third hour, and they crucified him. And the +superscription of his accusation was written over: +</P> + +<H3 ALIGN="center"> +"THE KING OF THE JEWS." +</H3> + +<P> +And with him they crucify two thieves; the one on his right hand, and +the other on his left. And the scripture was fulfilled, which saith, +"And he was numbered with the transgressors." And they that passed by +railed on him, wagging their heads, and saying: +</P> + +<P> +"Ah, thou that destroyest the temple, and buildest it in three days, +save thyself, and come down from the cross." +</P> + +<P> +Likewise also the chief priests mocking said among themselves with the +scribes, "He saved others; himself he cannot save. Let Christ the King +of Israel descend now from the cross, that we may see and believe." +</P> + +<P> +And they that were crucified with him reviled him. +</P> + +<P> +And when the sixth hour was come, there was darkness over the whole +land until the ninth hour. And at the ninth hour, Jesus cried with a +loud voice, saying: +</P> + +<P> +"Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?" which is, being interpreted, "My God, +my God, why hast thou forsaken me?" +</P> + +<P> +And some of them that stood by, when they heard it, said, "Behold, he +calleth Elias." And one ran and filled a spunge full of vinegar, and +put it on a reed, and gave him to drink, saying, "Let alone; let us see +whether Elias will come to take him down." +</P> + +<P> +And Jesus cried with a loud voice, and gave up the ghost. And the veil +of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom. And when +the centurion, which stood over against him, saw that he so cried out, +and gave up the ghost, he said: +</P> + +<P> +"Truly this man was the Son of God." +</P> + +<P> +There were also women looking on afar off: among whom was Mary +Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James the less and of Joses, and +Salome; (who also, when he was in Galilee, followed him, and ministered +unto him;) and many other women which came up with him unto Jerusalem. +</P> + +<P> +And now when the even was come, because it was the preparation, that +is, the day before the sabbath, Joseph of Arimathaea, an honourable +counsellor, which also waited for the kingdom of God, came, and went in +boldly unto Pilate, and craved the body of Jesus. And Pilate marvelled +if he were already dead: and calling unto him the centurion, he asked +him whether he had been any while dead. And when he knew it of the +centurion, he gave the body to Joseph. And he bought fine linen, and +took him down, and wrapped him in the linen, and laid him in a +sepulchre which was hewn out of a rock, and rolled a stone unto the +door of the sepulchre. +</P> + +<P> +And Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of Joses beheld where he was +laid. +</P> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<A NAME="chap16"></A> +<H3 ALIGN="center"> +CHAPTER XVI +</H3> + +<H3 ALIGN="center"> +JESUS OF NAZARETH RISES FROM THE DEAD +</H3> + + +<P> +And when the sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of +James, and Salome, had bought sweet spices, that they might come and +anoint him. And very early in the morning the first day of the week, +they came unto the sepulchre at the rising of the sun. And they said +among themselves: +</P> + +<P> +"Who shall roll us away the stone from the door of the sepulchre?" +</P> + +<P> +And when they looked, they saw that the stone was rolled away: for it +was very great. And entering into the sepulchre, they saw a young man +sitting on the right side, clothed in a long white garment; and they +were affrighted. And he saith unto them: +</P> + +<P> +"Be not affrighted: Ye seek Jesus of Nazareth, which was crucified: he +is risen; he is not here: behold the place where they laid him. But go +your way, tell his disciples and Peter that he goeth before you into +Galilee: there shall ye see him, as he said unto you." +</P> + +<P> +And they went out quickly, and fled from the sepulchre; for they +trembled and were amazed: neither said they anything to any man; for +they were afraid. +</P> + +<P> +Now when Jesus was risen early the first day of the week, he appeared +first to Mary Magdalene, out of whom he had cast seven devils. And she +went and told them that had been with him, as they mourned and wept. +And they, when they had heard that he was alive, and had been seen of +her, believed not. +</P> + +<P> +After that he appeared in another form unto two of them, as they +walked, and went into the country. And they went and told it unto the +residue: neither believed they them. +</P> + +<P> +Afterward he appeared unto the eleven as they sat at meat, and +upbraided them with their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they +believed not them which had seen him after he was risen. And he said +unto them: +</P> + +<P> +"Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature. He +that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth +not shall be damned. And these signs shall follow them that believe; +in my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new +tongues; they shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly +thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and +they shall recover." +</P> + +<P> +So then after the Lord had spoken unto them, he was received up into +heaven, and sat on the right hand of God. And they went forth, and +preached every where, the Lord working with them, and confirming the +word with signs following. 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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Jesus of Nazareth - A Biography + +Author: John Mark + +Release Date: June 5, 2006 [EBook #18513] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK JESUS OF NAZARETH - A BIOGRAPHY *** + + + + +Produced by Al Haines + + + + + + + + + + +[Frontispiece: Jesus of Nazareth] + + + + + + +JESUS OF NAZARETH + +A BIOGRAPHY + + +BY + +JOHN MARK + + + +D. APPLETON AND COMPANY + +NEW YORK : : LONDON : : MCMXXII + + + + +COPYRIGHT 1922, BY + +D. APPLETON AND COMPANY + + + + +FOREWORD + +"Jesus of Nazareth, a Biography, by John Mark," recognizes the author +of the second Gospel as that "John, whose surname was Mark" (Acts +15:37), whom Barnabas chose as companion when he sailed for Cyprus on +his second missionary journey. In making use of the new title, the +plan of the Editor is to present "The Gospel: According to Mark" as it +would be printed were it written in the twentieth rather than the first +century. + +Mark's Gospel has been chosen for this purpose to make available in +more readable form this timely portion of the Bible. In John Mark the +missionary is revealed a man of action. This characteristic influences +strongly the point of view and style of his writing. As John, the +beloved disciple, in "The Revelation" beholds the victorious Christ as +"the Lion of the tribe of Judah," foretold by the prophets, so Mark +sees Jesus of Nazareth as the strong, vigorous man of action; he writes +of His mighty works in swift narrative at times so vivid it flashes +like a burst of flame, as though the facts presented must have been on +fire in the heart of the author. Written for the practical, energetic +Roman, the Editor feels that this biography of Jesus of Nazareth +exactly fits the mood of our own time, with its emphasis upon the +practical and its insistence that the man of action, the doer, is the +man for the hour. + +Printed like a modern book, but in the fine old King James' version, it +is believed that all Bible lovers will welcome their old friend, "The +Gospel: According to Mark," in its new literary dress; it is hoped, +too, that in this popular form book buyers and lovers of good +literature may be led to purchase a book which needs only to be +thoroughly and thoughtfully read to be greatly reverenced. + + + + +CONTENTS + + +CHAPTER + + I. HAIL, THE GALILEAN + II. A TEACHER WITH AUTHORITY + III. A BROTHER TO ALL WHO DO THE WILL OF GOD + IV. THE WISDOM OF THE AGES + V. LORD OF LIFE AND LOVE + VI. IS NOT HE THE CARPENTER? + VII. NEVER A MAN LIKE HIM + VIII. "THOU ART THE CHRIST" + IX. STRONG SON OF GOD + X. MASTER OF MEN BUT SERVANT OF ALL + XI. HE THAT COMETH IN THE NAME OF THE LORD + XII. IN CONFLICT WITH SCRIBES AND PHARISEES + XIII. JERUSALEM THAT KILLETH THE PROPHETS + XIV. DESPISED AND REJECTED BY FRIEND AND FOE + XV. CRUCIFIED, DEAD AND BURIED + XVI. JESUS OF NAZARETH RISES FROM THE DEAD + + + + +JESUS OF NAZARETH + + +CHAPTER I + +HAIL, THE GALILEAN + +The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God; as it is +written in the prophets, "Behold, I send my messenger before thy face, +which shall prepare thy way before thee. The voice of one crying in +the wilderness. Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths +straight." + +John did baptize in the wilderness, and preach the baptism of +repentance for the remission of sins. And there went out unto him all +the land of Judaea, and they of Jerusalem, and were all baptized of him +in the river of Jordan, confessing their sins. And John was clothed +with camel's hair, and with a girdle of a skin about his loins; and he +did eat locusts and wild honey; and preached, saying: + +"There cometh one mightier than I after me, the latchet of whose shoes +I am not worthy to stoop down and unloose. I indeed have baptized you +with water: but he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost." + +And it came to pass in those days, that Jesus came from Nazareth of +Galilee, and was baptized of John in Jordan. And straightway coming up +out of the water, he saw the heavens opened, and the Spirit like a dove +descending upon him: and there came a voice from heaven, saying: + +"Thou art my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased." + +And immediately the spirit driveth him into the wilderness. And he was +there in the wilderness forty days, tempted of Satan; and was with the +wild beasts; and the angels ministered unto him. + +Now after that John was put in prison, Jesus came into Galilee, +preaching the gospel of the kingdom of God, and saying: + +"The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, +and believe the gospel." + +Now as he walked by the sea of Galilee, he saw Simon and Andrew his +brother casting a net into the sea: for they were fishers. And Jesus +said unto them: + +"Come ye after me, and I will make you to become fishers of men." + +And straightway they forsook their nets, and followed him. + +And when he had gone a little farther thence, he saw James the son of +Zebedee, and John his brother, who also were in the ship mending their +nets. And straightway he called them: and they left their father +Zebedee in the ship with the hired servants, and went after him. + +And they went into Capernaum; and straightway on the sabbath day he +entered into the synagogue, and taught. And they were astonished at +his doctrine: for he taught them as one that had authority, and not as +the scribes. And there was in their synagogue a man with an unclean +spirit; and he cried out, saying: + +"Let us alone; what have we to do with thee, thou Jesus of Nazareth? +Art thou come to destroy us? I know thee who thou art, the Holy One of +God." + +And Jesus rebuked him, saying, "Hold thy peace, and come out of him." +And when the unclean spirit had torn him, and cried with a loud voice, +he came out of him. And they were all amazed, insomuch that they +questioned among themselves, saying: + +"What thing is this? what new doctrine is this? for with authority +commandeth he even the unclean spirits, and they do obey him." + +And immediately his fame spread abroad throughout all the region round +about Galilee. + +And forthwith, when they were come out of the synagogue, they entered +into the house of Simon and Andrew, with James and John. But Simon's +wife's mother lay sick of a fever, and anon they tell him of her. And +he came and took her by the hand, and lifted her up; and immediately +the fever left her, and she ministered unto them. + +And at even, when the sun did set, they brought unto him all that were +diseased, and them that were possessed with devils. And all the city +was gathered together at the door. And he healed many that were sick +of divers diseases, and cast out many devils; and suffered not the +devils to speak, because they knew him. + +And in the morning, rising up a great while before day, he went out, +and departed into a solitary place, and there prayed. And Simon and +they that were with him followed after him. And when they had found +him, they said unto him, "All men seek for thee." + +And he said unto them, "Let us go into the next towns, that I may +preach there also; for therefore came I forth." + +And he preached in their synagogues throughout all Galilee, and cast +out devils. And there came a leper to him, beseeching him, and +kneeling down to him, and saying unto him, "If thou wilt, thou canst +make me clean." And Jesus, moved with compassion, put forth his hand, +and touched him, and saith unto him, "I will; be thou clean." + +And as soon as he had spoken, immediately the leprosy departed from +him, and he was cleansed. And he straitly charged him, and forthwith +sent him away; and saith unto him, "See thou say nothing to any man: +but go thy way, shew thyself to the priest, and offer for thy cleansing +those things which Moses commanded, for a testimony unto them." + +But he went out, and began to publish it much, and to blaze abroad the +matter, insomuch that Jesus could no more openly enter into the city, +but was without in desert places: and they came to him from every +quarter. + + + + +CHAPTER II + +A TEACHER WITH AUTHORITY + +And again he entered into Capernaum after some days; and it was noised +that he was in the house. And straightway many were gathered together, +insomuch that there was no room to receive them, no, not so much as +about the door: and he preached the word unto them. And they come unto +him, bringing one sick of the palsy, which was borne of four. And when +they could not come nigh unto him for the press, they uncovered the +roof where he was: and when they had broken it up, they let down the +bed wherein the sick of the palsy lay. When Jesus saw their faith, he +said unto the sick of the palsy: + +"Son, thy sins be forgiven thee." + +But there were certain of the scribes sitting there, and reasoning in +their hearts: + +"Why doth this man thus speak blasphemies? Who can forgive sins but +God only?" + +And immediately when Jesus perceived in his spirit that they so +reasoned within themselves, he said unto them: + +"Why reason ye these things in your hearts? Whether is it easier to +say to the sick of the palsy, 'Thy sins be forgiven thee;' or to say, +'Arise, and take up thy bed, and walk?' But that ye may know that the +Son of man hath power on earth to forgive sins, (he saith to the sick +of the palsy,) I say unto thee, 'Arise, and take up thy bed, and go thy +way into thine house.'" + +And immediately he arose, took up the bed, and went forth before them +all; insomuch that they were all amazed, and glorified God, saying: + +"We never saw it on this fashion." + +And he went forth again by the sea side; and all the multitude resorted +unto him, and he taught them. + +And as he passed by, he saw Levi the son of Alphaeus sitting at the +receipt of custom, and said unto him: + +"Follow me." + +And he arose and followed him. + +And it came to pass, that, as Jesus sat at meat in his house, many +publicans and sinners sat also together with Jesus and his disciples: +for there were many, and they followed him. And when the scribes and +Pharisees saw him eat with publicans and sinners, they said unto his +disciples: + +"How is it that he eateth and drinketh with publicans and sinners?" + +When Jesus heard it, he saith unto them; + +"They that are whole have no need of the physician, but they that are +sick: I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance." + +And the disciples of John and of the Pharisees used to fast: and they +come and say unto him: + +"Why do the disciples of John and of the Pharisees fast, but thy +disciples fast not?" + +And Jesus said unto them: + +"Can the children of the bridechamber fast, while the bridegroom is +with them? As long as they have the bridegroom with them, they cannot +fast. But the days will come, when the bridegroom shall be taken away +from them, and then shall they fast in those days. No man also seweth +a piece of new cloth on an old garment: else the new piece that filled +it up taketh away from the old, and the rent is made worse. And no man +putteth new wine into old bottles: else the new wine doth burst the +bottles, and the wine is spilled, and the bottles will be marred: but +new wine must be put into new bottles." + +And it came to pass, that he went through the corn fields on the +sabbath day; and his disciples began, as they went, to pluck the ears +of corn. And the Pharisees said unto him: + +"Behold, why do they on the sabbath day that which is not lawful?" + +And he said unto them: + +"Have ye never read what David did, when he had need, and was an +hungered, he, and they that were with him? How he went into the house +of God in the days of Abiathar the high priest, and did eat the +shewbread, which is not lawful to eat but for the priests, and gave +also to them which were with him?" + +And he said unto them: + +"The sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath: therefore +the Son of man is Lord also of the sabbath." + + + + +CHAPTER III + +A BROTHER TO ALL WHO DO THE WILL OF GOD + +And he entered again into the synagogue; and there was a man there +which had a withered hand. And they watched him, whether he would heal +him on the sabbath day; that they might accuse him. + +And he saith unto the man which had the withered hand: + +"Stand forth." + +And he saith unto them: + +"Is it lawful to do good on the sabbath days, or to do evil? to save +life, or to kill?" + +But they held their peace. + +And when he had looked round about on them with anger, being grieved +for the hardness of their hearts, he saith unto the man: + +"Stretch forth thine hand." + +And he stretched it out: and his hand was restored whole as the other. +And the Pharisees went forth, and straightway took counsel with the +Herodians against him, how they might destroy him. + +But Jesus withdrew himself with his disciples to the sea: and a great +multitude from Galilee followed him, and from Judaea, and from +Jerusalem, and from Idumaea, and from beyond Jordan; and they about +Tyre and Sidon, a great multitude, when they had heard what great +things he did, came unto him. And he spake to his disciples, that a +small ship should wait on him because of the multitude, lest they +should throng him. For he had healed many; insomuch that they pressed +upon him for to touch him, as many as had plagues. And unclean +spirits, when they saw him, fell down before him, and cried, saying: + +"Thou art the Son of God." + +And he straitly charged them that they should not make him known. + +And he goeth up into a mountain, and calleth unto him whom he would: +and they came unto him. And he ordained twelve, that they should be +with him, and that he might send them forth to preach, and to have +power to heal sicknesses, and to cast out devils: and Simon he surnamed +Peter; and James the son of Zebedee, and John the brother of James; and +he surnamed them Boanerges, which is. The sons of thunder: and Andrew, +and Philip, and Bartholomew, and Matthew, and Thomas, and James the son +of Alphaeus, and Thaddaeus, and Simon the Canaanite, and Judas +Iscariot, which also betrayed him. + +And they went into an house. And the multitude cometh together again, +so that they could not so much as eat bread. And when his friends +heard of it, they went out to lay hold on him: for they said: + +"He is beside himself." + +And the scribes which came down from Jerusalem said: + +"He hath Beelzebub, and by the prince of the devils casteth he out +devils." + +And he called them unto him, and said unto them in parables: + +"How can Satan cast out Satan? And if a kingdom be divided against +itself, that kingdom cannot stand. And if a house be divided against +itself, that house cannot stand. And if Satan rise up against himself, +and be divided, he cannot stand, but hath an end. No man can enter +into a strong man's house, and spoil his goods, except he will first +bind the strong man; and then he will spoil his house. Verily I say +unto you. All sins shall be forgiven unto the sons of men, and +blasphemies wherewith soever they shall blaspheme: but he that shall +blaspheme against the Holy Ghost hath never forgiveness, but is in +danger of eternal damnation." + +Because they said, "He hath an unclean spirit." + +There came then his brethren and his mother, and, standing without, +sent unto him, calling him. And the multitude sat about him, and they +said unto him: + +"Behold, thy mother and thy brethren without seek for thee." + +And he answered them, saying: + +"Who is my mother, or my brethren?" + +And he looked round about on them which sat about him, and said: + +"Behold my mother and my brethren! For whosoever shall do the will of +God, the same is my brother, and my sister, and mother." + + + + +CHAPTER IV + +THE WISDOM OF THE AGES + +And he began again to teach by the sea side: and there was gathered +unto him a great multitude, so that he entered into a ship, and sat in +the sea; and the whole multitude was by the sea on the land. And he +taught them many things by parables, and said unto them in his doctrine: + +"Hearken; Behold, there went out a sower to sow: and it came to pass, +as he sowed, some fell by the way side, and the fowls of the air came +and devoured it up. And some fell on stony ground, where it had not +much earth; and immediately it sprang up, because it had no depth of +earth: but when the sun was up, it was scorched; and because it had no +root, it withered away. And some fell among thorns, and the thorns +grew up, and choked it, and it yielded no fruit. And other fell on +good ground, and did yield fruit that sprang up and increased; and +brought forth, some thirty, and some sixty, and some an hundred." + +And he said unto them: + +"He that hath ears to hear, let him hear." + +And when he was alone, they that were about him with the twelve asked +of him the parable. And he said unto them: + +"Unto you it is given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God: but +unto them that are without, all these things are done in parables: that +seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they may hear, and +not understand; lest at any time they should be converted, and their +sins should be forgiven them." + +And he said unto them: + +"Know ye not this parable? And how then will ye know all parables? +The sower soweth the word. And these are they by the way side, where +the word is sown; but when they have heard, Satan cometh immediately, +and taketh away the word that was sown in their hearts. And these are +they likewise which are sown on stony ground; who, when they have heard +the word, immediately receive it with gladness; and have no root in +themselves, and so endure but for a time: afterward, when affliction or +persecution ariseth for the word's sake, immediately they are offended. +And these are they which are sown among thorns; such as hear the word, +and the cares of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the +lusts of other things entering in, choke the word, and it becometh +unfruitful. And these are they which are sown on good ground; such as +hear the word, and receive it, and bring forth fruit, some thirtyfold, +some sixty, and some an hundred." + +And he said unto them: + +"Is a candle brought to be put under a bushel, or under a bed? and not +to be set on a candlestick? For there is nothing hid, which shall not +be manifested; neither was anything kept secret, but that it should +come abroad. If any man have ears to hear, let him hear." + +And he said unto them: + +"Take heed what ye hear: with what measure ye mete, it shall be +measured to you; and unto you that hear shall more be given. For he +that hath, to him shall be given: and he that hath not, from him shall +be taken even that which he hath." + +And he said: + +"So is the kingdom of God, as if a man should cast seed into the +ground; and should sleep, and rise night and day, and the seed should +spring and grow up, he knoweth not how. For the earth bringeth forth +fruit of herself; first the blade, then the ear, after that the full +corn in the ear. But when the fruit is brought forth, immediately he +putteth in the sickle, because the harvest is come." + +And he said: + +"Whereunto shall we liken the kingdom of God? or with what comparison +shall we compare it? It is like a grain of mustard seed, which, when +it is sown in the earth, is less than all the seeds that be in the +earth: but when it is sown, it groweth up, and becometh greater than +all herbs, and shooteth out great branches; so that the fowls of the +air may lodge under the shadow of it." + +And with many such parables spake he the word unto them, as they were +able to hear it. But without a parable spake he not unto them: and +when they were alone, he expounded all things to his disciples. + +And the same day, when the even was come, he saith unto them: + +"Let us pass over unto the other side." + +And when they had sent away the multitude, they took him even as he was +in the ship. And there were also with him other little ships. And +there arose a great storm of wind, and the waves beat into the ship, so +that it was now full. And he was in the hinder part of the ship, +asleep on a pillow; and they awake him, and say unto him: + +"Master, carest thou not that we perish?" + +And he arose, and rebuked the wind, and said unto the sea: + +"Peace, be still." + +And the wind ceased, and there was a great calm. + +And he said unto them: + +"Why are ye so fearful? How is it that ye have no faith?" + +And they feared exceedingly, and said one to another: + +"What manner of man is this, that even the wind and the sea obey him?" + + + + +CHAPTER V + +LORD OF LIFE AND LOVE + +And they came over unto the other side of the sea, into the country of +the Gadarenes. And when he was come out of the ship, immediately there +met him out of the tombs a man with an unclean spirit, who had his +dwelling among the tombs; and no man could bind him, no, not with +chains: because that he had been often bound with fetters and chains, +and the chains had been plucked asunder by him, and the fetters broken +in pieces: neither could any man tame him. And always, night and day, +he was in the mountains, and in the tombs, crying, and cutting himself +with stones. But when he saw Jesus afar off, he ran and worshipped +him, and cried with a loud voice, and said: + +"What have I to do with thee, Jesus, thou Son of the most high God? I +adjure thee by God, that thou torment me not." + +For he said unto him: "Come out of the man, thou unclean spirit," And +he asked him: "What is thy name?" + +And he answered, saying: + +"My name is Legion: for we are many." + +And he besought him much that he would not send them away out of the +country. Now there was there nigh unto the mountains a great herd of +swine feeding. And all the devils besought him, saying: + +"Send us into the swine, that we may enter into them." + +And forthwith Jesus gave them leave. And the unclean spirits went out, +and entered into the swine: and the herd ran violently down a steep +place into the sea, (they were about two thousand;) and were choked in +the sea. And they that fed the swine fled, and told it in the city, +and in the country. And they went out to see what it was that was +done. And they come to Jesus, and see him that was possessed with the +devil, and had the legion, sitting, and clothed, and in his right mind: +and they were afraid. And they that saw it told them how it befell to +him that was possessed with the devil, and also concerning the swine. +And they began to pray him to depart out of their coasts. + +And when he was come into the ship, he that had been possessed with the +devil prayed him that he might be with him. Howbeit Jesus suffered him +not, but saith unto him: + +"Go home to thy friends, and tell them how great things the Lord hath +done for thee, and hath had compassion on thee." + +And he departed, and began to publish in Decapolis how great things +Jesus had done for him: and all men did marvel. + +And when Jesus was passed over again by ship unto the other side, much +people gathered unto him: and he was nigh unto the sea. And, behold, +there cometh one of the rulers of the synagogue, Jairus by name; and +when he saw him, he fell at his feet, and besought him greatly, saying: + +"My little daughter lieth at the point of death: I pray thee, come and +lay thy hands on her, that she may be healed; and she shall live." + +And Jesus went with him; and much people followed him, and thronged +him. And a certain woman, which had an issue of blood twelve years, +and had suffered many things of many physicians, and had spent all that +she had, and was nothing bettered, but rather grew worse, when she had +heard of Jesus, came in the press behind, and touched his garment. For +she said: + +"If I may touch but his clothes, I shall be whole." + +And straightway the fountain of her blood was dried up; and she felt in +her body that she was healed of that plague. And Jesus, immediately +knowing in himself that virtue had gone out of him, turned him about in +the press, and said: + +"Who touched my clothes?" + +And his disciples said unto him: + +"Thou seest the multitude thronging thee, and sayest thou, 'Who touched +me?'" + +And he looked round about to see her that had done this thing. But the +woman fearing and trembling, knowing what was done in her, came and +fell down before him, and told him all the truth. And he said unto her: + +"Daughter, thy faith hath made thee whole; go in peace, and be whole of +thy plague." + +While he yet spake, there came from the ruler of the synagogue's house +certain which said: + +"Thy daughter is dead: why troublest thou the Master any further?" + +As soon as Jesus heard the word that was spoken, he saith unto the +ruler of the synagogue: + +"Be not afraid, only believe." + +And he suffered no man to follow him, save Peter, and James, and John +the brother of James. And he cometh to the house of the ruler of the +synagogue, and seeth the tumult, and them that wept and wailed greatly. +And when he was come in, he saith unto them: + +"Why make ye this ado, and weep? The damsel is not dead, but sleepeth." + +And they laughed him to scorn. But when he had put them all out, he +taketh the father and the mother of the damsel, and them that were with +him, and entereth in where the damsel was lying. And he took the +damsel by the hand, and said unto her: + +"_Talitha cumi_;" which is, being interpreted, "Damsel, I say unto +thee, arise." + +And straightway the damsel arose, and walked; for she was of the age of +twelve years. And they were astonished with a great astonishment. And +he charged them straitly that no man should know it; and commanded that +something should be given her to eat. + + + + +CHAPTER VI + +IS NOT HE THE CARPENTER? + +And he went out from thence, and came into his own country; and his +disciples follow him. And when the sabbath day was come, he began to +teach in the synagogue: and many hearing him were astonished, saying: + +"From whence hath this man these things and what wisdom is this which +is given unto him, that even such mighty works are wrought by his +hands? Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary, the brother of +James, and Joses, and of Juda, and Simon? And are not his sisters here +with us?" + +And they were offended at him. + +But Jesus said unto them: + +"A prophet is not without honour, but in his own country, and among his +own kin, and in his own house." + +And he could there do no mighty work, save that he laid his hands upon +a few sick folk, and healed them. And he marvelled because of their +unbelief. + +And he went round about the villages, teaching. + +And he called unto him the twelve, and began to send them forth by two +and two; and gave them power over unclean spirits; and commanded them +that they should take nothing for their journey, save a staff only; no +scrip, no bread, no money in their purse: but be shod with sandals; and +not put on two coats. And he said unto them: + +"In what place soever ye enter into an house, there abide till ye +depart from that place. And whosoever shall not receive you, nor hear +you, when ye depart thence, shake off the dust under your feet for a +testimony against them. Verily I say unto you, It shall be more +tolerable for Sodom and Gomorrha in the day of judgment, than for that +city." + +And they went out, and preached that men should repent. And they cast +out many devils, and anointed with oil many that were sick, and healed +them. + +And king Herod heard of him; (for his name was spread abroad;) and he +said: + +"That John the Baptist was risen from the dead, and therefore mighty +works do shew forth themselves in him." Others said: "That it is +Elias." And others said: + +"That it is a prophet, or as one of the prophets." But when Herod +heard thereof, he said: "It is John, whom I beheaded: he is risen from +the dead." + +For Herod himself had sent forth and laid hold upon John, and bound him +in prison for Herodias' sake, his brother Philip's wife: for he had +married her. For John had said unto Herod: "It is not lawful for thee +to have thy brother's wife." Therefore Herodias had a quarrel against +him, and would have killed him; but she could not: for Herod feared +John, knowing that he was a just man and an holy, and observed him; and +when he heard him, he did many things, and heard him gladly. And when +a convenient day was come that Herod on his birthday made a supper to +his lords, high captains, and chief estates of Galilee; and when the +daughter of the said Herodias came in, and danced, and pleased Herod +and them that sat with him, the king said unto the damsel: "Ask of me +whatsoever thou wilt and I will give it thee." And he sware unto her, +"Whatsoever thou shalt ask of me, I will give it thee, unto the half of +my kingdom." And she went forth, and said unto her mother, "What shall +I ask?" And she said, "The head of John the Baptist." And she came in +straightway with haste unto the king, and asked, saying, "I will that +thou give me by and by in a charger the head of John the Baptist." And +the king was exceeding sorry; yet for his oath's sake, and for their +sakes which sat with him, he would not reject her. And immediately the +king sent an executioner, and commanded his head to be brought: and he +went and beheaded him in the prison, and brought his head in a charger, +and gave it to the damsel: and the damsel gave it to her mother. And +when his disciples heard of it, they came and took up his corpse, and +laid it in a tomb. + +And the apostles gathered themselves together unto Jesus, and told him +all things, both what they had done, and what they had taught. And he +said unto them: + +"Come ye yourselves apart into a desert place, and rest awhile." + +For there were many coming and going, and they had no leisure so much +as to eat. And they departed into a desert place by ship privately. +And the people saw them departing, and many knew him, and ran afoot +thither out of all cities, and outwent them, and came together unto +him. And Jesus, when he came out, saw much people, and was moved with +compassion toward them, because they were as sheep not having a +shepherd: and he began to teach them many things. And when the day was +now far spent, his disciples came unto him, and said: + +"This is a desert place, and now the time is far passed: send them +away, that they may go into the country round about, and into the +villages, and buy themselves bread: for they have nothing to eat." + +He answered and said unto them: + +"Give ye them to eat." + +And they say unto him: + +"Shall we go and buy two hundred pennyworth of bread, and give them to +eat?" + +He saith unto them: + +"How many loaves have ye? Go and see." And when they know, they say, +"Five, and two fishes." + +And he commanded them to make all sit down by companies upon the green +grass. And they sat down in ranks, by hundreds, and by fifties. And +when he had taken the five loaves and the two fishes, he looked up to +heaven, and blessed, and brake the loaves, and gave them to his +disciples to set before them; and the two fishes divided he among them +all. And they did all eat, and were filled. And they took up twelve +baskets full of the fragments, and of the fishes. And they that did +eat of the loaves were about five thousand men. + +And straightway he constrained his disciples to get into the ship, and +to go to the other side before unto Bethsaida, while he sent away the +people. And when he had sent them away, he departed into a mountain to +pray. And when even was come, the ship was in the midst of the sea, +and he alone on the land. And he saw them toiling in rowing; for the +wind was contrary unto them: and about the fourth watch of the night he +cometh unto them, walking upon the sea, and would have passed by them. +But when they saw him walking upon the sea, they supposed it had been a +spirit, and cried out: for they all saw him, and were troubled. And +immediately he talked with them, and saith unto them: + +"Be of good cheer: it is I; be not afraid." + +And he went up unto them into the ship; and the wind ceased: and they +were sore amazed in themselves beyond measure, and wondered. For they +considered not the miracle of the loaves: for their heart was hardened. + +And when they had passed over, they came into the land of Gennesaret, +and drew to the shore. And when they were come out of the ship, +straightway they knew him, and ran through that whole region round +about, and began to carry about in beds those that were sick, where +they heard he was. And whithersoever he entered, into villages, or +cities, or country, they laid the sick in the streets, and besought him +that they might touch if it were but the border of his garment: and as +many as touched him were made whole. + + + + +CHAPTER VII + +NEVER A MAN LIKE HIM + +Then came together unto him the Pharisees, and certain of the scribes, +which came from Jerusalem. And when they saw some of his disciples eat +bread with defiled, that is to say, with unwashen, hands, they found +fault. (For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, except they wash their +hands oft, eat not, holding the tradition of the elders. And when they +come from the market, except they wash, they eat not, and many other +things there be, which they have received to hold, as the washing of +cups, and pots, brasen vessels, and of tables.) Then the Pharisees and +scribes asked him: + +"Why walk not thy disciples according to the tradition of the elders, +but eat bread with unwashen hands?" + +He answered and said unto them: + +"Well hath Esaias prophesied of you hypocrites, as it is written, 'This +people honoureth me with their lips, but their heart is far from me. +Howbeit in vain do they worship me, teaching for doctrines the +commandments of men.' For laying aside the commandment of God, ye hold +the tradition of men, as the washing of pots and cups; and many other +such like things ye do." + +And he said unto them: + +"Full well ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your own +tradition. For Moses said: 'Honour thy father and thy mother'; and, +'Whoso curseth father or mother, let him die the death:' but ye say, +'If a man shall say to his father or mother, "It is Corban," (that is +to say, a gift,) by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me; he +shall be free.' And ye suffer him no more to do ought for his father +or his mother; making the word of God of none effect through your +tradition, which ye have delivered: and many such like things do ye." + +And when he had called all the people unto him, he said unto them: + +"Hearken unto me every one of you, and understand: there is nothing +from without a man, that entering into him can defile him: but the +things which come out of him, those are they that defile the man. If +any man have ears to hear, let him hear." + +And when he was entered into the house from the people, his disciples +asked him concerning the parable. And he saith unto them: + +"Are ye so without understanding also? Do ye not perceive, that +whatsoever thing from without entereth into the man, it cannot defile +him; because it entereth not into his heart, but into the belly, and +goeth out into the draught, purging all meats?" And he said, "That +which cometh out of the man, that defileth the man. For from within, +out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, +fornications, murders, thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, +lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness: all these +evil things come from within, and defile the man." + +And from thence he arose, and went into the borders of Tyre and Sidon, +and entered into an house, and would have no man know it: but he could +not be hid. For a certain woman, whose young daughter had an unclean +spirit, heard of him, and came and fell at his feet: the woman was a +Greek, a Syrophenician by nation; and she besought him that he would +cast forth the devil out of her daughter. But Jesus said unto her: + +"Let the children first be filled: for it is not meet to take the +children's bread, and to cast it unto the dogs." + +And she answered and said unto him: + +"Yes, Lord: yet the dogs under the table eat of the children's crumbs." + +And he said unto her, "For this saying go thy way; the devil is gone +out of thy daughter." And when she was come to her house, she found +the devil gone out, and her daughter laid upon the bed. + +And again, departing from the coasts of Tyre and Sidon, he came unto +the sea of Galilee, through the midst of the coasts of Decapolis. And +they bring unto him one that was deaf, and had an impediment in his +speech; and they beseech him to put his hand upon him. And he took him +aside from the multitude, and put his fingers into his ears, and he +spit, and touched his tongue; and looking up to heaven, he sighed, and +saith unto him, "Ephphatha," that is, "Be opened." + +And straightway his ears were opened, and the string of his tongue was +loosed, and he spake plain. And he charged them that they should tell +no man: but the more he charged them, so much the more a great deal +they published it; and were beyond measure astonished, saying: + +"He hath done all things well: he maketh both the deaf to hear, and the +dumb to speak." + + + + +CHAPTER VIII + +"THOU ART THE CHRIST" + +In those days the multitude being very great, and having nothing to +eat, Jesus called his disciples unto him, and saith unto them: + +"I have compassion on the multitude, because they have now been with me +three days, and have nothing to eat: and if I send them away fasting to +their own houses, they will faint by the way: for divers of them came +from far." + +And his disciples answered him: "From whence can a man satisfy these +men with bread here in the wilderness?" + +And he asked them: "How many loaves have ye?" + +And they said: "Seven." + +And he commanded the people to sit down on the ground: and he took the +seven loaves, and gave thanks, and brake, and gave to his disciples to +set before them; and they did set them before the people. And they had +a few small fishes: and he blessed, and commanded to set them also +before them. So they did eat, and were filled: and they took up of the +broken meat that was left seven baskets. And they that had eaten were +about four thousand: and he sent them away. + +And straightway he entered into a ship with his disciples, and came +into the parts of Dalmanutha. And the Pharisees came forth, and began +to question with him, seeking of him a sign from heaven, tempting him. +And he sighed deeply in his spirit, and saith: + +"Why doth this generation seek after a sign? Verily I say unto you. +There shall no sign be given unto this generation." + +And he left them, and entering into the ship again departed to the +other side. + +Now the disciples had forgotten to take bread, neither had they in the +ship with them more than one loaf. And he charged them, saying: + +"Take heed, beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, and of the leaven of +Herod." + +And they reasoned among themselves, saying, "It is because we have no +bread." And when Jesus knew it, he saith unto them: + +"Why reason ye, because ye have no bread? Perceive ye not yet, neither +understand? Have ye your heart yet hardened? Having eyes, see ye not, +and having ears, hear ye not, and do ye not remember? When I brake the +five loaves among five thousand, how many baskets full of fragments +took ye up?" + +They say unto him, "Twelve." + +"And when the seven among four thousand, how many baskets full of +fragments took ye up?" + +And they said, "Seven." + +And he said unto them, "How is it that ye do not understand?" + +And he cometh to Bethsaida; and they bring a blind man unto him, and +besought him to touch him. And he took the blind man by the hand, and +led him out of the town; and when he had spit on his eyes, and put his +hands upon him, he asked him if he saw ought. And he looked up, and +said: + +"I see men as trees, walking." + +After that he put his hands again upon his eyes, and made him look up: +and he was restored, and saw every man clearly. And he sent him away +to his house, saying: "Neither go into the town, nor tell it to any in +the town." + +And Jesus went out, and his disciples, into the towns of Caesarea +Philippi: and by the way he asked his disciples, saying unto them: + +"Whom do men say that I am?" + +And they answered, "John the Baptist: but some say, Elias; and others, +One of the prophets." + +And he saith unto them, "But whom say ye that I am?" + +And Peter answereth and saith unto him, "Thou art the Christ." + +And he charged them that they should tell no man of him. + +And he began to teach them, that the Son of man must suffer many +things, and be rejected of the elders, and of the chief priests, and +scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise again. And he spake +that saying openly. And Peter took him and began to rebuke him. But +when he had turned about and looked on his disciples, he rebuked Peter, +saying: + +"Get thee behind me, Satan: for thou savourest not the things that be +of God, but the things that be of men." + +And when he had called the people unto him with his disciples also, he +said unto them: + +"Whosoever will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his +cross, and follow me. For whosoever will save his life shall lose it; +but whosoever shall lose his life for my sake and the gospel's, the +same shall save it. For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain +the whole world, and lose his own soul? Or what shall a man give in +exchange for his soul? Whosoever therefore shall be ashamed of me and +of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation; of him also shall +the Son of man be ashamed, when he cometh in the glory of his Father +with the holy angels." + +And he said unto them: + +"Verily I say unto you. That there be some of them that stand here, +which shall not taste of death, till they have seen the kingdom of God +come with power." + + + + +CHAPTER IX + +STRONG SON OF GOD + +And after six days, Jesus taketh with him Peter, and James, and John, +and leadeth them up into an high mountain apart by themselves: and he +was transfigured before them. And his raiment became shining, +exceeding white as snow; so as no fuller on earth can white them. And +there appeared unto them Elias with Moses: and they were talking with +Jesus. + +And Peter answered and said to Jesus, "Master, it is good for us to be +here: and let us make three tabernacles; one for thee, and one for +Moses, and one for Elias." For he wist not what to say; for they were +sore afraid. And there was a cloud that overshadowed them: and a voice +came out of the cloud, saying: + +"This is my beloved Son: hear him." + +And suddenly, when they had looked round about, they saw no man any +more, save Jesus only with themselves. + +And as they came down from the mountain, he charged them that they +should tell no man what things they had seen, till the Son of man were +risen from the dead. And they kept that saying with themselves, +questioning one with another what the rising from the dead should mean. + +And they asked him, saying, "Why say the scribes that Elias must first +come?" + +And he answered and told them, "Elias verily cometh first, and +restoreth all things; and how it is written of the Son of man, that he +must suffer many things, and be set at nought. But I say unto you, +That Elias is indeed come, and they have done unto him whatsoever they +listed, as it is written of him." + +And when he came to his disciples, he saw a great multitude about them, +and the scribes questioning with them. And straightway all the people, +when they beheld him, were greatly amazed, and running to him saluted +him. + +And he asked the scribes, "What question ye with them?" + +And one of the multitude answered and said, "Master, I have brought +unto thee my son, which hath a dumb spirit; and wheresoever he taketh +him he teareth him: and he foameth, and gnasheth with his teeth, and +pineth away: and I spake to thy disciples that they should cast him +out; and they could not." + +He answereth him, and saith, "O faithless generation, how long shall I +be with you? How long shall I suffer you? Bring him unto me." + +And they brought him unto him: and when he saw him, straightway the +spirit tare him; and he fell on the ground, and wallowed foaming. And +he asked his father, "How long is it ago since this came unto him?" + +And he said, "Of a child. And ofttimes it hath cast him into the fire, +and into the waters, to destroy him: but if thou canst do any thing, +have compassion on us, and help us." + +Jesus said unto him, "If thou canst believe, all things are possible to +him that believeth." + +And straightway the father of the child cried out, and said with tears, +"Lord, I believe; help thou mine unbelief." + +When Jesus saw that the people came running together, he rebuked the +foul spirit, saying unto him: + +"Thou dumb and deaf spirit, I charge thee, come out of him, and enter +no more into him." + +And the spirit cried, and rent him sore, and came out of him: and he +was as one dead; insomuch that many said, "He is dead." But Jesus took +him by the hand, and lifted him up; and he arose. And when he was come +into the house, his disciples asked him privately: + +"Why could not we cast him out?" + +And he said unto them, "This kind can come forth by nothing, but by +prayer and fasting." + +And they departed thence, and passed through Galilee; and he would not +that any man should know it. For he taught his disciples, and said +unto them: + +"The Son of man is delivered into the hands of men, and they shall kill +him; and after that he is killed, he shall rise the third day." + +But they understood not that saying, and were afraid to ask him. + +And he came to Capernaum: and being in the house he asked them, "What +was it that ye disputed among yourselves by the way?" + +But they held their peace: for by the way they had disputed among +themselves, who should be the greatest. And he sat down, and called +the twelve, and saith unto them: + +"If any man desire to be first, the same shall be last of all, and +servant of all." + +And he took a child, and set him in the midst of them; and when he had +taken him in his arms, he said unto them: + +"Whosoever shall receive one of such children in my name, receiveth me: +and whosoever shall receive me, receiveth not me, but him that sent me." + +And John answered him, saying, "Master, we saw one casting out devils +in thy name, and he followeth not us: and we forbade him, because he +followeth not us." + +But Jesus said, "Forbid him not: for there is no man which shall do a +miracle in my name, that can lightly speak evil of me. For he that is +not against us is on our part. For whosoever shall give you a cup of +water to drink in my name, because ye belong to Christ, verily I say +unto you, he shall not lose his reward. And whosoever shall offend one +of these little ones that believe in me, it is better for him that a +millstone were hanged about his neck, and he were cast into the sea. +And if thy hand offend thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter +into life maimed, than having two hands to go into hell, into the fire +that never shall be quenched: where their worm dieth not, and the fire +is not quenched. And if thy foot offend thee, cut it off: it is better +for thee to enter halt into life, than having two feet to be cast into +hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched: where their worm +dieth not, and the fire is not quenched. And if thine eye offend thee, +pluck it out: it is better for thee to enter into the kingdom of God +with one eye, than having two eyes to be cast into hell fire: where +their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched. For every one +shall be salted with fire, and every sacrifice shall be salted with +salt. Salt is good: but if the salt have lost his saltness, wherewith +will ye season it? Have salt in yourselves, and have peace one with +another." + + + + +CHAPTER X + +MASTER OF MEN BUT SERVANT OF ALL + +And he arose from thence, and cometh into the coasts of Judaea by the +farther side of Jordan: and the people resort unto him again; and, as +he was wont, he taught them again. And the Pharisees came to him, and +asked him, "Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife?" tempting him. + +And he answered and said unto them: + +"What did Moses command you?" + +And they said, "Moses suffered to write a bill of divorcement, and to +put her away." + +And Jesus answered and said unto them: + +"For the hardness of your heart he wrote you this precept. But from +the beginning of the creation God made them male and female. For this +cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife; +and they twain shall be one flesh: so then they are no more twain, but +one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put +asunder." + +And in the house his disciples asked him again of the same matter. + +And he saith unto them: + +"Whosoever shall put away his wife, and marry another, committeth +adultery against her. And if a woman shall put away her husband, and +be married to another, she committeth adultery." + +And they brought young children to him, that he should touch them: and +his disciples rebuked those that brought them. But when Jesus saw it, +he was much displeased, and said unto them: + +"Suffer the little children to come unto me, and forbid them not: for +of such is the kingdom of God. Verily I say unto you. Whosoever shall +not receive the kingdom of God as a little child, he shall not enter +therein." + +And he took them up in his arms, put his hands upon them, and blessed +them. + +And when he was gone forth into the way, there came one running, and +kneeled to him, and asked him, "Good Master, what shall I do that I may +inherit eternal life?" + +And Jesus said unto him, "Why callest thou me good? There is none good +but one, that is, God. Thou knowest the commandments, 'Do not commit +adultery,' 'Do not kill,' 'Do not steal,' 'Do not bear false witness,' +'Defraud not,' 'Honour thy father and mother.'" + +And he answered and said unto him, "Master, all these have I observed +from my youth." + +Then Jesus beholding him loved him, and said unto him, "One thing thou +lackest: go thy way, sell whatsoever thou hast, and give to the poor, +and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come, take up the cross, +and follow me." + +And he was sad at that saying, and went away grieved: for he had great +possessions. + +And Jesus looked round about, and saith unto his disciples: + +"How hardly shall they that have riches enter into the kingdom of God!" + +And the disciples were astonished at his words. But Jesus answereth +again, and saith unto them: + +"Children, how hard is it for them that trust in riches to enter into +the kingdom of God! It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of +a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God." + +And they were astonished out of measure, saying among themselves, "Who +then can be saved?" + +And Jesus looking upon them saith, "With men it is impossible, but not +with God: for with God all things are possible." + +Then Peter began to say unto him, "Lo, we have left all, and have +followed thee." And Jesus answered and said: + +"Verily I say unto you. There is no man that hath left house, or +brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or +lands, for my sake, and the gospel's, but he shall receive an +hundredfold now in this time, houses, and brethren, and sisters, and +mothers, and children, and lands, with persecutions; and in the world +to come eternal life. But many that are first shall be last; and the +last first." + +And they were in the way going up to Jerusalem; and Jesus went before +them: and they were amazed; and as they followed, they were afraid. +And he took again the twelve, and began to tell them what things should +happen unto him, saying: + +"Behold, we go up to Jerusalem; and the Son of man shall be delivered +unto the chief priests, and unto the scribes; and they shall condemn +him to death, and shall deliver him to the Gentiles: and they shall +mock him, and shall scourge him, and shall spit upon him, and shall +kill him: and the third day he shall rise again." + +And James and John, the sons of Zebedee, come unto him, saying, +"Master, we would that thou shouldest do for us whatsoever we shall +desire." + +And he said unto them, "What would ye that I should do for you?" + +They said unto him, "Grant unto us that we may sit, one on thy right +hand, and the other on thy left hand, in thy glory." + +But Jesus said unto them, "Ye know not what ye ask; can ye drink of the +cup that I drink of, and be baptized with the baptism that I am +baptized with?" + +And they said unto him, "We can." + +And Jesus said unto them, "Ye shall indeed drink of the cup that I +drink of; and with the baptism that I am baptized withal shall ye be +baptized: but to sit on my right hand and on my left hand is not mine +to give; but it shall be given to them for whom it is prepared." + +And when the ten heard it, they began to be much displeased with James +and John. But Jesus called them to him, and saith unto them: + +"Ye know that they which are accounted to rule over the Gentiles +exercise lordship over them; and their great ones exercise authority +upon them. But so shall it not be among you: but whosoever will be +great among you, shall be your minister: and whosoever of you will be +the chiefest, shall be servant of all. For even the Son of man came +not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a +ransom for many." + +And they came to Jericho: and as he went out of Jericho with his +disciples and a great number of people, blind Bartimaeus, the son of +Timasus, sat by the highway side begging. And when he heard that it +was Jesus of Nazareth, he began to cry out, and say, "Jesus, thou son +of David, have mercy on me." + +And many charged him that he should hold his peace: but he cried the +more a great deal, "Thou son of David, have mercy on me." + +And Jesus stood still, and commanded him to be called. And they call +the blind man, saying unto him, "Be of good comfort, rise; he calleth +thee." And he, casting away his garment, rose, and came to Jesus. + +And Jesus answered and said unto him, "What wilt thou that I should do +unto thee?" + +The blind man said unto him, "Lord, that I might receive my sight." + +And Jesus said unto him, "Go thy way; thy faith hath made thee whole." +And immediately he received his sight, and followed Jesus in the way. + + + + +CHAPTER XI + +HE THAT COMETH IN THE NAME OF THE LORD + +And when they came nigh to Jerusalem, unto Bethphage and Bethany, at +the mount of Olives, he sendeth forth two of his disciples, and saith +unto them: + +"Go your way into the village over against you: and as soon as ye be +entered into it, ye shall find a colt tied, whereon never man sat; +loose him, and bring him. And if any man say unto you, 'Why do ye +this?' say ye, 'The Lord hath need of him;' and straightway he will +send him hither." + +And they went their way, and found the colt tied by the door without in +a place where two ways met; and they loose him. And certain of them +that stood there said unto them, "What do ye, loosing the colt?" And +they said unto them even as Jesus had commanded: and they let them go. +And they brought the colt to Jesus, and cast their garments on him; and +he sat upon him. And many spread their garments in the way: and others +cut down branches off the trees, and strawed [Transcriber's note: +strewed?] them in the way. And they that went before and they that +followed, cried, saying: + +"Hosanna; Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord: blessed be +the kingdom of our father David, that cometh in the name of the Lord: +Hosanna in the highest." + +And Jesus entered into Jerusalem, and into the temple; and when he had +looked round about upon all things, and now the eventide was come, he +went out unto Bethany with the twelve. + +And on the morrow, when they were come from Bethany, he was hungry: and +seeing a fig tree afar off having leaves, he came, if haply he might +find any thing thereon: and when he came to it, he found nothing but +leaves; for the time of figs was not yet. And Jesus answered and said +unto it: + +"No man eat fruit of thee hereafter for ever." And his disciples heard +it. + +And they come to Jerusalem: and Jesus went into the temple, and began +to cast out them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew +tables of the money changers, and the seats of them that sold doves; +and would not suffer that any man should carry any vessel through the +temple. And he taught, saying unto them: + +"Is it not written, 'My house shall be called of all nations the house +of prayer?' but ye have made it a den of thieves." + +And the scribes and chief priests heard it, and sought how they might +destroy him: for they feared him because all the people was astonished +at his doctrine. And when even was come, he went out of the city. + +And in the morning, as they passed by, they saw the fig tree dried up +from the roots. And Peter calling to remembrance saith unto him, +"Master, behold, the fig tree which thou cursedst is withered away." + +And Jesus answering saith unto them, "Have faith in God. For verily I +say unto you, that whosoever shall say unto this mountain, 'Be thou +removed, and be thou cast into the sea;' and shall not doubt in his +heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to +pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith. Therefore I say unto you, +what things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive +them, and ye shall have them. And when ye stand praying, forgive, if +ye have ought against any: that your Father also which is in heaven may +forgive you your trespasses. But if ye do not forgive, neither will +your Father which is in heaven forgive your trespasses." + +And they come again to Jerusalem: and as he was walking in the temple, +there come to him the chief priests, and the scribes, and the elders, +and say unto him: + +"By what authority doest thou these things and who gave thee this +authority to do these things?" + +And Jesus answered and said unto them, "I will also ask of you one +question, and answer me, and I will tell you by what authority I do +these things. The baptism of John, was it from heaven, or of men? +Answer me." + +And they reasoned with themselves, saying, "If we shall say, 'From +heaven;' he will say, 'Why then did ye not believe him?' But if we +shall say, 'Of men;' they feared the people: for all men counted John, +that he was a prophet indeed." And they answered and said unto Jesus, +"We cannot tell." + +And Jesus answering saith unto them, "Neither do I tell you by what +authority I do these things." + + + + +CHAPTER XII + +IN CONFLICT WITH SCRIBES AND PHARISEES + +And he began to speak unto them by parables. + +"A certain man planted a vineyard, and set an hedge about it, and +digged a place for the winefat, and built a tower, and let it out to +husbandmen, and went into a far country. And at the season he sent to +the husbandmen a servant, that he might receive from the husbandman of +the fruit of the vineyard. And they caught him, and beat him, and sent +him away empty. And again he sent unto them another servant; and at +him they cast stones, and wounded him in the head, and sent him away +shamefully handled. And again he sent another; and him they killed, +and many others; beating some, and killing some. Having yet therefore +one son, his well beloved, he sent him also last unto them, saying, +'They will reverence my son.' But those husbandmen said among +themselves, 'This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and the +inheritance shall be ours.' And they took him, and killed him, and +cast him out of the vineyard. What shall therefore the lord of the +vineyard do? He will come and destroy the husbandmen, and will give +the vineyard unto others. And have ye not read this scripture; 'The +stone which the builders rejected is become the head of the corner: +this was the Lord's doing, and it is marvellous in our eyes?'" + +And they sought to lay hold on him, but feared the people: for they +knew that he had spoken the parable against them: and they left him, +and went their way. + +And they send unto him certain of the Pharisees and of the Herodians, +to catch him in his words. And when they were come, they say unto him: + +"Master, we know that thou art true, and carest for no man: for thou +regardest not the person of men, but teachest the way of God in truth: +is it lawful to give tribute to Caesar, or not? Shall we give, or +shall we not give?" + +But he, knowing their hypocrisy, said unto them: "Why tempt ye me? +Bring me a penny, that I may see it." + +And they brought it. And he saith unto them, "Whose is this image and +superscription?" And they said unto him, "Caesar's." And Jesus +answering said unto them: + +"Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things +that are God's." + +And they marvelled at him. + +Then come unto him the Sadducees, which say there is no resurrection; +and they asked him, saying: + +"Master, Moses wrote unto us, 'If a man's brother die, and leave his +wife behind him, and leave no children, that his brother should take +his wife, and raise up seed unto his brother.' Now there were seven +brethren: and the first took a wife, and dying left no seed. And the +second took her, and died, neither left he any seed: and the third +likewise. And the seven had her, and left no seed: last of all the +woman died also. In the resurrection therefore, when they shall rise, +whose wife shall she be of them, for the seven had her to wife?" + +And Jesus answering said unto them, "Do ye not therefore err, because +ye know not the scriptures, neither the power of God? For when they +shall rise from the dead, they neither marry, nor are given in +marriage; but are as the angels which are in heaven. And as touching +the dead, that they rise: have ye not read in the book of Moses, how in +the bush God spake unto him, saying, 'I am the God of Abraham, and the +God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob?' He is not the God of the dead, +but the God of the living: ye therefore do greatly err." + +And one of the scribes came, and having heard them reasoning together, +and perceiving that he had answered them well, asked him, "Which is the +first commandment of all?" + +And Jesus answered him, "The first of all the commandments is, 'Hear, O +Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord:' and 'thou shalt love the Lord +thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy +mind, and with all thy strength:' this is the first commandment. + +"And the second is like, namely this, 'Thou shalt love thy neighbour as +thyself.' There is none other commandment greater than these." + +And the scribe said unto him, "Well, Master, thou hast said the truth: +for there is one God; and there is none other but he: and to love Him +with all the heart, and with all the understanding, and with all the +soul, and with all the strength, and to love his neighbour as himself, +is more than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices." + +And when Jesus saw that he answered discreetly, he said unto him, "Thou +art not far from the kingdom of God." + +And no man after that durst ask him any question. + +And Jesus answered and said, while he taught in the temple: + +"How say the scribes that Christ is the son of David? For David +himself said by the Holy Ghost, 'The Lord said to my Lord, "Sit thou on +my right hand, till I make thine enemies thy footstool."' David +therefore himself calleth him 'Lord'; and whence is he then his son?" + +And the common people heard him gladly. And he said unto them in his +doctrine: + +"Beware of the scribes, which love to go in long clothing, and love +salutations in the market places, and the chief seats in the +synagogues, and the uppermost rooms at feasts: which devour widows' +houses, and for a pretence make long prayers: these shall receive +greater damnation." + +And Jesus sat over against the treasury, and beheld how the people cast +money into the treasury: and many that were rich cast in much. And +there came a certain poor widow, and she threw in two mites, which make +a farthing. And he called unto him his disciples, and saith unto them: + +"Verily I say unto you, that this poor widow hath cast more in, than +all they which have cast into the treasury: for all they did cast in of +their abundance; but she of her want did cast in all that she had, even +all her living." + + + + +CHAPTER XIII + +JERUSALEM THAT KILLETH THE PROPHETS + +And as he went out of the temple, one of his disciples saith unto him, +"Master, see what manner of stones and what buildings are here!" + +And Jesus answering said unto him, "Seest thou these great buildings? +There shall not be left one stone upon another, that shall not be +thrown down." + +And as he sat upon the mount of Olives over against the temple, Peter +and James and John and Andrew asked him privately, "Tell us, when shall +these things be, and what shall be the sign when all these things shall +be fulfilled?" + +And Jesus answering them began to say: + +"Take heed lest any man deceive you: for many shall come in my name, +saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many. And when ye shall hear of +wars and rumours of wars, be ye not troubled: for such things must +needs be; but the end shall not be yet. For nation shall rise against +nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be earthquakes in +divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the +beginnings of sorrows. + +"But take heed to yourselves: for they shall deliver you up to +councils; and in the synagogues ye shall be beaten: and ye shall be +brought before rulers and kings for my sake, for a testimony against +them. And the gospel must first be published among all nations. But +when they shall lead you, and deliver you up, take no thought +beforehand what ye shall speak, neither do ye premeditate: but +whatsoever shall be given you in that hour, that speak ye: for it is +not ye that speak, but the Holy Ghost. Now the brother shall betray +the brother to death, and the father the son; and children shall rise +up against their parents, and shall cause them to be put to death. And +ye shall be hated of all men for my name's sake: but he that shall +endure unto the end, the same shall be saved. + +"But when ye shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by +Daniel the prophet, standing where it ought not, (let him that readeth +understand,) then let them that be in Judaea flee to the mountains: and +let him that is on the housetop not go down into the house, neither +enter therein, to take any thing out of his house: and let him that is +in the field not turn back again for to take up his garment. But woe +to them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days! +And pray ye that your flight be not in the winter. For in those days +shall be affliction, such as was not from the beginning of the creation +which God created unto this time, neither shall be. And except that +the Lord had shortened those days, no flesh should be saved: but for +the elect's sake, whom he hath chosen, he hath shortened the days. And +then if any man shall say to you, 'Lo, here is Christ;' or, 'lo, he is +there;' believe him not: for false Christs and false prophets shall +rise, and shall shew signs and wonders, to seduce, if it were possible, +even the elect. But take ye heed: behold, I have foretold you all +things. + +"But in those days, after that tribulation, the sun shall be darkened, +and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars of heaven shall +fall, and the powers that are in heaven shall be shaken. And then +shall they see the Son of man coming in the clouds with great power and +glory. And then shall he send his angels, and shall gather together +his elect from the four winds, from the uttermost part of the earth to +the uttermost part of heaven. + +"Now, learn a parable of the fig tree; when her branch is yet tender, +and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is near: so ye in like +manner, when ye shall see these things come to pass, know that it is +nigh, even at the doors. Verily I say unto you, that this generation +shall not pass, till all these things be done. Heaven and earth shall +pass away: but my words shall not pass away. But of that day and that +hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels which are in heaven, neither +the Son, but the Father. Take ye heed, watch and pray: for ye know not +when the time is. For the Son of man is as a man taking a far journey, +who left his house, and gave authority to his servants, and to every +man his work, and commanded the porter to watch. Watch ye therefore: +for ye know not when the master of the house cometh, at even, or at +midnight, or at the cock-crowing, or in the morning: lest coming +suddenly he find you sleeping. And what I say unto you I say unto all, +Watch." + + + + +CHAPTER XIV + +DESPISED AND REJECTED BY FRIEND AND FOE + +After two days was the feast of the passover, and of unleavened bread: +and the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might take him by +craft, and put him to death. But they said, "Not on the feast day, +lest there be an uproar of the people." + +And being in Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at +meat, there came a woman having an alabaster box of ointment of +spikenard, very precious; and she brake the box, and poured it on his +head. And there were some that had indignation within themselves, and +said, "Why was this waste of the ointment made? For it might have been +sold for more than three hundred pence, and have been given to the +poor." And they murmured against her. + +And Jesus said, "Let her alone; why trouble ye her? She hath wrought a +good work on me. For ye have the poor with you always, and whensoever +ye will ye may do them good: but me ye have not always. She hath done +what she could: she is come aforehand to anoint my body to the burying. +Verily I say unto you, wheresoever this gospel shall be preached +throughout the whole world, this also that she hath done shall be +spoken of for a memorial of her." + +And Judas Iscariot, one of the twelve, went unto the chief priests, to +betray him unto them. And when they heard it, they were glad, and +promised to give him money. And he sought how he might conveniently +betray him. + +And the first day of unleavened bread, when they killed the passover, +his disciples said unto him, "Where wilt thou that we go and prepare +that thou mayest eat the passover?" And he sendeth forth two of his +disciples, and saith unto them: + +"Go ye into the city, and there shall meet you a man bearing a pitcher +of water: follow him. And wheresoever he shall go in, say ye to the +good man of the house, 'The Master saith, "Where is the guestchamber, +where I shall eat the passover with my disciples?"' And he will shew +you a large upper room furnished and prepared: there make ready for us." + +And his disciples went forth, and came into the city, and found as he +had said unto them: and they made ready the passover. And in the +evening he cometh with the twelve. And as they sat and did eat, Jesus +said: + +"Verily I say unto you, one of you which eateth with me shall betray +me." + +And they began to be sorrowful, and to say unto him one by one, "Is it +I?" and another said, "Is it I?" And he answered and said unto them, +"It is one of the twelve, that dippeth with me in the dish. The Son of +man indeed goeth, as it is written of him; but woe to that man by whom +the Son of man is betrayed! Good were it for that man if he had never +been born." + +And as they did eat, Jesus took bread, and blessed, and brake it, and +gave to them, and said: + +"Take, eat: this is my body." + +And he took the cup, and when he had given thanks, he gave it to them: +and they all drank of it. And he said unto them: + +"This is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many. Verily +I say unto you, I will drink no more of the fruit of the vine, until +that day that I drink it new in the kingdom of God." + +And when they had sung an hymn, they went out into the mount of Olives. +And Jesus saith unto them, "All ye shall be offended because of me this +night: for it is written, 'I will smite the shepherd, and the sheep +shall be scattered.' But after that I am risen, I will go before you +into Galilee." + +But Peter said unto him, "Although all shall be offended, yet will not +I." And Jesus saith unto him, "Verily I say unto thee, that this day, +even in this night, before the cock crow twice, thou shalt deny me +thrice." But he spake the more vehemently, "If I should die with thee, +I will not deny thee in any wise." + +Likewise also said they all. + +And they came to a place which was named Gethsemane: and he saith to +his disciples, "Sit ye here, while I shall pray." And he taketh with +him Peter and James and John, and began to be sore amazed, and to be +very heavy; and saith unto them, "My soul is exceeding sorrowful unto +death: tarry ye here, and watch." + +And he went forward a little, and fell on the ground, and prayed that +if it were possible, the hour might pass from him. And he said: + +"Abba, Father, all things are possible unto thee; take away this cup +from me: nevertheless not what I will, but what thou wilt." + +And he cometh, and findeth them sleeping, and saith unto Peter, "Simon, +sleepest thou? Couldest not thou watch one hour? Watch ye and pray, +lest ye enter into temptation. The spirit truly is ready, but the +flesh is weak." + +And again he went away, and prayed, and spake the same words. And when +he returned, he found them asleep again, (for their eyes were heavy,) +neither wist they what to answer him. And he cometh the third time, +and saith unto them: + +"Sleep on now, and take your rest: it is enough, the hour is come; +behold, the Son of man is betrayed into the hands of sinners. Rise up, +let us go; lo, he that betrayeth me is at hand." + +And immediately, while he yet spake, cometh Judas, one of the twelve, +and with him a great multitude with swords and staves, from the chief +priests and the scribes and the elders. And he that betrayed him had +given them a token, saying, "Whomsoever I shall kiss, that same is he; +take him, and lead him away safely." + +And as soon as he was come, he goeth straightway to him, and saith, +"Master, master;" and kissed him. And they laid their hands on him, +and took him. And one of them that stood by drew a sword, and smote a +servant of the high priest, and cut off his ear. And Jesus answered +and said unto them: + +"Are ye come out, as against a thief, with swords and with staves to +take me? I was daily with you in the temple teaching, and ye took me +not: but the scriptures must be fulfilled." + +And they all forsook him, and fled. And there followed him a certain +young man, having a linen cloth cast about his naked body; and the +young men laid hold on him: and he left the linen cloth, and fled from +them naked. + +And they led Jesus away to the high priest: and with him were assembled +all the chief priests and the elders and the scribes. And Peter +followed him afar off, even into the palace of the high priest; and he +sat with the servants, and warmed himself at the fire. And the chief +priests and all the council sought for witness against Jesus to put him +to death; and found none. For many bare false witness against him, but +their witness agreed not together. And there arose certain, and bare +false witness against him, saying: + +"We heard him say, 'I will destroy this temple that is made with hands, +and within three days I will build another made without hands.'" + +But neither so did their witness agree together. And the high priest +stood up in the midst, and asked Jesus, saying: + +"Answerest thou nothing? What is it which these witness against thee?" + +But he held his peace, and answered nothing. Again the high priest +asked him, and said unto him: + +"Art thou the Christ, the Son of the Blessed?" + +And Jesus said, "I am: and ye shall see the Son of man sitting on the +right hand of power, and coming in the clouds of heaven." + +Then the high priest rent his clothes, and saith, "What need we any +further witnesses? Ye have heard the blasphemy: what think ye?" And +they all condemned him to be guilty of death. And some began to spit +on him, and to cover his face, and to buffet him, and to say unto him, +"Prophesy:" and the servants did strike him with the palms of their +hands. + +And as Peter was beneath in the palace, there cometh one of the maids +of the high priest: and when she saw Peter warming himself, she looked +upon him, and said, "And thou also wast with Jesus of Nazareth." But +he denied, saying, "I know not, neither understand I what thou sayest." +And he went out into the porch; and the cock crew. + +And a maid saw him again, and began to say to them that stood by, "This +is one of them." And he denied it again. And a little after, they +that stood by said again to Peter, "Surely thou art one of them: for +thou art a Galilaean, and thy speech agreeth thereto." But he began to +curse and to swear, saying, "I know not this man of whom ye speak." + +And the second time the cock crew. And Peter called to mind the word +that Jesus said unto him, "Before the cock crow twice, thou shalt deny +me thrice." And when he thought thereon, he wept. + + + + +CHAPTER XV + +CRUCIFIED, DEAD AND BURIED + +And straightway in the morning the chief priests held a consultation +with the elders and scribes and the whole council, and bound Jesus, and +carried him away, and delivered him to Pilate. + +And Pilate asked him, "Art thou the King of the Jews?" + +And he answering said unto him, "Thou sayest it." + +And the chief priests accused him of many things: but he answered +nothing. And Pilate asked him again, saying, "Answerest thou nothing? +Behold how many things they witness against thee." + +But Jesus yet answered nothing; so that Pilate marvelled. + +Now at that feast he released unto them one prisoner, whomsoever they +desired. And there was one named Barabbas, which lay bound with them +that had made insurrection with him, who had committed murder in the +insurrection. And the multitude crying aloud began to desire him to do +as he had ever done unto them. But Pilate answered them, saying: + +"Will ye that I release unto you the King of the Jews?" + +For he knew that the chief priests had delivered him for envy. But the +chief priests moved the people, that he should rather release Barabbas +unto them. And Pilate answered and said again unto them: + +"What will ye then that I shall do unto him who ye call the King of the +Jews?" + +And they cried out again, "Crucify him." + +Then Pilate said unto them, "Why, what evil hath he done?" And they +cried out the more exceedingly, "Crucify him." And so Pilate, willing +to content the people, released Barabbas unto them, and delivered +Jesus, when he had scourged him, to be crucified. + +And the soldiers led him away into the hall, called Praetorium; and +they call together the whole band. And they clothed him with purple, +and platted a crown of thorns, and put it about his head, and began to +salute him: + +"Hail, King of the Jews!" + +And they smote him on the head with a reed, and did spit upon him, and +bowing their knees worshipped him. And when they had mocked him, they +took off the purple from him, and put his own clothes on him, and led +him out to crucify him. + +And they compel one Simon a Cyrenian, who passed by, coming out of the +country, the father of Alexander and Rufus, to bear his cross. And +they bring him unto the place Golgotha, which is, being interpreted, +"The place of a skull." And they gave him to drink wine mingled with +myrrh: but he received it not. And when they had crucified him, they +parted his garments, casting lots upon them, what every man should +take. And it was the third hour, and they crucified him. And the +superscription of his accusation was written over: + +"THE KING OF THE JEWS." + +And with him they crucify two thieves; the one on his right hand, and +the other on his left. And the scripture was fulfilled, which saith, +"And he was numbered with the transgressors." And they that passed by +railed on him, wagging their heads, and saying: + +"Ah, thou that destroyest the temple, and buildest it in three days, +save thyself, and come down from the cross." + +Likewise also the chief priests mocking said among themselves with the +scribes, "He saved others; himself he cannot save. Let Christ the King +of Israel descend now from the cross, that we may see and believe." + +And they that were crucified with him reviled him. + +And when the sixth hour was come, there was darkness over the whole +land until the ninth hour. And at the ninth hour, Jesus cried with a +loud voice, saying: + +"Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?" which is, being interpreted, "My God, +my God, why hast thou forsaken me?" + +And some of them that stood by, when they heard it, said, "Behold, he +calleth Elias." And one ran and filled a spunge full of vinegar, and +put it on a reed, and gave him to drink, saying, "Let alone; let us see +whether Elias will come to take him down." + +And Jesus cried with a loud voice, and gave up the ghost. And the veil +of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom. And when +the centurion, which stood over against him, saw that he so cried out, +and gave up the ghost, he said: + +"Truly this man was the Son of God." + +There were also women looking on afar off: among whom was Mary +Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James the less and of Joses, and +Salome; (who also, when he was in Galilee, followed him, and ministered +unto him;) and many other women which came up with him unto Jerusalem. + +And now when the even was come, because it was the preparation, that +is, the day before the sabbath, Joseph of Arimathaea, an honourable +counsellor, which also waited for the kingdom of God, came, and went in +boldly unto Pilate, and craved the body of Jesus. And Pilate marvelled +if he were already dead: and calling unto him the centurion, he asked +him whether he had been any while dead. And when he knew it of the +centurion, he gave the body to Joseph. And he bought fine linen, and +took him down, and wrapped him in the linen, and laid him in a +sepulchre which was hewn out of a rock, and rolled a stone unto the +door of the sepulchre. + +And Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of Joses beheld where he was +laid. + + + + +CHAPTER XVI + +JESUS OF NAZARETH RISES FROM THE DEAD + +And when the sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of +James, and Salome, had bought sweet spices, that they might come and +anoint him. And very early in the morning the first day of the week, +they came unto the sepulchre at the rising of the sun. And they said +among themselves: + +"Who shall roll us away the stone from the door of the sepulchre?" + +And when they looked, they saw that the stone was rolled away: for it +was very great. And entering into the sepulchre, they saw a young man +sitting on the right side, clothed in a long white garment; and they +were affrighted. And he saith unto them: + +"Be not affrighted: Ye seek Jesus of Nazareth, which was crucified: he +is risen; he is not here: behold the place where they laid him. But go +your way, tell his disciples and Peter that he goeth before you into +Galilee: there shall ye see him, as he said unto you." + +And they went out quickly, and fled from the sepulchre; for they +trembled and were amazed: neither said they anything to any man; for +they were afraid. + +Now when Jesus was risen early the first day of the week, he appeared +first to Mary Magdalene, out of whom he had cast seven devils. And she +went and told them that had been with him, as they mourned and wept. +And they, when they had heard that he was alive, and had been seen of +her, believed not. + +After that he appeared in another form unto two of them, as they +walked, and went into the country. And they went and told it unto the +residue: neither believed they them. + +Afterward he appeared unto the eleven as they sat at meat, and +upbraided them with their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they +believed not them which had seen him after he was risen. And he said +unto them: + +"Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature. He +that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth +not shall be damned. And these signs shall follow them that believe; +in my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new +tongues; they shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly +thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and +they shall recover." + +So then after the Lord had spoken unto them, he was received up into +heaven, and sat on the right hand of God. And they went forth, and +preached every where, the Lord working with them, and confirming the +word with signs following. 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