Israel, and for a sign which shall 47 And all that heard him were be contradicted, astonished at his wisdom and his answers.

35 And thy own soul a sword shall piorce, that out of many hearts thoughts may be revealed.

36 And there was one Anna a prophetess, the ughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Aser; she was far advanced in years, and had lived with her husband seven years from her virginity.

48 And seeing him, they wondered. And his mother said to him: Son, why hast thou done so to us? behold thy father and I have sought thee sorrowing.

49 And he said to them: How is it that you sought me? did you not know, that I must be about my Father's business?

50 And they understood not the

37 And she was a widow until fourscore and four years; who departed not from the emple, by fast-word that he spoke unto them. ings and prayers serving night and :day.

38 Now she at the same hour coming in, confessed to the Lord; and spoke of him to a that looked for the redemption of israel.

39 And after they bad performed all things accordi to the law of the Lord, they retured into Galilee, to their city Nazath.

40 And the child grend waxed strong, full of wisdo and the grace of God was in him

41 And his parents went every year to Jerusalem, at the solemn day of the pasch.

42 And when he was twelve years old, they going up into Jerusalem according to the custom of the feast,

43 And having fulfilled the days, when they returned, the child JEsus remained in Jerusalem; and his parents knew it not.

44 And thinking that he was in the company, they came a day's journey, and sought him among their kinsfolks and acquaintance.

45 And not finding him, they returned into Jerusalem, seeking him. 46 And it came to pass, that after three days they found him in the temple sitting in the midst of the doctors, hearing them and asking them questions.

51 And he went down with them, and came to Nazareth; and was subject to them. And his mother kept all these words in her heart.

52 And JESUS advanced in wisdom and age, and grace with God and men.

CHAP III.
John's mission and preaching.

Nthe reign of Tiberius Cesar,

OW in the fifteenth year of

Pontius Pilate being governor of Judea, and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, and Philip his brother tetrarch of Iturea and the country of Trachonitis, and Lysanias tetrarch of Abilina.

2 Under the high-priests Annas and Caiphas: the word of the Lord was made unto John the son of Zachary, in the desert.

3 And he came into all the country about the Jordan, preaching the baptism of penance for the remission of sins;

4 As it was written in the book of the sayings of Isaias the prophet: A voice of one crying in the wilderness: Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make straight his paths.

5 Every valley shall be filled; and every mountain and hill shall be brought low: and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough ways, plain.

Ver. 34. For the fall. Not that God sent his Son for the fall of any man: but that many by their own perversity in wilfully refusing to receive and obey him, should take occasion of fulling,

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6 And all flesh shall see the salva- 17 Whose fan is in his hand, and tion of God. he will purge his floor; and will ga7 He said therefore to the multi-ther the wheat into his barn, but tudes that went forth to be bapti- the chaff he will burn with unzed by him: Ye offspring of vipers, quenchable fire. who hath shewed you to flee from the wrath to come? ·

8 Bring forth therefore fruits worthy of penance, and do not begin to say, We have Abraham for our father. For I say unto you, that God is able of these stones to raise up children to Abraham.

9 For now the axe is laid to the root of the trees. Every tree therefore that bringeth not forth good fruit, shall be cut down, and cast into the fire.

10 And the people asked him, saying: What then shall we do?

11 And he answering, said to them: He that hath two coats, let him give to him that hath none; and he that hath meat, let him do in like manner.

12 And the publicans also came to be baptized, and said to him: Master, what shall we do?

13 But he said to them: Do nothing more than that which is appointed you.

14 And the soldiers also asked him, saying: And what shall we do! And he said to them: Do vioance to no man, neither calumniman; and be content with

your pay.

15 And as the people was of opinion, and all were thinking in

their hearts of J John, that perhaps

he might be the Christ:

18 And many other things exhorting did he preach to the people. 19 But Herod the tetrarch, when he was reproved by him for Herodias his brother's wife, and for all the evils which Herod had done, t 20 He added this also above all, and shut up John in prison.

21 Now it came to pass, when all the people was baptized, that JESUS also being baptized and praying, heaven was opened

22 And the Holy Ghost descended in a bodily shape as a dove upon him and a voice came from heaven: Thou art my beloved Son, in thee I am well pleased.

23 And JESUS himself was beginning about

years: being age of thirty

it was supposed) the Son of Joseph, who was of Heli, who was of Mathat,

24 Who was of Levi, who was of Melchi, who was of Janne, who was of Joseph,

25 Who was of Mathathias, who was of Amos, who was of Nahum, who was of Hesli, who was of Nagge,

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26 Who was of Mahath, who was of Mathathias, who was of Semei, who was of Joseph, who was of Juda, Joo

27 Who was of Joanna, who was of Reas of Salathiel, who was who was of Zoroba

bel, who was
of Neri,

16 John answered, saying unto all: I indeed baptize you with wa- 28 Who was of Melchi, who was ter; but there shall come one of Addi, who was of Cosan, who mightier than I, the latchet of was of Helmadan, who was of Her, whose shoes I am not worthy to 29 Who was of Jesus, who was loose; he shall baptize you with of Eliezer, who was of Jorim, who the Holy Ghost and with fire. was of Mathat, who was of Levi,

Ver. 23. Who was of Heli. St. Joseph, who by nature was the son of Jacob (St. Matt. i. 16.) in the account of the law was son of Heli. For Heli and Jacob were brothers, by the same mother; and Heli, who was the elder, dying without issue, Jacob, as the law directed, married his widow; in consequence of which marriage his son Joseph was reputed in the law, the son of Hell.

30 Who was of Simeon, who was 6 And he said to him: To thee of Judas, who was of Joseph, who will 1 give all this power, and the was of Jona, who was of Eliakim,glory of them; for to me they are 31 Who was of Melea, who was delivered, and to whom I will, I of Menna, who was of Mathatha, give them. who was of Nathan, who was of David,

33 Who was of Aminadab, who was of Aram, who was of Esron, who was of Phares, who was of Judas, *`34 Who was of Jacob, who was of Isaac, who was of Abraham, who was of Thare, who was of Nachor, 35 Who was of Sarug, who was of Ragau, who was of Phaleg, who was of Heber, who was of Sale,

36 Who was of Cainan, who was of Arphaxad, who was of Sem, who was of Noe, who was of Lamech,

37 Who was of Mathusale, who was of Henoch, who was of Jared, who was of Malaleel, who was of Cainan,

7 If thou therefore wilt adore before me, all shall be thine,

8 And JESUS answering said to him: It is written: Thou shalt adore the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.

9 And he brought him to Jerusalem, and set him on a pinnacle of the temple; and he said to him: If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself from hence.

10 For it is written, that he hath given his angels charge over thee, that they keep thee:

11.And that in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest perhaps thou dash thy foot against a stone.

12 And JESUS answering said to him: It is said: Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.

13 And all the temptation being ended, the devil departed from him

38 Who was of Henos, who was for a time. of Seth, who was of Adam, who was of God:"

Pond JESUS returned in the

of the Spirit into Galilee, and the fame of him went out

CHAP. IV.
Christ's fasting, and temptation. through the whole country.
ND JESUS being full of the

A Holy Ghost, returned from

the Jordan, and was led by the Spirit into the desert,

15 And he taught in their syna

gogues, and was magnified by all.

16 And he came to Nazareth where he was brought up: and he 2 For the space of forty days; went into the synagogue according and was tempted by the devil. And to his custom on the sabbath day; he eat nothing in those days; and and he rose up to read. when they were ended he was 17 And the book of Isaias the prohungry. phet was delivered unto him. And, 3 And the devil said to him: If as he unfolded the book, he found. thou be the Son of God, say to this the place where it was written: stone that it be made bread. 18 The spirit of the Lord is upon 4 And Jesus answered him: It me, wherefore he hath anointed me, to is written that man liveth not by preach the gospel to the poor he hath bread alone, but by every word of sent me, to heal the contrite of heart. God.

5 And the devil led him into a high mountain, and shewed him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time;

19 To preach deliverance to the captives, and sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, to preach the acceptable year of the Lord, and the day of reward.

25 In truth I say to you, there try. were many widows in the days of 38 And JESUS rising up out of Elias in Israel, when heaven was the synagogue, went into Simon's shut up three years a great famine was taken with a great fever, and months, house. And Simon's wife's mother throughout all the earth. they besought him for her her, he 26 And to none of them was 39 And standing over Elias sent, but to Sarepta of Si- commanded the fever, and it left don, to a widow woman. 10 19 her. And immediately rising she 1927 And there were many lepers ministered to in Israel in the time of Elisens the prophet; and none of them was cleansed but Naaman the Syrian. 28 And all they in the synagogue, hearing these things, were filled with anger.

33 And in the synagogue there

43 To whom he said: To other cities also I mast preach the kingdom of God: for therefore am 1 sent.

44 And he was preaching in the synagogues of Galilee.

CHAP, V. and falling on his face, besought The miraculous draught of fishes.him saying: Lord, if thou wilt, A the multitudes pressed upon ND it came to pass, that when thou canst make me clean. him to hear the word of God, he stood by the lake of Genesareth.

13 And stretching forth his hand he touched him, saying: I will. Be thou cleansed. And immediately the leprosy departed from him

2 And saw two ships standing by the lake but the fishermen were 14 And he charged him that he gone out of them and were washing their nets.

3 And going up into one of the ships that was Simon's, he desired him to draw back a little from the land. And sitting he taught the multitudes out of the ship.

4 Now when he had ceased to speak, he said to Simon: Launch out into the deep, and let down your nets for a draught.com's

15 And Simon answering, said to him: Master we have laboured all the night, and have taken nothing; but at thy word I will let down the

should tell no man, but, Go, shew thyself to the priest, and offer for thy cleansing according as Moses commanded, for a testimony to them...........

15 But the fame of him went abroad the more, and great multitudes came together to hear, and to be healed by him of their infirmities. 16 And he retired into the desert, and prayed.

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17 And it came to pass on a certain day, as he sat teaching, that there were also Pharisees and doctors of the law sitting by, that were come out of every town of 6 And when they had done this, Galilee and Judea and Jerusalem; they enclosed a very great multi-and the power of the Lord was to tude of fishes, and their net broke. heal them.

net.

7Anil they beckoned to their 18 And behold men brought in a partners that were in the other ship, bed a man who had the palsy and that they should come and help they sought means to bring him in, them. And they came, and filled and to lay him before him both the ships, so that they were 19 And when they could not find almost sinking. wing alipandow by what way they might bring him 8 Which when Simon Peter saw, in, because of the multitude, they he fell down at JESUS's knees, say- went up upon the roof, and let him ing: Depart from me, for I am a down through the tiles with his sinful man, O Lord.ba, o bed into the midst, before JESUS. 9 For he was wholly astonished, 20 Whose faith when he saw, and all that were with him, at the he said: Man, thy sins are forgiven draught of the fishes which they thee. had taken.

1 dobb bus les #21 And the scribes and Pharisees 10 And so were also James and began to think, saying: Who is this John the sons of Zebedee, who who speaketh blasphemies? Who were Simon's partners. And JESUS can forgive sins, but God alone? saith to Simon: Fear, not; from 22 And when JESUS knew their henceforth thou shalt catch men. thoughts, answering he said to 11 And having brought their them: What is it you think in your ships to land, leaving all things hearts? they followed him. Lot of

23 Which is easier to say, Thy sins are forgiven thee; or to say, Arise, and walk o

12 And it came to pass, when he was in a certain city, behold a man full of leprosy, who seeing JESUS,24 But that you may know thạt