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tous how or what you shall answer, or what you shall say.

12 For the Holy Ghost shall teach you in the same hour what you must say.

13 And one of the multitude said to him: Master, speak to my brother that he divide the inheritance with me.

14 But he said to him: Man, who hath appointed me judge or divider over you?

15 And he said to them: Take heed and beware of all covetousness for a man's life doth not consist in the abundance of things which he possesseth.

16 And he spoke a similitude to them, saying: The land of a certain rich man brought forth plenty of fruits.

17 And he thought within himself, saying: What shall I do, because I have no room where to bestow my fruits?

18 And he said: This will I do; I will pull down my barns, and will build greater: and into them will I gather all things that are grown to me, and my goods.

19 And I will say to my soul; Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years, take thy rest, eat, drink, make good cheer.

20 But God said to him: Thou fool, this night do they require thy soul of thee; and whose shall those things be which thou hast provided? 21 So is he that layeth up treasure for himself, and is not rich towards God.

22 And he said to his disciples: Therefore I say to you, be not solicitous for your life, what you shall eat; nor for your body, what you shall put on.

23 The life is more than the meat, and the body is more than the rai

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and God feedeth them. How much are you more valuable than they?

25 And which of you by taking thought can add to his stature one cubit.

26 If then ye be not able to do so much as the least thing, why are you solicitous for the rest?

27 Consider the lilies how they grow; they labour not, neither do they spin. But I say to you, not even Solomon in all his glory was clothed like one of these.

28 Now if God clothe in this manner the grass that is to-day in the field, and to-morrow is cast into the oven; how much more you, O ye of little faith?

29 And seek not you what you shall eat, or what you shall drink : and be not lifted up on high.

30 For all these things do the nations of the world seek. But your Father knoweth that you have need of these things,

31 But seek ye first the kingdom of God and his justice, and all these things shall be added unto you.

32 Fear not, little flock, for it hath pleased your Father to give you a kingdom.

33 Sell what you possess and give alms. Make to yourselves bags, which grow not old, a treasure in heaven which faileth not: where no thief approacheth, nor moth corrupteth.

34 For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.

35 Let your loins be girt, and lamps burning in your hands,

36 And you yourselves like to men who wait for their lord, when he shall return from the wedding: that when he cometh and knocketh they may open to him immediately.

37 Blessed are those servants, whom the Lord when he cometh, 24 Consider the ravens, for they shall find watching. Amen I say sow not, neither do they reap, nei-to you, that he will gird himself, ther have they store-house nor barn, and make them sit down to meat

and passing will minister unto them.

38 And if he shall come in the second watch, or come in the third watch, and find them so, blessed are those servants.

39 But this know ye, that if the house-holder did know at what hour the thief would come, he would surely watch and would not suffer his house to be broken open.

40 Be you then also ready: for at what hour you think not, the Son of man will come.

41 And Peter said to him: Lord, dost thou speak this parable to us, or likewise to all!

49 I am come to cast fire on the earth; and what will I but that it be kindled?

50 And I have a baptism, wherewith I am to be baptized: and how am I straitened until it be accomplished?

51 Think ye that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you no, but separation.

52 For there shall be from henceforth five in one house divided; three against two, and two against three.

53 The father shall be divided against the son, and the son against his father, the mother against the 42 And the Lord said: Who daughter, and the daughter against (thinkest thou) is the faithful and the mother, the mother-in-law wise steward, whom his lord set- against her daughter-in-law, and teth over his family, to give them the daughter-in-law against her their measure of wheat in due sea-mother-in-law.

son.

43 Blessed is that servant, whom when his lord shall come he shall find so doing.

44 Verily I say to you he will set him over all that he possesseth.

45 But if that servant shall say in his heart, My lord is long a coming; and shall begin to strike the men-servants and maid-servants, and to eat and to drink, and be drunk :

46 The lord of that servant will come in the day that he hopeth not, and at the hour that he knoweth not, and shall separate him, and shall appoint him his portion with unbelievers.

54 And he said also to the multitudes: When you see a cloud rising from the west, presently you say: A shower is coming: and so it happeneth:

55 And when ye see the southwind blow, you say: There will be heat: and it cometh to pass.

56 You hypocrites, you know how to discern the face of the heaven and of the earth: but how is it that you do not discern this time?

57 And why even of yourselves do you not judge that which is just?

58 And when thou goest with thy adversary to the prince, whilst thou art in the way endeavour to be delivered from him: lest perhaps he 47 And that servant who knew draw thee to the judge, and the the will of his lord, and prepared judge deliver thee to the exactor, not himself, and did not according and the exactor cast thee into prito his will, shall be beaten with son.

many stripes.

59 I say to thee thou shalt not 48 But he that knew not, and did go out thence, until thou pay the things worthy of stripes shall be very last mite. beaten with few stripes. And unto whomsoever much is given, of him much shall be required: and to whom they have committed much, of him they will demand the more.

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CHAP XIII.
The necessity of penance.

ND there were present at that very time some that told him the Galileans, whose blood Pi

late had mingled with their sacri-healed on the sabbath) answering fices. Isaid to the multitude: Six days

2 And he answering, said to there are wherein you ought to them: Think you that these Gali- work. In them therefore come, leans were sinners above all the and be healed; and not on the sabmen of Galilee, because they suf- bath-day. fered such things?

3 No, I say to you: but unless you shall do penance, you shall all likewise perish.

4 Or those eighteen upon whom the tower fell in Siloe, and slew them: think you that they also were debtors above all the men that dwelt in Jerusalem?

5 No, I say to you: but except you do penance, you shall all likewise perish.

6 He spoke also this parable: A certain man had a fig-tree planted in his vineyard, and he came seeking fruit on it, and found none.

7 And he said to the dresser of the vineyard: Behold for these three years I come seeking fruit on this fig-tree, and I find none. Cut it down therefore; why cumbereth it the ground?

8 But he answering said to him: Lord, let it alone this year also, until I dig about it, and dung it.

9 And if happily it bear fruit: but if not, then after that thou shalt cut it down.

10 And he was teaching in their synagogue on their sabbath.

11 And behold there was a woman who had a spirit of infirmity eighteen years: and she was bowed together, neither could she look upwards at all.

12 Whom when JESUS saw, he called her unto him, and said to her: Woman, thou art delivered from thy infirmity.

13 And he laid his hands upon her, and immediately she was made straight, and glorified God.

15 And the Lord answering him, said: Ye hypocrites, doth not every one of you on the sabbath-day loose his ox or his ass from the manger, and lead them to water?

16 And ought not this daughter of Abraham whom Satan hath bound, lo, these eighteen years, be loosed from this bond on the sabbath-day?

17 And when he said these things, all his adversaries were ashamed: and all the people rejoiced for all the things that were gloriously done by him.

18 He said therefore: To what is the kingdom of God like, and whereunto shall I resemble it.

19 It is like to a grain of mustard-seed, which a man took and cast into his garden, and it grew, and became a great tree, and the birds of the air lodged in the branches thereof.

20 And again he said: Whereunto shall I esteem the kingdom of God to be like?

21 It is like to leaven, which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened.

22 And he went through the cities and towns teaching, and making his journey to Jerusalem.

23 And a certai man said to him: Lord, are they few that are saved? But he said to them:

24 Strive to enter by the narrow gate: for many, I say to you, shall seek to enter, and shall not be able.

25 But when the master of the house shall be gone in, and shall 14 And the ruler of the syna- shut the door, you shall begin to gogue (being angry that JESUS had stand without, and knock at the

Ver. 24. Shall seek, &c. Shall desire to be saved; but for want of taking sufficient pains, and being thoroughly in earnest, shall not attain to it.

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29 And there shall come from the east and the west and the north and the south; and shall sit down in the kingdom of God.

30 And behold, they are last that shall be first, and they are first that shall be last.

31 The same day there came some of the Pharisees, saying to him: Depart and get thee hence, for Herod hath a mind to kill thee.

32 And he said to them: Go, and tell that fox, Behold I cast out devils, and do cures to-day and tomorrów, and the third day I am consummated.

CHAP. XIV.
Christ heals the dropsy.
AND it came to pass when JESUS

went into the house of one of the chief of the Pharisees on the sabbath-day to eat bread, that they watched him.

2 And behold there was a certain man before him that had the dropsy.

3 And JESUS answering, spoke to the lawyers and Pharisees, saying: Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath-day?

4 But they held their peace. But he taking him, healed him, and sent him away.

5 And answering them, he said: Which of you shall have an ass or an ox fall into a pit; and will not immediately draw him out on the sabbath-day?

6 And they could not answer him to these things.

7 And he spoke a parable also to them that were invited, marking how they chose the first seats at the table, saying to them:

8 When thou art invited to a wedding, sit not down in the first place, lest perhaps one more honourable than thou be invited by him;

9 And he that invited thee and him, come and say to thee, Give this man place and then thou begin with shame to take the lowest place.

33 Nevertheless I must walk today and to-morrow and the day following, because it cannot be 10 But when thou art invited, go, that a prophet perish out of Jeru-sit down in the lowest place: that salem. when he who inviteth thee cometh, he may say to thee, Friend, go up higher. Then shalt thou have glory before them that sit at table with thee:

34 Jerusalem, Jerusalem, that killest the prophets, and stonest them that are sent to thee, how of ten would I have gathered thy children as the bird doth her brood under her wings, and thou wouldest not?

35 Behold your house shall be left to you desolate. And 1 say to you, that you shall not see me till the time come, when you shall say: Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord.

11 Because every one that exalteth himself shall be humbled; and he that humbleth himself, shall be exalted.

12 And he said to him also that had invited him: When thou makest a dinner or a supper, call not thy friends, nor thy brethren, nor thy kinsmen, nor thy neighbours' who

are rich: lest perhaps they also in- [of those men that were invited, vite thee again, and a recompence shall taste of my supper.

be made to thee.

18 But when thou makest feast, call the poor, the maimed, the lame, and the blind.

14 And thou shalt be blessed, because they have not wherewith to make thee recompence: for recompence shall be made thee at the resurrection of the just.

15 When one of them that sat at table with him, had heard these things, he said to him: Blessed is he that shall eat bread in the kingdom of God.

16 But he said to him: A certain man made a great supper, and invited many.

17 And he sent his servant at the hour of supper to say to them that were invited, that they should come, for now all things are ready,

18 And they began all at once to make excuse. The first said to him, I have bought a farm, and I must needs go out and see it; I pray thee, hold me excused.

19 And another said, I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I go to try them I pray thee hold me excused.

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20 And another said, I have married a wife, and therefore I cannot come.

21 And the servant returning told these things to his lord. Then the master of the house being angry, said to his servant: Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in hither the poor and the feeble, and the blind and the lame.

22 And the servant said: Lord, it is done as thou hast commanded, and yet there is room.

23 And the lord said to the servant: Go out into the high-ways and hedges; and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled.

24 But I say unto you, that none

25 And there went great multitudes with him; and turning, he said to them:

26 If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.

27 And whosoever doth not carry his cross and come after me cannot be my disciple.

28 For which of you having a mind to build a tower, doth not first sit down and reckon the charges that are necessary, whether he have wherewithal to finish it.

29 Lest after he hath laid the foundation, and is not able to finish it, all that see it begin to mock him,

30 Saying this man began to build, and was not able to finish.

31 Or what king about to go to make war against another king, doth not first sit down and think whether he be able with ten thousand to meet him that with twenty thousand cometh against him.

32 Or else whilst the other is yet afar off, sending an embassy, he desireth conditions of peace.

33 So likewise every one of you that doth not renounce all that he possesseth, cannot be my disciple.

34 Salt is good. But if the salt shall lose its savour, wherewith shall it be seasoned?

35 It is neither profitable for the land, nor for the dunghill, but shall be cast out. He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.

CHAP. XV.
The parable of the lost sheep.
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2 And the Pharisees and the scribes murmured saying: This man receiveth sinners, and eateth with them.

3 And he spoke to them this parable, saying:

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