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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 ate 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.

54 And he said also to the mul titudes: When you see a cloud ri sing from the west, presently you say: A shower is coming; and so it happeneth:

44 Verily I say to you he will set him over all that he possesseth. 55 And when ye see the south 45 But if that servant shall say wind blow, you say: There will be in his heart, My lord is long a co-heat and it cometh to pass. ming; and shall begin to strike the 56 You hypocrites, you know 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.

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,

CHAP XIII.

The necessity of penance. ND there were present at that very time some that told him

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

fices.

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?

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 sab

5 No, I say to you: but except bath-day? you do penance, you shall all like-17 And when he said these things, wise 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?

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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 woIman 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.

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 certa 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

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27 And he shall say to you: I know you not whence you are: depart from me all ye workers of iniquity.

CHAP. XIV.
Christ heals the dropsy.

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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, say28 There shall be weeping and ing: Is it lawful to heal on the gnashing of teeth: when you shall sabbath-day? see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob, and all the prophets in the kingdom of God, and you yourselves thrust

out.

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.

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

33 Nevertheless 1 must walk today and to-morrow and the day following, because it cannot be that a prophet perish out of Jeru salem.

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.

10 But when thou art invited, go, sit down in the lowest place: that 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 tableTM with thee:

34 Jerusalem, Jerusalem, that killest the prophets, and stonest them that are sent to thee, how often would I have gathered thy children as the bird doth her brood 11 Because every one that exaltunder her wings, and thou would-eth himself shall be humbled; and est not? he that humbleth himself, shall be exalted.

35 Behold your house shall be left to you desolate. And I 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.

12 And he said to him also that had invited him: When thou mak est 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.

13 But when thou makest a 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,

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. OW the publicans and sinners

it is done as thou hast commanded, Ndrew near unto him to hear him.

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

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:

4 What man of you that hath his belly with the husks the swine an hundred sheep and if he shall did eat; and no man gave unto him. lose one of them, doth he not leave 17 And returning to himself, he the ninety-nine in the desert, and said: How many hired servants in go after that which was lost until my father's house abound with he find it? bread, and I here perish with hun

ger?

18 I will arise, and will go to my father, and say to him: Father, 1 have sinned against heaven, and before thee:

19 I am not now worthy to be called thy son: make me as one of thy hired servants.

5 And when he hath found it, lay it upon his shoulders rejoicing: 6 And coming home call together his friends and neighbours, saying to them: Rejoice with me because I have found my sheep that was lost? 7 I say to you, that even so there shall be joy in heaven upon one sinner that doth penance,more than 20 And rising up he came to his upon ninety-nine just who need not father. And when he was yet a penance, great way, off, his father saw him, 8 Or what woman having ten and was moved with compassion, groats: if she lose one graat, doth and running to him fell upon his not light a candle and sweep the neck and kissed him. house, and seek diligently, until she find it?

9 And when she hath found it, call together her friends and neighbours, saying: Rejoice with me, because I have found the groat which I had lost?

10 So I say to you, there shall be joy before the angels of God upon one sinner doing penance.

11 And he said: A certain man had two sons;

12 And the younger of them said to his father: Father, give me the portion of substance that falleth to me. And he divided unto them his substance.

13 And not many days after, the younger son gathering all together, went abroad into a far country and there wasted his substance living riotously.

14 And after he had spent all, there came a mighty famine in that country,and he began to be in want. 15 And he went, and cleaved to one of the citizens of that country. And he sent him into his farm to feed swine.

21 And the son said to him: Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee, I am not now worthy to be called thy son.

22 And the father said to his servants: Bring forth quickly the first robe, and put it on him, and put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his feet:

23 And bring hither the fatted calf, and kill it, and let us eat and make merry:

24 Because this my son was dead, and is come to life again: was lost, and is found. And they began to be merry.

25 Now his elder son was in the field, and when he came and drew nigh to the house, he heard music and dancing:

26 And he called one of the servants, and asked what these things meant.

27 And he said to him: Thy brother is come, and thy father hath killed the fatted calf, because he hath received him safe.

28 And he was angry and would not go in. His father therefore 16 And he would fain have filled coming out began to entreat him.

Ver. 10. Before the Angels. By this it is plein that the spirits in heaven have a concern for us below, and a joy at our repentance, and, consequently, a knowledge of it.

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