ing: Master, we know that thou that which was spoken by God

art a true speaker, and teachest the way of God in truth, neither carest thou for any man: for thou dost not regard the person of men.

17 Tell us therefore what dost thou think, is it lawful to give tribute to Cesar, or not ?

18 But JESUS knowing their wickedness, said: Why do you tempt me, ye hypocrites?

19 Shew me the coin of the tribute. And they offered him a penny. 20 And JESUS saith to them; Whose image and inscription is this?

saying to you:

32 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 of the living.

33 And the multitudes hearing it, were in admiration at his doctrine. 34 But the Pharisees hearing that he had silenced the Sadducees, came together :

35 And one of them a doctor of the law asked him, tempting him: 36 Master, which is the great commandment in the law ?

37 JESUS said to him: Thou 21 They say to him, Cesar's. shalt love the Lord thy God with Then he saith to them: Render thy whole heart, and with thy whole therefore to Cesar the things that soul, and with thy whole mind. are Cesar's: and to God, the things that are God's.

22 And hearing this they wondered, and leaving him went their ways. 23 That day there came to him the Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection: and asked him,

24 Saying: Master, Moses said, If a man die having no son, his brother shall marry his wife, and raise up issue to his brother.

25 Now there were with us seven brethren: and the first having married a wife died, and not having issue, left his wife to his brother.

26 In like manner the second, and the third, and so on to the seventh.

27 And last of all the woman

died also.

28 At the resurrection therefore whose wife of the seven shall she be? for they all had her.

29 And JESUs answering, said to them: You err, not knowing the scriptures, nor the power of God.

30 For in the resurrection they shall neither marry nor be married: but shall be as the Angels of God in heaven.

31 And concerning the resurrection of the dead, have you not read

38 This is the greatest and the first commandment.

39 And the second is like to this: Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

40 On these two commandments dependeth the whole law and the prophets.

41 And the Pharisees being gathered together JESUS asked them, 42 Saying: What think you of Christ? whose son is he? They say to him: David's.

43 He saith to them: How then doth David in spirit call him Lord; saying;

44 The Lord said to my Lord, sit on my right hand, until I make thy enemies thy foot-stool?

45 If David then call him Lord, how is he his son?

46 And no man was able to answer him a word: neither durst any man from that day forth ask him any more questions.

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CHAP. XXIII. Christ admonisheth the people, &c. HEN JESUS spoke to the multitudes and to his disciples, 2 Saying: The scribes and the Pharisees have sitten on the chair of Moses.

3 All things therefore whatso

ever they shall say to you, observe risees, hypocrites: because you and do: but according to their go round about the sea and the works do ye not: for they say, and land to make one proselyte: and do not. when he is made, you make him

4 For they bind heavy and in- the child of hell twofold more than supportable burdens: and lay them yourselves.

on men's shoulders: but with a 16 Wo to you blind guides, that finger of their own they will not move them.

:

5 And all their works they do for to be seen of men. For they make their phylacteries broad and enlarge their fringes.

say, whosoever shall swear by the temple, it is nothing: but he that shall swear by the gold of the temple, is a debtor.

17 Ye foolish and blind: for whether is greater, the gold, or the temple, that sanctifieth the gold?

6 And they love the first places at feasts, and the first chairs in the 18 And whosoever shall swear by the altar, it is nothing: but who

synagogues,

7 And salutations in the market-soever shall swear by the gift that place, and to be called by men, Rabbi.

8 But be not you called Rabbi. For one is your master, and all you are brethren.

9 And call none your father upon earth: for one is your father, who is in heaven.

10 Neither be ye called masters: for one is your master, Christ.

11 He that is the greatest among you shall be your servant.

12 And whosoever shall exalt himself shall be humbled and he that shall humble himself shall be exalted.

13 But wo to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites: because you shut the kingdom of heaven against men, for you yourselves do not enter in; and those that are going in, you suffer not to enter.

is upon it, is a debtor.

19 Ye blind: for whether is greater, the gift, or the altar, that sanctifieth the gift?

20 He therefore that sweareth by the altar, sweareth by it, and by all things that are upon it:

21 And whosoever shall swear by the temple, sweareth by it, and by him that dwelleth in it.

22 And he that sweareth by heaven, sweareth by the throne of God, and by him that sitteth thereon.

23 Wo to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites: because you tithe mint, and anise, and cummin, and have left the weightier things of the law, judgment, and mercy, and faith. These things you ought to have done, and not to leave those undone.

24 Blind guides, who strain at a gnat and swallow a camel.

14 Wo-to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites: because you devour the houses of widows, pray25 Wo to you scribes and Phaing long prayers. For this you risees, hypocrites: because you shall receive the greater judgment. make clean the outside of the cup

15 Wo to you scribes and Pha-and of the dish: but within you

Ver. 5. Phylacteries, i. e. Parchments, on which they wrote the ten commandments, and carried them on their foreheads before their eyes: which the Pharisees affected to wear broader than other men; so to seem more zealous for the law

Ver. 9, 10. Call none your father-neither be ye called masters, &c. The meaning is, that our Father in heaven is incomparably more to be regarded than any father upon earth: and no master to be followed who would lead us away from Christ. But this does not hinder but that we are, by the law of God, to have a due respect both for our carnal and spiritual fathers, (1 Cor. iv. 15.) and to masters and teachers.

are full of rapine and uncleanness. things shall come upon this genera26 Thou blind Pharisee, first tion.

make clean the inside of the cup 37 Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou and of the dish that the outside may that killest the prophets, and stonest become clean.

them that are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered together thy children, as the hen doth gather her chickens under her wings, and thou wouldest not?

27 Wo to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites: because you are like to whited sepulchres, which outwardly appear to men beautiful, but within are full of dead men's bones, and of all filthiness. left to you, desolate.

28 So you also outwardly indeed appear to men just; but inwardly you are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.

29 Wo to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, that build the sepulchres of the prophets, and adorn the monuments of the just.

30 And say: If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.

31 Wherefore you are witnesses against yourselves, that you are the sons of them that killed the prophets.

32 Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers.

33 You serpents, generation of vipers, how will you flee from the judgment of hell?

34 Therefore behold I send to you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: and some of them you will put to death and crucify, and some you will scourge in your synagogues, and persecute from city to city:

35 That upon you may come all the just blood that hath been shed upon the earth, from the blood of Abel the just, even unto the blood of Zacharias the son of Barachias whom you killed between the temple and the altar.

36 Amen I say to you all these

38 Behold, your house shall be

39 For I say to you, you shall not see me henceforth till you say : Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord.

CHAP. XXIV. Destruction of the temple foretold.

AND JESUS being come out of

the temple, went away. And his disciples came to shew him the buildings of the temple.

2 And he answering said to them : Do you see all these things? Amen I say to you there shall not be left here a stone upon a stone that shall not be destroyed.

3 And when he was sitting on Mount Olivet, the disciples came to him privately, saying: Tell us when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the consummation of the world?

4 And Jesus answering, said to them: Take heed that no man seduce you:

5 For many will come in my name saying, I am Christ: and they will seduce many.

6 And you shall hear of wars, and rumours of wars. See that ye be not troubled. For these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.

7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom; and there shall be pestilences,

Ver. 29. Build the sepulchres, &c. This is not here blamed, as if it were in itself evil to build or adorn the monuments of the prophets: but the hypocrisy of the Pharisees is here taxed; who, whilst they pretended to honour the memory of the prophets, were persecuting even unto death the Lord of the prophets

and famines, and earthquakes in Christs and false prophets, and places:

8 Now all these are the beginnings of sorrows.

9 Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall put you to death: and you shall be hated by all nations for my name's sake.

shall shew great signs and wonders, insomuch as to deceive (if possible) even the elect.

25 Behold I have told it to you, before hand.

26 If therefore they shall say to you: Behold he is in the desert; closets, believe it not.

10 And then shall many be scan-go ye not out: Behold he is in the

dalized and shall betray one another and shall hate one another.

11 And many false prophets shall rise, and shall seduce many.

12 And because iniquity hath abounded, the charity of many shall grow cold.

13 But he that shall persevere to the end, he shall be saved.

14 And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in the whole world, for a testimony to all nations, and then shall the consummation come.

15 When therefore you shall see the abomination of desolation, which was spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place: he that readeth, let him understand. 16 Then they that are in Judea, let them flee to the mountains:

17 And he that is on the housetop, let him not come down to take any thing out of his house:

18 And he that is in the field, let him not go back to take his coat.

19 And wo to them that are with child, and that give suck in those days.

20 But pray that your flight be not in the winter, or on the sabbath. 21 For there shall be then great tribulation, such as hath not been from the beginning of the world until now, neither shall be.

22 And unless those days had been shortened, no flesh should be saved: but for the sake of the elect those days shall be shortened.

23 Then if any shall say to you: Lo here is Christ, or there: do not believe him.

24 For there shall arise false

27 For as lightning cometh out of the east, and appeareth even into the west: so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.

28 Wheresoever the body shall be, there shall the eagles also be gathered together.

29 And immediately after the tribulation of those days, the sun shall be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of heaven shall be moved:

30 And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all tribes of the earth mourn: and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with much power and majesty.

31 And he shall send his Angels with a trumpet, and a great voice: and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from the farthest parts of the heavens to the utmost bounds of them.

32 And from the fig-tree learn a parable; when the branch thereof is now tender, and the leaves come forth, you know that summer is nigh.

33 So you also, when you shall see all these things, know ye that it is nigh even at the doors.

34 Amen I say to you, that this generation shall not pass, till all these things be done.

35 Heaven and earth shall pass, but my words shall not pass.

36 But of that day and hour no one knoweth, no not the Angels of heaven, but the Father alone. 37 And as in the days of Noe, 16 And he that had received the 51 And shall separate him, and five talents, went his way, and traappoint his portion with the hypo-ded with the same, and gained crites, there shall be weeping and other five. gnashing of teeth.

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