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into the kingdom of heaven. (24) And again, I 24 say to you: It is easier for a camel to enter the aperture of a needle, than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God. (25) And when the disci- 25 ples heard [it], they wondered greatly, and said: Sy. can live. Who then can attain to life !m (26) Jesus looked 26 on them, and said to them: With men this is not practicable, but with God every thing is practicable. (27) Then answered Cephas," and said to 27 him: Lo, we have forsaken every thing, and come

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or, shall be to after thee: what therefore shall we receive? (28) 28 Jesus said to them: Verily I say to you, that, as for you who have followed me, when the Son of man shall sit on the throne of his glory in the new world,p ye also shall sit on twelve seats, and shall judger the twelve tribes of Israel. (29) And 29 every man that relinquisheth houses, or brothers or sisters, or father or mother, or wife or children, or lands, for my name's sake, shall receive an hundredfold, and shall inherit eternal life.s (30) 30 But there are many first who shall be last, and last [who shall be] first. (XX.) For the kingdom XX. of heaven is like a man, the lord of a house, who went out, at dawn of day, to hire laborers for his vineyard. (2) And he contracted with the labor- 2 ers for a denariusa a day: and sent them into his vineyard. (3) And he went out at the third hour,b and saw others standing idle in the market-place: (4) and he said to them, Go ye also into my vine- 4 yard, and what is right I will give you; (5) and 5 they went. And again he went out at the sixth and ninth hours, and did the same. (6) And about the eleventh hour,d he went out and found others who were standing and idle; and he said to About 5 P. M. them: Why stand ye all the day, and are idle? (7) They say to him, Because no one hath hired us. He saith to them: Go ye also into the vineyard; and what is right ye shall receive. (8) And 8 when it was evening, the lord of the vineyard said to his steward:e Call the laborers, and give them their wages; and commence with the last, and proceed to the first. (9) And those of the eleventh 9 hour came, and received each denarius. (10) 10 And when the first came, they supposed they should receive more; but they also received each la denarius. (11) And when they received [it], 11

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they murmured against the lord of the house, 12 (12) and said: These last have labored but one hour, and thou hast made them equal with us who have borne the burden of the day and the heat of 13 it. (13) But he answered, and said to one of them: My friend, I do thee no injustice: was it not for a denarius that thou didst contract with me? 14 (14) Take what belongeth to thee, and go: for I 15 am disposed to give to this last, as to thee. (15) Is it not lawful for me, to do what I please with what belongeth to me; or is thy eye evil,f be- i. e. envious. 16 cause I am good?s (16) Thus the last shall be first, and the first last: for the called are many, but the chosen are few.

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And Jesus was about to go up to Jerusalem: and he took his twelve disciples aside, on the way, 18 and said to them: (18) Behold, we are going to Jerusalem; and the Son of man will be delivered up to the chief priestsh and to the Scribes, and they 19 will condemn him to death. (19) And they will deliver him over to the Gentiles: and they will mock him, and will scourge him, and will crucify him; Sy. Pos 20 and the third day, he will arise. (20) Then came to him the mother of Zebedee's children, she and her sons; and she worshipped him, and asked 21 something from him. (21) And he said to her, What desirest thou? She said to him: Say, that these my two sons shall sit, the one on thy right hand and the other on thy left, in thy kingdom. 22 (22) Jesus answered and said: Ye know not what Sy. Jo ye ask for. Can ye drink of the cup, of which I am to drink? or be baptizedk with the baptism, Sy. that I am baptized with? They say to him: We osasso 23 can. (23) He saith to them: Ye will [indeed] drink of my cup, and will be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with: but that ye should sit on my right hand and on my left, is not mine to give, except to those for whom it is prepared by my m Sy. 24 Father. (24) And when the ten heard [it], they 25 were angry against the two brothers. (25) And coas Jesus called them, and said to them: Ye know that the princesm of the nations are their lords, and Sy. their great men exercise authority over them. oi 26 (26) Not so shall it be among you. But whoever among you desireth to be great, let him be to 27 you, a ministerer: (27) and whoever among you soo

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said, This is Jesus the prophet, who is from Naza12 reth of Galilee. (12) And Jesus entered into the temple of God, and expelled all them that bought and sold in the temple, and overset the counters of the money-brokers, and the seats of them that 13 sold doves. (13) And he said to them: It is writ ten, my house shall be called the house of prayer; 14 but ye have made it a den of robbers. (14) And

there came to him in the temple the blind and the 15 lame; and he healed them. (15) And when the chief priests and Pharisees saw the wonderful things which he performed, and the children shouting in the temple and saying, Hosanna to the son of David, their indignation was excited. 16 (16) And they said to him: Hearest thou what these are saying? Jesus said to them: Yes. Have ye never read, Out of the mouth of children 17 and infants thou hast acquired praise? (17) And

he left them, and retired out of the city to Bethany,f Sy. 18 and lodged there. (18) And in the morning, when 19 he returned to the city, he was hungry. (19) And he saw a fig-tree by the way, and came to it and found nothing on it, except leaves only. And he said to it: There shall no more be fruit on thee for ever. And immediately the fig-tree withered. Sy. So 20 (20) And the disciples saw [it], and admired, and

said: How suddenly hath the fig-tree withered! 21 (21) Jesus replied and said to them: Verily I say to you, That if there be faith in you, and ye shall not doubt, ye may not only do this thing of the fig-tree, but also if ye shall say to this mountain, be thou lifted up, and fall into the sea, it will be so. 22 (22) And whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, and 23 shall believe, ye shall receive. (23) And when

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should say, From men; we are afraid of the multitude, for they all hold John as a prophet. (27) 27 And they answered, and said to him: We do not know. Jesus said to them: Neither do I tell you by what authority I do these things. (28) But 28 how appeareth it to you? A certain man had two sons; and he came to the first and said to him, My son, go, labor to-day in the vineyard. (29) And he answered and said, I am not willing. 29 But afterwards he repented and went. (30) And 30 he came to the other, and said the same to him. And he answered and said: I [go], my lord; but did not go. (31) Which of these two performed 31 the pleasure of his father? They say to him, The first. Jesus said to them: Verily I say to you, That publicans and harlots go before you into the kingdom of God. (32) For John came to you in 32 Sy. 12a the way of righteousness, and ye believed him not; but the publicans and harlots believed him: and ye, after ye had seen [it], did not even then repent and believe in him. (33) Hear ye another 33 similitude.n A certain man, the lord of a house, planted a vineyard, and inclosed it with a hedge, and digged in it a wine-press, and built a tower in it, and leased it to cultivators, and removed to a distance. (34) And when the time for the fruits 34 arrived, he sent his servants to the cultivators, that they might remit to him of the fruits of the vineyard. (35) And the cultivators laid hold of 35 his servants, and beat one, and stoned another, and one they slew. (36) And again he sent 36 other servants, more numerous than the first; and they did the like to them. (37) And at last he sent 37 to them his son: for he said, Perhaps they will respect my son. (38) But the cultivators, when 38 they saw the son, said among themselves: This is the heir: Come; let us kill him, and retain his inheritance. (39) And they laid hold of him, 39 thrust him out of the vineyard, and slew him. (40) When the lord of the vineyard, therefore, 40 shall come; what will he do to those cultivators? Sy. badly, bad- (41) They say to him: He will utterly destroy 41 them; and will lease the vineyard to other cultivators, who will render him the fruits in their seasons. (42) Jesus said to them: Have ye never 42 read in the scripture, The stone which the builders

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