rejected, hath become the head of the corner: this is from the Lord; and it is marvellous in our eyes? 43 (43) Therefore I say to you, That the kingdom of God shall be taken from you, and shall be given 44 to a people that will yield fruits.P (44) And whoever shall fall upon this stone, will be fractured; but on whomsoever it shall fall, it will crush him 45 to atoms? (45) And when the chief priests and Pharisees had heard his similitudes, they under46 stood that he spoke in reference to them. (46) And they sought to apprehend him, but were afraid of the multitude, because they accounted him as a prophet.

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2 and said: (2) The kingdom of heaven is like to
a royal person, who made a feast for his son.
3 (3) And he sent his servants to call those that
had been invited, to the feast: and they would not
4 come. (4) And again he sent other servants, and
said: Tell those invited, Behold, my entertainment
is prepared, my oxen and my fatlings are slain,
and every thing is prepared; come ye to the feast.
5 (5) But they showed contempt, and went away,
one to his farm, and another to his merchandise
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heard [of it], he was angry; and he sent his military forces, and destroyed those murderers, and burned or, his armies 8 their city. (8) Then said he to his servants, The feast is prepared, but they who were invited were 9 unworthy. (9) Go ye therefore to the terminations of the streets; and as many as ye find, bid 10 to the feast. (10) And those servants went out into the streets, and collected all they found, both bad and good; and the place of feastingd was filled Sy. A 11 with guests. (11) And the king went in to see 12c so the guests: and he saw there a man who was not 12 clad in the festal garments. (12) And he said to

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him: My friend, how camest thou here without the 13 festal robes? But he was silent. (13) Then said the king to the servitors: Bind his hands and his feet, and cast him into the outere darkness: there will e 14 be weeping and gnashing of teeth. (14) For the called are many, and the chosen are few.

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they might ensnare him in discourse. (16) And 16 they sent to him their disciples, with domestics of Herod,g and said to him: Teacher, we know that thou art veracious, and teachest the way of God with truth, regardless of man, for thou hast no h Sy. respect of persons. (17) Tell us, therefore, how 17 doth it appear to thee: is it lawful to pay capitation money to Cæsar, or not? (18) But Jesus knew 18 their wickedness, and said: Why tempt ye me, ye hypocrites? (19) Show me a denarius of the 19 capitation money. And they brought to him a denarius. (20) And Jesus said to them: Whose 20 is this image and inscription? (21) They say, 21 Cæsar's. He saith to them: Give then Cæsar's things to Cæsar, and God's things to God. (22) 22 And when they heard [it] they were surprised: and they left him, and went away.

The same day came Sadducees, and said to him: 23 There is no life of the dead. And they questioned him, (24) and said to him: Teacher;k Moses com- 24 manded us, that if a man should die childless, his brother must take his wife and raise up seed to his brother. (25) Now there were with us seven 25 brothers. The first took a wife, and deceased; and, as he had no children, he left his wife to his brother. (26) In like manner also the second, and 26 the third, and up to the whole seven. (27) And 27 after them all, the woman also herself died. (28) 28 In the resurrection, therefore, to which of those seven will she be the wife? For they all had taken her? (29) Jesus answered, and said to them: Ye 29 do err, from not knowing the scriptures, nor the power m m of God. (30) For in the resurrection of the 30 dead, they do not take wives, nor are wives given to husbands; but they are as the angels of God in heaven. (31) But as to the resurrection of the dead, 31 have ye not read what was spoken to you by God, who said: (32) I am the God of Abraham, the 32 God of Isaac, the God of Jacob? Now he is not the God of the dead, but of the living. (33) And 33 when the multitude heard [it] they were astonished at his doctrine.n

And when the Pharisees heard that he had put 34 the Sadducees to silence, they assembled together; (35) and one of them, who was expert in the law,° 35 to tempt him, inquired: (36) Teacher,p which is the 36

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the Pentateuch.

37 great command in the law? (37) Jesus said to him: Thou shalt love the Lord thy God, with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might, and 38 with all thy mind.t (38) This is the great and first 39 command. (39) And the second, which is like it, 40 is, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. (40) On these two commands hang the law and the 41 prophets. (41) And while the Pharisees were 42 assembled, Jesus questioned them, (42) and said: Sy. io), What say ye respecting the Messiah? Whose son is he? They say to him; The son of David. 43 (43) He saith to them: How then doth David, by 44 the Spirit, call him Lord? for he said: (44). The Lord said to my Lord, Seat thyself at my right hand, until I place thy enemies under thy feet. 45 (45) If David then call him Lord, how is he his 46 son? (46) And no one was able to give him an answer? And from that day, no one dared to question him.

XXIII. Then Jesus conversed with the multitude 2 and with his disciples, (2) and said to them:

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The Scribes and Pharisees sit in the seat of Moses. 3 (3) Whatever therefore they tell you to observe, that observe and do. But according to their deeds, 4 practise ye not: for they say, and do not. (4) They tie up heavy burdens, and lay [them] on men's shoulders; but will not themselves touch 5 them with their finger. (5) And all their works they do, to be seen of men: for they make their phylacteriesa broad, and extend the fringes of 6 their garments. (6) And they love the highest couches at suppers, and the highest seats in the 7 synagogues, (7) and the greeting in the market places, and to be addressed by men with Rabbi.d 8 (8) But be not ye called Rabbi; for one is your 9 Rabbi, and ye are all brethren. (9) And ye shall not call yourselves Fathere on earth; for one isa 10 your Father, who is in heaven. (10) And be ye not called guides; for one is your Guide, the 11 Messiah. (11) And the great one among you will 12 be your servitor.s (12) For whoever shall exalt himself, will be abased: and whoever shall abase himself, will be exalted.

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Woe to you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites: Sy. for ye devour the houses of widows, under the dis-oso

guise of protracting your prayers. Therefore ye shall receive greater condemnation. (14) Woe to 14 you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites: for ye hold the kingdom of heaven closed before men; for ye enter not yourselves, and those that would enter ye suffer not to enter. (15) Woe to you, Scribes 15 and Pharisees, hypocrites: for ye traverse sea and Sy. 13 land to make one proselyte; and when he is gained, ye make him a child of helli twofold more than yourselves. (16) Woe to you, ye blind guides: 16 for ye say, Whoever shall swear by the temple, it is nothing; but whoever shall swear by the gold that is in the temple, he is holden.k (17) Ye fools, 17 Sy. a debtor. and blind: for which is greater, the gold, or the

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temple that sanctifieth the gold? (18) And, who- 18 ever shall swear by the altar, it is nothing: but whoever shall swear by the oblation upon it, he is 1 Sy. a debtor. holden. (19) Ye fools, and blind: for which is 19 greater, the oblation, or the altar that sanctifieth the oblation? (20) He therefore who sweareth by 20 the altar, sweareth by it, and by all that is upon it. (21) And he who sweareth by the temple, sweareth 21 by it, and by him that dwelleth in it. (22) And 22 he who sweareth by heaven, sweareth by the throne of God, and by him that sitteth on it. (23) 23 Woe to you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites: for ye tithe mint, and anise, and cummin, and omit Sy. Loooo the graver [matters] of the law,m judgment, and mercy, and fidelity: these ought ye to do, and those not to omit. (24) Ye blind guides, who 24 strain out gnats, and swallow down camels. (25) 25 Woe to you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites: for ye cleanse the outside of the cup and the dish, while within they are full of rapine and wickedness. (26) Ye blind Pharisees, cleanse first the 26 inside of the cup and dish, that their outside may be clean also. (27) Woe to you, Scribes and Phari- 27 sees, hypocrites: for ye are like whited sepulchres, which appear comely without, but are within full of bones of the dead and all impurity. (28) So ye 28 also, outwardly, appear to men as righteous; but within, ye are full of iniquity and hypocrisy. (29) 29 Woe to you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites: for ye build the tombs of the prophets, and ye adorn the sepulchres of the righteous; (30) and ye say: 30 If we had been in the days of our fathers, we

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would not have been participators with them in 31 the blood of the prophets. (31) Wherefore ye are witnesses, against yourselves, that ye are the 32 children of them that killed the prophets. (32) And as for you, fill ye up the measure of your 33 fathers. (33) Ye serpents, ye race of vipers: how 34 can ye escape the condemnation of hell?

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(34) Sy. Wherefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise inen, and scribes; some of whom ye will kill and crucify, and some of them ye will scourge in your synagogues, and will persecute them from 35 city to city: (35) so that on you may come all the blood of the righteous, which hath been shed on the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel unto the blood of Zachariah,P son of Barachiah, whom Sy. 36 ye slew between the temple and the altar. (36)

Verily I say to you, that all these things will 37 come upon this generation. (37) O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who killest the prophets, and stonest them that are sent to thee: how often would I have gathered thy children, as a hen gathereth her young under her wings, and ye would not. 38 (38) Behold, your house is left to you desolate ! 39 (39) For I say to you, That ye shall not see me henceforth, until ye shall say: Blessed is he that

cometh in the name of the Lord.

XXIV. And Jesus passed out of the temple to go away and his disciples came to him, showing him Sy. 2 the structurea of the temple. (2) And he said to them: See ye not all these? Verily I say to you, There will not be left here a stone upon a 3 stone, that is not demolished. (3) And as Jesus sat on the mount of Olives, his disciples came, and said between themselves and him: Tell us when these things are to be; and what will be the sign of thy coming, and of the consummation of the Sy. A270 4 world. (4) Jesus answered and said to them:

5 Take heed, that no one deceive you. (5) For Sy. Kols many will come in my name, and will say, I am 6 the Messiah: and they will deceive many. (6) And ye are to hear of conflicts, and the rumor of battles. See that ye be not disquieted: for all these things must come; but the consummation is 7 not yet. (7) For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom; and there will be