{"collection":"scripture-revelation","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/gutenberg_18513/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/gutenberg_18513","id":"gutenberg_18513","license":"Public Domain (US)","rights_basis":"gutenberg_metadata_copyright_false","source":"gutenberg","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/18513","summary":null,"tags":["Category: Biographies","Category: History - Religious","Category: Religion/Spirituality","Jesus Christ"],"text":"Produced by Al Haines\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Frontispiece: Jesus of Nazareth]\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJESUS OF NAZARETH\n\nA BIOGRAPHY\n\n\nBY\n\nJOHN MARK\n\n\n\nD. APPLETON AND COMPANY\n\nNEW YORK : : LONDON : : MCMXXII\n\n\n\n\nCOPYRIGHT 1922, BY\n\nD. APPLETON AND COMPANY\n\n\n\n\nFOREWORD\n\n\"Jesus of Nazareth, a Biography, by John Mark,\" recognizes the author\nof the second Gospel as that \"John, whose surname was Mark\" (Acts\n15:37), whom Barnabas chose as companion when he sailed for Cyprus on\nhis second missionary journey.  In making use of the new title, the\nplan of the Editor is to present \"The Gospel: According to Mark\" as it\nwould be printed were it written in the twentieth rather than the first\ncentury.\n\nMark's Gospel has been chosen for this purpose to make available in\nmore readable form this timely portion of the Bible.  In John Mark the\nmissionary is revealed a man of action.  This characteristic influences\nstrongly the point of view and style of his writing.  As John, the\nbeloved disciple, in \"The Revelation\" beholds the victorious Christ as\n\"the Lion of the tribe of Judah,\" foretold by the prophets, so Mark\nsees Jesus of Nazareth as the strong, vigorous man of action; he writes\nof His mighty works in swift narrative at times so vivid it flashes\nlike a burst of flame, as though the facts presented must have been on\nfire in the heart of the author.  Written for the practical, energetic\nRoman, the Editor feels that this biography of Jesus of Nazareth\nexactly fits the mood of our own time, with its emphasis upon the\npractical and its insistence that the man of action, the doer, is the\nman for the hour.\n\nPrinted like a modern book, but in the fine old King James' version, it\nis believed that all Bible lovers will welcome their old friend, \"The\nGospel: According to Mark,\" in its new literary dress; it is hoped,\ntoo, that in this popular form book buyers and lovers of good\nliterature may be led to purchase a book which needs only to be\nthoroughly and thoughtfully read to be greatly reverenced.\n\n\n\n\nCONTENTS\n\n\nCHAPTER\n\n    I.  HAIL, THE GALILEAN\n   II.  A TEACHER WITH AUTHORITY\n  III.  A BROTHER TO ALL WHO DO THE WILL OF GOD\n   IV.  THE WISDOM OF THE AGES\n    V.  LORD OF LIFE AND LOVE\n   VI.  IS NOT HE THE CARPENTER?\n  VII.  NEVER A MAN LIKE HIM\n VIII.  \"THOU ART THE CHRIST\"\n   IX.  STRONG SON OF GOD\n    X.  MASTER OF MEN BUT SERVANT OF ALL\n   XI.  HE THAT COMETH IN THE NAME OF THE LORD\n  XII.  IN CONFLICT WITH SCRIBES AND PHARISEES\n XIII.  JERUSALEM THAT KILLETH THE PROPHETS\n  XIV.  DESPISED AND REJECTED BY FRIEND AND FOE\n   XV.  CRUCIFIED, DEAD AND BURIED\n  XVI.  JESUS OF NAZARETH RISES FROM THE DEAD\n\n\n\n\nJESUS OF NAZARETH\n\n\nCHAPTER I\n\nHAIL, THE GALILEAN\n\nThe beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God; as it is\nwritten in the prophets, \"Behold, I send my messenger before thy face,\nwhich shall prepare thy way before thee.  The voice of one crying in\nthe wilderness.  Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths\nstraight.\"\n\nJohn did baptize in the wilderness, and preach the baptism of\nrepentance for the remission of sins.  And there went out unto him all\nthe land of Judaea, and they of Jerusalem, and were all baptized of him\nin the river of Jordan, confessing their sins.  And John was clothed\nwith camel's hair, and with a girdle of a skin about his loins; and he\ndid eat locusts and wild honey; and preached, saying:\n\n\"There cometh one mightier than I after me, the latchet of whose shoes\nI am not worthy to stoop down and unloose.  I indeed have baptized you\nwith water: but he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost.\"\n\nAnd it came to pass in those days, that Jesus came from Nazareth of\nGalilee, and was baptized of John in Jordan.  And straightway coming up\nout of the water, he saw the heavens opened, and the Spirit like a dove\ndescending upon him: and there came a voice from heaven, saying:\n\n\"Thou art my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.\"\n\nAnd immediately the spirit driveth him into the wilderness.  And he was\nthere in the wilderness forty days, tempted of Satan; and was with the\nwild beasts; and the angels ministered unto him.\n\nNow after that John was put in prison, Jesus came into Galilee,\npreaching the gospel of the kingdom of God, and saying:\n\n\"The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye,\nand believe the gospel.\"\n\nNow as he walked by the sea of Galilee, he saw Simon and Andrew his\nbrother casting a net into the sea: for they were fishers.  And Jesus\nsaid unto them:\n\n\"Come ye after me, and I will make you to become fishers of men.\"\n\nAnd straightway they forsook their nets, and followed him.\n\nAnd when he had gone a little farther thence, he saw James the son of\nZebedee, and John his brother, who also were in the ship mending their\nnets.  And straightway he called them: and they left their father\nZebedee in the ship with the hired servants, and went after him.\n\nAnd they went into Capernaum; and straightway on the sabbath day he\nentered into the synagogue, and taught.  And they were astonished at\nhis doctrine: for he taught them as one that had authority, and not as\nthe scribes.  And there was in their synagogue a man with an unclean\nspirit; and he cried out, saying:\n\n\"Let us alone; what have we to do with thee, thou Jesus of Nazareth?\nArt thou come to destroy us?  I know thee who thou art, the Holy One of\nGod.\"\n\nAnd Jesus rebuked him, saying, \"Hold thy peace, and come out of him.\"\nAnd when the unclean spirit had torn him, and cried with a loud voice,\nhe came out of him.  And they were all amazed, insomuch that they\nquestioned among themselves, saying:\n\n\"What thing is this? what new doctrine is this? for with authority\ncommandeth he even the unclean spirits, and they do obey him.\"\n\nAnd immediately his fame spread abroad throughout all the region round\nabout Galilee.\n\nAnd forthwith, when they were come out of the synagogue, they entered\ninto the house of Simon and Andrew, with James and John.  But Simon's\nwife's mother lay sick of a fever, and anon they tell him of her.  And\nhe came and took her by the hand, and lifted her up; and immediately\nthe fever left her, and she ministered unto them.\n\nAnd at even, when the sun did set, they brought unto him all that were\ndiseased, and them that were possessed with devils.  And all the city\nwas gathered together at the door.  And he healed many that were sick\nof divers diseases, and cast out many devils; and suffered not the\ndevils to speak, because they knew him.\n\nAnd in the morning, rising up a great while before day, he went out,\nand departed into a solitary place, and there prayed.  And Simon and\nthey that were with him followed after him.  And when they had found\nhim, they said unto him, \"All men seek for thee.\"\n\nAnd he said unto them, \"Let us go into the next towns, that I may\npreach there also; for therefore came I forth.\"\n\nAnd he preached in their synagogues throughout all Galilee, and cast\nout devils.  And there came a leper to him, beseeching him, and\nkneeling down to him, and saying unto him, \"If thou wilt, thou canst\nmake me clean.\"  And Jesus, moved with compassion, put forth his hand,\nand touched him, and saith unto him, \"I will; be thou clean.\"\n\nAnd as soon as he had spoken, immediately the leprosy departed from\nhim, and he was cleansed.  And he straitly charged him, and forthwith\nsent him away; and saith unto him, \"See thou say nothing to any man:\nbut go thy way, shew thyself to the priest, and offer for thy cleansing\nthose things which Moses commanded, for a testimony unto them.\"\n\nBut he went out, and began to publish it much, and to blaze abroad the\nmatter, insomuch that Jesus could no more openly enter into the city,\nbut was without in desert places: and they came to him from every\nquarter.\n\n\n\n\nCHAPTER II\n\nA TEACHER WITH AUTHORITY\n\nAnd again he entered into Capernaum after some days; and it was noised\nthat he was in the house.  And straightway many were gathered together,\ninsomuch that there was no room to receive them, no, not so much as\nabout the door: and he preached the word unto them.  And they come unto\nhim, bringing one sick of the palsy, which was borne of four.  And when\nthey could not come nigh unto him for the press, they uncovered the\nroof where he was: and when they had broken it up, they let down the\nbed wherein the sick of the palsy lay.  When Jesus saw their faith, he\nsaid unto the sick of the palsy:\n\n\"Son, thy sins be forgiven thee.\"\n\nBut there were certain of the scribes sitting there, and reasoning in\ntheir hearts:\n\n\"Why doth this man thus speak blasphemies?  Who can forgive sins but\nGod only?\"\n\nAnd immediately when Jesus perceived in his spirit that they so\nreasoned within themselves, he said unto them:\n\n\"Why reason ye these things in your hearts?  Whether is it easier to\nsay to the sick of the palsy, 'Thy sins be forgiven thee;' or to say,\n'Arise, and take up thy bed, and walk?'  But that ye may know that the\nSon of man hath power on earth to forgive sins, (he saith to the sick\nof the palsy,) I say unto thee, 'Arise, and take up thy bed, and go thy\nway into thine house.'\"\n\nAnd immediately he arose, took up the bed, and went forth before them\nall; insomuch that they were all amazed, and glorified God, saying:\n\n\"We never saw it on this fashion.\"\n\nAnd he went forth again by the sea side; and all the multitude resorted\nunto him, and he taught them.\n\nAnd as he passed by, he saw Levi the son of Alphaeus sitting at the\nreceipt of custom, and said unto him:\n\n\"Follow me.\"\n\nAnd he arose and followed him.\n\nAnd it came to pass, that, as Jesus sat at meat in his house, many\npublicans and sinners sat also together with Jesus and his disciples:\nfor there were many, and they followed him.  And when the scribes and\nPharisees saw him eat with publicans and sinners, they said unto his\ndisciples:\n\n\"How is it that he eateth and drinketh with publicans and sinners?\"\n\nWhen Jesus heard it, he saith unto them;\n\n\"They that are whole have no need of the physician, but they that are\nsick: I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.\"\n\nAnd the disciples of John and of the Pharisees used to fast: and they\ncome and say unto him:\n\n\"Why do the disciples of John and of the Pharisees fast, but thy\ndisciples fast not?\"\n\nAnd Jesus said unto them:\n\n\"Can the children of the bridechamber fast, while the bridegroom is\nwith them?  As long as they have the bridegroom with them, they cannot\nfast.  But the days will come, when the bridegroom shall be taken away\nfrom them, and then shall they fast in those days.  No man also seweth\na piece of new cloth on an old garment: else the new piece that filled\nit up taketh away from the old, and the rent is made worse.  And no man\nputteth new wine into old bottles: else the new wine doth burst the\nbottles, and the wine is spilled, and the bottles will be marred: but\nnew wine must be put into new bottles.\"\n\nAnd it came to pass, that he went through the corn fields on the\nsabbath day; and his disciples began, as they went, to pluck the ears\nof corn.  And the Pharisees said unto him:\n\n\"Behold, why do they on the sabbath day that which is not lawful?\"\n\nAnd he said unto them:\n\n\"Have ye never read what David did, when he had need, and was an\nhungered, he, and they that were with him?  How he went into the house\nof God in the days of Abiathar the high priest, and did eat the\nshewbread, which is not lawful to eat but for the priests, and gave\nalso to them which were with him?\"\n\nAnd he said unto them:\n\n\"The sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath: therefore\nthe Son of man is Lord also of the sabbath.\"\n\n\n\n\nCHAPTER III\n\nA BROTHER TO ALL WHO DO THE WILL OF GOD\n\nAnd he entered again into the synagogue; and there was a man there\nwhich had a withered hand.  And they watched him, whether he would heal\nhim on the sabbath day; that they might accuse him.\n\nAnd he saith unto the man which had the withered hand:\n\n\"Stand forth.\"\n\nAnd he saith unto them:\n\n\"Is it lawful to do good on the sabbath days, or to do evil? to save\nlife, or to kill?\"\n\nBut they held their peace.\n\nAnd when he had looked round about on them with anger, being grieved\nfor the hardness of their hearts, he saith unto the man:\n\n\"Stretch forth thine hand.\"\n\nAnd he stretched it out: and his hand was restored whole as the other.\nAnd the Pharisees went forth, and straightway took counsel with the\nHerodians against him, how they might destroy him.\n\nBut Jesus withdrew himself with his disciples to the sea: and a great\nmultitude from Galilee followed him, and from Judaea, and from\nJerusalem, and from Idumaea, and from beyond Jordan; and they about\nTyre and Sidon, a great multitude, when they had heard what great\nthings he did, came unto him.  And he spake to his disciples, that a\nsmall ship should wait on him because of the multitude, lest they\nshould throng him.  For he had healed many; insomuch that they pressed\nupon him for to touch him, as many as had plagues.  And unclean\nspirits, when they saw him, fell down before him, and cried, saying:\n\n\"Thou art the Son of God.\"\n\nAnd he straitly charged them that they should not make him known.\n\nAnd he goeth up into a mountain, and calleth unto him whom he would:\nand they came unto him.  And he ordained twelve, that they should be\nwith him, and that he might send them forth to preach, and to have\npower to heal sicknesses, and to cast out devils: and Simon he surnamed\nPeter; and James the son of Zebedee, and John the brother of James; and\nhe surnamed them Boanerges, which is.  The sons of thunder: and Andrew,\nand Philip, and Bartholomew, and Matthew, and Thomas, and James the son\nof Alphaeus, and Thaddaeus, and Simon the Canaanite, and Judas\nIscariot, which also betrayed him.\n\nAnd they went into an house.  And the multitude cometh together again,\nso that they could not so much as eat bread.  And when his friends\nheard of it, they went out to lay hold on him: for they said:\n\n\"He is beside himself.\"\n\nAnd the scribes which came down from Jerusalem said:\n\n\"He hath Beelzebub, and by the prince of the devils casteth he out\ndevils.\"\n\nAnd he called them unto him, and said unto them in parables:\n\n\"How can Satan cast out Satan?  And if a kingdom be divided against\nitself, that kingdom cannot stand.  And if a house be divided against\nitself, that house cannot stand.  And if Satan rise up against himself,\nand be divided, he cannot stand, but hath an end.  No man can enter\ninto a strong man's house, and spoil his goods, except he will first\nbind the strong man; and then he will spoil his house.  Verily I say\nunto you.  All sins shall be forgiven unto the sons of men, and\nblasphemies wherewith soever they shall blaspheme: but he that shall\nblaspheme against the Holy Ghost hath never forgiveness, but is in\ndanger of eternal damnation.\"\n\nBecause they said, \"He hath an unclean spirit.\"\n\nThere came then his brethren and his mother, and, standing without,\nsent unto him, calling him.  And the multitude sat about him, and they\nsaid unto him:\n\n\"Behold, thy mother and thy brethren without seek for thee.\"\n\nAnd he answered them, saying:\n\n\"Who is my mother, or my brethren?\"\n\nAnd he looked round about on them which sat about him, and said:\n\n\"Behold my mother and my brethren!  For whosoever shall do the will of\nGod, the same is my brother, and my sister, and mother.\"\n\n\n\n\nCHAPTER IV\n\nTHE WISDOM OF THE AGES\n\nAnd he began again to teach by the sea side: and there was gathered\nunto him a great multitude, so that he entered into a ship, and sat in\nthe sea; and the whole multitude was by the sea on the land.  And he\ntaught them many things by parables, and said unto them in his doctrine:\n\n\"Hearken; Behold, there went out a sower to sow: and it came to pass,\nas he sowed, some fell by the way side, and the fowls of the air came\nand devoured it up.  And some fell on stony ground, where it had not\nmuch earth; and immediately it sprang up, because it had no depth of\nearth: but when the sun was up, it was scorched; and because it had no\nroot, it withered away.  And some fell among thorns, and the thorns\ngrew up, and choked it, and it yielded no fruit.  And other fell on\ngood ground, and did yield fruit that sprang up and increased; and\nbrought forth, some thirty, and some sixty, and some an hundred.\"\n\nAnd he said unto them:\n\n\"He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.\"\n\nAnd when he was alone, they that were about him with the twelve asked\nof him the parable.  And he said unto them:\n\n\"Unto you it is given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God: but\nunto them that are without, all these things are done in parables: that\nseeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they may hear, and\nnot understand; lest at any time they should be converted, and their\nsins should be forgiven them.\"\n\nAnd he said unto them:\n\n\"Know ye not this parable?  And how then will ye know all parables?\nThe sower soweth the word.  And these are they by the way side, where\nthe word is sown; but when they have heard, Satan cometh immediately,\nand taketh away the word that was sown in their hearts.  And these are\nthey likewise which are sown on stony ground; who, when they have heard\nthe word, immediately receive it with gladness; and have no root in\nthemselves, and so endure but for a time: afterward, when affliction or\npersecution ariseth for the word's sake, immediately they are offended.\nAnd these are they which are sown among thorns; such as hear the word,\nand the cares of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the\nlusts of other things entering in, choke the word, and it becometh\nunfruitful.  And these are they which are sown on good ground; such as\nhear the word, and receive it, and bring forth fruit, some thirtyfold,\nsome sixty, and some an hundred.\"\n\nAnd he said unto them:\n\n\"Is a candle brought to be put under a bushel, or under a bed? and not\nto be set on a candlestick?  For there is nothing hid, which shall not\nbe manifested; neither was anything kept secret, but that it should\ncome abroad.  If any man have ears to hear, let him hear.\"\n\nAnd he said unto them:\n\n\"Take heed what ye hear: with what measure ye mete, it shall be\nmeasured to you; and unto you that hear shall more be given.  For he\nthat hath, to him shall be given: and he that hath not, from him shall\nbe taken even that which he hath.\"\n\nAnd he said:\n\n\"So is the kingdom of God, as if a man should cast seed into the\nground; and should sleep, and rise night and day, and the seed should\nspring and grow up, he knoweth not how.  For the earth bringeth forth\nfruit of herself; first the blade, then the ear, after that the full\ncorn in the ear.  But when the fruit is brought forth, immediately he\nputteth in the sickle, because the harvest is come.\"\n\nAnd he said:\n\n\"Whereunto shall we liken the kingdom of God? or with what comparison\nshall we compare it?  It is like a grain of mustard seed, which, when\nit is sown in the earth, is less than all the seeds that be in the\nearth: but when it is sown, it groweth up, and becometh greater than\nall herbs, and shooteth out great branches; so that the fowls of the\nair may lodge under the shadow of it.\"\n\nAnd with many such parables spake he the word unto them, as they were\nable to hear it.  But without a parable spake he not unto them: and\nwhen they were alone, he expounded all things to his disciples.\n\nAnd the same day, when the even was come, he saith unto them:\n\n\"Let us pass over unto the other side.\"\n\nAnd when they had sent away the multitude, they took him even as he was\nin the ship.  And there were also with him other little ships.  And\nthere arose a great storm of wind, and the waves beat into the ship, so\nthat it was now full.  And he was in the hinder part of the ship,\nasleep on a pillow; and they awake him, and say unto him:\n\n\"Master, carest thou not that we perish?\"\n\nAnd he arose, and rebuked the wind, and said unto the sea:\n\n\"Peace, be still.\"\n\nAnd the wind ceased, and there was a great calm.\n\nAnd he said unto them:\n\n\"Why are ye so fearful?  How is it that ye have no faith?\"\n\nAnd they feared exceedingly, and said one to another:\n\n\"What manner of man is this, that even the wind and the sea obey him?\"\n\n\n\n\nCHAPTER V\n\nLORD OF LIFE AND LOVE\n\nAnd they came over unto the other side of the sea, into the country of\nthe Gadarenes.  And when he was come out of the ship, immediately there\nmet him out of the tombs a man with an unclean spirit, who had his\ndwelling among the tombs; and no man could bind him, no, not with\nchains: because that he had been often bound with fetters and chains,\nand the chains had been plucked asunder by him, and the fetters broken\nin pieces: neither could any man tame him.  And always, night and day,\nhe was in the mountains, and in the tombs, crying, and cutting himself\nwith stones.  But when he saw Jesus afar off, he ran and worshipped\nhim, and cried with a loud voice, and said:\n\n\"What have I to do with thee, Jesus, thou Son of the most high God?  I\nadjure thee by God, that thou torment me not.\"\n\nFor he said unto him: \"Come out of the man, thou unclean spirit,\" And\nhe asked him: \"What is thy name?\"\n\nAnd he answered, saying:\n\n\"My name is Legion: for we are many.\"\n\nAnd he besought him much that he would not send them away out of the\ncountry.  Now there was there nigh unto the mountains a great herd of\nswine feeding.  And all the devils besought him, saying:\n\n\"Send us into the swine, that we may enter into them.\"\n\nAnd forthwith Jesus gave them leave.  And the unclean spirits went out,\nand entered into the swine: and the herd ran violently down a steep\nplace into the sea, (they were about two thousand;) and were choked in\nthe sea.  And they that fed the swine fled, and told it in the city,\nand in the country.  And they went out to see what it was that was\ndone.  And they come to Jesus, and see him that was possessed with the\ndevil, and had the legion, sitting, and clothed, and in his right mind:\nand they were afraid.  And they that saw it told them how it befell to\nhim that was possessed with the devil, and also concerning the swine.\nAnd they began to pray him to depart out of their coasts.\n\nAnd when he was come into the ship, he that had been possessed with the\ndevil prayed him that he might be with him.  Howbeit Jesus suffered him\nnot, but saith unto him:\n\n\"Go home to thy friends, and tell them how great things the Lord hath\ndone for thee, and hath had compassion on thee.\"\n\nAnd he departed, and began to publish in Decapolis how great things\nJesus had done for him: and all men did marvel.\n\nAnd when Jesus was passed over again by ship unto the other side, much\npeople gathered unto him: and he was nigh unto the sea.  And, behold,\nthere cometh one of the rulers of the synagogue, Jairus by name; and\nwhen he saw him, he fell at his feet, and besought him greatly, saying:\n\n\"My little daughter lieth at the point of death: I pray thee, come and\nlay thy hands on her, that she may be healed; and she shall live.\"\n\nAnd Jesus went with him; and much people followed him, and thronged\nhim.  And a certain woman, which had an issue of blood twelve years,\nand had suffered many things of many physicians, and had spent all that\nshe had, and was nothing bettered, but rather grew worse, when she had\nheard of Jesus, came in the press behind, and touched his garment.  For\nshe said:\n\n\"If I may touch but his clothes, I shall be whole.\"\n\nAnd straightway the fountain of her blood was dried up; and she felt in\nher body that she was healed of that plague.  And Jesus, immediately\nknowing in himself that virtue had gone out of him, turned him about in\nthe press, and said:\n\n\"Who touched my clothes?\"\n\nAnd his disciples said unto him:\n\n\"Thou seest the multitude thronging thee, and sayest thou, 'Who touched\nme?'\"\n\nAnd he looked round about to see her that had done this thing.  But the\nwoman fearing and trembling, knowing what was done in her, came and\nfell down before him, and told him all the truth.  And he said unto her:\n\n\"Daughter, thy faith hath made thee whole; go in peace, and be whole of\nthy plague.\"\n\nWhile he yet spake, there came from the ruler of the synagogue's house\ncertain which said:\n\n\"Thy daughter is dead: why troublest thou the Master any further?\"\n\nAs soon as Jesus heard the word that was spoken, he saith unto the\nruler of the synagogue:\n\n\"Be not afraid, only believe.\"\n\nAnd he suffered no man to follow him, save Peter, and James, and John\nthe brother of James.  And he cometh to the house of the ruler of the\nsynagogue, and seeth the tumult, and them that wept and wailed greatly.\nAnd when he was come in, he saith unto them:\n\n\"Why make ye this ado, and weep?  The damsel is not dead, but sleepeth.\"\n\nAnd they laughed him to scorn.  But when he had put them all out, he\ntaketh the father and the mother of the damsel, and them that were with\nhim, and entereth in where the damsel was lying.  And he took the\ndamsel by the hand, and said unto her:\n\n\"_Talitha cumi_;\" which is, being interpreted, \"Damsel, I say unto\nthee, arise.\"\n\nAnd straightway the damsel arose, and walked; for she was of the age of\ntwelve years.  And they were astonished with a great astonishment.  And\nhe charged them straitly that no man should know it; and commanded that\nsomething should be given her to eat.\n\n\n\n\nCHAPTER VI\n\nIS NOT HE THE CARPENTER?\n\nAnd he went out from thence, and came into his own country; and his\ndisciples follow him.  And when the sabbath day was come, he began to\nteach in the synagogue: and many hearing him were astonished, saying:\n\n\"From whence hath this man these things and what wisdom is this which\nis given unto him, that even such mighty works are wrought by his\nhands?  Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary, the brother of\nJames, and Joses, and of Juda, and Simon?  And are not his sisters here\nwith us?\"\n\nAnd they were offended at him.\n\nBut Jesus said unto them:\n\n\"A prophet is not without honour, but in his own country, and among his\nown kin, and in his own house.\"\n\nAnd he could there do no mighty work, save that he laid his hands upon\na few sick folk, and healed them.  And he marvelled because of their\nunbelief.\n\nAnd he went round about the villages, teaching.\n\nAnd he called unto him the twelve, and began to send them forth by two\nand two; and gave them power over unclean spirits; and commanded them\nthat they should take nothing for their journey, save a staff only; no\nscrip, no bread, no money in their purse: but be shod with sandals; and\nnot put on two coats.  And he said unto them:\n\n\"In what place soever ye enter into an house, there abide till ye\ndepart from that place.  And whosoever shall not receive you, nor hear\nyou, when ye depart thence, shake off the dust under your feet for a\ntestimony against them.  Verily I say unto you, It shall be more\ntolerable for Sodom and Gomorrha in the day of judgment, than for that\ncity.\"\n\nAnd they went out, and preached that men should repent.  And they cast\nout many devils, and anointed with oil many that were sick, and healed\nthem.\n\nAnd king Herod heard of him; (for his name was spread abroad;) and he\nsaid:\n\n\"That John the Baptist was risen from the dead, and therefore mighty\nworks do shew forth themselves in him.\"  Others said: \"That it is\nElias.\"  And others said:\n\n\"That it is a prophet, or as one of the prophets.\"  But when Herod\nheard thereof, he said: \"It is John, whom I beheaded: he is risen from\nthe dead.\"\n\nFor Herod himself had sent forth and laid hold upon John, and bound him\nin prison for Herodias' sake, his brother Philip's wife: for he had\nmarried her.  For John had said unto Herod: \"It is not lawful for thee\nto have thy brother's wife.\"  Therefore Herodias had a quarrel against\nhim, and would have killed him; but she could not: for Herod feared\nJohn, knowing that he was a just man and an holy, and observed him; and\nwhen he heard him, he did many things, and heard him gladly.  And when\na convenient day was come that Herod on his birthday made a supper to\nhis lords, high captains, and chief estates of Galilee; and when the\ndaughter of the said Herodias came in, and danced, and pleased Herod\nand them that sat with him, the king said unto the damsel: \"Ask of me\nwhatsoever thou wilt and I will give it thee.\"  And he sware unto her,\n\"Whatsoever thou shalt ask of me, I will give it thee, unto the half of\nmy kingdom.\"  And she went forth, and said unto her mother, \"What shall\nI ask?\"  And she said, \"The head of John the Baptist.\"  And she came in\nstraightway with haste unto the king, and asked, saying, \"I will that\nthou give me by and by in a charger the head of John the Baptist.\"  And\nthe king was exceeding sorry; yet for his oath's sake, and for their\nsakes which sat with him, he would not reject her.  And immediately the\nking sent an executioner, and commanded his head to be brought: and he\nwent and beheaded him in the prison, and brought his head in a charger,\nand gave it to the damsel: and the damsel gave it to her mother.  And\nwhen his disciples heard of it, they came and took up his corpse, and\nlaid it in a tomb.\n\nAnd the apostles gathered themselves together unto Jesus, and told him\nall things, both what they had done, and what they had taught.  And he\nsaid unto them:\n\n\"Come ye yourselves apart into a desert place, and rest awhile.\"\n\nFor there were many coming and going, and they had no leisure so much\nas to eat.  And they departed into a desert place by ship privately.\nAnd the people saw them departing, and many knew him, and ran afoot\nthither out of all cities, and outwent them, and came together unto\nhim.  And Jesus, when he came out, saw much people, and was moved with\ncompassion toward them, because they were as sheep not having a\nshepherd: and he began to teach them many things.  And when the day was\nnow far spent, his disciples came unto him, and said:\n\n\"This is a desert place, and now the time is far passed: send them\naway, that they may go into the country round about, and into the\nvillages, and buy themselves bread: for they have nothing to eat.\"\n\nHe answered and said unto them:\n\n\"Give ye them to eat.\"\n\nAnd they say unto him:\n\n\"Shall we go and buy two hundred pennyworth of bread, and give them to\neat?\"\n\nHe saith unto them:\n\n\"How many loaves have ye?  Go and see.\"  And when they know, they say,\n\"Five, and two fishes.\"\n\nAnd he commanded them to make all sit down by companies upon the green\ngrass.  And they sat down in ranks, by hundreds, and by fifties.  And\nwhen he had taken the five loaves and the two fishes, he looked up to\nheaven, and blessed, and brake the loaves, and gave them to his\ndisciples to set before them; and the two fishes divided he among them\nall.  And they did all eat, and were filled.  And they took up twelve\nbaskets full of the fragments, and of the fishes.  And they that did\neat of the loaves were about five thousand men.\n\nAnd straightway he constrained his disciples to get into the ship, and\nto go to the other side before unto Bethsaida, while he sent away the\npeople.  And when he had sent them away, he departed into a mountain to\npray.  And when even was come, the ship was in the midst of the sea,\nand he alone on the land.  And he saw them toiling in rowing; for the\nwind was contrary unto them: and about the fourth watch of the night he\ncometh unto them, walking upon the sea, and would have passed by them.\nBut when they saw him walking upon the sea, they supposed it had been a\nspirit, and cried out: for they all saw him, and were troubled.  And\nimmediately he talked with them, and saith unto them:\n\n\"Be of good cheer: it is I; be not afraid.\"\n\nAnd he went up unto them into the ship; and the wind ceased: and they\nwere sore amazed in themselves beyond measure, and wondered.  For they\nconsidered not the miracle of the loaves: for their heart was hardened.\n\nAnd when they had passed over, they came into the land of Gennesaret,\nand drew to the shore.  And when they were come out of the ship,\nstraightway they knew him, and ran through that whole region round\nabout, and began to carry about in beds those that were sick, where\nthey heard he was.  And whithersoever he entered, into villages, or\ncities, or country, they laid the sick in the streets, and besought him\nthat they might touch if it were but the border of his garment: and as\nmany as touched him were made whole.\n\n\n\n\nCHAPTER VII\n\nNEVER A MAN LIKE HIM\n\nThen came together unto him the Pharisees, and certain of the scribes,\nwhich came from Jerusalem.  And when they saw some of his disciples eat\nbread with defiled, that is to say, with unwashen, hands, they found\nfault.  (For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, except they wash their\nhands oft, eat not, holding the tradition of the elders.  And when they\ncome from the market, except they wash, they eat not, and many other\nthings there be, which they have received to hold, as the washing of\ncups, and pots, brasen vessels, and of tables.)  Then the Pharisees and\nscribes asked him:\n\n\"Why walk not thy disciples according to the tradition of the elders,\nbut eat bread with unwashen hands?\"\n\nHe answered and said unto them:\n\n\"Well hath Esaias prophesied of you hypocrites, as it is written, 'This\npeople honoureth me with their lips, but their heart is far from me.\nHowbeit in vain do they worship me, teaching for doctrines the\ncommandments of men.'  For laying aside the commandment of God, ye hold\nthe tradition of men, as the washing of pots and cups; and many other\nsuch like things ye do.\"\n\nAnd he said unto them:\n\n\"Full well ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your own\ntradition.  For Moses said: 'Honour thy father and thy mother'; and,\n'Whoso curseth father or mother, let him die the death:' but ye say,\n'If a man shall say to his father or mother, \"It is Corban,\" (that is\nto say, a gift,) by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me; he\nshall be free.'  And ye suffer him no more to do ought for his father\nor his mother; making the word of God of none effect through your\ntradition, which ye have delivered: and many such like things do ye.\"\n\nAnd when he had called all the people unto him, he said unto them:\n\n\"Hearken unto me every one of you, and understand: there is nothing\nfrom without a man, that entering into him can defile him: but the\nthings which come out of him, those are they that defile the man.  If\nany man have ears to hear, let him hear.\"\n\nAnd when he was entered into the house from the people, his disciples\nasked him concerning the parable.  And he saith unto them:\n\n\"Are ye so without understanding also?  Do ye not perceive, that\nwhatsoever thing from without entereth into the man, it cannot defile\nhim; because it entereth not into his heart, but into the belly, and\ngoeth out into the draught, purging all meats?\"  And he said, \"That\nwhich cometh out of the man, that defileth the man.  For from within,\nout of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries,\nfornications, murders, thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit,\nlasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness: all these\nevil things come from within, and defile the man.\"\n\nAnd from thence he arose, and went into the borders of Tyre and Sidon,\nand entered into an house, and would have no man know it: but he could\nnot be hid.  For a certain woman, whose young daughter had an unclean\nspirit, heard of him, and came and fell at his feet: the woman was a\nGreek, a Syrophenician by nation; and she besought him that he would\ncast forth the devil out of her daughter.  But Jesus said unto her:\n\n\"Let the children first be filled: for it is not meet to take the\nchildren's bread, and to cast it unto the dogs.\"\n\nAnd she answered and said unto him:\n\n\"Yes, Lord: yet the dogs under the table eat of the children's crumbs.\"\n\nAnd he said unto her, \"For this saying go thy way; the devil is gone\nout of thy daughter.\"  And when she was come to her house, she found\nthe devil gone out, and her daughter laid upon the bed.\n\nAnd again, departing from the coasts of Tyre and Sidon, he came unto\nthe sea of Galilee, through the midst of the coasts of Decapolis.  And\nthey bring unto him one that was deaf, and had an impediment in his\nspeech; and they beseech him to put his hand upon him.  And he took him\naside from the multitude, and put his fingers into his ears, and he\nspit, and touched his tongue; and looking up to heaven, he sighed, and\nsaith unto him, \"Ephphatha,\" that is, \"Be opened.\"\n\nAnd straightway his ears were opened, and the string of his tongue was\nloosed, and he spake plain.  And he charged them that they should tell\nno man: but the more he charged them, so much the more a great deal\nthey published it; and were beyond measure astonished, saying:\n\n\"He hath done all things well: he maketh both the deaf to hear, and the\ndumb to speak.\"\n\n\n\n\nCHAPTER VIII\n\n\"THOU ART THE CHRIST\"\n\nIn those days the multitude being very great, and having nothing to\neat, Jesus called his disciples unto him, and saith unto them:\n\n\"I have compassion on the multitude, because they have now been with me\nthree days, and have nothing to eat: and if I send them away fasting to\ntheir own houses, they will faint by the way: for divers of them came\nfrom far.\"\n\nAnd his disciples answered him: \"From whence can a man satisfy these\nmen with bread here in the wilderness?\"\n\nAnd he asked them: \"How many loaves have ye?\"\n\nAnd they said: \"Seven.\"\n\nAnd he commanded the people to sit down on the ground: and he took the\nseven loaves, and gave thanks, and brake, and gave to his disciples to\nset before them; and they did set them before the people.  And they had\na few small fishes: and he blessed, and commanded to set them also\nbefore them.  So they did eat, and were filled: and they took up of the\nbroken meat that was left seven baskets.  And they that had eaten were\nabout four thousand: and he sent them away.\n\nAnd straightway he entered into a ship with his disciples, and came\ninto the parts of Dalmanutha.  And the Pharisees came forth, and began\nto question with him, seeking of him a sign from heaven, tempting him.\nAnd he sighed deeply in his spirit, and saith:\n\n\"Why doth this generation seek after a sign?  Verily I say unto you.\nThere shall no sign be given unto this generation.\"\n\nAnd he left them, and entering into the ship again departed to the\nother side.\n\nNow the disciples had forgotten to take bread, neither had they in the\nship with them more than one loaf.  And he charged them, saying:\n\n\"Take heed, beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, and of the leaven of\nHerod.\"\n\nAnd they reasoned among themselves, saying, \"It is because we have no\nbread.\"  And when Jesus knew it, he saith unto them:\n\n\"Why reason ye, because ye have no bread?  Perceive ye not yet, neither\nunderstand?  Have ye your heart yet hardened?  Having eyes, see ye not,\nand having ears, hear ye not, and do ye not remember?  When I brake the\nfive loaves among five thousand, how many baskets full of fragments\ntook ye up?\"\n\nThey say unto him, \"Twelve.\"\n\n\"And when the seven among four thousand, how many baskets full of\nfragments took ye up?\"\n\nAnd they said, \"Seven.\"\n\nAnd he said unto them, \"How is it that ye do not understand?\"\n\nAnd he cometh to Bethsaida; and they bring a blind man unto him, and\nbesought him to touch him.  And he took the blind man by the hand, and\nled him out of the town; and when he had spit on his eyes, and put his\nhands upon him, he asked him if he saw ought.  And he looked up, and\nsaid:\n\n\"I see men as trees, walking.\"\n\nAfter that he put his hands again upon his eyes, and made him look up:\nand he was restored, and saw every man clearly.  And he sent him away\nto his house, saying: \"Neither go into the town, nor tell it to any in\nthe town.\"\n\nAnd Jesus went out, and his disciples, into the towns of Caesarea\nPhilippi: and by the way he asked his disciples, saying unto them:\n\n\"Whom do men say that I am?\"\n\nAnd they answered, \"John the Baptist: but some say, Elias; and others,\nOne of the prophets.\"\n\nAnd he saith unto them, \"But whom say ye that I am?\"\n\nAnd Peter answereth and saith unto him, \"Thou art the Christ.\"\n\nAnd he charged them that they should tell no man of him.\n\nAnd he began to teach them, that the Son of man must suffer many\nthings, and be rejected of the elders, and of the chief priests, and\nscribes, and be killed, and after three days rise again.  And he spake\nthat saying openly.  And Peter took him and began to rebuke him.  But\nwhen he had turned about and looked on his disciples, he rebuked Peter,\nsaying:\n\n\"Get thee behind me, Satan: for thou savourest not the things that be\nof God, but the things that be of men.\"\n\nAnd when he had called the people unto him with his disciples also, he\nsaid unto them:\n\n\"Whosoever will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his\ncross, and follow me.  For whosoever will save his life shall lose it;\nbut whosoever shall lose his life for my sake and the gospel's, the\nsame shall save it.  For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain\nthe whole world, and lose his own soul?  Or what shall a man give in\nexchange for his soul?  Whosoever therefore shall be ashamed of me and\nof my words in this adulterous and sinful generation; of him also shall\nthe Son of man be ashamed, when he cometh in the glory of his Father\nwith the holy angels.\"\n\nAnd he said unto them:\n\n\"Verily I say unto you.  That there be some of them that stand here,\nwhich shall not taste of death, till they have seen the kingdom of God\ncome with power.\"\n\n\n\n\nCHAPTER IX\n\nSTRONG SON OF GOD\n\nAnd after six days, Jesus taketh with him Peter, and James, and John,\nand leadeth them up into an high mountain apart by themselves: and he\nwas transfigured before them.  And his raiment became shining,\nexceeding white as snow; so as no fuller on earth can white them.  And\nthere appeared unto them Elias with Moses: and they were talking with\nJesus.\n\nAnd Peter answered and said to Jesus, \"Master, it is good for us to be\nhere: and let us make three tabernacles; one for thee, and one for\nMoses, and one for Elias.\"  For he wist not what to say; for they were\nsore afraid.  And there was a cloud that overshadowed them: and a voice\ncame out of the cloud, saying:\n\n\"This is my beloved Son: hear him.\"\n\nAnd suddenly, when they had looked round about, they saw no man any\nmore, save Jesus only with themselves.\n\nAnd as they came down from the mountain, he charged them that they\nshould tell no man what things they had seen, till the Son of man were\nrisen from the dead.  And they kept that saying with themselves,\nquestioning one with another what the rising from the dead should mean.\n\nAnd they asked him, saying, \"Why say the scribes that Elias must first\ncome?\"\n\nAnd he answered and told them, \"Elias verily cometh first, and\nrestoreth all things; and how it is written of the Son of man, that he\nmust suffer many things, and be set at nought.  But I say unto you,\nThat Elias is indeed come, and they have done unto him whatsoever they\nlisted, as it is written of him.\"\n\nAnd when he came to his disciples, he saw a great multitude about them,\nand the scribes questioning with them.  And straightway all the people,\nwhen they beheld him, were greatly amazed, and running to him saluted\nhim.\n\nAnd he asked the scribes, \"What question ye with them?\"\n\nAnd one of the multitude answered and said, \"Master, I have brought\nunto thee my son, which hath a dumb spirit; and wheresoever he taketh\nhim he teareth him: and he foameth, and gnasheth with his teeth, and\npineth away: and I spake to thy disciples that they should cast him\nout; and they could not.\"\n\nHe answereth him, and saith, \"O faithless generation, how long shall I\nbe with you?  How long shall I suffer you?  Bring him unto me.\"\n\nAnd they brought him unto him: and when he saw him, straightway the\nspirit tare him; and he fell on the ground, and wallowed foaming.  And\nhe asked his father, \"How long is it ago since this came unto him?\"\n\nAnd he said, \"Of a child.  And ofttimes it hath cast him into the fire,\nand into the waters, to destroy him: but if thou canst do any thing,\nhave compassion on us, and help us.\"\n\nJesus said unto him, \"If thou canst believe, all things are possible to\nhim that believeth.\"\n\nAnd straightway the father of the child cried out, and said with tears,\n\"Lord, I believe; help thou mine unbelief.\"\n\nWhen Jesus saw that the people came running together, he rebuked the\nfoul spirit, saying unto him:\n\n\"Thou dumb and deaf spirit, I charge thee, come out of him, and enter\nno more into him.\"\n\nAnd the spirit cried, and rent him sore, and came out of him: and he\nwas as one dead; insomuch that many said, \"He is dead.\"  But Jesus took\nhim by the hand, and lifted him up; and he arose.  And when he was come\ninto the house, his disciples asked him privately:\n\n\"Why could not we cast him out?\"\n\nAnd he said unto them, \"This kind can come forth by nothing, but by\nprayer and fasting.\"\n\nAnd they departed thence, and passed through Galilee; and he would not\nthat any man should know it.  For he taught his disciples, and said\nunto them:\n\n\"The Son of man is delivered into the hands of men, and they shall kill\nhim; and after that he is killed, he shall rise the third day.\"\n\nBut they understood not that saying, and were afraid to ask him.\n\nAnd he came to Capernaum: and being in the house he asked them, \"What\nwas it that ye disputed among yourselves by the way?\"\n\nBut they held their peace: for by the way they had disputed among\nthemselves, who should be the greatest.  And he sat down, and called\nthe twelve, and saith unto them:\n\n\"If any man desire to be first, the same shall be last of all, and\nservant of all.\"\n\nAnd he took a child, and set him in the midst of them; and when he had\ntaken him in his arms, he said unto them:\n\n\"Whosoever shall receive one of such children in my name, receiveth me:\nand whosoever shall receive me, receiveth not me, but him that sent me.\"\n\nAnd John answered him, saying, \"Master, we saw one casting out devils\nin thy name, and he followeth not us: and we forbade him, because he\nfolloweth not us.\"\n\nBut Jesus said, \"Forbid him not: for there is no man which shall do a\nmiracle in my name, that can lightly speak evil of me.  For he that is\nnot against us is on our part.  For whosoever shall give you a cup of\nwater to drink in my name, because ye belong to Christ, verily I say\nunto you, he shall not lose his reward.  And whosoever shall offend one\nof these little ones that believe in me, it is better for him that a\nmillstone were hanged about his neck, and he were cast into the sea.\nAnd if thy hand offend thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter\ninto life maimed, than having two hands to go into hell, into the fire\nthat never shall be quenched: where their worm dieth not, and the fire\nis not quenched.  And if thy foot offend thee, cut it off: it is better\nfor thee to enter halt into life, than having two feet to be cast into\nhell, into the fire that never shall be quenched: where their worm\ndieth not, and the fire is not quenched.  And if thine eye offend thee,\npluck it out: it is better for thee to enter into the kingdom of God\nwith one eye, than having two eyes to be cast into hell fire: where\ntheir worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.  For every one\nshall be salted with fire, and every sacrifice shall be salted with\nsalt.  Salt is good: but if the salt have lost his saltness, wherewith\nwill ye season it?  Have salt in yourselves, and have peace one with\nanother.\"\n\n\n\n\nCHAPTER X\n\nMASTER OF MEN BUT SERVANT OF ALL\n\nAnd he arose from thence, and cometh into the coasts of Judaea by the\nfarther side of Jordan: and the people resort unto him again; and, as\nhe was wont, he taught them again.  And the Pharisees came to him, and\nasked him, \"Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife?\" tempting him.\n\nAnd he answered and said unto them:\n\n\"What did Moses command you?\"\n\nAnd they said, \"Moses suffered to write a bill of divorcement, and to\nput her away.\"\n\nAnd Jesus answered and said unto them:\n\n\"For the hardness of your heart he wrote you this precept.  But from\nthe beginning of the creation God made them male and female.  For this\ncause shall a man leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife;\nand they twain shall be one flesh: so then they are no more twain, but\none flesh.  What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put\nasunder.\"\n\nAnd in the house his disciples asked him again of the same matter.\n\nAnd he saith unto them:\n\n\"Whosoever shall put away his wife, and marry another, committeth\nadultery against her.  And if a woman shall put away her husband, and\nbe married to another, she committeth adultery.\"\n\nAnd they brought young children to him, that he should touch them: and\nhis disciples rebuked those that brought them.  But when Jesus saw it,\nhe was much displeased, and said unto them:\n\n\"Suffer the little children to come unto me, and forbid them not: for\nof such is the kingdom of God.  Verily I say unto you.  Whosoever shall\nnot receive the kingdom of God as a little child, he shall not enter\ntherein.\"\n\nAnd he took them up in his arms, put his hands upon them, and blessed\nthem.\n\nAnd when he was gone forth into the way, there came one running, and\nkneeled to him, and asked him, \"Good Master, what shall I do that I may\ninherit eternal life?\"\n\nAnd Jesus said unto him, \"Why callest thou me good?  There is none good\nbut one, that is, God.  Thou knowest the commandments, 'Do not commit\nadultery,' 'Do not kill,' 'Do not steal,' 'Do not bear false witness,'\n'Defraud not,' 'Honour thy father and mother.'\"\n\nAnd he answered and said unto him, \"Master, all these have I observed\nfrom my youth.\"\n\nThen Jesus beholding him loved him, and said unto him, \"One thing thou\nlackest: go thy way, sell whatsoever thou hast, and give to the poor,\nand thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come, take up the cross,\nand follow me.\"\n\nAnd he was sad at that saying, and went away grieved: for he had great\npossessions.\n\nAnd Jesus looked round about, and saith unto his disciples:\n\n\"How hardly shall they that have riches enter into the kingdom of God!\"\n\nAnd the disciples were astonished at his words.  But Jesus answereth\nagain, and saith unto them:\n\n\"Children, how hard is it for them that trust in riches to enter into\nthe kingdom of God!  It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of\na needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.\"\n\nAnd they were astonished out of measure, saying among themselves, \"Who\nthen can be saved?\"\n\nAnd Jesus looking upon them saith, \"With men it is impossible, but not\nwith God: for with God all things are possible.\"\n\nThen Peter began to say unto him, \"Lo, we have left all, and have\nfollowed thee.\" And Jesus answered and said:\n\n\"Verily I say unto you.  There is no man that hath left house, or\nbrethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or\nlands, for my sake, and the gospel's, but he shall receive an\nhundredfold now in this time, houses, and brethren, and sisters, and\nmothers, and children, and lands, with persecutions; and in the world\nto come eternal life.  But many that are first shall be last; and the\nlast first.\"\n\nAnd they were in the way going up to Jerusalem; and Jesus went before\nthem: and they were amazed; and as they followed, they were afraid.\nAnd he took again the twelve, and began to tell them what things should\nhappen unto him, saying:\n\n\"Behold, we go up to Jerusalem; and the Son of man shall be delivered\nunto the chief priests, and unto the scribes; and they shall condemn\nhim to death, and shall deliver him to the Gentiles: and they shall\nmock him, and shall scourge him, and shall spit upon him, and shall\nkill him: and the third day he shall rise again.\"\n\nAnd James and John, the sons of Zebedee, come unto him, saying,\n\"Master, we would that thou shouldest do for us whatsoever we shall\ndesire.\"\n\nAnd he said unto them, \"What would ye that I should do for you?\"\n\nThey said unto him, \"Grant unto us that we may sit, one on thy right\nhand, and the other on thy left hand, in thy glory.\"\n\nBut Jesus said unto them, \"Ye know not what ye ask; can ye drink of the\ncup that I drink of, and be baptized with the baptism that I am\nbaptized with?\"\n\nAnd they said unto him, \"We can.\"\n\nAnd Jesus said unto them, \"Ye shall indeed drink of the cup that I\ndrink of; and with the baptism that I am baptized withal shall ye be\nbaptized: but to sit on my right hand and on my left hand is not mine\nto give; but it shall be given to them for whom it is prepared.\"\n\nAnd when the ten heard it, they began to be much displeased with James\nand John.  But Jesus called them to him, and saith unto them:\n\n\"Ye know that they which are accounted to rule over the Gentiles\nexercise lordship over them; and their great ones exercise authority\nupon them.  But so shall it not be among you: but whosoever will be\ngreat among you, shall be your minister: and whosoever of you will be\nthe chiefest, shall be servant of all.  For even the Son of man came\nnot to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a\nransom for many.\"\n\nAnd they came to Jericho: and as he went out of Jericho with his\ndisciples and a great number of people, blind Bartimaeus, the son of\nTimasus, sat by the highway side begging.  And when he heard that it\nwas Jesus of Nazareth, he began to cry out, and say, \"Jesus, thou son\nof David, have mercy on me.\"\n\nAnd many charged him that he should hold his peace: but he cried the\nmore a great deal, \"Thou son of David, have mercy on me.\"\n\nAnd Jesus stood still, and commanded him to be called.  And they call\nthe blind man, saying unto him, \"Be of good comfort, rise; he calleth\nthee.\"  And he, casting away his garment, rose, and came to Jesus.\n\nAnd Jesus answered and said unto him, \"What wilt thou that I should do\nunto thee?\"\n\nThe blind man said unto him, \"Lord, that I might receive my sight.\"\n\nAnd Jesus said unto him, \"Go thy way; thy faith hath made thee whole.\"\nAnd immediately he received his sight, and followed Jesus in the way.\n\n\n\n\nCHAPTER XI\n\nHE THAT COMETH IN THE NAME OF THE LORD\n\nAnd when they came nigh to Jerusalem, unto Bethphage and Bethany, at\nthe mount of Olives, he sendeth forth two of his disciples, and saith\nunto them:\n\n\"Go your way into the village over against you: and as soon as ye be\nentered into it, ye shall find a colt tied, whereon never man sat;\nloose him, and bring him.  And if any man say unto you, 'Why do ye\nthis?' say ye, 'The Lord hath need of him;' and straightway he will\nsend him hither.\"\n\nAnd they went their way, and found the colt tied by the door without in\na place where two ways met; and they loose him.  And certain of them\nthat stood there said unto them, \"What do ye, loosing the colt?\"  And\nthey said unto them even as Jesus had commanded: and they let them go.\nAnd they brought the colt to Jesus, and cast their garments on him; and\nhe sat upon him.  And many spread their garments in the way: and others\ncut down branches off the trees, and strawed [Transcriber's note:\nstrewed?] them in the way.  And they that went before and they that\nfollowed, cried, saying:\n\n\"Hosanna; Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord: blessed be\nthe kingdom of our father David, that cometh in the name of the Lord:\nHosanna in the highest.\"\n\nAnd Jesus entered into Jerusalem, and into the temple; and when he had\nlooked round about upon all things, and now the eventide was come, he\nwent out unto Bethany with the twelve.\n\nAnd on the morrow, when they were come from Bethany, he was hungry: and\nseeing a fig tree afar off having leaves, he came, if haply he might\nfind any thing thereon: and when he came to it, he found nothing but\nleaves; for the time of figs was not yet.  And Jesus answered and said\nunto it:\n\n\"No man eat fruit of thee hereafter for ever.\"  And his disciples heard\nit.\n\nAnd they come to Jerusalem: and Jesus went into the temple, and began\nto cast out them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew\ntables of the money changers, and the seats of them that sold doves;\nand would not suffer that any man should carry any vessel through the\ntemple.  And he taught, saying unto them:\n\n\"Is it not written, 'My house shall be called of all nations the house\nof prayer?' but ye have made it a den of thieves.\"\n\nAnd the scribes and chief priests heard it, and sought how they might\ndestroy him: for they feared him because all the people was astonished\nat his doctrine.  And when even was come, he went out of the city.\n\nAnd in the morning, as they passed by, they saw the fig tree dried up\nfrom the roots.  And Peter calling to remembrance saith unto him,\n\"Master, behold, the fig tree which thou cursedst is withered away.\"\n\nAnd Jesus answering saith unto them, \"Have faith in God.  For verily I\nsay unto you, that whosoever shall say unto this mountain, 'Be thou\nremoved, and be thou cast into the sea;' and shall not doubt in his\nheart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to\npass; he shall have whatsoever he saith.  Therefore I say unto you,\nwhat things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive\nthem, and ye shall have them.  And when ye stand praying, forgive, if\nye have ought against any: that your Father also which is in heaven may\nforgive you your trespasses.  But if ye do not forgive, neither will\nyour Father which is in heaven forgive your trespasses.\"\n\nAnd they come again to Jerusalem: and as he was walking in the temple,\nthere come to him the chief priests, and the scribes, and the elders,\nand say unto him:\n\n\"By what authority doest thou these things and who gave thee this\nauthority to do these things?\"\n\nAnd Jesus answered and said unto them, \"I will also ask of you one\nquestion, and answer me, and I will tell you by what authority I do\nthese things.  The baptism of John, was it from heaven, or of men?\nAnswer me.\"\n\nAnd they reasoned with themselves, saying, \"If we shall say, 'From\nheaven;' he will say, 'Why then did ye not believe him?'  But if we\nshall say, 'Of men;' they feared the people: for all men counted John,\nthat he was a prophet indeed.\"  And they answered and said unto Jesus,\n\"We cannot tell.\"\n\nAnd Jesus answering saith unto them, \"Neither do I tell you by what\nauthority I do these things.\"\n\n\n\n\nCHAPTER XII\n\nIN CONFLICT WITH SCRIBES AND PHARISEES\n\nAnd he began to speak unto them by parables.\n\n\"A certain man planted a vineyard, and set an hedge about it, and\ndigged a place for the winefat, and built a tower, and let it out to\nhusbandmen, and went into a far country.  And at the season he sent to\nthe husbandmen a servant, that he might receive from the husbandman of\nthe fruit of the vineyard.  And they caught him, and beat him, and sent\nhim away empty.  And again he sent unto them another servant; and at\nhim they cast stones, and wounded him in the head, and sent him away\nshamefully handled.  And again he sent another; and him they killed,\nand many others; beating some, and killing some.  Having yet therefore\none son, his well beloved, he sent him also last unto them, saying,\n'They will reverence my son.'  But those husbandmen said among\nthemselves, 'This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and the\ninheritance shall be ours.'  And they took him, and killed him, and\ncast him out of the vineyard.  What shall therefore the lord of the\nvineyard do?  He will come and destroy the husbandmen, and will give\nthe vineyard unto others.  And have ye not read this scripture; 'The\nstone which the builders rejected is become the head of the corner:\nthis was the Lord's doing, and it is marvellous in our eyes?'\"\n\nAnd they sought to lay hold on him, but feared the people: for they\nknew that he had spoken the parable against them: and they left him,\nand went their way.\n\nAnd they send unto him certain of the Pharisees and of the Herodians,\nto catch him in his words.  And when they were come, they say unto him:\n\n\"Master, we know that thou art true, and carest for no man: for thou\nregardest not the person of men, but teachest the way of God in truth:\nis it lawful to give tribute to Caesar, or not?  Shall we give, or\nshall we not give?\"\n\nBut he, knowing their hypocrisy, said unto them: \"Why tempt ye me?\nBring me a penny, that I may see it.\"\n\nAnd they brought it.  And he saith unto them, \"Whose is this image and\nsuperscription?\"  And they said unto him, \"Caesar's.\"  And Jesus\nanswering said unto them:\n\n\"Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things\nthat are God's.\"\n\nAnd they marvelled at him.\n\nThen come unto him the Sadducees, which say there is no resurrection;\nand they asked him, saying:\n\n\"Master, Moses wrote unto us, 'If a man's brother die, and leave his\nwife behind him, and leave no children, that his brother should take\nhis wife, and raise up seed unto his brother.'  Now there were seven\nbrethren: and the first took a wife, and dying left no seed.  And the\nsecond took her, and died, neither left he any seed: and the third\nlikewise.  And the seven had her, and left no seed: last of all the\nwoman died also.  In the resurrection therefore, when they shall rise,\nwhose wife shall she be of them, for the seven had her to wife?\"\n\nAnd Jesus answering said unto them, \"Do ye not therefore err, because\nye know not the scriptures, neither the power of God?  For when they\nshall rise from the dead, they neither marry, nor are given in\nmarriage; but are as the angels which are in heaven.  And as touching\nthe dead, that they rise: have ye not read in the book of Moses, how in\nthe bush God spake unto him, saying, 'I am the God of Abraham, and the\nGod of Isaac, and the God of Jacob?'  He is not the God of the dead,\nbut the God of the living: ye therefore do greatly err.\"\n\nAnd one of the scribes came, and having heard them reasoning together,\nand perceiving that he had answered them well, asked him, \"Which is the\nfirst commandment of all?\"\n\nAnd Jesus answered him, \"The first of all the commandments is, 'Hear, O\nIsrael; The Lord our God is one Lord:' and 'thou shalt love the Lord\nthy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy\nmind, and with all thy strength:' this is the first commandment.\n\n\"And the second is like, namely this, 'Thou shalt love thy neighbour as\nthyself.'  There is none other commandment greater than these.\"\n\nAnd the scribe said unto him, \"Well, Master, thou hast said the truth:\nfor there is one God; and there is none other but he: and to love Him\nwith all the heart, and with all the understanding, and with all the\nsoul, and with all the strength, and to love his neighbour as himself,\nis more than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices.\"\n\nAnd when Jesus saw that he answered discreetly, he said unto him, \"Thou\nart not far from the kingdom of God.\"\n\nAnd no man after that durst ask him any question.\n\nAnd Jesus answered and said, while he taught in the temple:\n\n\"How say the scribes that Christ is the son of David?  For David\nhimself said by the Holy Ghost, 'The Lord said to my Lord, \"Sit thou on\nmy right hand, till I make thine enemies thy footstool.\"'  David\ntherefore himself calleth him 'Lord'; and whence is he then his son?\"\n\nAnd the common people heard him gladly.  And he said unto them in his\ndoctrine:\n\n\"Beware of the scribes, which love to go in long clothing, and love\nsalutations in the market places, and the chief seats in the\nsynagogues, and the uppermost rooms at feasts: which devour widows'\nhouses, and for a pretence make long prayers: these shall receive\ngreater damnation.\"\n\nAnd Jesus sat over against the treasury, and beheld how the people cast\nmoney into the treasury: and many that were rich cast in much.  And\nthere came a certain poor widow, and she threw in two mites, which make\na farthing.  And he called unto him his disciples, and saith unto them:\n\n\"Verily I say unto you, that this poor widow hath cast more in, than\nall they which have cast into the treasury: for all they did cast in of\ntheir abundance; but she of her want did cast in all that she had, even\nall her living.\"\n\n\n\n\nCHAPTER XIII\n\nJERUSALEM THAT KILLETH THE PROPHETS\n\nAnd as he went out of the temple, one of his disciples saith unto him,\n\"Master, see what manner of stones and what buildings are here!\"\n\nAnd Jesus answering said unto him, \"Seest thou these great buildings?\nThere shall not be left one stone upon another, that shall not be\nthrown down.\"\n\nAnd as he sat upon the mount of Olives over against the temple, Peter\nand James and John and Andrew asked him privately, \"Tell us, when shall\nthese things be, and what shall be the sign when all these things shall\nbe fulfilled?\"\n\nAnd Jesus answering them began to say:\n\n\"Take heed lest any man deceive you: for many shall come in my name,\nsaying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many.  And when ye shall hear of\nwars and rumours of wars, be ye not troubled: for such things must\nneeds be; but the end shall not be yet.  For nation shall rise against\nnation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be earthquakes in\ndivers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the\nbeginnings of sorrows.\n\n\"But take heed to yourselves: for they shall deliver you up to\ncouncils; and in the synagogues ye shall be beaten: and ye shall be\nbrought before rulers and kings for my sake, for a testimony against\nthem.  And the gospel must first be published among all nations.  But\nwhen they shall lead you, and deliver you up, take no thought\nbeforehand what ye shall speak, neither do ye premeditate: but\nwhatsoever shall be given you in that hour, that speak ye: for it is\nnot ye that speak, but the Holy Ghost.  Now the brother shall betray\nthe brother to death, and the father the son; and children shall rise\nup against their parents, and shall cause them to be put to death.  And\nye shall be hated of all men for my name's sake: but he that shall\nendure unto the end, the same shall be saved.\n\n\"But when ye shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by\nDaniel the prophet, standing where it ought not, (let him that readeth\nunderstand,) then let them that be in Judaea flee to the mountains: and\nlet him that is on the housetop not go down into the house, neither\nenter therein, to take any thing out of his house: and let him that is\nin the field not turn back again for to take up his garment.  But woe\nto them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days!\nAnd pray ye that your flight be not in the winter.  For in those days\nshall be affliction, such as was not from the beginning of the creation\nwhich God created unto this time, neither shall be.  And except that\nthe Lord had shortened those days, no flesh should be saved: but for\nthe elect's sake, whom he hath chosen, he hath shortened the days.  And\nthen if any man shall say to you, 'Lo, here is Christ;' or, 'lo, he is\nthere;' believe him not: for false Christs and false prophets shall\nrise, and shall shew signs and wonders, to seduce, if it were possible,\neven the elect.  But take ye heed: behold, I have foretold you all\nthings.\n\n\"But in those days, after that tribulation, the sun shall be darkened,\nand the moon shall not give her light, and the stars of heaven shall\nfall, and the powers that are in heaven shall be shaken.  And then\nshall they see the Son of man coming in the clouds with great power and\nglory.  And then shall he send his angels, and shall gather together\nhis elect from the four winds, from the uttermost part of the earth to\nthe uttermost part of heaven.\n\n\"Now, learn a parable of the fig tree; when her branch is yet tender,\nand putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is near: so ye in like\nmanner, when ye shall see these things come to pass, know that it is\nnigh, even at the doors.  Verily I say unto you, that this generation\nshall not pass, till all these things be done.  Heaven and earth shall\npass away: but my words shall not pass away.  But of that day and that\nhour knoweth no man, no, not the angels which are in heaven, neither\nthe Son, but the Father.  Take ye heed, watch and pray: for ye know not\nwhen the time is.  For the Son of man is as a man taking a far journey,\nwho left his house, and gave authority to his servants, and to every\nman his work, and commanded the porter to watch.  Watch ye therefore:\nfor ye know not when the master of the house cometh, at even, or at\nmidnight, or at the cock-crowing, or in the morning: lest coming\nsuddenly he find you sleeping.  And what I say unto you I say unto all,\nWatch.\"\n\n\n\n\nCHAPTER XIV\n\nDESPISED AND REJECTED BY FRIEND AND FOE\n\nAfter two days was the feast of the passover, and of unleavened bread:\nand the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might take him by\ncraft, and put him to death.  But they said, \"Not on the feast day,\nlest there be an uproar of the people.\"\n\nAnd being in Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at\nmeat, there came a woman having an alabaster box of ointment of\nspikenard, very precious; and she brake the box, and poured it on his\nhead.  And there were some that had indignation within themselves, and\nsaid, \"Why was this waste of the ointment made?  For it might have been\nsold for more than three hundred pence, and have been given to the\npoor.\"  And they murmured against her.\n\nAnd Jesus said, \"Let her alone; why trouble ye her?  She hath wrought a\ngood work on me.  For ye have the poor with you always, and whensoever\nye will ye may do them good: but me ye have not always.  She hath done\nwhat she could: she is come aforehand to anoint my body to the burying.\nVerily I say unto you, wheresoever this gospel shall be preached\nthroughout the whole world, this also that she hath done shall be\nspoken of for a memorial of her.\"\n\nAnd Judas Iscariot, one of the twelve, went unto the chief priests, to\nbetray him unto them.  And when they heard it, they were glad, and\npromised to give him money.  And he sought how he might conveniently\nbetray him.\n\nAnd the first day of unleavened bread, when they killed the passover,\nhis disciples said unto him, \"Where wilt thou that we go and prepare\nthat thou mayest eat the passover?\" And he sendeth forth two of his\ndisciples, and saith unto them:\n\n\"Go ye into the city, and there shall meet you a man bearing a pitcher\nof water: follow him.  And wheresoever he shall go in, say ye to the\ngood man of the house, 'The Master saith, \"Where is the guestchamber,\nwhere I shall eat the passover with my disciples?\"'  And he will shew\nyou a large upper room furnished and prepared: there make ready for us.\"\n\nAnd his disciples went forth, and came into the city, and found as he\nhad said unto them: and they made ready the passover.  And in the\nevening he cometh with the twelve.  And as they sat and did eat, Jesus\nsaid:\n\n\"Verily I say unto you, one of you which eateth with me shall betray\nme.\"\n\nAnd they began to be sorrowful, and to say unto him one by one, \"Is it\nI?\" and another said, \"Is it I?\"  And he answered and said unto them,\n\"It is one of the twelve, that dippeth with me in the dish.  The Son of\nman indeed goeth, as it is written of him; but woe to that man by whom\nthe Son of man is betrayed!  Good were it for that man if he had never\nbeen born.\"\n\nAnd as they did eat, Jesus took bread, and blessed, and brake it, and\ngave to them, and said:\n\n\"Take, eat: this is my body.\"\n\nAnd he took the cup, and when he had given thanks, he gave it to them:\nand they all drank of it.  And he said unto them:\n\n\"This is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many.  Verily\nI say unto you, I will drink no more of the fruit of the vine, until\nthat day that I drink it new in the kingdom of God.\"\n\nAnd when they had sung an hymn, they went out into the mount of Olives.\nAnd Jesus saith unto them, \"All ye shall be offended because of me this\nnight: for it is written, 'I will smite the shepherd, and the sheep\nshall be scattered.'  But after that I am risen, I will go before you\ninto Galilee.\"\n\nBut Peter said unto him, \"Although all shall be offended, yet will not\nI.\"  And Jesus saith unto him, \"Verily I say unto thee, that this day,\neven in this night, before the cock crow twice, thou shalt deny me\nthrice.\"  But he spake the more vehemently, \"If I should die with thee,\nI will not deny thee in any wise.\"\n\nLikewise also said they all.\n\nAnd they came to a place which was named Gethsemane: and he saith to\nhis disciples, \"Sit ye here, while I shall pray.\"  And he taketh with\nhim Peter and James and John, and began to be sore amazed, and to be\nvery heavy; and saith unto them, \"My soul is exceeding sorrowful unto\ndeath: tarry ye here, and watch.\"\n\nAnd he went forward a little, and fell on the ground, and prayed that\nif it were possible, the hour might pass from him.  And he said:\n\n\"Abba, Father, all things are possible unto thee; take away this cup\nfrom me: nevertheless not what I will, but what thou wilt.\"\n\nAnd he cometh, and findeth them sleeping, and saith unto Peter, \"Simon,\nsleepest thou?  Couldest not thou watch one hour?  Watch ye and pray,\nlest ye enter into temptation.  The spirit truly is ready, but the\nflesh is weak.\"\n\nAnd again he went away, and prayed, and spake the same words.  And when\nhe returned, he found them asleep again, (for their eyes were heavy,)\nneither wist they what to answer him.  And he cometh the third time,\nand saith unto them:\n\n\"Sleep on now, and take your rest: it is enough, the hour is come;\nbehold, the Son of man is betrayed into the hands of sinners.  Rise up,\nlet us go; lo, he that betrayeth me is at hand.\"\n\nAnd immediately, while he yet spake, cometh Judas, one of the twelve,\nand with him a great multitude with swords and staves, from the chief\npriests and the scribes and the elders.  And he that betrayed him had\ngiven them a token, saying, \"Whomsoever I shall kiss, that same is he;\ntake him, and lead him away safely.\"\n\nAnd as soon as he was come, he goeth straightway to him, and saith,\n\"Master, master;\" and kissed him.  And they laid their hands on him,\nand took him.  And one of them that stood by drew a sword, and smote a\nservant of the high priest, and cut off his ear.  And Jesus answered\nand said unto them:\n\n\"Are ye come out, as against a thief, with swords and with staves to\ntake me?  I was daily with you in the temple teaching, and ye took me\nnot: but the scriptures must be fulfilled.\"\n\nAnd they all forsook him, and fled.  And there followed him a certain\nyoung man, having a linen cloth cast about his naked body; and the\nyoung men laid hold on him: and he left the linen cloth, and fled from\nthem naked.\n\nAnd they led Jesus away to the high priest: and with him were assembled\nall the chief priests and the elders and the scribes.  And Peter\nfollowed him afar off, even into the palace of the high priest; and he\nsat with the servants, and warmed himself at the fire.  And the chief\npriests and all the council sought for witness against Jesus to put him\nto death; and found none.  For many bare false witness against him, but\ntheir witness agreed not together.  And there arose certain, and bare\nfalse witness against him, saying:\n\n\"We heard him say, 'I will destroy this temple that is made with hands,\nand within three days I will build another made without hands.'\"\n\nBut neither so did their witness agree together.  And the high priest\nstood up in the midst, and asked Jesus, saying:\n\n\"Answerest thou nothing?  What is it which these witness against thee?\"\n\nBut he held his peace, and answered nothing.  Again the high priest\nasked him, and said unto him:\n\n\"Art thou the Christ, the Son of the Blessed?\"\n\nAnd Jesus said, \"I am: and ye shall see the Son of man sitting on the\nright hand of power, and coming in the clouds of heaven.\"\n\nThen the high priest rent his clothes, and saith, \"What need we any\nfurther witnesses?  Ye have heard the blasphemy: what think ye?\"  And\nthey all condemned him to be guilty of death.  And some began to spit\non him, and to cover his face, and to buffet him, and to say unto him,\n\"Prophesy:\" and the servants did strike him with the palms of their\nhands.\n\nAnd as Peter was beneath in the palace, there cometh one of the maids\nof the high priest: and when she saw Peter warming himself, she looked\nupon him, and said, \"And thou also wast with Jesus of Nazareth.\"  But\nhe denied, saying, \"I know not, neither understand I what thou sayest.\"\nAnd he went out into the porch; and the cock crew.\n\nAnd a maid saw him again, and began to say to them that stood by, \"This\nis one of them.\"  And he denied it again.  And a little after, they\nthat stood by said again to Peter, \"Surely thou art one of them: for\nthou art a Galilaean, and thy speech agreeth thereto.\"  But he began to\ncurse and to swear, saying, \"I know not this man of whom ye speak.\"\n\nAnd the second time the cock crew.  And Peter called to mind the word\nthat Jesus said unto him, \"Before the cock crow twice, thou shalt deny\nme thrice.\"  And when he thought thereon, he wept.\n\n\n\n\nCHAPTER XV\n\nCRUCIFIED, DEAD AND BURIED\n\nAnd straightway in the morning the chief priests held a consultation\nwith the elders and scribes and the whole council, and bound Jesus, and\ncarried him away, and delivered him to Pilate.\n\nAnd Pilate asked him, \"Art thou the King of the Jews?\"\n\nAnd he answering said unto him, \"Thou sayest it.\"\n\nAnd the chief priests accused him of many things: but he answered\nnothing.  And Pilate asked him again, saying, \"Answerest thou nothing?\nBehold how many things they witness against thee.\"\n\nBut Jesus yet answered nothing; so that Pilate marvelled.\n\nNow at that feast he released unto them one prisoner, whomsoever they\ndesired.  And there was one named Barabbas, which lay bound with them\nthat had made insurrection with him, who had committed murder in the\ninsurrection.  And the multitude crying aloud began to desire him to do\nas he had ever done unto them.  But Pilate answered them, saying:\n\n\"Will ye that I release unto you the King of the Jews?\"\n\nFor he knew that the chief priests had delivered him for envy.  But the\nchief priests moved the people, that he should rather release Barabbas\nunto them.  And Pilate answered and said again unto them:\n\n\"What will ye then that I shall do unto him who ye call the King of the\nJews?\"\n\nAnd they cried out again, \"Crucify him.\"\n\nThen Pilate said unto them, \"Why, what evil hath he done?\"  And they\ncried out the more exceedingly, \"Crucify him.\"  And so Pilate, willing\nto content the people, released Barabbas unto them, and delivered\nJesus, when he had scourged him, to be crucified.\n\nAnd the soldiers led him away into the hall, called Praetorium; and\nthey call together the whole band.  And they clothed him with purple,\nand platted a crown of thorns, and put it about his head, and began to\nsalute him:\n\n\"Hail, King of the Jews!\"\n\nAnd they smote him on the head with a reed, and did spit upon him, and\nbowing their knees worshipped him.  And when they had mocked him, they\ntook off the purple from him, and put his own clothes on him, and led\nhim out to crucify him.\n\nAnd they compel one Simon a Cyrenian, who passed by, coming out of the\ncountry, the father of Alexander and Rufus, to bear his cross.  And\nthey bring him unto the place Golgotha, which is, being interpreted,\n\"The place of a skull.\"  And they gave him to drink wine mingled with\nmyrrh: but he received it not.  And when they had crucified him, they\nparted his garments, casting lots upon them, what every man should\ntake.  And it was the third hour, and they crucified him.  And the\nsuperscription of his accusation was written over:\n\n\"THE KING OF THE JEWS.\"\n\nAnd with him they crucify two thieves; the one on his right hand, and\nthe other on his left.  And the scripture was fulfilled, which saith,\n\"And he was numbered with the transgressors.\"  And they that passed by\nrailed on him, wagging their heads, and saying:\n\n\"Ah, thou that destroyest the temple, and buildest it in three days,\nsave thyself, and come down from the cross.\"\n\nLikewise also the chief priests mocking said among themselves with the\nscribes, \"He saved others; himself he cannot save.  Let Christ the King\nof Israel descend now from the cross, that we may see and believe.\"\n\nAnd they that were crucified with him reviled him.\n\nAnd when the sixth hour was come, there was darkness over the whole\nland until the ninth hour.  And at the ninth hour, Jesus cried with a\nloud voice, saying:\n\n\"Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?\" which is, being interpreted, \"My God,\nmy God, why hast thou forsaken me?\"\n\nAnd some of them that stood by, when they heard it, said, \"Behold, he\ncalleth Elias.\"  And one ran and filled a spunge full of vinegar, and\nput it on a reed, and gave him to drink, saying, \"Let alone; let us see\nwhether Elias will come to take him down.\"\n\nAnd Jesus cried with a loud voice, and gave up the ghost.  And the veil\nof the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom.  And when\nthe centurion, which stood over against him, saw that he so cried out,\nand gave up the ghost, he said:\n\n\"Truly this man was the Son of God.\"\n\nThere were also women looking on afar off: among whom was Mary\nMagdalene, and Mary the mother of James the less and of Joses, and\nSalome; (who also, when he was in Galilee, followed him, and ministered\nunto him;) and many other women which came up with him unto Jerusalem.\n\nAnd now when the even was come, because it was the preparation, that\nis, the day before the sabbath, Joseph of Arimathaea, an honourable\ncounsellor, which also waited for the kingdom of God, came, and went in\nboldly unto Pilate, and craved the body of Jesus.  And Pilate marvelled\nif he were already dead: and calling unto him the centurion, he asked\nhim whether he had been any while dead.  And when he knew it of the\ncenturion, he gave the body to Joseph.  And he bought fine linen, and\ntook him down, and wrapped him in the linen, and laid him in a\nsepulchre which was hewn out of a rock, and rolled a stone unto the\ndoor of the sepulchre.\n\nAnd Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of Joses beheld where he was\nlaid.\n\n\n\n\nCHAPTER XVI\n\nJESUS OF NAZARETH RISES FROM THE DEAD\n\nAnd when the sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of\nJames, and Salome, had bought sweet spices, that they might come and\nanoint him.  And very early in the morning the first day of the week,\nthey came unto the sepulchre at the rising of the sun.  And they said\namong themselves:\n\n\"Who shall roll us away the stone from the door of the sepulchre?\"\n\nAnd when they looked, they saw that the stone was rolled away: for it\nwas very great.  And entering into the sepulchre, they saw a young man\nsitting on the right side, clothed in a long white garment; and they\nwere affrighted.  And he saith unto them:\n\n\"Be not affrighted: Ye seek Jesus of Nazareth, which was crucified: he\nis risen; he is not here: behold the place where they laid him.  But go\nyour way, tell his disciples and Peter that he goeth before you into\nGalilee: there shall ye see him, as he said unto you.\"\n\nAnd they went out quickly, and fled from the sepulchre; for they\ntrembled and were amazed: neither said they anything to any man; for\nthey were afraid.\n\nNow when Jesus was risen early the first day of the week, he appeared\nfirst to Mary Magdalene, out of whom he had cast seven devils.  And she\nwent and told them that had been with him, as they mourned and wept.\nAnd they, when they had heard that he was alive, and had been seen of\nher, believed not.\n\nAfter that he appeared in another form unto two of them, as they\nwalked, and went into the country.  And they went and told it unto the\nresidue: neither believed they them.\n\nAfterward he appeared unto the eleven as they sat at meat, and\nupbraided them with their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they\nbelieved not them which had seen him after he was risen.  And he said\nunto them:\n\n\"Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature.  He\nthat believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth\nnot shall be damned.  And these signs shall follow them that believe;\nin my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new\ntongues; they shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly\nthing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and\nthey shall recover.\"\n\nSo then after the Lord had spoken unto them, he was received up into\nheaven, and sat on the right hand of God.  And they went forth, and\npreached every where, the Lord working with them, and confirming the\nword with signs following.  Amen.","title":"Jesus of Nazareth, A Biography, by John Mark","tradition":"scripture-revelation","translated_text":null,"word_count":15747}