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plentifully: 17 and he thought, Not even Solomon in all his

within himself, saying, What shall I do, because I have no place where I can store my crops?' 18 Then he said, 'I will do this: I will take down my barns, and build greater; and there I will store all my produce and my goods. 19 And I will say to my soul,* Soul, thou hast many goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry.' 20 But God said to him, Thou inconsiderate man, this night thy soul is required of thee: whose then will the things be which thou hast provided?' 21 So is he, who layeth up treasure for himself, and is not rich towards God."

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glory was arrayed like one of these. 28 But if God so clothe the herb, which to-day is in the field, and to-morrow is cast into the furnace; how much more will he clothe you, O ye of little faith? 29 Wherefore, be ye not anxiously inquisitive about what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; neither be ye in agitated suspense. 30 For after all these things the nations of the world seek; and your Father knoweth that ye have need of these things. 31 But seek ye the king. dom of God; and [all] these things shall be added to you.

32" Fear not, little flock: for it hath pleased your Father to give you the kingdom. 33 Sell provide for yourselves bags your possessions, and give alms: which do not wear out, an inexhaustible treasure, in the heavens, which faileth not, where no thief approacheth, nor moth consumeth. 34 For where your treasure is, there also will be your heart.

22 Then he said to his disciples, "Therefore I charge you, Take no anxious thought for [your] life, what ye shall eat: nor for the body, with what ye shall be clothed. 23 The life is a greater gift than food; and the body, than clothing. 24 Observe the ravens, that they neither sow nor reap; which have neither store-house, nor barn; and yet God feedeth them.ed about, and your lamps burnHow much better are ye thaning; 36 and yourselves like men the fowls?

25"Now which of you, by taking anxious thought, can add one cubit to his stature ? 26 If therefore ye be not able to do even that which is least, why take ye anxious thought for the rest? 27 Observe how the lilies grow they neither labour nor spin; and yet I tell you, I

35"Let your loins be gird

who are looking for their mas ter, when he shall return from the marriage; that, when he cometh and knocketh, they may open to him immediately. 37 Happy are those servants, whom their master, when he cometh, shall find watching: verily I tell you, that he will gird himself, and will make them place

* A part here is taken for the whole; nux ou the soul of me, or my soul, is the same as myself. The same word is rendered life in verse 22 and 23.

come and serve them.

themselves at meat, and will cording to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes: 48 but he who knew it not, and committed things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few. For much will be required of every one to whom much is given; and the more a man is entrusted with, the more will be exacted from him.

38 "And if he shall come in the second watch, or come in the third watch, and find them doing thus; happy are those [servants].39 Now ye know this, that if the master of the house knew at what hour the thief would come, he would watch, and not allow him to break into his house. 40 Wherefore be ye also prepared; because at an hour when ye are not aware, the Son of man will come.'

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49" I came to send fire on the earth; and what do I desire? O that it were already kindled! 50 I have also a baptism to be baptized with: and how am I straitened till it be accomplished! 51 suppose ye that I came to spread peace on earth? I tell you, No; but rather division. 52 For henceforth five in one house will be divided, three against two, and two against three. 53 Father

41 Then Peter said to him, "Master, dost thou speak this parable to us alone, or to all present?" 42 Whereupon the Lord said, "Who then is that faithful and wise steward, whom his master will place over his household to give them their portion of food in due season? | will be divided against son, and 43 Happy is that servant, whom his master, when he cometh, shall find doing thus. 44 In truth I tell you, that he will place him over all that he hath.

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son against father; mother against daughter, and daughter against mother; mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law, and daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law."

45" But as to that servant 54 And he said also to the who shall say in his heart, My multitudes : "When ye see a master delayeth his coming;' cloud rising out of the west, and shall begin to strike the immediately ye say, • There men-servants, and the maid-ser-cometh a shower;' and so it vants, and to eat and drink and happeneth: 55 and when ye see be drunken; 46 the master of the south wind blow, ye say, that servant will come in a day. There will be heat;' and it when he looketh not for him, happeneth. 56 Ye hypocrites, and in an hour of which he is ye can discern the appearance not aware; and having dis- of the earth and of the sky: but carded him, will appoint him how is it that ye do not discern his portion with the unfaithful. this time? 57 And why even of 47" And that servant, who yourselves judge ye not what knew his master's will, and pre- is right? 58 For when thou pared not himself, nor did ac- goest with thine opponent to the magistrate, endeavour to

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come to an agreement with him on the way; lest he bring thee before the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the officer, and the officer cast thee into prison. 59 I tell thee, Thou wilt by no means be released, till thou hast paid the very last mite."

CH. XIII. 1 NOW there were present, at that time, some who informed him of the Galileans; whose blood Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices. 2 And Jesus answering, said to them, "Suppose ye that these Galileans were sinners above all the Galileans, because they suffered such things? 3 I tell you, No: but, unless ye reform, ye will all perish in such a manner. 4 Or those eighteen, upon whom the tower of Siloam fell, and killed them; think ye that they were transgressors above | all men who dwelt in Jerusalem? 5 I tell you, No; but, unless ye reform, ye will all perish in like manner."

6 He spake also this parable: "A certain man had a fig-tree planted in his vineyard; and he came seeking fruit on it, and found none. 7 Then he said to his vine-dresser, 'Behold, these three years I come seeking | fruit on this fig-tree, and find none: cut it down; why doth it even take up the ground?' 8 And he answering, said to him, Sir, suffer it to remain this year also, till I shall dig about it, and dung it: 9 perhaps it will bear fruit: but if not, thou mayest afterwards cut it down.""

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10 NOW he was teaching in one of the synagogues on the sabbath. 11 And, lo, there was a woman who had for eighteen years a spirit of infirmity, and was bowed together, and could in no wise raise herself up. 12 And Jesus observing her, he called her to him, and said to her, "Woman, thou art loosed from thine infirmity." 13 And he put his hands on her: and immediately she stood upright, and glorified God.

14 But the ruler of the synagogue spake, being moved with indignation, because Jesus had wrought a cure on the sabbath, and said to the multitude, "There are six days in which men ought to work: in them, therefore, come and be cured, and not on the sabbath." 15 The Lord therefore answered him, and said, "Thou hypocrite, doth not every one of you, on the sabbath, loose his ox or his ass from the stall, and lead him away to water? 16 And ought not this woman, being a daughter of Abraham, whom the adversary * hath bound, lo, these eighteen years, to be loosed from this bond on the sabbath day ?"

17 And on his saying these things, all his opposers were ashamed: and the whole multitude rejoiced for all the glorious things done by him.

18 HE said also, "To what is the kingdom of God like? and to what shall I compare it? 19 It is like a grain of mus

* Euravas, satan, is the personification of the principle of opposition: diseases are attributed to satan, not because the devil is, or was supposed to be, the author of them; but, because they are destructive to health, ease, and enjoyment. See Acts x. 38; 1 Cor. v. 5; 2 Cor. xii. 75 1 Tim. i. 20.

tard-seed, which a man took | north and the south, and shall

and put in his garden; and it grew, and became a [great] tree, and the fowls of the air lodged in its branches." 20 [And] again he said, "To what shall I compare the kingdom of God? 21 It is like leaven, which a woman took and mixed with three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened."

be guests in the kingdom of God. 30 And, behold, there are last, who will be first, and there are first, who will be last."

31 ON the same day, some of the Pharisees came near, saying to him, "Go out, and depart hence: for Herod intendeth to kill thee." 32 And he said to them, "Go and tell that fox, Behold, I shall cast out demons, and I shall work cures to-day and to-morrow, and the third day I shall be perfected. 33 However, I must needs continue my course to-day, and to-morrow; and depart the day following: for it cannot be that a prophet perish out of Jerusalem.

34" O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, that killest the prophets, and stonest those that are sent unto thee; how often would I have gathered thy children together, as a hen gathereth her brood under her wings! but ye would not. 35 Behold, your habitation shall be left by you.* And I tell you, Ye shall not see me, till the time come when ye shall say, Blessed be he that cometh in the name of the Lord." "

22 AND he went through the cities and villages, teaching, and journeying towards Jerusalem. 23 Then one said to him, "Master, are there few who will be saved?" And he said to them, 24" Strive to enter in by the narrow door: for many, I tell you, will seek to enter in, and will not be able. 25"When once the master of the house hath risen up, and hath shut the door, and ye begin to stand without, and to knock at the door, saying, 'Master! Master! open for us.' But he will answer, and say to you, I know not whence ye are.' 26 Then ye will begin to say, 'We have eaten and drank in thy presence, and thou hast taught in our streets.' 27 But he will say, 'I tell you, I know CH. XIV. 1 AND it came to not whence ye are; depart from pass, that when Jesus had, on me, all ye workers of iniquity.' the sabbath, entered into the 28"There will be weeping house of one of the rulers and gnashing of teeth, when ye among the Pharisees, to eat shall see Abraham, and Isaac, bread, they watched him. 2 and Jacob, and all the prophets, And, lo! there was before him in the kingdom of God, and a certain man, that had a dropyourselves excluded. 29 And sy. 3 Wherefore, Jesus spake they shall come from the east to the teachers of the law and and the west, and [from] the Pharisees, saying, “Is it lawful

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So Improved Version. Gr. "left (or cast off) to you."

to work a cure on the sabbath?" 13 But when thou makest a

4 And they remained silent.
Then Jesus took hold of him,
and cured him, and sent him
away; 5 and [resuming his dis-
course] he said to them, "Which
of
you shall have an ass or an
ox fallen into a pit, and will
not immediately draw him.
out on the sabbath?" 6 And they
could not reply to these things.
7 Then he spake a parable to
those that were invited, when
he marked how they chose out
the chief places; saying to
them, 8" When thou art in-
vited by any one to a marriage-
feast, take not the chief place;
lest a more honourable man
than thou be invited by him;
9 and he that invited thee and
him come, and say to thee,
'Give place to this man;' and
then thou begin, with confu-
sion, to take the lowest place.

feast, invite the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind; 14 and thou shalt be happy : (for they cannot recompense thee;) for thou shalt be recompensed in the resurrection of the righteous."

15 And one of the guests, hearing these things, said to him, "Happy is he who shall eat bread in the kingdom of God." 16 Then Jesus said to him, "A certain man made a great supper, and invited many: 17 and sent his servant at supper time, to say to those who were invited, Come, for all

things are now ready.' 18 And they all, with one consent, began to excuse themselves. The first said to him, 'I have bought a field, and I must needs go and see it: I beseech thee have me excused.' 19 And another said, 10 But when thou art invit-I have bought five yoke of oxed, go and take the lowest en, and I go to try them: I beplace; that, when he who in-seech thee have me excused.' vited thee cometh, he may say 20 And another said, 'I have to thee, Friend, go up high- married a wife; and therefore er: then thou wilt have hon- I cannot come,' 21 So [that] our in the presence of those servant came, and told his masthat are at meat with thee. 11 ter these things. For every one that exalteth himself shall be humbled; and be that humbleth himself shall be exalted."

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12 Then he said also to him who had invited him, "When thou makest a dinner, or a supper,

invite not thy friends, nor thy brethren, [nor thy kinsmen, nor thy rich neighbours; lest they also invite thee again, and a recompense be made thee.

"Then the master of the house was angry, and said to his servant, Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in hither the poor, and the maimed, and the lame, and the blind.' 22 And the servant said, 'Sir, it is done as thou hast commanded, and still there is room.' 23 And the master said to the servant, Go out to the highways and hedges,

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