desired to make a reckoning with his servants. (24)And when he had
begun to reckon, there was brought to him one, who owed ten thousand
talents[18:24]. (25)But as he was not able to pay, his lord commanded
him to be sold, and his wife, and children, and all that he had, and
payment to be made. (26)The servant therefore, falling, prostrated
himself before him, saying: Have patience with me, and I will pay thee
all. (27)And the lord of that servant, moved with compassion, released
him, and forgave him the debt. (28)But that servant went out, and
found one of his fellow-servants, who owed him a hundred
denaries[18:28]; and laying hold of him he took him by the throat,
saying: Pay me that thou owest. (29)Therefore his fellow-servant fell
down and besought him, saying: Have patience with me, and I will pay
thee. (30)And he would not; but went and cast him into prison, till he
should pay the debt. (31)And his fellow-servants, seeing what was
done, were very sorry, and came and disclosed to their lord all that
was done. (32)Then having called him, his lord says to him: Thou
wicked servant; I forgave thee all that debt, because thou besoughtest
me. (33)Shouldest not thou also have had pity on thy fellow-servant,
as I too had pity on thee? (34)And his lord was angry, and delivered
him to the tormentors, till he should pay all that was due to him.
(35)So also will my heavenly Father do to you, if ye from your hearts
forgive not every one his brother.
XIX.
AND it came to pass, when Jesus finished these sayings, that he
departed from Galilee, and came into the borders of Judaea beyond the
Jordan. (2)And great multitudes followed him, and he healed them
there.
(3)And the Pharisees came to him, tempting him and saying: Is it
lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause?
(4)And he answering said to them: Have ye not read, that he who made
them[19:4] from the beginning made them male and female, (5)and said:
For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave
to his wife, and the two shall be one flesh. (6)So that they are no
longer two, but one flesh. What therefore God joined together, let not
man put asunder.
(7)They say to him: Why then did Moses command to give a writing of
divorcement, and to put her away? (8)He says to them: Moses, for your
hardness of heart, suffered you to put away your wives; but from the
beginning it was not so. (9)And I say to you, that whoever shall put
away his wife, except for fornication, and shall marry another,
commits adultery; and whoever marries her when put away, commits
adultery.
(10)His disciples say to him: If the case of the man with the woman is
so, it is not good to marry. (11)But he said to them: Not all can
receive this saying, but they to whom it is given. (12)For there are
eunuchs, who were so born from the mother's womb; and there are
eunuchs, who were made eunuchs by men; and there are eunuchs, who made
themselves eunuchs for the sake of the kingdom of heaven. He that is
able to receive it, let him receive it.
(13)Then were brought to him little children, that he might put his
hands on them and pray; and the disciples rebuked them. (14)But Jesus
said: Suffer the little children, and forbid them not to come to me;
for to such belongs the kingdom of heaven. (15)And he laid his hands
on them, and departed thence.
(16)And, behold, one came to him and said: Teacher, what good shall I
do, that I may have eternal life? (17)And, he said to him: Why dost
thou ask me concerning good? One is the Good. But if thou desirest to
enter into life, keep the commandments. (18)He says to him, Which?
Jesus said: Thou shalt not kill; Thou shalt not commit adultery; Thou
shalt not steal; Thou shalt not bear false witness; (19)Honor thy
father and thy mother; and, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.
(20)The young man says to him: All these I kept; what do I yet lack?
(21)Jesus said to him: If thou desirest to be perfect, go, sell what
thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in
heaven; and come, follow me. (22)But when the young man heard this
saying, he went away sorrowful; for he had great possessions.
(23)And Jesus said to his disciples: Verily I say to you, that a rich
man shall hardly enter into the kingdom of heaven. (24)And again I say
to you: It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle,
than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God. (25)And the
disciples, hearing it, were exceedingly amazed, saying: Who then can
be saved? (26)But Jesus, looking on them, said to them: With men this
is impossible; but with God all things are possible. (27)Then Peter
answering said to him: Behold, we forsook all, and followed thee; what
then shall we have? (28)And Jesus said to them: Verily I say to you,
that ye who followed me, in the renovation, when the Son of man shall
sit on his throne of glory, shall also sit on twelve thrones, judging
the twelve tribes of Israel. (29)And every one who forsook houses, or
brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or
lands, for my name's sake, shall receive manifold more, and shall
inherit everlasting life. (30)But many first will be last, and last
first.
XX.
FOR the kingdom of heaven is like to a householder, who went out early
in the morning to hire laborers into his vineyard. (2)And having
agreed with the laborers for a denary[20:2] a day, he sent them into
his vineyard.
(3)And he went out about the third hour, and saw others standing idle
in the market-place. (4)And to them he said: Go ye also into the
vineyard, and whatever is right I will give you. And they went their
way.
(5)Again he went out about the sixth and ninth hour, and did likewise.
(6)And about the eleventh he went out, and found others standing, and
says to them: Why stand ye here all the day idle? (7)They say to him:
Because no one hired us. He says to them: Go ye also into the
vineyard.
(8)And when evening was come, the lord of the vineyard says to his
steward: Call the laborers, and pay them the hire, beginning from the
last, unto the first. (9)And they of the eleventh hour came, and
received every man a denary. (10)But when the first came, they
supposed that they should receive more; and they also received each
one a denary. (11)And on receiving it, they murmured against the
householder, (12)saying: These last labored one hour, and thou madest
them equal to us, who bore the burden of the day, and the burning
heat.
(13)But he answering said to one of them: Friend, I do thee no wrong.
Didst thou not agree with me for a denary? (14)Take what is thine, and
go. But I will give to this last, even as to thee. (15)Is it not
lawful for me to do what I will with my own? Is thine eye evil,
because I am good?
(16)So will the last be first, and the first last; for many are
called, but few are chosen.
(17)And Jesus, going up to Jerusalem, took the twelve disciples apart;
and in the way he said to them: (18)Behold, we are going up to
Jerusalem; and the Son of man will be delivered to the chief priests
and scribes, and they will condemn him to death, (19)and will deliver
him to the Gentiles to mock and scourge and crucify; and on the third
day he will rise again.
(20)Then came to him the mother of the sons of Zebedee, with her sons,
bowing down and asking a certain thing of him. (21)And he said to her:
What wilt thou? She says to him: Command that these my two sons shall
sit, one on thy right hand, and one on thy left, in thy kingdom.
(22)But Jesus answering said: Ye know not what ye ask. Are ye able to
drink of the cup that I shall drink of? They say to him: We are able.
(23)And he says to them: Ye shall drink indeed of my cup; but to sit
on my right hand, and on my left, is not mine to give, but is for them
for whom it has been prepared by my Father. (24)And the ten, hearing
it, were much displeased with the two brothers. (25)But Jesus, having
called them to him, said: Ye know that the rulers of the Gentiles
exercise lordship over them, and they that are great exercise
authority over them. (26)Not so shall it be among you; (27)but whoever
would become great among you, let him be your minister; and whoever
would be first among you, let him be your servant; (28)even as the Son
of man came not to be ministered to, but to minister, and to give his
life a ransom for many.
(29)And as they were going forth from Jericho, a great multitude
followed him. (30)And behold, two blind men sitting by the way-side,
hearing that Jesus was passing by, cried, saying: Have mercy on us, O
Lord, Son of David. (31)And the multitude rebuked them, that they
should hold their peace. But they cried the more, saying: Have mercy
on us, O Lord, Son of David. (32)And Jesus stood still, and called
them, and said: What will ye that I shall do to you? (33)They say to
him: Lord, that our eyes may be opened. (34)And Jesus, moved with
compassion, touched their eyes; and immediately their eyes received
sight; and they followed him.
XXI.
AND when they drew near to Jerusalem, and came to Bethphage, at the
mount of the Olives, Jesus sent forth two disciples, (2)saying to
them: Go into the village over against you, and straightway ye will
find an ass tied, and a colt with her; loose and bring them to me.
(3)And if any one say aught to you, ye shall say: The Lord has need of
them; and straightway he will send them.
(4)Now all this has been done, that it might be fulfilled which was
spoken through the prophet, saying:
(5)Say to the daughter of Zion,
Behold, thy King comes to thee,
Meek, and mounted upon an ass,
And upon a colt, the foal of a beast of burden.
(6)And the disciples, having gone and done as Jesus commanded them,
(7)brought the ass and the colt, and put on them their garments, and
he sat thereon. (8)And most of the multitude spread their own garments
in the way; and others cut down branches from the trees, and strewed
in the way. (9)And the multitudes that went before, and that followed,
cried, saying: Hosanna[21:9] to the Son of David; Blessed is he who
comes in the name of the Lord; Hosanna in the highest. (10)And as he
entered into Jerusalem, all the city was moved, saying: Who is this?
(11)And the multitudes said: This is Jesus the prophet, from Nazareth
of Galilee.
(12)And Jesus entered into the temple of God, and cast out all that
sold and bought in the temple, and overturned the tables of the
money-changers, and the seats of those who sold doves. (13)And he says
to them: It is written,
My house shall be called a house of prayer;
But ye make it a den of robbers.
(14)And the blind and the lame came to him in the temple, and he
healed them. (15)But the chief priests and the scribes, seeing the
wonders that he did, and the children crying in the temple, and
saying, Hosanna to the Son of David, were much displeased, (16)and
said to him: Dost thou hear what these say? And Jesus says to them:
Yea; did ye never read: From the mouth of babes and sucklings thou
preparedst praise?
(17)And leaving them, he went forth out of the city into Bethany, and
lodged there.
(18)And in the morning, as he was returning into the city, he
hungered. (19)And seeing a fig-tree by the way, he came to it, and
found nothing thereon but leaves only. And he says to it: Let there be
no fruit from thee henceforward, forever. And immediately the fig-tree
withered away. (20)And the disciples seeing it wondered, saying: How
did the fig-tree immediately wither away? (21)And Jesus answering said
to them: Verily I say to you, if ye have faith, and do not doubt, not
only shall ye do what is done to the fig-tree, but even if ye say to
this mountain, be thou taken up and cast into the sea, it shall be
done. (22)And all things whatever ye ask in prayer, believing, ye
shall receive.
(23)And when he had come into the temple, the chief priests and the
elders of the people came to him as he was teaching, and said: By what
authority doest thou these things; and who gave thee this authority?
(24)And Jesus answering said to them: I also will ask you one thing,
which if ye tell me, I too will tell you by what authority I do these
things. (25)John's immersion, whence was it? From heaven, or from men?
And they reasoned among themselves, saying: If we say, From heaven, he
will say to us: Why then did ye not believe him? (26)But if we say,
From men, we fear the multitude; for all hold John as a prophet.
(27)And they answered Jesus, saying: We do not know. And he said to
them: Neither do I say to you, by what authority I do these things.
(28)But what think ye? A man had two sons; and he came to the first,
and said: Son, go work to-day in the vineyard. (29)And he answering
said: I will not; but afterward he repented, and went. (30)And he came
to the other[21:30], and said likewise. And he answering said: I will,
sir; and went not. (31)Which of the two did the father's will? They
say to him: The first[21:31]. Jesus says to them: Verily I say to you,
that the publicans and the harlots go into the kingdom of God before
you. (32)For John came to you in the way of righteousness, and ye did
not believe him; but the publicans and the harlots believed him; and
ye, when ye had seen it, repented not afterward, that ye might believe
him.
(33)Hear another parable. There was a householder, who planted a
vineyard, and put a hedge around it, and dug a winepress in it, and
built a tower, and let it out to husband-men, and went abroad. (34)And
when the season of fruits drew near, he sent his servants to the
husbandmen, to receive his fruits. (35)And the husbandmen taking his
servants, beat one, and killed another, and stoned another. (36)Again
he sent other servants, more than the first; and they did to them
likewise. (37)And afterward he sent to them his son, saying: They will
reverence my son. (38)But the husbandmen, seeing the son, said among
themselves: This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and have his
inheritance. (39)And taking him, they cast him out of the vineyard,
and killed him. (40)When therefore the lord of the vineyard comes,
what will he do to those husbandmen? (41)They say to him: He will
miserably destroy those wicked men, and will let out the vineyard to
other husbandmen, who will deliver over to him the fruits in their
seasons. (42)Jesus says to them: Did ye never read in the Scriptures:
The stone which the builders disallowed,
The same is become the head of the corner;
This is from the Lord,
And is wonderful in our eyes.
(43)Therefore I say to you, that the kingdom of God shall be taken
from you, and given to a nation bringing forth the fruits thereof.
(44)And he that falls upon this stone will be broken; but on
whomsoever it shall fall, it will grind him to powder.
(45)And the chief priests and Pharisees, hearing his parables, knew
that he spoke of them. (46)And they sought to lay hold of him, but
feared the multitudes, since they held him as a prophet.
XXII.
AND Jesus answering spoke to them again in parables, saying:
(2)The kingdom of heaven is like to a certain king, who made a
marriage for his son. (3)And he sent forth his servants to call those
who were bidden to the wedding; and they would not come. (4)Again he
sent forth other servants, saying: Tell those who are bidden, Behold,
I have prepared my dinner; my oxen and my fatlings are killed, and all
things are ready; come to the marriage. (5)But they made light of it,
and went away, one to his farm, another to his merchandise. (6)And the
rest laid hold of his servants, and ill-treated and slew them. (7)And
the king, hearing it, was angry; and sending forth his armies, he
destroyed those murderers, and burned up their city. (8)Then he says
to his servants: The wedding is ready, but they who were bidden were
not worthy. (9)Go therefore into the thoroughfares, and as many as ye
find, bid to the marriage. (10)And those servants went out into the
highways, and gathered together all as many as they found, both bad
and good; and the wedding was furnished with guests.
(11)And the king, coming in to view the guests, saw there a man not
clothed with a wedding garment; (12)and he says to him: Friend, how
camest thou in hither, not having a wedding garment? And he was
speechless. (13)Then the king said to the attendants: Bind him hand
and foot, and cast him forth into the outer darkness. There will be
the weeping, and the gnashing of teeth! (14)For many are called, but
few are chosen.
(15)Then the Pharisees went and took counsel, how they might ensnare
him with a word[22:15]. (16)And they send out to him their disciples,
with the Herodians, saying: Teacher, we know that thou art true, and
teachest the way of God in truth; neither carest thou for any one, for
thou regardest not the person of men. (17)Tell us, therefore, what
thinkest thou? Is it lawful to give tribute to Caesar, or not? (18)But
Jesus, knowing their wickedness, said: Why tempt ye me, hypocrites!
(19)Show me the tribute money. And they brought to him a
denary[22:19]. (20)And he says to them: Whose is this image, and the
inscription? (21)They say to him: Caesar's. Then says he to them;
Render therefore to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God
the things that are God's. (22)And hearing it they wondered, and left
him and went away.
(23)On that day came to him Sadducees, who say that there is no
resurrection, and asked him, (24)saying: Teacher, Moses said, If any
one die having no children, his brother shall marry his wife, and
raise up seed to his brother. (25)Now there were with us seven
brothers; and the first married and died, and having no seed left his
wife to his brother. (26)Likewise the second also, and the third, unto
the seventh. (27)And last of all the woman died also. (28)In the
resurrection therefore, of which of the seven shall she be wife? For
they all had her.
(29)Jesus answering said to them: Ye err, not knowing the Scriptures,
nor the power of God. (30)For in the resurrection they neither marry,
nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven.
(31)But concerning the resurrection of the dead, have ye not read that
which was spoken to you by God, saying: (32)I am the God of Abraham,
and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? God is not the God of the
dead, but of the living. (33)And the multitudes, hearing it, were
astonished at his teaching.
(34)And the Pharisees, hearing that he had put the Sadducees to
silence, collected together; (35)and one of them, a lawyer, asked,
tempting him and saying: (36)Teacher, what commandment is great in the
law? (37)Jesus said to him: Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all
thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. (38)This is
the great and first commandment. (39)And the second is like to it:
Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thy self. (40)On these two
commandments hang all the law and the prophets.
(41)While the Pharisees were collected together, Jesus asked them,
(42)saying: What think ye concerning the Christ? Of whom is he the
son? They say to him: Of David. (43)He says to them: How then does
David, in the Spirit, call him Lord, saying:
(44)The Lord said to my Lord,
Sit on my right hand,
Till I put thine enemies under thy feet.
(45)If then David calls him Lord, how is he his son? (46)And no one
was able to answer him a word; nor durst any one from that day
question him any more.
XXIII.
THEN Jesus spoke to the multitudes, and to his disciples, (2)saying:
The scribes and the Pharisees sat down in Moses' seat. (3)All,
therefore, whatever they bid you, do and observe; but do not according
to their works, for they say and do not. (4)For they bind heavy
burdens and grievous to be borne, and lay them on men's shoulders, but
will not move them with their finger. (5)But all their works they do
to be seen by men; they make broad their phylacteries, and enlarge the
fringes; (6)and love the first place at feasts, and the first seats in
the synagogues, (7)and the greetings in the markets, and to be called
by men, Rabbi, Rabbi[23:7]. (8)But be not ye called Rabbi; for one is
your Teacher, and all ye are brethren. (9)And call not any your father
on the earth; for one is your Father, he who is in heaven. (10)Neither
be called leaders; for one is your leader, the Christ. (11)But the
greatest of you shall be your servant. (12)And whoever shall exalt
himself shall be humbled; and he that shall humble himself shall be
exalted.
(13)But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye shut
up the kingdom of heaven against men; for ye go not in, nor suffer
those who are entering to go in[23:13]:
(15)Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye traverse
sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him
twofold more a child of hell than yourselves.
(16)Woe to you, blind guides, who say: Whoever shall swear by the
temple, it is nothing; but whoever shall swear by the gold of the
temple, he is bound. (17)Fools and blind; for which is greater, the
gold, or the temple that sanctifies the gold? (18)And, Whoever shall
swear by the altar, it is nothing; but whoever shall swear by the gift
that is upon it, he is bound. (19)Fools and blind; for which is
greater, the gift, or the altar that sanctifies the gift?
(20)He therefore who swears by the altar, swears by it, and by all
things thereon. (21)And he that swears by the temple, swears by it,
and by him who dwells therein. (22)And he that swears by heaven,
swears by the throne of God, and by him who sits thereon.
(23)Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye pay
tithe of the mint and the dill and the cumin, and omitted the
weightier things of the law, judgment, and mercy, and faith; these
ought ye to have done, and not leave those undone.
(24)Blind guides! that strain out the gnat, and swallow the camel.
(25)Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye cleanse
the outside of the cup and the platter, but within they are full of
rapacity and excess. (26)Blind Pharisee! Cleanse first the inside of
the cup and the platter, that its outside also may become clean.
(27)Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye are like
to whited sepulchres, which outwardly indeed appear beautiful, but
within are full of bones of the dead, and of all uncleanness. (28)So
also ye outwardly indeed appear righteous to men, but within ye are
full of hypocrisy and iniquity.
(29)Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye build
the sepulchres of the prophets, and adorn the tombs of the righteous,
and say: (30)If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not
have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets. (31)So
that ye witness to yourselves, that ye are sons of those who killed
the prophets; (32)and fill ye up the measure of your fathers!
(33)Serpents! Brood of vipers! How can ye escape the judgment of hell?
(34)Therefore, behold, I send forth to you prophets, and wise men, and
scribes; and some of them ye will kill and crucify, and some of them
ye will scourge in your synagogues, and persecute from city to city;
(35)that on you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth,
from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah, son of
Barachiah, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar. (36)Verily I
say to you, all these things shall come upon this generation.
(37)Jerusalem! Jerusalem! that killest the prophets, and stonest those
sent to her; how often would I have gathered thy children together, as
a hen gathers her chickens under her wings, and ye would not!
(38)Behold, your house is left to you desolate. (39)For I say to you,
ye shall not see me henceforth, till ye shall say: Blessed is he that
comes in the name of the Lord.
XXIV.
AND Jesus went out, and departed from the temple; and his disciples
came to him, to show him the buildings of the temple. (2)And he
answering said to them: See ye not all these things? Verily I say to
you, there shall not be left here one stone upon another, that shall
not be thrown down.