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not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? Is thine eye evil, because I am good?

So the last shall be first, and the first last; for many are called, but few are chosen.

17 And Jesus going up to Jerusalem took the twelve 18 disciples apart; and in the way he said to them: Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem; and the Son of man will be delivered to the chief priests and 19 scribes, and they will condemn him to death, and will deliver him to the Gentiles to mock and scourge and crucify; and on the third day he will rise again. Then came to him the mother of the sons of Zebe

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dee, with her sons, bowing down and asking a cer21 tain thing of him. 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 22 on thy left, in thy kingdom. But Jesus answered and said: Ye know not what ye ask. Are ye able to drink of the cup that I shall drink of? They 23 say to him: We are able. 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 24 my Father. And the ten, hearing it, were much 25 displeased with the two brothers. But Jesus called them to him, and said: Ye know that the rulers of the Gentiles exercise lordship over them, and they 6 that are great exercise authority over them. Not so shall it be among you; but whoever would become great among you, let him be your minister; and 27 whoever would be first among you, let him be your servant. Even as the Son of man came not to be 28 ministered to, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.

And as they were going forth from Jericho, a 29 great multitude followed him. And behold, two 30 blind men sitting by the way-side, when they heard that Jesus was passing by, cried, saying: Have mercy on us, O Lord, Son of David. And the mul- 31 titude rebuked them, that they should hold their peace. But they cried the more, saying: Have mercy on us, O Lord, Son of David. And Jesus 32 stood still, and called them, and said: What will ye that I shall do to you? They say to him: Lord, 33 that our eyes may be opened. And Jesus, moved 34 with compassion, touched their eyes; and immediately their eyes received sight; and they followed him.

XXI. AND when they drew near to Jerusalem, 1 and came to Bethphage, at the mount of the Olives, Jesus sent forth two disciples, saying to them: Go 2 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. And if any one say aught 3 to you, ye shall say: The Lord has need of them ; and straightway he will send them.

Now all this has been done, that it might be fulfilled 4 5 which was spoken through the prophet, saying: Say to the daughter of Zion, Behold, thy King comes to thee, meek, and mounted upon an ass, and upon 6 a colt the foal of a beast of burden. And the dis7 ciples went, and did as Jesus commanded them; and brought the ass and the colt, and put on them their 8 garments, and he sat thereon. And most of the multitude spread their own garments in the way; and others cut down branches from the trees, and 9 strewed in the way. And the multitudes that went before, and that followed, cried, saying: Hosanna to the Son of David; Blessed is he that comes in 10 the name of the Lord; Hosanna in the highest. And when he had entered into Jerusalem, all the city 11 was moved, saying: Who is this? And the multitudes said: This is Jesus the prophet, from Nazareth of Galilee.

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And Jesus went 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 13 seats of them that sold doves. And he says to them : It is written, My house shall be called a house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of robbers.

14 And the blind and the lame came to him in the 15 temple, and he healed them. But when the chief priests and scribes saw the wonders that he did, and the children crying in the temple, and saying, Ho

V. 9. Hosanra: i. e., Save now!

sanna to the Son of David, they were sore displeased. And they said to him: Hearest thou what these 16 say? And Jesus says to them, Yea; have ye never read: Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings thou hast prepared praise?

And he left them, and went forth out of the city 17 into Bethany, and lodged there.

Now in the morning, as he returned into the city, 18 he hungered. And seeing a fig-tree by the way, he 19 came to it, and found nothing thereon but leaves only. And he says to it: Let no fruit grow on thee henceforward, for ever. And immediately the figtree withered away. And the disciples seeing it 20 wondered, saying: How did the fig-tree immediately wither away? And Jesus answering said to them: 21 Verily I say to you, if ye have faith, and do not doubt, not only shall ye do what is done to the figtree, but even if ye say to this mountain, Be thou taken up and cast into the sea, it shall be done. And all things whatsoever ye ask in prayer, believ- 22 ing, ye shall receive.

And when he had come into the temple, the chief 23 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? And Jesus answered and said to them: I 24 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 26 to us: Why then did ye not believe him? But if we say, From men, we fear the multitude; for all 27 hold John as a prophet. And they answered Jesus, and said: We do not know. And he said to them: Neither tell I you by what authority I do these things.

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But what think ye? A man had two sons; and he came to the first, and said: Son, go work to day 29 in the vineyard. He answered and said, I will not; 30 but afterwards he repented, and went. And he

came to the other, and said likewise. And he an31 swered and said, I will, sir; and went not. Which of the two did the father's will? They say to him, The first. Jesus says to them: Verily I say to you, that the publicans and the harlots go into the king32 dom of God before you. For John came to you in the way of righteousness, and ye believed him not; but the publicans and the harlots believed him; and ye, when ye had seen it, repented not afterwards, 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,

V. 30. In some ancient copies: to the second V. 31. In the oldest copies: they say to him, The tardier one