Christ rides into Jerusalem.

CHAP. XXI.

The fig-tree cursed.

26 But it shall not be so among you: 12 And Jesus went into the temple of but whosoever will be great among you, God, and cast out all them that sold and let him be your minister;

27 And whosoever will be chief among you, let him be your servant:

28 Even as the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.

29 And as they departed from Jericho, a great multitude followed him.

bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the money-changers, and the seats of them that sold doves,

13 And said unto them, It is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer, but ye have made it a den of thieves. 14 And the blind and the lame came to him in the temple; and he healed them.

30 And behold, two blind men sitting 15 And when the chief priests and by the way-side, when they heard that scribes saw the wonderful things that he Jesus passed by, cried out, saying, Have did, and the children crying in the temple, mercy on us, O Lord, thou son of David. and saying, Hosanna to the Son of David; 31 And the multitude rebuked them, they were sore displeased, because they should hold their peace: but 16 And said unto him, Hearest thou they cried the more, saying, Have mercy what these say? And Jesus saith unto on us, O Lord, thou son of David.

them, Yea: have ye never read, Out of

32 And Jesus stood still, and called the mouth of babes and sucklings thou hast them, and said, What will ye that I shall perfected praise?

do unto you?

33 They say unto him, Lord, that our eyes may be opened.

34 So Jesus had compassion on them, and touched their eyes: and immediately their eyes received sight, and they followed him.

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CHAP. XXI.

ND when they drew nigh unto Jerusalem, and were come to Bethphage, unto the mount of Olives, then sent Jesus two disciples,

2 Saying unto them, Go into the village over against you, and straightway ye shall find an ass tied, and a colt with her: loose them, and bring them unto me.

3 And if any man say aught unto you, ye shall say, The Lord hath need of them; and straightway he will send them.

4 All this was done, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying,

17 And he left them, and went out of the city into Bethany, and he lodged there. 18 Now, in the morning, as he returned into the city, he hungered.

19 And when he saw a fig-tree in the way, he came to it, and found nothing thereon, but leaves only, and said unto it, Let no fruit grow on thee henceforward for ever. And presently the fig-tree withered away.

20 And when the disciples saw it, they marvelled, saying, How soon is the figtree withered away!

21 Jesus answered and said unto them, Verily, I say unto you, If ye have faith, and doubt not, ye shall not only do this which is done to the fig-tree, but also, if ye shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; it shall be done.

22 And all things whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive.

5 Tell ye the daughter of Sion, Behold, 23 And when he was come into the thy King cometh unto thee, meek, and temple, the chief priests and the elders of sitting upon an ass, and a colt the foal of the people came unto him as he was teach

an ass.

6 And the disciples went, and did as Jesus commanded them,

7 And brought the ass and the colt, and put on them their clothes, and they set him thereon.

ing, and said, By what authority doest thou these things? and who gave thee this authority?

24 And Jesus answered and said unto them, I also will ask you one thing, which if ye tell me, I in like wise will tell you 8. And a very great multitude spread by what authority I do these things. their garments in the way; others cut 25 The baptism of John, whence was down branches from the trees, and strewed it? from heaven, or of men? And they them in the way. reasoned with themselves, saying, If we

9 And the multitudes that went before, shall say, From heaven; he will say unto and that followed, cried, saying, Hosanna us, Why did ye not then believe him? to the Son of David: Blessed is he that 26 But if we shall say, Of men; we fear cometh in the name of the Lord: Hosanna the people: for all hold John as a prophet. in the highest.

27 And they answered Jesus, and said,

10 And when he was come into Jerusa- We cannot tell. And he said unto them, lem, all the city was moved, saying, Who is this?

Neither tell I you by what authority I do these things.

11 And the multitude said, This is Jesus 28 But what think ye? A certain man the prophet of Nazareth of Galilee. had two sons; and he came to the first,

and said, Son, go work to-day in my vineyard.

29 He answered and said, I will not; but afterward he repented, and went.

30 And he came to the second, and said likewise. And he answered and said, I go, sir: and went not.

31 Whether of them twain did the will of his father? They say unto him, The first. Jesus saith unto them, Verily I say unto you, That the publicans and the harlots go into the kingdom of God before you.

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The wedding-garment.

CHAP. XXII.

ND Jesus answered and spake unto them again by parables, and said, 2 The kingdom of heaven is like unto a certain king, which made a marriage for his son,

3 And sent forth his servants to call them that were bidden to the wedding: and they would not come.

4 Again, he sent forth other servants, saying, Tell them which are bidden, Behold, I have prepared my dinner: my oxen and my fatlings are killed, and all things are ready: come unto the marriage.

32 For John came unto you in the way of righteousness, and ye believed him not: but the publicans and the harlots believed 5 But they made light of it, and went

their ways, one to his farm, another to his

him: and ye, when ye had seen it, repent-
ed not afterward, that ye might believe him. merchandise.

33 Hear another parable; There was a certain householder, which planted a vineyard, and hedged it round about, and digged a wine-press in it, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a far country :

6 And the remnant took his servants, and entreated them spitefully, and slew them.

7 But when the king heard thereof, he was wroth: and he sent forth his armies, and destroyed those murderers, and burned their city.

up

8 Then saith he to his servants, The

34 And when the time of the fruit drew near, he sent his servants to the husband-wedding is ready, but they which were men, that they might receive the fruits of it. bidden were not worthy.

35 And the husbandmen took his ser- 9 Go ye therefore into the highways, vants, and beat one, and killed another, and as many as ye shall find, bid to the

and stoned another.

marriage.

36 Againhesent other servants more than 10 So those servants went out into the

the first: and they did unto them likewise.
37 But last of all, he sent unto them his
son, saying, They will reverence my son.
38 But when the husbandmen saw the
son, they said among themselves, This is
the heir; come, let us
seize on his inheritance.

highways, and gathered together all as many as they found, both bad and good: and the wedding ing was furnished with guests.

11 T And when the king came in to see the guests, he saw there a man which had us not on a wedding-garment:

39 And they caught him, and cast him out of the vineyard, and slew him.

40 When the lord therefore of the vineyard cometh, what will he do unto those husbandmen?

12 And he saith unto him, Friend, how camest thou in hither, not having a wedding-garment? And he was speechless.

13 Then said the king to the servants, Bind him hand and foot, and take him away, and cast him into outer darkness:

41 They say unto him, He will mise- there shall be weeping and gnashing of rably destroy those wicked men, and will teeth. let out his vineyard unto other husband- 14 For many are called, but few are men, which shall render him the fruits in chosen. their seasons.

15 Then went the Pharisees, and took

42 Jesus saith unto them, Did ye never counsel how they might entangle him in read in the scriptures, The stone which his talk.

the builders rejected, the same is become 16 And they sent out unto him their disthe head of the corner: this is the Lord's ciples, with the Herodians, saying, Master, doing, and it is marvellous in our eyes? we know that thou art true, and teachest

43 Therefore say I unto you, The king- the way of God in truth, neither carest dom of God shall be taken from you, and thou for any man: for thou regardest not given to a nation bringing forth the fruits the person of men.

thereof.

17 Tell us therefore, What thinkest

44 And whosoever shall fall on this thou? Is it lawful to give tribute unto stone, shall be broken: but on whomsoever Cesar, or not? it shall fall, it will grind him to powder. 18 But Jesus perceived their wicked

45 And when the chief priests and Pharisees had heard his parables, they perceived that he spake of them.

46 But when they sought to lay hands on him, they feared the multitude, because they took him for a prophet.

ness, and said, Why tempt ye me, ye hypocrites?"

19 Shew me the tribute-money. And they brought unto him a penny. 20 And he saith unto them, whose is this image, and superscription?

Concerning the resurrection.

CHAP. XXIII. Christ exposes the Pharisees.
21 They say unto him, Cesar's. Then 45 If David then call him Lord, how
saith he unto them, Render therefore unto is he his son?
Cesar, the things which are Cesar's; and 46 And no man was able to answer him
unto God, the things that are God's.
a word, neither durst any man, from that
22 When they had heard these words, day forth, ask him any more questions.

they marvelled, and left him, and went
their way.

23 T The same day came to him the
Sadducees, which say that there is no re-
surrection, and asked him,

CHAP. XXIII.

24 Saying, Master, Moses said, If a man
3 All therefore whatsoever they bid you
die, having no children, his brother shall observe, that observe and do: but do not ye
marry his wife, and raise up seed unto his after their works: for they say, and do not.
brother.
4 For they bind heavy burdens, and
25 Now, there were with us seven breth-grievous to be borne, and lay them on men's
ren: and the first, when he had married a shoulders; but they themselves will not
wife, deceased; and having no issue, left move them with one of their fingers.
his wife unto his brother.

5 But all their works they do for to be 26 Likewise the second also, and the seen of men: they make broad their phythird, unto the seventh.

27 And last of all the woman died also. 28 Therefore, in the resurrection, whose wife shall she be of the seven? for they all had her.

29 Jesus answered and said unto them, Ye do 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, as touching the resurrection of the dead, have ye not read that which was spoken unto 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 when the multitude heard this they were astonished at his doctrine.

34 But when the Pharisees had heard that he had put the Sadducees to silence, they were gathered together.

35 Then one of them which was a lawyer, asked him a question, tempting him, and saying,

36 Master, which is the great commandment in the law?

37 Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the LORDthy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.

38 This is the first and great command

ment.

lacteries, and enlarge the borders of their
garments,

6 And love the uppermost rooms at feasts,
and the chief seats in the synagogues,

7 And greetings in the markets, and to be called of men, Rabbi, Rabbi.

8 But be not ye called Rabbi: for one is your Master, even Christ; and all ye are brethren.

9 And call no man your father upon the earth: for one is your Father which is in heaven.

10 Neither be ye called masters: for one is your Master, even Christ.

11 But he that is greatest among you, shall be your servant.

12 And whosoever shall exalt himself, shall be abased; and he that shall humble himself, shall be exalted.

13 But wo unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering, to go in.

14 Wo unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows' houses, and for a pretence make long prayer: therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation.

15 Wo unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte; and when he is made, ye make him two-fold more the

39 And the second is like unto it, Thou child of hell than yourselves.

shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
16 Wo unto you, ye blind guides! which
40 On these two commandments hang say, Whosoever shall swear by the temple,
all the law and the prophets.
it is nothing; but whosoever shall swear
41 While the Pharisees were gather- by the gold of the temple, he is a debtor.
ed together, Jesus asked them,
17 Ye fools, and blind! for whether is

42 Saying, What think ye of Christ? greater, the gold, or the temple that sancwhose son is he? They say unto him, The tifieth the gold?

son of David.

43 He saith unto them, How then doth call him Lord, saying,

David in spirit

44 The LORD said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand, till I make thine enemies thy footstool?

18 And whosoever shall swear by the
altar, it is nothing; but whosoever swear-
eth by the gift
is upon it, he is is guilty.

gift that

19 Ye fools, and blind! for whether is greater, the gift, or the altar that sanctifieth the gift?

The destruction of Jerusalem S. MATTHEW. and of the temple foretold. 20 Whoso therefore shall swear by the altar, sweareth by it, and by all things thereon.

21 And whoso shall swear by the tom ple, sweareth by it, and by him that dwelleth therein.

22 And he that shall swear by heaven, sweareth by the throne of God, and by him that sitteth thereon.

38 Behold, your house is left unto you desolate.

39 For I say unto you, Ye shall not see me henceforth, till ye shall say, Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord. CHAP. XXIV.

ND Jesus went out, and departed

A from the temple: and his disciples

came to him for to shew him the buildings of the temple.

23 Wo unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint, and 2 And Jesus said unto them, See ye not anise, and cummin, and have omitted the all these things? verily, I say unto you, weightier matters of the law, judgment, There shall not be left here one stone upmercy, and faith: these ought ye to have on another, that shall not be thrown down. done, and not to leave the other undone. 24 Ye blind guides, which strain at a

gnat, and swallow a camel.

25 Wo unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and excess.

3 And as he sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world!

4 And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you. 5 For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many. 6 And ye shall hear of wars, and rumours of wars: see that ye be not trou

26 Thou blind Pharisee, cleanse first that which is within the cup and platter, that the outside of them may be clean also. 27 Wo unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited bled: for all these things must come to sepulchres, which indeed appear beauti- pass, but the end is not yet. ful outward, but are within full of dead 7 For nation shall rise against nation, men's bones, and of all uncleanness.

28 Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.

29 Wo unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye build the tombs of the prophets, and garnish the sepulchres of the righteous,

30 And say, 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 Wherefore, ye be witnesses unto yourselves, that ye are the children of them which killed the prophets.

32 Fill ye up then the measure of your

fathers.

and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes in divers places.

8 All these are the beginning of sorrows. 9 Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name's sake.

10 And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another.

11 And many false prophets shall rise,

and shall deceive many.

12 And because iniquity shall abound,

the love of many shall wax cold.

13 But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.

14 And this gospel of the kingdom shall

33 Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, be preached in all the world, for a witness how can ye escape the damnation of hell? unto all nations; and then shall the end 34 Wherefore, behold, I send unto you come.

prophets, and wise men, and scribes; and 15 When ye, therefore, shall see the abo some of them ye shall kill and crucify, and mination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel some of them shall ye scourge in your syna- the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso gogues, and persecute them from city to city: readeth, let him understand,)

35 That upon you may come all the 16 Then let them which be in Judea righteous blood shed upon the earth, from flee into the mountains: the blood of righteous Abel, unto the blood 17 Let him which is on the house-top of Zacharias, son of Barachias, whom ye not come down to take any thing out of his slew between the temple and the altar. house: 36 Verily, I say unto you, All these things shall come upon this generation.

which are sent unto thee, how often would

18 Neither let him which is in the field return back to take his clothes.

37 O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that 19 And wo unto them that are with child, killest the prophets, and stonest them and to them that give suck in those days! 20 But pray ye that your flight be not I have gathered thy children together, in the winter, neither on the sabbath-day: even as a hen gathereth her chickens un- 21 For then shall be great tribulation, der her wings, and ye would not! such as was not since the beginning of the

CHAP. XXV

Parable of the ten virgins. world to this time, no, nor ever shall be. not what hour your Lord doth come. 22 And except those days should be 43 But know this, that if the good man shortened, there should no flesh be saved: of the house had known in what watch the but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened.

thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken up.

23 Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or there; believe it not. 24 For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were 45 Who then is a faithful and wise serpossible, they shall deceive the very elect. 25 Behold, I have told you before.

44 Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not, the Son of man cometh.

29 Immediately after the tribulation of those days, shall the sun be darkened, 50 The lord of that servant shall come and the moon shall not give her light, and in a day when he looketh not for him, and in an hour that he is not aware of, 51 And shall cut him asunder, and ap

30 And then shall appear the sign of point him his portion with the hypocrites: the Son of man in heaven: and then shall there shall be weeping and gnashing of all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they teeth.

CHAP. XXV: clouds of heaven with power and great THEN shall the kingdom of heaven be glory. likened unto ten virgins, which took 31 And he shall send his angels with a their lamps, and went forth to meet the great sound of a trumpet, and they shall bridegroom. gather together his elect from the four 2 And five of them were wise, and five winds, from one end of heaven to the other.

42 Watch therefore; for ye know man cometh.