Of blasphemy against MATTHEW, the Holy Ghost. whom my soul is well pleased: 29 Or else, how can one enter I will put my Spirit upon him, into a strong man's house, and and he shall shew judgment to spoil his goods, except he first the Gentiles. bind the strong man? and then

19 He shall not strive, nor he will spoil his house. cry; neither shall any man hear 30 He that is not with me, is his voice in the streets. against me; and he that gather

20 A bruised reed shall he eth not with me, scattereth not break, and smoking flax abroad. shall he not quench, till he send 31 Wherefore I say unto forth judgment unto victory. you, All manner of sin and 21 And in his name shall the blasphemy shall be forgiven Gentiles trust. unto men: but the blasphemy

22 Then was brought unto against the Holy Ghost shall not him one possessed with a devil, be forgiven unto men. blind and dumb; and he healed 32 And whosoever speaketh him, insomuch that the blind a word against the Son of man, and dumb both spake and saw. it shall be forgiven him: but 23 And all the people were whosoever speaketh against the amazed, and said, Is not this Holy Ghost, it shall not be the son of David? forgiven him, neither in this

24 But when the Pharisees world, neither in the world to heard it, they said, This fellow come. doth not cast out devils, but by 33 Either make the tree good, Beelzebub the prince of the and his fruit good; or else make devils. the tree corrupt, and his fruit

25 And Jesus knew their corrupt: for the tree is known thoughts, and said unto them, by his fruit.

Every kingdom divided against 34 O generation of vipers, itself, is brought to desolation; how can ye, being evil, speak and every city or house divided good things? for out of the against itself, shall not stand. abundance of the heart, the

26 And if Satan cast out mouth speaketh. Satan, he is divided against 35 A good man, out of the himself; how shall then his good treasure of the heart, bringkingdom stand? eth forth good things: and an

27 And if I by Beelzebub cast evil man, out of the evil treasure, out devils, by whom do your bringeth forth evil things. children cast them out there- 36 But I say unto you, That fore they shall be your judges. every idle word that men shall 28 But if I cast out devils by speak, they shall give account the Spirit of God, then the king- thereof in the day of judgment. dom of God is come unto you. 37 For by thy words thou

The sign of Jonas. shalt be justified, and by thy self, and they enter in and dwell words thou shalt be condemned. there and the last state of that 38 Then certain of the man is worse than the first. scribes and of the Pharisees Even so shall it be also unto answered, saying, Master, we this wicked generation.

CHAP. XIII. Who are Christ's brethren.

would see a sign from thee.

46 While he yet talked to

39 But he answered and said the people, behold, his mother to them, An evil and adulterous and his brethren stood without, generation seeketh after a sign, desiring to speak with him. and there shall no sign be given 47 Then one said unto him, to it, but the sign of the prophet Behold, thy mother and thy Jonas. brethren stand without, desir

40 For as Jonas was three ing to speak with thee. days and three nights in the 48 But he answered and said whale's belly: so shall the Son unto him that told him, Who of man be three days and three is my mother? and who are my nights in the heart of the earth. brethren?

41 The men of Nineveh shall 49 And he stretched forth rise in judgment with this gene- his hand toward his disciples, ration, and shall condemn it: and said, Behold my mother because they repented at the and my brethren!

CHAP. XIII.

preaching of Jonas; and behold, 50 For whosoever shall do a greater than Jonas is here. the will of my Father which is 42 The queen of the south in heaven, the same is my broshall rise up in the judgment ther, and sister, and mother. with this generation, and shall condemn it: for she came from Of the sower and the seed. the uttermost parts of the earth THE same day went Jesus to hear the wisdom of Solomon; out of the house, and sat and behold, a greater than So- by the sea-side.

lomon is here.

2 And great multitudes were

43 When the unclean spirit gathered together unto him, so is gone out of a man, he walketh that he went into a ship, and through dry places, seeking sat, and the whole multitude rest, and findeth none..

stood on the shore.

44 Then he saith, I will re- 3 And he spake many things turn into my house from whence unto them in parables, saying. I came out; and when he is Behold, a sower went forth to come, he findeth it empty, swept, sow;

Parable of the sower,

MATTHEW,

and its exposition. 5 Some fell upon stony places, waxed gross, and their ears are where they had not much earth: dull of hearing, and their eyes and forthwith they sprung up, they have closed; lest at any because they had not deepness time they should see with their of earth : eyes, and hear with their ears,

6 And when the sun was up, and should understand with they were scorched; and be- their heart, and should be concause they had no root, they verted, and I should heal them. withered away. 16 But blessed are your eyes, 7 And some fell among thorns; for they see: and your ears, for and the thorns sprung up, and they hear. choked them:

17 For, verily, I say unto you,

8 But other fell into good That many prophets and rightground, and brought forth fruit, eous men have desired to see some a hundred-fold, some those things which ye see, and sixty-fold, some thirty-fold. have not seen them; and to hear 9 Who hath ears to hear, let those things which ye hear, and him hear. have not heard them.

18 Hear ye therefore the

10 And the disciples came, and said unto him, Why speak-parable of the sower. est thou unto them in parables 19 When any one heareth

11 He answered and said un- the word of the kingdom, and to them, Because it is given un-understandeth it not, then comto you to know the mysteries of eth the wicked one, and catchthe kingdom of heaven, but to eth away that which was sown them it is not given. in his heart. This is he which

12 For whosoever hath, to received seed by the wayhim shall be given, and he shall side. have more abundance: but who- 20 But he that received the soever hath not, from him shall seed into stony places, the same be taken away even that he hath. is he that heareth the word, and

13 Therefore speak I to them anon with joy receiveth it; in parables: because they see- 21 Yet hath he not root in ing, see not; and hearing, they himself. but dureth for a while: hear not; neither do they un- for when tribulation or persecuderstand. tion ariseth because of the word,

14 And in them is fulfilled by and by he is offended. the prophecy of Esaias, which 22 He also that received seed saith, By hearing ye shall hear, among the thorus is he that and shall not understand; and heareth the word; and the care seeing ye shall see, and shall of this world, and the deceitfulnot perceive: ness of riches choke the word,

15 For this people's heart is and he becometh unfruitful.

CHAP. XII.

Exposition of the parable of the tares. 23 But he that received seed grain of mustard-seed, which a into the good ground is he that man took, and sowed in his field: heareth the word, and under- 32 Which indeed is the least standeth it; which also beareth of all seeds: but when it is grown, fruit, and bringeth forth, some it is the greatest among herbs, a hundred-fold, some sixty, some and becometh a tree, so that thirty. the birds of the air come and

24 Another parable put he lodge in the branches thereof. forth unto them, saying, The 33 Another parable spake kingdom of heaven is likened he unto them; The kingdom of unto a man which sowed good heaven is like unto leaven, seed in his field: which a woman took, and hid

25 But while men slept, his in three measures of meal, till enemy came and sowed tares the whole was leavened. among the wheat, and went his 34 All these things spake way. Jesus unto the multitude in pa26 But when the blade was rables; and without a parable sprung up, and brought forth spake he not unto them: fruit, then appeared the tares 35 That it might be fulfilled also. which was spoken by the pro27 So the servants of the phet, saying, I will open my householder came and said unto mouth in parables; I will utter him, Sir, didst not thou sow things which have been kept good seed in thy field? from secret from the foundation of whence then hath it tares? the world.

28 He said unto them, An 36 Then Jesus sent the mul`enemy hath done this. The titude away, and went into the servants said unto him, Wilt house and his disciples came thou then that we go and gather unto him, saying, Declare unto them up? us the parable of the tares of

29 But he said, Nay; lest the field. while ye gather up the tares, ye 37 He answered and said unroot up also the wheat with them. to them, He that soweth the 30 Let both grow together good seed is the Son of man; until the harvest: and in the 38 The field is the world ; time of harvest I will say to the the good seed are the children reapers, Gather ye together first of the kingdom; but the tares are the tares, and bind them in the children of the wicked one; bundles to burn them: but ga- 39 The enemy that sowed ther the wheat into my barn. them is the devil; the harvest 31 Another parable put he is the end of the world; and the forth unto them, saying, The reapers are the angels. kingdom of heaven is like to al 40 As therefore the tares

MATTHEW,

Divers parables. Christ contemned. are gathered and burned in the the furnace of fire: there shall fire; so shall it be in the end of be wailing and gnashing of teeth. 51 Jesus saith unto them,

this world.

41 The Son of man shall send Have ye understood all these forth his angels, and they shall things? They say unto him, gather out of his kingdom all Yea, Lord. things that offend, and them 52 Then said he unto them, which do iniquity; Therefore every scribe which is

42 And shall cast them into instructed unto the kingdom of a furnace of fire: there shall be heaven, is like unto a man that wailing and gnashing of teeth. is a householder, which bring

43 Then shall the righteous eth forth out of his treasure shine forth as the sun in the things new and old. kingdom of their Father. Who 53 And it came to pass, that hath ears to hear, let him when Jesus had finished these hear. parables, he departed thence.

44 Again, The kingdom of 54 And when he was come heaven is like unto treasure into his own country, he taught hid in a field; the which when them in their synagogue, insoa man hath found, he hideth, much that they were astonished, and for joy thereof goeth and and said, Whence hath this selleth all that he hath, and man this wisdom, and these mighbuyeth that field.

ty works?

45 Again, The kingdom of 55 Is not this the carpenter's heaven is like unto a merchant- son? is not his mother called Maman seeking goodly pearls : ry? and his brethren, James, and 46 Who, when he had found Joses, and Simon, and Judas? one pearl of great price, went 56 And his sisters, are they and sold all that he had, and not all with us? Whence then hath this man all these things?

bought it.

47 Again, The kingdom of 57 And they were offended heaven is like unto a net, that in him. But Jesus said unto was cast into the sea, and ga-them, A prophet is not without thered of every kind : honour, save in his own country,

48 Which, when it was full, and in his own house. they drew to shore, and sat 58 And he did not many mighdown, and gathered the good into ty works there, because of their vessels, but cast the bad away. unbelief.

49 So shall it be at the end

of the world: the angels shall come forth, and sever the wicked from among the just,

CHAP. XIV.

Herod's opinion of Christ.

AT that time Herod the Te