Part 8 (2/2)

[31] And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares.

[32] For as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth.

[33] Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pa.s.s, and to stand before the Son of man.

[34] When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory: [35] And before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats: [36] And he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left.

[37] Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world: [38] For I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in: [39] Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me.

[40] Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, and fed thee? or thirsty, and gave thee drink?

[41] When saw we thee a stranger, and took thee in? or naked, and clothed thee?

[42] Or when saw we thee sick, or in prison, and came unto thee?

[43] And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.

[44] Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels: [45] For I was an hungered, and ye gave me no meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink: [46] I was a stranger, and ye took me not in: naked, and ye clothed me not: sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not.

[47] Then shall they also answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungered, or athirst, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister unto thee?

[48] Then shall he answer them, saying, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye did it not to me.

[49] And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal.

CHAPTER 15.

[1] After two days was the feast of the pa.s.sover, and of unleavened bread: and the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might take him by craft, and put him to death.

[2] But they said, Not on the feast day, lest there be an uproar of the people.

[3] And being in Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at meat, there came a woman having an alabaster box of ointment of spikenard very precious; and she brake the box, and poured it on his head.

[4] And there were some that had indignation within themselves, and said, Why was this waste of the ointment made?

[5] For it might have been sold for more than three hundred pence, and have been given to the poor. And they murmured against her.

[6] And Jesus said, Let her alone; why trouble ye her? she hath wrought a good work on me.

[7] For ye have the poor with you always, and whensoever ye will ye may do them good: but me ye have not always.

[8] She hath done what she could: she is come aforehand to anoint my body to the burying.

[9] Then one of the twelve, called Judas Iscariot, went unto the chief priests, [10] And said unto them, What will ye give me, and I will deliver him unto you? And they covenanted with him for thirty pieces of silver.

[11] And from that time he sought opportunity to betray him.

[12] Now the first day of the feast of unleavened bread the disciples came to Jesus, saying unto him, Where wilt thou that we prepare for thee to eat the pa.s.sover?

[13] And he said, Go into the city to such a man, and say unto him, The Master saith, My time is at hand; I will keep the pa.s.sover at thy house with my disciples.

[14] And the disciples did as Jesus had appointed them; and they made ready the pa.s.sover.

[15] Now when the even was come, he sat down with the twelve.

[16] And there was also a strife among them, which of them should be accounted the greatest.

[17] And he said unto them, The kings of the Gentiles exercise lords.h.i.+p over them; and they that exercise authority upon them are called benefactors.

[18] But ye shall not be so: but he that is greatest among you, let him be as the younger; and he that is chief, as he that doth serve.

[19] For whether is greater, he that sitteth at meat, or he that serveth? is not he that sitteth at meat? but I am among you as he that serveth.

[20] And supped being ended, [21] He riseth from supper, and laid aside his garments; and took a towel, and girded himself.

[22] After that he poureth water into a bason, and began to wash the disciples feet, and to wipe them with the towel wherewith he was girded.

[23] Then cometh he to Simon Peter: and Peter saith unto him, Lord, dost thou wash my feet?

[24] Jesus answered and said unto him, What I do thou knowest not now; but thou shalt know hereafter.

[25] Peter saith unto him, Thou shalt never wash my feet. Jesus answered him, If I wash thee not, thou hast no part with me.

[26] Simon Peter saith unto him, Lord, not my feet only, but also my hands and my head.

[27] Jesus saith to him, He that is washed needeth not save to wash his feet, but is clean every whit: and ye are clean, but not all.

[28] For he knew who should betray him; therefore said he, Ye are not all clean.

[29] So after he had washed their feet, and had taken his garments, and was set down again, he said unto them, Know ye what I have done to you?

[30] Ye call me Master and Lord: and ye say well; for so I am.

[31] If I then, your Lord and Master, have washed your feet; ye also ought to wash one another's feet.

[32] For I have given you an example, that ye should do as I have done to you.

[33] Verily, verily, I say unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord; neither he that is sent greater than he that sent him.

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