Part 21 (1/2)

54 Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day.

55 For my flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed.

56 He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, dwelleth in me, and I in him.

57 As the living Father hath sent me, and I live by the Father: so he that eateth me, even he shall live by me.

58 This is that bread which came down from heaven: not as your fathers did eat manna, and are dead: he that eateth of this bread shall live for ever.

59 These things said he in the synagogue, as he taught in Capernaum.

60 Many therefore of his disciples, when they had heard _this_, said, This is a hard saying; who can hear it?

61 When Jesus knew in himself that his disciples murmured at it, he said unto them, Doth this offend you?

62 _What_ and if ye shall see the Son of man ascend up where he was before?

63 It is the Spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, _they_ are spirit, and _they_ are life.

64 But there are some of you that believe not. For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were that believe not, and who should betray him.

65 And he said, Therefore said I unto you, that no man can come unto me, except it were given unto him of my Father.

66 From that _time_ many of his disciples went back,(181) and walked no more with him.

67 Then said Jesus unto the twelve, Will ye also go away?

68 Then Simon Peter answered him, Lord, to whom shall we go? thou hast the words of eternal life.

69 And we believe, and are sure that thou art that Christ, the Son of the living G.o.d.

70 Jesus answered them, Have not I chosen you twelve, and one of you is a devil?(182) 71 He spake of Judas Iscariot _the son_ of Simon: for he it was that should betray him, being one of the twelve.

CH. VII.

After these things Jesus walked in Galilee: for he would not walk in Jewry, because the Jews sought to kill him.

Part V. From Our Lord's Third Pa.s.sover, Until His Final Departure From Galilee, At The Festival Of Tabernacles.

TIME. _Six months_.

-- 67. Our Lord justifies his Disciples for eating with unwashen hands.

Pharisaic traditions. _Capernaum_.

Matthew. Mark.

CH. XV. 1-20. CH. VII. 1-23.

Then came to Jesus scribes and Then came together unto him Pharisees, which were of the Pharisees, and certain of Jerusalem, saying, the scribes, which came from Jerusalem.

2 Why do thy disciples 2 And when they saw some of transgress the tradition of his disciples eat bread with the elders?(183) for they wash defiled (that is to say, with not their hands when they eat unwashen) hands, they found bread. fault.

3 For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, except they wash _their_ hands oft, eat not, holding the tradition of the elders.

4 And _when they come_ from the market, except they wash, they eat not. And many other things there be, which they have received to hold, as the was.h.i.+ng of cups, and pots, and brazen vessels, and tables.(184) 5 Then the Pharisees and scribes asked him, Why walk not thy disciples according to the tradition of the elders, but eat bread with unwashen hands?

3 But he answered and said 6 He answered and said unto unto them, Why do ye also them, Well hath Esaias transgress the commandment of prophesied of you hypocrites, G.o.d by your tradition? as it is written, This people honoureth me with _their_ lips, but their heart is far from me.

4 For G.o.d commanded,(185) 7 Howbeit, in vain do they saying, Honour thy father and wors.h.i.+p me, teaching _for_ mother: and, He that curseth doctrines the commandments of father or mother, let him die men.

the death.

5 But ye say, Whosoever shall 8 For, laying aside the say to _his_ father or _his_ commandment of G.o.d, ye hold mother, _It is_ a gift, by the tradition of men, _as_ the whatsoever thou mightest be was.h.i.+ng of pots and cups: and profited by me; many other such like things ye do.

6 And honour not his father or 9 And he said unto them, Full his mother, _he shall be well ye reject the commandment free_. Thus ye made the of G.o.d, that ye may keep your commandment of G.o.d of none own tradition.

effect by your tradition.

7 _Ye_ hypocrites, well did 10 For Moses said, Honour thy Esaias prophesy of you,(186) father and thy mother; and, saying, Whoso curseth father or mother, let him die the death.

8 This people draweth nigh 11 But ye say, If a man shall unto me with their mouth, and say to his father or mother, honoureth me with _their_ _It is_ Corban, that is to lips; but their heart is far say, a gift, by whatsoever from me. thou mightest be profited by me; _he shall be free_.

9 But in vain they do wors.h.i.+p 12 And ye suffer him no more me, teaching _for_ doctrines to do aught for his father or the commandments of men. his mother; 13 Making the word of G.o.d of none effect through your tradition, which ye have delivered: and many such like things do ye.

10 And he called the 14 And when he had called all mult.i.tude, and said unto them, the people _unto him_, he said Hear, and understand: unto them, Hearken unto me every one _of you_, and understand.

11 Not that which goeth into 15 There is nothing from the mouth defileth a man; but without a man, that entering that which cometh out of the into him, can defile him: but mouth, this defileth a man. the things which come out of him, those are they that defile the man.