Part 11 (1/2)

(32)And they were in the way going up to Jerusalem. And Jesus was going before them; and they were amazed, and as they followed they were afraid. And again he took with him the twelve, and began to say to them what things should happen to him: (33)Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem; and the Son of man will be delivered up to the chief priests, and to the scribes; and they will condemn him to death and will deliver him up to the Gentiles; (34)and they will mock him, and scourge him, and spit upon him, and will kill him; and after three days he will rise again.

(35)And James and John, the sons of Zebedee, come to him saying: Teacher, we desire that thou shouldst do for us whatever we shall ask.

(36)And he said to them: What do ye desire that I should do for you?

(37)They said to him: Grant to us that we may sit, one on thy right hand, and the other on the left, in thy glory. (38)And Jesus said to them: Ye know not what ye ask. Are ye able to drink the cup that I drink, or to endure the immersion which I endure? (39)And they said to him: We are able. And Jesus said to them: Ye shall indeed drink the cup that I drink, and endure the immersion which I endure. (40)But to sit on my right hand, or on the left, is not mine to give, but is for them for whom it has been prepared.

(41)And the ten, hearing it, began to be much displeased with James and John. (42)And Jesus, calling them to him, says to them: Ye know that they who are accounted to rule[10:42] over the Gentiles exercise lords.h.i.+p over them; and their great ones exercise authority over them.

(43)But it is not so among you. But whoever would become great among you, shall be your minister; (44)and whoever would become chiefest of you, shall be servant of all. (45)For even the Son of man came not to be ministered to, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.

(46)And they come to Jericho. And as he was going forth from Jericho with his disciples and a great mult.i.tude, the son of Timaeus, Bartimaeus, a blind beggar, was sitting by the way-side. (47)And hearing that it is Jesus the Nazarene, he began to cry out, and say: Son of David, Jesus, have mercy on me. (48)And many rebuked him, that he should hold his peace. But he cried all the more: Son of David, have mercy on me. (49)And Jesus stood still, and said: Call him. And they call the blind man, saying to him: Be of good cheer; rise, he calls thee. (50)And he, casting away his garment, leaped up, and came to Jesus. (51)And Jesus answering said to him: What wilt thou that I should do to thee? The blind man said to him: Lord, that I may receive sight. (52)And Jesus said to him: Go thy way; thy faith has made thee whole. And immediately he received sight, and followed him in the way.

XI.

AND when they come near to Jerusalem, to Bethphage and Bethany at the mount of the Olives, he sends forth two of his disciples, (2)and says to them: Go into the village over against you; and immediately, on entering into it, ye will find a colt tied, whereon no man has sat; loose and bring him. (3)And if any one say to you: Why do ye this?

say: The Lord has need of him; and straightway he will send him hither. (4)And they departed, and found a colt tied by the door without, on the street; and they loose him. (5)And some of those standing there, said to them: What do ye, loosing the colt? (6)And they said to them as Jesus commanded; and they let them go. (7)And they bring the colt to Jesus, and cast their garments on him; and he sat upon him. (8)And many spread their garments in the way, and others branches, cutting them from the fields[11:8]. (9)And they that went before, and they that followed, cried: Hosanna! blessed is he that comes in the name of the Lord; (10)blessed is the coming kingdom of our father David; Hosanna in the highest! (11)And he entered into Jerusalem, and into the temple; and having looked around on all things, the evening being now come, he went out to Bethany with the twelve.

(12)And on the morrow, when they had come out from Bethany, he was hungry. (13)And seeing a fig-tree afar off having leaves, he came, if haply he might find anything thereon. And coming to it, he found nothing but leaves; for it was not the season of figs. (14)And answering he said to it: Let no one eat fruit from thee, henceforth forever. And his disciples heard it.

(15)And they come into Jerusalem. And entering into the temple, he began to cast out those who sold and bought in the temple, and overturned the tables of the money changers, and the seats of those who sold doves; (16)and suffered not that any one should carry a vessel through the temple. (17)And he taught, saying to them: Is it not written: My house shall be called a house of prayer for all the nations? But ye have made it a den of robbers. (18)And the chief priests and the scribes heard it. And they sought how they might destroy him; for they feared him, for all the mult.i.tude was astonished at his teaching. (19)And when it became late, he went forth out of the city.

(20)And pa.s.sing by in the morning, they saw the fig-tree dried up from the roots. (21)And Peter, calling to remembrance, says to him: Master, behold, the fig-tree which thou didst curse is withered away. (22)And Jesus answering says to them: Have faith in G.o.d. (23)Verily I say to you, that whoever shall say to this mountain: Be thou taken up and cast into the sea, and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that what he says comes to pa.s.s, he shall have it. (24)Therefore I say to you: All things whatever ye ask, when ye pray, believe that ye received, and ye shall have them.

(25)And when ye stand praying, forgive, if ye have aught against any one; that your Father also who is in heaven may forgive you your trespa.s.ses. (26)But if ye do not forgive, neither will your Father who is in heaven forgive your trespa.s.ses[11:26].

(27)And they come again into Jerusalem. And as he was walking in the temple, there come to him the chief priests, and the scribes, and the elders. (28)And they said to him: By what authority doest thou these things? And who gave thee this authority, to do these things? (29)And Jesus answering said to them: I also will ask you one thing; and answer me, and I will tell you by what authority I do these things.

(30)John's immersion, was it from heaven, or from men? Answer me.

(31)And they reasoned among themselves, saying: (32)If we say, from heaven; he will say, why then did ye not believe him? But shall we say from men? They feared the people; for all held that John was verily a prophet. (33)And answering they say to Jesus: We do not know. And Jesus says to them: Neither do I say to you, by what authority I do these things.

XII.

AND he began to speak to them in parables. A man planted a vineyard, and set a hedge about it, and dug a wine-vat, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went abroad. (2)And at the season he sent to the husbandmen a servant, that he might receive from the husbandmen of the fruits of the vineyard. (3)And they took him and beat him, and sent him away empty. (4)And again he sent to them another servant; and at him they cast stones, and wounded him in the head, and sent him away shamefully treated. (5)And he sent another; and him they killed, and many others; beating some, and killing some.

(6)Having yet therefore one beloved son, he sent him also to them last, saying: They will reverence my son. (7)But those husbandmen said among themselves: This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and the inheritance will be ours. (8)And they took, and killed him, and cast him out of the vineyard. (9)What therefore will the lord of the vineyard do? He will come and destroy the husbandmen, and will give the vineyard to others. (10)And have ye not read this scripture:

The stone which the builders disallowed, The same is become the head of the corner; (11)This is from the Lord, and is wonderful in our eyes.

(12)And they sought to lay hold of him, but feared the people; for they knew that he spoke the parable against them; and they left him, and went away.

(13)And they send to him some of the Pharisees and of the Herodians, to entrap him with a word. (14)And they come and say to him: Teacher, we know that thou art true, and carest for no one; for thou regardest not the person of men, but teachest the way of G.o.d in truth. Is it lawful to give tribute to Caesar, or not? (15)Shall we give, or shall we not give? But he, knowing their hypocrisy, said to them: Why tempt ye me? Bring me a denary[12:15], that I may see it. (16)And they brought it. And he says to them: Whose is this image, and the inscription? And they said to him: Caesar's. (17)And Jesus answering said to them: Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to G.o.d the things that are G.o.d's. And they marveled at him.

(18)And there come to him Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection.

And they asked him, saying: (19)Teacher, Moses wrote to us, that if one's brother die, and leave a wife behind, and leave no children, his brother should take the wife, and raise up seed to his brother.

(20)There were seven brothers; and the first took a wife, and dying left no seed. (21)And the second took her, and died, and he also left no seed; and the third likewise. (22)And the seven took her, and left no seed. Last of all the woman died also. (23)In the resurrection therefore, when they shall rise again, of which of them shall she be wife? For the seven had her for a wife. (24)Jesus answering said to them: Do ye not therefore err, because ye know not the Scriptures, nor the power of G.o.d? (25)For when they shall rise from the dead, they neither marry, nor are given in marriage; but are as angels who are in heaven. (26)And concerning the dead, that they rise, have ye not read in the book of Moses, at The Bush, how G.o.d spoke to him, saying: I am the G.o.d of Abraham, and the G.o.d of Isaac, and the G.o.d of Jacob? (27)He is not G.o.d of the dead, but of the living. Ye greatly err.

(28)And one of the scribes came to him, and having heard them reasoning together, and perceiving that he answered them well, asked him: Which commandment is first of all? (29)And Jesus answered him: First is, Hear, O Israel; the Lord is our G.o.d, the Lord is one; (30)and thou shalt love the Lord thy G.o.d with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength. This is the first commandment. (31)Second is this: Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. There is no other commandment greater than these.