Chapter 13

He threateneth the Jews to be soon forsaken unless they do penance, ℣.10 and confoundeth them for maligning him for his miraculous good-doing on the Sabboths. ℣.18 but his Kingdom (the Church) as contemptible as it seemeth to them now in the beginning, shall spread over all the world, ℣.20 and convert all, ℣.23 and what an heart-sore it shall be to them at the last day to see them selves excluded from the glory of his Kingdom, and the Gentiles admitted in their place. ℣.31 He foretelleth that it is not Galilee that he feareth, but that obstinate & reprobate Hierusalem will needs murder him as also his messengers afore and after him.

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   And there were certain present at that very time telling him of the Galilæans, whose blood Pilate mingled with their sacrifices.

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   And he answering said to them: Think you that these Galilæans were sinners more than all the Galilæans, that they suffered such things?

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   No, I say to you: but unless you have penance, you shall all likewise perish.

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   As those eighteen upon whom the tower fell in Siloe, and slew them: think you that they also were debters above all the men that dwell in Jerusalem?

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   No, I say to you: but if you have not penance you shall all likewise perish.

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   And he said this similitude: A certain man had a figtree planted in his vineyard, and he came seeking for fruit on it, and found not.

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   And he said to the dresser of the vineyard, Lo it is three years since I come seeking for fruit upon this figtree, and I find not. Cut it down therefore; whereto doth it also occupy the ground?

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   But he answering said to him: Lord, let it alone this year also, until I dig about it, and dung it.

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   And if happily it yield fruit: but if not, hereafter thou shalt cut it down.

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    And he was teaching in their Synagogue on the Sabboths.

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    And behold a woman that had a spirit of infirmity eighteen years: and she was crooked, neither could she look upward at all.

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    Whom when Jesus saw, he called her unto him, and said to her: Woman, thou art delivered from thy infirmity.

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    And he imposed hands upon her, and forthwith she was made straight and glorified God.

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    And the Archsynagogue answering (because he had indignation that Jesus had cured on the Sabboth) said to the multitude: Six days there are wherein you ought to work. In them therefore come, and be cured; and not in the Sabboth day.

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    And our Lord answering to him, said: Hypocrite, doth not every one of you upon the Sabboth loose his ox or his ass from the manger, and leadeth them to water?

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    But this daughter of Abraham whom Satan hath bound, lo, these eighteen years, ought not she to be loosed from this bond on the Sabboth day?

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    And when he said these things, all his adversaries were ashamed: and all the people rejoiced in all things that were gloriously done of him.

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    He said therefore: Whereunto is the Kingdom of God like, and whereunto shall I esteem it like?

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    It is like to a mustard seed, which a man took and cast into his garden and it grew, and became a great tree, & the fowls of the air rested in the boughs thereof.

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    And again he said: Like to what shall I esteem the Kingdom of God?

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    It is like to leaven, which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened.

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    And he went by the cities and towns teaching, and making his journey unto Jerusalem.

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    And a certain man said to him: Lord, be they few that are saved? But he said to them:

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    Strive to enter by the narrow gate: because many, I say to you, shall seek to enter, and shall not be able.

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    But when the good-man of the house shall enter in, and shut the door, and you shall begin to stand without, and knock at the door, saying, Lord open to us: and he answering shall say to you, I know you not whence you are:

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    then you shall begin to say: We did eat before thee and drink, and in our streets didst thou teach.

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    And he shall say to you, I know you not whence you are, depart from me all ye workers of iniquity.

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    There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth: when you shall see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob, and all the Prophets in the Kingdom of God, and you to be thrust out.

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    And there shall come from the East and West & the North and the South; and shall sit down in the Kingdom of God.

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    And behold, they are last that shall be first, and they be first that shall be last.

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    The same day there came certain of the Pharisees, saying to him: Depart and get thee hence, because Herod will kill thee.

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    And he said to them: Go, and tell that fox, Behold I cast out devils, and perfit cures this day and to morrow, and the third day I am consummate.

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    But yet I must walk this day and to morrow and the day following, because it cannot be that a Prophet perish out of Jerusalem.

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    Jerusalem, Jerusalem which killest the Prophets, and stonest them that are sent to thee, how often would I gather thy children as the bird doth her brood under her wings, and thou wouldest not?

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    Behold your house shall be left desert to you. And I say to you, that you shall not see me till it come when you shall say: Blessed is he that cometh in the name of our Lord.