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are full of rapine and uncleanness. | things shall come upon this genera 26 Thou blind Pharisee, first tion.

make clean the inside of the cup 37 Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou and of the dish that the outside may that killest the prophets, and stonest become clean. them that are sent unto thee, how 27 Wo to you scribes and Pha- often would I have gathered torisees, hypocrites: because you are gether thy children, as the hen doth like to whited sepulchres, which gather her chickens under her outwardly appear to men beauti- wings, and thou wouldest not? ful, but within are full of dead! 38 Behold, your house shall be men's bones, and of all filthiness. left to you, desolate.

28 So you also outwardly indeed appear to men just; but inwardly you are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.

29 Wo to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, that build the sepulchres of the prophets, and adorn the monuments of the just.

30 And say: If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.

31 Wherefore you are witnesses against yourselves, that you are the sons of them that killed the prophets.

39 For I say to you, you shall not see me henceforth till you say: Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord.

CHAP. XXIV. Destruction of the temple foretold.

ND JESUS being come out of the temple, went away. And his disciples came to shew him the buildings of the temple.

2 And he answering said to them: Do you see all these things? Amen I say to you there shall not be left here a stone upon a stone that shall not be destroyed.

3 And when he was sitting on

32 Fill ye up then the measure | Mount Olivet, the disciples came of your fathers. to him privately, saying: Tell us 33 You serpents, generation of when shall these things be? and vipers, how will you flee from the what shall be the sign of thy judgment of hell? coming, and of the consummation of the world?

34 Therefore behold I send to you prophets, and wise men, and scribes and some of them you will put to death and crucify, and some you will scourge in your synagogues, and persecute from city to city:

35 That upon you may come all the just blood that hath been shed upon the earth, from the blood of Abel the just, even unto the blood of Zacharias the son of Barachias whom you killed between the temple and the altar.

4 And JESUS answering, said to them: Take heed that no man seduce you:

5 For many will come in my name saying, I am Christ: and they will seduce many.

6 And you shall hear of wars and rumours of wars. See that ye be not troubled. For these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.

7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against king36 Amen I say to you all these dom; and there shall be pestilences,

Ver. 29. Build the sepulchres, &c. This is not here blamed, as if it were in itself evil to build or adorn the monuments of the prophets: but the hypocrisy of the Pharisees is here taxed; who, whilst they pretended to honour the memory of the prophets, were persecuting even unto death the Lord of the prophets

and famines, and earthquakes in places:

8 Now all these are the beginnings of sorrows.

Christs and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders, insomuch as to deceive (if possible) even the elect.

25 Behold I have told it to you, before hand.

Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall put you to death: and you shall be hated by 26 If therefore they shall say to all nations for my name's sake. you: Behold he is in the desert; 10 And then shall many be scan-go ye not out: Behold he is in the dalized and shall betray one ano- closets, believe it not. ther and shall hate one another. 11 And many false prophets shall rise, and shall seduce many.

12 And because iniquity hath abounded, the charity of many shall grow cold.

13 But he that shall persevere to the end, he shall be saved.

14 And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in the whole world, for a testimony to all nations, and then shall the consummation come.

27 For as lightning cometh out of the east, and appeareth even into the west so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.

28 Wheresoever the body shall be, there shall the eagles also be gathered together.

29 And immediately after the tribulation of those days, the sun shall be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of heaven shall be moved:

15 When therefore you shall see 30 And then shall appear the the abomination of desolation, which sign of the Son of man in heaven: was spoken of by Daniel the pro-and then shall all tribes of the earth phet, standing in the holy place: he that readeth, let him understand.

16 Then they that are in Judea, let them flee to the mountains : 17 And he that is on the housetop, let him not come down to take any thing out of his house:

18 And he that is in the field, let him not go back to take his coat.

19 And wo to them that are with child, and that give suck in those days.

20 But pray that your flight be not in the winter, or on the sabbath. 21 For there shall be then great tribulation, such as hath not been from the beginning of the world until now, neither shall be.

22 And unless those days had been shortened, no flesh should be saved: but for the sake of the elect those days shall be shortened.

23 Then if any shall say to you: Lo here is Christ, or there: do not believe him.

24 For there shall arise falsel

mourn and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with much power and majesty.

31 And he shall send his Angels with a trumpet, and a great voice: and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from the farthest parts of the heavens to the utmost bounds of them.

32 And from the fig-tree learn a parable; when the branch thereof is now tender, and the leaves come forth, you know that summer is nigh.

33 So you also, when you shall see all these things, know ye that it is nigh even at the doors.

34 Amen I say to you, that this generation shall not pass, till all these things be done.

35 Heaven and earth shall pass, but my words shall not pass.

36 But of that day and hour no one knoweth, no not the Angels of heaven, but the Father alone.

37 And as in the days of Noe,

10 shall also the coming of the Son of man be.

38 For as in the days before the flood, they were eating and drink

CHAP. XXV,

The parable of the ten virgins HEN shall the kingdom of heaven be like to ten virgins,

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ing, marrying and giving in mar-who taking their lamps went out to riage, even till that day in which meet the bridegroom and the bride. Noe entered into the ark. 2 And five of them were foolish, and five wise.

39 And they knew not till the flood came, and took them all away: so also shall the coming of the Son of

man be.

40 Then two shall be in the field: one shall be taken, and one shall be left.

3 But the five foolish, having taken their lamps, did not take oil

with them:

4 But the wise took oil in their vessels with the lamps.

5 And the bridegroom tarrying, 41 Two women shall be grind-they all slumbered and slept. ing at the mill: one shall be taken, and one shall be left.

42 Watch ye therefore, because you know not what hour your Lord will come.

43 But this know ye, that if the good man of the house knew at what hour the thief would come, he would certainly watch, and would not suffer his house to be broken

open.

44 Wherefore be you also ready, because at what hour you know not the Son of man will come.

45 Who thinkest thou, is a faithful and wise servant, whom his lord hath appointed over his family, to give them meat in season?

46 Blessed is that servant, whom when his lord shall come, he shall find so doing.

47 Amen I say to you, he shall place him over all his goods.

48 But if that evil servant shall say in his heart: My lord is long a coming:

49 And shall begin to strike his fellow-servants, and shall eat, and drink with drunkards:

50 The lord of that servant shall come in a day that he hopeth not, and at an hour that he knoweth

not.

6 And at midnight there was a cry made: Behold the bridegroom cometh, go ye forth to meet him.

7 Then all those virgins arose and trimmed their lamps.

8 And the foolish said to the wise: Give us of your oil, for our lamps are gone out.

9 The wise answered, saying: Lest perhaps there be not enough for us and for you, go you rather to them that sell, and buy for yourselves.

10 Now whilst they went to buy, the bridegroom came: and they that were ready, went in with him to the marriage, and the door was shut.

11 But at last come also the other virgins saying: Lord, Lord, open to us.

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12 But he answering said: Amen say to you, I know you not. 13 Watch ye therefore, because you know not the day nor the hour.

14 For even as a man going into a far country, called his servants, and delivered to them his goods.

15 And to one he gave five talents, and to another two, and to another one, to every one according to his proper ability: and immediately he took his journey.

16 And he that had received the 51 And shall separate him, and five talents, went his way, and traappoint his portion with the hypo-ded with the same, and gained crites, there shall be weeping and other five.

gnashing of teeth.

17 And in like manner he that had

received the two, gained other two. I shall be given, and he shall abound: 18 But he that had received the but from him that hath not, that one, going his way digged into the also which he seemeth to have shall earth, and hid his lord's money. be taken away.

19 But after a long time the lord of those servants came, and reckoned with them.

20 And he that had received the five talents coming, brought other five talents, saying: Lord, thou didst deliver to me five talents, behold I have gained other five over and above.

21 His lord said to him: Well done, good and faithful servant, because thou hast been faithful over a few things I will place thee over many things: enter thou into the joy of thy lord.

30 And the unprofitable servant cast ye out into the exterior darkness. There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

31 And when the Son of man shall come in his majesty, and all the angels with him, then shall he sit upon the seat of his majesty :

32 And all nations shall be gathered together before him, and he shall separate them one from another, as the shepherd separateth the sheep from the goats:

33 And he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on his left.

22 And he also that had received the two talents came and said: 34 Then shall the king say to Lord, thou deliveredst two talents them that shall be on his right to me, behold I have gained other hand: Come, ye blessed of my Father, possess you the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.

two.

23 His lord said to him: Well done, good and faithful servant: because thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will place thee over many things enter thou into the joy of thy lord.

24 But he that had received the one talent, came and said: Lord, I know that thou art a hard man ; thou reapest where thou hast not sown, and gatherest where thou hast not strewed.

25 And being afraid I went and hid thy talent in the earth: behold here thou hast that which was thine. 26 And his lord answering, said to him: Wicked and slothful servant, thou knewest that I reap were I sow not, and gather where I have not strewed:

27 Thou oughtest therefore to have committed my money to the bankers, and at my coming I should have received my own with usury. 28 Take ye away therefore the talent from him, and give it him that hath ten talents.

29 For to every one that hath

35 For I was hungry, and you gave me to eat: I was thirsty, and you gave me to drink: I was a stranger, and you took me in:

36 Naked, and you covered me: sick, and you visited me: I was in prison, and you came to me.

37 Then shall the just answer him, saying: Lord, when did we see thee hungry, and fed thee, thirsty, and gave thee drink?

38 And when did we see thee a stranger, and took thee in? or naked, and covered thee?

39 Or when did we see thee sick or in prison, and came to thee?

40 And the king answering, shall say to them: Amen I say to you, as long as you did it to one of these my least brethren, you did it to me.

41 Then he shall say to them also that shall be on his left hand: Depart from me you cursed into everlasting fire which was prepared for the devil and his angels.

42 For I was hungry, and you

gave me not to eat: I was thirsty, and you gave me not to drink.

43 I was a stranger, and you took me not in: naked, and you covered me not: sick, and in prison, and you did not visit me.

44 Then they also shall answer him, saying: Lord when did we see thee hungry or thirsty, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister to thee? 45 Then he shall answer them, saying: Amen I say to you, as long as you did it not to one of these least, neither did you do it to me. 46 And these shall go into everlasting punishment: but the just, into life everlasting.

CHAP. XXVI.
The Jews conspire against Christ.
ND it came to pass, when JE-

he said to his disciples:

2 You know that after two days shall be the pasch, and the Son of man shall be delivered up to be crucified.

3 Then were gathered together the chief priests and ancients of the people into the court of the highpriest, who was called Caiphas:

4 And they consulted together, that by subtilty they might apprehend JESUS, and put him to death.

5 But they said : Not on the festival day, lest perhaps there should be a tumult among the people.

6 And when JESUS was in Bethania, in the house of Simon the leper,

7 There came to him a woman having an alabaster-box of precious ointment, and poured it on his head as he was at table.

8 And the disciples seeing it, had indignation, saying: To what purpose is this waste?

9 For this might have been sold for much, and given to the poor.

10 And JESUS knowing it, said to them: Why do ye trouble this woman? for she hath wrought a good work upon me.

11 For the poor you have always with you: but me you have not always.

12 For she in pouring this ointment upon my body, hath done it for my burial.

13 Amen I say to you, wheresoever this gospel shall be preached in the whole world, that also which she hath done, shall be told for a memory of her.

14 Then went one of the twelve, who was called Judas Iscariot, to the chief priests,

15 And said to them: What will you give me, and I will deliver him unto you? But they appieces

16 And from thenceforth he sought opportunity to betray him.

17 And on the first day of the Azymes the disciples came to JESUS saying: Where wilt thou that we prepare for thee to eat the pasch?

18 But JESUS said: Go ye into the city to a certain man, and say to him: The master saith, my time is near at hand, with thee 1 make the pasch with my disciples.

19 And the disciples did as JEsus appointed to them, and they. prepared the pasch.

20 But when it was evening, he sat down with his twelve disciples.

21 And whilst they were eating, he said: Amen I say to you, that one of you is about to betray me.

22 And they being very much troubled, began every one to say Is it I, Lord"?

23 But he answering said: He that dippeth his hand with me in the dish, he shall betray me.

24 The Son of man indeed goeth,

Ver. 11. Me you have not always, viz. In a visible manner, as when conversant here on earth and as we have the poor, whom we may daily assist and relieve.

Ver. 17. The Azymes. The feast of the unleavened bread.

Ver. 17. The pasch. The paschal lamb.

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