through Beelzebub, through whom do your children cast them out? therefore they shall be your judges:

28 but, if I cast out devils by the Spirit of God, then surely the kingdom of God is come

to you.

29 Or, how can any one enter into a strong man's house, and plunder his goods, unless he first bind the strong man? and then he may plunder his house.

30 He who is not with me, is against me; and he who gathereth not with me, scattereth.

31 Wherefore I tell you, Every other sin and blasphemy will be forgiven to men: but the blasphemy against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven:

32 and whosoever speaketh a word against the Son of man, it will be forgiven him: but whosoever speaketh against the Holy Spirit, it will not be forgiven him, neither in this world, nor in that which is to

come.

33 Either make the tree good, and its fruit good; or make the tree bad, and its fruit bad: c. vii. 20. for the tree is known by the fruit.

34 O offsprings of vipers, how can ye who are evil speak that which is good? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.

35 A good man, out of his

good treasure, bringeth forth good things: and an evil man, out of his evil treasure, bringeth forth evil things.

36 But I tell you, That of every idle word that men shall speak, they shall render an account in the day of judg

ment:

37 for, by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.

38 Then some of the scribes and of the Pharisees answered, saying, Master, we wish to see Luke, xi. 29. a sign from thee:

39 but he answered and said to them, An evil and adulterous generation seeketh for a sign; yet no sign will be given to it, except the sign of the prophet Jonah:

40 for, as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the whale; so will the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.

41 The men of Nineveh will rise up in the judgment against this generation, and condemn it for, they repented at the preaching of Jonah; and, behold, something more than Jonah is here.

42 The queen of the south will rise up in the judgment against this generation, and condemn it for she came from the utmost parts of the earth to

C. xv. 41.

hear the wisdom of Solomon : and, behold, something more than Solomon is here.

43 But, when the unclean spirit is gone out of the man, it walketh through dry places, seeking rest, but findeth none: 44 then it saith, I will return to my house from whence I went out and when it cometh, it findeth it empty, swept, and garnished:

45 then it goeth, and taketh with it seven other spirits more wicked than itself, and they enter in and dwell there; and the last state of that man is worse than the first: so will it also be to this wicked generation.

46 And while he was yet speaking to the people, behold, his mother and his brethren stood without, desiring to speak with him.

47 Then said one to him, Behold, thy mother and thy brethren are standing without, desiring to speak with thee:

48 but he answered and said to him that told him, Who is my mother? and who are my brethren?

49 and stretching out his hand toward his disciples, he said, Behold my mother and my brethren!

50 for, whosoever doeth the will of my Father who is in heaven, the same is my brother, and sister, and mother.

4 and as he sowed, some seeds fell by the way side, and the birds came and devoured them:

5 and some fell on stony places, where they had not much earth; and they forthwith sprung up, because they had no depth of earth:

6 but, when the sun was risen, they were scorched; and because they had no root, they withered away:

7 and others fell among the thorns; and the thorns grew up, and choked them:

8 but others fell on good ground, and brought forth fruit, one an hundred fold, another sixty, and another thirty: 9 he who hath ears to hear, let him hear.

10 And the disciples came, and said to him, Why speakest thou to them in parables?

11 He answered and said to them, Because to you is given

to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given:

12 for, whosoever hath, to him more shall be given, and he shall abound: but, whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken away even that which he hath.

13 Therefore I speak to them in parables: because, seeing, they see not; and hearing, they hear not, neither understand:

14 and in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah, which Isaiah, vi. 9. saith, "In hearing ye will “hear, yet ye will not under"stand; and in seeing ye will

see, yet ye will not per"ceive:

they have closed; lest they "should see with their eyes, "and hear with their ears, and "understand with their heart, "and be converted, and I "should heal them."

16 But, blessed are your eyes, for they see; and your ears, for they hear :

17 for, verily I tell you, That many prophets and just men have desired to see the things which ye see, and have not seen them; and to hear the things which ye hear, and have not heard them.

18 Hear ye, therefore, the parable of the sower.

19 When any one heareth the word of the kingdom, but understandeth it not, the wicked one cometh, and snatcheth away that which was sown on his heart: this is he who received seed by the way side: 20 and he who received the seed on stony places, is he who heareth the word, and at first receiveth it with joy :

21 yet he hath not root in himself, but lasteth only for a while; for, when tribulation or persecution ariseth because of the word, presently he stumbleth:

22 he, also, who received seed. among the thorns, is he who heareth the word; but the care of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, choke the word, and it becometh unfruitful :

23 but, he who received seed on the good ground, is he who heareth the word, and understandeth it; who also beareth fruit, and yieldeth, one an hundred fold, another sixty, and another thirty.

24 Another parable he put forth to them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field;

25 but, while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the corn, and went away:

26 but when the blade was sprung up, and brought forth fruit, then appeared the tares also.

27 And the servants of the owner came and said to him, Sir, didst thou not sow good seed in thy field? from whence then hath it tares?

28 he said to them, An enemy hath done this: they said to him, Wilt thou then that we go and gather them?

29 but he said, Nay; lest when ye gather the tares, ye root up the corn with them:

30 let both grow together until the harvest; and at the time of the harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them: but gather ye the corn into my barn. 31 Another parable he put forth to them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is like a grain of mustard-seed, which a man took, and sowed in his field:

32 which is, indeed, the least of all seeds; but, when it is grown up, it is the greatest of herbs, and becometh as a tree, so that the birds of the air come and lodge in its branches. 33 Another parable he spake to them; The kingdom of heaven is like leaven, which a woman took, and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened.

34 All these things Jesus spake to the multitude in parables; and without a parable he spake not to them:

35 so that the word was fulfilled which was spoken through the prophet, saying, "I will open Ps. Ixxviii. 2. my mouth in parables; I "will utter things which have "been kept secret from the "foundation of the world."

36 Then he sent the multitude away, and went into the house : and his disciples came to him, saying, Declare to us the parable of the tares of the field.

37 He answered and said to them, He who soweth the good seed, is the Son of man;

38 and the field, is the world; and the good seed, are the children of the kingdom; but the tares, are the children of the wicked one;

39 and the enemy that sowed them, is the devil; and the harvest, is the end of the world; and the reapers, are the angels. 40 As therefore the tares are gathered and burned in the fire; so will it be in the end of the world:

41 the Son of man will send forth his angels, and they will gather out of his kingdom every cause of stumbling, and all who do iniquity;

42 and will cast them into a furnace of fire: there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth: 43 then will the just shine Dan. xii. 3.

forth as the sun, in the kingdom of their Father: he who hath ears, let him hear.

44 Again, the kingdom of heaven is like treasure hid in a field; which, when a man hath found, he hideth, and through his joy goeth and selleth all he hath, and buyeth that field.

45 Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant, seeking fine pearls:

46 who, when he had found one pearl of great value, went and sold all that he had, and bought it.

47 Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a net cast into

53 And it came to pass, when Jesus had ended these parables, that he departed from thence.

54 And when he was come Luke, iv. 16. into his own country, he taught them in their synagogue, so that they were astonished; and said, From whence hath this man this wisdom, and these powers?

55 is not this the carpenter's son? is not his mother called Mary? and his brethren, James, and Joseph, and Simon, and Judas? and are not all his sisters with us?

56 from whence then hath

48 which, when it was full, they drew to the shore, and sat down, and gathered the good into baskets, but cast the bad away:

49 so will it be at the end of the world: the angels will go forth, and separate the wicked from among the just;

50 and will cast them into the

furnace of fire: there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth. 51 Have ye understood all these things? They say to him, Yea:

52 and he said to them, Therefore, every scribe who is made a disciple of the king dom of heaven, is like a householder, who bringeth out of his store things both new and old.

believed not in him.

Luke, iv. 24.

John, iv. 44.

57 And Jesus said to them, A Mark, vi. 4. prophet is not without honour, save in his own country, and in his own house :

58 and he did not many mighty works there, because of their unbelief.

CHAPTER XIV.

AT that time Herod, the

tetrarch, heard of the

fame of Jesus;

2 And said to his servants, Is this John the Baptist? He is risen from the dead; and therefore mighty powers work in him?

3 For, Herod had laid hold on John, and bound him, and put him in prison for the sake