"THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO ST MATTHEW" "To the dear, joyous, familiar memory of Pope John XXIII" "Joseph, fear not to take Mary as your wife for she has conceived by the power of the Holy Ghost." "She will bear a son whom you will call Jesus for he is to save his people from their sins." "The virgin shall be with child and shall bear a son and they shall call him Emmanuel, meaning God with us." "Where has the king of the Jews been born?" "We have seen his star in the east, and have come to worship him." "Where will Christ be born?" "At Bethlehem in Juda, the prophet wrote:" "And you, Bethlehem, in the land of Juda art far from the least among the princes of Juda." "For out of you will arise a leader who is to be the shepherd of my people Israel"" "Seek the child, and when you have found him bring me word so I too may come and worship him." "Take the child and his mother flee to Egypt and remain there until I give you word." "For Herod will soon search for the child, to destroy him." "I called my son out of Egypt." "A voice was heard in Rama, lamentation and great mourning." "Rachel wept for her children she would not be comforted, for none is left." "Take the child and his mother and return to Israel for those who sought the child's life are dead." "Repent, the kingdom of heaven is at hand." "It was of him that the prophet Isaias spoke when he said:" "There is a voice of one crying in the wilderness." "Prepare the way of the Lord straighten out his paths." "Brood of vipers!" "Who taught you to flee the vengeance that draws near?" "Yield the acceptable fruit of repentance." "Do not presume to say in your hearts:" "We have Abraham for our father." "God has power to raise up children to Abraham out of these very stones." "Already the axe has been put to the root of the trees so that every tree that does not show good fruit will be hewn down and cast into the fire." "I am baptizing you with water, for your repentance but one is to come after me who is mightier than I so that I am not worthy even to carry his shoes for him." "He will baptize you with the Holy Ghost and with fire." "He holds his winnowing fan to sweep his threshing-floor clean." "He will gather the wheat into his barn but the chaff he will consume in unquenchable fire." "It is I that ought to be baptized by you." "Do you come to me?" "Let it be so for the present, to fulfil due observance." "This is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased." "If you are the Son of God, turn these stones into bread." "Man cannot live by bread alone but by all the words which proceed from the mouth of God." "If you are the Son of God, cast yourself down to earth." "For it is written:" "He has charged angels to watch over you lest you should trip on a stone." "It is further written:" "You shall not put the Lord your God to the proof." "I will give you all these, if you will fall down and worship me." "Away with you, Satan!" "It is written:" "You shall worship the Lord your God, and serve none but him." "The people that abode in darkness have seen a great light." "For men living in a land where death overshadowed them, light has dawned." "Repent, the kingdom of heaven is at hand." "Peter." "Andrew." "Come and follow me;" "I will make you fishers of men." "James and John, sons of Zebedee, come with me." "The harvest is plentiful, but the labourers are few." "Ask the Lord whose harvest it is to send labourers for the harvesting." "Peter..." "Andrew James..." "John..." "Philip..." "Thomas." "Simon." "Bartholomew." "Thaddaeus." "James, son of Alphaeus." "Matthew." "Judas Iscariot." "You shall be labourers for the harvesting." "I am sending you to be like sheep among wolves." "You must be wary as serpents, yet innocent as doves." "Do not put your trust in men." "They will deliver you to courts and scourge you in their synagogues." "On my account you will bear witness before governors, kings and Gentiles." "When you are given into their hands do not fear what to say." "Words will be given you when the time comes." "It is not you who speak, it is your Father's Spirit that speaks in you." "You will be hated by all men because you bear my name." "Fear not those who kill the body but have no means of killing the soul." "Fear him more who has the power to ruin body and soul in hell." "Are not sparrows sold two for a penny?" "Yet not one of them may fall to the ground without your Father's will." "Every hair of your head he takes into his reckoning." "Fear not, you count more than a host of sparrows." "Do not imagine I have come to bring peace to the earth." "I have come to bring a sword, not peace." "I have come to set man at variance with his father and the daughter with her mother." "A man's enemies will be the people of his own house." "He is not worthy of me, that loves father or mother more." "He who secures his own life will lose it." "It is the man who loses his life for my sake that will secure it." "Lord, if you will, make me clean." "It is my will, be made clean." "Tell no man, rather go and show yourself to the priest and offer the gift which Moses ordained to make the truth be known to them." "Blessed are the poor in spirit;" "the kingdom of heaven is theirs." "Blessed are those who mourn;" "they shall be comforted." "Blessed are the patient;" "they shall inherit the land." "Blessed are those who hunger for holiness; they shall have their fill." "Blessed are the merciful;" "they shall obtain mercy." "Blessed are the clean of heart;" "they shall see God." "Blessed are the peace-makers; they shall be counted the children of God." "Those persecuted in right's cause;" "the kingdom of heaven is theirs." "Blessed are you, when men revile you and persecute you and speak all manner of evil against you falsely, because of me." "Be glad and light-hearted, a rich reward awaits you in heaven." "So it was they persecuted the prophets who went before you." "If your son asks for bread, will you give him a stone?" "If he asks for a fish, will you give him a serpent?" "If you, evil as you are, know what is good for your children will not your Father in heaven give more good gifts to those who ask?" "Do to other men all that you would have them do to you." "That is the law and the prophets." "Do not think I have come to set aside the law and the prophets." "I have come to bring them to perfection." "You are the salt of the earth; if salt loses salinity, what can restore it?" "Nothing can be done with it but throw it out to be trodden underfoot." "You are the light of the world." "A city on a mountain top cannot be hidden." "A lamp is not placed under a bushel it is put where it will light the house." "Do not lay up treasure on earth where moth and rust consume it, thieves break in and steal it." "Lay up treasure for yourselves in heaven where there is no moth or rust, no thieves steal it." "A man cannot serve two masters." "He will hate one and love the other, devote himself to one, scorn the other." "You may serve God or money;" "you cannot serve both." "When giving alms, let not your left hand know what your right is doing so secret is your almsgiving to be." "Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you." "You have heard it said:" "An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth." "I tell you, do not offer resistance." "If a man strikes you on your right cheek, turn the other." "You have heard it said:" "Love your neighbour and hate your enemy." "I tell you:" "Love your enemies, pray for those who persecute you so that you may be true sons of your Father in heaven who makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good his rain fall on the just and on the unjust." "Do not judge others, or you yourselves will be judged." "As you have judged, so you will be judged, by the same rule." "Award shall be made to you as you have made award." "How is it you see the speck of dirt in your brother's eye and are not aware of the beam which is in your own?" "When you pray, do not use many phrases, like the heathen who think to make themselves heard by their eloquence." "You are not to be like them." "Your Father knows well what your needs are before you ask him." "This, then, is to be your prayer:" "Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name." "Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven." "Give us this day our daily bread." "And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive them that trespass against us." "Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil." "Do not fret over your life, how to support it with food and drink." "Over your body, how to keep it clothed." "Is not life itself a greater gift than food, the body than clothing?" "See the birds of the air never sow, or reap, or gather grain into barns and yet your heavenly Father feeds them." "Have you not an excellence beyond theirs?" "Can any one of you add a cubit's growth to his height?" "And why should you be anxious over clothing?" "See how the lilies grow, they do not toil or spin." "And yet I tell you that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these." "If God so clothes the grasses of the field which today live and will feed the oven tomorrow will he not be much more ready to clothe you, men of little faith?" "Do not fret then, asking what you will eat or drink or wear." "It is for the heathen to busy themselves over such things." "You have a Father in heaven who knows that you need them all." "Make it your first care to find the kingdom of God, and his approval and all these things shall be yours without the asking." "Do not fret over tomorrow, leave it to fret over its own needs." "For today, today's troubles are enough." "Make your way in by the narrow gate." "It is a broad gate and a wide road that leads to perdition and those who go that way are many indeed." "How small the gate, how narrow the road that leads to life and how few there are that find it." "Father, Lord of heaven and earth, I give you praise that you have hidden this from the wise and revealed it to children." "My Father has entrusted everything into my hands." "None knows the Son truly except the Father." "None knows the Father truly except the Son and those to whom it is the Son's pleasure to reveal him." "Come to me all you that labour and are burdened;" "I will give you rest." "Take my yoke upon yourselves and learn from me." "I am gentle and humble of heart;" "you shall find rest for your souls." "For my yoke is easy and my burden is light." "Your disciples are doing what is not lawful on the Sabbath." "Have you never read what David did, when he and his followers hungered?" "How he went into the tabernacle, and ate the loaves set out there although neither he nor anyone but the priest had the right to eat them?" "Have you not read in the law that priests violate the Sabbath rest in the temple; none blames them?" "I tell you, there is one standing here who is greater than the temple." "If you understood the words:" "I desire mercy, not sacrifice you would not condemn the guiltless." "The Son of Man has even the Sabbath at his disposal." "Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath?" "If one of your sheep fell into a pit would you not pull it out on a Sabbath?" "What is a sheep compared to a man?" "Mercy is not unlawful on the Sabbath." "Throw away your crutches." "Tell no man that you have been healed so that the word spoken by Isaias may be fulfilled." "Behold my servant, my chosen, with whom my soul is well pleased." "I will lay my spirit on him, he shall proclaim my rule among Gentiles." "He will not protest and cry out; none shall hear his voice in the streets." "He will not break a bruised reed or quench a smouldering wick until the time comes when he crowns his judgement with victory." "We must find a way to make away with him." "It is past the accustomed hour." "Let the multitudes buy food in the villages." "It is for you to give them food." "We have only five loaves and two fishes." "Bring them to me." "I am going to pray." "Take ship and cross to the other side." "It is an apparition." "Take courage, it is myself." "Do not be afraid." "Lord, if it is you, bid me to come to you over the water." "Why did you hesitate, man of little faith?" "Is it his coming that was foretold or are we yet waiting for some other?" "John has sent us to ask if it is your coming that was foretold." "Go and tell John what your own ears and eyes have witnessed." "How the blind see, the lame walk, lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear the dead are raised to life, the poor have the gospel preached to them." "Blessed is the man who does not lose confidence in me." "What did you expect to see when you went into the wilderness?" "A reed trembling in the wind?" "A man clad in silk?" "You must look in kings' palaces for men clad in silk." "Did you go to see a prophet?" "Yes, and something more." "This is the man of whom it was written:" "I am sending before you that angel of mine who is to prepare the way." "God has raised up no greater son of woman than John the Baptist." "Yet to be least in the kingdom of heaven is to be greater than he." "Ever since John the Baptist's time the kingdom of heaven has opened to force whereas all the prophets and the law, before John's time spoke only of things that were to come." "He is that Elias whose coming was prophesied." "As for this generation, to what shall I compare it?" "It reminds me of those children who complain to their companions:" "You would not dance when we piped to you." "John would not eat or drink, and they say he is possessed." "The Son of Man came, ate and drank and they call him a glutton, friend of publicans and sinners." "It is by her own children that wisdom is vindicated." "Woe to you, cities where I did miracles and you have not repented." "If Tyre and Sidon had witnessed such miracles they would have repented in sackcloth and ashes long ago." "I say it shall go less hard with Tyre and Sidon than with you at judgement day." "Capharnaum, do you hope to be lifted to heaven?" "You shall fall low as hell." "Can this be the Son of David?" "It is only through the power of Beelzebub that he casts devils out." "He who is not with me, is against me." "There is pardon for all the other sins and blasphemies of men but not for blasphemy against the Holy Spirit." "Master, may we see a sign from you?" "Wicked and unfaithful generation, the only sign that will be given is the sign of the prophet Jonas." "Jonas was three days and nights in the belly of the sea-beast." "The Son of Man will be three days and nights in the earth." "The men of Nineveh will condemn this generation on judgement day for they did penance to Jonas, and a greater than Jonas is here." "The queen of the south will condemn this generation for she came from the ends of the earth to hear Solomon's wisdom." "And, behold, a greater than Solomon is here." "Your mother and brethren are here, looking for you." "When an unclean spirit leaves a man to find another dwelling, yet finds none it says:" "I will go back to my own dwelling." "It finds it empty, neatly swept, and it brings seven worse spirits and they enter and settle down." "So the last state of that man is worse than the first." "So shall it fare with this wicked generation." "Your mother and brethren are here." "Who is a mother, who are brethren, to me?" "Here are my mother and my brethren!" "If anyone does the will of my Father in heaven he is my brother, and sister, and mother." "How did he come by this wisdom, and these strange powers?" "Is his mother not Mary and his brethren James, Joseph, Simon and Judas?" "And do not his sisters live near us?" "How has all this come to him?" "Is not this the carpenter's son?" "Only in his own country, his own home, a prophet goes unhonoured." "Master, what good must I do to win eternal life?" "Why ask me of goodness?" "God is good, and he only." "If you want to enter into life, keep the commandments." "Do no murder, commit no adultery, do not steal, bear no false witness honour your father and mother, love your neighbour as yourself." "I have kept these;" "where am I still wanting?" "To be perfect, sell your possessions and give to the poor so your treasure shall be in heaven; then follow me." "Believe me a rich man will not enter God's kingdom easily." "It is easier for a camel to pass through a needle's eye than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven." "Christ, bless our children." "Leave the Lord in peace." "Let the children be, do not keep them from me." "The kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these." "Your dance has pleased me;" "I will grant whatever you wish." "Give me the head of John the Baptist, on a dish." "Her wish be granted." "Let us withdraw into desert country, to be alone." "Come, let us cross to the other side." "Lord, give me leave to go home and bury my father." "Follow me, and leave the dead to bury their dead." "Master, I will follow you wherever you are going." "Foxes have holes and birds their nesting places." "The Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head." "Howl, O gate; cry, O city." "Thou, whole Palestina, art dissolved, for a smoke shall come from the north." "In their streets they shall gird themselves with sackcloth." "On the tops of their houses, and in their streets everyone shall weep abundantly." "Who do men say is the Son of Man?" "Some say John the Baptist." "Others Elias." "Others Jeremy." "Or one of the prophets." " What do you say that I am?" "You are the Christ, the Son of the living God." "Blessed are you, Simon son of Jona." "It is not flesh and blood, it is my Father that has revealed this to you." "And I tell you that you are Peter." "And it is upon this rock that I will build my church and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it." "I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven." "And whatever you shall bind on earth shall be bound in heaven." "And whatever you shall loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven." "You are to tell no one that I am the Christ." "I must go up to Jerusalem and there, with ill-usage from the chief priests, elders and scribes must be put to death." "Never, Lord; no such thing shall befall you." "Back, Satan!" "For these thoughts of yours are men's, not God's." "If any man has a mind to come my way let him renounce self, take up his cross, and follow me." "The Son of Man is to be given into the hands of men." "They will put him to death, and he will rise again on the third day." "Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?" "Unless you become like little children again you shall not enter the kingdom of heaven." "He is greatest in heaven who will abase himself like this little child." "He who welcomes such a child, welcomes me." "If anyone hurts the conscience of one of these little ones he had better have drowned in the sea with a mill-stone hung about his neck." "Woe to the world, for the hurt done to conscience." "Such hurt must come, but woe to the man through whom it comes." "If your hand or foot is an occasion of failing to you cut it off and cast it away from you." "Better to enter into life crippled or lame than to have hands and feet when you are cast into eternal fire." "If a man has a hundred sheep and one has strayed does he not leave the ninety-nine and go to look for the stray?" "If, by good fortune, he finds it he rejoices more over that one than over those that did not stray." "So it is not your Father's pleasure that one of these little ones be lost." "How often must I see my brother do me wrong and still forgive him?" "As much as seven times?" "Forgive not seven wrongs, but seventy times seven." "Now we are going up to Jerusalem." "The Son of Man will be given up into the hands of the chief priests and the scribes." "Who will condemn him to death." "And these will give him up into the hands of the Gentiles, to be mocked scourged and crucified but on the third day he will rise again." "In that village you will find tethered a she-ass and her foal." "Go and bring them to me." "If anyone asks say that the Lord needs them, and he will let you have them." "It is Jesus, son of David." "It is written:" "My house shall be a house of prayer." "You have made it a den of thieves." "Hosanna to the Son of David!" "Do you hear them?" "Have you never read the words:" "Thou hast made the lips of children vocal with praise?" "Let no fruit grow on you hereafter." "How suddenly it has withered." "If you have faith and do not hesitate you will be able to do more." "If you say to this mountain:" "Be cast into the sea, it will come about." "Every gift you ask for in prayer will be granted." "By what authority do you do these things?" "Who gave you this authority?" "I too have a question to ask." "If you can answer I will tell you what is my authority." "Whence did John's baptism come, from heaven or from men?" "If we tell him it was from heaven, he will ask:" "Then why did you not believe him?" "If we say from men, we have reason to fear the people for they all look upon John as a prophet." "We cannot tell." "And you will not learn from me of my authority." "Tell me what you think:" "A man had two sons and he asked the first to work in his vineyard that day." "The son refused, but relented afterwards and went." "He asked his second son to work in the vineyard." "The son said he would go, but did not go." "Which of the two did his father's will?" "The second." "The publicans and harlots are further on the road to God's kingdom than you." "John came among you following all due observance, but won no belief from you." "The publicans believed him, and the harlots but even when you saw that you would not relent, and believe him." "Listen to another parable." "A rich man planted a vineyard." "He wailed it, dug a wine-press, and let it to vine-dressers." "Then he went on his travels." "At vintage-time he sent his servants to claim its revenues." "The vine-dressers beat his servants killed one and stoned another." "The man sent even more servants, but they were used no better." "Then he sent his son, thinking he would be respected." "But the vine-dressers, seeing the man's heir thought to kill him and seize his inheritance." "They thrust him from the vineyard and killed him." "What will the man do to those vine-dressers?" "He will bring those wretches to a wretched end and will let the vineyard to others who will pay him his due." "Have you never read these words in the scriptures:" "The stone which the builders rejected has become the corner-stone this is the Lord's doing, and it is marvellous in our eyes?" "I tell you the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people which yields the revenues that belong to it." "When a man falls against the stone, he will break his bones." "When it falls on him, it will scatter him like chaff." "Many are called, but few are chosen." "Master, we know well that you are sincere and teach in all sincerity the ways of God." "You hold no one in awe, making no distinction between man and man." "Tell us, then, is it right to pay tribute to Caesar, or not?" "Hypocrites, why test me thus?" "Show me the coinage in which the tribute is paid." "Whose likeness, whose name is inscribed on it?" "Give unto Caesar what is Caesar's, to God what is God's." "Moses told us:" "If a man leaves no children when he dies his brother shall marry the widow by right of kinship and beget children in the dead brother's name." "We had seven brothers in our country, of whom the first died a married man without issue, bequeathing his wife to the second." "He died, bequeathing her to the third and finally she had been every brother's wife, dying last of all." "When the dead rise again, which brother will be her husband?" "You do not understand the scriptures, or what is the power of God." "When the dead rise again, there is no marrying or giving in marriage." "They are as the angels in heaven are." "Have you never read what God himself said of the resurrection?" "I am the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob." "Yet it is of living men, not dead men, that he is God." "Master, which commandment in the law is the greatest?" "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with thy whole heart thy whole soul and thy whole mind." "This is the greatest of the commandments, and the first." "And the second, its like:" "Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself." "The scribes and Pharisees sit in the chair of Moses." "Do what they tell you, observe what they tell you but do not imitate their actions, they do not practise what they preach." "They bind unbearable packs and lay them on men's shoulders." "They will not stir a finger to lift them." "They act to be a mark for men's eyes, with rich clothes and fine books." "They love the first seats at table and in the synagogue and salutations, and being called Rabbi." "You are not to claim the title of Rabbi; you have but one Master and you are all brethren." "Nor are you to call any man on earth your father; you have one Father and he is in heaven." "Nor are you to be called teachers;" "you have one teacher, Christ." "The greatest of all is to be the servant of all." "The man who exalts himself will be humbled." "The man who humbles himself will be exalted." "Woe upon you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites that shut the door of the kingdom of heaven in men's faces." "You will not enter, nor let others enter when they would." "Woe upon you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites that encompass sea and land to gain a single proselyte then make him twice as worthy of damnation as yourselves." "Woe upon you, blind leaders, who say:" "If a man swears by the temple, it goes for nothing." "If he swears by the gold in the temple, his oath stands." "Which is greater, the gold, or the temple that consecrates the gold?" "And again:" "If a man swears by the altar, it goes for nothing." "If he swears by the gift on the altar, his oath stands." "Blind fools, which is greater, the gift, or the consecrating altar?" "A man who swears by the altar swears by all that is on it." "He who swears by the temple, swears by him who has made it his dwelling." "The man who swears by heaven swears not only by God's throne, but by him who sits upon it." "Woe upon you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites that will award God his tithe, be it mint or dill or cumming and have forgotten the weightier commandments of the law justice, mercy and honour." "You did ill to forget one duty while you performed the other." "Blind leaders, that have a strainer for the gnat, then swallow the camel." "Woe upon you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites that scour the outward part of a cup and dish while all within is running with avarice and incontinence." "Scour the inside of the cup and dish first so that the outside, too, may become clean." "Woe upon you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites that are like whitened sepulchres, fair in outward show when they are full of dead men's bones and corruption within." "You may seem exact over your duties, outwardly, to men's eyes while there is nothing within but hypocrisy and iniquity." "Woe upon you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites that build tombs of prophets and engrave monuments to the just." "You say:" "If we had lived in our fathers' time we would not have murdered the prophets." "You thus witness your ancestry;" "your fathers slaughtered the prophets." "It is for you to complete your fathers' reckoning." "Brood of vipers, how should you escape from the award of hell?" "Now, behold, I am sending wise men and prophets to preach to you." "Some you will put to death and crucify some you will scourge in your synagogues and persecute them from city to city so you will become answerable for all the blood of just men from the blood of the just Abel to the blood of Zacharias whom you slew between the temple and the altar." "Believe me, this generation shall be held answerable for all of it." "Jerusalem, still murdering prophets and stoning messengers sent to you how often have I been ready to gather your children together as a hen gathers her chickens under her wings and you refused it." "Behold, your house is left to you, uninhabited." "You shall see no more of me until the time when you will be saying:" "Blessed is he that comes in the name of the Lord." "Do you see all this?" "There will not be a stone left on another, it will all be thrown down." "It is time to bring Jesus into our power." "By cunning... and put him to death." "Not on the day of the feast or perhaps there will be an uproar among the people." "Why this waste?" "It could be sold at great price, to give alms to the poor." "Why do you vex the woman?" "She did well to treat me so." "You have the poor among you always;" "I am not always among you." "When she poured ointment over my body it was to prepare me for burial." "Wherever the gospel is preached, this deed shall preserve her memory." "What will you pay me for handing him over to you?" "Thirty pieces of silver." "Believe me, one of you is to betray me." "Lord, is it I?" "Lord, is it I?" "The man who has put his hand into the dish with me will betray me." "The Son of Man goes his way, as the scripture foretells but woe upon that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed." "Better for that man if he had never been born." "Master, is it I?" "Your own lips have said it." "Take, eat, this is my body." "Drink for this is my blood, of the new testament shed for many, for the remission of sins." "I shall not drink of this fruit of the vine again until I drink it with you, new wine, in the kingdom of my Father." "Tonight you will all lose courage over me." "For it has been written:" "I will smite the shepherd, and the sheep of his flock will be scattered." "But when I have risen, I will go on before you into Galilee." "Though all else should lose courage over you, I never shall." "This night, before the cock crows, you will thrice disown me." "I will never disown you, though I lay down my life with you." "Sit down here, while I go and pray." "Peter, and you two, James and John, come with me." "My soul is ready to die with sorrow." "Abide here and watch with me." "My father, if it be possible, let this chalice pass me by." "Only as thy will is, not as mine is." "Had you not strength to watch with me even for an hour?" "Watch and pray, that you may not enter into temptation." "The spirit is willing enough, but the flesh is weak." "My father, if this chalice may not pass me by, but I must drink of it then let thy will be done." "Put back the sword!" "Those who take the sword will perish by the sword!" "Do you doubt that if I call upon my Father he will send more than twelve legions of angels to my side?" "You come to arrest me with swords and clubs, as if I were a robber." "Yet day after day I sat teaching in the temple and you never laid hands on me." "Friend, on what errand have you come?" "He said:" "I can destroy the temple and raise it in three days." "I, too, heard him say those things." "Have you no answer to make to these accusations?" "I adjure you by the living God to tell us whether you are Christ, the Son of God." "Your own lips have said it." "And you will see the Son of God again when he is seated on the right hand of God's power and comes on the clouds of heaven." " He has blasphemed!" "What further need have we of witnesses?" "You have heard his blasphemy for yourselves." "What is your finding?" "The penalty is death." "You were with Jesus." "I do not know what you mean." "This man was with Jesus." "I know nothing of the man." "You are one of them;" "even your speech betrays you." "In the name of the living God, I know nothing of the man." "He must die." "Give him up to Pontius Pilate." "I have sinned in betraying innocent blood." "What is that to us?" "It concerns you only." "It must not be put into the treasury;" "it is the price of blood." "We will use it to buy the potter's field as a burial place for strangers;" "to be known as the field of blood." "Do you not hear the testimony against you?" "It is the paschal feast." "As is customary, I wish to release a prisoner according to your choice." "Whom shall I release?" "Barabbas, or Jesus who is called Christ?" "What wrong has he done?" "Let him be crucified!" "I have no part in the death of this innocent man." "It concerns you only." "His blood be upon us, and upon our children!" "Hail, king of the Jews!" "Carry this cross!" "You will listen, but for you there is no understanding." "You will watch, but for you there is no perceiving." "The heart of this people has become dull." "Their ears are slow to listen, they keep their eyes shut." "So they may never see with those eyes, or hear with those ears." "My God, why hast thou forsaken me?" "He is calling upon Elias." "Wait, let us see if Elias is to come and save him." "I know you have come to look for Jesus, who was crucified." "He is not here; he has risen, as he told you." "Tell his disciples you shall have sight of him in Galilee." "All authority in heaven and earth has been given to me." "Make disciples of all nations baptizing them in the name of the Father, Son and Holy Ghost teaching them to obey all the commandments I have given you." "Behold, I am with you always, unto the end of the world."