The Life of Jesus

And the seven all took her in like manner and did not leave issue. Last of all the woman also died.

In the resurrection therefore, when they shall rise again, whose wife shall she be of them? For the seven had her to wife.

And Jesus answering, saith to them: Do ye not therefore err, because you know not the scriptures nor the power of God?

For when they shall rise again from the dead, they shall neither marry, nor be married, but are as the angels in heaven.

And as concerning the dead that they rise again have you not read in the book of Moses, how in the bush God spoke to him, saying: I am the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob?

He is not the God of the dead, but of the living. You therefore do greatly err.

And there came one of the scribes that had heard them reasoning together, and seeing that he had answered them well, asked him which was the first commandment of all.

And Jesus answered him: The first commandment of all is, Hear, O Israel: the Lord thy God is one God.

And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with thy whole heart and with thy whole soul and with thy whole mind and with thy whole strength. This is the first commandment.

And the second is like to it: Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is no other commandment greater than these.

And the scribe said to him: Well, Master, thou hast said in truth that there is one God and there is no other besides him.

And that he should be loved with the whole heart and with the whole understanding and with the whole soul and with the whole strength. And to love one's neighbour as one's self is a greater thing than all holocausts and sacrifices.

And Jesus seeing that he had answered wisely, said to him: Thou art not far from the kingdom of God. And no man after that durst ask him any question.

And Jesus answering, said, teaching in the temple: How do the scribes say that Christ is the son of David?

For David himself saith by the Holy Ghost: The Lord said to my Lord: Sit on my right hand, until I make thy enemies thy footstool.

David therefore himself calleth him Lord. And whence is he then his son? And a great multitude heard him gladly.

And he said to them in his doctrine: Beware of the scribes, who love to walk in long robes and to be saluted in the marketplace,

And to sit in the first chairs in the synagogues and to have the highest places at suppers:

Who devour the houses of widows under the pretence of long prayer. These shall receive greater judgment.

And Jesus sitting over against the treasury, beheld how the people cast money into the treasury. And many that were rich cast in much.

And there came a certain poor widow: and she cast in two mites, which make a farthing.

And calling his disciples together, he saith to them: Amen I say to you, this poor widow hath cast in more than all they who have cast into the treasury.

For all they did cast in of their abundance; but she of her want cast in all she had, even her whole living.

And as he was going out of the temple, one of his disciples said to him: Master, behold what manner of stones and what buildings are here.

And Jesus answering, said to him: Seest thou all these great buildings? There shall not be left a stone upon a stone, that shall not be thrown down.