The Life of Jesus

Now of the fig tree learn ye a parable. When the branch thereof is now tender and the leaves are come forth, you know that summer is very near.

So you also when you shall see these things come to pass, know ye that it is very nigh, even at the doors.

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

Heaven and earth shall pass away: but my word shall not pass away.

But of that day or hour no man knoweth, neither the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but the Father.

Take ye heed, watch and pray. For ye know not when the time is.

Even as a man who, going into a far country, left his house and gave authority to his servants over every work and commanded the porter to watch.

Watch ye therefore (for you know not when the lord of the house cometh, at even, or at midnight, or at the cock crowing, or in the morning):

Lest coming on a sudden, he find you sleeping.

And what I say to you, I say to all: Watch.

Now the feast of the pasch and of the Azymes was after two days: and the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might by some wile lay hold on him and kill him.

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

And when he was in Bethania, in the house of Simon the leper, and was at meat, there came a woman having an alabaster box of ointment of precious spikenard. And breaking the alabaster box, she poured it out upon his head.

Now there were some that had indignation within themselves and said: Why was this waste of the ointment made?

For this ointment might have been sold for more than three hundred pence and given to the poor. And they murmured against her.

But Jesus said: Let her alone. Why do You molest her? She hath wrought a good work upon me.

For the poor you have always with you: and whensoever you will, you may do them good: but me you have not always.

She hath done what she could: she is come beforehand to anoint my body for the burial.

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 memorial of her.

And Judas Iscariot, one of the twelve, went to the chief priests, to betray him to them.

Who hearing it were glad: and they promised him they would give him money. And he sought how he might conveniently betray him.

Now on the first day of the unleavened bread, when they sacrificed the pasch, the disciples say to him: Whither wilt thou that we go and prepare for thee to eat the pasch?

And he sendeth two of his disciples and saith to them: Go ye into the city; and there shall meet you a man carrying a pitcher of water. Follow him.

And whithersoever he shall go in, say to the master of the house, The master saith, Where is my refectory, where I may eat the pasch with my disciples?

And he will shew you a large dining room furnished. And there prepare ye for us.