Jesus

`Fire I came to cast to the earth, and what will I if already it was kindled?

but I have a baptism to be baptized with, and how am I pressed till it may be completed!

`Think ye that peace I came to give in the earth? no, I say to you, but rather division;

And he said also to the multitudes, `When ye may see the cloud rising from the west, immediately ye say, A shower doth come, and it is so;

I say to thee, thou mayest not come forth thence till even the last mite thou mayest give back.'

And there were present certain at that time, telling him about the Galileans, whose blood Pilate did mingle with their sacrifices;

and Jesus answering said to them, `Think ye that these Galileans became sinners beyond all the Galileans, because they have suffered such things?

No--I say to you, but, if ye may not reform, all ye even so shall perish.

No--I say to you, but, if ye may not reform, all ye in like manner shall perish.'

`And he answering saith to him, Sir, suffer it also this year, till that I may dig about it, and cast in dung;

And he was teaching in one of the synagogues on the sabbath,

and Jesus having seen her, did call her near, and said to her, `Woman, thou hast been loosed from thy infirmity;'

and he laid on her his hands, and presently she was set upright, and was glorifying God.

And the chief of the synagogue answering--much displeased that on the sabbath Jesus healed--said to the multitude, `Six days there are in which it behoveth us to be working; in these, then, coming, be healed, and not on the sabbath-day.'

Then the Lord answered him and said, `Hypocrite, doth not each of you on the sabbath loose his ox or ass from the stall, and having led away, doth water it ?

And he saying these things, all who were opposed to him were being ashamed, and all the multitude were rejoicing over all the glorious things that are being done by him.

And he said, `To what is the reign of God like? and to what shall I liken it?

And again he said, `To what shall I liken the reign of God?

And he was going through cities and villages, teaching, and making progress toward Jerusalem;

and a certain one said to him, `Sir, are those saved few?' and he said unto them,

`Be striving to go in through the straight gate, because many, I say to you, will seek to go in, and shall not be able;

from the time the master of the house may have risen up, and may have shut the door, and ye may begin without to stand, and to knock at the door, saying, Lord, lord, open to us, and he answering shall say to you, I have not known you whence ye are,

then ye may begin to say, We did eat before thee, and did drink, and in our broad places thou didst teach;

and he shall say, I say to you, I have not known you whence ye are; depart from me, all ye workers of the unrighteousness.

On that day there came near certain Pharisees, saying to him, `Go forth, and be going on hence, for Herod doth wish to kill thee;'