Jesus

and he said to them, `Having gone, say to this fox, Lo, I cast forth demons, and perfect cures to-day and to-morrow, and the third day I am being perfected;

but it behoveth me to-day, and to-morrow, and the day following, to go on, because it is not possible for a prophet to perish out of Jerusalem.

`Jerusalem, Jerusalem, that is killing the prophets, and stoning those sent unto her, how often did I will to gather together thy children, as a hen her brood under the wings, and ye did not will.

`Lo, your house is being left to you desolate, and verily I say to you--ye may not see me, till it may come, when ye may say, Blessed is he who is coming in the name of the Lord.'

And it came to pass, on his going into the house of a certain one of the chiefs of the Pharisees, on a sabbath, to eat bread, that they were watching him,

and lo, there was a certain dropsical man before him;

and Jesus answering spake to the lawyers and Pharisees, saying, `Is it lawful on the sabbath-day to heal?'

and they were silent, and having taken hold of him , he healed him, and let him go;

and they were not able to answer him again unto these things.

And he spake a simile unto those called, marking how they were choosing out the first couches, saying unto them,

And he said also to him who did call him, `When thou mayest make a dinner or a supper, be not calling thy friends, nor thy brethren, nor thy kindred, nor rich neighbours, lest they may also call thee again, and a recompense may come to thee;

And one of those reclining with him, having heard these things, said to him, `Happy is he who shall eat bread in the reign of God;'

and he said to him, `A certain man made a great supper, and called many,

`And the servant said, Sir, it hath been done as thou didst command, and still there is room.

And there were going on with him great multitudes, and having turned, he said unto them,

`If any one doth come unto me, and doth not hate his own father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brothers, and sisters, and yet even his own life, he is not able to be my disciple;

and whoever doth not bear his cross, and come after me, is not able to be my disciple.

`So, then, every one of you who doth not take leave of all that he himself hath, is not able to be my disciple.

And all the tax-gatherers and the sinners were coming nigh to him, to hear him,

and the Pharisees and the scribes were murmuring, saying--This one doth receive sinners, and doth eat with them.'

And he spake unto them this simile, saying,

`I say to you, that so joy shall be in the heaven over one sinner reforming, rather than over ninety-nine righteous men, who have no need of reformation.

`So I say to you, joy doth come before the messengers of God over one sinner reforming.'

And he said, `A certain man had two sons,

`And he said to him, Child, thou art always with me, and all my things are thine;