The Life of Jesus

`And Abraham said, Child, remember that thou did receive--thou--thy good things in thy life, and Lazarus in like manner the evil things, and now he is comforted, and thou art distressed;

and besides all these things, between us and you a great chasm is fixed, so that they who are willing to go over from hence unto you are not able, nor do they from thence to us pass through.

`And he said, I pray thee, then, father, that thou mayest send him to the house of my father,

for I have five brothers, so that he may thoroughly testify to them, that they also may not come to this place of torment.

`Abraham saith to him, They have Moses and the prophets, let them hear them;

and he said, No, father Abraham, but if any one from the dead may go unto them, they will reform.

And he said to him, If Moses and the prophets they do not hear, neither if one may rise out of the dead will they be persuaded.'

And he said unto the disciples, `It is impossible for the stumbling blocks not to come, but woe to him through whom they come;

it is more profitable to him if a weighty millstone is put round about his neck, and he hath been cast into the sea, than that he may cause one of these little ones to stumble.

`Take heed to yourselves, and, if thy brother may sin in regard to thee, rebuke him, and if he may reform, forgive him,

and if seven times in the day he may sin against thee, and seven times in the day may turn back to thee, saying, I reform; thou shalt forgive him.'

And the apostles said to the Lord, `Add to us faith;'

and the Lord said, `If ye had faith as a grain of mustard, ye would have said to this sycamine, Be uprooted, and be planted in the sea, and it would have obeyed you.

`But, who is he of you--having a servant ploughing or feeding--who, to him having come in out of the field, will say, Having come near, recline at meat?

but will not rather say to him, Prepare what I may sup, and having girded thyself about, minister to me, till I eat and drink, and after these things thou shalt eat and drink?

Hath he favour to that servant because he did the things directed? I think not.

`So also ye, when ye may have done all the things directed you, say--We are unprofitable servants, because that which we owed to do--we have done.'

And it came to pass, in his going on to Jerusalem, that he passed through the midst of Samaria and Galilee,

and he entering into a certain village, there met him ten leprous men, who stood afar off,

and they lifted up the voice, saying, `Jesus, master, deal kindly with us;'

and having seen them , he said to them, `Having gone on, shew yourselves to the priests;' and it came to pass, in their going, they were cleansed,

and one of them having seen that he was healed did turn back, with a loud voice glorifying God,

and he fell upon his face at his feet, giving thanks to him, and he was a Samaritan.

And Jesus answering said, `Were not the ten cleansed, and the nine--where?

There were not found who did turn back to give glory to God, except this alien;'