The Life of Jesus

and he said to him, `Having risen, be going on, thy faith hath saved thee.'

And having been questioned by the Pharisees, when the reign of God doth come, he answered them, and said, `The reign of God doth not come with observation;

nor shall they say, Lo, here; or lo, there; for lo, the reign of God is within you.'

And he said unto his disciples, `Days will come, when ye shall desire to see one of the days of the Son of Man, and ye shall not behold it ;

and they shall say to you, Lo, here; or lo, there; ye may not go away, nor follow;

for as the lightning that is lightening out of the one part under heaven, to the other part under heaven doth shine, so shall be also the Son of Man in his day;

and first it behoveth him to suffer many things, and to be rejected by this generation.

`And, as it came to pass in the days of Noah, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of Man;

they were eating, they were drinking, they were marrying, they were given in marriage, till the day that Noah entered into the ark, and the deluge came, and destroyed all;

in like manner also, as it came to pass in the days of Lot; they were eating, they were drinking, they were buying, they were selling, they were planting, they were building;

and on the day Lot went forth from Sodom, He rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed all.

`According to these things it shall be, in the day the Son of Man is revealed;

in that day, he who shall be on the house top, and his vessels in the house, let him not come down to take them away; and he in the field, in like manner, let him not turn backward;

remember the wife of Lot.

Whoever may seek to save his life, shall lose it; and whoever may lose it, shall preserve it.

`I say to you, In that night, there shall be two men on one couch, the one shall be taken, and the other shall be left;

two women shall be grinding at the same place together, the one shall be taken, and the other shall be left;

two men shall be in the field, the one shall be taken, and the other left.'

And they answering say to him, `Where, sir?' and he said to them, `Where the body is , there will the eagles be gathered together.'

And he spake also a simile to them, that it behoveth us always to pray, and not to faint,

saying, `A certain judge was in a certain city--God he is not fearing, and man he is not regarding--

and a widow was in that city, and she was coming unto him, saying, Do me justice on my opponent,

and he would not for a time, but after these things he said in himself, Even if God I do not fear, and man do not regard,

yet because this widow doth give me trouble, I will do her justice, lest, perpetually coming, she may plague me.'

And the Lord said, `Hear ye what the unrighteous judge saith: