The Life of Jesus

for there is not anything hid that may not be manifested, nor was anything kept hid but that it may come to light.

If any hath ears to hear--let him hear.'

And he said to them, `Take heed what ye hear; in what measure ye measure, it shall be measured to you; and to you who hear it shall be added;

for whoever may have, there shall be given to him, and whoever hath not, also that which he hath shall be taken from him.'

And he said, `Thus is the reign of God: as if a man may cast the seed on the earth,

and may sleep, and may rise night and day, and the seed spring up and grow, he hath not known how;

for of itself doth the earth bear fruit, first a blade, afterwards an ear, afterwards full corn in the ear;

and whenever the fruit may yield itself, immediately he doth send forth the sickle, because the harvest hath come.'

And he said, `To what may we liken the reign of God, or in what simile may we compare it?

As a grain of mustard, which, whenever it may be sown on the earth, is less than any of the seeds that are on the earth;

and whenever it may be sown, it cometh up, and doth become greater than any of the herbs, and doth make great branches, so that under its shade the fowls of the heaven are able to rest.'

And with many such similes he was speaking to them the word, as they were able to hear,

and without a simile he was not speaking to them, and by themselves, to his disciples he was expounding all.

And he saith to them on that day, evening having come, `We may pass over to the other side;'

and having let away the multitude, they take him up as he was in the boat, and other little boats also were with him.

And there cometh a great storm of wind, and the waves were beating on the boat, so that it is now being filled,

and he himself was upon the stern, upon the pillow sleeping, and they wake him up, and say to him, `Teacher, art thou not caring that we perish?'

And having waked up, he rebuked the wind, and said to the sea, `Peace, be stilled;' and the wind did lull, and there was a great calm:

and he said to them, `Why are ye so fearful? how have ye not faith?'

and they feared a great fear, and said one to another, `Who, then, is this, that even the wind and the sea do obey him?'

And they came to the other side of the sea, to the region of the Gadarenes,

and he having come forth out of the boat, immediately there met him out of the tombs a man with an unclean spirit,

who had his dwelling in the tombs, and not even with chains was any one able to bind him,

because that he many times with fetters and chains had been bound, and pulled in pieces by him had been the chains, and the fetters broken in pieces, and none was able to tame him,

and always, night and day, in the mountains, and in the tombs he was, crying and cutting himself with stones.