The Life of Jesus

`And when they bring you before the synagogues, and the rulers, and the authorities, be not anxious how or what ye may reply, or what ye may say,

for the Holy Spirit shall teach you in that hour what it behoveth you to say.'

And a certain one said to him, out of the multitude, `Teacher, say to my brother to divide with me the inheritance.'

And he said to him, `Man, who set me a judge or a divider over you?'

And he said unto them, `Observe, and beware of the covetousness, because not in the abundance of one's goods is his life.'

And he spake a simile unto them, saying, `Of a certain rich man the field brought forth well;

and he was reasoning within himself, saying, What shall I do, because I have not where I shall gather together my fruits?

and he said, This I will do, I will take down my storehouses, and greater ones I will build, and I will gather together there all my products and my good things,

and I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast many good things laid up for many years, be resting, eat, drink, be merry.

`And God said to him, Unthinking one! this night thy soul they shall require from thee, and what things thou didst prepare--to whom shall they be?

so is he who is treasuring up to himself, and is not rich toward God.'

And he said unto his disciples, `Because of this, to you I say, Be not anxious for your life, what ye may eat; nor for the body, what ye may put on;

the life is more than the nourishment, and the body than the clothing.

`Consider the ravens, that they sow not, nor reap, to which there is no barn nor storehouse, and God doth nourish them; how much better are ye than the fowls?

and who of you, being anxious, is able to add to his age one cubit?

If, then, ye are not able for the least--why for the rest are ye anxious?

`Consider the lilies, how do they grow? they labour not, nor do they spin, and I say to you, not even Solomon in all his glory was arrayed as one of these;

and if the herbage in the field, that to-day is, and to-morrow into an oven is cast, God doth so clothe, how much more you--ye of little faith?

`And ye--seek not what ye may eat, or what ye may drink, and be not in suspense,

for all these things do the nations of the world seek after, and your Father hath known that ye have need of these things;

but, seek ye the reign of God, and all these things shall be added to you.

`Fear not, little flock, because your Father did delight to give you the reign;

sell your goods, and give alms, make to yourselves bags that become not old, a treasure unfailing in the heavens, where thief doth not come near, nor moth destroy;

for where your treasure is, there also your heart will be.

`Let your loins be girded, and the lamps burning,