The Temptation of Jesus

^{[17] And [the] scroll of the prophet Isaiah was given to him, and having opened the scroll he found the place where it was written:}

^{[18] [The] spirit of the Lord [is] upon me
Because of which he has anointed me
to preach to the poor
He has sent me to heal the crushed,
To proclaim pardon to the captives
and sight to the blind,
To send away the oppressed in pardon,
[19] To proclaim [the] welcome year of the Lord.}

^{[20] And having rolled up the scroll [and] having returned it to the assistant he sat, and all eyes in the synagogue were looking intently on him.} 

^{[21] So he began to be speaking to them that: Today this scripture has been fulfilled in your ears.} 

^{[24] But he said: Truly I say to you that no prophet is welcome in his native-land.} 

^{[25] But in truth I say to you, there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the heavens were shut three years and six months, that there came to pass [a] great famine upon all the land,} 

^{[26] and to none of them was Elijah sent except to Sarpta of Sidon to [a] widow woman.} 

^{[27] And there were many lepers in Israel upon Elisha and none of them were healed except Naiman the Syrene.} 

^{[28] And all were filled with rage in the synagogue when they heard these [things],} 

^{[29] and having risen up they threw him out of the city and led him to [the] brow of the mountain upon which their city was built, in order to throw him down the cliff.} 

^{[30] But he having passed through their midst departed.}  

[17] And having come down with them he stood upon [a] flat place, and [a] great crowd of disciples, and [a] great multitude of people from all of Judea and Jerusalem and from by the sea from Tyre and Sidon, 

[18] which came to hear him and be healed from their diseases, and those being troubled from unclean spirits were being healed. 

[3] Blessed are the poor in the spirit
For theirs is the kingdom of the heavens.

[4] Blessed are those mourning,
For they will be comforted.

[5] Blessed are the humble,
For they will inherit the land. 

[6] Blessed are those hungering and thirsting for justice,
 For they will be filled.

[7] Blessed are the merciful,
For they will be shown mercy.

[8] Blessed are the pure in heart,
For they will see God.

[9] Blessed are the peacemakers,
For they will be called [the] sons of God.

[10] Blessed are those persecuted because of justice,
For theirs is the kingdom of the heavens.

Blessed are the poor, for theirs is the kingdom of God.

[21] Blessed are those hungering now, for they will be filled.

Blessed are those crying now, for they shall laugh.  

[11] Blessed are you when they reproach you and persecute you and say all wickedness against you falsely because of me. 

[12] Be rejoicing and be being glad, for great [is] your reward in the heavens. For thus they persecuted the prophets before you.  

The Friend at Midnight

The Sound Eye & Internal Light

[33] No one having lit [a] lamp places it in [a] hidden place nor under the peck measure, but upon the lampstand, in order that those entering the radiance might see. 

[34] The light of the body is your eye. Whenever your eye be clear, even your whole body is full of light. 

But whenever it be diseased, you body also [is] dark. 

[35] Be looking therefore that the light in you be not darkness. 

[36] If therefore your whole body be full of light, not having any part dark, it will all be full of light, as when the lamp illumines you with light.    

[25] But who among you being anxious is able upon his stature to add [a] cubit? 

27] Consider the lily, which neither spins nor weaves, yet I say to you even Solomon in all his glory was not clothed as one of these. 

[9] And I say to you, Be asking, and it will be given you; be seeking, and you will find; be knocking, and it will be opened to you. 

[10] For everyone asking receives, and [everyone] seeking finds, and to [everyone] knocking it will be opened. 

[11] But from which father among you will his son request [a] fish, but instead of [a] fish will give him [a] snake? 

[12] Or he also request [an] egg, will he give him [a] scorpion? 

[13] If therefore you being wicked know good gifts to give to your children, how much more will the father in heaven give the Holy Spirit to those asking him.

^{[43] For [a] good tree is not producing rotten fruit, nor again [is a] rotten tree producing good fruit.} 

^{[44] For each tree is known by its own fruit. For figs are not gathered from thorn bushes, nor are grapes gathered from brambles.} 

[33] You will either make the tree good and its fruit good, or you will make the tree and its fruit rotten. 

[34] Generation of vipers, how can you speak good, [You] being wicked? For the mouth speaks out of the fullness of the heart. 

[35] The good man out of his good treasure brings forth [the] good, and the wicked man out of his wicked treasure brings forth [the] wicked. 

[36] But I say to you that every idle word that men will speak, they will require from him [a] word in the day of judgment. 

[37] For by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned.  

[19] And Jesus says to them: Are the sons of the bridegroom able, while the bridegroom is with them, to be fasting? As much time they have the bridegroom with them, they are not able to be fasting. 

[17] No one puts new wine into old skins, lest the skins be burst, and the wine run out and the skins be ruined. Rather they put new wine into new skins and both will be preserved.

[5]Jesus sent out these twelve after he exhorted them saying: Do not go in the road of the nations, and do not enter into the city of Samaritans. 

[6]But be going instead to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. 

[7]And while going, be proclaiming that the kingdom of the heavens [is] at hand. 

[8]Be healing the feeble, be raising the dead, be cleansing lepers, be casting out demons. Freely you have received, freely give. 

[9]Do not take gold nor silver nor copper coin in your belt 

[10]nor pouch for the road nor two shirts nor sandals nor staves, for the worker [is] worthy of his sustenance. 

[1] Now after these [things] the Lord commissioned another seventy and sent them by twos before his face into every city and place where he was [about] to come. 

[2] But he was saying to them: On the one hand the harvest is great, but on the other the workers are few. Ask therefore of the Lord of the harvest that he throw workers to his harvest.  

[3] Be departing, Behold I send you as sheep in the midst of wolves. 

[4] Be not taking purse, nor knapsack, nor sandal, and greet no one on the road. 

[11]And in whatever city or town you enter, inquire who in it is worthy, and there remain until you leave. 

[12]And when you enter into the house, greet it kindly. 

[13]And if the house should be worthy, let your peace come upon it. But if it should not be worthy, let your peace return to you. 

[5] But into whatever house you enter, first be saying: Peace to this house. 

[6] And if the son of peace be there, your peace will rest upon it, but if not, it will return to you. 

[7] But in that house be abiding, eating and drinking from them, for [a] worker is worthy of his reward. Be not moving from house to house. 

[8] And into whatever city you enter and they receive you, be eating what they set before you, 

[9] and be healing those in weakness, and be saying to them: The kingdom of God is at hand upon you. 

[10] But into whatever city you enter and they receive you not, going out into the streets of it say: 

[11] Even the dust having clung to us from your city to [our] feet do we wipe off to you. Nevertheless this you know, that the kingdom is at hand. 

[12] I say to you that it will be more tolerable in that day for Sodom than that city.

[4] But I say to you my friends, do not fear those who kill the body and after this are having nothing more to do. 

[5] But I will show you whom you should fear; fear the [one] having authority after killing to throw [you] into Gehenn . Yes, I say to you, fear this [one]. 

[6] Do not five sparrows sell for two farthings? And one of them does not escape notice before God. 

[7] But even all the hairs [of your] head are numbered. Be not fearing, you are worth many sparrows.

[42] And whoever gives only [a] glass of cold water to one of these little [ones] in the name of [a] disciple, truly I say to you, he shall not lose his reward.   

[16]So to what shall I liken this generation? It is like children sitting in the market-place who call to the others 

[17]saying:

We played the flute for you and you did not dance,
We mourned and you did not beat yourself

^{[31] To what therefore will I liken the men of this generation, and to what are they like?} 

^{[32] They are like children sitting in the market and they call to each other saying:}

^{We piped for you and you did not dance,
We mourned and you did not weep.}

[33] For John the baptist is come not eating loaves nor drinking wine, and you say: He has [a] demon.

[1] In that opportune-time Jesus went through [a] corn-field on the Sabbath, and his disciples hungered, and began to be plucking the ears and eating. 

[2] But the Pharisees having seen [this] said to him: Behold your disciples do that which is not allowed to be doing on the Sabbath. 

[24] And the Pharisees were saying to him: See [here], why do they do on the Sabbaths what is not permitted? 

[3] But he said to them: Do you not know what David did, when he and those with him hungered? 

[25] And he says to them: Have you not read what David did, when he had need, and he himself was hungry and those with him? 

[4] How he entered into the house of God and they ate the shew- bread, which was not allowed for him nor those with him to eat, but only for the priests alone?

[26] How he went into the house of God in the time of Abiathar [the] high priest and they ate the `Bread of the Setting Forth' that is not permissible to eat except [for] the priests, and also gave to those being with him? 

[5] Or do you not know in the law that on the Sabbath the priests in the temple profane the Sabbath and are blameless? 

[6] But I say to you that here [is] something greater than [the] temple. 

[7] But if you knew what this is:

[5] And he was saying to them: The son of man is Lord of the Sabbath.

1] In that day when Jesus went out of the city he sat by the sea, 

[2] and [a] great crowd gathered by him, so that having embarked he sat in [a] boat, and all the crowd stood on the shore. 

[3] And he said to them many [things] in parables saying:

[5] The sower went out to sow his seed, and in sowing it some fell by the road and was trampled, and the birds of heaven ate it.

Saying these [things] he said: The [one] having ears to be hearing let him be hearing.  

[10] And when his disciples came they said to him: Why do you speak in parables to them? 

[11] But when he answered he said: To you it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of the heavens, but to those it is not given. 

[12] For whoever has, it shall be given to him, and will be more than enough. But whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken from him. 

[13] I speak to them in parables because of this: Because looking they do not look, and hearing they do not hear not understand. 

[14] And the prophesy of Isaiah is fulfilled in them which said:

Hearing they will hear and will not understand
And looking they will look, and will not see.
[15] For the heart of this people has grown fat
An with their ears they heard with disgust,
And their eyes they have closed Lest they see with their eyes
And understand with their hearts and turn back
And I heal them.

[13] And he says to them: You do not know this parable, how also will you know all the parables? 

[18]Therefore hear the parable of the sower. 

[14] The sower sows the word. 

[11] Now this is the parable. The seed is the word of God. 

[19]When anyone hears the word of the kingdom and does not understand, the wicked [one] comes and carries off what was sown in his heart. This is what was sown by the road. 

[15] But these are those beside the road, how the word is sown, and when they hear, immediately Satan comes and takes the word having been sown in them. 

[20]And what was sown on the rocky soil, this is the one hearing the word and immediately receives it with joy, 

[21]but it has no root in him, but is transitory, so when trouble or persecution comes to pass because of the word, immediately he stumbles. 

[16] And these being sown upon the rocky [places] are likewise, which when they hear the word, immediately they receive it with joy. 

[17] And they have no root in themselves, but are temporary, then [when] tribulation or persecution comes because of the word, they stumble. 

[18] And these are those being sown into the thorns, these are those having heard the word, 

[19] and [when] the cares of the age and the deceitfulness of wealth and the lusts [about] the rest enter, they choke the word, and it becomes fruitless.

[20] And these are those having been sown upon the good soil, which hear the word and receive [it] and bear fruit in thirty and in sixty and in a hundred.

[25] But while the man sleeps his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat and left. 

[26] So when the grass sprouted and bore fruit, then the tares also became manifest. 

[27] So when the slaves of the householder came they said to him: Lord, did we not sow good seed in the field? Whence therefore does it have tares? 

[28] But he told them, [An] enemy did this. So the slaves say: Do you wish therefore when we go that we gather them? 

[29] But he tells them, No, lest gathering the tares you uproot the wheat with them. 

[30] Allow them to grow together until the harvest, and in the time of the harvest I will say to the harvesters: Gather first the tares and bind them into bundles in order to burn them, but the wheat gather into my storehouse.

[30] And he was saying: How shall I liken the kingdom of God? or by means of what shall I set it forth in [a] parable? 

[18] He was saying therefore: To what is the kingdom of God like, and to what will I liken it? 

[31] Another parable he placed before them saying: The kingdom of the heavens is like [a] mustard seed, which when [a] man takes he plants in his field, 

[31] As with [a] grain of mustard, which when sown upon the ground, being smaller than all the seeds upon the ground, 

[32] which indeed is smaller than all seeds, but when it has grown is the larger of the herbs and becomes [a] tree, so that the birds of heaven come and rest in its branches.  

[32] and when sown, it comes up and becomes [the] greater of all the herbs, and it produces great branches, so that the birds of heaven are able to be dwelling under its shadow.

and it grew and became [a] tree, and the birds of heaven nested in its branches.  

[35] And many hours already having come to pass his disciples having come to him were saying that: This place is deserted and already the hour [is] great. 

[36] Disperse them, that having departed into the surrounding fields and villages they may buy for themselves something to eat. 

[16] But Jesus said to them: They have no need to be going. You give to them to be eating. 

[37] But answering he said to them: You yourselves give them to eat.

[13] But he said to them: [you] give to them to eat.

[17] But they say to him: We do not have here but five loaves and two fishes. 

And they say to him: Having gone shall we buy with two hundred denari loaves, and give to them to eat? 

 But they said: There is not to us more than five loaves and two fish, unless having gone we buy food for all these people. 

[38] But he says to them: How many loaves have you? Go see.

[18] So he says: Be bringing them here to me. 

[19] And having ordered the crowd to lay back on the grass,

And when they knew they say: Five, and two fish. 

[39] And he commanded them to all lie down group by group, upon the green grass. 

[40] And they reclined group by group, according to [a] hundred and according to fifty. 

taking the five loaves and the two fishes, looking up to heaven he gave thanks, and having broken [them] he gave to the disciples the loaves, and disciples [gave] [them] to the crowd. 

[20] And all ate and were fattened. And they took the surplus of the fragments, twelve baskets full. 

[42] And all ate and were filled, 

[43] and they took up fragments twelve baskets full, and of the fish. 

[17] And all ate and were filled. And the surplus of fragments gathered by them was twelve baskets.

[21] And those eating were about five thousand men apart from women and children.

^{[14] And again having called upon the crowd he says to them: Hear from me, all [of you], and understand.} 

^{[16]  If anyone has ears to be hearing, let him be hearing.}

^{[15] There is nothing outside of man entering into him that is able to defile him; But the [things] proceeding out are the [things] defiling the man.} 

^{[21] For from inside the heart of men proceed out evil reasonings, fornications, thefts, murders,} 

^{[22] adulteries, avarices, wickedness , deceit, licentiousness, [an] evil eye, slander, arrogance,} 

[21] And when Jesus went out from there he withdrew to the region of Tyre and Sidon.  

[22] And behold [a] Cannanite woman from the region came crying out saying: Have mercy on me, Lord, son of David, my daughter is evil-ly demon possessed.  

[23] But he did not answer her [a] word. And his disciples came to him asking him saying: Get rid of her, because she cries out after us. 

[27] And he was saying to her: Let the children first be filled, for it is not good to take the bread of the children and throw [it] to the puppies. 

[28] But she answered and says to him: Yes Lord, and the puppies under the table eat from the children's crumbs. 

[29] And he said to her: Because of this word, Be going, the demon is come out [of your] daughter. 

[30] And having departed into her house she found the child thrown upon the bed and the demon gone out.

[33] And the disciples said to him: Where in the desert [is] for us so much bread so as to fill such [a] crowd? 

[34] And Jesus says to them: How many loaves do you have? And they said: Seven, and [a] few little fish. 

[35] And when he instructed the crowd to recline on the ground, 

[36] he took the loaves and the fish, and when he gave thanks he broke [them], and gave [them] to the disciples, and the disciples [gave] them to the crowds. 

[37] And they all ate and were filled and they collected the surplus of the fragments, seven baskets full. 

[38] But those eating were four thousand men, apart from women and children. 

[25]For whoever wishes to save his psyche-life will lose it, and whoever loses his psyche-life because of me will find it. 

[26]For how will [a] man be profited if he should gain the whole world and forfeit his own psyche-life? Or what will [a] man give in exchange for his psyche-life? 

[27]For the son of man will come in the glory of his father with his angels, and then he will render to each according to his doings. 

[34] Good therefore [is] the salt. But if the salt become tasteless, with what will it be seasoned? 

[35] Neither for [the] ground nor for the dung heap is it fit, they throw it out. The [one] having ears to be hearing, let him be hearing.

[1] So he said to his disciples: A certain man was rich who was having [a] steward, and this [one] was slandered to him as squandering his possessions. 

[2] And having called him he said: What is this I hear concerning you? Render account [of your] stewardship. For you are not able to be stewarding further. 

[3] But the steward said in himself: What will I do? For I have not the strength to dig ditches, [and] I am ashamed to beg. 

[4] I know what I will do, in order that when I am removed from the stewardship they receive me into their own houses.

 [5] And when he called each one of his own Lord's debtors he was saying to the first: How much do you owe my Lord? 

[6] But he said: [a] hundred baths or oil. So he said to him: Take the [promissory] note and having sat, quickly write fifty. 

[7] Then he said to the other: So how much do you owe? And he said: One hundred cors of wheat. He says to him: Take your [promissory] note and write eighty. 

[8] And the Lord praised the servant of injustice, for he did shrewdly, for the sons of this age are more shrewd than the sons of light in their own generation. 

[9] And I say to you, With their own make friends from the mammon of injustice, in order that, when you are omitted, they receive you into eternal shelter.  

[19] But a certain man was rich, and he had put on purple garments and fine linen enjoying himself each day splendidly. 

[20] But a certain poor [man] by name Lazarus had been cast to his gate being covered with ulcerous sores. 

[21] And he was lusting to be filled from that falling from the table of the rich [one]; but even the dogs coming were licking his ulcerous sores.

[22] Now it came to pass the poor [man] died and was gathered by the angels to Abraham's lap; but the rich [man] also died and was buried. 

[23] And in Hades lifting up his eyes, being in torment, he sees Abraham from afar and Lazarus in his lap, 

[24] and having called out he said: Father Abraham, have mercy on me and send Lazarus in order that he dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue, for I suffer torment in this flame. 

[25] But Abraham said: Child, remember that you received your good [things] in your zoe-life , and likewise Lazarus the evil. But now he is encouraged, and you suffer torment. 

[26] And in all those [things] between you [people] and us [a] great chasm is fixed, so that those wishing to go down from here to you be not able, nor from there to us may not cross over. 

[27] But he said: I ask you therefore, Father, in order that you may sent him to my fathers house, 

[28] for I have five brothers, that he may warn them, that they also not come to this place of torment. 

[29] But Abraham says: They have Moses and the prophets, let him hear from them. 

[30] But he said: No, father Abraham, but if someone proceed from [the] dead to them: they would repent. 

[31] But he said to them: If they do not hear Moses and the prophets, neither would they be persuaded if someone rise from the dead.   

[7] But who among you having [a] slave plowing or shepherding, who when he enter from the field he say to him: Straightway having come by, recline! 

[8] But rather he says to him: Prepare something I may eat, and being girded [about] be serving me until I eat and drink, and after these you eat and drink. 

[9] Does he have grace for the slave who did the [things] commanded? 

[10] Thus you also, when you do everything commanded to you, be saying that: We are worthless slaves, what we owe to do we have done.

[9] But he also said this parable to some having believed upon themselves that they are just and despising the rest: 

[10] Two men went up to the temple to pray, the one [a] Pharisee and the other [a] tax gatherer. 

[11] The Pharisee having stood prayed these [things] towards himself: O God, I thank you that I am not as the rest of men, rapacious, unjust, adulterous, or even as this tax gatherer. 

[12] I fast twice during the Sabbath, and I tithe all that I acquire. 

[13] But the tax gatherer having stood afar off did not want to raise his eyes to heaven, but he was beating his chest saying: O Lord, be merciful to me the sinner. 

[14] I say to you this one went down to his house justified rather than the other; for everyone exalting himself will be humbled, but the [one] humbling himself will be exalted.   

[20] So he says to them: Because of your unbelief. Truly I say to you, if you have belief like [a] grain of mustard, you will say to this mountain: Go from here to there, and it will go, and nothing will be impossible to you. 

[21] But this type does not go out except in prayer and fasting.

^{[1] And going up from there he goes to the region of Judea and [the] other side of the Jordan, and again crowds go with him, and as he was accustomed he again was teaching them.} 

^{[2] And Pharisees coming out asked him if it is allowed for [a] man to put away his wife, testing him.} 

^{3] But answering he said to them: What did Moses command you?} 

^{[4] So they said: Moses tolerated [a] scroll of divorce1 to write and to put [her] away.} 

^{[5] But Jesus said to them, For your hard-heartedness he wrote for you this commandment.} 

[18]For everyone putting away his woman and marrying another commits adultery, and the [one] having been sent away who marries commits adultery.

^{[6] But from the beginning of creation:}

^{He made them male and female.}

<sup>[8] And they will be two into one flesh,
So that no longer are they two but one flesh.

[9] What therefore God has yoked together
Man shall not sunder .</sup>

^{[27] and he sleeps and gets up night and day, the seed sprouts and grows when he did not know it.} 

^{[28] By itself the land bears fruit, first grass, then [an] ear, then full grain on the ear.} 

^{[29] When the fruit permits, immediately he sends the sickle because the harvest has come.}  

[14] But he said to him: Man, who appointed me judge or divider over you? 

[15] But he said to him: Be watching and be guarding from all greed, for not in the abundance of anything is your zoe-life , beyond what is sufficient for it. 

[16] So he spoke to them [a] parable saying: [a] certain rich man's life yielded well. 

[17] And he was reasoning in himself saying: What will I do, for I do not have anywhere I may gather my fruit? 

[18] And he said: This will I do: I will tear down the storehouse and will build [a] greater, and I will gather there all my grain and all my good [things], 

[19] and I will say in my psyche-life : Psyche-Life, you have many good [things] laid up to many years. Be resting, be eating, be drinking, be being glad. 

[20] But God said to him: Fool, this night your psyche-life is demanded back from you. But what you have gathered, for whom will they be? 

[21] Thus is the [one] gathering for himself and not being rich to God.  

And my house will be [a] house of prayer

but you have made it [a] den of robbers.

[13]And seeing [a] fig tree from afar having leaves he came if then he will find something on it. And having come upon it he found nothing on it except leaves, for it was not the season for figs. 

[21] And Peter having remembered says to him: Rabbi, Behold the fig tree that you cursed has withered. 

[22] And answering Jesus says to them: Be having faith in God. 

[6] Yet one [more] was he sending: his agape-beloved son; he sent him last to them saying that: They will respect my son. 

[9] What will the lord of the vineyard do?

He will come and destroy those vinedressers, and will give the vineyard to others. 

[2] The kingdom of heaven is like [a] man [who] [was] king, who gave [a] wedding for his son. 

[16] But he said to him: A certain man was doing [a] big dinner, and invited many. 

[3] And he sent his slaves to call those invited to the wedding, and they did not want to come. 

[17] And he sent his slave in the hour of the dinner to say to those invited: Be coming, for already is it prepared. 

[4] Again he sent other slaves saying: Say to those invited: Behold my noon meal is prepared, my bull and my fattlings are killed, and five [are] ready. Come to the wedding. 

[5] But being unconcerned they left, one to his own field, and one to his business. 

[18] And they were beginning from one all to be excusing [themselves]. The first said to him, I bought [a] field, and I have necessity having gone to be seeing it; I ask you, Be having me excused. 

[19] And another said: I bought five yoke of oxen, and I go to examine them; I ask you, Be having me excused. 

[20] And another said: I married [a] wife, and because of this I am unable to come. 

[6] The rest laying hold of his slaves committed outrages and killed them. 

[7] And the king was angered and sending his troops, he destroyed those murderers and burned their city. 

[8] Then he says to his slaves: The wedding is ready, but the invited were not worthy. 

[9] Go therefore to the street-corners or "crossroads", and whoever you find call to the wedding. 

[21] And having arrived, the slave reported to his lord these [things]. Then having been angered the master of the house said to his slave: Go swiftly into the streets and alleys of the city, and bring here the poor and crippled and blind and lame. 

[22] And the slave said: Lord, what you commanded is come to pass, and yet is there place. 

[10] And going out into the road these slaves gathered all they found, wicked and good. And the wedding hall was filled with guests. 

[23] And the Lord said to the slave: Go out into the roads and hedges and compel [them] to come in, that my house be filled. 

[24] For I say to you that none of those men invited will taste my dinner.

[11] And when the king came in to behold the guests he saw there [a] man not clothed in wedding clothes. 

[12] And he says to him: Friend, how do you come here not having wedding clothes? But he was silent. 

[13] Then the king said to the servants: Having bound him hand and foot, throw him into the outermost darkness. There will there be wailing and grinding of teeth. 

[14] For many are called, but few [are] chosen.