were brought to him little children, that he might lay his hands on them and pray; but the disciples rebuked 4 them. But Jesus said: Suffer little

children, and do not hinder them from coming to me; for the kingdom of the 5 heavens is of such; and having laid his hands upon them, he departed thence. 16 And, lo, one coming up to [him], said to him: Good Master, what good thing shall I do that I may have life eternal? 17 And he said to him: Why callest thou me good? no one is good save God alone. But if thou wouldest enter into life, keep 18 the commandments. He says to him: Which? And Jesus said: Thou shalt not kill, thou shalt not commit adultery, thou shalt not steal, thou shalt not bear 19 false witness; honour thy father and thy mother, and thou shalt love thy neigh20 bour as thyself. The young man says to him: All these have I kept from my 21 youth; what lack I yet? Jesus says to him: If thou wouldst be perfect, go, sell what thou hast and give to [the] poor, and thou shalt have treasure in

22 heaven; and come, follow me. But the young man, having heard the word, went away grieved, for he had great posses23 sions. And Jesus said to his disciples: Verily, I say to you: A rich man shall with difficulty enter into the kingdom of 24 the heavens; and again I say to you: It is easier for a camel to go through a needle's eye than for a rich man to enter 25 into the kingdom of God. And when the disciples heard it they were exceedingly astonished, saying: Who, then, 26 can be saved? But Jesus, looking at

[them], said to them: With men this is impossible; but with God all things are 27 possible. Then Peter answering, said to

him: Lo, we have left all and followed thee; what then shall happen to us? 28 And Jesus said to them: Verily, I say unto you: That ye who have followed me, in the regeneration when the Son of man shall sit upon his throne of glory, ye also shall sit on twelve thrones, 29 judging the twelve tribes of Israel. And every one who has left houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or

wife, or children, or lands, for my name's sake, shall receive a hundredfold, and 30 shall inherit life eternal; but many first

shall be last, and last first. XX. For the kingdom of the heavens is like a householder who went out with the early morn to hire labourers for his vineyard. 2 And having agreed with the workmen for a penny the day, he sent them into ⚫ his vineyard. And having gone out about the third hour, he saw others ✦ standing in the market-place idle; and to them he said: Go also ye into my vineyard, and whatever may be just I will give you. And they went their way. And again, having gone out about the sixth and ninth hour, he did likewise. • But about the eleventh hour, having gone out, he found others standing idle, and says to them: Why stand ye here all the day idle? They say to him: Because no man has hired us. He says to them: Go also ye into my vineyard, and whatever may be just ye shall receive. But when the evening was come, the lord of the vineyard says to his.

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steward: Call the labourers and pay them their wages, beginning from the 9 last even to the first. And when they [who came to work] about the eleventh hour came, they received each a denarius. 10 And when the first came, they supposed that they would receive more, and they received also themselves each a denarius. 11 And on receiving it, they murmured 12 against the master of the house, saying:

These last have worked one hour, and thou hast made them equal to us who have borne the burden of the day and 13 the heat. But he answering, said to one of them [My] friend, I do not wrong thee. Didst thou not agree with me for 14 a denarius? Take what is thine and go. But it is my will to give to this last even as to thee, is it not lawful for me to do what I will in my own affairs? Is thine

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eye evil because I am good? Thus there shall be last first, and first last; for many are called ones, but few chosen ones. 17 And Jesus, going up to Jerusalem, took the twelve with [him] apart in the way, 18 and said to them: Behold, we go up to

Jerusalem, and the Son of man will be delivered up to the chief priests and scribes, and they will condemn him to 19 death; and they will deliver him up to the nations to mock and to scourge and to crucify, and the third day he shall rise again.

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20 Then came to him the mother of the sons of Zebedee, with her sons, doing homage to him, and asking something of 21 him. And he said to her: What wilt thou? She says to him: Speak [the word] in order that my two sons may sit, one on thy right hand and the other on thy left in thy kingdom. Jesus answering, said: Ye know not what ye ask. Can ye drink the cup which I am about to drink, *[or be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with]? They say to him: We are able. And he saith to them: Ye shall drink indeed my cup, [and be baptized with the baptism

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* In this and the following verse, I have enclosed these words in brackets, as it is so very doubtful if they ought to be here. I have not excluded them, as all editors are not agreed. They are in Mark x. 38, 39.

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