II: 2. Now when John heard in the prison of the doings of the Christ, he sent by his disciples and said to him: 66 Are you the coming one or are we to look for another?" Jesus answered them: "Go tell John the things you hear and see. The blind receive their sight. The lame walk. The lepers are cleansed. The deaf hear. The dead are raised up. The poor have the good news proclaimed to them. Blessed is he who shall find no hindrance in me. As these were going away Jesus began to say to the crowds about John : What did you go out into the wilderness to look at ? A reed shaken by the wind? A man clothed in soft clothing? But what did you go out to see? A prophet? Yes, I tell you, and more than a prophet. Behold! I send my messenger before thy face. To tell you the truth: Among those born of women, 11:9. There has not risen a greater than John the Purifier. Yet he who is least in the Kingdom of Heaven, Is greater than he. From the days of John the Purifier till now The Kingdom of Heaven is being taken by force, And those who are taking it by force are seizing it. For all the prophets and the law Prophesied till John, And if you will receive it, This is Elijah who is to come. He who has ears to hear, let him hear. But to what shall I compare this generation? We piped for you, You did not dance. 11:17. We mourned, You did not lament. For John came neither eating nor drinking, The Son of man came eating and drinking, Then he began to upbraid the cities in which most of his wonderful deeds were done, because they did not repent: Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the wonderful deeds done in you, Had been done in Tyre and Sidon They would have changed their mind and the purpose of their heart long ago, In sackcloth and ashes. But I tell you: It will be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon At the day of judgment than for you. And you, Capernaum, shall you be exalted to heaven! You will be brought down to hades. For if the wonderful deeds done in you, Had been done in Sodom, It would have remained To this day. II: 24. But I tell you: It will be more tolerable for the land of Sodom In the day of judgment, than for you.” At that time Jesus answered and said: “I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, Because thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, And hast revealed thein unto babes. Yes, Father, for so it seemed good in thy sight. Everything was delivered to me by my Father. And no one fully knows the Son except the Father. Nor does any one fully know the Father except the Son, And he to whomever the Son wishes to reveal him. Come to me all you who are weary and bur dened, And I will give you rest. Take my yoke on you, and learn of me. And you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light." 12 I. At that time Jesus went on the Sabbath through the wheat fields; and his disciples were hungry and began to pick and eat some heads of wheat. But the Pharisees saw it: "Look," they said to him. "Your disciples are doing what it is not right to do on the Sabbath." "Have you not read what David did, when he was hungry, and those with him how he went into the house of God, and ate the shew-bread, which it was not right for him to eat, nor for those with him, but only for the priests? Or have you not read in the law, how on the Sabbath the priests in the temple profane the Sabbath and are guiltless? But I tell you, one greater than the temple is here. But if you had known what this means: I desire mercy And not sacrifice, you would not have condemned the guiltless. For the Son of Man is master of the Sabbath." He left there and went into their synagogue, and a man with a withered hand was there. And they asked him : "Is it right to cure on the Sabbath? ' They asked this so that they might have occasion to accuse him. And he said to them: |