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10:22. Who being struck sad at that saying, went away sorrowful: for he
had great possessions.
10:23. And Jesus looking round about, saith to his disciples: How hardly
shall they that have riches enter into the kingdom of God!
10:24. And the disciples were astonished at his words. But Jesus again
answering, saith to them: Children, how hard is it for them that trust
in riches to enter into the kingdom of God?
10:25. It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than
for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.
10:26. Who wondered the more, saying among themselves: Who then can be
saved?
10:27. And Jesus looking on them, saith with men it is impossible; but
not with God. For all things are possible with God.
10:28. And Peter began to say unto him: Behold, we have left all things
and have followed thee.
10:29. Jesus answering said: Amen I say to you, there is no man who hath
left house or brethren or sisters or father or mother or children or
lands, for my sake and for the gospel,
10:30. Who shall not receive an hundred times as much, now in this time:
houses and brethren and sisters and mothers and children and lands, with
persecutions: and in the world to come life everlasting.
10:31. But many that are first shall be last: and the last, first.
10:32. And they were in the way going up to Jerusalem: and Jesus went
before them. And they were astonished and following were afraid. And
taking again the twelve, he began to tell them the things that should
befall him.
10:33. Saying: Behold we go up to Jerusalem, and the Son of man shall be
betrayed to the chief priests and to the scribes and ancients. And they
shall condemn him to death and shall deliver him to the Gentiles.
10:34. And they shall mock him and spit on him and scourge him and kill
him: and the third day he shall rise again.
10:35. And James and John, the sons of Zebedee, come to him, saying:
Master, we desire that whatsoever we shall ask, thou wouldst do it for
us.
10:36. But he said to them: What would you that I should do for you?
10:37. And they said: Grant to us that we may sit, one on thy right hand
and the other on thy left hand, in thy glory.
10:38. And Jesus said to them: You know not what you ask. Can you drink
of the chalice that I drink of or be baptized with the baptism wherewith
I am baptized?
10:39. But they said to him: We can. And Jesus saith to them: You shall
indeed drink of the chalice that I drink of; and with the baptism
wherewith I am baptized you shall be baptized.
10:40. But to sit on my right hand or on my left is not mine to give to
you, but to them for whom it is prepared.
10:41. And the ten, hearing it, began to be much displeased at James and
John.
10:42. But Jesus calling them, saith to them: You know that they who
seem to rule over the Gentiles lord it over them: and their princes have
power over them.
10:43. But it is not so among you: but whosoever will be greater shall
be your minister.
10:44. And whosoever will be first among you shall be the servant of
all.
10:45. For the Son of man also is not come to be ministered unto: but to
minister and to give his life a redemption for many.
10:46. And they came to Jericho. And as he went out of Jericho with his
disciples and a very great multitude, Bartimeus the blind man, the son
of Timeus, sat by the way side begging.
10:47. Who when he had heard that it was Jesus of Nazareth, began to cry
out and to say: Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me.
10:48. And many rebuked him, that he might hold his peace; but he cried
a great deal the more: Son of David, have mercy on me.
10:49. And Jesus, standing still, commanded him to be called. And they
call the blind man, saying to him: Be of better comfort. Arise, he
calleth thee.
10:50. Who casting off his garment leaped up and came to him.
10:51. And Jesus answering, said to him: What wilt thou that I should do
to thee? And the blind man said to him: Rabboni. That I may see.
10:52. And Jesus saith to him: Go thy way. Thy faith hath made thee
whole. And immediately he saw and followed him in the way.
Mark Chapter 11
Christ enters into Jerusalem upon an ass. He curses the barren fig tree
and drives the buyers and sellers out of the temple.
11:1. And when they were drawing near to Jerusalem and to Bethania, at
the mount of Olives, he sendeth two of his disciples,
11:2. And saith to them: Go into the village that is over against you,
and immediately at your coming in thither, you shall find a colt tied,
upon which no man yet hath sat. Loose him and bring him.
11:3. And if any man shall say to you: What are you doing? Say ye that
the Lord hath need of him. And immediately he will let him come hither.
11:4. And going their way, they found the colt tied before the gate
without, in the meeting of two ways. And they loose him.
11:5. And some of them that stood there said to them: What do you
loosing the colt?
11:6. Who said to them as Jesus had commanded them. And they let him go
with them.
11:7. And they brought the colt to Jesus. And they lay their garments on
him: and he sat upon him.
11:8. And many spread their garments in the way: and others cut down
boughs from the trees and strewed them in the way.
11:9. And they that went before and they that followed cried, saying:
Hosanna: Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord.
11:10. Blessed be the kingdom of our father David that cometh: Hosanna
in the highest.
11:11. And he entered into Jerusalem, into the temple: and having viewed
all things round about, when now the eventide was come, he went out to
Bethania with the twelve.
11:12. And the next day when they came out from Bethania, he was hungry.
11:13. And when he had seen afar off a fig tree having leaves, he came,
if perhaps he might find any thing on it. And when he was come to it, he
found nothing but leaves. For it was not the time for figs.
11:14. And answering he said to it: May no man hereafter eat fruit of
thee any more for ever! And his disciples heard it.
11:15. And they came to Jerusalem. And when he was entered into the
temple, he began to cast out them that sold and bought in the temple:
and over threw the tables of the moneychangers and the chairs of them
that sold doves.
11:16. And he suffered not that any man should carry a vessel through
the temple.
11:17. And he taught, saying to them: Is it not written: My house shall
be called the house of prayer to all nations, but you have made it a den
of thieves.
11:18. Which when the chief priests and the scribes had heard, they
sought how they might destroy him. For they feared him, because the
whole multitude was in admiration at his doctrine.
11:19. And when evening was come, he went forth out of the city.
11:20. And when they passed by in the morning they saw the fig tree
dried up from the roots.
11:21. And Peter remembering, said to him: Rabbi, behold the fig tree
which thou didst curse is withered away.
11:22. And Jesus answering, saith to them: Have the faith of God.
11:23. Amen I say to you that whosoever shall say to this mountain, Be
thou removed and be cast into the sea, and shall not stagger in his
heart, but be believe that whatsoever he saith shall be done; it shall
be done unto him.
11:24. Therefore I say unto you, all things, whatsoever you ask when ye
pray, believe that you shall receive: and they shall come unto you.
11:25. And when you shall stand to pray, forgive, if you have aught
against any man: that your Father also, who is in heaven, may forgive
you your sins.
11:26. But if you will not forgive, neither will your father that is in
heaven forgive you your sins.
11:27. And they come again to Jerusalem. And when he was walking in the
temple, there come to him the chief priests and the scribes and the
ancients.
11:28. And they say to him: By what authority dost thou these things?
And who hath given thee this authority that thou shouldst do these
things?
11:29. And Jesus answering, said to them: I will also ask you one word.
And answer you me: and I will tell you by what authority I do these
things.
11:30. The baptism of John, was it from heaven or from men? Answer me.
11:31. But they thought with themselves, saying: If we say, From heaven;
he will say, Why then did you not believe him?
11:32. If we say, From men, we fear the people. For all men counted John
that he was a prophet indeed.
11:33. And they answering, say to Jesus: We know not. And Jesus
answering, saith to them: Neither do I tell you by what authority I do
these things.
Mark Chapter 12
The parable of the vineyard and husbandmen. Caesar's right to tribute.
The Sadducees are confuted. The first commandment. The widow's mite.
12:1. And he began to speak to them in parables: A certain man planted a
vineyard and made a hedge about it and dug a place for the winefat and
built a tower and let it to husbandmen: and went into a far country.
12:2. And at the season he sent to the husbandmen a servant to receive
of the husbandmen of the fruit of the vineyard.
12:3. Who, having laid hands on him, beat and sent him away empty.
12:4. And again he sent to them another servant: and him they wounded in
the head and used him reproachfully.
12:5. And again he sent another, and him they killed: and many others,
of whom some they beat, and others they killed.
12:6. Therefore, having yet one son, most dear to him, he also sent him
unto them last of all, saying: They will reverence my son.
12:7. But the husbandmen said one to another: This is the heir. Come
let us kill him and the inheritance shall be ours.
12:8. And laying hold on him, they killed him and cast him out of the
vineyard.
12:9. What therefore will the lord of the vineyard do? He will come and
destroy those husbandmen and will give the vineyard to others.
12:10. And have you not read this scripture, The stone which the
builders rejected, the same is made the head of the corner:
12:11. By the Lord has this been done, and it is wonderful in our eyes.
12:12. And they sought to lay hands on him: but they feared the people.
For they knew that he spoke this parable to them. And leaving him, they
went their way.
12:13. And they sent to him some of the Pharisees and of the Herodians:
that they should catch him in his words.
12:14. Who coming, say to him: Master, we know that thou art a true
speaker and carest not for any man; for thou regardest not the person of
men, but teachest the way of God in truth. Is it lawful to give tribute
to Caesar? Or shall we not give it?
12:15. Who knowing their wiliness, saith to them: Why tempt you me?
Bring me a penny that I may see it.
12:16. And they brought it him. And he saith to them: Whose is this
image and inscription? They say to him, Caesar's.
12:17. And Jesus answering, said to them: Render therefore to Caesar the
things that are Caesar's and to God the things that are God's. And they
marvelled at him.
12:18. And there came to him the Sadducees, who say there is no
resurrection. And they asked him, saying:
12:19. Master, Moses wrote unto us that if any man's brother die and
leave his wife behind him and leave no children, his brother should take
his wife and raise up seed to his brother.
12:20. Now there were seven brethren: and the first took a wife and died
leaving no issue.
12:21. And the second took her and died: and neither did he leave any
issue. And the third in like manner.
12:22. And the seven all took her in like manner and did not leave
issue. Last of all the woman also died.
12:23. In the resurrection therefore, when they shall rise again, whose
wife shall she be of them? For the seven had her to wife.
12:24. And Jesus answering, saith to them: Do ye not therefore err,
because you know not the scriptures nor the power of God?
12:25. For when they shall rise again from the dead, they shall neither
marry, nor be married, but are as the angels in heaven.
12:26. And as concerning the dead that they rise again have you not read
in the book of Moses, how in the bush God spoke to him, saying: I am the
God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob?
12:27. He is not the God of the dead, but of the living. You therefore
do greatly err.
12:28. And there came one of the scribes that had heard them reasoning
together, and seeing that he had answered them well, asked him which was
the first commandment of all.
12:29. And Jesus answered him: The first commandment of all is, Hear, O
Israel: the Lord thy God is one God.
12:30. And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with thy whole heart and
with thy whole soul and with thy whole mind and with thy whole strength.
This is the first commandment.
12:31. And the second is like to it: Thou shalt love thy neighbour as
thyself. There is no other commandment greater than these.
12:32. And the scribe said to him: Well, Master, thou hast said in truth
that there is one God and there is no other besides him.
12:33. And that he should be loved with the whole heart and with the
whole understanding and with the whole soul and with the whole strength.
And to love one's neighbour as one's self is a greater thing than all
holocausts and sacrifices.
12:34. And Jesus seeing that he had answered wisely, said to him: Thou
art not far from the kingdom of God. And no man after that durst ask him
any question.
12:35. And Jesus answering, said, teaching in the temple: How do the
scribes say that Christ is the son of David?
12:36. For David himself saith by the Holy Ghost: The Lord said to my
Lord: Sit on my right hand, until I make thy enemies thy footstool.
12:37. David therefore himself calleth him Lord. And whence is he then
his son? And a great multitude heard him gladly.
12:38. And he said to them in his doctrine: Beware of the scribes, who
love to walk in long robes and to be saluted in the marketplace,
12:39. And to sit in the first chairs in the synagogues and to have the
highest places at suppers:
12:40. Who devour the houses of widows under the pretence of long
prayer. These shall receive greater judgment.
12:41. And Jesus sitting over against the treasury, beheld how the
people cast money into the treasury. And many that were rich cast in
much.
12:42. And there came a certain poor widow: and she cast in two mites,
which make a farthing.
12:43. And calling his disciples together, he saith to them: Amen I say
to you, this poor widow hath cast in more than all they who have cast
into the treasury.
12:44. For all they did cast in of their abundance; but she of her want
cast in all she had, even her whole living.
Mark Chapter 13
Christ foretells the destruction of the temple and the signs that shall
forerun the day of judgment.
13:1. And as he was going out of the temple, one of his disciples said
to him: Master, behold what manner of stones and what buildings are
here.
13:2. And Jesus answering, said to him: Seest thou all these great
buildings? There shall not be left a stone upon a stone, that shall not
be thrown down.
13:3. And as he sat on the mount of Olivet over against the temple,
Peter and James and John and Andrew asked him apart:
13:4. Tell us, when shall these things be and what shall be the sign
when all these things shall begin to be fulfilled?
13:5. And Jesus answering, began to say to them: Take heed lest any man
deceive you.
13:6. For many shall come in my name saying, I am he: and they shall
deceive many.
13:7. And when you shall hear of wars and rumours of wars, fear ye not.
For such things must needs be: but the end is not yet.
13:8. For nation shall rise against nation and kingdom against kingdom:
and there shall be earthquakes in divers places and famines. These
things are the beginning of sorrows.
13:9. But look to yourselves. For they shall deliver you Up to councils:
and in the synagogues you shall be beaten: and you shall stand before
governors and kings for my sake, for a testimony unto them.
13:10. And unto all nations the gospel must first be preached.
13:11. And when they shall lead you and deliver you up, be not
thoughtful beforehand what you shall speak: but whatsoever shall be
given you in that hour, that speak ye. For it is not you that speak, but
the Holy Ghost.
13:12. And the brother shall betray his brother unto death, and the
father his son; and children shall rise up against their parents and
shall work their death.
13:13. And you shall be hated by all men for my name's sake. But he that
shall endure unto the end, he shall be saved.
13:14. And when you shall see the abomination of desolation, standing
where it ought not (he that readeth let him understand): then let them
that are in Judea flee unto the mountains.
13:15. And let him that is on the housetop not go down into the house
nor enter therein to take any thing out of the house.
13:16. And let him that shall be in the field not turn back to take up
his garment.
13:17. And woe to them that are with child and that give suck in those
days.
13:18. But pray ye that these things happen not in winter.
13:19. For in those days shall be such tribulations as were not from the
beginning of the creation which God created until now: neither shall be.
13:20. And unless the Lord had shortened the days, no flesh should be
saved: but, for the sake of the elect which he hath chosen, he hath
shortened the days.
13:21. And then if any man shall say to you: Lo, here is Christ. Lo, he
is here: do not believe.
13:22. For there will rise up false Christs and false prophets: and they
shall shew signs and wonders, to seduce (if it were possible) even the
elect.
13:23. Take you heed therefore: behold, I have foretold you all things.
13:24. But in those days, after that tribulation, the sun shall be
darkened and the moon shall not give her light.
13:25. And the stars of heaven shall be falling down and the powers that
are in heaven shall be moved.
13:26. And then shall they see the Son of man coming in the clouds, with
great power and glory.
13:27. And then shall he send his angels and shall gather together his
elect from the four winds, from the uttermost part of the earth to the
uttermost part of heaven.
13:28. Now of the fig tree learn ye a parable. When the branch thereof
is now tender and the leaves are come forth, you know that summer is
very near.
13:29. So you also when you shall see these things come to pass, know ye
that it is very nigh, even at the doors.
13:30. Amen, I say to you that this generation shall not pass until all
these things be done.
13:31. Heaven and earth shall pass away: but my word shall not pass
away.
13:32. But of that day or hour no man knoweth, neither the angels in
heaven, nor the Son, but the Father.
Nor the Son... Not that the Son of God is absolutely ignorant of the day
of judgment, but that he knoweth it not, as our teacher; that is, he
knoweth it not so as to teach it to us, as not being expedient.
13:33. Take ye heed, watch and pray. For ye know not when the time is.
13:34. Even as a man who, going into a far country, left his house and
gave authority to his servants over every work and commanded the porter
to watch.
13:35. Watch ye therefore (for you know not when the lord of the house
cometh, at even, or at midnight, or at the cock crowing, or in the
morning):
13:36. Lest coming on a sudden, he find you sleeping.
13:37. And what I say to you, I say to all: Watch.
Mark Chapter 14
The first part of the history of the passion of Christ.
14:1. Now the feast of the pasch and of the Azymes was after two days:
and the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might by some wile
lay hold on him and kill him.
Azymes... That is, the feast of the unleavened bread.
14:2. But they said: Not on the festival day, lest there should be a
tumult among the people.
14:3. And when he was in Bethania, in the house of Simon the leper, and
was at meat, there came a woman having an alabaster box of ointment of
precious spikenard. And breaking the alabaster box, she poured it out
upon his head.
14:4. Now there were some that had indignation within themselves and
said: Why was this waste of the ointment made?
14:5. For this ointment might have been sold for more than three hundred
pence and given to the poor. And they murmured against her.
14:6. But Jesus said: Let her alone. Why do You molest her? She hath
wrought a good work upon me.
14:7. For the poor you have always with you: and whensoever you will,
you may do them good: but me you have not always.
14:8. She hath done what she could: she is come beforehand to anoint my
body for the burial.
14:9. Amen, I say to you, wheresoever this gospel shall be preached in
the whole world, that also which she hath done shall be told for a
memorial of her.
14:10. And Judas Iscariot, one of the twelve, went to the chief priests,
to betray him to them.
14:11. Who hearing it were glad: and they promised him they would give
him money. And he sought how he might conveniently betray him.
14:12. Now on the first day of the unleavened bread, when they
sacrificed the pasch, the disciples say to him: Whither wilt thou that
we go and prepare for thee to eat the pasch?
14:13. And he sendeth two of his disciples and saith to them: Go ye into
the city; and there shall meet you a man carrying a pitcher of water.
Follow him.
14:14. And whithersoever he shall go in, say to the master of the house,
The master saith, Where is my refectory, where I may eat the pasch with
my disciples?
14:15. And he will shew you a large dining room furnished. And there
prepare ye for us.
14:16. And his disciples went their way and came into the city. And
they found as he had told them: and they prepared the pasch.
14:17. And when evening was come, he cometh with the twelve.
14:18. And when they were at table and eating, Jesus saith: Amen I say
to you, one of you that eateth with me shall betray me.
14:19. But they began to be sorrowful and to say to him, one by one: Is
it I?
14:20. Who saith to them: One of the twelve, who dippeth with me his
hand in the dish.
14:21. And the Son of man indeed goeth, as it is written of him: but woe
to that man by whom the Son of man shall be betrayed. It were better
for him, if that man had not been born.
14:22. And whilst they were eating, Jesus took bread; and blessing,
broke and gave to them and said: Take ye. This is my body.
14:23. And having taken the chalice, giving thanks, he gave it to them.
And they all drank of it.
14:24. And he said to them: This is my blood of the new testament, which
shall be shed for many.
14:25. Amen I say to you that I will drink no more of the fruit of the
vine until that day when I shall drink it new in the kingdom of God.
14:26. And when they had sung an hymn, they went forth to the mount of
Olives.
14:27. And Jesus saith to them: You will all be scandalized in my regard
this night. For it is written: I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep
shall be dispersed.
14:28. But after I shall be risen again, I will go before you into
Galilee.
14:29. But Peter saith to him: Although all shall be scandalized in
thee, yet not I.
14:30. And Jesus saith to him: Amen I say to thee, to-day, even in this
night, before the cock crow twice, thou shalt deny me thrice.
Crow twice... The cocks crow at two different times of the night; viz.,
about midnight for the first time; and then about the time commonly
called the cock crowing; and this was the cock crowing our Saviour spoke
of; and therefore the other Evangelists take no notice of the first
crowing.
14:31. But he spoke the more vehemently: Although I should die together
with thee, I will not deny thee. And in like manner also said they all.
14:32. And they came to a farm called Gethsemani. And he saith to his
disciples: Sit you here, while I pray.
14:33. And he taketh Peter and James and John with him: and he began to
fear and to be heavy.
14:34. And he saith to them: My soul is sorrowful even unto death. Stay
you here and watch.
14:35. And when he was gone forward a little, he fell flat on the
ground: and he prayed that, if it might be, the hour might pass from
him.
14:36. And he saith: Abba, Father, all things are possible to thee:
remove this chalice from me; but not what I will, but what thou wilt.
14:37. And he cometh and findeth them sleeping. And he saith to Peter:
Simon, sleepest thou? Couldst thou not watch one hour?
14:38. Watch ye: and pray that you enter not into temptation. The spirit
indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.
14:39. And going away again, he prayed, saying the same words.
14:40. And when he returned, he found them again asleep (for their eyes
were heavy): and they knew not what to answer him.
14:41. And he cometh the third time and saith to them: Sleep ye now and
take your rest. It is enough. The hour is come: behold the Son of man
shall be betrayed into the hands of sinners.
14:42. Rise up: let us go. Behold, he that will betray me is at hand.
14:43. And while he was yet speaking, cometh Judas Iscariot, one of the
twelve: and with him a great multitude with swords and staves, from the
chief priests and the scribes and the ancients.
