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The 23rd
Chapter
Then spoke Jesus to the people, and to his disciples saying:
The Scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses seat. All therefore
whatsoever they bid you observe, that observe and do: but after
their works do not: For they say, and do not. Ye, and they bind
heavy burdens and grievous to be borne, and lay them on mens
shoulders: but they themselves will not heave at them with one of
their fingers. All their works they do, for to be seen of men. They
set abroad their *phylacteries, and make large borders on their
garments, and love to sit uppermost at feasts and to have the chief
seats in the synagogues, and greetings in the markets, and to be
called of men Rabbi.
But you shall not *suffer yourselves to be called Rabbi. For
one is your master, that is to *wit Christ, and all you are
brethren. And call no man your father upon the earth, for there is
but one your father, and he is in heaven. Be not called masters, for
there is but one your master, and he is Christ. He that is greatest
among you, shall be your servant. But whosoever exalts himself,
shall be brought low. And he that humbles himself, shall be exalted.
*Woe be unto you Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, for you shut up
the kingdom of heaven before men: you yourselves go not in, neither
suffer you them that come, to enter in.
Woe be unto you Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites: you devour
widows houses: and that under a colour of praying long prayers
wherefore you shall receive greater damnation.
Woe be unto you Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, which
compass sea and land, to bring one in to your belief: and when he is
brought, you make him two fold more the child of hell, than you
yourselves are.
Woe be unto you blind guides, which say whosoever swear by the
temple: it is nothing: but whosoever swear by the gold of the
temple, he offends. you fools and blind: whether is greater, the
gold, or the temple that sanctifies the gold? And whosoever swears
by the altar, it is nothing: but whosoever swears by the offering
that lies on the altar, offends. you fools and blind: whether is
greater the offering, or the altar which sanctifies the offering?
Whosoever therefore swears by the altar, swears by it, and by all
that thereon is. And whosoever swears by the temple, swears by it,
and by him that dwells therein. And he that swears by heaven, swears
by the seat of God and by him that sits thereon.
Woe be to you Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, which tithe
mint, annise and cummin, and leave the weightier matters of the law
undone: judgement, mercy, and faith. These ought you to have done,
and not to have left the other undone. you blind guides which strain
out a gnat and swallow a camel.
Woe be to you Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, which make
clean the outer side of the cup, and of the platter: but within they
are full of bribery and excess. You blind Pharisee, cleanse first,
the inside of the cup and platter, that the outside of them may be
clean also.
Woe be to you Scribes and Pharisees hypocrites, for you are
like unto painted tombs which appear beautiful outward: but are
within full of dead bones and of all filthiness. So are ye, for
outward you appear righteous unto men, when within, you are full of
hypocrisy and iniquity.
Woe be unto you Scribes and Pharisees hypocrites: you build the
tombs of the Prophets, and garnish the sepulchers of the righteous,
and say: If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not
have been partners with them in the blood of the Prophets. So then
you be witnesses unto yourselves, that you are the children of them
which killed the Prophets. Fulfil you likewise the measure of your
fathers. you serpents and generation of vipers, how should you scape
the damnation of hell?
Wherefore, behold I send unto you, prophets, wise men and
scribes, and of them you shall kill and crucify: and of them you
shall scourge in your synagogues, and persecute from city to city,
that upon you may come all the righteous blood that was shed upon
the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel, unto the blood of
Zacharias the son of Barachias, whom you slew between the temple and
the altar. Verily I say unto you, all these things shall light upon
this generation. Jerusalem, Jerusalem which kill Prophets, and stone
them which are sent to you: how often would I have gathered your
children together, as the hen gathers her chickens under her wings,
but you would not: Behold your habitation shall be left unto you
desolate. For I say to you, you shall not see me from this time,
till that you say: blessed is he that comes in the name of the Lord.
*phylacteries:
either of two leather pouches containing scriptures, one worn on the
left arm, the other on the forehead, by these Scribes or Pharisees.
*suffer (allow) *wit (know) *Woe: this woe and the following appear
as "bold type" in the text.
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The 24th
Chapter
And Jesus went out and departed from the temple: and his
disciples came to him, for to show him the building of the temple.
Jesus said unto them: see you not all these things? Verily I say
unto you: there shall not be here left one stone upon another, that
shall not be cast down.
And as he sat upon the mount Olivet, his disciples came unto
him secretly saying. Tell us when these things shall be: and what
sign shall be of your coming, and of the end of the world? And Jesus
answered, and said unto them: take heed that no man deceive you. For
many shall come in my name saying: I am Christ: and shall deceive
many. you shall hear of wars, and of the fame of wars: but see that
you be not troubled. For all these things must come to pass, but the
end is not yet. For nation shall rise against nation, and realm
against realm: and there shall be pestilence, hunger and earthquakes
in all quarters. All these are the beginning of sorrows.
Then shall they put you to trouble, and shall kill you: and you
shall be hated of all nations for my names sake. And then shall many
be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one the
other. And many false prophets shall arise, and shall deceive many.
And because iniquity shall have the upper hand, the love of many
shall abate. But he that endures to the end, the same shall be safe.
And this glad tidings of the kingdom: shall be preached in all the
world, for a witness unto all nations: and then shall the end come.
When you therefore shall see the abomination that betokens
desolation, spoken of by Daniel the Prophet, stand in the holy
place: let him that reads it, understand it. Then let them which be
in *Jury, fly into the mountains. And let him which is on the house
top, not come down to fetch anything out of his house. Neither let
him which is in the field, return back to fetch his clothes. Woe
shall be in those days to them that are with child, and to them that
give suck. But pray that your flight be not in the winter, neither
on the Sabbath day. For then shall be great tribulation, such as was
not from the beginning of the world to this time, nor shall be. you
and except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be
saved: but for the chosens sake, those days shall be shortened.
Then if any man shall say unto you: lo, here is Christ, or
there is Christ: believe it not. For there shall arise false Christs,
and false prophets, and shall do great miracles and wonders. In so
much that if it were possible, the very elect should be deceived.
Take heed, I have told you before. Wherefore if they shall say unto
you: behold he is in the desert, go not forth: behold he is in the
secret places, believe not. For as the lightning comes out of the
East and shines unto the west: so shall the coming of the son of man
be. For wheresoever a dead carcass is, even over there will the
eagles resort. Immediately after the tribulations of those days,
shall the sun be darkened: and the moon shall not give her light,
and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of heaven shall
move. And then shall appear the sign of the son of man in heaven.
And then shall all the kindreds of the earth mourn, and they shall
see the son of man come in the clouds of heaven with power and great
glory. And he shall send his Angels with the great voice of a
trumpet, and they shall gather together his chosen, from the four
winds, and from the one end of the world to the other.
Learn a similitude of the fig tree: when his branches are yet
tender and his leaves sprung, you know that summer is nigh. So
likewise ye, when you see all these things, be you sure that it is
near, even at the doors. Verily I say unto you, that this generation
shall not pass till all these be fulfilled. Heaven and earth shall
perish, but my words shall abide. But of that day and hour knows no
man, no not the angels of heaven, but my father only.
As the time of Noe was, so likewise shall the coming of the son
of man be. For as in the days before the flood: they did eat and
drink, marry, and were married, even unto the day that Noe entered
in to the ship, and knew of nothing, till the flood came and took
them all away: So shall also the coming of the son of man be. Then
two shall be in the fields, the one shall be received, and the other
shall be refused, two shall be grinding at the mill the one shall be
received, and the other shall be refused. Wake therefore, because
you know not what hour your master will come. Of this be sure, that
if the good man of the house knew what hour the thief would come: he
would surely watch, and not suffer his house to be broken up.
Therefore be you also ready, for in the hour you think he would not:
will the son of man come. If there be any faithful servant and wise,
whom his master has made ruler over his household to give them meat
in season convenient, happy is that servant whom his master (when he
comes) shall find so doing. Verily I say unto you, he shall make him
ruler over all his goods. But and if that evil servant shall say in
his heart, my master will defer his coming, and begin to smite his
fellows, you and to eat and to drink with the drunken: that servants
master will come in a day when he looks not for him, and in an hour
that he is not ware of, and will divide him, and give him his reward
with hypocrites. There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
*Jury (Jewry)
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The 25th
Chapter
Then the kingdom of heaven shall be likened unto ten virgins,
which took their lamps, and went to meet the bridegroom: five of
them were foolish, and five were wise. The foolish took their lamps,
but took none oil with them. But the wise took oil with them in
their vessels with their lamps also. While the bridegroom tarried,
all slumbered and slept. And even at midnight, there was a cry made:
behold, the bridegroom comes, go out against him. Then all those
virgins arose, and prepared their lamps. And the foolish said to the
wise: give us of your oil, for our lamps go out. But the wise
answered saying: Not so, least there be not enough for us and you:
but go rather to them that sell, and buy for yourselves. And while
they went to buy, the bridegroom came: and they that were ready,
went in with him to the wedding, and the gate was shut up.
Afterwards came also the other virgins saying: Master, master, open
to us. But he answered and said: verily I say unto you: I know not
you. Watch therefore: for you know neither the day not yet the hour,
when the son of man shall come.
Likewise as a certain man ready to take his journey to a
strange country, called his servants and delivered to them his
goods. And unto one he gave five talents, to another two and to
another one: to every man after his ability, and straight way
departed. Then he that had received the five talents, went and
bestowed them, and won other five talents. Likewise he that received
two, gained other two. But he that received the one, went and digged
a pit in the earth, and hid his masters money. After a long season
the Lord of those servants came and reckoned with them. Then came he
that had received five talents, and brought other five talents
saying: master, you delivered unto me five talents: behold I have
gained with them five talents more. Then his master said unto him:
well good servant and faithful. You have been faithful in little, I
will make you ruler over much: enter in into your masters joy. Also
he that received two talents, came and said: master, you delivered
unto me two talents: behold, I have won two other talents with them.
And his master said unto him, well good servant and faithful. You
have been faithful in little, I will make you ruler over much, go in
into your masters joy.
Then he which had received the one talent came and said:
master, I considered that you was an hard man, which reap where you
sowed not, and gatherest where you *strawedst not, and was therefore
afraid, and went and hid your talent in the earth: Behold, you have
your own. His master answered and said unto him: you evil servant
and slothful, you knew that I reap where I sowed not and gather
where I strawed not: you ought therefore to have had my money to the
changers, and then at my coming should I have received mine own with
vantage. Take therefore the talent from him, and give it unto him
which has ten talents. For unto every man that has shall be given,
and he shall have abundance, and from him that has not, shall be
taken away, even that he has. And cast that unprofitable servant
into utter darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
When the son of man comes in his glory, and all the holy angels
with him, then shall he sit upon the seat of his glory, and before
him shall be gathered all nations. And he shall separate them one
from another, as a shepherd divides the sheep from the goats. And he
shall set the sheep on his right hand, and the goats on the left.
Then shall the King say to them on his right hand: Come you blessed
children of my father, inherit you the kingdom prepared for you from
the beginning of the world. For I was an hungered, and you gave me
meat. I thirsted, and you gave me drink. I was harborless, and you
lodged me. I was naked and you clothed me. I was sick and you
visited me. I was in prison and you came unto me. Then shall the
righteous answer him saying: master, when saw we you an hungered,
and fed you? or a thirst, and gave you drink? when saw we you
harborless, and lodged you? or naked and clothed you? or when saw we
you sick or in prison and came unto you? And the king shall answer
and say unto them: Verily I say unto you: in as much as you have
done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, you have done it
to me.
Then shall the king say unto them that shall be on the left
hand: depart from me you cursed, into everlasting fire: which is
prepared for the devil and his angels. For I was an hungered, and
you gave me no meat. I thirsted, and you gave me no drink. I was
harborless, and you lodged me not. I was naked, and you clothed me
not. I was sick and in prison, and you visited me not.
Then shall they also answer him saying: master, when saw we you
an hungered, or a thirst, or harborless, or naked, or sick, or in
prison, and did not minister unto you? Then shall he answer them and
say: Verily I say unto you, in as much as you did it not to one of
the least of these, you did it not to me. And these shall go into
everlasting pain: And the righteous into life eternal.
*strawedst
(strewed)
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The 26th
Chapter
And it came to pass, when Jesus had finished all these sayings,
he said unto his disciples: you know that after two days shall be
easter, and the son of man shall be delivered to be crucified.
Then assembled to gether the chief priests and the scribes and
the elders of the people to the palace of the high priest, called
Caiphas, and held a counsel, how they might take Jesus by subtlety
and kill him. But they said, not on the holy day, least any uproar
arise among the people.
When Jesus was in Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper,
there came unto him a woman, which had an alabaster box of precious
ointment, and poured it on his head, as he sat at the board. When
his disciples saw that, they had indignation saying: what needed
this waste? This ointment might have been well sold, and given to
the poor. When Jesus understood that, he said unto them: why trouble
you the woman? She has wrought a good work upon me. For you shall
have poor folk always with you: but me shall you not have always.
And in that she cast this ointment on my body, she did it to bury me
with all. Verily I say unto you, wheresoever this gospel shall be
preached throughout all the world there shall also this that she has
done, be told for a memorial of her.
Then one of the twelve called Judas Iscariot went unto the
chief priests, and said: what will you give me, and I will deliver
him unto you? And they appointed unto him thirty pieces of silver.
And from that time he sought opportunity to betray him.
The first day of sweet bread the disciples came to Jesus saying
unto him: where will you that we prepare for you to eat the *paschal
lamb? And he said: Go into the city, unto such a man, and say to
him, the master says, my time is at hand, I will keep mine easter at
your house with my disciples. And the disciples did as Jesus had
appointed them, and made ready the easterlamb.
When the evening was come he sat down with the twelve. And as
they did eat, he said: Verily I say unto you, that one of you shall
betray me. And they were exceeding sorrowful, and began every one of
them to say unto him: is it I master? He answered and said: he that
dips his hand with me in the dish, the same shall betray me. The son
of man goes as it is written of him: but woe be to that man, by whom
the son of man shall be betrayed. It had been good for that man, if
he had never been born. Then Judas which betrayed him, answered and
said: is it I master? He said unto him: you have said. As they did
eat, Jesus took bread and gave thanks, brake it, and gave it to the
disciples, and said: Take, eat, this is my body. And he took the
cup, and thanked, and gave it them, saying: drink of it every one.
For this is my blood of the new testament, that shall be shed for
many, for the *remission of sins. I say unto you: I will not drink
from this time of this fruit of the vine tree, until that day, when
I shall drink it new with you in my fathers kingdom.
And when they had said grace, they went out into mount olivet.
Then said Jesus unto them: all you shall be offended by me this
night. For it is written: I will smite the shepherd, and the sheep
of the flock shall be scattered abroad. But after I am risen again,
I will go before you into Galile. Peter answered, into him: though
all men should be offended by you, yet would I never be offended.
Jesus said unto him: Verily I say unto you, that this same night
before the cock crow, you shall deny me *thrice. Peter said unto
him. If I should die with you, yet would I not deny you. Likewise
also said all the disciples.
Then went Jesus with them into a place which is called
Gethsemane, and said unto the disciples, sit you here while I go and
pray yonder. And he took with him Peter and the two sons of Zebede,
and began to wax sorrowful and to be in agony. Then said Jesus unto
them: my soul is heavy even unto the death. Tarry here: and watch
with me. And he went a little apart, and fell flat on his face, and
prayed saying: O' my father, if it possible, let this cup pass from
me: nevertheless, not as I will, but as you will. And he came unto
the disciples, and found them asleep, and said to Peter: what, could
you not watch one hour: Watch: and pray that you fall not into
temptation. The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.
He went away once more, and prayed, saying: O' my father, if
this cup cannot pass away from me, but that I drink of it, your will
be fulfilled. And he came, and found them asleep again. For their
eyes were heavy. And he left and went again, and prayed the third
time saying the same words. Then came he to his disciples and said
unto them: Sleep from this time and take your rest. Take heed the
hour is at hand, and the son of man shall be betrayed into the hands
of sinners. Rise, let us be going: behold, he is at hand that shall
betray me. While he yet spoke: lo, Judas one of the twelve came, and
with him a great multitude with swords and staves, sent from the
chief priests and elders of the people. And he that betrayed him,
had given them a token, saying: whosoever I kiss, the same is he,
lay hands on him. And forth with all he came to Jesus, and said,
hail Master: and kissed him. And Jesus said unto him: friend,
wherefore are you come? Then came they and laid hands on Jesus and
took him.
And behold, one of them which were with Jesus, stretched out
his hand and drew his sword, and struck a servant of the high
priest, and smote off his ear. Then said Jesus unto him: put up your
sword into his sheath.
For all that lay hand on the sword, shall perish with the
sword. Either think you that I cannot now pray to my father, and he
shall give me more than twelve Legions of angels? But how then
should the scriptures be fulfilled: For so must it be. The same time
said Jesus to the multitude: you be come out as it were unto a
thief, with swords and staves for to take me. I sat daily teaching
in the temple among you, and you took me not. All this was done that
the scriptures of the Prophets might be fulfilled. Then all the
disciples forsook him and fled. And they took Jesus and led him to
Caiphas the high Priest, where the Scribes and the elders where
assembled. And Peter followed him afar off, unto the high priests
place: and went in, and sat with the servants to see the end.
The chief Priests and the elders, and all the council, sought
false witness against Jesus, for to put him to death, but found
none: in so much that when many false witnesses came, yet found they
none. At the last came two false witnesses, and said: This fellow
said: I can destroy the temple of God, and build it again in three
days. And the chief Priest arose, and said to him: answer you
nothing? How is it that these bear witness against you? But Jesus
held his peace. And the chief priest answered, and said to him: I
charge you in the name of the living God, that you tell us, whether
you be Christ the son of God. Jesus said to him: you have said.
Nevertheless I say unto you, hereafter shall you see the son of man
sitting on the right hand of power, and come in the clouds of the
sky.
Then the high priest rent his clothes saying: He has
blasphemed: what need we of any more witnesses? Behold now you have
heard his blasphemy: what think ye? They answered and said: he is
worthy to die. Then spat they in his face, and buffeted him with
fists. And other smote him with the palm of their hands on the face,
saying: tell us you Christ, who is he that smote you?
Peter sat without in the palace. And a damsel came to him
saying: You also was with Jesus of Galilee: but he denied before
them all saying: I *wot not what you say. When he was gone out into
the porch, another wench saw him, and said unto them that were
there: This fellow was also with Jesus of Nazareth. And again he
denied with an oath that he knew the man. And after a while came
unto him they that stood by and said unto Peter surely you are even
one of them, for your speech betrays you. Then began he to curse and
to swear, that he knew not the man. And immediately the cock crew.
And Peter remembered the words of Jesus which said unto him: before
the cock crow, you shall deny me *thrice: and went out at the doors
and wept bitterly.
*remission: the act of forgiving,/
giving up a possession, claim or right. *paschal lamb: the lamb
sacrificed at the first passover. *thrice (three times) *wot (know) |
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The 27th
Chapter
When the morning was come, all the chief priests and the elders
of the people held a counsel against Jesus, to put him to death, and
brought him bound and delivered him unto Pontius Pilate the *deputy.
Then when Judas which betrayed him, saw that he was condemned,
he repented himself, and brought again the thirty plates of silver
to the chief Priests and elders saying: I have sinned betraying the
innocent blood. And they said: what is that to us? See you to that.
And he cast down the silver plates in the temple and departed, and
went and hung himself.
And the chief priest took the silver plates and said: it is not
lawful for to put them in to the treasury, because it is the price
of blood. And they took counsel, and bought with them a potters
field to bury strangers in. Wherefore that field is called the field
of blood, until this day. Then was fulfilled, that which was spoken
by Jeremy the Prophet saying: and they took thirty silver plates,
the price of him that was valued whom they bought of the children of
Israel, and they gave them for the potters field, as the Lord
appointed me. Jesus stood before the *deputy: and the deputy asked
him saying: are you the king of the Jews: Jesus said unto him: You
say. And when he was accused of the chief priests and elders, he
answered nothing. Then said Pilate unto him: hear you not, how many
things they lay against you? And he answered him never a word: in so
much that the deputy marvelled greatly.
At that feast, the deputy was wont to deliver unto the people a
prisoner, whom they would desire. He had then a notable prisoner
called Barabbas. And when they were gathered together, Pilate said
unto them: whether will you that I give loose unto you, Barabbas or
Jesus which is called Christ? For he knew well, that for envy they
had delivered him.
When he was set down to give judgement his wife sent to him
saying: have you nothing to do with that just man. For I have
suffered many things this day in a dream about him. But the chief
priests and the elders had persuaded the people, that they should
ask Barabbas, and should destroy Jesus. Then the deputy answered and
said unto them: whether of the *twain will you that I let loose unto
you? And they said, Barabbas. Pilate said unto them: what shall I do
then with Jesus which is called Christ? They all said to him: let
him be crucified. Then said the deputy: what evil has he done? And
they cried the more saying: let him be crucified. When Pilate saw
that he prevailed nothing but that more business was made, he took
water and washed his hands before the people saying: I am innocent
of the blood of this just person, and that you shall see. Then
answered all the people and said: his blood be on us, and on our
children. Then let he Barabbas loose unto them, and scourged Jesus,
and delivered him to be crucified.
Then the soldiers of the deputy took Jesus unto the common
hall, and gathered unto him all the company. And they stripped him
and put on him a purple robe, and *plaited a crown of thorns and put
upon his head, and a reed in his right hand: and bowed their knees
before him, and mocked him, saying: hail king of the Jews: and
spitted upon him, and took the reed and smote him on the head.
And when they had mocked him, they took the robe off him again,
and put his own raiment on him, and led him away to crucify him. And
as they came out, they found a man of Cyren, named Simon: him they
compelled to bear his cross. And when they came unto the place,
called Golgotha (that is to say, a place of dead mens skulls) they
gave him vinegar to drink mingled with *gall. And when he had tasted
thereof, he would not drink.
When they had crucified him, they parted his garments, and did
cast lots: to fulfil that was spoken by the Prophet: They divided my
garments among them: and upon my vesture did cast lots. And they sat
and watched him there and they set up over his head the cause of his
death written: This is Jesus the king of the Jews. And there were
two thieves crucified with him, one on the right hand, and another
on the left.
They that passed by, reviled him wagging their heads and
saying: You that destroyed the temple of God and builded it in three
days, save yourself. If you be the son of God, come down from the
cross. Likewise also the high priests mocking him with the Scribes
and elders said: He saved other, him self he cannot save. If he be
the king of Israel, let him now come down from the cross, and we
will believe him. He trusted in God, let him deliver him now, if he
will have him: for he said, I am the son of God. That same also the
thieves which were crucified with him, cast in his teeth.
From the sixth hour was there darkness over all the land unto
the ninth hour. And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud
voice, saying: Eli, Eli, lama asbathani. That is to say, my God, my
God, why have you forsaken me? Some of them that stood there, when
they heard that, said: This man calls for *Helias. And straight way
one of them ran and took a sponge and filled it full of vinegar, and
put it on a reed, and gave him to drink. Other said, let be: let us
see whether *Helias will come and deliver him. Jesus cried
again with a loud voice and yielded up the ghost.
And behold the veil of the temple did rent in *twain from the
top to the bottom, and the earth did quake, and the stones did rent
and graves did open: and the bodies of many saints which slept,
arose and came out of the graves after his resurrection, and came
into the holy city, and appeared unto many. When the Centurion and
they that were with him watching Jesus, saw the earthquake and those
things which happened, they feared greatly, saying, Of a surety this
was the son of God.
And many women were there, beholding him afar off, which
followed Jesus from Galile, ministering unto him. Among which was
Mary Magdalen, and Mary the mother of James and Joses, and the
mother of Zebedes children. When the evening was come, there came a
rich man of Arimathia named Joseph, which same also was Jesus
disciple. He went to Pilate and begged the body of Jesus. Then
Pilate commanded the body to be delivered. And Joseph took the body,
and wrapped it in a clean linen cloth, and put it in his new tomb,
which he had hewn out, even in the rock, and rolled a great stone to
the door of the sepulchre and departed. And there was Mary Magdalene
and the other Mary sitting over against the sepulchre. The next day
that follows the day of preparing the Saboth, the high priests and
Pharisees got themselves to Pilate and said: Sir, we remember, that
this deceiver said while he was yet alive. After three days I will
arise again. Command therefore that the sepulchre be made sure until
the third day, least peradventure his disciples come and steal him
away and say unto the people, he is risen from death, and the last
error be worse than the first. Pilate said unto them. Take watchmen:
Go, and make it as sure as you can. And they went and made the
sepulchre sure with watchmen, and sealed the stone.
* deputy:
exact text: debite; from the Latin meaning to keep accounts of
debts, today these are kept on the left of the ledger. Official
listener to quarrels. *twain (two) *plaited: braided. *gall: bitter,
poison from the Hebrew. *Helias (Elias). |
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The 28th
Chapter
The sabbath day at evening which dawns the morrow after the
sabboth, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary came to see the sepulchre.
And behold there was a great earthquake. For the angel of the
Lord descended from heaven and came and rolled back the stone from
the door, and sat upon it. His countenance was like lightning, and
his raiment white as snow.
And for fear of him the keepers were astunned, and became as
dead men.
The angel answered and said to the women, fear you not. I know
that you seek Jesus which was crucified: he is not here: he is risen
as he said. Come, and see the place where the Lord was put: and go
quickly and tell his disciples that he is risen from death. And
behold, he will go before you into Galile, there you shall see him.
Lo I have told you.
And they departed quickly from the sepulchre with fear and
great Joy: and did run to bring his disciples word. And as they went
to tell his disciples: behold, Jesus met them saying: All hail. And
they came and held him by the feet and worshipped him. Then said
Jesus unto them: be not afraid. Go and tell my brethren, that they
go into Galile, and there shall they see me. When they were gone:
behold, some of the keepers came in to the city, and showed unto the
high priests, all the things that were happened. And they gathered
them together with the elders, and took counsel, and gave large
money unto the soldiers saying: Say that his disciples came by
night, and stole him away while you slept. And if this come to the
rulers ears, we will pease him, and save you harmless. And they took
the money and did as they were taught. And this saying is noised
among the Jews unto this day.
Then the eleven disciples went away into Galile, into a
mountain where Jesus had appointed them. And when they saw him, they
worshipped him. But some of them doubted. And Jesus came and spoke
unto them saying: All power is given unto me in heaven, and in
earth. Go therefore and teach all nations, baptising them in the
name of the father, and the son, and the holy ghost: Teaching them
to observe all things, whatsoever I commanded you. And lo, I am with
you alway, even until the end of the world.
Here ends the Gospel of St Matthew |
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