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And Jesus said to him, `Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thine understanding --

and he who did swear by the heaven, doth swear by the throne of God, and by Him who is sitting upon it.

said, `This one said, I am able to throw down the sanctuary of God, and after three days to build it.'

and Jesus was silent. And the chief priest answering said to him, `I adjure thee, by the living God, that thou mayest say to us, if thou art the Christ -- the Son of God.'

and saying, `Thou that art throwing down the sanctuary, and in three days building [it], save thyself; if Son thou art of God, come down from the cross.'

he hath trusted on God, let Him now deliver him, if He wish him, because he said -- Son of God I am;'

and about the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a great voice, saying, `Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani?' that is, `My God, my God, why didst Thou forsake me?'

A beginning of the good news of Jesus Christ, Son of God.

And after the delivering up of John, Jesus came to Galilee, proclaiming the good news of the reign of God,

and saying -- `Fulfilled hath been the time, and the reign of God hath come nigh, reform ye, and believe in the good news.'

saying, `Away! what -- to us and to thee, Jesus the Nazarene? thou didst come to destroy us; I have known thee who thou art -- the Holy One of God.'

`Why doth this one thus speak evil words? who is able to forgive sins except one -- God?'

and he rose immediately, and having taken up the couch, he went forth before all, so that all were astonished, and do glorify God, saying -- `Never thus did we see.'

how he went into the house of God, (at `Abiathar the chief priest,') and the loaves of the presentation did eat, which it is not lawful to eat, except to the priests, and he gave also to those who were with him?'

and the unclean spirits, when they were seeing him, were falling down before him, and were crying, saying -- `Thou art the Son of God;'

for whoever may do the will of God, he is my brother, and my sister, and mother.'

and he said to them, `To you it hath been given to know the secret of the reign of God, but to those who are without, in similes are all the things done;

And he said, `Thus is the reign of God: as if a man may cast the seed on the earth,

And he said, `To what may we liken the reign of God, or in what simile may we compare it?

and having called with a loud voice, he said, `What -- to me and to thee, Jesus, Son of God the Most High? I adjure thee by God, mayest thou not afflict me!'