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And in his name the Gentiles shall hope.

And if Satan cast out Satan, he is divided against himself: how then shall his kingdom stand?

Or how can any one enter into the house of the strong, and rifle his goods, unless he first bind the strong? and then he will rifle his house.

As he was yet speaking to the multitudes, behold his mother and his brethren stood without, seeking to speak to him.

And stretching forth his hand towards his disciples, he said: Behold my mother and my brethren.

And his disciples came and said to him: Why speakest thou to them in parables?

When any one heareth the word of the kingdom, and understandeth it not, there cometh the wicked one, and catcheth away that which was sown in his heart: this is he that received the seed by the way side.

Another parable he proposed to them, saying: The kingdom of heaven is likened to a man that sowed good seed in his field.

But while men were asleep, his enemy came and oversowed cockle among the wheat and went his way.

Another parable he proposed unto them, saying: The kingdom of heaven is like to a grain of mustard seed, which a man took and sowed in his field.

Then having sent away the multitudes, he came into the house, and his disciples came to him, saying: Expound to us the parable of the cockle of the field.

The Son of man shall send his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all scandals, and them that work iniquity.

Who when he had found one pearl of great price, went his way, and sold all that he had, and bought it.

He said unto them: Therefore every scribe instructed in the kingdom of heaven, is like to a man that is a householder, who bringeth forth out of his treasure new things and old.

And coming into his own country, he taught them in their synagogues, so that they wondered and said: How came this man by this wisdom and miracles?

Is not this the carpenter’s son? Is not his mother called Mary, and his brethren James, and Joseph, and Simon, and Jude:

And his sisters, are they not all with us? Whence therefore hath he all these things?

And they were scandalized in his regard. But Jesus said to them: A prophet is not without honour, save in his own country, and in his own house.

And he said to his servants: This is John the Baptist: he is risen from the dead, and therefore mighty works shew forth themselves in him.

For Herod had apprehended John and bound him, and put him into prison, because of Herodias, his brother’s wife.