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A voice was heard in Rama, weeping and great lamentation; Rachel bemoaning her children, and unwilling to be comforted, because they are no more.

If therefore thy right eye make thee offend, pluck it out, and cast it from thee; because it is better for thee that thy one member perish, than that thy whole body fall into hell.

And if thy right hand make thee offend, cut it off, and cast it from thee; because it is better for thee that one of thy members perish, than that thy whole body fall into hell.

And when Jesus looked on the multitudes, he pitied them; because they were wearied and dispersed, like sheep that have no shepherd.

And other [fn] fell upon a rock, so that it had not much soil: and it sprung up forthwith, because there was no depth of earth.

But when the sun was up it wilted. And, because it lacked root, it dried up.

And he answered, and said to them: Because, to you it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given.

For this cause I discourse to them in similitudes, because they see and do not see, and they hear and do not hear, nor understand.

And he did not perform there many works of power, because of their unbelief.

And they reasoned among themselves, and said, [fn] because they had taken no bread.

But Jesus knew [fn] and said to them: O ye small in faith! why reason ye among yourselves because ye have taken no bread?

Jesus said to them: Because of your unbelief. For verily I say to you, That if there be in you faith like a grain of mustard seed, ye may say to this mountain, Remove hence, and it will remove: and nothing will be too hard for you.

Woe to the world because of stumbling blocks ! For it must be, that stumbling blocks come. But, woe to the person by whose means the stumbling blocks come.

Then his lord called him, and said to him: Thou vile servant ! Lo, I forgave thee that whole debt, because thou entreatedst of me:

They say to him, Because no one hath hired us. He saith to them: Go ye also into the vineyard; and what is right ye shall receive.

Is it not lawful for me, to do what I please with what belongeth to me; or is thy eye evil, because I am good?

And they sought to apprehend him, but were afraid of the multitude, because they accounted him as a prophet.

And the chief priests took up the silver, and said: It is not lawful to put it into the treasury, because it is the price of blood.

And as the president was sitting on his tribunal, his wife sent to him, and said: Have thou nothing to do with that just man; for I have suffered much this I day in a dream because of him.

And he healed many who labored under divers diseases, and cast out many demons; and he suffered not the demons to speak, because they knew him.