Part 13

011:017 "`We have played the flute to you,' they say, `and you have not danced: we have sung dirges, and you have not beaten your breasts.'

011:018 "For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, `He has a demon.'

011:019 The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they exclaim, `See this man!--given to gluttony and tippling, and a friend of tax-gatherers and notorious sinners!' And yet Wisdom is vindicated by her actions."

011:020 Then began He to upbraid the towns where most of His mighty works had been done--because they had not repented.

011:021 "Alas for thee, Chorazin!" He cried. "Alas for thee, Bethsaida! For had the mighty works been done in Tyre and Sidon which have been done in both of you, they would long ere now have repented, covered with sackcloth and ashes.

011:022 Only I tell you that it will be more endurable for Tyre and Sidon on the day of Judgement than for you.

011:023 And thou, Capernaum, shalt thou be exalted even to Heaven? Even to Hades shalt thou descend. For had the mighty works been done in Sodom which have been done in thee, it would have remained until now.

011:024 Only I tell you all, that it will be more endurable for the land of Sodom on the day of Judgement than for thee."

011:025 About that time Jesus exclaimed, "I heartily praise Thee, Father, Lord of Heaven and of earth, that Thou hast hidden these things from sages and men of discernment, and hast unveiled them to babes.

011:026 Yes, Father, for such has been Thy gracious will.

011:027 "All things have been handed over to me by my Father, and no one fully knows the Son except the Father, nor does any one fully know the Father except the Son and all to whom the Son chooses to reveal Him.

011:028 "Come to me, all you toiling and burdened ones, and *I* will give you rest.

011:029 Take my yoke upon you and learn from me; for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.

011:030 For it is good to bear my yoke, and my burden is light."

012:001 About that time Jesus passed on the Sabbath through the wheatfields; and His disciples became hungry, and began to gather ears of wheat and eat them.

012:002 But the Pharisees saw it and said to Him, "Look! your disciples are doing what the Law forbids them to do on the Sabbath."

012:003 "Have you never read," He replied, "what David did when he and his men were hungry?

012:004 how he entered the House of God and ate the Presented Loaves, which it was not lawful for him or his men to eat, nor for any except the priests?

012:005 And have you not read in the Law how on the Sabbath the priests in the Temple break the Sabbath without incurring guilt?

012:006 But I tell you that there is here that which is greater than the Temple.

012:007 And if you knew what this means, `It is mercy I desire, not sacrifice', you would not have condemned those who are without guilt.

012:008 For the Son of Man is the Lord of the Sabbath."

012:009 Departing thence He went to their synagogue,

012:010 where there was a man with a shrivelled arm. And they questioned Him, "Is it right to cure people on the Sabbath?" Their intention was to bring a charge against Him.

012:011 "Which of you is there," He replied, "who, if he has but a single sheep and it falls into a hole on the Sabbath, will not lay hold of it and lift it out?

012:012 Is not a man, however, far superior to a sheep? Therefore it is right to do good on the Sabbath."

012:013 Then He said to the man, "Stretch out your arm." And he stretched it out, and it was restored quite sound like the other.

012:014 But the Pharisees after leaving the synagogue consulted together against Him, how they might destroy Him.