SIGNS OF THE TIMES-JONAS-LEAVEN OF THE PHARISEES

AND SADDUCEES.

presently you say: A shower is coming: and so it happeneth. And when ye see the south wind blow, you say: There will be heat and it cometh to pass.-When it is evening, you say, It will be fair weather, for the sky is red. And in the morning: To-day there will be a storm, for the sky is red and lowering.-You hypocrites, you know how to discern the face of the heaven and of the earth: but how is it that you do not discern this time? -You know how to discern the face of the sky: and can you not know the signs of the times? And why even of yourselves, do you not judge that which is just?

WHY doth this generation ask a sign? Amen I say to you, If a sign shall be given to this generation.-A wicked and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign: and a sign shall not be given it, but the sign of Jonas the prophet.

TAKE heed, and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees, and of the leaven of Herod.... Why do you think within yourselves, O ye of little faith, for that you have no bread? Do you not yet know nor understand? have you still your heart blinded? Having eyes, see you not? and having ears, hear you not? neither do

BLIND MAN OF BETHSAIDA-CONFESSION OF ST. PETER-HIS SUPREMACY-JESUS PROPHESIES HIS DEATH AND RESURRECTION.

you remember? - Do you not yet understand, neither do you remember the five loaves among five thousand men, and how many baskets you took up? Nor the seven loaves among four thousand men, and how many baskets you took up? Why do you not understand that it was not concerning bread I said to you: Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees.

Go into the house, and if thou enter into the town, tell nobody.

WHOм do men say that the Son of man is? ... But whom do you say that I am?... Blessed art thou, Simon Bar-jona: because flesh and blood hath not revealed it to thee, but my Father who is in heaven.

AND I say to thee: That thou art Peter; 37 and upon this rock I will build my Church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. And I will give to thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven. And whatsoever thou shalt bind upon earth, it shall be bound also in heaven; and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth,38 it shall be loosed also in heaven.

THE Son of man must suffer many things, and

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WE MUST TAKE UP THE CROSS DAILY-THE TRANSFIGURATION

-ELIAS.

be rejected by the ancients and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and the third day rise again. ... Go behind me, Satan; thou art a scandal unto me: because thou savourest not the things that are of God, but the things that are of men.

If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me. For whosoever will save his life, shall lose it; and whosoever shall lose his life for my sake and the gospel, shall save it. For what shall it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and suffer the loss of his soul? Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul? For he that shall be ashamed of me and of my words, of him the Son of man shall be ashamed, when he shall come in his majesty, and that of his Father, and of the holy angels.

AMEN I say to you, that there are some of them that stand here, who shall not taste death till they see the kingdom of God coming in power-till they see the Son of man coming in his kingdom. ... Arise, and fear not. . . . Tell the vision to no man, till the Son of man be risen from the dead.

ELIAS indeed shall come, and restore all things; but I say to you, that Elias is already come, and they knew him not, but have done unto him what

THE DEAF AND DUMB SPIRIT CAST OUT-THE SON OF MAN TO BE DELIVERED UP-JESUS PAYS TRIBUTE.

soever they had a mind. So also the Son of man shall suffer from them.

WHAT do you question about among you? ... O unbelieving and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you? how long shall I suffer you? Bring him hither to me.... How long time is it since this hath happened unto him?... If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth.... Deaf and dumb spirit, I command thee, go out of him. . . . Because of your unbelief. For, amen I say to you, if you have faith as a grain of mustard-seed, 39 you shall say to this mountain, Remove from hence hither, and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible to you. -If you had faith like to a grain of mustardseed, you might say to this mulberry-tree, Be thou rooted up, and be thou transplanted into the sea: and it would obey you.-But this kind is not cast out but by prayer and fasting.

LAY up in your hearts these words, for it shall come to pass, that the Son of man shall be delivered into the hands of men, and they shall kill him; and after that he is killed, he shall rise again the third day.

WHAT is thy opinion, Simon? The kings of the earth, of whom do they receive tribute or

THE APOSTLES ENJOINED HUMILITY-WE MUST BECOME AS LITTLE CHILDREN-HE THAT IS NOT AGAINST US IS WITH US.

custom? of their own children, or of strangers? ... Then the children are free. But that we may not scandalise them, go to the sea, and cast in a hook: and that fish which shall first come up, take: and when thou hast opened its mouth, thou shalt find a stater: take that, and give it to them for me and thee.

WHAT did you treat of in the way?... If any man desire to be first, he shall be the last of all, and the minister of all.

AMEN I say to you, unless you be converted, and become as little children, you shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.-Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, he is the greater in the kingdom of heaven.-Whosoever shall receive one such child as this in my name, receiveth And whosoever shall receive me, receiveth not me, but him that sent me.-For he that is the lesser among you all, he is the greater.

me.

Do not forbid him. For there is no man that doth a miracle in my name, and can soon speak ill of me. For he that is not against you, is for you. For whosoever shall give you to drink a cup of water in my name, because you belong to Christ: Amen I say to you, he shall not lose his