ask, it shall be done for them by my Father who is in heaven. For where there are two or three gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.

SECT. LXV. IN ANSWER TO A QUESTION BY PETER, OUR LORD GIVES THE PARABLE OF THE UNMERCIFUL SERVANT.

Then Peter came unto him and said, Lord, how often shall my brother offend against me, and I forgive him? till seven times? Jesus saith to him, I say not to thee till seven times, but till seventy times

seven.

Therefore is the kingdom of heaven likened to a king, who would take an account of his servants; and when he had begun to take the account, one was brought to him that owed him ten thousand talents. And as he had not wherewith to pay it, his lord commanded that he should be sold, and his wife and children, and all that he had, and payment to be made. But that servant falling down, besought him, saying, Have patience with me, and I will pay thee all. And the lord of that servant being moved with pity, let him go, and forgave him the debt. But when that servant was gone out, he found one of his fellowservants that owed him an hundred pence; and laying hold of him, he took him by the throat, saying, Pay what thou owest. And his fellow-servant, falling down, besought him, saying, Have patience with me, and I will pay thee all. And he would not; but went and cast him into prison, till he paid the debt.

Now his fellow-servants, when they saw what was done, were very much grieved, and they came and told their lord all that was done. Then his lord called him, and said to him, Thou wicked servant; I forgave thee all the debt, because thou besoughtest me. Shouldst not thou then have had compassion also on thy fellow-servant, even as I had compassion on thee?

And his lord, being angry, delivered him to the torturers until he paid all the debt. So also shall my heavenly Father do to you, if ye forgive not every one his brother from your hearts.

SECT. LXVI. JESUS GOES UP TO JERUSALEM FOR THE FEAST OF TABERNACLES. HE DISCOURSES THERE WITH THE JEWS.

Now the Jews' feast of tabernacles was at hand,* and his brethren said to him, Pass from hence, and go into Judea, that thy disciples also may see thy works which thou dost; for there is no man that doth anything in secret, and he himself seeketh to be known openly. If thou do these things, manifest thyself to the world. For neither did his brethren believe in him.

Then Jesus said to them, My time is not yet come; but your time is always ready. The world cannot hate you; but me it hateth,. because I give testimony of it that the works thereof are evil. Go ye up to this festival; but I go not up yet to this festival, because my time is not accomplished. When he had said these things, he himself stayed in Galilee.

But after his brethren were gone up, then he also went up to the feast, not openly, but as it were in

secret.

Jerusalem.

The Jews sought him on the festival-day, and said, Where is he? And there was much murmuring among the multitude concerning him; for some said, He is a good man; and others said, No, but he seduceth the people. Yet no man spake openly of him, for fear of the Jews.

* See Deut. xvi. 13. This feast was one of the three great feasts of the Jews. It was kept in the autumn, on the 10th of the month Tisri, and lasted seven days, during which time the people were to dwell in tents or booths. It was meant as a thanksgiving for the harvest, and a commemoration of the dwelling in tents in the wilderness.

Now about the midst of the feast, Jesus went up into the temple and taught; and the Jews wondered, saying, How doth this man know letters, having never learned ?

Jesus answered them and said, My doctrine is not mine, but his that sent me. If any man will do his will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether I speak of myself. He that speaketh of himself seeketh his own glory; but he that seeketh the glory of him that sent him, he is true, and there is no injustice in him. Did not Moses give you the law, and yet none of you keepeth the law?

Why seek ye to kill me? The multitude answered and said, Thou hast a devil; who seeketh to kill thee?

Jesus answered and said to them, One work I have done, and ye all wonder. Therefore Moses gave you circumcision (not that it is of Moses, but of the fathers), and on the Sabbath-day ye circumcise a man. If a man receive circumcision on the Sabbath-day, that the law of Moses may not be broken; are ye angry at me because I have healed the whole man on the Sabbathday? Judge not according to the appearance, but judge just judgment.

Some therefore of Jerusalem said, Is not this he whom they seek to kill? And behold, he speaketh openly, and they say nothing to him. Have the rulers known for a truth that this is the Christ? But we know this man whence he is; but when the Christ cometh, no man knoweth whence he is.

Jesus therefore cried out in the temple, teaching and saying, Ye both know me, and ye know whence I and I am not come of myself, but he that sent me is true, whom ye know not. I know him, because I am from him, and he hath sent me.

am;

They sought therefore to apprehend him; and no man laid hands on him, because his hour was not yet come. But many of the people believed in him, and

said, When the Christ cometh, will he do more miracles than these which this man doth?

SECT. LXVII. THE PHARISEES SEND TO APPREHEND HIM.

The Pharisees heard the people murmuring these things concerning him, and the rulers and Pharisees sent officers to apprehend him.

Jesus therefore said to them, Yet a little while I am with you, and then I go to him that sent me. Ye shall seek me, and shall not find me; and where I am, thither ye cannot come.

The Jews therefore said among themselves, Whither will he go, that we shall not find him? will he go unto the dispersed among the Gentiles, and teach the Gentiles? What is this that he hath said, Ye shall seek me, and shall not find me; and where I am, ye cannot come?

And on the last and great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come to me and drink. He that believeth in me, as the Scripture saith, Out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water (Isaiah lviii. 11). Now this he said of the Spirit, which they who believed in him should receive, for as yet the Spirit was not given, because Jesus was not yet glorified.

Some of the multitude therefore, when they had heard these words of his, said, This is indeed the prophet. Others said, This is the Christ. But some said, Doth the Christ come out of Galilee? Doth not the Scripture say, That Christ cometh out of the seed of David, and from Bethlehem, the town where David was? So there arose a dissension among the people because of him. And some of them would have apprehended him; but no man laid hands upon him.

The officers therefore came to the chief priests and the Pharisees. And they said to them, Why have ye

not brought him? The officers answered, Never did man speak like this man. Then the Pharisees answered them, Are ye also seduced? Hath any one of the rulers believed in him, or any of the Pharisees? But this multitude, that knoweth not the law, are accursed.

Nicodemus said to them (he that came to him by night, being one of them), Doth our law judge any man unless it first hear him and know what he doth? They answered and said to him, Art thou also a Galilean? Search the Scriptures, and see that out of Galilee no prophet ariseth.

And every man returned to his own house; and Jesus went to Mount Olivet.

SECT. LXVIII. THE NEXT DAY THE PHARISEES BRING TO JESUS A WOMAN TAKEN IN ADULTERY. HIS DISCOURSE TO THEM.

And early in the morning he came again into the temple, and all the people came to him ; Jerusalem. and he sat down and taught them.

And the Scribes and Pharisees bring unto him a woman taken in adultery; and they set her in the midst, and said to him, Master, this woman was even now taken in adultery. Now Moses in the law commanded us to stone such a one.* But what sayest thou? And this they said, tempting him, that they might accuse him. But Jesus bowing himself down wrote with his finger on the ground.

When therefore they continued asking him, he lifted up himself and said to them, He that is without sin among you let him first cast a stone at her. And again stooping down, he wrote on the ground. But they hearing this went out one by one, beginning at the eldest; and Jesus alone remained, and the woman standing in the midst. Then Jesus lifting

* Lev. xx. 10.

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