on the mount. . A. D. 31. t John 15. 8. ST. MATTHEW. heart. The law expounded. fore men, that they may see to lust after her hath committed $1 Pet. 2. 12. your good works, and glorify adultery with her already in his your Father which is in heaven. 17 Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. 18 For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled. Luke 16. 17. James 2. 10. y Rom. 9. 31. & 10. 3. Or, a1 Jolin 3. 15. I That is, Vain fellow, b James 2.20. 2 Sam. 6. 20. ech. 8. 4. & 23. 19. d See Job 42. 8. ch. 18. 19. 1 Tim. 2. 8. 1 Pet. 3. 7. e Prov. 25. 8. Luke 12.58, f See Ps. 32.6. Is. 55. 6. 5 Ex. 20. 14. 19 Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven. 20 For I say unto you, That except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven. 21 Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, z Thou shalt not kill; and whosoever shall kill shall be in danger of the judgment: 22 But I say unto you, That a whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment: and whosoever shall say to his brother, Raca, shall be in danger of the council: but whosoever shall Say, Thou fool, shall be in danger of hell fire. 23 Therefore if thou bring thy gift to the altar, and there reinemberest that thy brother hath aught against thee; 24d Leave there thy gift before the altar, and go thy way; first be reconciled to thy brother, and then come and offer thy gift. 25 Agree with thine adversary quickly, while thou art in the way with him; lest at any time the adversary deliver thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the officer, and thou be cast into prison. 26 Verily I say unto thee, Thou shalt by no means come out thence, till thou hast paid the uttermost farthing. 27 Ye have heard that it was Deut. 5. 18. said by them of old time, & Thou shalt not commit adultery: 29 And if thy right eye I offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell. 30 And if thy right hand offend thee, cut it off, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell. 31 It hath been said, Whoso-Deut. 24. 1. ever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorcement: Jer. 3. 1. &c. Luke 16. 18. 32 But I say unto you, That m whosoever shall put away his ch. 19.9. wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery: and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced committeth adultery. 33 Again, ye have heard that it hath been said by them of old time, Thou shalt not forswear thyself, but Pshalt perform unto the Lord thine oaths: "ch. 23. 16. Lev. 19. 12. 9 ch.23. 16, 18, 22. 34 But I say unto you, a Swear? Deut. 23. 23. not at all; neither by heaven; for it is God's throne: James 5. 12. r Is. 66. 1. 35 Nor by the earth; for it is his footstool: neither by Jerusalem; for it is the city of the Ps. 48. 2. & great King. 87.3. 36 Neither shalt thou swear by thy head, because thou canst not make one hair white or black. 37 But let your communica- Col. 4. 6. tion be, Yea, yea; Nay, nay: for whatsoever is more than these cometh of evil. 38 Ye have heard that it hath been said, "An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth: 39 But I say unto you, That ye resist not evil: y but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also. ST. MATTHEW. been said, Thou shalt love thy b Lev. 19. 18. neighbour, and hate thine enemy. C Deut. 23. 6. Rom. 12. 14, 44 But I say unto you, d Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that Luke 23. 34. hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you; Acts 7. 60. 1 Cor. 4. 12, 13. 1 Pet. 2. 23. & 3.9. f Job 25. 3. 8 Luke 6. 32. h Gen. 17. 1. Lev. 11. 44. & 19. 2. Luke 6. 36. Col. 1. 28. & 4. 12. Jaines 1. 4. 1 Pet. 1. 15, 16. i Eph. 5. 1. Or, rightcousness, Deut. 24, 13, Ps. 112. 9. Dan. 4. 27. 2 Cur. 9. 9, 10. 45 That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven for fhe maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust. 46 For if ye love them which love you, what reward have ye? do not even the publicans the same? 47 And if ye salute your brethren only, what do ye more than others? do not even the publicans so? 1 Christ continueth his sermon in the mount, ure is to be laid up, 24 of serving God, and mammon: 25 exhorteth not to be care AKE heed that ye do not Of prayer and fasting. and thy Father which seeth in 8 Be not ye therefore like unto 9 After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. 10 Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, has it is in heaven. 11 Give us this day our daily 12 And forgive us our debts, A. D. 31. d Ecc. 5. 2. 1 Kings 18. 26, 29. f Luke 11. 2, &c. 14 For if ye forgive men their 1 Chr. 29.11. trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you: Epl. 4. 32. James 2. 13. 15 But pif ye forgive not men Peh. 18. 35. their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses. 16 Moreover when ye fast, Is. 58. 5. be not, as the hypocrites, of a sad Tyour lams before men, to countenance: for they disfigure be seen of them: otherwise ye 2 Therefore a when thou doest Rom. 12. 8. thine alms, I do not sound a I Or, with. | Or, cause not a trumpet to 17 But thou, when thou fastest, trumpet before thee, as the hyp-ranoint thine head, and wash thy Ruth 3. 3. ocrites do in the synagogues and be sounded. in the streets, that they may have glory of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward. 3 But when thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth : 4 That thine alms may be in secret: and thy Father which seeth b Luke 14. 14. in secret himself shall reward thee openly. 18 That thou appear not unto men to fast, but unto thy Father which is in secret: and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly. 19Lay not up for yourselves $ Prov. 23. 4. treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: 1 Tim. 6. 17. Heb. 13. 5. James 5. 1, &c. Against worldly care. A. D. 31. * Luke 16. 13. y Gal. 1. 10. 1 Tim. 6. 17. James 4. 4. 1 John 2. 15. z Ps. 55. 22. 23. ST. MATTHEW. whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness! 24 No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. y Ye cannot serve God and mammon. 25 Therefore I say unto you, z Take no thought for your life, Luke 12. 22, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment? Phil. 4. 6. 1 Pet. 5. 7. a Job 38. 41. Ps. 147. 9. &c. 26 a Behold the fowls of the air: Luke 12. 24, for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they? b See 1 Kings 3. 13. Ps. 37. 25. Mark 10.30. Luke 12. 31. 1 Tim. 4. 8. a Luke 6. 37. Rom. 2. 1. & 14.3,4,10,13. 1 Cor. 4. 3, 5. James 4. 11, 12. 27 Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature? 28 And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: 29 And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. 30 Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to day is, and to morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith? 31 Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed? 32 (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things. 33 But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you. 34 Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof. Christ exhorteth to prayer. A. D. 31. Luke 6. 38. 42. 2 For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: band Mark 4. 24. with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again. 3 And why beholdest thou the Luke 6. 41, mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye? 4 Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye; and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye? 5 Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye. 9 Or what man is there of Luke 11. 11, you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone? 10 Or if he ask a fish, will he give him a serpent? 8. 21. 11 If ye then, being evil, know❘h Gen. 6, 5, & how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him? 12 Therefore all things what- i Luke 6. 31. soever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and Lev. 19. 18. the prophets. 13 Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: 14 Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it. 15m Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. 16 PYe shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles? 23 And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: y depart from me, ye that work iniquity. 24 Therefore z whosoever Lake 6. 47, heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock: ach. 13. 54. Mark 1. 22.! & 6.2. Luke 4. 32. 25 And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock. 26 And every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand: 27 And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell and great was the fall of it. 28 And it came to pass, when Jesus had ended these sayings, athe people were astonished at his doctrine: 29 For he taught them as one b John 7. 46. having authority, and not as the scribes. CHAPTER VIII. 2 Christ cleanseth the leper, 5 healeth the centurion's servant, 14 Peter's mother in law, 16 and many other diseased: 18 sheweth how he is to be followed: 23 stilleth the tempest on the sea, 28 driveth the devils out of two men possessed, 31 and suffereth them to go into the swine. HEN he was come down multitudes followed him. The centurion's servant healed. 2 a And, behold, there came a A. D. 31. leper and worshipped him, say-Mark 1.40, ing, Lord, if thou wilt, thou canst make me clean. &c. Luke 5. 12. &c. 3 And Jesus put forth his hand, and touched him, saying, I will; be thou clean. And immediately his leprosy was cleansed. 4 And Jesus saith unto him, See thou tell no man; but go bch. 9. 30. thy way, shew thyself to the priest, and offer the gift that Moses commanded, for a testi-Lev. 14.3,4, mony unto them. b Mark 5. 43. 10. Luke 5. 14. &c. 5¶And when Jesus was enter- & Luke 7. 1, ed into Capernaum, there came unto him a centurion, beseeching him, 6 And saying, Lord, my servant lieth at home sick of the palsy, grievously tormented. 7 And Jesus saith unto him, I will come and heal him. 8 The centurion answered and said, Lord, I am not worthy that thou shouldest come under my roof: but speak the word only, and my servant shall be healed. 9 For I am a man under author ity, having soldiers under me: and I say to this man, Go, and he goeth; and to another, Come, and he cometh; and to my servant, Do this, and he doeth it. 10 When Jesus heard it, he marvelled, and said to them that followed, Verily I say unto you, I have not found so great faith, no, not in Israel. 11 And I say unto you, That many shall come from the east and west, and shall sit down with Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, in the kingdom of heaven: Luke 15. 19, 21. Ps. 107. 20. 5 Gen. 12. 3. 1s, 2. 2, 3. & 11. 10. Mal. 1 11. Luke 13. 29. Acts 10. 45. & 11. 18. & 14, 27. Rom. 15. 9. &c. Eph. 3. 6. hch. 21. 43. 12 But the children of the kingdom ishall be cast out into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth. 13 And Jesus said unto the cen- ich. 13.42,50. turion, Go thy way; and as thou hast believed, so be it done unto thee. And his servant was healed in the selfsame hour. 14 And when Jesus was come into Peter's house, he saw his wife's mother laid, and sick of a fever. 15 And he touched her hand, and the fever left her: and she arose, and ministered unto them. 16 m When the even was come, they brought unto him devils: and he cast out the spir & 22. 13. & 24. 51. & 25. 30. Christ stilleth the tempest. A. D. 31. n Is. 53. 4. 1 Pet. 2. 24. "Luke 9, 57, 58. P Luke 9.59, 60, 19. 20. ST. MATTHEW. its with his word, and healed all that were sick: 17 That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias the prophet, saying, "Himself took our infirmities, and bare our sicknesses. 18 Now when Jesus saw great multitudes about him, he gave commandment to depart unto the other side. 19 And a certain scribe came, and said unto him, Master, I will follow thee whithersoever thou goest. 20 And Jesus saith unto him, The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head. 21 PAnd another of his disci4 See 1 Kings ples said unto him, Lord, 4suffer me first to go and bury my father. 22 But Jesus said unto Follow me; and let the bury their dead. r Mark 4. 37, &c. Luke 8. 23, &c. him, dead One sick of the palsy cured. us to go away into the herd of swine. 32 And he said unto them, Go. And when they were come out, they went into the herd of swine: and, behold, the whole herd of swine ran violently down a steep place into the sea, and perished in the waters. 33 And they that kept them fled, and went their ways into the city, and told every thing, and what was befallen to the possessed of the devils. 34 And, behold, the whole city came out to meet Jesus: and when they saw him, "they besought him that he would depart out of their coasts. 2 Christ curing one sick of the palsy, I callCHAPTER IX. eth Matthew from the receipt of custom, 10 eateth with publicans and sinners, 14 defendeth his disciples for not fasting, 20 cureth the bloody issue, 23 raiseth from death Jairus' daughter, 27 giveth sight to two blind men, 32 healeth a dumb man possessed of a devil, 36 and hath compassion of the multitude. 24 And, behold, there arose a great tempest in the sea, insomuch that the ship was covered with the waves: but he was asleep. 25 And his disciples came to him, and awoke him, saying, Lord, save us: we perish. 26 And he saith unto them, Why are ye fearful, O ye of little faith? Then she arose, and re69. 9. &. 107. buked the winds and the sea; and there was a great calm. Ps. 65, 7. & 29. t Mark 5. 1, &c. Luke 8,26, &c. 27 But the men marvelled, saying, What manner of man is this, that even the winds and the sea obey him! 28 And when he was come to the other side into the country of the Gergesenes, there met him two possessed with devils, coming out of the tombs, exceeding fierce, so that no man might pass by that way. 29 And, behold, they cried out, saying, What have we to do with thee, Jesus, thou Son of God? art thou come hither to torment us before the time? 30 And there was a good way off from them a herd of many swine feeding. 31 So the devils besought him, saying, If thou cast us out, suffer passed over, and came into his own city. 2 b And, behold, they brought to him a man sick of the palsy, lying on a bed: and Jesus seeing their faith said unto the sick of the palsy; Son, be of good cheer; thy sins be forgiven thee. 3 And, behold, certain of the scribes said within themselves, This man blasphemeth. A. D. 31. "See Deut. 5. 25. 1 Kings 17.18. Luke 5. 8. Acts 16. 39. a cli. 4. 13. Mark 2. 3. Luke 5. 18. ch. 8. 10. 4 And Jesus knowing their Ps. 139. 2. thoughts said, Wherefore think ye evil in your hearts? 5 For whether is easier, to say, Thy sins be forgiven thee; or to say, Arise, and walk? 6 But that ye may know that the Son of man hath power on earth to forgive sins, (then saith he to the sick of the palsy,) Arise, take up thy bed, and go unto thine house. 7 And he arose, and departed to his house. 8 But when the multitudes saw it, they marvelled, and glorified God, which had given such power unto men. |