Matthew 19:1-21:46 And when Jesus had ended these discourses, he removed from Galilee, and came to the confines of Judaea on the other side of Jordan.

Murdock⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ And when Jesus had ended these discourses, he removed from Galilee, and came to the confines of Judaea on the other side of Jordan. ² And great multitudes followed after him, and he healed them there. ³ And Pharisees came to him, and tempted him and said: Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for every cause? ⁴ And he answered and said to them: Have ye not read, that he who made them at the beginning, made them a male and a female? ⁵ And he said: For this reason, a man shall leave his father and his mother, and adhere to his wife; and they two shall be one flesh. ⁶ Wherefore they were not two, but one flesh. What therefore God hath united, let not man sunder. ⁷ They say to him: Why then did Moses command to give a bill of divorce, and to put her away? ⁸ He said to them: Moses, on account of the hardness of your heart, permitted you to divorce your wives: but from the beginning it was not so. ⁹ And I say to you, That whoever leaveth his wife not being an adulteress, and taketh another, committeth adultery. And whoever taketh her that is divorced, committeth adultery. ¹⁰ His disciples say to him: If such is the case between man and wife, it is not expedient to take a wife. ¹¹ But he said to them: Not every one is capable of that thing, but he only to whom it is given. ¹² For there are some eunuchs, born so from their mother's womb; and there are some eunuchs, who were made eunuchs by men; and there are some eunuchs who have made themselves eunuchs for the sake of the kingdom of heaven. He that can be contented let him be contented. ¹³ Then they brought children to him, that he might lay his hand upon them and pray. And his disciples rebuked them. ¹⁴ But Jesus said to them: Allow children to come to me, and forbid them not; for of those that are like them is the kingdom of heaven. ¹⁵ And he laid his hand upon them, and departed from there. ¹⁶ And one came, drew near, and said to him: Good Teacher, what good thing must I do, that eternal life may be mine? ¹⁷ And he said to him: Why callest thou me good? There is none good, except one, namely, God. But if thou wouldst enter into life, keep the commandments. ¹⁸ He said to him, Which? And Jesus said to him: Thou shalt not kill; and thou shalt not commit adultery; and thou shalt not steal; and thou shalt not bear false testimony; ¹⁹ and honor thy father and thy mother; and thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. ²⁰ The young man saith to him: All these have I kept from my childhood. What do I lack? ²¹ Jesus saith to him: If thou desirest to be perfect, go, sell thy property, and give to the poor; and there shall be for thee a treasure in heaven; and come thou after me. ²² And the young man heard that speech, and he went away in sadness; for he had much property. ²³ And Jesus said to his disciples: Verily I say to you, it is difficult for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of heaven. ²⁴ And again, I say to you: It is easier for a camel to enter the aperture of a needle, than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God ²⁵ And when the disciples heard it, they wondered greatly, and said: Who then can attain to life! ²⁶ Jesus looked on them, and said to them: With men this is not practicable, but with God every thing is practicable. ²⁷ Then answered Cephas, and said to him: Lo, we have forsaken every thing, and come after thee: What therefore shall we receive? ²⁸ Jesus said to them: Verily I say to you, that, as for you who have followed me, when the Son of man shall sit on the throne of his glory in the new world, ye also shall sit on twelve seats, and shall judge the twelve tribes of Israel. ²⁹ And every man that relinquisheth houses, or brothers or sisters, or father or mother, or wife or children, or lands, for my name's sake, shall receive an hundredfold, and shall inherit eternal life. ³⁰ But there are many first who shall be last, and last who shall be first. ²⁰ ¹ For the kingdom of heaven is like a man, the lord of a house, who went out, at dawn of day, to hire laborers for his vineyard. ² And he contracted with the labors for a denarius a day: and sent them into his vineyard. ³ And he went out at the third hour, and saw others standing idle in the market-place: ⁴ and he said to them, Go ye also into my vineyard, and what is right I will give you; ⁵ and they went. And again he went out at the sixth and ninth hours, and did the same. ⁶ And about the eleventh hour, he went out and found others who were standing and idle; and he said to them: Why stand ye all the day, and are idle? ⁷ 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. ⁸ And when it was evening, the lord of the vineyard said to his steward: Call the laborers, and give them their wages; and commence with the last, and proceed to the first. ⁹ And those of the eleventh hour came, and received each a denarius. ¹⁰ And when the first came, they supposed they should receive more; but they also received each a denarius. ¹¹ And when they received it, they murmured against the lord of the house, ¹² and said: These last have labored but one hour, and thou hast made them equal with us who have borne the burden of the day and the heat of it. ¹³ But he answered, and said to one of them: My friend, I do thee no injustice: was it not for a denarius that thou didst contract with me? ¹⁴ Take what belongeth to thee, and go: for I am disposed to give to this last, as to thee. ¹⁵ 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? ¹⁶ Thus the last shall be first, and the first last: for the called are many, but the chosen are few. ¹⁷ And Jesus was about to go up to Jerusalem: and he took his twelve disciples aside, on the way, and said to them: ¹⁸ Behold we are going to Jerusalem; and the Son of man will be delivered up to the chief priests and to the Scribes, and they will condemn him to death. ¹⁹ And they will deliver him over to the Gentiles: and they will mock him, and will scourge him, and will crucify him; and the third day, he will arise. ²⁰ Then came, to him the mother of Zebedee's children, she and her sons; and she worshipped him, and asked something from him. ²¹ And he said to her, What desirest thou? She said to him: Say, that these my two sons shall sit, the one on thy right hand and the other on thy left, in thy kingdom. ²² Jesus answered and said: Ye know not what ye ask for. Can ye drink of the cup, of which I am to drink? or be baptized with the baptism, that I am baptized with? They say to him: We can. ²³ He saith to them: Ye will indeed drink of my cup, and will be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with: but that ye should sit on my right hand and on my left, is not mine to give, except to those for whom it is prepared by my Father. ²⁴ And when the ten heard it, they were angry against the two brothers. ²⁵ And Jesus called them, and said to them: Ye know that the princes of the nations are their lords, and their great men exercise authority over them. ²⁶ Not so shall it be among you. But whoever among you desireth to be great, let him be to you, a ministerer: ²⁷ and whoever among you desireth to be first, let him be your servant: ²⁸ even as the Son of man came, not to be served, but to serve; and to give his life a ransom for many. ²⁹ And as Jesus passed out of Jericho, a great multitude followed him. ³⁰ And lo, two blind men were sitting by the way side. And when they heard that Jesus was passing, they called out, and said: Have compassion on us, my Lord, thou son of David! ³¹ And the multitudes rebuked them, that they might be silent. But they raised their voice the more, and said: Our Lord, have compassion on us, thou son of David. ³² And Jesus stopped, and called them, and said: What wish ye, that I should do for you? ³³ They said to him: Our Lord, that our eyes may be opened. ³⁴ And he had compassion on them, and touched their eyes: and immediately their eyes were opened, and they followed him. ²¹ ¹ And as he approached Jerusalem, and came to Bethphage, by the side of the mount of Olives, Jesus sent two of his disciples; ² and said to them: Go into this village which is over against you, and directly ye will find an ass tied, and a colt with her. Untie and bring them to me. ³ And if any man say ought to you, tell him, That they are needed by our Lord: and at once he will send them hither. ⁴ Now this whole occurrence was, that so might be fulfilled that which was spoken by the prophet, saying: ⁵ Tell ye the daughter of Sion, Behold, thy king cometh to thee, meek, and riding on an ass, and on a colt the foal of an ass. ⁶ And the disciples went, and did as Jesus commanded them. ⁷ And they brought the ass and the colt. And they placed their garments on the colt, and set Jesus upon it. ⁸ And a very great throng strewed their clothes in the path; and others cut branches from the trees, and cast them in the path. ⁹ And the multitudes that went before him, and that followed after him, shouted and said: Hosanna to the son of David: Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord: Hosanna in the highest. ¹⁰ And as he entered Jerusalem, the whole city was in commotion; and they said, Who is this? ¹¹ And the multitudes said, This is Jesus the prophet, who is from Nazareth of Galilee. ¹² And Jesus entered into the temple of God, and expelled all them that bought and sold in the temple, and overset the counters of the money-brokers, and the seats of them that sold doves. ¹³ And he said to them: It is written, my house shall be called the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of robbers. ¹⁴ And there came to him in the temple the blind and the lame; and he healed them. ¹⁵ And when the chief priests and Pharisees saw the wonderful things which he performed, and the children shouting in the temple and saying, Hosanna to the son of David, their indignation was excited. ¹⁶ And they said to him: Hearest thou what these are saying? Jesus said to them: Yes. Have ye never read, Out of the mouth of children and infants ¹⁷ thou hast acquired praise? And he left them, and retired out of the city to Bethany, and lodged there. ¹⁸ And in the morning, when he returned to the city, he was hungry. ¹⁹ And he saw a fig-tree by the way, and came to it and found nothing on it, except leaves only. And he said to it: There shall no more be fruit on thee for ever. And immediately the fig-tree withered. ²⁰ And the disciples saw it, and admired, and said: How suddenly hath the fig-tree withered! ²¹ Jesus replied and said to them: Verily I say to you, That if there be faith in you, and ye shall not doubt, ye may not only do this thing of the fig-tree, but also if ye shall say to this mountain, be thou lifted up, and fall into the sea, it will be so. ²² And whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, and shall believe, ye shall receive. ²³ And when Jesus came to the temple, the chief priests and the Elders of the people came to him as he was teaching, and said to him: By what authority doest thou these things? And who gave thee this authority? ²⁴ Jesus replied and said to them: I also will ask you one question, and if ye will tell me, I also will tell you by what authority I do these things. ²⁵ The baptism of John, from whence was it? From heaven, or from men? And they reasoned among themselves, and said: If we should say, From heaven; he will say to us, Why did ye not believe in him? ²⁶ And if we should say, From men; we are afraid of the multitude, for they all hold John as a prophet. ²⁷ And they answered, and said to him: We do not know. Jesus said to them: Neither do I tell you by what authority I do these things. ²⁸ But how appeareth it to you? A certain man had two sons; and he came to the first and said to him, My son, go, labor to-day in the vineyard. ²⁹ And he answered and said, I am not willing. But afterwards he repented and went. ³⁰ And he came to the other, and said the same to him. And he answered and said: I go, my lord, but did not go. ³¹ Which of these two performed the pleasure of his father? They say to him, The first. Jesus said to them: Verily I say to you That publicans and harlots go before you into the kingdom of God. ³² For John came to you in the way of righteousness, and ye believed him not; but the publicans and harlots believed him: and ye, after ye had seen it, did not even then repent and believe in him. ³³ Hear ye another similitude. A certain man, the lord of a house, planted a vineyard, and inclosed it with a hedge, and digged in it a wine-press, and built a tower in it, and leased it to cultivators, and removed to a distance. ³⁴ And when the time for the fruits arrived, he sent his servants to the cultivators that they might remit to him of the fruits of the vineyard. ³⁵ And the cultivators laid hold of his servants, and beat one, and stoned another and one they slew. ³⁶ And again he sent other servants, more numerous than the first; and they did the like to them. ³⁷ And at last he sent to them his son: for he said, Perhaps they will respect my son. ³⁸ But the cultivators, when they saw the son, said among themselves: This is the heir: Come; let us kill him, and retain his inheritance. ³⁹ And they laid hold of him, thrust him out of the vineyard, and slew him. ⁴⁰ When the lord of the vineyard, therefore, shall come; what will he do to those cultivators? ⁴¹ They say to him: He will utterly destroy them; and will lease the vineyard to other cultivators, who will render him the fruits in their seasons. ⁴² Jesus said to them: Have ye never read in the scripture, The stone which the builders rejected, hath become the head of the corner: this is from the Lord; and it is marvellous in our eyes? ⁴³ Therefore I say to you, That the kingdom of God shall be taken from you, and shall be given to a people that will yield fruits. ⁴⁴ And whoever shall fall upon this stone, will be fractured; but on whomsoever it shall fall, it will crush him to atoms? ⁴⁵ And when the chief priests and Pharisees had heard his similitudes, they understood that he spoke in reference to them. ⁴⁶ And they sought to apprehend him, but were afraid of the multitude, because they accounted him as a prophet.