Crows

`Consider the ravens, that they sow not, nor reap, to which there is no barn nor storehouse, and God doth nourish them; how much better are ye than the fowls?

look to the fowls of the heaven, for they do not sow, nor reap, nor gather into storehouses, and your heavenly Father doth nourish them; are not ye much better than they?

And Jesus said to him, `Verily I say to thee, that to-day, this night, before a cock shall crow twice, thrice thou shalt deny me.'

and Jesus saith to him, `The foxes have holes, and the birds of the heaven places of rest, but the Son of Man hath not where he may lay the head.'

and a second time a cock crew, and Peter remembered the saying that Jesus said to him--`Before a cock crow twice, thou mayest deny me thrice;' and having thought thereon--he was weeping.

which less, indeed, is than all the seeds, but when it may be grown, is greatest of the herbs, and becometh a tree, so that the birds of the heaven do come and rest in its branches.'

Jesus answered him, `Thy life for me thou wilt lay down! verily, verily, I say to thee, a cock will not crow till thou mayest deny me thrice.'

Jesus said to him, `Verily I say to thee, that, this night, before cock-crowing, thrice thou wilt deny me.'

`Jerusalem, Jerusalem, that art killing the prophets, and stoning those sent unto thee, how often did I will to gather thy children together, as a hen doth gather her own chickens under the wings, and ye did not will.

`Are not two sparrows sold for an assar? and one of them shall not fall on the ground without your Father; — read the full passage →

and the long-suffering of our Lord count ye salvation, according as also our beloved brother Paul--according to the wisdom given to him--did write to you, — read the full passage →

and he said, `I say to thee, Peter, a cock shall not crow to-day, before thrice thou mayest disown knowing me.'

and we all having fallen to the earth, I heard a voice speaking unto me, and saying in the Hebrew dialect, Saul, Saul, why me dost thou persecute? hard for thee against pricks to kick!

and they who are with me the light did see, and became afraid, and the voice they heard not of him who is speaking to me--

And the men who are journeying with him stood speechless, hearing indeed the voice but seeing no one,

this one, indeed, then, purchased a field out of the reward of unrighteousness, and falling headlong, burst asunder in the midst, and all his bowels gushed forth,

and at the ninth hour Jesus cried with a great voice, saying, `Eloi, Eloi, lamma sabachthani?' which is, being interpreted, `My God, my God, why didst Thou forsake me?'

`Because of this I say to you, be not anxious for your life, what ye may eat, and what ye may drink, nor for your body, what ye may put on. Is not the life more than the nourishment, and the body than the clothing? — read the full passage →

every Writing <FI>is<Fi> God-breathed, and profitable for teaching, for conviction, for setting aright, for instruction that <FI>is<Fi> in righteousness,

neither may we commit whoredom, as certain of them did commit whoredom, and there fell in one day twenty-three thousand;

And on the first of the sabbaths, Mary the Magdalene doth come early (there being yet darkness) to the tomb, and she seeth the stone having been taken away out of the tomb,

Jesus answered and said to them, `And if I testify of myself--my testimony is true, because I have known whence I came, and whither I go, and ye--ye have not known whence I come, or whither I go.

`If I testify concerning myself, my testimony is not true;

and no one hath gone up to the heaven, except he who out of the heaven came down--the Son of Man who is in the heaven.

God no one hath ever seen; the only begotten Son, who is on the bosom of the Father--he did declare.

and Jesus said to him, `Verily I say to thee, To-day with me thou shalt be in the paradise.'

Verily I say to you, that this generation may not pass away till all these things may come to pass;

and he commanded them that they may take nothing for the way, except a staff only--no scrip, no bread, no brass in the girdle,

`Are not two sparrows sold for an assar? and one of them shall not fall on the ground without your Father;

While he is speaking these things to them, lo, a ruler having come, was bowing to him, saying that `My daughter just now died, but, having come, lay thy hand upon her, and she shall live.'

All flesh <FI>is<Fi> not the same flesh, but there is one flesh of men, and another flesh of beasts, and another of fishes, and another of birds;

Jesus saith to her, `Be not touching me, for I have not yet ascended unto my Father; and be going on to my brethren, and say to them, I ascend unto my Father, and your Father, and to my God, and to your God.'

and having cried with a loud voice, Jesus said, `Father, to Thy hands I commit my spirit;' and these things having said, he breathed forth the spirit.

the <FI>son<Fi> of Serug, the <FI>son<Fi> of Reu, the <FI>son<Fi> of Peleg, the <FI>son<Fi> of Eber, — read the full passage →

And Jesus himself was beginning to be about thirty years of age, being, as was supposed, son of Joseph,

Afterwards, as they are reclining (at meat), he was manifested to the eleven, and did reproach their unbelief and stiffness of heart, because they believed not those having seen him being raised;

and he was calling upon him much, saying--`My little daughter is at the last extremity--that having come, thou mayest lay on her <FI>thy<Fi> hands, so that she may be saved, and she shall live;'

having gone, then, disciple all the nations, (baptizing them--to the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit,

And on the eve of the sabbaths, at the dawn, toward the first of the sabbaths, came Mary the Magdalene, and the other Mary, to see the sepulchre,

and about the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a great voice, saying, `Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani?' that is, `My God, my God, why didst Thou forsake me?'

and having cast down the silverlings in the sanctuary, he departed, and having gone away, he did strangle himself.

Then began he to anathematise, and to swear--`I have not known the man;' and immediately did a cock crow,

And Jesus entered into the temple of God, and did cast forth all those selling and buying in the temple, and the tables of the money-changers he overturned, and the seats of those selling the doves,

and in his sowing, some indeed fell by the way, and the fowls did come and devour them,

and Jacob begat Joseph, the husband of Mary, of whom was begotten Jesus, who is named Christ.