sus began to preach, and him great multitudes of to say, Repent: for the people from Galilee, and kingdom of heaven is at froin Decapolis, and from hand.

Jerusalem, and from Ju18 | And Jesus, walking dæa, and from beyond by the sea of Galilee, saw Jordan. two brethren, Simon called

CHAPTER V. Peter, and Andrew his bro-1 Christ beginneth his sermon in the ther, casting a net into the mount: 3 declaring who are blesssea: for they were fishers.

ed, 13 who are the salt of the earth, 19 And he saith unto

14 the light of the world, the city

on an hill, 15 the candle: 17 that them, Follow me, and I he came to fulfil the law. 21 What will make you fishers of

it is to kill, 27 to commit

adultery,

83 to swear: 38 exhortch to suffer men.

wrong, 44 to love even our ene20 And they straightway mies, 48 and to labour after perleft their nets, and follow- fectness. ed him.

hand going on from A Nudes, he went upinto

thence, he saw other two a mountain: and when he brethren, James the son was set, his disciples came of Zebedee, and John his unto him: brother, in a ship with Ze- 2 And he opened his bedee their father, mend- mouth, and taught them, ing their nets; and he saying, called them.

3 Blessed are the poor in 22 And they immediate- spirit: for their's is the ly left the ship and their kingdom of heaven. father, and followed him. 4 Blessed are they that

23 | And Jesus went mourn: for they shall be about" all Galilee, teach- comforted. ing in their synagogues;

5 Blessed are the meek: and preaching the gospel for they shall inherit the of the kingdom, and heal- earth. ing all manner of sickness 6 Blessed are they which and all manner of disease do hunger and thirst afamong the people.

ter righteousness: for they 24 And his fame went shall be filled. throughout all Syria: and 7 Blessed are the mercithey brought unto him all ful: for they shall obtain sick people that were taken mercy. with divers diseases and 8 Blessed are the pure in torments, and those which heart: for they shall see were possessed with devils, God. and those which were lu- 9 Blessed are the peacenatick, and those that had makers: for they shall be the palsy; and he healed called the children of God. them.

10 Blessed are they which 25 And there followed are persecuted for, right

eonsness' Bake: for their's least commandments, and is the kingdom of heaven. shall teach men so, he

11 Blessed are ye, when shall be called the least men shall revile you, and in the kingdom of herpersecute you, and shall ven: but whosoever shall say all manner of evil a- do and teach them, the gainst you falsely, for my same shall be called great bake.

in the kingdom of heaven. 12 Rejoice, and be ex- 20 For I say unto you, ceeding glad for great is That except your righte your reward in heaven: ousness shall exceed the for so persecuted they the righteousness of the scribes prophets which were be- and Pharisees, ye shall in fore you.

no case enter into the king13 | Ye are the salt of the dom of heaven. earth: but if the salt have 21 | Ye have heard that lost his savour, wherewith it was said by them of shall it be salted ? it is old time, Thou shalt not thenceforth good for no- kill; and whosoever shall thing, but to be cast out, kill shall be in danger of and to be trodden under the judgment: foot of men.

22 But I say unto you, 14 Ye are the light of the That whosoever is angry world. A city that is set with his brother without on an hill cannot be hid. a cause shall be in danger

15 Neither do men light of the judgment: and who. a candle, and put it under soever shall say to his broa bushel, but on a candle- ther, Raca, shall be in stick; and it giveth light danger of the council: but unto all that aro in the whosoever shall say, Thou house.

fool, shall be in danger of 16 Let your light so shine hell fire. before men, that they may 23 Therefore if thou see your good works, and bring thy gift to the alglorify your Father which tar, and there rememberis in heaven.

est that thy brother hath 17 | Think not that I am ought against thee; come to destroy the law, 24 Leave there thy gift or the prophets: I am not before the altar, and go come to destroy, but to thy way; first be reconcilfulfil.

ed to thy brother, and then 18 For verily I say unto come and offer thy gift. you, Till heaven and earth 25 Agree with thine adpass, one jot or one tittle versary quickly, whiles shall in no wise pass from thou art in the way with the law, till all be fulfilled. him; lest at any time the

19 Whosoever therefore adversary deliver thee to shall break one of these the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the offi- that it hath been said by cer, and thou be cast into them of old time, Thou prison.

shalt not forswear thyself, 26 Verily I say unto thee, but shalt perform unto the Thou shalt by no means Lord thine oaths : come out thence, till thou 34 But I say unto you, hast paid the uttermost Swear not at all; neither farthing

by heaven; for it is God's 27 | Ye have heard that throne: it was said by them of old 35 Nor by the earth; for time, Thou shalt not com- it is his footstool: neither mit adultery:

by Jerusalem; for it is the 28 But I say unto you, city of the great King. That whosoever looketh 36 Neither shalt thou on a woman to lust after swear by thy head, because her hath committed adul- thou canst not make one tery with her already in hair white or black. his heart.

37 But let your com29 And if thy right eye munication be, Yea, yea; offend thee, pluck it out, Nay, nay: for whatsoever and cast it from thee: for is more than these cometh it is profitable for thee of evil. that one of thy members 38 ( Ye have heard that should perish, and not that it hath been said, An eye thy whole body should be for an eye, and a tooth for cast into hell.

a tooth: 30 And if thy right hand 39 But I say unto you, offend thee, cut it off, and That ye resist not evil: cast it from thee: for it is but whosoever shall smite profitable for thee that one thee on thy right cheek, of thy members should turn to him the other also. perish, and not that thy 40 And if any man will whole body should be cast sue thee at the law, and into hell.

take away thy coat, let 31 It hath been said, Who- him have thy cloke also. soever shall put away his 41 And whosoever shall wife, let him give her a compel thee to go a mile, writing of divorcement: go with him twain. 32 But I say unto you,

42 Give to him that askThat whosoever shall put eth thee, and from him away his wife, saving for that would borrow of thee the cause of fornication, turn not thou away. causeth her to commit 43 | Ye have heard that adultery: and whosoever it hath been said, Thou shall marry her that is shalt love thy neighbour, divorced committeth a- and hate thine enemy. dultery.

44 But I say unto you, 83 1 Ågain, ye have heard Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do alms, let not thy left hand good to them that hate you, know what thy right hand and pray for them which doeth: despitefully use you, and 4 That thine alms may persecute you;

be in secret: and thy Fa45 That ye may be the ther which seeth in secret children of your Father himself shall reward theo which is in heaven: for he openly. maketh his sun to rise on 5 And when thou praythe evil and on the good, est, thou shalt not be as and sendeth rain on the the hypocrites are: for just and on the unjust. they love to pray standing 46 For if ye love them in the synagogues and in which love you, what re- the corners of the streets, ward have ye? do not even that they may be seen of the publicans the same? men. erily I say unto 47 And if ye salute your you, They have their rebrethren only, what do ye ward. more than others do not 6 But thou, when thou even the publicans so? prayest, enter into thy clo48 Be ye therefore per- set, and when thou hast fect, even as your Father shut thy door, pray to which is in heaven is per- thy Father which is in fect.

secret; and thy Father CHAPTER VI.

which seeth in secret shall 1 Christ continueth his sermon in reward thee openly. the mount, speaking of alms, 5 prayer, 11 forgiving our bre

7 But when ye pray, use thren, '16 fasting, 19 where our not vain repetitions, as the treasure is to be laid up, 24 of heathen do: for they think serving God, and mammon: 25 exhorteth not to be careful for that they shall be heard worldly things: 33 but to seek for their much speaking: God's kingdom.

8 Be not ye therefore like TAKE heed that ye do unto them: for your FaT

not your alms before ther knoweth what things men, to be seen of them: ye have need of, before yo otherwise ye have no re- ask him. ward of your Father which 9 After this manner thereis in heaven.

fore pray ye : Our Father 2 Therefore when thou which art in heaven, Haldoest thine alms, do not lowed be thy name. sound a trumpet before 10 Thy kingdom come. thee, as the hypocrites do Thy will be done in earth, in the synagogues and in as it is in heaven. the streets, that they may 11 Give us this day our have glory of men. Verily daily bread. I say unto you, They have 12 And forgive us our their reward.

debts, as we forgive our 3 But when thou doest debtors.

13 And lead us not into thine eye be single, thy temptation, but deliver us whole body shall be full from evil: For thine is the of light. kingdom, and the power,

23 But if thine eye be and tho glory, for ever evil, thy whole body shall Amen.

be full of darkness. If 14 For if ye forgive men therefore the light that is their trespasses, your hea- in thee be darkness, how venly Father will also for- great

is that darkness ! give you:

24 | No man can serve 15 But if ye forgive not two masters: for either he men their trespasses, nei- will hate the one, and love ther will your Father for the other; or else he will give your trespasses. hold to the one, and de16 | Moreover when ye spise the other. Ye cannot fast, be not, as the hypo- serve God and mammon. crites, of a sad counter 25 Therefore I say unto nance: for they disfigure you, Take no thought for their faces, that they may your life, what ye shall eat, appear unto men to fast, or what ye shall drink; nor

erily, I say unto you, yet for your body, what ye They have their reward. shall put on. Is not the 17 But thou, when thou life more than meat, and fastest, anoint thine head, the body than raiment? and wash thy face;

26 Behold the fowls of 18 That thou appear not the air : for they sow not, unto men to fast, but unto neither do they reap, nor thy Father which is in gather into barns; yet secret: and thy Father, your heavenly rather which seeth in secret, shall tecdeth them. Are ye not reward thee openly. much better than they?

19 | Lay not up for 27 Which of you by takyourselves treasures up- ing thought can add one on earth, where moth cubit unto his stature ? and rust doth corrupt, 28. And why take ye and where thieves break thought for raiment? Conthrough and steal:

sider the lilies of the field, 20 But lay up for your- how they grow; they toil selves treasures in heaven, not, neither do they spin: where neither moth nor 29 And yet I say, unto rust doth corrupt, and you, That even Solomon where thieves do not break in all his glory was not through nor steal:

arrayed like one of these. 21 For where your trea- 30 Wherefore, if God so sure is, there will your clothe the grass of the field, heart be also.

which to day is, and to 22 The light of the body morrow is cast into the is the eye: if therefore loven, shall hs not much