³⁵ Let your loins be girt, and lamps burning in your hands.

³⁶ And you yourselves like to men who wait for their lord, when he shall return from the wedding; that when he cometh and knocketh, they may open to him immediately.

³⁷ Blessed are those servants, whom the Lord when he cometh, shall find watching. Amen I say to you, that he will gird himself, and make them sit down to meat, and passing will minister unto them.

³⁸ And if he shall come in the second watch, or come in the third watch, and find them so, blessed are those servants.

³⁹ But this know ye, that if the householder did know at what hour the thief would come, he would surely watch, and would not suffer his house to be broken open.

⁴⁰ Be you then also ready: for at what hour you think not, the Son of man will come.

⁴¹ And Peter said to him: Lord, dost thou speak this parable to us, or likewise to all?

⁴² And the Lord said: Who (thinkest thou) is the faithful and wise steward, whom his lord setteth over his family, to give them their measure of wheat in due season?

⁴³ Blessed is that servant, whom when his lord shall come, he shall find so doing.

⁴⁴ Verily I say to you, he will set him over all that he possesseth.

⁴⁵ But if that servant shall say in his heart: My lord is long a coming; and shall begin to strike the menservants and maidservants, and to eat and to drink and be drunk:

⁴⁶ The lord of that servant will come in the day that he hopeth not, and at the hour that he knoweth not, and shall separate him, and shall appoint him his portion with unbelievers.

⁴⁷ And that servant who knew the will of his lord, and prepared not himself, and did not according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes.

⁴⁸ But he that knew not, and did things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few stripes. And unto whomsoever much is given, of him much shall be required: and to whom they have committed much, of him they will demand the more.

⁴⁹ I am come to cast fire on the earth; and what will I, but that it be kindled?

⁵⁰ And I have a baptism wherewith I am to be baptized: and how am I straitened until it be accomplished?

⁵¹ Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.

⁵² For there shall be from henceforth five in one house divided: three against two, and two against three.

⁵³ The father shall be divided against the son, and the son against his father, the mother against the daughter, and the daughter against the mother, the mother in law against her daughter in law, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.

⁵⁴ And he said also to the multitudes: When you see a cloud rising from the west, presently you say: A shower is coming: and so it happeneth:

⁵⁵ And when ye see the south wind blow, you say: There will be heat: and it cometh to pass.

⁵⁶ You hypocrites, you know how to discern the face of the heaven and of the earth: but how is it that you do not discern this time?

⁵⁷ And why even of yourselves, do you not judge that which is just?

⁵⁸ And when thou goest with thy adversary to the prince, whilst thou art in the way, endeavour to be delivered from him: lest perhaps he draw thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the exacter, and the exacter cast thee into prison.

⁵⁹ I say to thee, thou shalt not go out thence, until thou pay the very last mite.

13 And there were present, at that very time, some that told him of the Galileans, whose blood Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices.

² And he answering, said to them: Think you that these Galileans were sinners above all the men of Galilee, because they suffered such things?

³ No, I say to you: but unless you shall do penance, you shall all likewise perish.

⁴ Or those eighteen upon whom the tower fell in Siloe, and slew them: think you, that they also were debtors above all the men that dwelt in Jerusalem?

⁵ No, I say to you; but except you do penance, you shall all likewise perish.

⁶ He spoke also this parable: A certain man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard, and he came seeking fruit on it, and found none.

⁷ And he said to the dresser of the vineyard: Behold, for these three years I come seeking fruit on this fig tree, and I find none. Cut it done therefore: why cumbereth it the ground?

⁸ But he answering, said to him: Lord, let it alone this year also, until I dig about it, and dung it.

⁹ And if happily it bear fruit: but if not, then after that thou shalt cut it down.

¹⁰ And he was teaching in their synagogue on their sabbath.

¹¹ And behold there was a woman, who had a spirit of infirmity eighteen years: and she was bowed together, neither could she look upwards at all.

¹² Whom when Jesus saw, he called her unto him, and said to her: Woman, thou art delivered from thy infirmity.

¹³ And he laid his hands upon her, and immediately she was made straight, and glorified God.

¹⁴ And the ruler of the synagogue (being angry that Jesus had healed on the sabbath) answering, said to the multitude: Six days there are wherein you ought to work. In them therefore come, and be healed; and not on the sabbath day.

¹⁵ And the Lord answering him, said: Ye hypocrites, doth not every one of you, on the sabbath day, loose his ox or his ass from the manger, and lead them to water?

¹⁶ And ought not this daughter of Abraham, whom Satan hath bound, lo, these eighteen years, be loosed from this bond on the sabbath day?

¹⁷ And when he said these things, all his adversaries were ashamed: and all the people rejoiced for all the things that were gloriously done by him.

¹⁸ He said therefore: To what is the kingdom of God like, and whereunto shall I resemble it?

¹⁹ It is like to a grain of mustard seed, which a man took and cast into his garden, and it grew and became a great tree, and the birds of the air lodged in the branches thereof.

²⁰ And again he said: Whereunto shall I esteem the kingdom of God to be like?

²¹ It is like to leaven, which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened.

9 And Jesus passing by, saw a man, who was blind from his birth:

² And his disciples asked him: Rabbi, who hath sinned, this man, or his parents, that he should be born blind?

³ Jesus answered: Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents; but that the works of God should be made manifest in him.

⁴ I must work the works of him that sent me, whilst it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work.

⁵ As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.

⁶ When he had said these things, he spat on the ground, and made clay of the spittle, and spread the clay on his eyes,

⁷ And said to him: Go, wash in the pool of Siloe, which is interpreted, Sent. He went therefore, and washed, and he came seeing.

⁸ The neighbours therefore, and they who had seen him before that he was a beggar, said: Is not this he that sat and begged? Some said: This is he.

⁹ But others said: No, but he is like him. But he said: I am he.

¹⁰ They said therefore to him: How were thy eyes opened?

¹¹ He answered: That man that is called Jesus made clay, and anointed my eyes, and said to me: Go to the pool of Siloe, and wash. And I went, I washed, and I see.

¹² And they said to him: Where is he? He saith: I know not.

¹³ They bring him that had been blind to the Pharisees.

¹⁴ Now it was the sabbath, when Jesus made the clay, and opened his eyes.

¹⁵ Again therefore the Pharisees asked him, how he had received his sight. But he said to them: He put clay upon my eyes, and I washed, and I see.

¹⁶ Some therefore of the Pharisees said: This man is not of God, who keepeth not the sabbath. But others said: How can a man that is a sinner do such miracles? And there was a division among them.

¹⁷ They say therefore to the blind man again: What sayest thou of him that hath opened thy eyes? And he said: He is a prophet.

¹⁸ The Jews then did not believe concerning him, that he had been blind, and had received his sight, until they called the parents of him that had received his sight,

¹⁹ And asked them, saying: Is this your son, who you say was born blind? How then doth he now see?

²⁰ His parents answered them, and said: We know that this is our son, and that he was born blind:

²¹ But how he now seeth, we know not; or who hath opened his eyes, we know not: ask himself: he is of age, let him speak for himself.

²² These things his parents said, because they feared the Jews: for the Jews had already agreed among themselves, that if any man should confess him to be Christ, he should be put out of the synagogue.

²³ Therefore did his parents say: He is of age, ask himself.

²⁴ They therefore called the man again that had been blind, and said to him: Give glory to God. We know that this man is a sinner.

²⁵ He said therefore to them: If he be a sinner, I know not: one thing I know, that whereas I was blind, now I see.

²⁶ They said then to him: What did he to thee? How did he open thy eyes?

²⁷ He answered them: I have told you already, and you have heard: why would you hear it again? will you also become his disciples?

²⁸ They reviled him therefore, and said: Be thou his disciple; but we are the disciples of Moses.

²⁹ We know that God spoke to Moses: but as to this man, we know not from whence he is.

³⁰ The man answered, and said to them: Why, herein is a wonderful thing, that you know not from whence he is, and he hath opened my eyes.

³¹ Now we know that God doth not hear sinners: but if a man be a server of God, and doth his will, him he heareth.

³² From the beginning of the world it hath not been heard, that any man hath opened the eyes of one born blind.

³³ Unless this man were of God, he could not do any thing.

³⁴ They answered, and said to him: Thou wast wholly born in sins, and dost thou teach us? And they cast him out.

³⁵ Jesus heard that they had cast him out: and when he had found him, he said to him: Dost thou believe in the Son of God?

³⁶ He answered, and said: Who is he, Lord, that I may believe in him?

³⁷ And Jesus said to him: Thou hast both seen him; and it is he that talketh with thee.

³⁸ And he said: I believe, Lord. And falling down, he adored him.

³⁹ And Jesus said: For judgment I am come into this world; that they who see not, may see; and they who see, may become blind.

⁴⁰ And some of the Pharisees, who were with him, heard: and they said unto him: Are we also blind?

⁴¹ Jesus said to them: If you were blind, you should not have sin: but now you say: We see. Your sin remaineth.

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