7 But the children of Israel transgressed the commandment, and took to their own use of the anathema. For Achan the son of Charmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zare of the tribe of Juda, took something of the anathema: and the Lord was angry against the children of Israel.

² And when Josue sent men from Jericho against Hai, which is beside Bethaven, on the east side of the town of Bethel, he said to them: Go up, and view the country: and they fulfilled his command, and viewed Hai.

³ And returning they said to him: Let not all the people go up, but let two or three thousand men go and destroy the city: why should all the people be troubled in vain against enemies that are very few?

⁴ There went up therefore three thousand fighting men: who immediately turned their backs,

⁵ And were defeated by the men of the city of Hai, and there fell of them six and thirty men: and the enemies pursued them from the gate as far as Sabarim, and they slew them as they fled by the descent: and the heart of the people was struck with fear, and melted like water.

⁶ But Josue rent his garments, and fell flat on the ground before the ark of the Lord until the evening, both he and all the ancients of Israel: and they put dust upon their heads.

⁷ And Josue said: Alas, O Lord God, why wouldst thou bring this people over the river Jordan, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorrhite, and to destroy us? would God, we had stayed beyond the Jordan as we began.

⁸ My Lord God, what shall I say, seeing Israel turning their backs to their enemies?

⁹ The Chanaanites, and all the inhabitants of the land will hear of it, and being gathered together will surround us and cut off our name from the earth: and what wilt thou do to thy great name?

¹⁰ And the Lord said to Josue: Arise, why liest thou flat on the ground?

¹¹ Israel hath sinned, and transgressed my covenant: and they have taken of the anathema, and have stolen and lied, and have hidden it among their goods.

¹² Neither can Israel stand before his enemies, but he shall flee from them: because he is defiled with the anathema. I will be no more with you, till you destroy him that is guilty of this wickedness.

¹³ Arise, sanctify the people, and say to them: Be ye sanctified against to morrow: for thus saith the Lord God of Israel: The anathema is in the midst of thee, O Israel: thou canst not stand before thy enemies, till he be destroyed out of thee that is defiled with this wickedness.

¹⁴ And you shall come in the morning every one by your tribes: and what tribe soever the lot shall find, it shall come by its kindreds and the kindred by its houses, and the house by the men.

¹⁵ And whosoever he be that shall be found guilty of this fact, he shall be burnt with fire with all his substance, because he hath transgressed the covenant of the Lord, and hath done wickedness in Israel.

¹⁶ Josue, therefore, when he rose in the morning, made Israel to come by their tribes, and the tribe of Juda was found,

¹⁷ Which being brought by its families, it was found to be the family of Zare. Bringing that also by the houses, he found it to be Zabdi.

¹⁸ And bringing his house man by man, he found Achan the son of Charmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zare of the tribe of Juda.

¹⁹ And Josue said to Achan: My son, give glory to the Lord God of Israel, and confess, and tell me what thou hast done, hide it not.

²⁰ And Achan answered Josue, and said to him: Indeed I have sinned against the Lord the God of Israel, and thus and thus have I done.

²¹ For I saw among the spoils a scarlet garment exceeding good, and two hundred sides of silver, and a golden rule of fifty sides: and I coveted them, and I took them away, and hid them in the ground is the midst of my tent, and the silver I covered with the earth that I dug up.

²² Josue therefore sent ministers: who running to his tent, found all hidden in the same place, together with the silver.

²³ And taking them away out of the tent, they brought them to Josue, and to all the children of Israel, and threw them down before the Lord.

²⁴ Then Josue and all Israel with him took Achan the son of Zare, and the silver and the garments, and the golden rule, his sons also and his daughters, his oxen and asses and sheep, the tent also, and all the goods: and brought them to the valley of Achor:

²⁵ Where Josue said: Because thou hast troubled us, the Lord trouble thee this day. And all Israel stoned him: and all things that were his, were consumed with fire.

²⁶ And they gathered together upon him a great heap of stones, which remaineth until this present day. And the wrath of the Lord was turned away from them. And the name of that place was called the Valley of Achor, until this day.

20 And it came to pass, that on one of the days, as he was teaching the people in the temple, and preaching the gospel, the chief priests and the scribes, with the ancients, met together,

² And spoke to him, saying: Tell us, by what authority dost thou these things? or, Who is he that hath given thee this authority?

³ And Jesus answering, said to them: I will also ask you one thing. Answer me:

⁴ The baptism of John, was it from heaven, or of men?

⁵ But they thought within themselves, saying: If we shall say, From heaven: he will say: Why then did you not believe him?

⁶ But if we say, Of men, the whole people will stone us: for they are persuaded that John was a prophet.

⁷ And they answered, that they knew not whence it was.

⁸ And Jesus said to them: Neither do I tell thee by what authority I do these things.

⁹ And he began to speak to the people this parable: A certain man planted a vineyard, and let it out to husbandmen: and he was abroad for a long time.

¹⁰ And at the season he sent a servant to the husbandmen, that they should give him of the fruit of the vineyard. Who, beating him, sent him away empty.

¹¹ And again he sent another servant. But they beat him also, and treating him reproachfully, sent him away empty.

¹² And again he sent the third: and they wounded him also, and cast him out.

¹³ Then the lord of the vineyard said: What shall I do? I will send my beloved son: it may be, when they see him, they will reverence him.

¹⁴ Whom when the husbandmen saw, they thought within themselves, saying: This is the heir, let us kill him, that the inheritance may be ours.

¹⁵ So casting him out of the vineyard, they killed him. What therefore will the lord of the vineyard do to them?

¹⁶ He will come, and will destroy these husbandmen, and will give the vineyard to others. Which they hearing, said to him: God forbid.

¹⁷ But he looking on them, said: What is this then that is written, The stone, which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner?

¹⁸ Whosoever shall fall upon that stone, shall be bruised: and upon whomsoever it shall fall, it will grind him to powder.

¹⁹ And the chief priests and the scribes sought to lay hands on him the same hour: but they feared the people, for they knew that he spoke this parable to them.

²⁰ And being upon the watch, they sent spies, who should feign themselves just, that they might take hold of him in his words, that they might deliver him up to the authority and power of the governor.

²¹ And they asked him, saying: Master, we know that thou speakest and teachest rightly: and thou dost not respect any person, but teachest the way of God in truth.

²² Is it lawful for us to give tribute to Caesar, or no?

²³ But he considering their guile, said to them: Why tempt you me?

²⁴ shew me a penny. Whose image and inscription hath it? They answering, said to him, Caesar's.

²⁵ And he said to them: Render therefore to Caesar the things that are Caesar's: and to God the things that are God's.

²⁶ And they could not reprehend his word before the people: and wondering at his answer, they held their peace.

²⁷ And there came to him some of the Sadducees, who deny that there is any resurrection, and they asked him,

²⁸ Saying: Master, Moses wrote unto us, If any man's brother die, having a wife, and he leave no children, that his brother should take her to wife, and raise up seed unto his brother.

²⁹ There were therefore seven brethren: and the first took a wife, and died without children.

³⁰ And the next took her to wife, and he also died childless.

³¹ And the third took her. And in like manner all the seven, and they left no children, and died.

³² Last of all the woman died also.

³³ In the resurrection therefore, whose wife of them shall she be? For all the seven had her to wife.

³⁴ And Jesus said to them: The children of this world marry, and are given in marriage:

³⁵ But they that shall be accounted worthy of that world, and of the resurrection from the dead, shall neither be married, nor take wives.

³⁶ Neither can they die any more: for they are equal to the angels, and are the children of God, being the children of the resurrection.

³⁷ Now that the dead rise again, Moses also shewed, at the bush, when he called the Lord, The God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob;

³⁸ For he is not the God of the dead, but of the living: for all live to him.

³⁹ And some of the scribes answering, said to him: Master, thou hast said well.

⁴⁰ And after that they durst not ask him any more questions.

⁴¹ But he said to them: How say they that Christ is the son of David?

⁴² And David himself saith in the book of Psalms: The Lord said to my Lord, sit thou on my right hand,

⁴³ Till I make thy enemies thy footstool.

⁴⁴ David then calleth him Lord: and how is he his son?

⁴⁵ And in the hearing of all the people, he said to his disciples:

⁴⁶ Beware of the scribes, who desire to walk in long robes, and love salutations in the marketplace, and the first chairs in the synagogues, and the chief rooms at feasts:

⁴⁷ Who devour the houses of widows, feigning long prayer. These shall receive greater damnation.