And it came to pass on the secondsabbathafter the first, that he wentthrough the cornfields; and his disciplesplucked the ears of corn, and did eat, rubbingthem in theirhands.
How he wentinto the house of God, and did take and eat the shewbread, and gavealso to themthatwerewith him; which it is not lawful to eat but for the priestsalone?
And he camedownwiththem, and stood in the plain, and the company of his disciples, and a greatmultitude of people out of all Judaea and Jerusalem, and from the sea coast of Tyre and Sidon, whichcame to hear him, and to be healed of theirdiseases;
Blessed are ye, when men shallhate you, and whentheyshallseparate you fromtheircompany, and shallreproach you, and cast out yourname as evil, for the Son of man’ssake.
But love ye yourenemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothingagain; and yourrewardshall be great, and ye shall be the children of the Highest: for he is kindunto the unthankful and to the evil.
Give, and it shall be givenunto you; goodmeasure, presseddown, and shakentogether, and runningover, shall men giveintoyourbosom. For with the samemeasurethat ye metewithal it shall be measured to you again.
Either how canstthou say to thy brother, Brother, let me pull out the motethat is in thine eye, whenthouthyselfbeholdest not the beamthat is in thine own eye? Thouhypocrite, cast out first the beam out of thine own eye, and thenshaltthou see clearly to pull out the motethat is in thy brother’s eye.
A good man out of the goodtreasure of his heartbringethforththatwhich is good; and an evil man out of the eviltreasure of his heartbringethforththatwhich is evil: for of the abundance of the heart his mouthspeaketh.
He is like a man whichbuilt an house, and diggeddeep, and laid the foundation on a rock: and when the floodarose, the streambeatvehementlyuponthathouse, and could not shake it: for it was foundedupon a rock.
But he thatheareth, and doeth not, is like a man thatwithout a foundationbuilt an houseupon the earth; againstwhich the stream did beatvehemently, and immediately it fell; and the ruin of thathouse was great.