therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body will be light; ²³but if thine eye be evil, thy whole body will be dark. If therefore the light that is in thee is darkness, how great the darkness! ²⁴No man can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one, and love the other, or he will hold to one and despise the other. Ye can not serve God and Mammon.

²⁵For this cause I say to you, take not thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than food, and the body than raiment? ²⁶Behold the birds of the air, that they sow not, nor reap, nor gather into barns; and your heavenly Father feeds them. Are ye not much better than they? ²⁷And which of you by taking thought can add one cubit to his stature²⁷? ²⁸And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow. They toil not, nor spin; ²⁹and I say to you, that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. ³⁰And if God so clothes the grass of the field, which to-day is, and to-morrow is cast into the oven, will he not much more you, ye of little faith? ³¹Take not thought therefore, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewith shall we be clothed? ³²For after all these do the Gentiles seek. For your heavenly Father knows that ye have need of all these. ³³But seek first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these shall be added to you. ³⁴Take not thought, therefore, for the morrow; for the morrow will take thought for itself. Sufficient for the day is the evil thereof.

VII.  Judge not, that ye be not judged. ²For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged; and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you. ³And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but perceivest not the beam that is in thine own eye? ⁴Or how wilt thou say to thy brother: Let me cast out the mote from thine eye; and behold, the beam is in thine own eye? ⁵Hypocrite! first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then thou wilt see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye.

⁶Give not that which is holy to the dogs, nor cast your pearls before the swine; lest they trample them with their feet, and turn and rend you.

⁷Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened to you. ⁸For every one that asks receives; and he that seeks finds; and to him that knocks it shall be opened. ⁹Or what man is there of you, of whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone? ¹⁰And if he ask a fish, will he give him a serpent? ¹¹If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him? ¹²Therefore all things whatever ye would that men should do to you, so also do ye to them; for this is the law and the prophets.

¹³Enter in through the strait gate; because wide is the gate, and broad the way, that leads to destruction, and many are they who go in thereat. ¹⁴¹⁴Because strait is the gate, and narrow the way, that leads to life, and few are they who find it.

¹⁵Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheeps' clothing, but inwardly are ravening wolves.

¹⁶Ye shall know them from their fruits. Do men gather grapes from thorns, or figs from thistles? ¹⁷So every good tree brings forth good fruit; but the corrupt tree brings forth evil fruit. ¹⁸A good tree can not bring forth evil fruit, nor a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. ¹⁹Every tree that brings not forth good fruit is cut down, and cast into the fire. ²⁰So then, from their fruits ye shall know them.

²¹Not every one that says to me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that does the will of my Father who is in heaven. ²²Many will say to me in that day: Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in thy name, and in thy name cast out demons, and in thy name do many miracles? ²³And then will I profess to them, I never knew you; depart from me, ye who work iniquity.

²⁴Every one, therefore, who hears these sayings of mine²⁴, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man, who built his house on the rock. ²⁵And the rain descended, and the streams came, and the winds blew, and fell upon that house; and it did not fall, for it had been founded on the rock. ²⁶And every one who hears these sayings of mine, and does them not, shall be likened to a foolish man, who built his house on the sand. ²⁷And the rain descended, and the streams came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house, and it fell; and great was the fall of it.

²⁸And it came to pass, when Jesus ended these sayings, that the multitudes were astonished at his teaching. ²⁹For he taught them as having authority, and not as the scribes.

VIII.  When he had come down from the mountain, great multitudes followed him. ²And, behold, there came a leper and bowed down to him, saying: Lord, if thou wilt, thou canst cleanse me. ³And stretching forth his hand, he touched him, saying: I will; be thou cleansed. And immediately his leprosy was cleansed. ⁴And Jesus says to him: See thou tell no one; but go, show thyself to the priest, and offer the gift that Moses commanded, for a testimony to them.

⁵And as he entered into Capernaum, there came to him a centurion, beseeching him, ⁶and saying: Lord, my servant lies at home palsied, grievously tormented. ⁷And Jesus says to him: I will come and heal him. ⁸The centurion answered and said: Lord, I am not worthy that thou shouldst come under my roof; but only say in a word, and my servant will be healed. ⁹For I am a man under authority, having soldiers under me, and I say to this one, Go, and he goes; and to another, Come, and he comes; and to my servant, Do this, and he does it. ¹⁰And Jesus hearing it marveled, and said to those who followed: Verily I say to you, I found not so great faith, even in Israel. ¹¹And I say to you, that many will come from the east and west, and will recline at table, with Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, in the kingdom of heaven; ¹²but the sons of the kingdom will be cast out into the outer darkness. There will be the weeping, and the gnashing of teeth! ¹³And Jesus said to the centurion: Go thy way; and as thou didst believe, be it done to thee. And his servant was healed in that hour.

¹⁴And Jesus, coming into the house of Peter, saw his mother-in-law lying, and sick with fever. ¹⁵And he touched her hand, and the fever left her; and she arose, and ministered to him. ¹⁶When evening was come, they brought to him many that were possessed with demons; and he cast out the spirits with a word, and healed all that were sick;