VER 1. THE PHARISEES ALSO WITH THE SADDUCEES CAME, AND TEMPTING
DESIRED HIM THAT HE WOULD SHEW THEM A SIGN FROM HEAVEN. 2. HE ANSWERED
AND SAID UNTO THEM, "WHEN IT IS EVENING, YE SAY, IT WILL BE FAIR
WEATHER: FOR THE SKY IS RED. 3. AND IN THE MORNING, IT WILL BE FOUL
WEATHER TODAY: FOR THE SKY IS RE... [ Continue Reading ]
VER 5. AND WHEN HIS DISCIPLES WERE COME TO THE OTHER SIDE, THEY HAD
FORGOTTEN TO TAKE BREAD. 6. THEN JESUS SAID UNTO THEM, "TAKE HEED AND
BEWARE OF THE LEAVEN OF THE PHARISEES AND OF THE SADDUCEES." 7. AND
THEY REASONED AMONG THEMSELVES, SAYING, IT IS BECAUSE WE HAVE TAKEN NO
BREAD. 8. WHICH WHEN JE... [ Continue Reading ]
VER 13. WHEN JESUS CAME INTO THE COASTS OF CAESAREA PHILIPPI, HE ASKED
HIS DISCIPLES, SAYING, "WHOM DO MEN SAY THAT I THE SON OF MAN AM?" 14.
AND THEY SAID, "SOME SAY THAT THOU ART JOHN THE BAPTIST; SOME, ELIAS;
AND OTHERS, JEREMIAS, OR ONE OF THE PROPHETS." 15. HE SAITH UNTO THEM,
"BUT WHOM SAY YE... [ Continue Reading ]
VER 20. THEN CHARGED HE HIS DISCIPLES THAT THEY SHOULD TELL NO MAN
THAT HE WAS JESUS THE CHRIST. 21. FROM THAT TIME FORTH BEGAN JESUS TO
SHEW UNTO HIS DISCIPLES, HOW THAT HE MUST GO UNTO JERUSALEM, AND
SUFFER MANY THINGS OF THE ELDERS AND CHIEF PRIESTS AND SCRIBES, AND BE
KILLED, AND BE RAISED AGAIN... [ Continue Reading ]
VER 22. THEN PETER TOOK HIM, AND BEGAN TO REBUKE HIM, SAYING, "BE IT
FAR FROM THEE, LORD: THIS SHALL NOT BE UNTO THEE." 23. BUT HE TURNED,
AND SAID UNTO PETER, "GET THEE BEHIND ME, SATAN: THOU ART AN OFFENCE
UNTO ME: FOR THOU SAVOUREST NOT THE THINGS THAT BE OF GOD, BUT THOSE
THAT BE OF MEN."
Orige... [ Continue Reading ]
VER 24. THEN SAID JESUS UNTO HIS DISCIPLES, "IF ANY MAN WILL COME
AFTER ME, LET HIM DENY HIMSELF, AND TAKE UP HIS CROSS, AND FOLLOW ME.
25. FOR WHOSOEVER WILL SAVE HIS LIFE SHALL LOSE IT: AND WHOSOEVER WILL
LOSE HIS LIFE FOR MY SAKE SHALL FIND IT."
Chrys., Hom. iv: Peter had said, "Be it far from t... [ Continue Reading ]
VER 26. "FOR WHAT IS A MAN PROFITED, IF HE SHALL GAIN THE WHOLE WORLD,
AND LOSE HIS OWN SOUL? OR WHAT SHALL A MAN GIVE IN EXCHANGE FOR HIS
SOUL? 27. FOR THE SON OF MAN SHALL COME IN THE GLORY OF HIS FATHER
WITH HIS ANGELS; AND THEN HE SHALL REWARD EVERY MAN ACCORDING TO HIS
WORKS. 28. VERILY I SAY U... [ Continue Reading ]