An Examination of the Testimony of the Four Evangelists Part 18

30 But their scribes and Pharisees murmured against his disciples, saying, Why do you eat and drink with publicans and sinners?

31 And Jesus answering, said unto them, They that are whole need not a physician; but they that are sick.

32 I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.

33 And they said unto him, Why do the disciples of John fast often, and make prayers, and likewise _the disciples_ of the Pharisees; but thine eat and drink?

34 And he said unto them, Can ye make the children of the bride-chamber fast, while the bridegroom is with them?

35 But the days will come, when the bridegroom shall be taken away from them, and then shall they fast in those days.

36 And he spake also a parable unto them; No man putteth a piece of a new garment upon an old: if otherwise, then both the new maketh a rent, and the piece that was _taken_ out of the new, agreeth not with the old.

37 And no man putteth new wine into old bottles; else the new wine will burst the bottles, and be spilled, and the bottles shall perish.

38 But new wine must be put into new bottles, and both are preserved.

39 No man also having drunk old _wine_, straightway desireth new: for he saith, The old is better.

-- 59. The raising of Jairus's daughter. The woman with a b.l.o.o.d.y flux.

_Capernaum_.

Matthew. Mark.

CH. IX. 18-26. CH. V. 22-43.

18 While he spake these things 22 And behold, there cometh unto them, behold, there came one of the rulers of the a certain ruler, and synagogue, Jairus by name; and wors.h.i.+pped him, saying, My when he saw him, he fell at daughter is even now dead: but his feet.

come and lay thy hand upon her, and she shall live.

19 And Jesus arose, and 23 And besought him greatly, followed him, and _so did_ his saying, My little daughter disciples. lieth at the point of death: _I pray thee_, come and lay thy hands on her, that she may be healed; and she shall live.

20 And behold, a woman which 24 And _Jesus_ went with him; was diseased with an issue of and much people followed him, blood twelve years, came and thronged him.

behind _him_, and touched the hem of his garment.

21 For she said within 25 And a certain woman which herself, If I may but touch had an issue of blood twelve his garment, I shall be whole. years, 22 But Jesus turned him about, 26 And had suffered many and when he saw her, he said, things of many physicians, and Daughter, be of good comfort: had spent all that she had, thy faith hath made thee and was nothing bettered, but whole. And the woman was made rather grew worse, whole from that hour.

27 When she had heard of Jesus, came in the press behind, and touched his garment: 28 For she said, If I may touch but his clothes, I shall be whole.

29 And straightway the fountain of her blood was dried up; and she felt in _her_ body that she was healed of that plague.

30 And Jesus, immediately knowing in himself that virtue had gone out of him, turned him about in the press, and said, Who touched my clothes?

31 And his disciples said unto him, Thou seest the mult.i.tude thronging thee, and sayest thou, Who touched me?

32 And he looked round about to see her that had done this thing.

33 But the woman, fearing and trembling, knowing what was done in her, came and fell down before him, and told him all the truth.

34 And he said unto her, Daughter, thy faith hath made thee whole; go in peace, and be whole of thy plague.

35 While he yet spake, there came from the ruler of the synagogue's _house certain_ which said, Thy daughter is dead: why troublest thou the Master any further?

36 As soon as Jesus heard the word that was spoken, he saith unto the ruler of the synagogue, Be not afraid, only believe.

37 And he suffered no man to follow him, save Peter, and James, and John the brother of James.

23 And when Jesus came into 38 And he cometh to the house the ruler's house, and saw the of the ruler of the synagogue, minstrels and the people and seeth the tumult, and them making a noise, that wept and wailed greatly.

24 He said unto them, Give 39 And when he was come in, he place: for the maid is not saith unto them, Why make ye dead, but sleepeth. And they this ado, and weep? the damsel laughed him to scorn. is not dead, but sleepeth.

25 But when the people were 40 And they laughed him to put forth, he went in, and scorn. But, when he had put took her by the hand, and the them all out, he taketh the maid arose. father and the mother of the damsel, and them that were with him, and entereth in where the damsel was lying.

26 And the fame hereof went 41 And he took the damsel by abroad into all that land. the hand, and said unto her, Talitha-c.u.mi: which is, being interpreted, Damsel, (I say unto thee) arise.

42 And straightway the damsel arose, and walked; for she was _of the age_ of twelve years.

And they were astonished with a great astonishment.

43 And he charged them straitly that no man should know it; and commanded that something should be given her to eat.

Luke.

CH. VIII. 41-56.

41 And behold, there came a man named Jairus, and he was a ruler of the synagogue: and he fell down at Jesus' feet, and besought him that he would come into his house: 42 For he had one only daughter, about twelve years of age, and she lay a-dying.

But as he went, the people thronged him.

43 And a woman having an issue of blood twelve years, which had spent all her living upon physicians, neither could be healed of any, 44 Came behind _him_ and touched the border of his garment: and immediately her issue of blood stanched.

45 And Jesus said, Who touched me? When all denied, Peter, and they that were with him, said, Master, the mult.i.tude throng thee, and press _thee_, and sayest thou, Who touched me?

46 And Jesus said, Somebody hath touched me: for I perceive that virtue is gone out of me.

47 And when the woman saw that she was not hid, she came trembling, and falling down before him, she declared unto him before all the people for what cause she had touched him, and how she was healed immediately.

48 And he said unto her, Daughter, be of good comfort: thy faith hath made thee whole; go in peace.

49 While he yet spake, there cometh one from the ruler of the _synagogue's house_, saying to him, Thy daughter is dead: trouble not the Master.

50 But when Jesus heard _it_, he answered him, saying, Fear not: believe only, and she shall be made whole.

51 And when he came into the house, he suffered no man to go in, save Peter, and James, and John, and the father and the mother of the maiden.

52 And all wept and bewailed her: but he said, Weep not: she is not dead, but sleepeth.

53 And they laughed him to scorn, knowing that she was dead.

54 And he put them all out, and took her by the hand, and called, saying, Maid, arise.

55 And her spirit came again, and she arose straightway: and he commanded to give her meat.

56 And her parents were astonished: but he charged them that they should tell no man what was done.

-- 60. Two blind men healed, and a dumb spirit cast out. _Capernaum_.

Matthew.

CH. IX. 27-34.

27 And when Jesus departed thence, two blind men followed him, crying, and saying, _Thou_ son of David, have mercy on us.

28 And when he was come into the house, the blind men came to him: and Jesus saith unto them, Believe ye that I am able to do this? They said unto him, Yea, Lord.

29 Then touched he their eyes, saying, According to your faith, be it unto you.

30 And their eyes were opened; and Jesus straitly charged them, saying, See _that_ no man know _it_.

31 But they, when they were departed, spread abroad his fame in all that country.

32 As they went out, behold, they brought to him a dumb man possessed with a devil.

33 And when the devil was cast out, the dumb spake: and the mult.i.tudes marvelled, saying, It was never so seen in Israel.

34 But the Pharisees said, He casteth out devils, through the prince of the devils.

-- 61. Jesus again at Nazareth, and again rejected.

Matthew. Mark.

CH. XIII. 54-58. CH. VI. 1-6.

54 And when he was come into And he went out from thence, his own country, he taught and came into his own county; them in their synagogue, and his disciples follow him.

insomuch that they were astonished, and said, Whence hath this _man_ this wisdom, and _these_ mighty works?

55 Is not this the carpenter's 2 And when the sabbath-day was son? is not his mother called come, he began to teach in the Mary? and his brethren, James, synagogue: and many hearing and Joses, and Simon, and _him_ were astonished, saying, Judas? From whence hath this _man_ these things? and what wisdom _is_ this which is given unto him, that even such mighty works are wrought by his hands?

56 And his sisters, are they 3 Is not this the carpenter, not all with us? Whence then the son of Mary,(168) the hath this _man_ all these brother of James, and Joses, things? and of Juda, and Simon? and are not his sisters here with us? And they were offended at him.

57 And they were offended in 4 But Jesus said unto them, A him. But Jesus said unto them, prophet is not without honour, A prophet is not without but in his own country, and honour, save in his own among his own kin, and in his country, and in his own house. own house.

5 And he could there do mighty work, save that he laid his hands upon a few sick folk, and healed _them_.

58 And he did not many mighty 6 And he marvelled because of works there, because of their their unbelief.

unbelief.

-- 62. A third circuit in Galilee. The Twelve instructed and sent forth.

_Galilee_.

Matthew. Mark.