²⁵from the time the master of the house may have risen up, and may have shut the door, and ye may begin without to stand, and to knock at the door, saying, Lord, lord, open to us, and he answering shall say to you, I have not known you whence ye are, ²⁶then ye may begin to say, We did eat before thee, and did drink, and in our broad places thou didst teach; ²⁷and he shall say, I say to you, I have not known you whence ye are; depart from me, all ye workers of the unrighteousness.

²⁸‘There shall be there the weeping and the gnashing of the teeth, when ye may see Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, and all the prophets, in the reign of God, and yourselves being cast out without; ²⁹and they shall come from east and west, and from north and south, and shall recline in the reign of God, ³⁰and lo, there are last who shall be first, and there are first who shall be last.’

³¹On that day there came near certain Pharisees, saying to him, ‘Go forth, and be going on hence, for Herod doth wish to kill thee;’ ³²and he said to them, ‘Having gone, say to this fox, Lo, I cast forth demons, and perfect cures to-day and to-morrow, and the third day I am being perfected; ³³but it behoveth me to-day, and to-morrow, and the day following, to go on, because it is not possible for a prophet to perish out of Jerusalem.

³⁴‘Jerusalem, Jerusalem, that is killing the prophets, and stoning those sent unto her, how often did I will to gather together thy children, as a hen her brood under the wings, and ye did not will.

³⁵‘Lo, your house is being left to you desolate, and verily I say to you—ye may not see me, till it may come, when ye may say, Blessed is he who is coming in the name of the Lord.’

Chapter 14

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