Concerning the Eighth Day of the First Month

 

 

 

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***The 8th day of the first month***

***The sixth day of the week***

***Also, 03/27/33***

 

 

49. The Son of Man Is Come to Seek and to Save That Which Was Lost

And Zacchaeus stood, and said unto the Lord: “Behold, Lord, the half of my goods I give to the poor; and if I have taken any thing from any man by false accusation, I restore him fourfold.”

And Jesus said unto him, “This day is salvation come to this house, forsomuch as he also is a son of Abraham. For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost.”

And when he had thus spoken, he went before, ascending up to Jerusalem.

 

 

50. My House Shall Be Called the House of Prayer

Then Jesus six days before the passover came to Bethany, where Lazarus was, which had been dead, whom he raised from the dead.

And when they came nigh to Jerusalem, eiV Bethphage and Bethany, at the mount of Olives, he sendeth forth two of his disciples, Saying unto them, “Go into the village over against you, and as soon as ye be entered into it, ye shall find an ass tied, and a colt with her, whereon yet never man sat: loose them, and bring them unto me.”

“And if any man say unto you, ‘Why do ye this?’ And if any man ask you, ‘Why do ye loose him?’ And if any man say ought unto you, thus shall ye say unto him, ‘Because the Lord hath need of them;’ and straightway he will send them hither.”

All this was done, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying, “Tell ye the daughter of Sion, ‘Behold, thy King cometh unto thee, meek, and sitting upon an ass, and a colt the foal of an ass.’”

And they went their way, and found the colt tied by the door without in a place where two ways met; and they loose him.

And as they were loosing the colt, the owners thereof said unto them, “Why loose ye the colt?”

And certain of them that stood there said unto them, “What do ye, loosing the colt?”

And they said, “The Lord hath need of him,” and they let them go.

And the disciples brought the ass, and the colt, and put on them their clothes, and they set Jesus thereon.

And a very great multitude spread their garments in the way; others cut down branches from the trees, and strawed them in the way.

And the multitudes that went before, and that followed, cried, saying, “Hosanna to the son of David: ‘Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord;’ Blessed be the kingdom of our father David, that cometh in the name of the Lord: Hosanna in the highest.”

And when he was come nigh, even now at the descent of the mount of Olives, the whole multitude of the disciples began to rejoice and praise God with a loud voice for all the mighty works that they had seen; Saying, “Blessed be the King that cometh in the name of the Lord: peace in heaven, and glory in the highest.”

And when he was come into Jerusalem, all the city was moved, saying, “Who is this?”

And the multitude said, “This is Jesus the prophet of Nazareth of Galilee.”

And Jesus went into the temple of God, and cast out all them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold doves, And said unto them, “It is written, ‘My house shall be called the house of prayer;’ but ye have made it ‘a den of thieves.’”

And the blind and the lame came to him in the temple; and he healed them.

And when he had looked round about upon all things, and now the eventide was come, he went out unto Bethany with the twelve; and he lodged there.

There they made him a supper; and Martha served: but Lazarus was one of them that sat at the table with him.

Then took Mary a pound of ointment of spikenard, very costly, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair: and the house was filled with the odour of the ointment.

Then saith one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, which should betray him, “Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred pence, and given to the poor?” This he said, not that he cared for the poor; but because he was a thief, and had the bag, and bare what was put therein.

Then said Jesus, “Let her alone: against the day of my burying hath she kept this.”

“For the poor always ye have with you; but me ye have not always.”

Much people of the Jews therefore knew that he was there: and they came not for Jesus' sake only, but that they might see Lazarus also, whom he had raised from the dead. But the chief priests consulted that they might put Lazarus also to death; Because that by reason of him many of the Jews went away, and believed on Jesus.