"If not faithful in that which is another's, who shall give you that which is your own? 10 11 12 13 14 "No servant can serve two masters" &c. [Matt. vi. 24.] Pharisees, covetous, derided him Jesus said, "Ye are they which justify before men; God knoweth all your hearts; highly esteemed among men, abomination in sight of God "Law and Prophets until John; kingdom of heaven preached, &c. every man presseth, &c. [Matt. xi. 12.] "Easier for heaven and earth to pass, than for one tittle of law to fail" [Matt. iv. 18.] Question by Pharisees, "Is it lawful to put away wife ?" Answer, "What did Moses command you?" They answer, "Moses suffered bill of divorcement "" 3 4 5 6 "For hardness of your heart he wrote this precept - "From beginning God made them male and female " Reference to scripture, the beginning male and female; man shall leave father and mother and cleave to wife "And they twain shall be one flesh "What God hath joined, &c. - - "Whoso shall seek to save his life, shall lose it, &c. In that night two in one bed; one taken, other left t; two women grinding, &c. two men in field " They answered, "Where, Lord?”? answer, "Wheresoever body is, there will eagles be gathered " Jesus spake a parable to them to this end, That men ought always to pray, &c. Parable of the Judge who heard not God, &c. The importunate widow listened to, and avenged on account of her importunity And the Lord said, "Hear what the unjust judge saith - "And shall not God avenge his own elect, who cry day and night, &c. "He win avenge, &c. When the Son of man cometh shall he find faith on earth?" Parable to them that trusted in themselves that they were righte ous, &c. Pharisee praying in the temple, “I thank God that I am not as other men, &c. I fast twice a week, pay tithes " &c. Publican afar 31 32 32 33-36 37 xviii. 1 2-5 6 7 |