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And all the multitudes sought to approach to him, for the power went forth from him, and all of them he healed.

AND he lifted up his eyes upon his disciples, and said, Blessed are you poor, for yours is the kingdom of Aloha.

Blessed are you who hunger now, for you shall be satisfied. Blessed are you who weep now, for you shall laugh.

Blessed are you when the sons of man hate you, and separate you, and revile you, and cast out your name as evil, for the sake of the Son of man.

Rejoice in that day, and exult, for your reward is great in heaven; for thus did they to your fathers the prophets.

Woe to you (who are) full, for you shall hunger. Woe to you who laugh now, for you shall weep and lament.

Woe to you when the sons of men shall speak well of you, for so did to the prophets of falsity their fathers.

and bless those who execrate you, and pray for those who lead you by violence. [fn]

For if you love them who love you, what is your grace ? for sinners also love those who love them.

And if you do good to those who benefit you, what is your grace? for the sinners also thus do.

And if you lend to them from whom you expect to be recompensed, what is your grace ? for sinners also lend to sinners, that they might be profited.

But love your adversaries, and do good to them, and lend, and cut not off the hope of any one; and great shall be your reward, and you shall be the children of the Most High; for he is benign to the evil and to the ungrateful.

give, and it shall be given to you; in good measure, compressed, redundant, shall they pour into your bosoms. For in that measure you mete, it shall be measured to you.

For why behold you the rod that is in the eye of your brother, but the rafter in your (own) eye is not seen by you ?

for every tree by its fruits is known. For how gather they from thorns figs ? neither also from the bramble do they gather in grapes.

The good man, from the good treasures which are in his heart, bringeth forth good things; and the evil man, from the evil treasures which are in his heart, bringeth forth evil things; for from the adundancies of the heart the lips speak.

He is like a man who built a house, and digged deep, and laid the foundations upon the rock: but when there was an inundation, [fn] the inundation beat against that house, and it could not shake it, for its foundations were set upon a rock.

And they, when they came to Jeshu, besought of him earnestly, saying, He is worthy that thou do this for him;

for he loveth our people, and also a synagogue [fn] he hath built for us.

And Jeshu went with them. But when he was not greatly distant from the house, the centurion sent to him his friends, saying to him, My Lord, labour not, for I am not worthy that thou shouldst enter beneath my roof.