Jesus answered them, “Is it not written in your law, ’I said, Ye are gods?’ If he called them gods, unto whom the word of God came (and the scripture cannot be broken), say ye of him, whom the Father sanctified and sent into the world, ‘Thou blasphemest;’ because I said, ’I am the Son of God?’ If I do not the works of my Father, believe me not.  But if I do them, though ye believe not me, believe the works:  that ye may know and understand that the Father is in me, and I in the Father.”

They sought again to take him:  and he went forth out of their hand.

RENEWED MINISTRY IN PEREA

JESUS AND THE PHARISEES.

And he went away again beyond the Jordan into the place where John was at the first baptizing; and there he abode.  And many came unto him; and they said, “John indeed did no sign:  but all things whatsoever John spake of this man were true.”  And many believed on him there.

Now a Pharisee asketh him to dine with him:  and he went in, and sat down to meat.  And when the Pharisee saw it, he marvelled that he had not first bathed himself before dinner.

And the Lord said unto him, “Now ye the Pharisees cleanse the outside of the cup and of the platter; but your inward part is full of extortion and wickedness.  Ye foolish ones, did not he that made the outside make the inside also?  But give for alms those things which are within; and behold, all things are clean unto you.”

And when he was come out from thence, the scribes and the Pharisees began to press upon him vehemently, and to provoke him to speak of many things; laying wait for him, to catch something out of his mouth.

In the meantime, when the many thousands of the multitude were gathered together, insomuch that they trod one upon another, he began to say unto his disciples first of all, “Beware ye of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.  But there is nothing covered up, that shall not be revealed; and hid, that shall not be known.”

WARNING AGAINST COVETOUSNESS.

And one out of the multitude said unto him, “Teacher, bid my brother divide the inheritance with me.”

But he said unto him, “Man, who made me a judge or a divider over you?”

And he said unto them, “Take heed and keep yourselves from all covetousness:  for a man’s life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth.”

And he spake a parable unto them, saying, “The ground of a certain rich man brought forth plentifully; and he reasoned within himself, saying, ’What shall I do, because I have not where to bestow my fruits?’ And he said, ’This will I do:  I will pull down my barns, and build greater; and there will I bestow all my grain and my goods.  And I will say to my soul, “Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, be merry."’ But God said unto him, ’Thou foolish one, this night is thy soul required of thee:  and the things which thou hast prepared, whose shall they be?’ So is he that layeth up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.”