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Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth.

Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God.

Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness' sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.-Matt. v. 1-3, 5, 9, 10.

And great multitudes followed him, and he healed them all;

And charged them that they should not make him known:

That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias the prophet. -Matt. xii. 15-17.

And being in an agony he prayed more earnestly: and his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground.-Luke xxii. 44.

When the chief priests therefore and officers saw him, they cried out, saying, Crucify him! crucify him!-John xix. 6.

When Pilate heard that saying, he was the more afraid;

And went again into the judgment hall, and saith unto Jesus, Whence art thou? But Jesus gave him no answer.-John xix. 8, 9.

And Jesus saith unto him, The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head.-Matt. viii. 20.

Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart.-Matt. xi. 29.

Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus.

But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant.-Phil. ii. 5, 7.

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Say to them that are of a fearful heart, Be strong, fear not: behold, your God will come with vengeance, even God with a recompense; he will come and save you. Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped.

Then shall the lame man leap as an hart, and the tongue of the dumb sing: for in the wilderness shall waters break out, and streams in the desert.-Isaiah xxxv. 4-6.

The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me; because the Lord hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the broken hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prisons to them that are bound:

To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn.-Isaiah lxi. 1, 2.

Nevertheless the dimness shall not be such as was in her vexation, when at the first he lightly afflicted the land of Zebulun, and the land of Naphtali, and afterwards did more grievously afflict her by the way of the sea, beyond Jordan, in Galilee of the nations.

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Jesus answered and said unto per- them, Go and show John again those things which ye do hear and see:

should form miracles, heal diseases, preach

and the gospel to the poor.

Jesus the Messiah should come and enlighten those that sat in darkness, beginning his blessed gos

The blind receive their sight, and the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have the gospel preached to them.

And blessed is he, whosoever shall not be offended in me.Matt. xi. 4-6.

And he began to say unto them, This day is this scripture fulfilled in your ears.

And he said unto them, I must preach the kingdom of God to other cities also: for therefore am I sent.-Luke iv. 21, 43.

Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.—Matt. xi. 28.

Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him,

And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed. -John viii. 31, 32, 36.

From that time Jesus began to preach, and to say, Repent: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.-Matt. iv. 17.

Blessed are they that mourn : for they shall be comforted.Matt. v. 4.

Now when Jesus had heard that John was cast into prison, he departed into Galilee ;

And leaving Nazareth, he came and dwelt in Capernaum, which is upon the sea coast, in the borders of Zabulon and Nephthalim.

And Jesus went about all Gali

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He is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he opened not his mouth.

He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living for the transgression of my people was he stricken.Isaiah liii. 7, 8.

And after three score and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself.-Daniel ix. 26.

Nazareth belonged to the tribe of Zabulon; and Capernaum to the tribe of Naphthali; situate on the

lee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all manner of sickness and all manner of disease among the people.

And his fame went throughout all Syria: and they brought unto him all sick people that were taken with divers diseases and sea of Ti- torments, and those which were berias; both possessed with devils, and those which places which were lunatic, and those were beyond that had the palsy; and he healed Jordan. them.

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And there followed him great multitudes of people from Galilee and from Decapolis, and from Jerusalem, and from Judea, and from beyond Jordan.-Matt. iv. 12, 13, 23-25.

And Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit into Galilee : and there went out a fame of him through all the region round about.-Luke iv. 14.

Caiaphas, being the high priest Christ, the that same year, said unto them, Lamb of God, Ye know nothing at all, the Paschal Lamb, was to be slain for the sins of the people.

Nor consider that it is expedient for us that one man should die for the people, and that the whole nation perish not.

And this spake he not of himself: but being high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus should die for that nation;

And not for that nation only, but that also he should gather together in one the children of God that were scattered abroad.John xi. 49-52.

Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.-John xv. 13.

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Yea, mine own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, which did eat of my bread, hath lifted up his heel against me.--Psalm xli. 9. For it was not an open enemy that reproached me; then I could have borneit: neither was it he that hated me that did magnify himself against me; then I would have hid myself from him: But it was thou, a man mine equal, my guide, and mine acquaintance.

We took sweet counsel together, and walked unto the house of God in company.-Psalm lv. 12-14.

And I said unto them, If ye think good, give me my price; and if not, forbear. So they weighed for my price thirty pieces of silver.-Zech. xi. 12.

And the Lord said unto me, It was deemCast it unto the potter: a goodly ed unlawful price that I was prized at of them. by the Jews And I took the thirty pieces of to put the mosilver, and cast them to the pot-ney into the ter in the house of the Lord.treasury, beZech. xi. 13. cause it was

the price of blood; they therefore

And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me.-John xii. 32.

And as they did eat, he said, Verily I say unto you, that one of you shall betray me.

Then Judas, which betrayed him, answered and said, Master, is it I? He said unto him, Thou hast said.

And while he yet spake, lo, Judas, one of the twelve, came, and with him a great multitude with swords and staves, from the chief priests and elders of the people.

Now he that betrayed him gave them a sign, saying, Whomsoever I shall kiss, that same is he hold him fast.

And forthwith he came to Jesus, and said, Hail, Master; and kissed him.-Matt. xxvi. 21, 25, 47-49.

Then one of the twelve, called Judas Iscariot, went unto the chief priests,

And said unto them, What will ye give me, and I will deliver him unto you? And they covenanted with him for thirty pieces of silver.-Matt. xxvi. 14, 15.

Then Judas, which had betrayed him, when he saw that he was condemned, repented himself, and brought again the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders,

Saying, I have sinned, in that I have betrayed the innocent blood. And they said, What is that to us? see thou to that.