38:1In those days Ezechias was sick even to death, and Isaias the son of Amos the prophet came to him, and said to him: Thus says the Lord: Take order with your house, for you shall die, and not live.

2And Ezechias turned his face toward the wall, and prayed to the Lord,

3And said: I beg you, O Lord, remember how I have walked before you in truth, and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in your sight. And Ezechias wept with great weeping.

4And the word of the Lord came to Isaias, saying:

5Go and say to Ezechias: Thus says the Lord the God of David your father: I have heard your prayer, and I have seen your tears: look I will add to your days fifteen years:

6And I will deliver you and this city out of the hand of the king of the Assyrians, and I will protect it.

21Now Isaias had ordered that they should take a lump of figs, and lay it as it plaster upon the wound, and that he should be healed.

22And Ezechias bed said: What shah be the sign that I shah go up to the house of the Lord?

7And this shall be a sign to you from the Lord, that the Lord will do this word which he has said:

8Look I will bring again the shadow of the lines, by which it is now gone down in the sun dial of Achaz with the sun, ten lines backward. And the sun returned ten lines by the degrees by which it was gone down.

38:10I said: In the midst of my days I shall go to the gates of hell: I sought for the residue of my years.

11I said: I shall not see the Lord God in the land of the living. I shall look man no more, nor the inhabitant of rest.

12My generation is at an end, and it is rolled away from me, as a shepherd's tent. My life is cut off, as by a weaver: whilst I was yet but beginning, he out me off: from morning even to night you will make an end of me.

16O Lord, if man's life be such, and the life of my spirit be in such things as these, you shall correct me, and make me to live.

12:1At that time Jesus went through the corn on the sabbath: and his disciples being hungry, began to pluck the ears, and to eat.

2And the Pharisees seeing them, said to him: Look your disciples do that which is not lawful to do on the sabbath days.

3But he said to them: Have you not read what David did when he was hungry, and those who were with him:

4How he entered into the house of God, and did eat the bread of proposition, which it was not lawful for him to eat, nor for them that were with him, but for the priests only?

5Or have you not read in the law, that on the sabbath days the priests in the temple break the sabbath, and are without blame?

6But I tell you that there is here a greater than the temple.

7And if you knew what this meaneth: I will have mercy, and not sacrifice: you would never have condemned the innocent.

8For the Son of Man is Lord even of the sabbath.