Four Books of the Gospels

Contents

Reading pages: 0.1–1.594 · 1.619–2.451 · 2.475–3.269 · 3.293–4.124 · 4.149–4.760 · 4.784

1. 0.1Juvencus's preface: the world will burn, but a true poem on Christ's deeds may win lasting fame and help its poet at the judgment.
2. 1.1The angel announces John's birth to Zacharias in the temple.
3. 1.26Zacharias doubts, is struck dumb, and returns home.
4. 1.50The annunciation to Mary.
5. 1.76Mary visits Elisabeth; the child leaps; Mary begins her song of praise.
6. 1.101The end of Mary's song; John's birth and naming; Zacharias's song begins.
7. 1.125Zacharias's song ends; John grows up in the desert; Joseph is told in a dream to take Mary; the census of Augustus.
8. 1.149Jesus is born at Bethlehem; the angels appear to the shepherds.
9. 1.174The shepherds visit; Jesus is circumcised and named and presented in the temple; Simeon is introduced.
10. 1.197Simeon's song and prophecy to Mary; Anna the widow recognizes Christ.
11. 1.221The holy family returns home; the Magi come to Jerusalem and are led by the star to Bethlehem.
12. 1.246The Magi offer their gifts; the flight into Egypt; Herod's massacre of the infants.
13. 1.271The return from Egypt to Nazareth; Jesus grows; at twelve he stays behind in the temple.
14. 1.296Jesus answers his mother and returns home obedient; John the Baptist preaches, fulfilling Isaiah.
15. 1.323John's dress, food and preaching of repentance; he foretells the stronger one who will baptize with Spirit and fire.
16. 1.348Jesus is baptized; the Spirit descends and the Father speaks; Jesus fasts forty days in the wilderness.
17. 1.373The first two temptations: stones into bread and the leap from the temple.
18. 1.400The third temptation and the devil's flight; Jesus moves to Galilee, fulfilling Isaiah; he sees Simon and Andrew.
19. 1.425The call of the first disciples; Jesus preaches and heals throughout Galilee.
20. 1.448The crowds gather; the Beatitudes; the disciples are the salt of the earth.
21. 1.473Salt and light; Christ comes to fulfil, not abolish, the law and the prophets.
22. 1.497Anger and insult are condemned; reconcile before offering a gift; the 'adversary' is the body to be tamed by chastity; adultery of the mind.
23. 1.522Lust of the eye and hand; only an adulterous wife may rightly be divorced, for a husband who divorces another exposes her; oaths are forbidden.
24. 1.546Not retaliation but patience; give, lend, and love and pray for enemies, as the Father does good to all.
25. 1.571Be perfect like the Father; give and pray in secret; the Lord's Prayer begins.
26. 1.594The end of the Lord's Prayer; forgiveness; fasting in secret; treasure in heaven.
27. 1.619The sound eye; no one can serve God and riches; do not be anxious for food and clothing.
28. 1.643God clothes the lilies; seek his kingdom first; do not judge; the speck and the beam; pearls before swine.
29. 1.668Ask, seek, knock; the golden rule; the narrow gate and the broad way; beware false prophets.
30. 1.692False prophets known by their fruits; not all who say 'Lord' enter the kingdom; the house on the rock.
31. 1.718The house on sand; the crowds amazed at Christ's authority; a leper healed; a centurion approaches.
32. 1.743The centurion's faith and his servant healed; Peter's mother-in-law healed.
33. 2.1Evening healings; the would-be followers; Jesus and the disciples set sail.
34. 2.27Jesus calms the storm; a demoniac meets him in the land of the Gerasenes.
35. 2.51The demons named Legion are sent into the pigs; the people ask Jesus to leave.
36. 2.76The paralytic forgiven and healed; Matthew and Philip called.
37. 2.101Philip brings Nathanael, who confesses Jesus as Son of God and king.
38. 2.124The promise of greater things; the water turned into wine at Cana.
39. 2.151Jesus cleanses the temple and speaks of the temple of his body.
40. 2.177Nicodemus comes by night; Jesus speaks of new birth from water and Spirit.
41. 2.202Nicodemus fails to understand; the Son of man must be lifted up like the serpent; God so loved the world.
42. 2.227God sent the Son to save, not condemn; those who do evil hate the light; Jesus rests at Jacob's well.
43. 2.252Jesus asks the Samaritan woman for water and offers living water; he asks for her husband.
44. 2.276Jesus reveals the woman's five husbands; true worship in Spirit; he declares himself the Christ; she brings the townspeople.
45. 2.301Jesus' food is to do the Father's will; the fields are white for harvest; the Samaritans ask him to stay.
46. 2.325Many Samaritans believe; the royal official's son healed; tax collectors at a feast.
47. 2.350Jesus eats with tax collectors and sinners; the question about fasting; patches and wineskins.
48. 2.375A ruler begs Jesus for his dead daughter; the woman with the flow of blood is healed.
49. 2.400The girl raised; two blind men healed; a mute demoniac healed; Jesus pities the crowds.
50. 2.425The harvest and the labourers; the Twelve chosen and sent out with instructions.
51. 2.451Instructions to the Twelve: shake off the dust, be wise and simple, expect persecution, flee from city to city.
52. 2.475The disciple is not above the master; fear God, not those who kill the body; confessing Christ; not peace but a sword.
53. 2.501Love of Christ above family; receiving his messengers; John's question from prison and Christ's answer.
54. 2.525Jesus' testimony to John: more than a prophet, the messenger of Malachi, Elijah.
55. 2.548Jesus thanks the Father, invites the weary, and defends the disciples plucking grain on the sabbath by David's example.
56. 2.575Priests break the sabbath in the temple; mercy over sacrifice; the Son of man rules the sabbath; the withered hand healed.
57. 2.599Jesus heals a blind and mute demoniac; the Pharisees accuse him of using the prince of demons; a divided kingdom cannot stand.
58. 2.623Blasphemy against the Spirit is unforgivable; men are judged by their words; the Son does the Father's works and receives all judgment.
59. 2.648The believer passes from death to life; the dead will hear the Son's voice; the Father and the works bear witness to the Son.
60. 2.672The Scriptures and Moses bear witness to Christ; the scribes ask for a sign and are given the sign of Jonah.
61. 2.700Nineveh and the queen of the South will condemn this generation; the unclean spirit returns with seven others.
62. 2.723Jesus' true family are those who do the Father's will; the parable of the sower begins.
63. 2.748The end of the sower; why Jesus speaks in parables; Isaiah's prophecy of closed eyes and ears.
64. 2.773The sower explained; the parable of the wheat and the darnel begins.
65. 2.799The darnel left until harvest; the mustard seed and the leaven; parables fulfil the prophet.
66. 3.1The parable of the darnel explained: the harvest is the end of the world; Jesus is rejected in his home town.
67. 3.26Jesus without honour at Nazareth; Herod thinks John risen; Herod's unlawful marriage to his brother's wife and John's imprisonment.
68. 3.52Herodias's daughter dances; John is beheaded; Jesus withdraws and heals the crowds.
69. 3.77The feeding of the five thousand; Jesus prays alone while the disciples' boat is tossed by the wind.
70. 3.100Jesus walks on the water; Peter walks, doubts, sinks and is rescued.
71. 3.125The disciples worship; healings at Gennesaret; the dispute about washing hands and the tradition of the elders.
72. 3.150Plants not planted by the Father; blind guides; what comes from the heart defiles.
73. 3.174The Canaanite woman's faith and her daughter's healing; Jesus returns to Galilee.
74. 3.199Many healed; the feeding of the four thousand; Pharisees and Sadducees ask for a sign.
75. 3.224The signs of the sky and the sign of Jonah; beware the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees.
76. 3.245The disciples understand the leaven as teaching; at Caesarea Philippi Jesus asks who people say he is.
77. 3.269Peter confesses Jesus as the Christ; the rock, the church and the keys; the first prediction of the passion.
78. 3.293Peter rebuked; taking up the cross; the Son of man will come; Jesus takes three disciples up a mountain.
79. 3.320The Transfiguration; the Father's voice; the question about Elijah.
80. 3.347Elijah has come in John; the epileptic boy healed after the disciples failed.
81. 3.371Faith like a mustard seed; prayer and fasting; the temple tax and the coin in the fish.
82. 3.395Greatness like a child's; woe to those who cause the little ones to stumble; the lost sheep; correcting a brother.
83. 3.421Church discipline in stages; Christ present where two or three gather; forgiving without limit; the unforgiving servant begins.
84. 3.445The end of the unforgiving servant; Jesus goes to Judaea; the Pharisees ask whether a man may divorce his wife for any cause; the creation of male and female.
85. 3.471What God joined, man must not separate; Moses permitted divorce for hardness of heart; whoever dissolves a marriage and takes another wife commits adultery; the disciples' objection; eunuchs for the kingdom; Jesus blesses the children.
86. 3.498The rich young man asks about eternal life, is told the commandments and to sell all and follow, and goes away sad.
87. 3.522The camel and the needle; with God salvation is possible; the apostles will sit on twelve thrones; a hundredfold reward.
88. 3.548The first will be last; the parable of the labourers in the vineyard.
89. 3.572The grumbling labourers; many called, few chosen; the third prediction of the passion; the request of Zebedee's wife.
90. 3.596The places of honour belong to the Father to give; greatness is service; the Son of man redeems many; do not take the highest seat at a feast.
91. 3.619The triumphal entry into Jerusalem on the ass and foal, fulfilling the prophet; healings at the temple.
92. 3.644The children's hosannas in the temple; the barren fig tree withers; the power of faith.
93. 3.669Faith can move mountains; the leaders question Jesus' authority and he asks them about John's baptism; the parable of the two sons begins.
94. 3.696The two sons; tax collectors and harlots go before the leaders; the parable of the wicked tenants begins.
95. 3.720The tenants kill the son; the kingdom is given to another nation; the parable of the wedding feast begins.
96. 3.745The invited guests refuse and are punished; strangers fill the hall; the man without a wedding garment is cast out.
97. 4.1The question of tribute to Caesar; the Sadducees' case of the woman married to seven brothers.
98. 4.26In the resurrection there is no marriage; God is God of the living; the two great commandments; David's son and Lord.
99. 4.51Jesus warns against the scribes and Pharisees: do what they teach, not what they do; one teacher and one Father; woes.
100. 4.76The lament over Jerusalem; the temple's destruction foretold; the disciples ask about the end; warnings against deceivers and wars.
101. 4.100The beginning of birth pains; persecution, false prophets, endurance to the end, the gospel to all nations, and Daniel's prophecy.
102. 4.124Flight from Judaea; the great tribulation shortened for the elect; false Christs; the coming like lightning.
103. 4.149Signs in heaven; the Son of man comes with the clouds and gathers the elect; heaven and earth pass but his words remain; the day is unknown; as in the flood.
104. 4.174Two in one bed, one taken; keep watch like the householder; the faithful and the wicked servant; the ten maidens begin.
105. 4.200The parable of the ten maidens: the wise have oil and enter with the bridegroom; the foolish are shut out.
106. 4.224Watch, for the hour is unknown; the parable of the talents.
107. 4.248The lazy servant punished; the Son of man comes to judge and separates the sheep from the goats; the righteous are welcomed.
108. 4.272The judge tells the righteous they served him in the needy, and condemns the unrighteous to the fire prepared for the devil.
109. 4.295The end of the judgment scene; the sisters of Lazarus send word that he is dying.
110. 4.316Jesus says Lazarus's sickness is for God's glory, tells the disciples he has died, and comes to Bethany; Martha meets him.
111. 4.342Jesus is the resurrection and the life; Martha confesses him as Christ, the Son of God; Mary comes.
112. 4.367Jesus weeps, comes to the tomb, has the stone removed, and prays to the Father.
113. 4.392Lazarus raised; some believe, others inform the Pharisees; the council plots Jesus' death; he is anointed at Bethany.
114. 4.417Jesus defends the woman who anointed him; Judas agrees to betray him for thirty pieces of silver; the Passover supper and the prediction of the betrayal.
115. 4.439Woe to the betrayer; Judas is named; the institution of the Eucharist; the walk to the Mount of Olives and the prophecy of the scattered sheep.
116. 4.464Jesus foretells Peter's denial; Peter protests; in Gethsemane Jesus takes three disciples apart and is in anguish.
117. 4.490Jesus prays that the cup may pass but submits to the Father's will; the disciples sleep; Judas arrives with an armed crowd.
118. 4.515The betrayal with a kiss; Jesus is seized; the ear struck off and the rebuke of the sword; the disciples flee; Jesus before Caiaphas.
119. 4.539False witnesses at the trial before Caiaphas; Jesus' answer about the Son of man; the high priest tears his garment and all condemn him.
120. 4.566Jesus mocked; Peter's three denials and the cock-crow; Jesus led to the governor at dawn.
121. 4.590Jesus before Pilate is silent; the custom of the feast; Pilate's wife's dream; the crowd asks for the robber.
122. 4.614The crowd demands crucifixion; Pilate washes his hands and the people take the blood upon themselves; Barabbas released; Judas returns the silver and hangs himself; the field of blood.
123. 4.639The prophecy of the thirty pieces; the soldiers mock Jesus; Simon of Cyrene carries the cross; the gall; the crucifixion; the seamless tunic.
124. 4.665The title on the cross; the mockery by passers-by, leaders and robbers; darkness at noon.
125. 4.690Jesus' cry to the Father; the sour wine; his death; the veil torn, the earthquake, the saints raised; the soldiers confess him Son of God.
126. 4.714The women watch; Joseph of Arimathea buries Jesus in a new tomb; the leaders go to Pilate.
127. 4.736The guard and the sealed tomb; at dawn an earthquake and the angel; the guards stricken; the angel announces the resurrection.
128. 4.760The women run to tell the disciples and meet the risen Jesus; the guards are bribed to say the body was stolen.
129. 4.784The risen Christ sends the disciples to baptize all nations in the name of the Father, the Son and the Spirit; Juvencus's closing thanks for the peace under Constantine.