He answereth the tempting Pharisees (and again his Disciples afterward) that the case of a man with his wife shall be (as in the first institution) utterly indissoluble. (13) He blesseth children. (17) He showeth what is to be done to get life everlasting: (21) what also for a rich man to be perfect; (28) as also what passing reward they shall have that do so in time of persecution. (32) He revealeth more to his Disciples touching his Passion (35) bidding the two ambitious suitors to think rather of suffering with him: (41) and teaching us in the rest of his Disciples, not to be grieved at our Ecclesiastical Superiors, considering they are (as he was himself) to toil for our salvation. (46) Then going out of Jericho, he giveth sight to a blind man.
AND rising up thence, he cometh into the coasts of Jewry beyond Jordan: and the multitudes assemble again unto him. And as he was accustomed, again he taught them. 2And the Pharisees coming near, asked him: Is it lawful for a man to dismiss his wife? tempting him. 3But he answering, said to them: What did Moyses command you? 4Who said: * Moyses • permitted to write a bill of divorce, and to dismiss her. 5To whom Jesus answering, said: For the hardness of your heart he wrote you this precept. 6But from the beginning of the creation * God made them male and female. 7For this cause, * man shall leave his father and mother; and shall cleave to his wife. 8And they two shall be in one flesh. Therefore now they are not two, but one flesh. 9That therefore which God hath joined together, [a] let no man separate.
10And * in the house again his Disciples asked him of the same thing. 11And he says to them: Whosoever dismisseth his wife and • marrieth another: committeth advoutry upon her. 12And if the wife dismiss her husband, and marry another, she committeth advoutry.
13And * they offered to him young children, that he might touch them. And the Disciples threatened those that offered them. 14Whom when Jesus saw, he took it ill, and said to them: Suffer the little children to come unto me, and prohibit them not. For the Kingdom of God is for such. 15Amen I say to you, whosoever receiveth not the Kingdom of God as a little child, shall not enter into it. 16And embracing them, and [b] imposing his hands upon them, he blessed them. 17And when he was gone forth in the way, a certain man running forth and kneeling before him asked him: * Good Master, what shall I do that I may receive life everlasting? 18And Jesus said to him: Why callest thou me good? • None is good but one, God. 19Thou knowest the [c] commandments, * Commit not advoutry, Kill not, Steal not, Bear not false witness, do not fraud, Honour thy father and mother. 20But he answering, said to him: Master all these things I have observed from my youth. 21And Jesus beholding him, loved him, and said to him: One thing is wanting unto thee: [d] go, sell whatsoever thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shall have treasure in Heaven; and come, follow me. 22Who being struck sad at the word, went away sorrowful for he had many possessions. 23And Jesus looking about, says to his Disciples: How hardly shall they that have money, enter into the Kingdom of God! 24And the Disciples were astonished at his words. But Jesus again answering, says to them: Children, how hard is it for them that trust in money, to enter into the Kingdom of God! 25It is easier for a camel to pass through a needle’s eye, than for • a rich man to enter into the Kingdom of God. 26Who marvelled more, saying to themselves: And who can be saved? 27And Jesus beholding them says: With men it is impossible; but not with God. For all things are possible with God. 28And Peter began to say unto him: Behold, we have left all things, and have followed thee. 29Jesus answering, said: [e] Amen I say to you, there is no man which hath left house, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or children, or lands for me and for the Ghospel, 30that shall not receive • an hundred times so much now in this time; houses, and brethren, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and lands, with persecutions: and in the world to come life everlasting. 31But * many that are first, shall be last; and the last, first.
32And they were in the way going up to Jerusalem: and Jesus went before them, and they were astonished; and following were afraid. And * taking again the Twelve, he began to tell them the things that should befall him. 33That, behold we go up to Jerusalem, and the Son of man shall be betrayed to the chief Priests, and to the Scribes and Ancients, and they shall condemn him to death, and shall deliver him to the Gentiles, 34and they shall mock him, and spit on him, and scourge him, and kill him, and the third day he shall rise again.
35And * there come to him James and John the sons of Zebedee, saying: Master, we will that what things soever we shall ask, thou do it to us. 36But he said to them: What will you that I do to you? 37And they said: Grant to us, that we may sit, one on thy right hand and the other on thy left hand, in thy glory. 38And Jesus said to them: You wot not what you ask. Can you drink the cup that I drink: or be baptised with the Baptism wherewith I am baptised? 39But they said to him: We can. And Jesus said to them: The cup indeed which I drink, you shall drink; and with the Baptism wherewith I am baptised, shall you be baptised: 40but to sit on my right hand or on my left, is not mine to give unto you, but to whom it is prepared. 41And the ten hearing, began to be displeased at James and John. 42And Jesus calling them, says to them: * You know that they which seem to rule over the Gentiles, overrule them; and their Princes have power over them. 43But it is not so in you. But whosoever will be greater, shall be your minister; 44and whosoever will be first among you, shall be the servant of all. 45For the Son of man also is not come to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a redemption for many.
46.And * they come to Jericho: and when he departed from Jericho, and his Disciples, and a very great multitude, the son of Timaeus, Bar-timaeus the blind man, sat by the way side begging. 47Who when he had heard, that it is Jesus of Nazareth, he began to cry, and to say: Jesus, son of David, have mercy upon me. 48And many threatened him, to hold his peace. But he cried much more: Son of David, have mercy upon me. 49And Jesus standing still commanded him to be called. And they call the blind man, saying to him: Be of better comfort, arise, he calleth thee. 50Who casting off his garment leapt up, and came to him. 51And Jesus answering, said to him: What will thou that I do unto thee? And the blind man said to him: Rabboni, that I may see. 52And Jesus said to him: Go thy ways, thy faith hath made thee safe. And forthwith he saw, and followed him in the way.
Footnotes
- ↑ The obligation betwixt man and wife is so great, that during life it can not be broken.
- ↑ Our Saviour gave the children his blessing, imposing his hands upon them.
- ↑ Note that the keeping of God’s commandments procureth life everlasting.
- ↑ This is counsel of perfection (not a precept) which the Religious professing and keeping voluntary poverty, do follow.
- ↑ Exceeding happy be they that can forsake their temporal things for religion.
ANNOTATIONS. CHAP. 10.
↑ 4. Permitted.) Some things are permitted, though not approved or allowed, to avoid greater inconveniences. No man may do evil for any cause, but he may permit other men’s evils for diverse causes: as God himself doeth, who can do no evil. So doth the Prince and Common-wealth permit lesser evils to eschew greater, and so may the Holy Church much more (as St. Augustine says she doeth) being placed among much chaff and much cockle, tolerate many things: and yet whatsoever is against faith and good life, she neither approveth, nor dissembleth with silence, nor committeth.
↑ 11. And marrieth another.) That which St. Matthew uttered more obscurely, and is mistaken of some, as though he meant that for fornication a man might put away his wife and marry another, is here by this Evangelist (as also by St. Luke) put out of doubt, generally avouching, that whosoever putteth away his wife and marrieth another committeth advoutry. Aug. lib. 1 de adult. conjug. 6. 11 and sequentibus.
↑ 18. None is good.) None is entirely, substantially, and of himself good, but God: though by participation of God’s goodness, men are truly also called good.
↑ 25. A rich man.) He is here called a rich man that hath his confidence (as here is expressed) in his treasure, and had rather forsake his faith and duty to God, than lose them, as all they which live in Schism or Heresy to save their goods.
↑ 30. A hundred times so much.) Sometime God doth so bless men also in worldly benefits that have forsaken all for him, as St. Gregory, St. Augustine, and St. Paulinus do note: but the principal meaning is, * that he will give to such men in this life aboundance of grace and spiritual comfort and contentation and joy of conscience (as they feel which have experience) the which spiritual gifts exceed the temporal commodities more than a hundredfold. In so much that he that hath fully forsaken but small things for religion, would not forsake religion to have all the world.
Margin Notes
- The third part of this Gospel Christ’s comming into Jewry toward his Passion.
- annot. 4. Toleration and permission of evil.
- annot. 11. Marriage after divorce unlawful.
- annot. 30. Their reward in this life that forsake ought for Gods sake.
Margin References
- 1. Mat. 19, 1.
- 4. Deut. 24, 1.
- 6. Gen. 1, 27.
- 7. Gen. 2, 24.
- 10. Mat. 19, 9. Mar. 5, 32. Luc. 16, 18. I. Cor. 7, 11.
- 13. Mat. 19, 13. Luc. 18, 15.
- 17. Mat. 19, 16. Luc. 18, 18.
- 19. Exo. 20, 13.
- 31. Mat. 19, 30. Luc. 13, 30.
- 32. Mat. 20, 17. Luc. 18, 31.
- 35. Mat. 20, 20.
- 42. Mat. 20, 25. Luc. 22, 25.
- 46. Mat. 20, 29. Luc. 13, 35.
- annot. 4. Aug. ep. 119 c. 19.
- annot. 11. Luc. 16, 18.
- annot. 30. Jero. in 19 Mat.
