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The camel an' the needle's ee eiples, "It in no an easy thing for a man o’ muckle gear to enter the Kingdom o’ Heaven!

24., "Aye, say. I t'ye, it is easier for a camel to threid a needle’s ee, than ane rich to enter the Kingdom o' Heeven!"

25. When the disciples heard it they ferlied uncolie; and quo’ they, "Win then can he sav't?"

26. And Jesus, dwalllin on them wi’ his een. said. "Wi' men. this wad be impossible; but no wi’ God. For wi' God, in’ things can be possible!"

27. Peter answer't, and quo' he, "We hae left a’ to follow thee; what sal we hae, then?"

28. And Jenn: said to them, "In the A'-Things New, when the Sun O 'Man sal sit on the thron o' his glorie, ye ale weel an] sit on tawl’ throns. ower the Twal' Tribes O’ Isra'l.

29, "And ilka ane forsakin human, or brethren, or sisters, or faither or mither, or bairns, or mailin, for my name's sake—sal hae a hunner-fauld, and sal inherit Life Eternal!

30. "But mony first all be hin maist; and hinmaist first.

CHAPTIR TWENTY. The laborers. The ambition o' twa. The blin' gar't to see

OR the Kingdom o' Heaven is like till a man, a laird, wha gaed out i’ the dawin, to hire worker: intil his vine yard.

2. "And whan ho had ‘gree't vi’ the laborers for a hauf-merk a day, he sent them intil his Vine»yaird.

3. "And he gead oot eboot the chap o’ nine, and, law ither anes staunin idle i' the merkit

4. "And quo‘ he to them, 'Gang ye as weal intil the vine-yaird. and whnte’er is richt, ye sal he!‘ they gaed their ways.

5. "And again he gned out aboot twal', and thrie o' clock, and did the same

6. "And at fyve he geed cot, and faund mair stnunin; and, quo' he, 'Hoo is't ye staun here, idle a' the da?'

7, "They say, 'For that nae man fee'd us!' He says to them, 'Gang ye as weel intil the vine-ynird; and whate'er is richt, that sal ye hae!'

8. "Sae when glonmin we: come, the lard o‘ the vineynird say: to his grieve, 'Ca' the Workere; and gie them their fee; beginnin frae the hinmaist doon to the first.‘

9. "And when they o’ fyve o'clock cam, they gat ilk man A hauf-merk.

10. "And when the first um, they trow’dto hae gotten mnir; and they, as weel gat ilka man a hnuf-merk.

11. "And Whnn they gait it, they yammer't again the gudeman,

12. "Saying. 'Thir last anes hae putten-in ae 'oor, end ye hae made them even wi' us, wha has dread the weary cark and scouther o' the day!'

13. "But he answer’t ane o' them, and quo' he. 'Freend, I do ye nae wrang! Did-ye-na tak-on wi' me for hauf-merk?

14. "Tak whet belangs t'ye, and gang yere gate! It is my mill to gie to this last e'en as to you.

15. "'Is't no richt to has my ain wull in my ain things? In your ee skellied became I am upricht?'

16. "Sae the hinmist sal be first, and the first hinmaist. For many are hidden, but no a' acceptit."

17. And as Jesus was gaun up to Jerusalem, he took aside the twal' disciples, and on the way said to them,

18. "Noo, we gang up to Jeruasalem, and the Son o' Man sal be betraty't to the Heid-Priests and the Writers, and they sal doom him to death;

19. "And sal set him ower to the heathen to mock, and to clour, and to crucify; end an the third day he sal rise again"

20. Then cam till him the mither o’ Zebedaee's sons, wi' her sons, worshippin him, and seeking a thing free him. 26