The place of the scripture which he read was this, He was led as a sheep to the slaughter; and like a lamb dumb before his shearer, so opened he not his mouth: / In his humiliation his judgment was taken away: and who shall declare his generation? for his life is taken from the earth.

And have ye not read this scripture; The stone which the builders rejected is become the head of the corner: / This was the Lord's doing, and it is marvellous in our eyes? / And they sought to lay hold on him, but feared the people: for they knew that he had spoken the parable against them: and they left him, and went their way.

I have more understanding than all my teachers: for thy testimonies are my meditation.

Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.

Now these be the last words of David. David the son of Jesse said, and the man who was raised up on high, the anointed of the God of Jacob, and the sweet psalmist of Israel, said, The Spirit of the Lord spake by me, and his word was in my tongue.

And the revolters are profound to make slaughter, though I have been a rebuker of them all.