Matthew 17 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

¹ And as they came down from the mountain, Jesus charged them, saying: Tell the vision to no man, till the Son of man be risen from the dead.

² 0 And his disciples asked him, saying: Why then do the scribes say that Elias must come first?

³ 1 But he answering, said to them: Elias indeed shall come, and restore all things.

⁴ 2 But I say to you, that Elias is already come, and they knew him not, but have done unto him whatsoever they had a mind. So also the Son of man shall suffer from them.

⁵ 3 Then the disciples understood, that he had spoken to them of John the Baptist.

⁶ 4 And when he was come to the multitude, there came to him a man falling down on his knees before him, saying:

⁷ 5 Lord, have pity on my son, for he is a lunatic, and suffereth much: for he falleth often into the fire, and often into the water.

⁸ 6 And I brought him to thy disciples, and they could not cure him.

⁹ 7 Then Jesus answered and said: O unbelieving and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you? How long shall I suffer you? bring him hither to me.

¹⁰ 8 And Jesus rebuked him, and the devil went out of him, and the child was cured from that hour.

¹¹ 9 Then came the disciples to Jesus secretly, and said: Why could not we cast him out?

¹² 0 Jesus said to them: Because of your unbelief. For, amen I say to you, if you have faith as a grain of mustard seed, you shall say to this mountain, Remove from hence hither, and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible to you.

¹³ 1 But this kind is not cast out but by prayer and fasting.

¹⁴ 2 And when they abode together in Galilee, Jesus said to them: The Son of man shall be betrayed into the hands of men:

¹⁵ 3 And they shall kill him, and the third day he shall rise again. And they were troubled exceedingly.

¹⁶ 4 And when they were come to Capharnaum, they that recieved the didrachmas, came to Peter and said to him: Doth not your master pay the didrachmas?

¹⁷ 5 He said: Yes. And when he was come into the house, Jesus prevented him, saying: What is thy opinion, Simon? The kings of the earth, of whom do they receive tribute or custom? of their own children, or of strangers?

¹⁸ 6 And he said: Of strangers. Jesus said to him: Then the children are free.

¹⁹ 7 But that we may not scandalize them, go to the sea, and cast in a hook: and that fish which shall first come up, take: and when thou hast opened its mouth, thou shalt find a stater: take that, and give it to them for me and thee.

²⁰ AT that hour the disciples came to Jesus, saying: Who thinkest thou is the greater in the kingdom of heaven?

²¹ And Jesus calling unto him a little child, set him in the midst of them,

²² And said: Amen I say to you, unless you be converted, and become as little children, you shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.

²³ Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, he is the greater in the kingdom of heaven.

²⁴ And he that shall receive one such little child in my name, receiveth me.

²⁵ But he that shall scandalize one of these little ones that believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone should be hanged about his neck, and that he should be drowned in the depth of the sea.

²⁶ Woe to the world because of scandals. For it must needs be that scandals come: but nevertheless woe to that man by whom the scandal cometh.

²⁷ And if thy hand, or thy foot scandalize thee, cut it off, and cast it from thee. It is better for thee to go into life maimed or lame, than having two hands or two feet, to be cast into everlasting fire.