10 “Twa men gaed up intil the Temple for prayer: the ane a Pharisee, the tither a tax‐man.
Philip, and Bartholomie, Tammas, and Matthew the tax man; James oʼ Alpheus, and Thaddeus;
Sayin tae them, “It is putten‐doon, ‘My Hoose sall be a hoose oʼ prayerʼ; but ye mak it a howff oʼ reivers!”
“Inasmuckle as they war takin tent to me frae the first — gin aiblins they war able to testify — that, accordin to the straitest sect oʼ oor religion, I leeved a Pharisee.
Noo Peter and John war gaun into the Temple for the ʼoor oʼ prayer: thrie oʼclock.
In circumceesion, an aucht‐day bairn; oʼ Israʼlʼs sons; oʼ Benjaminʼs tribe; a Hebrew oʼ Hebrews; as to law, a Pharisee;