But whan he saw a hantle oʼ the Pharisees and Sadducees come till his bapteezin, quoʼ he to them, “Eh, ye venomous race! Wha has gien ye warninʼ to flee frae comin wrath?
“The gude man, oot oʼ the gude gear oʼ his ain heart, brings oot what is gude; and the ill man, oot oʼ the ill, what is ill; for, oot oʼ the owercome oʼ his heart his mouʼ speaks.
“Ye are oʼ yere faither the deevil; and his wull dae ye. A murderer was he frae the first, and bade‐na iʼ the truth. And whan he speaks a lee, he speaks oʼ his ain; for he is a leear, and the faither oʼ aʼ leears.
Lat nae vileness gae forth frae yere mouʼ; but raither what is gude, airtit to the up‐biggin oʼ the needs, and to the giean oʼ grace, for them that hear.
In siclike is made kent the bairns oʼ God, and the bairns oʼ Sautan. Nae ane that disna do richtousness is oʼ God, naither he that loeʼs‐na his brither.