³⁷ After this man rose up Judas of Galilee in the days of the enrolment, and drew away `some of the' people after him: he also perished; and all, as many as obeyed him, were scattered abroad.

¹ Now it came to pass in those days, there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus, that all the world should be enrolled.

² This was the first enrolment made when Quirinius was governor of Syria.

⁵ That the triumphing of the wicked is short, And the joy of the godless but for a moment?

⁶ Though his height mount up to the heavens, And his head reach unto the clouds;

⁷ Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung: They that have seen him shall say, Where is he?

⁸ He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: Yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night.

⁹ The eye which saw him shall see him no more; Neither shall his place any more behold him.

¹⁴ Behold, he travaileth with iniquity; Yea, he hath conceived mischief, and brought forth falsehood.

¹⁵ He hath made a pit, and digged it, And is fallen into the ditch which he made.

¹⁵ The nations are sunk down in the pit that they made: In the net which they hid is their own foot taken.

¹⁶ Jehovah hath made himself known, he hath executed judgment: The wicked is snared in the work of his own hands. Higgaion. Selah

⁵² Then saith Jesus unto him, Put up again thy sword into its place: for all they that take the sword shall perish with the sword.

¹ Now there were some present at that very season who told him of the Galilaeans, whose blood Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices.

² And he answered and said unto them, Think ye that these Galilaeans were sinners above all the Galilaeans, because they have suffered these things?