⁹ Where your fathers have tried Me, Have proved Me, yea, have seen My work.

²² for all the men who are seeing My honour, and My signs, which I have done in Egypt, and in the wilderness, and try Me these ten times, and have not hearkened to My voice --

⁹ neither may we tempt the Christ, as also certain of them did tempt, and by the serpents did perish;

⁵⁶ And they tempt and provoke God Most High, And His testimonies have not kept.

¹⁷ And they add still to sin against Him, To provoke the Most High in the dry place.

¹⁸ And they try God in their heart, To ask food for their lust.

⁴⁰ How often do they provoke Him in the wilderness, Grieve Him in the desolate place?

⁴¹ Yea, they turn back, and try God, And the Holy One of Israel have limited.

²⁰ Then began he to reproach the cities in which were done most of his mighty works, because they did not reform.

²¹ `Wo to thee, Chorazin! wo to thee, Bethsaida! because, if in Tyre and Sidon had been done the mighty works that were done in you, long ago in sackcloth and ashes they had reformed;

²² but I say to you, to Tyre and Sidon it shall be more tolerable in a day of judgment than for you.

²⁴ if I did not do among them the works that no other hath done, they were not having sin, and now they have both seen and hated both me and my Father;