TWELFTH SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST.

My house is the house of prayer: but ye have made it a den of thieves. And he taught daily in the temple. But the chief priests and the scribes and the chief of the people sought to destroy him, and could not find what they might do: for all the people were very atten­tive to hear him.

Twelfth Sunday after Pentecost.

The Epistle. 1 Cor. xv. 1.

BRETHREN, I declare unto you the gos­pel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand; by which also ye are saved, if ye keep in me­mory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain. For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; and that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures; and that he was seen of Cephas, then of the twelve; after that, he was seen of above five hundred brethren at once; of whom the greater part remain unto this present, but some are fallen asleep. After that he was seen of James, then of all the apostles. And last of all he was seen of me also, as of one