1. And he spake also a simile to them, that it behoveth [us] always to pray, and not to faint,
2. saying, `A certain judge was in a certain city--God he is not fearing, and man he is not regarding--
3. and a widow was in that city, and she was coming unto him, saying, Do me justice on my opponent,
4. and he would not for a time, but after these things he said in himself, Even if God I do not fear, and man do not regard,
5. yet because this widow doth give me trouble, I will do her justice, lest, perpetually coming, she may plague me.'
6. And the Lord said, `Hear ye what the unrighteous judge saith:
7. and shall not God execute the justice to His choice ones, who are crying unto Him day and night--bearing long in regard to them?
8. I say to you, that He will execute the justice to them quickly; but the Son of Man having come, shall he find the faith upon the earth?'
9. And he spake also unto certain who have been trusting in themselves that they were righteous, and have been despising the rest, this simile:
10. `Two men went up to the temple to pray, the one a Pharisee, and the other a taxgatherer;
11. the Pharisee having stood by himself, thus prayed: God, I thank Thee that I am not as the rest of men, rapacious, unrighteous, adulterers, or even as this tax-gatherer;
12. I fast twice in the week, I give tithes of all things--as many as I possess.