One of the best examples of the kind of wit we are now discussing is found in the account of King Asa's sickness and death. The writer of the Book of Chronicles says: "Yet in his disease he sought not unto the Lord, but to the Physicians;" and then adds with imperturbable gravity, "And Asa slept with his fathers." Referring to this passage, Professor Matthews says:--"It looks like a sarcasm on the medical practitioners of Palestine." There is something similar to this in Ecclesiastes: "Wisdom is good--with an inheritance," an ancient instance of "the old flag--and an appropriation." III.--THE SAYINGS OF JESUS. To this chapter belong many of the sayings of Jesus. He spoke in proverbs as well as in parables. "It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven." "Many are called, but few are chosen." "The first shall be last, and the last first." "A prophet is not without honor save in his own country and among his friends." "He that humbleth himself shall be exalted; he that exalteth himself shall be abased." "Be ye wise as serpents and harmless as doves." "Physician, heal thyself." "Ye are the light of the world; a city that is set on an hill can not be hid. Neither do men light a candle and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick and it giveth light unto all that are in the house." "Let the dead bury their dead." "No man having put his hand to the plough and looking back is fit for the kingdom of God." "And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?" There are several proverbs in other literatures very like this. The Russian:--"A pig came up to a horse and said, Your feet are crooked, and your hair is worth nothing." The Bengal:--"The sieve said to the needle, You have a hole in your tail." The Chinese:--"Let every one sweep the snow before his own door, and not busy himself with the frost on his neighbor's tiles." "Ye can not serve God and Mammon." "A house divided against itself can not stand." "Beware of false prophets which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. Ye shall know, them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns or figs of thistles?" "For unto every one that hath to him shall be given and he shall have abundance; but from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath." "Wheresoever the carcass is, there are the vultures gathered together."