A minister wound up the services one morning by saying, ''Next Sunday I am going to preach on the subject of liars. And in this connection, as a preparation for my discourse, I would like you all to read the seventeenth chapter of Mark''.©OFFICEJOKES.NET

On the following Sunday, the preacher rose to begin and said, ''Now, then, all of you who have done as I requested and read the seventeenth chapter of Mark, please raise your hands.'' ©OFFICEJOKES.NET

Nearly every hand in the congregation went up. ©OFFICEJOKES.NET

Then said the preacher, ''You are the people I want to talk to. There is no seventeenth chapter of Mark.'