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"Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the miracles done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago, sitting in sackcloth and ashes.

But it will be more bearable for Tyre and Sidon in the judgment than for you!

On that same occasion Jesus rejoiced in the Holy Spirit and said, "I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and intelligent, and revealed them to little children. Yes, Father, for this was your gracious will.

For I tell you that many prophets and kings longed to see what you see but did not see it, and to hear what you hear but did not hear it."

But a Samaritan who was traveling came to where the injured man was, and when he saw him, he felt compassion for him.

and forgive us our sins, for we also forgive everyone who sins against us. And do not lead us into temptation."

"So I tell you: Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened for you.

For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.

What father among you, if your son asks for a fish, will give him a snake instead of a fish?

Or if he asks for an egg, will give him a scorpion?

Others, to test him, began asking for a sign from heaven.

"When an unclean spirit goes out of a person, it passes through waterless places looking for rest but not finding any. Then it says, ‘I will return to the home I left.'

As the crowds were increasing, Jesus began to say, "This generation is a wicked generation; it looks for a sign, but no sign will be given to it except the sign of Jonah.

For just as Jonah became a sign to the people of Nineveh, so the Son of Man will be a sign to this generation.

But give from your heart to those in need, and then everything will be clean for you.

"But woe to you Pharisees! You give a tenth of your mint, rue, and every herb, yet you neglect justice and love for God! But you should have done these things without neglecting the others.

For this reason also the wisdom of God said, ‘I will send them prophets and apostles, some of whom they will kill and persecute,'

so that this generation may be held accountable for the blood of all the prophets that has been shed since the beginning of the world,

Aren't five sparrows sold for two pennies? Yet not one of them is forgotten before God.

for the Holy Spirit will teach you at that moment what you must say."