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`Wo to you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye build the sepulchres of the prophets, and adorn the tombs of the righteous,

`Because of this, lo, I send to you prophets, and wise men, and scribes, and of them ye will kill and crucify, and of them ye will scourge in your synagogues, and will pursue from city to city;

then they shall deliver you up to tribulation, and shall kill you, and ye shall be hated by all the nations because of my name;

and because of the abounding of the lawlessness, the love of the many shall become cold;

And if those days were not shortened, no flesh would have been saved; but because of the chosen, shall those days be shortened.

`Watch ye therefore, because ye have not known in what hour your Lord doth come;

because of this also ye, become ye ready, because in what hour ye do not think, the Son of Man doth come.

and the foolish said to the prudent, Give us of your oil, because our lamps are going out;

for he had known that because of envy they had delivered him up.

And as he is sitting on the tribunal, his wife sent unto him, saying, `Nothing -- to thee and to that righteous one, for many things did I suffer to-day in a dream because of him.'

he hath trusted on God, let Him now deliver him, if He wish him, because he said -- Son of God I am;'

and he healed many who were ill of manifold diseases, and many demons he cast forth, and was not suffering the demons to speak, because they knew him.

and not being able to come near to him because of the multitude, they uncovered the roof where he was, and, having broken [it] up, they let down the couch on which the paralytic was lying,

And he said to his disciples that a little boat may wait on him, because of the multitude, that they may not press upon him,

because they said, `He hath an unclean spirit.'

and other fell upon the rocky ground, where it had not much earth, and immediately it sprang forth, because of not having depth of earth,

and the sun having risen, it was scorched, and because of not having root it did wither;

and have not root in themselves, but are temporary; afterward tribulation or persecution having come because of the word, immediately they are stumbled.

and whenever the fruit may yield itself, immediately he doth send forth the sickle, because the harvest hath come.'

because that he many times with fetters and chains had been bound, and pulled in pieces by him had been the chains, and the fetters broken in pieces, and none was able to tame him,