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and he was questioning him, `What [is] thy name?' and he answered, saying, `Legion [is] my name, because we are many;'

and he wondered because of their unbelief. And he was going round the villages, in a circle, teaching,

And the king Herod heard, (for his name became public,) and he said -- `John the Baptist out of the dead was raised, and because of this the mighty powers are working in him.'

For Herod himself, having sent forth, did lay hold on John, and bound him in the prison, because of Herodias the wife of Philip his brother, because he married her,

And the king -- made very sorrowful -- because of the oaths and of those reclining (at meat) with him, would not put her away,

because it doth not enter into his heart, but into the belly, and into the drain it doth go out, purifying all the meats.'

And he said to her, `Because of this word go; the demon hath gone forth out of thy daughter;'

`I have compassion upon the multitude, because now three days they do continue with me, and they have not what they may eat;

and they were reasoning with one another, saying -- `Because we have no loaves.'

And Jesus having known, saith to them, `Why do ye reason, because ye have no loaves? do ye not yet perceive, nor understand, yet have ye your heart hardened?

and he, having turned, and having looked on his disciples, rebuked Peter, saying, `Get behind me, Adversary, because thou dost not mind the things of God, but the things of men.'

And John did answer him, saying, `Teacher, we saw a certain one in thy name casting out demons, who doth not follow us, and we forbade him, because he doth not follow us.'

for whoever may give you to drink a cup of water in my name, because ye are Christ's, verily I say to you, he may not lose his reward;

And the scribes and the chief priests heard, and they were seeking how they shall destroy him, for they were afraid of him, because all the multitude was astonished at his teaching;

Because of this I say to you, all whatever -- praying -- ye do ask, believe that ye receive, and it shall be to you.

And Jesus answering said to them, `Do ye not because of this go astray, not knowing the Writings, nor the power of God?

and ye shall be hated by all because of my name, but he who hath endured to the end -- he shall be saved.

and if the Lord did not shorten the days, no flesh had been saved; but because of the chosen, whom He did choose to Himself, He did shorten the days.

and Jesus saith to them -- `All ye shall be stumbled at me this night, because it hath been written, I will smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered abroad,

for he knew that because of envy the chief priests had delivered him up;