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`Wo to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, because ye are as the unseen tombs, and the men walking above have not known.'

and he said, `And to you, the lawyers, wo! because ye burden men with burdens grievous to be borne, and ye yourselves with one of your fingers do not touch the burdens.

`Wo to you, because ye build the tombs of the prophets, and your fathers killed them.

Then do ye testify, and are well pleased with the works of your fathers, because they indeed killed them, and ye do build their tombs;

because of this also the wisdom of God said: I will send to them prophets, and apostles, and some of them they shall kill and persecute,

`Wo to you, the lawyers, because ye took away the key of the knowledge; yourselves ye did not enter; and those coming in, ye did hinder.'

because whatever in the darkness ye said, in the light shall be heard: and what to the ear ye spake in the inner-chambers, shall be proclaimed upon the house-tops.

And he said unto them, `Observe, and beware of the covetousness, because not in the abundance of one's goods is his life.'

and he was reasoning within himself, saying, What shall I do, because I have not where I shall gather together my fruits?

And he said unto his disciples, `Because of this, to you I say, Be not anxious for your life, what ye may eat; nor for the body, what ye may put on;

`Fear not, little flock, because your Father did delight to give you the reign;

and ye, then, become ye ready, because at the hour ye think not, the Son of Man doth come.'

and Jesus answering said to them, `Think ye that these Galileans became sinners beyond all the Galileans, because they have suffered such things?

`Be striving to go in through the straight gate, because many, I say to you, will seek to go in, and shall not be able;

but it behoveth me to-day, and to-morrow, and the [day] following, to go on, because it is not possible for a prophet to perish out of Jerusalem.

because every one who is exalting himself shall be humbled, and he who is humbling himself shall be exalted.'

and happy thou shalt be, because they have not to recompense thee, for it shall be recompensed to thee in the rising again of the righteous.'

and he sent his servant at the hour of the supper to say to those having been called, Be coming, because now are all things ready.

and another said, A wife I married, and because of this I am not able to come.

and having come to the house, he doth call together the friends and the neighbours, saying to them, Rejoice with me, because I found my sheep -- the lost one.