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"Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, because you travel around on sea and land to make one proselyte; and when he becomes one, you make him twice as much a son of hell as yourselves.

"Then they will deliver you to tribulation, and will kill you, and you will be hated by all nations because of My name.

"Because lawlessness is increased, most people's love will grow cold.

Then Jesus said to them, "You will all fall away because of Me this night, for it is written, 'I WILL STRIKE DOWN THE SHEPHERD, AND THE SHEEP OF THE FLOCK SHALL BE SCATTERED.'

But Peter said to Him, "Even though all may fall away because of You, I will never fall away."

For he knew that because of envy they had handed Him over.

While he was sitting on the judgment seat, his wife sent him a message, saying, "Have nothing to do with that righteous Man; for last night I suffered greatly in a dream because of Him."

And He healed many who were ill with various diseases, and cast out many demons; and He was not permitting the demons to speak, because they knew who He was.

Being unable to get to Him because of the crowd, they removed the roof above Him; and when they had dug an opening, they let down the pallet on which the paralytic was lying.

And He told His disciples that a boat should stand ready for Him because of the crowd, so that they would not crowd Him;

because they were saying, "He has an unclean spirit."

"Other seed fell on the rocky ground where it did not have much soil; and immediately it sprang up because it had no depth of soil.

"And after the sun had risen, it was scorched; and because it had no root, it withered away.

and they have no firm root in themselves, but are only temporary; then, when affliction or persecution arises because of the word, immediately they fall away.

"But when the crop permits, he immediately puts in the sickle, because the harvest has come."

because he had often been bound with shackles and chains, and the chains had been torn apart by him and the shackles broken in pieces, and no one was strong enough to subdue him.

For Herod himself had sent and had John arrested and bound in prison on account of Herodias, the wife of his brother Philip, because he had married her.

And although the king was very sorry, yet because of his oaths and because of his dinner guests, he was unwilling to refuse her.

When Jesus went ashore, He saw a large crowd, and He felt compassion for them because they were like sheep without a shepherd; and He began to teach them many things.

because it does not go into his heart, but into his stomach, and is eliminated?" (Thus He declared all foods clean.)