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"A VOICE WAS HEARD IN RAMAH, WEEPING AND GREAT MOURNING, RACHEL WEEPING FOR HER CHILDREN; AND SHE REFUSED TO BE COMFORTED, BECAUSE THEY WERE NO MORE."

"Blessed are you when people insult you and persecute you, and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of Me.

"And when you are praying, do not use thoughtless repetition as the Gentiles do, for they think that they will be heard because of their many words.

Seeing the crowds, He felt compassion for them, because they were distressed and downcast, like sheep without a shepherd.

"And you will be hated by all because of My name, but it is the one who has endured to the end who will be saved.

Then He began to reprimand the cities in which most of His miracles were done, because they did not repent.

"The men of Nineveh will stand up with this generation at the judgment, and will condemn it because they repented at the preaching of Jonah; and behold, something greater than Jonah is here.

"The Queen of the South will rise up with this generation at the judgment and will condemn it, because she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and behold, something greater than Solomon is here.

"Others fell on the rocky places, where they did not have much soil; and they sprang up immediately, because they had no depth of soil.

"But after the sun rose, they were scorched; and because they had no root, they withered away.

"Therefore I speak to them in parables; because while seeing they do not see, and while hearing they do not hear, nor do they understand.

"But blessed are your eyes, because they see; and your ears, because they hear.

yet he has no firm root in himself, but is only temporary, and when affliction or persecution occurs because of the word, immediately he falls away.

And He did not do many miracles there because of their unbelief.

For when Herod had John arrested, he bound him and put him in prison because of Herodias, the wife of his brother Philip.

Although Herod wanted to put him to death, he feared the crowd, because they regarded John as a prophet.

And although he was grieved, the king commanded it to be given because of his oaths and his dinner guests.

But He did not answer her with even a word. And His disciples came up and urged Him, saying, "Send her away, because she keeps shouting at us!"

Now Jesus called His disciples to Him and said, "I feel compassion for the people, because they have remained with Me now for three days and have nothing to eat; and I do not want to send them away hungry, for they might faint on the way."

They began to discuss this among themselves, saying, "He said that because we did not bring any bread."