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" 'Well done, my good servant!' his master replied. 'Because you have been trustworthy in a very small matter, take charge of ten cities.'

I was afraid of you, because you are a hard man. You take out what you did not put in and reap what you did not sow.'

They will dash you to the ground, you and the children within your walls. They will not leave one stone on another, because you did not recognize the time of God's coming to you."

Yet they could not find any way to do it, because all the people hung on his words.

But if we say, 'From men,' all the people will stone us, because they are persuaded that John was a prophet."

The teachers of the law and the chief priests looked for a way to arrest him immediately, because they knew he had spoken this parable against them. But they were afraid of the people.

All men will hate you because of me.

When these things begin to take place, stand up and lift up your heads, because your redemption is drawing near."

When Herod saw Jesus, he was greatly pleased, because for a long time he had been wanting to see him. From what he had heard about him, he hoped to see him perform some miracle.

But they did not believe the women, because their words seemed to them like nonsense.

And while they still did not believe it because of joy and amazement, he asked them, "Do you have anything here to eat?"

John testifies concerning him. He cries out, saying, "This was he of whom I said, 'He who comes after me has surpassed me because he was before me.' "

This is the one I meant when I said, 'A man who comes after me has surpassed me because he was before me.'

Jesus said, "You believe because I told you I saw you under the fig tree. You shall see greater things than that."

Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God's one and only Son.

This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but men loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil.

Now John also was baptizing at Aenon near Salim, because there was plenty of water, and people were constantly coming to be baptized.

Many of the Samaritans from that town believed in him because of the woman's testimony, "He told me everything I ever did."

And because of his words many more became believers.

They said to the woman, "We no longer believe just because of what you said; now we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this man really is the Savior of the world."