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His answer was, "Elijah is indeed coming first in order to get everything ready. Yet why do the Scriptures say that the Son of Man will suffer much and be rejected?

"Father," he prayed, "my Father! All things are possible for you. Take this cup of suffering away from me. Yet not what I want, but what you want."

Yet Elijah was not sent to anyone in Israel, but only to a widow living in Zarephath in the territory of Sidon.

And there were many people suffering from a dreaded skin disease who lived in Israel during the time of the prophet Elisha; yet not one of them was healed, but only Naaman the Syrian."

He went into the house of God, took the bread offered to God, ate it, and gave it also to his men. Yet it is against our Law for anyone except the priests to eat that bread."

How can you say to your brother, ‘Please, brother, let me take that speck out of your eye,' yet cannot even see the log in your own eye? You hypocrite! First take the log out of your own eye, and then you will be able to see clearly to take the speck out of your brother's eye.

"Why do you call me, ‘Lord, Lord,' and yet don't do what I tell you?

Well, what then? I tell you that even if he will not get up and give you the bread because you are his friend, yet he will get up and give you everything you need because you are not ashamed to keep on asking.

"Aren't five sparrows sold for two pennies? Yet not one sparrow is forgotten by God.

But the servant who does not know what his master wants, and yet does something for which he deserves a whipping, will be punished with a light whipping. Much is required from the person to whom much is given; much more is required from the person to whom much more is given.

Yet I must be on my way today, tomorrow, and the next day; it is not right for a prophet to be killed anywhere except in Jerusalem.

yet because of all the trouble this widow is giving me, I will see to it that she gets her rights. If I don't, she will keep on coming and finally wear me out!'"

The Word was in the world, and though God made the world through him, yet the world did not recognize him.

"You must not tell me what to do," Jesus replied. "My time has not yet come."

I am telling you the truth: we speak of what we know and report what we have seen, yet none of you is willing to accept our message.

He tells what he has seen and heard, yet no one accepts his message.

Yet you are not willing to come to me in order to have life.

Yet some of you do not believe." (Jesus knew from the very beginning who were the ones that would not believe and which one would betray him.)

Jesus replied, "I chose the twelve of you, didn't I? Yet one of you is a devil!"

Jesus said to them, "The right time for me has not yet come. Any time is right for you.