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For where there are two or three assembled in my name, there am I in the midst of them."

"For this reason the Kingdom of the Heavens may be compared to a king who determined to have a settlement of accounts with his servants.

and said, For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two shall be one'?

And I tell you that whoever divorces his wife for any reason except her unfaithfulness, and marries another woman, commits adultery."

There are men who from their birth have been disabled from marriage, others who have been so disabled by men, and others who have disabled themselves for the sake of the Kingdom of the Heavens. He who is able to receive this, let him receive it."

Then young children were brought to Him for Him to put His hands on them and pray; but the disciples interfered.

Jesus however said, "Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them; for it is to those who are childlike that the Kingdom of the Heavens belongs."

On hearing those words the young man went away much cast down; for he had much property.

Yes, I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of God."

And whoever has forsaken houses, or brothers or sisters, or father or mother, or children or lands, for my sake, shall receive many times as much and shall have as his inheritance the Life of the Ages.

"For the Kingdom of the Heavens is like an employer who went out early in the morning to hire men to work in his vineyard,

and having made an agreement with them for a shilling a day, sent them into his vineyard.

"`My friend,' he answered to one of them, `I am doing you no injustice. Did you not agree with me for a shilling?

"None of you know what you are asking for," said Jesus; "can you drink out of the cup from which I am about to drink?" "We can," they replied.

"You shall drink out of my cup," He said, "but a seat at my right hand or at my left it is not for me to allot, but it belongs to those for whom it has been prepared by my Father."

just as the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give His life as the redemption-price for many."

So Jesus stood still and called to them. "What shall I do for you?" He asked.

and everything, whatever it be, that you ask for in your prayers, if you have faith, you shall obtain."

and if we say `a human origin' we have the people to fear, for they all hold John to have been a Prophet."

For John came to you observing all sorts of ritual, and you put no faith in him: the tax-gatherers and the notorious sinners did put faith in him, and you, though you saw this example set you, were not even afterwards sorry so as to believe him.