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Come to terms without delay with your opponent while you are yet with him on the way to the court; for fear he should obtain judgement from the magistrate against you, and the magistrate should give you in custody to the officer and you be thrown into prison.

For this reason I charge you not to be over-anxious about your lives, inquiring what you are to eat or what you are to drink, nor yet about your bodies, inquiring what clothes you are to put on. Is not the life more precious than its food, and the body than its clothing?

and yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his magnificence could array himself like one of these.

and the heavy rain falls, the swollen torrents come, and the winds blow and beat against the house; yet it does not fall, for its foundation is on rock.

Do not two sparrows sell for a halfpenny? Yet not one of them will fall to the ground without your Father's leave.

"I solemnly tell you that among all of woman born no greater has ever been raised up than John the Baptist; yet one who is of lower rank in the Kingdom of the Heavens is greater than he.

The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they exclaim, `See this man! --given to gluttony and tippling, and a friend of tax-gatherers and notorious sinners!' And yet Wisdom is vindicated by her actions."

It is the smallest of all seeds, and yet when full-grown it is larger than any herb and forms a tree, so that the birds come and build in its branches."

The king was deeply vexed, yet because of his repeated oath and of the guests at his table he ordered it to be given her,

Do you not yet understand? nor even remember the 5,000 and the five loaves, and how many basketfuls you carried away,

"Tell the Daughter of Zion, `See, thy King is coming to thee, gentle, and yet mounted on an ass, even on a colt the foal of a beast of burden.'"

"Alas for you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, for you pay the tithe on mint, dill, and cumin, while you have neglected the weightier requirements of the Law--just judgement, mercy, and faithful dealing. These things you ought to have done, and yet you ought not to have left the others undone.

And before long you will hear of wars and rumours of wars. Do not be alarmed, for such things must be; but the End is not yet.

There they saw Him and prostrated themselves before Him. Yet some doubted.

yet when sown it springs up and becomes larger than all the herbs, and throws out great branches, so that the birds build under its shadow."

"You see the multitude pressing you on all sides," His disciples exclaimed, "and yet you ask, `Who touched me?'"

While He is yet speaking, men come from the house to the Warden, and say, "Your daughter is dead: why trouble the Rabbi further?"

for Herod stood in awe of John, knowing him to be an upright and holy man, and he protected him. After listening to him he was in great perplexity, and yet he found a pleasure in listening.

Then the King, though intensely sorry, yet for the sake of his oaths, and of his guests, would not break faith with her.

"True, Sir," she replied, "and yet the dogs under the table eat the children's scraps."