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‘Those people worked only one hour, and yet you've paid them just as much as you paid us who worked all day in the scorching heat.'

He went on a little farther and bowed with his face to the ground, praying, "My Father! If it is possible, let this cup of suffering be taken away from me. Yet I want your will to be done, not mine."

Jesus knew what they were saying, so he said, "Why are you arguing about having no bread? Don't you know or understand even yet? Are your hearts too hard to take it in?

"Don't you understand yet?" he asked them.

Jesus responded, "Elijah is indeed coming first to get everything ready. Yet why do the Scriptures say that the Son of Man must suffer greatly and be treated with utter contempt?

Yet they shamelessly cheat widows out of their property and then pretend to be pious by making long prayers in public. Because of this, they will be more severely punished."

"Abba, Father," he cried out, "everything is possible for you. Please take this cup of suffering away from me. Yet I want your will to be done, not mine."

Pilate couldn't believe that Jesus was already dead, so he called for the Roman officer and asked if he had died yet.

Yet Elijah was not sent to any of them. He was sent instead to a foreigner—a widow of Zarephath in the land of Sidon.

I tell you, of all who have ever lived, none is greater than John. Yet even the least person in the Kingdom of God is greater than he is!"

"What is the price of five sparrows—two copper coins? Yet God does not forget a single one of them.

"Look at the lilies and how they grow. They don't work or make their clothing, yet Solomon in all his glory was not dressed as beautifully as they are.

Yet when this son of yours comes back after squandering your money on prostitutes, you celebrate by killing the fattened calf!'

Yet they shamelessly cheat widows out of their property and then pretend to be pious by making long prayers in public. Because of this, they will be severely punished."

Jesus told them, "In this world the kings and great men lord it over their people, yet they are called ‘friends of the people.'

"Father, if you are willing, please take this cup of suffering away from me. Yet I want your will to be done, not mine."

"Dear woman, that's not our problem," Jesus replied. "My time has not yet come."

Jesus replied, "You are a respected Jewish teacher, and yet you don't understand these things?

I assure you, we tell you what we know and have seen, and yet you won't believe our testimony.

Yet the Galileans welcomed him, for they had been in Jerusalem at the Passover celebration and had seen everything he did there.