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When they had come, they asked him, "Teacher, we know that you are honest, and don't defer to anyone; for you aren't partial to anyone, but truly teach the way of God. Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar, or not?

Jesus answered them, "Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's." They marveled greatly at him.

Jesus answered them, "Isn't this because you are mistaken, not knowing the Scriptures, nor the power of God?

But about the dead, that they are raised; haven't you read in the book of Moses, at the Bush, how God spoke to him, saying, 'I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob?'

He is not the God of the dead, but of the living. You are therefore badly mistaken."

Jesus answered, "The greatest is, 'Hear, Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one:

you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength.' This is the primary commandment.

When Jesus saw that he answered wisely, he said to him, "You are not far from the kingdom of God." No one dared ask him any question after that.

For in those days there will be oppression, such as there has not been the like from the beginning of the creation which God created until now, and never will be.

Most assuredly I tell you, I will no more drink of the fruit of the vine, until that day when I drink it anew in the kingdom of God."

At the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, "Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?" which is, being interpreted, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?"

When the centurion, who stood by opposite him, saw that he cried out like this and breathed his last, he said, "Truly this man was the Son of God!"

Joseph of Arimathaea, a member of the council of honorable estate, who also himself was looking for the kingdom of God, came. He boldly went in to Pilate, and asked for Jesus' body.

So then the Lord Jesus, after he had spoken to them, was received up into heaven, and sat down at the right hand of God.

They were both righteous before God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord.

Now it happened, while he executed the priest's office before God in the order of his division,

He will turn many of the children of Israel to the Lord, their God.

The angel answered him, "I am Gabriel, who stands in the presence of God. I was sent to speak to you, and to bring you this good news.

Now in the sixth month, the angel Gabriel was sent from God to a city of Galilee, named Nazareth,

The angel said to her, "Don't be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with God.