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"Woe to you, experts in the law and you Pharisees, hypocrites! You clean the outside of the cup and the dish, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence.

"Woe to you, experts in the law and you Pharisees, hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs that look beautiful on the outside but inside are full of the bones of the dead and of everything unclean.

In the same way, on the outside you look righteous to people, but inside you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.

"O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those who are sent to you! How often I have longed to gather your children together as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you would have none of it!

You will hear of wars and rumors of wars. Make sure that you are not alarmed, for this must happen, but the end is still to come.

But the person who endures to the end will be saved.

And if those days had not been cut short, no one would be saved. But for the sake of the elect those days will be cut short.

Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away.

"But as for that day and hour no one knows it—not even the angels in heaven—except the Father alone.

But understand this: If the owner of the house had known at what time of night the thief was coming, he would have been alert and would not have let his house be broken into.

But if that evil slave should say to himself, ‘My master is staying away a long time,'

But the wise ones took flasks of olive oil with their lamps.

But at midnight there was a shout, ‘Look, the bridegroom is here! Come out to meet him.'

But while they had gone to buy it, the bridegroom arrived, and those who were ready went inside with him to the wedding banquet. Then the door was shut.

But he replied, ‘I tell you the truth, I do not know you!'

But the one who had received one talent went out and dug a hole in the ground and hid his master's money in it.

But his master answered, ‘Evil and lazy slave! So you knew that I harvest where I didn't sow and gather where I didn't scatter?

For the one who has will be given more, and he will have more than enough. But the one who does not have, even what he has will be taken from him.

And these will depart into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life."

But they said, "Not during the feast, so that there won't be a riot among the people."