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"As for me, I baptize you with water for repentance, but He who is coming after me is mightier than I, and I am not fit to remove His sandals; He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.

But John tried to prevent Him, saying, "I have the need to be baptized by You, and yet You are coming to me?"

and he said to Him, "All these things I will give You, if You fall down and worship me."

And He said to them, "Follow Me, and I will make you fishers of people."

"Blessed are you when people insult you and persecute you, and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of Me.

"Or how can you say to your brother, 'Let me take the speck out of your eye,' and look, the log is in your own eye?

"Not everyone who says to Me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of My Father who is in heaven will enter.

"Many will say to Me on that day, 'Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name, and in Your name cast out demons, and in Your name perform many miracles?'

"And then I will declare to them, 'I never knew you; LEAVE ME, YOU WHO PRACTICE LAWLESSNESS.'

And a man with leprosy came to Him and bowed down before Him, and said, "Lord, if You are willing, You can make me clean."

"For I also am a man under authority, with soldiers under me; and I say to this one, 'Go!' and he goes, and to another, 'Come!' and he comes, and to my slave, 'Do this!' and he does it."

And another of the disciples said to Him, "Lord, allow me first to go and bury my father."

But Jesus said to him, "Follow Me, and let the dead bury their own dead."

As Jesus went on from there, He saw a man called Matthew sitting in the tax collector's office; and He said to him, "Follow Me!" And he got up and followed Him.

"Therefore, everyone who confesses Me before people, I will also confess him before My Father who is in heaven.

"But whoever denies Me before people, I will also deny him before My Father who is in heaven.

"The one who loves father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me; and the one who loves son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me.

"And the one who does not take his cross and follow after Me is not worthy of Me.

"The one who receives you receives Me, and the one who receives Me receives Him who sent Me.

"And blessed is any person who does not take offense at Me."