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But he said to them, "Not everyone can accept this teaching, but only those to whom it is given.

but Jesus said, "Let the little children come to me, and do not stop them; for it is to such as these that the kingdom of heaven belongs."

But Jesus looked at them and said, "For mortals it is impossible, but for God all things are possible."

But many who are first will be last, and the last will be first.

Now when the first came, they thought they would receive more; but each of them also received the usual daily wage.

But he replied to one of them, ‘Friend, I am doing you no wrong; did you not agree with me for the usual daily wage?

But Jesus answered, "You do not know what you are asking. Are you able to drink the cup that I am about to drink?" They said to him, "We are able."

He said to them, "You will indeed drink my cup, but to sit at my right hand and at my left, this is not mine to grant, but it is for those for whom it has been prepared by my Father."

But Jesus called them to him and said, "You know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great ones are tyrants over them.

It will not be so among you; but whoever wishes to be great among you must be your servant,

just as the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life a ransom for many."

The crowd sternly ordered them to be quiet; but they shouted even more loudly, "Have mercy on us, Lord, Son of David!"

He said to them, "It is written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer'; but you are making it a den of robbers."

But when the chief priests and the scribes saw the amazing things that he did, and heard the children crying out in the temple, "Hosanna to the Son of David," they became angry

And seeing a fig tree by the side of the road, he went to it and found nothing at all on it but leaves. Then he said to it, "May no fruit ever come from you again!" And the fig tree withered at once.

Jesus answered them, "Truly I tell you, if you have faith and do not doubt, not only will you do what has been done to the fig tree, but even if you say to this mountain, ‘Be lifted up and thrown into the sea,' it will be done.

But if we say, ‘Of human origin,' we are afraid of the crowd; for all regard John as a prophet."

He answered, ‘I will not'; but later he changed his mind and went.

The father went to the second and said the same; and he answered, ‘I go, sir'; but he did not go.

For John came to you in the way of righteousness and you did not believe him, but the tax collectors and the prostitutes believed him; and even after you saw it, you did not change your minds and believe him.