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Would not God avenge his chosen ones much more, who call upon him day and night, though he has patience with them?

And the Pharisee stood by himself, and prayed thus: O God, I thank thee, that I am not like the rest of men, extortioners, grafters, adulterers, and not like this publican.

But the publican stood afar off, and he would not even lift up his eyes to heaven, but smote his breast, saying, O God, be merciful to me, I am a sinner.

Truly I say to you, He who will not receive the kingdom of God like a little boy will never enter into it.

Jesus said to him, Why do you call me good? there is no one good, except one, that is God.

And when Jesus saw that he felt sad, he said, How difficult it is for those who have wealth to enter into the kingdom of God!

It is easier for a rope to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.

But Jesus said, Those things which are impossible to men are possible to God.

Jesus said to him, Truly I say to you, that there is no man who leaves houses, or parents, or brothers, or wife, or children for the sake of the kingdom of God,

And he saw immediately, and followed him, and praised God; and all the people who saw it, gave praise to God.

While they were listening to these things, he added and spoke a parable, because he was near Jerusalem, and they were expecting that the kingdom of God would appear at that very hour;

And when he came near to the descent of the Mount of the Home of Olives, the whole multitude of the disciples began to rejoice, praising God with a loud voice, for all the miracles which they had seen,

So they asked him, and said to him, Teacher, we know that you speak and teach truthfully, and you do not discriminate be- tween men, but you teach the way of God justly.

Jesus said to them, Give therefore to Caesar that which is Caesar''s and to God what is God''s.

For they cannot die again, because they are like angels; and they are sons of God, because they are sons of the resurrection.

Now concerning the resurrection of the dead, even Moses pointed out; for he referred to it at the Bush when he said, The Lord God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.

God is not the God of the dead but of the living; for all live to him.

For all these cast into the house of the offerings of God of their abundance; but she of her poverty cast in everything she had earned.

Even so you also, when you see these things happen, know that the kingdom of God is near.

For I say to you, that henceforth, I will not eat it, until it is fulfilled in the kingdom of God.