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Then one of them, when he saw that he was healed, turned back, praising God with a loud voice;

Was no one found to return and give praise to God except this foreigner?"

Being asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God was coming, he answered them, "The kingdom of God is not coming with signs to be observed;

nor will they say, 'Lo, here it is!' or 'There!' for behold, the kingdom of God is in the midst of you."

He said, "In a certain city there was a judge who neither feared God nor regarded man;

For a while he refused; but afterward he said to himself, 'Though I neither fear God nor regard man,

And will not God vindicate his elect, who cry to him day and night? Will he delay long over them?

The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, 'God, I thank thee that I am not like other men, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even like this tax collector.

But the tax collector, standing far off, would not even lift up his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, 'God, be merciful to me a sinner!'

But Jesus called them to him, saying, "Let the children come to me, and do not hinder them; for to such belongs the kingdom of God.

Truly, I say to you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God like a child shall not enter it."

And Jesus said to him, "Why do you call me good? No one is good but God alone.

Jesus looking at him said, "How hard it is for those who have riches to enter the kingdom of God!

For it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God."

But he said, "What is impossible with men is possible with God."

And he said to them, "Truly, I say to you, there is no man who has left house or wife or brothers or parents or children, for the sake of the kingdom of God,

And immediately he received his sight and followed him, glorifying God; and all the people, when they saw it, gave praise to God.

As they heard these things, he proceeded to tell a parable, because he was near to Jerusalem, and because they supposed that the kingdom of God was to appear immediately.

As he was now drawing near, at the descent of the Mount of Olives, the whole multitude of the disciples began to rejoice and praise God with a loud voice for all the mighty works that they had seen,

He will come and destroy those tenants, and give the vineyard to others." When they heard this, they said, "God forbid!"