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But those enemies of mine who did not want me to be king over them—bring them here and kill them in front of me.' "

and said, "If you, even you, had only known on this day what would bring you peace—but now it is hidden from your eyes.

"It is written," he said to them, " 'My house will be a house of prayer' ; but you have made it 'a den of robbers.' "

Every day he was teaching at the temple. But the chief priests, the teachers of the law and the leaders among the people were trying to kill him.

But if we say, 'From men,' all the people will stone us, because they are persuaded that John was a prophet."

At harvest time he sent a servant to the tenants so they would give him some of the fruit of the vineyard. But the tenants beat him and sent him away empty-handed.

He sent another servant, but that one also they beat and treated shamefully and sent away empty-handed.

"But when the tenants saw him, they talked the matter over. 'This is the heir,' they said. 'Let's kill him, and the inheritance will be ours.'

Everyone who falls on that stone will be broken to pieces, but he on whom it falls will be crushed."

The teachers of the law and the chief priests looked for a way to arrest him immediately, because they knew he had spoken this parable against them. But they were afraid of the people.

So the spies questioned him: "Teacher, we know that you speak and teach what is right, and that you do not show partiality but teach the way of God in accordance with the truth.

"Teacher," they said, "Moses wrote for us that if a man's brother dies and leaves a wife but no children, the man must marry the widow and have children for his brother.

But those who are considered worthy of taking part in that age and in the resurrection from the dead will neither marry nor be given in marriage,

But in the account of the bush, even Moses showed that the dead rise, for he calls the Lord 'the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.'

He is not the God of the dead, but of the living, for to him all are alive."

All these people gave their gifts out of their wealth; but she out of her poverty put in all she had to live on."

Some of his disciples were remarking about how the temple was adorned with beautiful stones and with gifts dedicated to God. But Jesus said,

When you hear of wars and revolutions, do not be frightened. These things must happen first, but the end will not come right away."

"But before all this, they will lay hands on you and persecute you. They will deliver you to synagogues and prisons, and you will be brought before kings and governors, and all on account of my name.

But make up your mind not to worry beforehand how you will defend yourselves.