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"Now no one after lighting a lamp covers it with a container or puts it under a bed, but he puts it on a lampstand, so that those who come in may see the light.

So beware how you listen, for whoever has, to him more shall be given; and whoever does not have, even what he thinks he has shall be taken away from him."

Now it happened that on one of those days He and His disciples got into a boat, and He said to them, "Let us go over to the other side of the lake." So they set sail.

"Return to your house and recount what great things God has done for you." So he went away, proclaiming throughout the whole city what great things Jesus had done for him.

So when He came to the house, He did not allow anyone to enter with Him, except Peter and John and James, and the girl's father and mother.

And they did so, and had them all sit down.

But they did not understand this statement, and it was concealed from them so that they would not perceive it, and they were afraid to ask Him about this statement.

But the Lord answered and said to her, "Martha, Martha, you are worried and bothered about so many things,

"So I say to you, ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.

For just as Jonah became a sign to the Ninevites, so will the Son of Man be to this generation.

"No one, after lighting a lamp, puts it away in a cellar nor under a basket, but on the lampstand, so that those who enter may see the light.

So you are witnesses and approve the deeds of your fathers; because it was they who killed them, and you build their tombs.

so that the blood of all the prophets, shed since the foundation of the world, may be charged against this generation,

At this time, after so many thousands of the crowd had gathered together that they were trampling on one another, He began saying to His disciples first, "Be on your guard for the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.

So is the one who stores up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God."

But if God so clothes the grass in the field, which is alive today and tomorrow is thrown into the furnace, how much more will He clothe you? You of little faith!

And be like men who are waiting for their master when he returns from the wedding feast, so that they may immediately open the door to him when he comes and knocks.

Whether he comes in the second watch, or even in the third, and finds them so, blessed are those slaves.

Blessed is that slave whom his master finds so doing when he comes.

And He was also saying to the crowds, "When you see a cloud rising in the west, immediately you say, ‘A shower is coming,' and so it happens.