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And I say to you that to everyone who has, more will be given, but from him who has not, even what he has will be taken away.

Saying, If you, even you, had knowledge today, of the things which give peace! but you are not able to see them.

Saying to them, It has been said, My house is to be a house of prayer, but you have made it a hole of thieves.

And every day he was teaching in the Temple. But the chief priests and the scribes and the rulers of the people were attempting to put him to death;

But they were not able to do anything, because the people all kept near him, being greatly interested in his words.

But if we say, Of men; we will be stoned by the people, for they are certain that John was a prophet.

And at the right time he sent a servant to the workers to get part of the fruit from the vines; but the workmen gave him blows and sent him away with nothing.

But when the workmen saw him, they said to one another, This is he who will one day be the owner of the property: let us put him to death and the heritage will be ours.

But he, looking on them, said, Is it not in the Writings, The stone which the builders put on one side, the same has become the chief stone of the building?

Everyone falling on that stone will be broken, but the man on whom the stone comes down will be crushed to dust.

And they put a question to him, saying, Master, we are certain that your teaching and your words are right, and that you have no respect for a man's position, but you are teaching the true way of God:

But he saw through their trick and said to them,

And they were not able to get anything from these words before the people: but they were full of wonder at his answer, and said nothing.

Master, Moses said that if a man's brother comes to his end, having a wife, but no children, his brother is to take the wife, and get a family for his brother.

But those to whom is given the reward of the world to come, and to come back from the dead, have no wives, and are not married;

But even Moses made it clear that the dead come back to life, saying, in the story of the burning thorn-tree, The Lord, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.

Now he is not the God of the dead but of the living: for all men are living to him.

For they gave out of their wealth, having more than enough for themselves: but she, even out of her need, has put in all her living.

And some were talking about the Temple, how it was made fair with beautiful stones and with offerings, but he said,

As for these things which you see, the days will come when not one stone will be resting on another, but all will be broken down.