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and he starts beating up his fellow servants and spends his time eating and drinking with drunkards;

then his master will come on a day the servant does not expect, at a time he doesn't know;

"For it will be like a man about to leave home for awhile, who entrusted his possessions to his servants.

To one he gave five talents [equivalent to a hundred years' wages]; to another, two talents; and to another, one talent — to each according to his ability. Then he left.

But the one given one talent went off, dug a hole in the ground and hid his master's money.

His master said to him, ‘Excellent! You are a good and trustworthy servant. You have been faithful with a small amount, so I will put you in charge of a large amount. Come and join in your master's happiness!'

His master said to him, ‘Excellent! you are a good and trustworthy servant. You have been faithful with a small amount, so I will put you in charge of a large amount. Come and join in your master's happiness!'

‘You wicked, lazy servant!' said his master, ‘So you knew, did you, that I harvest where I haven't planted? and that I gather where I didn't sow seed?

"When the Son of Man comes in his glory, accompanied by all the angels, he will sit on his glorious throne.

The ‘sheep' he will place at his right hand and the ‘goats' at his left.

"Then the King will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you whom my Father has blessed, take your inheritance, the Kingdom prepared for you from the founding of the world.

"Then he will also speak to those on his left, saying, ‘Get away from me, you who are cursed! Go off into the fire prepared for the Adversary and his angels!

When Yeshua had finished speaking, he said to his talmidim,

A woman who had an alabaster jar filled with very expensive perfume approached Yeshua while he was eating and began pouring it on his head.

He answered, "The one who dips his matzah in the dish with me is the one who will betray me.

Then Yeshua went with his talmidim to a place called Gat-Sh'manim and said to them, "Sit here while I go over there and pray."

Going on a little farther, he fell on his face, praying, "My Father, if possible, let this cup pass from me! Yet — not what I want, but what you want!"

At that, one of the men with Yeshua reached for his sword, drew it out and struck at the servant of the cohen hagadol, cutting off his ear.

At this, the cohen hagadol tore his robes. "Blasphemy!" he said. "Why do we still need witnesses? You heard him blaspheme!

Then they spit in his face and pounded him with their fists; and those who were beating him