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And when the crowd heard it, they were astonished at his teaching.

If David thus calls him Lord, how is he his son?"

Then said Jesus to the crowds and to his disciples,

"Woe to you, blind guides, who say, 'If any one swears by the temple, it is nothing; but if any one swears by the gold of the temple, he is bound by his oath.'

And you say, 'If any one swears by the altar, it is nothing; but if any one swears by the gift that is on the altar, he is bound by his oath.'

Jesus left the temple and was going away, when his disciples came to point out to him the buildings of the temple.

let him who is on the housetop not go down to take what is in his house;

and let him who is in the field not turn back to take his mantle.

and he will send out his angels with a loud trumpet call, and they will gather his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.

But know this, that if the householder had known in what part of the night the thief was coming, he would have watched and would not have let his house be broken into.

"Who then is the faithful and wise servant, whom his master has set over his household, to give them their food at the proper time?

Blessed is that servant whom his master when he comes will find so doing.

Truly, I say to you, he will set him over all his possessions.

and begins to beat his fellow servants, and eats and drinks with the drunken,

"For it will be as when a man going on a journey called his servants and entrusted to them his property;

to one he gave five talents, to another two, to another one, to each according to his ability. Then he went away.

But he who had received the one talent went and dug in the ground and hid his master's money.

His master said to him, 'Well done, good and faithful servant; you have been faithful over a little, I will set you over much; enter into the joy of your master.'

His master said to him, 'Well done, good and faithful servant; you have been faithful over a little, I will set you over much; enter into the joy of your master.'

But his master answered him, 'You wicked and slothful servant! You knew that I reap where I have not sowed, and gather where I have not winnowed?