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Then the Pharisees going, consulted among themselves how to insnare him in his speech.

Saying: Master, Moses said: If a man die having no son, his brother shall marry his wife and raise up issue to his brother.

Now there were with us seven brethren: and the first having married a wife, died; and not having issue, left his wife to his brother.

And the multitudes hearing it were in admiration at his doctrine.

If David then call him Lord, how is he his son?

Then Jesus spoke to the multitudes and to his disciples,

And Jesus being come out of the temple, went away. And his disciples came to shew him the buildings of the temple.

And he that is on the housetop, let him not come down to take any thing out of his house:

And he that is in the field, let him not go back to take his coat.

And he shall send his angels with a trumpet and a great voice: and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from the farthest parts of the heavens to the utmost bounds of them.

But this know ye, that, if the goodman of the house knew at what hour the thief would come, he would certainly watch and would not suffer his house to be broken open.

Who, thinkest thou, is a faithful and wise servant, whom his lord hath appointed over his family, to give them meat in season?

Blessed is that servant, whom when his lord shall come he shall find so doing.

Amen I say to you: he shall place him over all his goods.

But if that evil servant shall say in his heart: My lord is long a coming:

And shall begin to strike his fellow servants and shall eat and drink with drunkards:

And shall separate him and appoint his portion with the hypocrites. There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

For even as a man going into a far country called his servants and delivered to them his goods;

And to one he gave five talents, and to another two, and to another one, to every one according to his proper ability: and immediately he took his journey.

And he that had received the five talents went his way and traded with the same and gained other five.