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And he said to his disciples, Therefore I tell you, Be not anxious for yourselves, what you shall eat; neither for the body, how you shall dress:

And which of you by being anxious could add to his stature one cubit ?

Consider the lilies, how they grow, which toil not nor spin; but I tell you that even Shelemun in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.

Blessed those servants who, when their lord shall come, shall be found watching. Amen I tell you, He will gird his loins, and make them recline, and will come over and serve them.

But this know, that if the lord of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and not have permitted his house to be dug through.

Jeshu said to him, Who then is that steward, faithful and wise, whom his lord hath established over his service, to give the portion in its time ?

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

Assuredly I tell you, He will establish him over all his substance.

But if that servant shall say in his heart, My lord withholdeth to come, and shall begin to beat the servants and the handmaids of his lord, and shall begin to eat and to drink and be drunken;

the lord of that servant will come in a day when he thinketh not, and in an hour which he knoweth not; and shall sunder him, and set him his portion with those who are not faithful.

And that servant who knew the will of his lord, and prepared not himself according to his will, shall be beaten with many

But he who knew not, and did that which was worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few stripes. For every one to whom much is given, much will be required from him; and to whom much is committed, the more will they require at his hand.

For the father will be divided against his son, and the son against his father; the mother against her daughter, and the daughter against her mother; the mother-in-law against the daughter-in-law and the daughter-in-law against the mother-in-law.

And he spake this parable: A man had a fig-tree which was planted in his vinery: and he came and sought fruits on it, but did not find.

And he laid his hand upon her; and at once she was made straight, and glorified Aloha.

But Jeshu answered and said to him, Hypocrite, doth not any one of you on the shabath loose his ox or his ass from the manger, and going giveth to drink ?

And as he said these things, ashamed were all they who had risen up against him; and all the people rejoiced in all these wonders that were done by his hand.

It resembles a grain of mustard, [fn] which a man took (and) cast into his garden: and it grew, and became a great tree; and the fowl of the heaven built in its branches.

And he said to them, Who from you, whose son or his ox hath fallen into a pit on the day of shabath, doth not at once bring him forth ?

Jeshu saith to him, A certain man made a great supper, and called many. And he sent his servant,