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And the Lord said unto him, `Now do ye, the Pharisees, the outside of the cup and of the plate make clean, but your inward part is full of rapine and wickedness;

But what ye have give ye [as] alms, and, lo, all things are clean to you.

`But wo to you, the Pharisees, because ye tithe the mint, and the rue, and every herb, and ye pass by the judgment, and the love of God; these things it behoveth to do, and those not to be neglecting.

but I will show to you, whom ye may fear; Fear him who, after the killing, is having authority to cast to the gehenna; yes, I say to you, Fear ye Him.

but even the hairs of your head have been all numbered; therefore fear ye not, than many sparrows ye are of more value.

and every one whoever shall say a word to the Son of Man, it shall be forgiven to him, but to him who to the Holy Spirit did speak evil, it shall not be forgiven.

but, seek ye the reign of God, and all these things shall be added to you.

but I have a baptism to be baptized with, and how am I pressed till it may be completed!

`Think ye that peace I came to give in the earth? no, I say to you, but rather division;

hypocrites! the face of the earth and of the heaven ye have known to make proof of, but this time -- how do ye not make proof of [it]?

No -- I say to you, but, if ye may not reform, all ye even so shall perish.

No -- I say to you, but, if ye may not reform, all ye in like manner shall perish.'

but it behoveth me to-day, and to-morrow, and the [day] following, to go on, because it is not possible for a prophet to perish out of Jerusalem.

`But, when thou mayest be called, having gone on, recline in the last place, that when he who called thee may come, he may say to thee, Friend, come up higher; then thou shalt have glory before those reclining with thee;

but when thou mayest make a feast, be calling poor, maimed, lame, blind,

`The salt [is] good, but if the salt doth become tasteless, with what shall it be seasoned?

but when thy son -- this one who did devour thy living with harlots -- came, thou didst kill to him the fatted calf.

but to be merry, and to be glad, it was needful, because this thy brother was dead, and did live again, he was lost, and was found.'

and he said to them, `Ye are those declaring yourselves righteous before men, but God doth know your hearts; because that which among men is high, [is] abomination before God;

and he said, No, father Abraham, but if any one from the dead may go unto them, they will reform.