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"I tell you that this man went home more thoroughly absolved from guilt than the other; for every one who uplifts himself will be humbled, but he who humbles himself will be uplifted."

On one occasion people also brought with them their infants, for Him to touch them; but the disciples, noticing this, proceeded to find fault with them.

"Why do you call me good?" replied Jesus; "there is no one good but One, namely God.

But on hearing these words he was deeply sorrowful, for he was exceedingly rich.

Those in front reproved him and tried to silence him; but he continued shouting, louder than ever, "Son of David, take pity on me."

He was anxious to see what sort of man Jesus was; but he could not because of the crowd, for he was short in stature.

But as for those enemies of mine who were unwilling that I should become their king, bring them here, and cut them to pieces in my presence.'"

"O that at this time thou hadst known--yes even thou--what makes peace possible! But now it is hid from thine eyes.

"It is written," He said, "`And My house shall be the House of Prayer,' but you have made it a robbers' cave."

But they could not find any way of doing it, for the people all hung upon His lips.

At vintage-time he sent a servant to the vine-dressers, for them to give him a share of the crop; but the vine-dressers beat him cruelly and sent him away empty-handed.

"But when the vine-dressers saw him, they discussed the matter with one another, and said, "`This is the heir: let us kill him, that the inheritance may be ours.'

Every one who falls on that stone will be severely hurt, but on whomsoever it falls, he will be utterly crushed."

So they put a question to Him. "Rabbi," they said, "we know that you say and teach what is right and that you make no distinctions between one man and another, but teach God's way truly.

But He saw through their knavery and replied,

"Rabbi, Moses made it a law for us that if a man's brother should die, leaving a wife but no children, the man shall marry the widow and raise up a family for his brother.

But as for those who shall have been deemed worthy to find a place in that other age and in the Resurrection from among the dead, the men do not marry and the women are not given in marriage.

But that the dead rise to life even Moses clearly implies in the passage about the Bush, where he calls the Lord `The God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.'

He is not a God of dead, but of living men, for to Him are all living."

But He asked them, "How is it they say that the Christ is a son of David?