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And he said unto the disciples, `It is impossible for the stumbling blocks not to come, but wo [to him] through whom they come;

`But, who is he of you -- having a servant ploughing or feeding -- who, to him having come in out of the field, will say, Having come near, recline at meat?

but will not [rather] say to him, Prepare what I may sup, and having girded thyself about, minister to me, till I eat and drink, and after these things thou shalt eat and drink?

and he would not for a time, but after these things he said in himself, Even if God I do not fear, and man do not regard,

I say to you, that He will execute the justice to them quickly; but the Son of Man having come, shall he find the faith upon the earth?'

`And the tax-gatherer, having stood afar off, would not even the eyes lift up to the heaven, but was smiting on his breast, saying, God be propitious to me -- the sinner!

and those going before were rebuking him, that he might be silent, but he was much more crying out, `Son of David, deal kindly with me.'

but those my enemies, who did not wish me to reign over them, bring hither and slay before me.'

saying -- `If thou didst know, even thou, at least in this thy day, the things for thy peace; but now they were hid from thine eyes.

saying to them, `It hath been written, My house is a house of prayer -- but ye made it a den of robbers.'

And he was teaching daily in the temple, but the chief priests and the scribes were seeking to destroy him -- also the chiefs of the people --

and at the season he sent unto the husbandmen a servant, that from the fruit of the vineyard they may give to him, but the husbandmen having beat him, did send [him] away empty.

and they questioned him, saying, `Teacher, we have known that thou dost say and teach rightly, and dost not accept a person, but in truth the way of God dost teach;

but those accounted worthy to obtain that age, and the rising again that is out of the dead, neither marry, nor are they given in marriage;

and He is not a God of dead men, but of living, for all live to Him.'

for all these out of their superabundance did cast into the gifts to God, but this one out of her want, all the living that she had, did cast in.'

and when ye may hear of wars and uprisings, be not terrified, for it behoveth these things to happen first, but the end [is] not immediately.'

the heaven and the earth shall pass away, but my words may not pass away.

`But, lo, the hand of him delivering me up [is] with me on the table,

and indeed the Son of Man doth go according to what hath been determined; but wo to that man through whom he is being delivered up.'