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"But when the king came in to look over the dinner guests, he saw a man there who was not dressed in wedding clothes,

"Tell us then, what do You think? Is it permissible to pay a poll-tax to Caesar, or not?"

"Show Me the coin used for the poll-tax." And they brought Him a denarius.

saying, "Teacher, Moses said, 'If a man dies having no children, his brother as next of kin shall marry his wife, and raise up children for his brother.'

And one of them, a lawyer, asked Him a question, testing Him:

Now while the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them a question:

No one was able to offer Him a word in answer, nor did anyone dare from that day on to ask Him any more questions.

"Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, because you travel around on sea and land to make one proselyte; and when he becomes one, you make him twice as much a son of hell as yourselves.

"You blind guides, who strain out a gnat and swallow a camel!

"Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those who have been sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children together, the way a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you were unwilling.

"This gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all the nations, and then the end will come.

"Moreover, pray that when you flee, it will not be in the winter, or on a Sabbath.

"For then there will be a great tribulation, such as has not occurred since the beginning of the world until now, nor ever will again.

"And He will send forth His angels with A GREAT TRUMPET BLAST, and THEY WILL GATHER TOGETHER His elect from the four winds, from one end of the sky to the other.

"But if that evil slave says in his heart, 'My master is not coming for a long time,'

then the master of that slave will come on a day that he does not expect, and at an hour that he does not know,

and he will cut him in two and assign him a place with the hypocrites; in that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

"But at midnight there finally was a shout: 'Behold, the groom! Come out to meet him.'

"For it is just like a man about to go on a journey, who called his own slaves and entrusted his possessions to them.

"But he who received the one talent went away and dug a hole in the ground, and hid his master's money.