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Then he goeth and taketh seven other spirits, worse than himself, and they enter in and dwell there; and the last state of that man is worse than the first.

He said to her: Blessed are they who hear the word of God, and keep it.

The men of Nineveh will stand up in the judgment with this generation, and will condemn it; for they repented at the preaching of Jonah, and lo, one superior to Jonah is here.

No one lighteth a lamp, and putteth it in a secret place, or under a bushel, but upon a light-stand; that they who come in, may see its light.

Thus ye testify, that ye acquiesce in the deeds of your fathers; for they slew them, and ye build their sepulchres.

Therefore hath wisdom said: Lo, I will send to them prophets and legates; and some of them they will persecute and slay;

and practised many wiles upon him, seeking to catch some thing from his lips, that they might accuse him.

And when great multitudes were assembled by myriads, so that they trod one upon another, Jesus began to say to his disciples: First of all, beware for yourselves of that leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.

And to you, my friends, I say: Be not afraid of them that kill the body, and afterwards have nothing more they can do.

And when they shall bring you into the synagogues, before chiefs and men in authority, be not anxious how ye shall make defence, or what ye shall say;

And be ye like persons who are waiting for their lord, when he shall return from the house of feasting, that, when he shall come and knock, they may open to him immediately.

Or those eighteen, on whom the tower in Siloam fell, and slew them, suppose ye, that they were sinners beyond all the men inhabiting Jerusalem?

And a person asked him, whether they were few who would have life?

And they will come from the east and from the west, and from the south and from the north, and will recline in the kingdom of God.

And it occurred, that, as he entered the house of one of the chief Pharisees to eat bread, on the sabbath day, they watched him.

And they were silent. And he took him, and healed him, and dismissed him.

And they could give him no answer to that.

And he spoke a similitude to the guests that were present, as he noticed how they chose places on the highest couches.

And he said to him that invited him: When thou makest a dinner or a supper, invite not thy friends, nor thy brothers, nor thy relatives, nor thy rich neighbors; lest they also invite thee, and thou have this recompense.

And thou wilt be blessed. For they cannot recompense thee; but thy recompense will be at the resurrection of the just.