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"Woe to you, Korazin! Woe to you, Beit-Tzaidah! For if the miracles done in you had been done in Tzor and Tzidon, they would long ago have put on sackcloth and ashes as evidence that they had changed their ways.

But at the Judgment it will be more bearable for Tzor and Tzidon than for you!

Forgive us our sins, for we too forgive everyone who has wronged us. And do not lead us to hard testing.'"

because a friend of mine who has been travelling has just arrived at my house, and I have nothing for him to eat.'

For everyone who goes on asking receives; and he who goes on seeking finds; and to him who continues knocking, the door will be opened.

"Is there any father here who, if his son asked him for a fish, would instead of a fish give him a snake?

or if he asked for an egg would give him a scorpion?

"When a strong man who is fully equipped for battle guards his own house, his possessions are secure.

As the people crowded around him, Yeshua went on to say, "This generation is a wicked generation! It asks for a sign, but no sign will be given to it — except the sign of Yonah.

For just as Yonah became a sign to the people of Ninveh, so will the Son of Man be for this generation.

The Queen of the South will appear at the Judgment with the people of this generation and condemn them; for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Shlomo, and what is here now is greater than Shlomo.

The people of Ninveh will stand up at the Judgment with this generation and condemn it, for they turned to God from their sins when Yonah preached, and what is here now is greater than Yonah.

Rather, give as alms what is inside, and then everything will be clean for you!

so that on this generation will fall the responsibility for all the prophets' blood that has been shed since the world was established,

from the blood of Hevel to the blood of Z'kharyah, who was killed between the altar and the Holy Place. Yes, I tell you, the responsibility for it will fall on this generation!

"Woe to you Torah experts! For you have taken away the key of knowledge! Not only did you yourselves not go in, you also have stopped those who were trying to enter!"

Aren't sparrows sold for next to nothing, five for two assarions? And not one of them has been forgotten by God.

He debated with himself, ‘What should I do? I haven't enough room for all my crops.'

That's how it is with anyone who stores up wealth for himself without being rich toward God."

For life is more than food, and the body is more than clothing.