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For the Son of Man has come to seek and to save that which was lost."

For I was afraid of you, because you are a severe man: you take up what you did not lay down, and you reap what you did not sow.'

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.'"

And when He was now getting near Jerusalem, and descending the Mount of Olives, the whole multitude of the disciples began in their joy to praise God in loud voices for all the mighty deeds they had witnessed.

For the time is coming upon thee when thy foes will throw up around thee earthworks and a wall, investing thee and hemming thee in on every side.

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

And if we say, `human,' the people will all stone us; for they are thoroughly convinced that John was a Prophet."

Then He proceeded to speak a parable to the people. "There was a man," He said, "who planted a vineyard, let it out to vine-dressers, and went abroad for a considerable time.

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.

At this the Scribes and the High Priests wanted to lay hands on Him, then and there; only they were afraid of the people. For they saw that in this parable He had referred to them.

"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.

The woman, then--at the Resurrection--whose wife shall she be? for they all seven married her."

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.

For indeed they cannot die again; they are like angels, and are sons of God through being sons of the Resurrection.

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

For from what they could well spare they have all of them contributed to the offerings, but she in her need has thrown in all she had to live on."

"See to it," He replied, "that you are not misled; for many will come assuming my name and professing, `I am He,' or saying, `The time is close at hand.' Do not go and follow them.

But when you hear of wars and turmoils, be not afraid; for these things must happen first, but the end does not come immediately."

"But before all these things happen they will lay hands on you and persecute you. They will deliver you up to synagogues and to prison, and you will be brought before kings and governors for my sake.

for I will give you utterance and wisdom which none of your opponents will be able to withstand or reply to.