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"And he said to him, 'Well done, good slave; since you have been faithful in a very little thing, you are to have authority over ten cities.'

"And then another came, saying, 'Master, here is your mina, which I kept tucked away in a handkerchief;

for I was afraid of you, because you are a demanding man; you take up what you did not lay down, and reap what you did not sow.'

"He said to him, 'From your own lips I will judge you, you worthless slave. Did you know that I am a demanding man, taking up what I did not lay down, and reaping what I did not sow?

saying, "Go into the village ahead of you; there, as you enter, you will find a colt tied, on which no one yet has ever sat; untie it and bring it here.

And as soon as He was approaching, near the descent of the Mount of Olives, the whole crowd of the disciples began to praise God joyfully with a loud voice for all the miracles which they had seen,

"For the days will come upon you when your enemies will put up a barricade against you, and surround you and hem you in on every side,

saying to them, "It is written: 'AND MY HOUSE WILL BE A HOUSE OF PRAYER,' but you have made it a DEN OF ROBBERS."

But He replied to them, "I will also ask you a question, and you tell Me:

"But if we say, 'From men,' all the people will stone us to death, since they are convinced that John was a prophet."

But He began to tell the people this parable: "A man planted a vineyard and leased it to vine-growers, and went on a journey for a long time.

"At the harvest time he sent a slave to the vine-growers, so that they would give him his share of the produce of the vineyard; but the vine-growers beat him and sent him away empty-handed.

"And he proceeded to send a third; but this one too they wounded and threw out.

But Jesus looked at them and said, "Then what is this statement that has been written: 'A STONE WHICH THE BUILDERS REJECTED, THIS HAS BECOME THE CHIEF CORNERSTONE'?

"Show Me a denarius. Whose image and inscription does it have?" They said, "Caesar's."

And they were unable to catch Him in a statement in the presence of the people; and they were amazed at His answer, and said nothing.

and they questioned Him, saying, "Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if a man's brother dies, leaving a wife, and he is childless, that his brother is to marry the wife and raise up children for his brother.

"So then, there were seven brothers; and the first took a wife and died childless;

UNTIL I MAKE YOUR ENEMIES A FOOTSTOOL FOR YOUR FEET."'

And He saw a poor widow putting in two lepta coins.