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and he said to them, `Verily I say to you, that there is not one who left house, or parents, or brothers, or wife, or children, for the sake of the reign of God,

for he shall be delivered up to the nations, and shall be mocked, and insulted, and spit upon,

and he was seeking to see Jesus, who he is, and was not able for the multitude, because in stature he was small,

And as Jesus came up to the place, having looked up, he saw him, and said unto him, `Zaccheus, having hastened, come down, for to-day in thy house it behoveth me to remain;'

for the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.'

for I was afraid of thee, because thou art an austere man; thou takest up what thou didst not lay down, and reapest what thou didst not sow.

for I say to you, that to every one having shall be given, and from him not having, also what he hath shall be taken from him,

and as he is coming nigh now, at the descent of the mount of the Olives, the whole multitude of the disciples began rejoicing to praise God with a great voice for all the mighty works they had seen,

saying -- `If thou didst know, even thou, at least in this thy day, the things for thy peace; but now they were hid from thine eyes.

and they were not finding what they shall do, for all the people were hanging on him, hearing him.

and if we may say, From men, all the people will stone us, for they are having been persuaded John to be a prophet.'

And he began to speak unto the people this simile: `A certain man planted a vineyard, and gave it out to husbandmen, and went abroad for a long time,

And the chief priests and the scribes sought to lay hands on him in that hour, and they feared the people, for they knew that against them he spake this simile.

in the rising again, then, of which of them doth she become wife? -- for the seven had her as wife.'

for neither are they able to die any more -- for they are like messengers -- and they are sons of God, being sons of the rising again.

and He is not a God of dead men, but of living, for all live to Him.'

who devour the houses of the widows, and for a pretence make long prayers, these shall receive more abundant judgment.'

for all these out of their superabundance did cast into the gifts to God, but this one out of her want, all the living that she had, did cast in.'

And he said, `See -- ye may not be led astray, for many shall come in my name, saying -- I am [he], and the time hath come nigh; go not on then after them;

and when ye may hear of wars and uprisings, be not terrified, for it behoveth these things to happen first, but the end [is] not immediately.'