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And when the Pharisees saw [fn] they said to his disciples, Why doth your Rabbi eat with publicans and sinners?

And as Jesus heard [fn] , he said to them: They who are in health have no need of a physician, but they that are very sick.

Jesus said to them: Can the children of the nuptial chamber fast, so long as the bridegroom is with them? But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken from them, and then they will fast.

And they do not put new wine into old sacks; lest the sacks burst, and the wine run out, and the sacks perish. But they put new wine into new sacks and they are both preserved.

And Jesus rose up, and his disciples; and they followed him.

And he said to them: Retire; for the maid is not dead, but sleepeth. And they scoffed at him.

And when he had entered a house, those blind men approached him, and Jesus said to them: Believe ye that I am able to do this? They said to him, Yes, our Lord.

But they went out and spread the fame of it in all that land.

And as Jesus went out, they brought to him a dumb man in whom was a demon.

And when Jesus looked on the multitudes, he pitied them; because they were wearied and dispersed, like sheep that have no shepherd.

And beware of men; for they will deliver you over to the tribunals, and will scourge you in their synagogues.

And they will bring you before governors and kings, on my account, for a testimony to them and to the Gentiles.

And when they deliver you up, be not anxious how or what ye shall speak; for it shall be given you in that hour what to say.

And when they persecute you in one city, flee to another: for verily I say to you, Ye shall not have completed all the cities of the house of Israel, till the Son of man shall come.

It is sufficient for the disciple, that he be as his rabbi; and the servant, as his lord. If they call the lord of the house Beelzebub, how much more the children of his family?

And when they were gone, Jesus began to say to the multitudes, concerning John: What went ye into the wilderness to see? A reed that waved in the wind?

And if not; what went ye out to see? A man clothed in delicate robes? Lo, they that are clothed in delicate [fn] , are in the dwelling of kings.

For John came, not eating and not drinking; and they said, He hath a demon.

The Son of man came, eating and drinking; and they say: Behold, a gluttonous man, and a wine drinker, and a friend of publicans and sinners. But wisdom is justified by her works.

And he said: Woe to thee, Chorazin ! Woe to thee, Bethsaida ! For if the deeds of power done in you, had been done in Tyre and Sidon, doubtless, they would long ago have repented in sackcloth and ashes.