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and if I by Beelzebub exorcize devils, by whom do your children exorcize them? wherefore even they shall be your judges.

the men of Nineveh shall rise in judgment against this generation, and shall condemn it, because they were converted at the preaching of Jonas, and now there is one superiour to Jonas here.

then he goes and takes seven other spirits besides himself, but more mischievous than himself, and they all enter in and lodge there: so that the last state of that man is worse than the first. just so shall it likewise fare with this wicked generation.

therefore speak I to them in parables: because they over-look what they see: and are inattentive to what they hear, neither will they comprehend.

for the heart of this people is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them."

the son of man shall send forth his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all that make others offend, and those who do iniquity;

when it is full, they drag it to shore, then sit down, and pick out the good to lay by, but throw the bad away.

so it shall be at the end of the world: the angels shall come forth, and after they have separated the wicked from the just,

they shall cast the wicked into the furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth.

they reply'd, yes, Lord. then said he to them, thus every teacher who is instructed in the doctrine of the gospel, is like the master of a family, who taketh out of his treasure things new and old.

and when he was come into his native country, he taught them in their synagogue, in such a manner that they cry'd out with astonishment, how came this man by all this wisdom, and extraordinary power?

is not this the carpenter's son? is not Mary his mother? and James, and Joses, and Simon, and Judas, are they not his brothers?

and his sisters, don't they live just by us? how came he then by all this?

and they were scandaliz'd at him. but Jesus said to them, a prophet is not without honour, except in his own country and in his own family.

upon which, his disciples came to take away the body, and having buried it, they went to tell Jesus what had happened.

At evening his disciples came to him, saying, this is a desert place, and dinner-time is now past; send the multitude away, that they may go to buy themselves provisions in the villages.

we have nothing here, said they, but five loaves, and two fishes.

and were filled: and they carried away twelve baskets full of fragments that were left.

now they that had eaten, were about five thousand men, beside women and children.

the disciples seeing him walking on the sea, cry'd out in a fright, an apparition; and they scream'd for fear.