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And brother will deliver up his brother to death, and the father his son; and children will rise up against their parents, and will kill them.

But, woe to those with child, and to those who nurse children, in those days !

And many of the children of Israel will he convert to the Lord their God.

And he will go before him, in the spirit and power of Elijah the prophet, and will turn the heart of the fathers unto the children, and them that are disobedient to the knowledge of the righteous, and will prepare a perfect people for the Lord.

But love ye your enemies, and do them good; and lend ye, and disappoint the hopes of no one: and great will be your reward, and ye will be children of the Highest; for he is kind to the evil, and to the unthankful.

They are like children, that sit in the market-place, and call to their fellows and say: We have piped to you, and ye did not dance; we have howled to you, and ye did not weep.

But wisdom is justified by all her children.

And his friend within shall answer, and say to him: Do not disturb me, for lo, the door is closed, and my children with me in bed; I cannot rise and give thee.

And if ye, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father from heaven give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him?

O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, that killest the prophets, and stonest them that are sent to thee; how many times would I have gathered thy children, as a hen that gathereth her young under her wings, and ye would not?

He that cometh to me, and hateth not his father and his mother, and his brothers and his sisters, and his wife and his children, and his own life also, cannot become a disciple to me.

And our Lord praised the unrighteous steward, for having acted sagaciously: for the children of this world are more sagacious than the children of light, in this their generation.

But Jesus called them, and said to them: Suffer little children to come to me, and forbid them not; for of those that are like them, of such is the kingdom of heaven.

Jesus said to him: Verily I say to you: There is no man, who hath left houses, or parents, or brothers, or wife, or children, for the sake of the kingdom of God,

And they will destroy thee, and thy children within thee; and will not leave in

and said to him: Teacher, Moses wrote to us, that if a man's brother die, who had a wife without children, his [fn] brother shall take his wife, and raise up seed to his [fn] brother.

Now, there were seven brothers; and the first took a wife, and died without children.

And the second took her to wife; and he died without children.

And again, the third took her, and in like manner also all the seven; and they died, and left no children.

Jesus said to them: The children of this world take wives, and wives are given to husbands.