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And if you, who are evil, know to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father from the heavens give the Spirit of Holiness to those who ask him !

Whoever cometh with me, and doth not hate his father and his mother, and his brethren and his sisters, and his wife and his children, and himself also, a disciple he cannot be of mine.

But Jeshu called them, and said to them, Suffer children to come to me, and forbid them not; for of those who are as these,

Jeshu saith to him, Amen I say to you, That no man who leaveth houses, or fathers, or brethren, or wife, or children, for the kingdom of Aloha,

and they shall overthrow thee, and thy children within thee, and not leave in thee one stone upon another, [fn] because thou knewest not the time of thy visitation.

and they questioned him, and said to him, Doctor, Musha wrote to us that if a man's brother die having a wife who hath not children, his brother shall take his wife, and raise up seed unto his brother.

But there were seven brethren; and the first took; a wife, and died without children.

And the second took his wife, and he died without children.

And the third also took her; and so also the seven of them: and they died and left no children.

Neither again can they die, for they are as the angels; and the children are they of Aloha, because they have become the children of the resurrection.

And Jeshu turned to them, and said, Daughters of Urishlem, weep not for me, but for yourselves weep, and for your children.

Art thou greater than our father Jakub, he who gave us this well, and himself drank of it, and his children, and his flocks ?

and not only for (that) people, but also that the children of Aloha who are dispersed he should gather into one.

And Jeshu said to them, Children, have you any thing to eat ? They say to him, No.

For to you is the promise, and to your children, and to all them who are afar off, whom Aloha himself shall call.

and he dealt fraudulently against our kindred, and shamefully entreated our fathers, and commanded that their children should be cast away, [fn] that they might not live.

behold, Aloha hath fulfilled it to their children, (in) that he hath raised up Jeshu; as it is written in the second psalm, Thou art my Son; This day have I begotten thee.

and said, Men, what do you ? We also are children of men liable to sufferings like you, (and) who preach to you that from these vanities you should turn unto Aloha the living, who made heaven and earth, and the seas, and all that is in them:

And after those days we departed to go on the way. And they accompanied us, all of them, they and their wives and their children, till without the city, and kneeled upon their knees on the sea shore, and prayed. And we kissed one another,

and an instructor of the wanting-in-mind, and a teacher of children, and hast a type of knowledge and of truth in the law: