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In that hour was Jesus glad in the Spirit, and said, `I do confess to thee, Father, Lord of the heaven and of the earth, that Thou didst hide these things from wise men and understanding, and didst reveal them to babes; yes, Father, because so it became good pleasure before Thee.

for as Jonah became a sign to the Ninevites, so also shall the Son of Man be to this generation.

At which time the myriads of the multitude having been gathered together, so as to tread upon one another, he began to say unto his disciples, first, `Take heed to yourselves of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy;

so [is] he who is treasuring up to himself, and is not rich toward God.'

and if the herbage in the field, that to-day is, and to-morrow into an oven is cast, God doth so clothe, how much more you -- ye of little faith?

and if he may come in the second watch, and in the third watch he may come, and may find [it] so, happy are those servants.

Happy that servant, whom his lord, having come, shall find doing so;

And he said also to the multitudes, `When ye may see the cloud rising from the west, immediately ye say, A shower doth come, and it is so;

No -- I say to you, but, if ye may not reform, all ye even so shall perish.

and if indeed it may bear fruit --; and if not so, thereafter thou shalt cut it off.'

and if not so -- he being yet a long way off -- having sent an embassy, he doth ask the things for peace.

`So, then, every one of you who doth not take leave of all that he himself hath, is not able to be my disciple.

`I say to you, that so joy shall be in the heaven over one sinner reforming, rather than over ninety-nine righteous men, who have no need of reformation.

`So I say to you, joy doth come before the messengers of God over one sinner reforming.'

and he answering said to the father, Lo, so many years I do serve thee, and never thy command did I transgress, and to me thou didst never give a kid, that with my friends I might make merry;

and besides all these things, between us and you a great chasm is fixed, so that they who are willing to go over from hence unto you are not able, nor do they from thence to us pass through.

for I have five brothers, so that he may thoroughly testify to them, that they also may not come to this place of torment.

`So also ye, when ye may have done all the things directed you, say -- We are unprofitable servants, because that which we owed to do -- we have done.'

for as the lightning that is lightening out of the one [part] under heaven, to the other part under heaven doth shine, so shall be also the Son of Man in his day;

`And, as it came to pass in the days of Noah, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of Man;