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He said, Make room; for the girl is not dead, but sleeping. And they were laughing at him.

But when he saw all the people he was moved with pity for them, because they were troubled and wandering like sheep without a keeper.

Take no bag for your journey and do not take two coats or shoes or a stick: for the workman has a right to his food.

And into whatever town or small place you go, make search there for someone who is respected, and make his house your resting-place till you go away.

Truly I say to you, It will be better for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of God's judging than for that town.

But be on the watch against men: for they will give you up to the Sanhedrins, and in their Synagogues they will give you blows;

And you will come before rulers and kings because of me, for a witness to them and to the Gentiles.

But when you are given up into their hands, do not be troubled about what to say or how to say it: for in that hour what you are to say will be given to you;

But when they are cruel to you in one town, go in flight to another: for truly, I say to you, You will not have gone through the towns of Israel before the Son of man comes.

It is enough for the disciple that he may be as his master, and the servant as his lord. If they have given the name Beelzebub to the master of the house, how much more to those of his house!

For I have come to put a man against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law:

He who has more love for his father or mother than for me is not good enough for me; he who has more love for son or daughter than for me is not good enough for me.

And he who does not take his cross and come after me is not good enough for me.

To say to him, Are you he who is to come, or are we waiting for another?

For all the prophets and the law were in force till John.

We made music for you and you did not take part in the dance; we gave cries of sorrow and you made no signs of grief.

For John came, taking no food or drink, and they say, He has an evil spirit.

Unhappy are you, Chorazin! Unhappy are you, Beth-saida! For if the works of power which were done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have been turned from their sins in days gone by, clothing themselves in haircloth and putting dust on their heads.

But I say to you, It will be better for Tyre and Sidon in the day of judging, than for you.

And you, Capernaum, were you not to be lifted up to heaven? you will go down into hell: for if the works of power which were done in you had been done in Sodom, it would have been here to this day.