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And whenever you make a prayer, let there be forgiveness in your hearts, if you have anything against anyone; so that you may have forgiveness for your sins from your Father who is in heaven.

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And he gave them teaching in the form of stories. A man had a vine-garden planted, and put a wall about it, and made a place for crushing out the wine, and put up a tower, and let it out to field-workers, and went into another country.

He still had one, a dearly loved son: he sent him last to them, saying, They will have respect for my son.

And when they had come, they said to him, Master, we are certain that you are true, and have no fear of anyone: you have no respect for a man's position, but you are teaching the true way of God: Is it right to give taxes to Caesar or not?

Master, in the law Moses says, If a man's brother comes to his end, and has a wife still living and no child, it is right for his brother to take his wife, and get a family for his brother.

In the future life, when they come back from the dead, whose wife will she be? for the seven had her for a wife.

Jesus said to them, Is not this the reason for your error, that you have no knowledge of the holy Writings or of the power of God?

And you are to have love for the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength.

The second is this, Have love for your neighbour as for yourself. There is no other law greater than these.

And to have love for him with all the heart, and with all the mind, and with all the strength, and to have the same love for his neighbour as for himself, is much more than all forms of offerings.

Because they all put in something out of what they had no need for; but she out of her need put in all she had, even all her living.

But take care: for they will give you up to the Sanhedrins; and in Synagogues you will be whipped; and you will be taken before rulers and kings because of me, for a sign to them.

And it will be hard for women who are with child and for her who has a baby at the breast in those days.

For in those days there will be sorrow, such as there has not been from the time when God made the world till now, and will not ever be again.

Take care, keep watch with prayer: for you are not certain when the time will be.

It is as when a man who is in another country for a time, having gone away from his house, and given authority to his servants and to everyone his work, gives the porter an order to keep watch.

For fear that, coming suddenly, he sees you sleeping.

But they said, Not while the feast is going on, for fear there may be trouble among the people.

But some of them were angry among themselves, saying, For what purpose has this oil been wasted?