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Blessed be [the] Lord the God of Israel, because he has visited and wrought redemption for his people,

and Joseph also went up from Galilee out of the city Nazareth to Judaea, to David's city, the which is called Bethlehem, because he was of the house and family of David,

and she brought forth her first-born son, and wrapped him up in swaddling-clothes and laid him in the manger, because there was no room for them in the inn.

[The] Spirit of [the] Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to preach glad tidings to [the] poor; he has sent me to preach to captives deliverance, and to [the] blind sight, to send forth [the] crushed delivered,

and demons also went out from many, crying out and saying, *Thou* art the Son of God. And rebuking them, he suffered them not to speak, because they knew him to be the Christ.

and other fell upon the rock, and having sprung up, it was dried up because it had not moisture;

And his mother and his brethren came to him, and could not get to him because of the crowd.

because he had an only daughter, about twelve years old, and she was dying. And as he went the crowds thronged him.

And Herod the tetrarch heard of all the things which were done [by him], and was in perplexity, because it was said by some that John was risen from among [the] dead,

And John answering said, Master, we saw some one casting out demons in thy name, and we forbad him, because he follows not with us.

And they did not receive him, because his face was [turned as] going to Jerusalem.

—I say to you, Although he will not get up and give [them] to him because he is his friend, because of his shamelessness, at any rate, he will rise and give him as many as he wants.

and if also Satan is divided against himself, how shall his kingdom subsist? because ye say that I cast out demons by Beelzebub.

And he said to them, Take heed and keep yourselves from all covetousness, for [it is] not because a man is in abundance [that] his life is in his possessions.

And he answering said to them, Think ye that these Galileans were sinners beyond all the Galileans because they suffered such things?

But the ruler of the synagogue, indignant because Jesus healed on the sabbath, answering said to the crowd, There are six days in which [people] ought to work; in these therefore come and be healed, and not on the sabbath day.

And he said to him, Thy brother is come, and thy father has killed the fatted calf because he has received him safe and well.

But it was right to make merry and rejoice, because this thy brother was dead and has come to life again, and was lost and has been found.

And the lord praised the unrighteous steward because he had done prudently. For the sons of this world are, for their own generation, more prudent than the sons of light.

Is he thankful to the bondman because he has done what was ordered? I judge not.