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Neither can they die any more; for they are as the angels, and are the children of God, because they are children of the resurrection.

But woe to them that are with child, and to them that nurse children, in those days; for then will be great distress in the land, and wrath upon this people.

And Jesus turned to them, and said to them: Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not for me; but weep rather for yourselves, and for your children.

But such as received him, to them gave he the prerogative to be children of God; [fn] to them that believe on his name;

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

I know that ye are the children of Abraham; but ye seek to kill me, because ye do not acquiesce in my word.

They answered, and said to him: Our father is Abraham. Jesus said to them: If ye were children of Abraham, ye would do the works of Abraham.

While the light is with you, confide in the light; that ye may be children of the light. These things said Jesus, and departed, and concealed himself from them.

My children, a little longer I am with you; and ye will seek for me; and, as I said to the Jews, Whither I go ye cannot come, so I now say to you.

For the promise is to you, and to your children, and to all those afar off whom God will call.

Ye are the children of the prophets: and that covenant which God made with our fathers, when he said to Abraham, that in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed,

And when he was forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brethren, the children of Israel.

This Moses is the man who said to the children of Israel: A prophet, like me, will the Lord God raise up to you from among your brethren; to him give ear.

Men, brethren, children of the stock of Abraham, and all who, with you, fear God, to you is this word of life sent.

lo, God hath fulfilled it to us their children, in that he raised up Jesus; as it is written in the second psalm: Thou art my Son; this day have I begotten thee.

And after those days, we departed and went on [fn] way; and they all clung to us, they and their wives and their children, until [fn] without the city; and they fell on their knees by the seaside, and prayed.

And it hath been told them, of thee, that thou teachest all the Jews that are among the Gentiles to depart from Moses, by telling them not to circumcise their children, and not to observe the rites of the law.

That is, it is not the children of the flesh, who are the children of God; but the children of the promise, are accounted for the seed.

before her children were born, or: had done good or evil, the choice of God was predeclared; that it might stand, not of works, but of him who called.

For it shall be, that in the place where they were called: Not my people, there shall they be called: The children of the living God.