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Wo to you, when all men shall speak well of you; for so did their fathers to the false prophets.

Jesus hearing these things, marvelled at him, and turning, said to the people that followed him, I say to you, I have not found so great faith, no, not in Israel.

And he said, To you it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God, but to others in parables, so that seeing they do not see, and hearing they do not understand.

And they did so, and made them all sit down.

But they understood not this saying, and it was hid from them, so that they perceived it not: and they feared to ask him of this saying.

Yet in this rejoice not, that the spirits are subject to you; but rather rejoice, that your names are written in heaven. In that hour Jesus rejoiced in spirit and said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them to babes: even so, Father; for so it seemed good in thy sight.

And he said to them, When ye pray, say, Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come: Thy will be done as in heaven, so on earth.

For as Jonah was a sign to the Ninevites, so shall also the Son of man be to this generation.

So that the blood of all the prophets shed from the foundation of the world, shall be required of this generation.

In the mean time, an innumerable multitude being gathered together, so that they trod one upon another, he said to his disciples first, Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.

So that whatsoever ye have spoken in darkness, shall be heard in the light, and what ye have whispered in closets shall be proclaimed on the house-tops.

So is he that layeth up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.

If then God so cloth the grass, which is to day in the field, and to morrow is cast into the still, how much more will he clothe you, O ye of little faith?

And if he shall come in the second watch, or come in the third watch, and find them so, happy are those servants.

Happy is that servant, whom his Lord, when he cometh, shall find so doing.

And he said to the people also, When ye see a cloud rising out of the west, straitway ye say, There cometh a heavy shower, and so it is.

And when ye find the south wind blowing, ye say, There will be sultry heat; and it is so.

So the servant came, and shewed his lord these things. Then the master of the house, being angry, said to his servant, Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in hither the poor, and the disabled, and the lame, and the blind.

So every one of you, who forsaketh not all that he hath, cannot be my disciple.

So having called to him every one of his lord's debtors, he said to the first, How much owest thou to my lord?