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He was anxious to see what sort of man Jesus was; but he could not because of the crowd, for he was short in stature.

As they were listening to His words, He went on to teach them by a parable, because He was near to Jerusalem and they supposed that the Kingdom of God was going to appear immediately.

"`Well done, good servant,' he replied; `because you have been faithful in a very small matter, be in authority over ten towns.'

For I was afraid of you, because you are a severe man: you take up what you did not lay down, and you reap what you did not sow.'

And they will dash thee to the ground and thy children within thee, and will not leave one stone upon another within thee; because thou hast not recognized the time of thy visitation."

You will be the objects of universal hatred because you are called by my name;

But when all this is beginning to take place, grieve no longer. Lift up your heads, because your deliverance is drawing near."

To Herod the sight of Jesus was a great gratification, for, for a long time, he had been wanting to see Him, because he had heard so much about Him. He hoped also to see some miracle performed by Him.

But they pressed Him to remain with them. "Because," said they, "it is getting towards evening, and the day is nearly over." So He went in to stay with them.

This is He about whom I said, `After me is to come One who has been put before me, because He was before me.'

"Because I said to you, `I saw you under the fig-tree,'" replied Jesus, "do you believe? You shall see greater things than that."

But for His part, Jesus did not trust Himself to them, because He knew them all,

He who trusts in Him does not come up for judgement. He who does not trust has already received sentence, because he has not his trust resting on the name of God's only Son.

And this is the test by which men are judged--the Light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness more than they loved the Light, because their deeds were wicked.

And John too was baptizing at Aenon, near Salim, because there were many pools of water there; and people came and received baptism.

Of the Samaritan population of that town a good many believed in Him because of the woman's statement when she declared, "He has told me all that I have ever done."

Then a far larger number of people believed because of His own words,

and they said to the woman, "We no longer believe in Him simply because of your statements; for we have now heard for ourselves, and we know that this man really is the Saviour of the world."

and on this account the Jews began to persecute Jesus--because He did these things on the Sabbath.

On this account then the Jews were all the more eager to put Him to death--because He not only broke the Sabbath, but also spoke of God as being in a special sense His Father, thus putting Himself on a level with God.