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and he from within answering may say, Do not give me trouble, already the door hath been shut, and my children with me are in the bed, I am not able, having risen, to give to thee.

but I have a baptism to be baptized with, and how am I pressed till it may be completed!

and he said to them, `Having gone, say to this fox, Lo, I cast forth demons, and perfect cures to-day and to-morrow, and the third [day] I am being perfected;

and another said, A wife I married, and because of this I am not able to come.

`And having come to himself, he said, How many hirelings of my father have a superabundance of bread, and I here with hunger am perishing!

and no more am I worthy to be called thy son; make me as one of thy hirelings.

and the son said to him, Father, I did sin -- to the heaven, and before thee, and no more am I worthy to be called thy son.

`And the steward said in himself, What shall I do, because my lord doth take away the stewardship from me? to dig I am not able, to beg I am ashamed: --

and having cried, he said, Father Abraham, deal kindly with me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and may cool my tongue, because I am distressed in this flame.

the Pharisee having stood by himself, thus prayed: God, I thank Thee that I am not as the rest of men, rapacious, unrighteous, adulterers, or even as this tax-gatherer;

`And he saith to him, Out of thy mouth I will judge thee, evil servant: thou knewest that I am an austere man, taking up what I did not lay down, and reaping what I did not sow!

And he said, `See -- ye may not be led astray, for many shall come in my name, saying -- I am [he], and the time hath come nigh; go not on then after them;

for who is greater? he who is reclining (at meat), or he who is ministering? is it not he who is reclining (at meat)? and I -- I am in your midst as he who is ministering.

And he said to him, `Sir, with thee I am ready both to prison and to death to go;'

And after a little, another having seen him, said, `And thou art of them!' and Peter said, `Man, I am not.'

And they all said, `Thou, then, art the Son of God?' and he said unto them, `Ye say [it], because I am;'

see my hands and my feet, that I am he; handle me and see, because a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me having.'

and he confessed and did not deny, and confessed -- `I am not the Christ.'

And they questioned him, `What then? Elijah art thou?' and he saith, `I am not.' -- `The prophet art thou?' and he answered, `No.'

He said, `I [am] a voice of one crying in the wilderness: Make straight the way of the Lord, as said Isaiah the prophet.'