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As they were hearing these things, he added and spoke a parable, because he was nigh to Jerusalem and because they thought that the kingdom of God should immediately be manifested.

And he said to him: Well done, thou good servant, because thou hast been faithful in a little, thou shalt have power over ten cities.

For I feared thee, because thou art an austere man: thou takest up what thou didst not lay down: and thou reapest that which thou didst not sow.

And if any man shall ask you: Why do you loose him? You shall say thus unto him: Because the Lord hath need of his service.

But they said: Because the Lord hath need of him.

And beat thee flat to the ground, and thy children who are in thee. And they shall not leave in thee a stone upon a stone: because thou hast not known the time of thy visitation.

But when these things begin to come to pass, look up and lift up your heads, because your redemption is at hand.

And Herod seeing Jesus, was very glad: for he was desirous of a long time to see him, because he had heard many things of him; and he hoped to see some sign wrought by him.

But they constrained him, saying: Stay with us, because it is towards evening and the day is now far spent. And he went in with them.

John beareth witness of him and crieth out, saying: This was he of whom I spoke: He that shall come after me is preferred before me: because he was before me.

This is he of whom I said: After me there cometh a man, who is preferred before me: because he was before me.

Jesus answered and said to him: Because I said unto thee, I saw thee under the fig tree, thou believest: greater things than these shalt thou see.

And because he needed not that any should give testimony of man: for he knew what was in man.

He that believeth in him is not judged. But he that doth not believe is already judged: because he believeth not in the name of the only begotten Son of God.

And this is the judgment: Because the light is come into the world and men loved darkness rather than the light: for their works were evil.

But he that doth truth cometh to the light, that his works may be made manifest: because they are done in God.

And John also was baptizing in Ennon near Salim: because there was much water there. And they came and were baptized.

He that hath the bride is the bridegroom: but the friend of the bridegroom, who standeth and heareth Him, rejoiceth with joy because of the bridegroom’s voice. This my joy therefore is fulfilled.

And many more believed in him, because of his own word.

Therefore did the Jews persecute Jesus, because he did these things on the sabbath.