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And if I by Beelzebub cast out devils, by whom do your children cast them out? Therefore they shall be your judges.

And the field is the world. And the good seed are the children of the kingdom. And the cockle are the children of the wicked one.

And the number of them that did eat, was five thousand men, besides women and children.

Who answering, said: It is not good to take the bread of the children, and to cast it to the dogs.

And they that did eat, were four thousand men, beside children and women.

(17-24) He said: Yes. And when he was come into the house, Jesus prevented him, saying: What is thy opinion, Simon? The kings of the earth, of whom do they receive tribute or custom, of their own children, or of strangers?

(17-25) And he said: Of strangers. Jesus said to him: Then the children are free.

And said: amen I say to you, unless you be converted, and become as little children, you shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.

And as he had not wherewith to pay it, his lord commanded that he should be sold, and his wife and children, and all that he had, and payment to be made.

Then were little children presented to him, that he should impose hands upon them and pray. And the disciples rebuked them.

But Jesus said to them: Suffer the little children, and forbid them not to come to me: for the kingdom of heaven is for such.

And every one that hath left house, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands for my name’s sake, shall receive an hundredfold, and shall possess life everlasting.

And the chief priests and scribes, seeing the wonderful things that he did and the children crying in the temple and saying: Hosanna to the son of David, were moved with indignation,

Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets and stonest them that are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered together thy children, as the hen doth gather her chickens under her wings, and thou wouldst not?

Then was fulfilled that which was spoken by Jeremias the prophet, saying: And they took the thirty pieces of silver, the price of him that was prized, whom they prized of the children of Israel.

And the whole people answering, said: His blood be upon us and upon our children.

And Jesus saith to them: Can the children of the marriage fast, as long as the bridegroom is with them? As long as they have the bridegroom with them, they cannot fast.

Who said to her: suffer first the children to be filled: for it is not good to take the bread of the children and cast it to the dogs.

But she answered and said to him: Yea, Lord; for the whelps also eat under the table of the crumbs of the children.

And they brought to him young children, that he might touch them. And the disciples rebuked them that brought them.