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For the days are coming in which they will say, Happy are those who have had no children, whose bodies have never given birth, whose breasts have never given milk.

To all those who did so take him, however, he gave the right of becoming children of God--that is, to those who had faith in his name:

Are you greater than our father Jacob who gave us the fountain and took the water of it himself, with his children and his cattle?

In answer they said to him, Our father is Abraham. Jesus said to them, If you were Abraham's children you would do what Abraham did.

You are the children of your father the Evil One and it is your pleasure to do his desires. From the first he was a taker of life; and he did not go in the true way because there is no true thing in him. When he says what is false, it is natural to him, for he is false and the father of what is false.

And not for that nation only, but for the purpose of uniting in one body the children of God all over the world.

My dear children, I am only to be with you a little longer. Then you will be looking for me: and as I said to the Jews, so now I say to you, Where I am going you may not come.

So Jesus said to them, Children, have you taken any fish? They made answer, No.

For the word of God is for you and for your children and for all those who are far off, even all those who may be marked out by the Lord our God.

And hearing this, they went into the Temple at dawn, and were teaching. But the high priest and those who were with him got together the Sanhedrin and the representatives of the children of Israel, and sent to the prison to get them.

And God gave him no heritage in it, not even enough to put his foot on: but he gave him an undertaking that he would give it to him and to his children after him, though he had no child at that time.

He, having evil designs against our nation, was cruel to our fathers, and they were forced to put out their young children, so that they might not go on living.

But when he was almost forty years old, it came into his heart to go and see his brothers, the children of Israel.

This is the same Moses, who said to the children of Israel, God will give you a prophet from among your brothers, like me.

But the Lord said, Go without fear: for he is a special vessel for me, to give to the Gentiles and kings and to the children of Israel the knowledge of my name:

The word which he sent to the children of Israel, giving the good news of peace through Jesus Christ (who is Lord of all)--

My brothers, children of the family of Abraham, and those among you who have the fear of God, to us the word of this salvation is sent.

Which God has now put into effect for our children, by sending Jesus; as it says in the second Psalm, You are my Son; this day I have given you being.

And when these days came to an end, we went on our journey; and they all, with their wives and children, came with us on our way till we were out of the town: and after going on our knees in prayer by the sea,

And they have had news of you, how you have been teaching all the Jews among the Gentiles to give up the law of Moses, and not to give circumcision to their children, and not to keep the old rules.