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So you are witnesses and consent to the deeds of your fathers; for they killed them, and you build their tombs.

In the meantime, when so many thousands of the multitude had gathered together that they trod upon one another, he began to say to his disciples first, "Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.

So is he who lays up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God."

But if God so clothes the grass which is alive in the field today and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, how much more will he clothe you, O men of little faith!

and be like men who are waiting for their master to come home from the marriage feast, so that they may open to him at once when he comes and knocks.

If he comes in the second watch, or in the third, and finds them so, blessed are those servants!

Blessed is that servant whom his master when he comes will find so doing.

He also said to the multitudes, "When you see a cloud rising in the west, you say at once, 'A shower is coming'; and so it happens.

But when you are invited, go and sit in the lowest place, so that when your host comes he may say to you, 'Friend, go up higher'; then you will be honored in the presence of all who sit at table with you.

So the servant came and reported this to his master. Then the householder in anger said to his servant, 'Go out quickly to the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in the poor and maimed and blind and lame.'

So therefore, whoever of you does not renounce all that he has cannot be my disciple.

So he told them this parable:

Just so, I tell you, there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who need no repentance.

Just so, I tell you, there is joy before the angels of God over one sinner who repents."

So he went and joined himself to one of the citizens of that country, who sent him into his fields to feed swine.

I have decided what to do, so that people may receive me into their houses when I am put out of the stewardship.'

So, summoning his master's debtors one by one, he said to the first, 'How much do you owe my master?'

And I tell you, make friends for yourselves by means of unrighteous mammon, so that when it fails they may receive you into the eternal habitations.

for I have five brothers, so that he may warn them, lest they also come into this place of torment.'

So you also, when you have done all that is commanded you, say, 'We are unworthy servants; we have only done what was our duty.'"