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And Jesus stopped and said, "Call him here." So they *called the blind man, saying to him, "Take courage, get up! He is calling for you."

And Jesus answered him and said, "What do you want Me to do for you?" And the blind man said to Him, "Rabboni, I want to regain my sight!"

And Jesus entered Jerusalem and came into the temple; and after looking around at everything, He left for Bethany with the twelve, since it was already late.

And seeing at a distance a fig tree that had leaves, He went to see if perhaps He would find anything on it; and when He came to it, He found nothing but leaves, for it was not the season for figs.

And He began to teach and say to them, "Is it not written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer for all the nations'? But you have made it a robbers' den."

And the chief priests and the scribes heard this, and began seeking how to destroy Him; for they were afraid of Him, for the whole crowd was astonished at His teaching.

For this reason I say to you, all things for which you pray and ask, believe that you have received them, and they will be granted to you.

But if we say, ‘From men'?"—they were afraid of the crowd, for everyone was regarding John to have been a real prophet.

And they were seeking to seize Him, and yet they feared the crowd, for they understood that He spoke the parable against them. And so they left Him and went away.

And they *came and *said to Him, "Teacher, we know that You are truthful and defer to no one; for You are not partial to any, but teach the way of God in truth. Is it lawful to pay a tax to Caesar, or not?

"Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if a man's brother dies and leaves behind a wife and leaves no child, his brother should marry the wife and raise up a seed for his brother.

In the resurrection, when they rise again, whose wife will she be? For all seven had married her."

For when they rise from the dead, they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven.

who devour widows' houses, and for appearance's sake offer long prayers; these will receive greater condemnation."

for they all put in out of their surplus, but she, out of her poverty, put in all she owned, all she had to live on."

For nation will rise up against nation, and kingdom against kingdom; there will be earthquakes in various places; there will also be famines. These things are merely the beginning of birth pains.

"But see to yourselves; for they will deliver you to the courts, and you will be beaten in the synagogues, and you will stand before governors and kings for My sake, as a witness to them.

And when they lead you away, delivering you up, do not worry beforehand about what you are to say, but say whatever is given to you in that hour; for it is not you who speak, but it is the Holy Spirit.

For those days will be a time of tribulation such as has not occurred since the beginning of the creation which God created until now, and never will.

And unless the Lord had shortened those days, no life would have been saved; but for the sake of the elect, whom He chose, He shortened the days.