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And they came and said to him, "Teacher, we know that you are true, and care for no man; for you do not regard the position of men, but truly teach the way of God. Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar, or not?

"Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if a man's brother dies and leaves a wife, but leaves no child, the man must take the wife, and raise up children for his brother.

In the resurrection whose wife will she be? For the seven had her as wife."

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

And as for the dead being raised, have you not read in the book of Moses, in the passage about the bush, how God said to him, 'I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob'?

who devour widows' houses and for a pretense make long prayers. They will receive the greater condemnation."

For they all contributed out of their abundance; but she out of her poverty has put in everything she had, her whole living."

For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom; there will be earthquakes in various places, there will be famines; this is but the beginning of the birth-pangs.

"But take heed to yourselves; for they will deliver you up to councils; and you will be beaten in synagogues; and you will stand before governors and kings for my sake, to bear testimony before them.

And when they bring you to trial and deliver you up, do not be anxious beforehand what you are to say; but say whatever is given you in that hour, for it is not you who speak, but the Holy Spirit.

and you will be hated by all for my name's sake. But he who endures to the end will be saved.

And alas for those who are with child and for those who give suck in those days!

For in those days there will be such tribulation as has not been from the beginning of the creation which God created until now, and never will be.

And if the Lord had not shortened the days, no human being would be saved; but for the sake of the elect, whom he chose, he shortened the days.

Take heed, watch; for you do not know when the time will come.

Watch therefore--for you do not know when the master of the house will come, in the evening, or at midnight, or at cockcrow, or in the morning--

for they said, "Not during the feast, lest there be a tumult of the people."

For this ointment might have been sold for more than three hundred denarii, and given to the poor." And they reproached her.

For you always have the poor with you, and whenever you will, you can do good to them; but you will not always have me.

She has done what she could; she has anointed my body beforehand for burying.