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who devour the houses of widows and pray lengthy prayers for the sake of appearance. These will receive more severe condemnation!"

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

For nation will rise up against nation and kingdom against kingdom. There will be earthquakes in various places. There will be famines. These things are the beginning of birth pains.

"But you, watch out for yourselves! They will hand you over to councils and you will be beaten in the synagogues and will have to stand before governors and kings because of me, for a witness to them.

And when they arrest you and hand you over, do not be anxious beforehand what you should say, but whatever is given to you at that hour, say this. For you are not the ones who are speaking, but the Holy Spirit.

For in those days there will be tribulation of such a kind as has not happened from the beginning of the creation that God created until now, and never will happen.

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 has shortened the days.

For false messiahs and false prophets will appear, and will produce signs and wonders in order to mislead, if possible, the elect.

Therefore be on the alert, for you do not know when the master of the house is coming—whether in the evening, or at midnight, or when the rooster crows, or early in the morning—

For they said, "Not at the feast, lest there be an uproar by the people."

And while he was at Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as he was reclining for a meal, a woman came holding an alabaster flask of very costly perfumed oil of genuine nard. After breaking the alabaster flask, she poured it out on his head.

For this perfumed oil could have been sold for more than three hundred denarii and given to the poor!" And they began to scold her.

But Jesus said, "Leave her alone. Why do you cause trouble for her? She has done a good deed to me.

For the poor you always have with you, and you can do good for them whenever you want, but you do not always have me.

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

And he will show you a large upstairs room furnished and ready, and prepare for us there."

For the Son of Man is going just as it is written about him, but woe to that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would be better for him if that man had not been born."

And he said to them, "This is my blood of the covenant which is poured out for many.

But he kept saying emphatically, "If it is necessary for me to die with you, I will never deny you!" And they all were saying the same thing also.

And he said, "Abba, Father, all things are possible for you! Take away this cup from me! Yet not what I will, but what you will."