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for I was afraid of you, because you are a demanding man; you take up what you did not lay down, and reap what you did not sow.'

'But as for these enemies of mine who did not want me to reign over them, bring them here and slaughter them in my presence.'"

And as soon as He was approaching, near the descent of the Mount of Olives, the whole crowd of the disciples began to praise God joyfully with a loud voice for all the miracles which they had seen,

saying, "If you had known on this day, even you, the conditions for peace! But now they have been hidden from your eyes.

"For the days will come upon you when your enemies will put up a barricade against you, and surround you and hem you in on every side,

and yet they could not find anything that they might do, for all the people were hanging on to every word He said.

But He began to tell the people this parable: "A man planted a vineyard and leased it to vine-growers, and went on a journey for a long time.

The scribes and the chief priests tried to lay hands on Him that very hour, and yet they feared the people; for they were aware that He had spoken this parable against them.

"Is it permissible for us to pay taxes to Caesar, or not?"

and they questioned Him, saying, "Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if a man's brother dies, leaving a wife, and he is childless, that his brother is to marry the wife and raise up children for his brother.

"Therefore, in the resurrection, which one's wife does the woman become? For all seven married her."

for they cannot even die anymore, for they are like angels, and are sons of God, being sons of the resurrection.

"But as for the fact that the dead are raised, even Moses revealed this in the passage about the burning bush, where he calls the Lord THE GOD OF ABRAHAM, THE GOD OF ISAAC, AND THE GOD OF JACOB.

"Now He is not the God of the dead, but of the living; for all live to Him."

For they did not have the courage to question Him any longer about anything.

"For David himself says in the book of Psalms, 'THE LORD SAID TO MY LORD, "SIT AT MY RIGHT HAND,

UNTIL I MAKE YOUR ENEMIES A FOOTSTOOL FOR YOUR FEET."'

who devour widows' houses, and for appearance's sake offer long prayers. These will receive all the more condemnation."

for they all contributed to the offering from their surplus; but she, from her poverty, put in all that she had to live on."

"As for these things which you are observing, the days will come when there will not be left one stone upon another, which will not be torn down."