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And His mother and brothers came to Him, and they were unable to get to Him because of the crowd.

Now Herod the tetrarch heard of all that was happening, and he was greatly perplexed, because it was said by some that John had risen from the dead,

And John answered and said, "Master, we saw someone casting out demons in Your name, and we tried to hinder him because he does not follow along with us."

But they did not receive Him, because He was journeying with His face toward Jerusalem.

I tell you, even though he will not arise and give him anything because he is his friend, yet because of his persistence he will get up and give him as much as he needs.

The Queen of the South will rise up at the judgment with the men of this generation and condemn them, because she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon. And behold, something greater than Solomon is here.

The men of Nineveh will stand up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it, because they repented at the preaching of Jonah. And behold, something greater than Jonah is here.

So you are witnesses and approve the deeds of your fathers; because it was they who killed them, and you build their tombs.

And Jesus answered and said to them, "Do you think that these Galileans were greater sinners than all other Galileans because they suffered these things?

But the synagogue official, indignant because Jesus healed on the Sabbath, answered and was saying to the crowd, "There are six days in which work should be done; so come during them and get healed, and not on the Sabbath day."

And he said to him, ‘Your brother has come, and your father has killed the fattened calf because he has received him back safe and sound.'

And his master praised the unrighteous steward because he had acted shrewdly, for the sons of this age are more shrewd in relation to their own kind than the sons of light.

Is he grateful to the slave because he did the things which were commanded?

yet because this widow is bothering me, I will give her justice, lest by continually coming she wears me out.'"

And Zaccheus was trying to see who Jesus was, and was unable because of the crowd, for he was small in stature.

And Jesus said to him, "Today salvation has come to this house, because he, too, is a son of Abraham.

Now while they were listening to these things, Jesus went on to tell a parable, because He was near Jerusalem, and they thought that the kingdom of God was going to appear immediately.

And he said to him, ‘Well done, good slave, because you have been faithful in a very little thing, you are to be in authority over ten cities.'

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

And if anyone asks you, ‘Why are you untying it?' you shall say this: ‘Because the Lord has need of it.'"