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heard this, they were astonished at his teaching.

34 When the Pharisees heard that he had put the Sadducees to silence, they came together. 35 And one of them, who was a lawyer, asked him a question, that he might tempt him, saying: 36 Teacher, which is the great commandment in the law? 37 Jesus said to him: You shall love the Lord your God with your whole heart, and with your whole soul, and with your whole mind. 38 This is the first and great commandment. 39 And the second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. 40 On these two commandments hang the whole law. and the prophets.

41 While the Pharisees were together, Jesus asked them a question, 42saying: What think you of the Christ? whose son is he? They said to him: The son of David. 43 He said to them: How then does David in spirit call him Lord, saying,

The Lord said to my Lord, Sit thou at my right hand till I make thy enemies thy footstool. 45 If then David calls him Lord, how is he his son? 46 And no one was able to answer him a word; nor did any one, from that day, dare to ask him another question.

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fringes of their mantles. They also love the most honorable places at suppers, and the first seats in the synagogues, and salutations in the markets, and to be called by men, Rabbi, Rabbi.

* But you must not be called Rabbi; for one is your leader, and all of you are brethren. And call no man on earth your father; for one is your Father, who is in heaven. 10 And be not called leaders; for one is your leader, the Christ. 11 And the greatest among you shall be your minister. 12 Whoever exalts himself shall be humbled; and whoever humbles himself shall be exalted.

13 But alas for you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you eat up the houses of widows, and for a pretext make long prayers. For this reason, you shall receive the greater condemnation. 14 Alas for you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you close the kingdom of heaven in the face of men; for you neither go in yourselves, nor do you suffer those who are entering, to go in. 15 Alas for you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you traverse sea and land to make one proselyte; and when he is made, you make him twofold more a child of hell than yourselves.

16 Alas for you, blind guides! who say, Whoever shall swear by the temple, it is nothing; but whoever shall swear by the gold of the temple, becomes a debtor. 17 Fools and blind! for which is greater, the gold, or the temple that sanctifies the gold? 18 And, Whoever shall swear by the altar, it is nothing; but whoever shall swear by the gift that is on it, becomes a debtor. 19 Fools and blind! for which is greater, the gift, or the altar that sanctifies the gift? 20 Therefore, whoever swears by the altar, swears by it, and by all that is on it. 21 And whoever swears by the temple, swears by it, and by him that

dwells in it. 22 And he that swears by heaven, swears by the throne of God, and by him that sits upon it.

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Alas for you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you pay tithes of mint and dill and cummin, and have neglected the weightier matters of the law, its justice, its mercy, and its faithfulness. These you ought to have done, and those you ought not to have neglected. 24 Blind guides! who strain out a gnat, but swallow a camel. 25 Alas for you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you make clean the outside of the cup and the plate; but within they are full of rapine and excess. 26 Blind Pharisee! first make clean the inside of the cup and the plate, that the outside of them also may be clean.

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27 Alas for you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you are like whitened sepulchers, which without appear beautiful, but within are full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness. So also you outwardly appear to men to be just, but within you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness. 29 Alas for you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you build the tombs of the prophets, and adorn the sepulchers of the righteous, and say: If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets. 31 So then you testify against yourselves, that you are the sons of those who killed the prophets. 32 Do you also fill up the measure of your fathers. 33 Serpents, generation of vipers, how can you escape the condemnation of hell?

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For this reason, behold, I send you prophets and wise men and scribes; and some of them you will kill and crucify; and some of them you will scourge in your synagogues, and persecute from city to city; 35 that upon you may come all the righteous blood which has been shed upon the earth, from the blood of Abel the just to the blood of Zachariah, the son of

Barachiah, whom you slew between the temple and the altar. 36 Verily I say to you, All these things shall come upon this generation.

37 Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets and stonest those who are sent to thee, how often have I desired to gather thy children together, as a bird gathers her young under her wings, and you refused. 38 Behold, your house is left to you deserted. 39 For I say to you, That you shall not see me henceforth, till you shall say, Blessed is he that comes in the name of the Lord.

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3 And as he was sitting upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came to him privately, and said: Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the age? And Jesus answered and said to them: Take heed that no one deceive you. 5 For many will come in my name, saying, I am the Christ; and will deceive many. * And will hear of wars and rumors of wars: see that you you be not troubled, for all things must be fulfilled; but the end is not yet. For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom; and there will be famines and pestilences and earthquakes in various places. But all these are the beginning of sorrows. Then they will deliver you up to affliction, and kill you; and you will be hated by all nations on my account. 10 And then will many be ensnared, and they will de

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liver one another up, and hate one another; and many false prophets will arise, and deceive many; 12and because iniquity abounds, the love of many will grow cold. 13 But he that endures to the end, shall be saved. 14 And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in the whole habitable earth, for a testimony to all nations, and then shall the end come.

15 When, therefore, you see that detestable thing that makes desolate, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place, (let him that reads understand;) 16 then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains; 17 let not him that is on the house-top come down to take his goods out of his house; 18 and let not him that is in the field turn back to take his clothing. 19 But alas for those who are with child, and those who give suck in those days! 20 Pray that your flight may not be in the winter, nor on the Sabbath: 21 for then shall be great affliction, such as has not been from the beginning of the world. till now, nor shall ever be. 22 And unless those days should be made few, no flesh could be saved. But on account of the elect those days shall be made few.

23 Then if any one shall say to you: Lo! here is the Christ, or there; believe it not. 24 For false Christs and false prophets will arise, and will show great signs and wonders, so as to deceive, if possible, even the elect. 25 Behold, I have told you beforehand. 26 Therefore, if they say to you: Behold, he is in the desert; go not out: Behold, he is in the secret chambers; believe it not. 27 For as the lightning comes out from the east, and shines even to the west, so also shall the coming of the Son of man be. 28 For wherever the carcass is, there will the vultures come together.

29 Immediately after the affliction of those days, the sun shall be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the