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When they received it, they began to grumble against the landowner.
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A Warning Against Hypocrisy
Then Jesus said to the crowds and to his disciples:
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So you testify against yourselves that you are the descendants of those who murdered the prophets.
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Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be famines and earthquakes in various places.
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The Plot Against Jesus
When Jesus had finished saying all these things, he said to his disciples,
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The chief priests and the whole Sanhedrin were looking for false evidence against Jesus so that they could put him to death.
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Then the high priest stood up and said to Jesus, “Are you not going to answer? What is this testimony that these men are bringing against you?”
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The chief priests picked up the coins and said, “It is against the law to put this into the treasury, since it is blood money.”
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Then Pilate asked him, “Don’t you hear the testimony they are bringing against you?”
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Above his head they placed the written charge against him: this is jesus, the king of the jews.
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If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand.
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If a house is divided against itself, that house cannot stand.
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but whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit will never be forgiven; they are guilty of an eternal sin.”
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“You see the people crowding against you,” his disciples answered, “and yet you can ask, ‘Who touched me?’ ”
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And if any place will not welcome you or listen to you, leave that place and shake the dust off your feet as a testimony against them.”
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So Herodias nursed a grudge against John and wanted to kill him. But she was not able to,
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He saw the disciples straining at the oars, because the wind was against them. Shortly before dawn he went out to them, walking on the lake. He was about to pass by them,
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adultery, greed, malice, deceit, lewdness, envy, slander, arrogance and folly.
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Whoever Is Not Against Us Is for Us
“Teacher,” said John, “we saw someone driving out demons in your name and we told him to stop, because he was not one of us.”
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for whoever is not against us is for us.
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He answered, “Anyone who divorces his wife and marries another woman commits adultery against her.
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And if she divorces her husband and marries another man, she commits adultery.”
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You know the commandments: ‘You shall not murder, you shall not commit adultery, you shall not steal, you shall not give false testimony, you shall not defraud, honor your father and mother.’”
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And when you stand praying, if you hold anything against anyone, forgive them, so that your Father in heaven may forgive you your sins.”
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Then the chief priests, the teachers of the law and the elders looked for a way to arrest him because they knew he had spoken the parable against them. But they were afraid of the crowd; so they left him and went away.
