Luke 19:12

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Luke 19:12

He said therefore, A certain nobleman went into a far country to receive for himself a kingdom, and to return.

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Matthew 25:14

Mark 13:34

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A certain

For it is as when a man, about to take a journey, got his servants together, and gave them his property.

It is as when a man who is in another country for a time, having gone away from his house, and given authority to his servants and to everyone his work, gives the porter an order to keep watch.

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And he gave the people this story: A man made a vine-garden and gave the use of it to some field-workers and went into another country for a long time.

And while he was doing so, he went from them and was taken up into heaven.

But when the workmen saw the son, they said among themselves, This is he who will one day be the owner of the property; come, let us put him to death and take his heritage.

And he gave them teaching in the form of stories. A man had a vine-garden planted, and put a wall about it, and made a place for crushing out the wine, and put up a tower, and let it out to field-workers, and went into another country.

So then the Lord Jesus, after he had said these words to them, was taken up into heaven and took his seat at the right hand of God.

And when he had said these things, while they were looking, he was taken up, and went from their view into a cloud.

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And Jesus came to them and said, All authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth.

Then Pilate said to him, Are you then a king? Jesus made answer, You say that I am a king. For this purpose was I given birth, and for this purpose I came into the world, that I might give witness to what is true. Every lover of what is true gives ear to my voice.

For his rule will go on till he has put all those who are against him under his feet.

By which he made Christ come back from the dead, and gave him a place at his right hand in heaven,

For this reason God has put him in the highest place and has given to him the name which is greater than every name;

Who has gone into heaven, and is at the right hand of God, angels and authorities and powers having been put under his rule.

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And said, O men of Galilee, why are you looking up into heaven? This Jesus, who was taken from you into heaven, will come again, in the same way as you saw him go into heaven.

Because a day has been fixed in which all the world will be judged in righteousness by the man who has been marked out by him for this work; of which he has given a sign to all men by giving him back from the dead.

So Christ, having at his first coming taken on himself the sins of men, will be seen a second time, without sin, by those who are waiting for him, for their salvation.

See, he comes with the clouds, and every eye will see him, and those by whom he was wounded; and all the tribes of the earth will be sorrowing because of him. Yes, so be it.