“A voice was heard in Ramah,
Weeping and great mourning,
Rachel weeping for her children;
She refused to be comforted,
Because they were no more.”

But let your statement be, ‘Yes, yes’ or ‘No, no’ [a firm yes or no]; anything more than that comes from the evil one.

Observe intently, the birds of the heaven, - that they neither sow, nor reap, nor gather into barns, and yet, your heavenly Father, feedeth, them: Are no, ye, much better than, they?

And where no one will welcome you, or listen to you, leave that house or town and shake off its very dust from your feet.

and said, 'For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two of them shall become one'? So they are no longer two but one.

Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.

tell us therefore, what is your opinion? is it lawful to pay tribute to Cesar, or no?

For when they come back from the dead there are no husbands and wives, but they are as the angels in heaven.

And if those days had not been as short as they were no one would have been saved [i.e., from the devastating destruction]. But for the sake of the elect [i.e., God's people], those days will be short.