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And some tax collectors also came to be baptized, and they said to him, “Teacher, what shall we do?”

Then He left the crowds and went into the house. And His disciples came to Him and said, “Explain to us the parable of the tares of the field.”

As soon as He was alone, His followers, along with the twelve, began asking Him about the parables.

When he had left the crowd and entered the house, His disciples questioned Him about the parable.

They asked Him, saying, “Why is it that the scribes say that Elijah must come first?”

When He came into the house, His disciples began questioning Him privately, “Why could we not drive it out?”

In the house the disciples began questioning Him about this again.

“Tell us, when will these things be, and what will be the sign when all these things are going to be fulfilled?”

It happened that while Jesus was praying in a certain place, after He had finished, one of His disciples said to Him, “Lord, teach us to pray just as John also taught his disciples.”

A ruler questioned Him, saying, “Good Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?”

Therefore they said to Him, “What shall we do, so that we may work the works of God?”


So when they had finished breakfast, Jesus *said to Simon Peter, “Simon, son of John, do you love Me more than these?” He *said to Him, “Yes, Lord; You know that I love You.” He *said to him, “Tend My lambs.”


“Only give heed to yourself and keep your soul diligently, so that you do not forget the things which your eyes have seen and they do not depart from your heart all the days of your life; but make them known to your sons and your grandsons.



Their children, who have not known, will hear and learn to fear the Lord your God, as long as you live on the land which you are about to cross the Jordan to possess.”

For He established a testimony in Jacob
And appointed a law in Israel,
Which He commanded our fathers
That they should teach them to their children,

“To whom would He teach knowledge,
And to whom would He interpret the message?
Those just weaned from milk?
Those just taken from the breast?





and so as to teach the sons of Israel all the statutes which the Lord has spoken to them through Moses.”

That the generation to come might know, even the children yet to be born,
That they may arise and tell them to their children,

Moreover, they shall teach My people the difference between the holy and the profane, and cause them to discern between the unclean and the clean.



but they continually mocked the messengers of God, despised His words and scoffed at His prophets, until the wrath of the Lord arose against His people, until there was no remedy.


“How long, O naive ones, will you love being simple-minded?
And scoffers delight themselves in scoffing
And fools hate knowledge?

So the couriers passed from city to city through the country of Ephraim and Manasseh, and as far as Zebulun, but they laughed them to scorn and mocked them.




There was not a word of all that Moses had commanded which Joshua did not read before all the assembly of Israel with the women and the little ones and the strangers who were living among them.


Jehoash did right in the sight of the Lord all his days in which Jehoiada the priest instructed him.





O God, You have taught me from my youth,
And I still declare Your wondrous deeds.

For thus the Lord spoke to me with mighty power and instructed me not to walk in the way of this people, saying,


As for you, the anointing which you received from Him abides in you, and you have no need for anyone to teach you; but as His anointing teaches you about all things, and is true and is not a lie, and just as it has taught you, you abide in Him.




“See, I have taught you statutes and judgments just as the Lord my God commanded me, that you should do thus in the land where you are entering to possess it.


It is written in the prophets, ‘And they shall all be taught of God.’ Everyone who has heard and learned from the Father, comes to Me.

Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, so that we may know the things freely given to us by God,


if indeed you have heard Him and have been taught in Him, just as truth is in Jesus,




I advise you to buy from Me gold refined by fire so that you may become rich, and white garments so that you may clothe yourself, and that the shame of your nakedness will not be revealed; and eye salve to anoint your eyes so that you may see.



storing up for themselves the treasure of a good foundation for the future, so that they may take hold of that which is life indeed.

The kingdom of heaven is like a treasure hidden in the field, which a man found and hid again; and from joy over it he goes and sells all that he has and buys that field.

But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys, and where thieves do not break in or steal;



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