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And there came also tax-gatherers to be baptised, and they said unto him, 'Teacher, what shall we do?'

Then having let away the multitudes, Jesus came to the house, and his disciples came near to him, saying, 'Explain to us the simile of the darnel of the field.'

And when he was alone, those about him, with the twelve, did ask him of the simile,

And when he entered into a house from the multitude, his disciples were questioning him about the simile,

And they were questioning him, saying, that the scribes say that Elijah it behoveth to come first.

And he having come into the house, his disciples were questioning him by himself -- 'Why were we not able to cast it forth?'

And in the house again his disciples of the same thing questioned him,

Tell us when these things shall be? and what is the sign when all these may be about to be fulfilled?'

And it came to pass, in his being in a certain place praying, as he ceased, a certain one of his disciples said unto him, 'Sir, teach us to pray, as also John taught his disciples.'

And a certain ruler questioned him, saying, 'Good teacher, what having done -- shall I inherit life age-during?'

They said therefore unto him, 'What may we do that we may work the works of God?'


When, therefore, they dined, Jesus saith to Simon Peter, 'Simon, son of Jonas, dost thou love me more than these?' he saith to him, 'Yes, Lord; thou hast known that I dearly love thee;' he saith to him, 'Feed my lambs.'


'Only, take heed to thyself, and watch thy soul exceedingly, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes have seen, and lest they turn aside from thy heart, all days of thy life; and thou hast made them known to thy sons, and to thy sons' sons.



and their sons, who have not known, do hear, and have learned to fear Jehovah your God all the days which ye are living on the ground whither ye are passing over the Jordan to possess it.'

And He raiseth up a testimony in Jacob, And a law hath placed in Israel, That He commanded our fathers, To make them known to their sons.

By whom doth He teach knowledge? And by whom doth He cause to understand the report? The weaned from milk, the removed from breasts,





and to teach the sons of Israel all the statutes which Jehovah hath spoken unto them by the hand of Moses.'


'And My people they direct between holy and common, and between unclean and clean they cause them to discern.



and they are mocking at the messengers of God, and despising His words, and acting deceitfully with His prophets, till the going up of the fury of Jehovah against His people -- till there is no healing.



And the runners are passing over from city to city, in the land of Ephraim and Manasseh, even unto Zebulun: and they are laughing at them, and mocking at them,




there hath not been a thing of all that Moses commanded which Joshua hath not proclaimed before all the assembly of Israel, and the women, and the infants, and the sojourner who is going in their midst.


and Jehoash doth that which is right in the eyes of Jehovah all his days in which Jehoiada the priest directed him,




And instruct him for judgment doth his God, He doth direct him.


For thus hath Jehovah spoken unto me with strength of hand, and instructeth me against walking in the way of this people, saying,


and you, the anointing that ye did receive from him, in you it doth remain, and ye have no need that any one may teach you, but as the same anointing doth teach you concerning all, and is true, and is not a lie, and even as was taught you, ye shall remain in him.



'And Thy good Spirit Thou hast given, to cause them to act wisely; and Thy manna Thou hast not withheld from their mouth, and water Thou hast given to them for their thirst,

See, I have taught you statutes and judgments, as Jehovah my God hath commanded me -- to do so, in the midst of the land whither ye are going in to possess it;


it is having been written in the prophets, And they shall be all taught of God; every one therefore who heard from the Father, and learned, cometh to me;

And we the spirit of the world did not receive, but the Spirit that is of God, that we may know the things conferred by God on us,


if so be ye did hear him, and in him were taught, as truth is in Jesus;







treasuring up to themselves a right foundation for the time to come, that they may lay hold on the life age-during.

'Again, the reign of the heavens is like to treasure hid in the field, which a man having found did hide, and from his joy goeth, and all, as much as he hath, he selleth, and buyeth that field.

but treasure up to yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth disfigure, and where thieves do not break through nor steal,