And when Jesus saw that he gave a wise answer, he said to him, You are not far from the kingdom of God. And every man after that was in fear of questioning him any more.
Who take away the property of widows, and before the eyes of men make long prayers; these will be judged more hardly.
And he made his disciples come to him, and said to them, Truly I say to you, This poor widow has put in more than all those who are putting money into the box:
Truly I say to you, I will take no more of the fruit of the vine till the day when I take it new in the kingdom of God.
We might have got more than three hundred pence for it, and given the money to the poor. And they said things against her among themselves.
And the high priest, violently parting his robes, said, What more need have we of witnesses?
But Jesus gave no more answers, so that Pilate was full of wonder.
And he said to them, Take care what you give ear to: in the same measure as you give you will get, and more will be given to you.
And he gave them orders not to give news of it to anyone; but the more he made this request, so much the more they made it public.
It is enough for the disciple that he may be as his master, and the servant as his lord. If they have given the name Beelzebub to the master of the house, how much more to those of his house!
Then have no fear; you are of more value than a flock of sparrows.
He who has more love for his father or mother than for me is not good enough for me; he who has more love for son or daughter than for me is not good enough for me.
But why did you go out? to see a prophet? Yes, I say to you, and more than a prophet.
Of how much more value is a man than a sheep! For this reason it is right to do good on the Sabbath day.
Because whoever has, to him will be given, and he will have more; but from him who has not, even what he has will be taken away.
And if he comes across it, truly I say to you, he has more joy over it than over the ninety-nine which have not gone out of the way.
But if he will not give ear to you, take with you one or two more, that by the lips of two or three witnesses every word may be made certain.
The young man says to him, All these things have I done: what more is there?
Then those who came first had the idea that they would get more; and they, like the rest, were given a penny.
Again, he sent other servants more in number than the first: and they did the same to them.
And no one was able to give him an answer, and so great was their fear of him, that from that day no one put any more questions to him.
A curse is on you, scribes and Pharisees, false ones! for you make men give a tenth of all sorts of sweet-smelling plants, but you give no thought to the more important things of the law, righteousness, and mercy, and faith; but it is right for you to do these, and not to let the others be undone.
Straight away he who had been given the five talents went and did trade with them, and made five more.
In the same way he who had been given the two got two more.
And he who had the five talents came with his other five talents, saying, Lord, you gave into my care five talents: see, I have got five more.
And he who had the two talents came and said, Lord, you gave into my care two talents: see, I have got two more.
For to everyone who has will be given, and he will have more: but from him who has not, even what he has will be taken away.
Then the high priest, violently parting his robes, said, He has said evil against God: what more need have we of witnesses? for now his words against God have come to your ears:
They gave him wine mixed with bitter drink: and after tasting it, he took no more.
But let your words be simply, Yes or No: and whatever is more than these is of the Evil One.
And if you say, Good day, to your brothers only, what do you do more than others? do not even the Gentiles the same?
So I say to you, Take no thought for your life, about food or drink, or about clothing for your body. Is not life more than food, and the body more than its clothing?
See the birds of heaven; they do not put seeds in the earth, they do not get in grain, or put it in store-houses; and your Father in heaven gives them food. Are you not of much more value than they?
But if God gives such clothing to the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is put into the oven, will he not much more give you clothing, O you of little faith?
If you, then, being evil, are able to give good things to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good things to those who make requests to him?
And men do not put new wine into old wine-skins; or the skins will be burst and the wine will come out, and the skins are of no more use: but they put new wine into new wine-skins, and so the two will be safe.
I will put an end to your use of secret arts, and you will have no more readers of signs:
The Lord has given an order about you, that no more of your name are to be planted: from the house of your gods I will have the pictured and metal images cut off; I will make your last resting-place a place of shame; for you are completely evil.
Everything has been taken from her, all is gone, she has nothing more: the heart is turned to water, the knees are shaking, all are twisted in pain, and colour has gone from all faces.
Let your traders be increased more than the stars of heaven:
Did not your fathers do the same, and did not our God send all this evil on us and on this town? but you are causing more wrath to come on Israel by not keeping the Sabbath holy.
And more than this, a hundred and fifty of the Jews and the rulers were guests at my table, in addition to those who came to us from the nations round about us.
And I said, What you are doing is not good: is it not the more necessary for you to go in the fear of our God, because of the shame which the nations may put on us?
Now when word was given to Sanballat and Tobiah and to Geshem the Arabian and to the rest of our haters, that I had done the building of the wall and that there were no more broken places in it (though even then I had not put up the doors in the doorways);
I made my brother Hanani, and Hananiah, the ruler of the tower, responsible for the government of Jerusalem: for he was a man of good faith, fearing God more than most.
I am not able by myself to take the weight of all this people, for it is more than my strength.
Now the man Moses was more gentle than any other man on earth.
And they gave the children of Israel a bad account of the land they had been to see, saying, This land through which we went is a land causing destruction to those living in it; and all the people we saw there are men of more than common size.
There we saw those great men, the sons of Anak, offspring of the Nephilim: and we seemed to ourselves no more than insects, and so we seemed to them.
And more than this, you have not taken us into a land flowing with milk and honey, or given us a heritage of fields and vine-gardens: will you put out the eyes of these men? We will not come up.
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