And those slaves went out into the streets and gathered all they found, both bad and good, and the wedding hall was filled with guests.

Therefore pay attention to what they tell you and do it. But do not do what they do, for they do not practice what they teach.<n id="1" />

They<n id="1" /> do all their deeds to be seen by people, for they make their phylacteries<n id="2" /> wide and their tassels<n id="3" /> long.

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;Woe to you, experts in the law<n id="1" /> and you Pharisees, hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs that look beautiful on the outside but inside are full of the bones of the dead and of everything unclean.<n id="2" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">&#8220;Then they will hand you over to be persecuted and will kill you. You will be hated by all the nations<n id="1" /> because of my name.<n id="2" />

And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached throughout the whole inhabited earth as a testimony to all the nations,<n id="1" /> and then the end will come.p>

And if those days had not been cut short, no one would be saved. But for the sake of the elect those days will be cut short.

For the one who has will be given more,<n id="1" /> and he will have more than enough. But the one who does not have, even what he has will be taken from him.<n id="2" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">&#8220;When<n id="1" /> the Son of Man comes in his glory and all the angels with him, then he will sit on his glorious throne.

All<n id="1" /> the nations will be assembled before him, and he will separate people one from another like a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats.

Peter said to him, &#8220;Even if I must die with you, I will never deny you.&#8221; And all the disciples said the same thing.p>

Then Jesus said to him, &#8220;Put your sword back in its place!<n id="1" /> For all who take hold of the sword will die by the sword.

But this has happened so that<n id="1" /> the scriptures of the prophets would be fulfilled.&#8221; Then all the disciples left him and fled.p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">When<n id="1" /> it was early in the morning, all the chief priests and the elders of the people plotted against Jesus to execute him.

Then Jesus came up and said to them,<n id="1" /> &#8220;All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.

Therefore go<n id="1" /> and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit,<n id="2" />

<p class="bodytext">When Herod<n id="1" /> saw that he had been tricked by the wise men, he became enraged. He sent men<n id="2" /> to kill all the children in Bethlehem<n id="3" /> and throughout the surrounding region from the age of two and under, according to the time he had learned from the wise men.

<p class="bodytext">So all the generations from Abraham to David are fourteen generations, and from David to the deportation to Babylon, fourteen generations, and from the deportation to Babylon to Christ,<n id="1" /> fourteen generations.p>

So a report about him spread throughout Syria. People<n id="1" /> brought to him all who suffered with various illnesses and afflictions, those who had seizures,<n id="2" /> paralytics, and those possessed by demons,<n id="3" /> and he healed them.

I<n id="1" /> tell you the truth,<n id="2" /> until heaven and earth pass away not the smallest letter or stroke of a letter<n id="3" /> will pass from the law until everything takes place.