Matthew:17

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* And one said to him , Lord , are there few who are saved ? And he said to them , * Strive to enter in by the narrow door : for many , I say to you (note :){+}(:note ), will seek to enter in , and will not be able . * When once the master of the house has risen up , and has shut to the door , and you (note :){+}(:note ) begin to stand outside , and to knock at the door , saying , Lord , Lord , open to us ; and he will answer and say to you {+}, I don 't know you {+} or where you {+} are from . * Then you (note :){+}(:note ) will begin to say , We ate and drank in your presence , and you taught in our streets ; * and he will speak , saying to you (note :){+}(:note ), I don 't know you {+} or where you {+} are from ; depart from me , all you {+} workers of iniquity . * Not everyone who says to me , Lord , Lord , will enter into the kingdom of heaven ; but he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven . * Everyone therefore that hears these words of mine , and does them , will be likened to a wise man , who built his house on the rock : * and the rain descended , and the floods came , and the winds blew , and beat on that house ; and it did not fall : for it was founded on the rock . * And everyone who hears these words of mine , and does not do them , will be likened to a foolish man , who built his house on the sand : * and the rain descended , and the floods came , and the winds blew , and struck against that house ; and it fell : and great was its fall . * And I say to you (note :){+}(:note ), that many will come from the east and the west , and will sit down with Abraham , and Isaac , and Jacob , in the kingdom of heaven : * but the sons of the kingdom will be cast forth into the outer darkness : there will be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth . * In that very hour there came certain Pharisees , saying to him , Get out , and go from here : for Herod wants to kill you . * And he said to them , Go and say to that fox , Look , I cast out demons and perform cures today and tomorrow , and the third [day ] I am perfected . * Nevertheless I must go on my way today and tomorrow and the [day ] following : for it cannot be that a prophet perishes out of Jerusalem . * O Jerusalem , Jerusalem , that kills the prophets , and stones those who are sent to her ! How often I wanted to gather your children together , even as a hen gathers her chickens under her wings , and you (note :){+}(:note ) did not want [to ]! * Look , your (note :){+}(:note ) house is left to you {+}. * For I say to you (note :){+}(:note ), You {+} will not see me from now on , until you {+} will say , Blessed [is ] he who comes in the name of Yahweh . * And it came to pass , when he went into the house of one of the rulers of the Pharisees on a Sabbath to eat bread , that they were watching him . * And look , there was before him a certain man who had the dropsy . * And Jesus answering spoke to the lawyers and Pharisees , saying , Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath , or not ? * But they held their peace . And he took him , and healed him , and let him go . * And he said to them , What man will there be of you (note :){+}(:note ), that will have one sheep , and if this falls into a pit on the Sabbath day , will he not lay hold on it , and lift it out ? * And they could not answer again to these things . * And he spoke a parable to those who were invited , when he marked how they chose out the chief seats ; saying to them , * When you are invited of any man to a marriage feast , don 't sit down in the chief seat ; lest perhaps a more honorable man than you be invited of him , * and he who invited you and him will come and say to you , Give this man place ; and then you will begin with shame to take the lowest place . * But when you are invited , go and sit down in the lowest place ; that when he who has invited you comes , he may say to you , Friend , go up higher : then you will have glory in the presence of all who sit at meat with you . * For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled ; and he who humbles himself will be exalted . * And he said to him also that had invited him , When you make a dinner or a supper , do not call your friends , nor your brothers , nor your kinsmen , nor rich neighbors ; lest perhaps they also bid you again , and a recompense be made you . * But when you make a feast , bid the poor , the maimed , the lame , the blind : * and you will be blessed ; because they don 't have [the means ] to recompense you : for you will be recompensed in the resurrection of the just . * And when one of those who sat to eat with him heard these things , he said to him , Blessed is he who will eat bread in the kingdom of God . * But he said to him , A certain man made a great supper ; and he invited many : * and he sent forth his slave at supper time to say to those who were invited , Come ; for [all ] things are now ready . * And they all with one [consent ] began to make excuses . The first said to him , I have bought a field , and I must surely go out and see it ; I pray you have me excused . * And another said , I have bought five yoke of oxen , and I go to prove them ; I pray you have me excused . * And another said , I have married a wife , and therefore I can 't come . * And the slave came , and told his lord these things . Then the master of the house being angry said to his slave , Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city , and bring in here the poor and maimed and blind and lame . * And the slave said , Lord , what you commanded is done , and yet there is room . * And the lord said to the slave , Go out into the highways and hedges , and constrain [them ] to come in , that my house may be filled . * For I say to you (note :){+}(:note ), that none of those men who were invited will taste of my supper .

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