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   him a stone? or if he ask a fish, will he for a fish give him a serpent?   
      
   12 Or if he shall ask an egg, will he offer him a scorpion?   
      
   13 If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your   
   children: how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit   
   to them that ask him?   
      
   14 And he was casting out a devil, and it was dumb. And it came to pass,   
   when the devil was gone out, the dumb spake; and the people wondered.   
      
   15 But some of them said, He casteth out devils through Beelzebub the   
   chief of the devils.   
      
   16 And others, tempting him, sought of him a sign from heaven.   
      
   17 But he, knowing their thoughts, said unto them, Every kingdom divided   
   against itself is brought to desolation; and a house divided against a   
   house falleth.   
      
   18 If Satan also be divided against himself, how shall his kingdom   
   stand? because ye say that I cast out devils through Beelzebub.   
      
   19 And if I by Beelzebub cast out devils, by whom do your sons cast them   
   out? therefore shall they be your judges.   
      
   20 But if I with the finger of God cast out devils, no doubt the kingdom   
   of God is come upon you.   
      
   21 When a strong man armed keepeth his palace, his goods are in peace:   
      
   22 But when a stronger than he shall come upon him, and overcome him, he   
   taketh from him all his armour wherein he trusted, and divideth his spoils.   
      
   23 He that is not with me is against me: and he that gathereth not with   
   me scattereth.   
      
   24 When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry   
   places, seeking rest; and finding none, he saith, I will return unto my   
   house whence I came out.   
      
   25 And when he cometh, he findeth it swept and garnished.   
      
   26 Then goeth he, and taketh to him seven other spirits more wicked than   
   himself; and they enter in, and dwell there: and the last state of that   
   man is worse than the first.   
      
   27 And it came to pass, as he spake these things, a certain woman of the   
   company lifted up her voice, and said unto him, Blessed is the womb that   
   bare thee, and the paps which thou hast sucked.   
      
   28 But he said, Yea rather, blessed are they that hear the word of God,   
   and keep it.   
      
   29 And when the people were gathered thick together, he began to say,   
   This is an evil generation: they seek a sign; and there shall no sign be   
   given it, but the sign of Jonas the prophet.   
      
   30 For as Jonas was a sign unto the Ninevites, so shall also the Son of   
   man be to this generation.   
      
   31 The queen of the south shall rise up in the judgment with the men of   
   this generation, and condemn them: for she came from the utmost parts of   
   the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and, behold, a greater than   
   Solomon is here.   
      
   32 The men of Nineve shall rise up in the judgment with this generation,   
   and shall condemn it: for they repented at the preaching of Jonas; and,   
   behold, a greater than Jonas is here.   
      
   33 No man, when he hath lighted a candle, putteth it in a secret place,   
   neither under a bushel, but on a candlestick, that they which come in   
   may see the light.   
      
   34 The light of the body is the eye: therefore when thine eye is single,   
   thy whole body also is full of light; but when thine eye is evil, thy   
   body also is full of darkness.   
      
   35 Take heed therefore that the light which is in thee be not darkness.   
      
   36 If thy whole body therefore be full of light, having no part dark,   
   the whole shall be full of light, as when the bright shining of a candle   
   doth give thee light.   
      
   37 And as he spake, a certain Pharisee besought him to dine with him:   
   and he went in, and sat down to meat.   
      
   38 And when the Pharisee saw it, he marvelled that he had not first   
   washed before dinner.   
      
   39 And the Lord said unto him, Now do ye Pharisees make clean the   
   outside of the cup and the platter; but your inward part is full of   
   ravening and wickedness.   
      
   40 Ye fools, did not he that made that which is without make that which   
   is within also?   
      
   41 But rather give alms of such things as ye have; and, behold, all   
   things are clean unto you.   
      
   42 But woe unto you, Pharisees! for ye tithe mint and rue and all manner   
   of herbs, and pass over judgment and the love of God: these ought ye to   
   have done, and not to leave the other undone.   
      
   43 Woe unto you, Pharisees! for ye love the uppermost seats in the   
   synagogues, and greetings in the markets.   
      
   44 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are as graves   
   which appear not, and the men that walk over them are not aware of them.   
      
   45 Then answered one of the lawyers, and said unto him, Master, thus   
   saying thou reproachest us also.   
      
   46 And he said, Woe unto you also, ye lawyers! for ye lade men with   
   burdens grievous to be borne, and ye yourselves touch not the burdens   
   with one of your fingers.   
      
   47 Woe unto you! for ye build the sepulchres of the prophets, and your   
   fathers killed them.   
      
   48 Truly ye bear witness that ye allow the deeds of your fathers: for   
   they indeed killed them, and ye build their sepulchres.   
      
   49 Therefore also said the wisdom of God, I will send them prophets and   
   apostles, and some of them they shall slay and persecute:   
      
   50 That the blood of all the prophets, which was shed from the   
   foundation of the world, may be required of this generation;   
      
   51 From the blood of Abel unto the blood of Zacharias, which perished   
   between the altar and the temple: verily I say unto you, It shall be   
   required of this generation.   
      
   52 Woe unto you, lawyers! for ye have taken away the key of knowledge:   
   ye entered not in yourselves, and them that were entering in ye hindered.   
      
   53 And as he said these things unto them, the scribes and the Pharisees   
   began to urge him vehemently, and to provoke him to speak of many things:   
      
   54 Laying wait for him, and seeking to catch something out of his mouth,   
   that they might accuse him.   
      
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