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Then you will begin to say,
1‘We ate and drank in your presence, and you taught in our streets. ’
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But he will say, ‘I tell you,
2I do not know where you come from.
3Depart from me, all you workers of evil! ’
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4In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when you see
5Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets in the kingdom of God but
6you yourselves cast out.
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And
7people will come from east and west, and from north and south, and
8recline at table in the kingdom of God.
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And behold,
9some are last who will be first, and some are first who will be last. ”
Lament over Jerusalem
31 At that very hour some Pharisees came and said to him, “Get away from
10here, for
11Herod wants to kill you. ”
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And he said to them, “Go and tell that fox, ‘Behold, I cast out demons and perform cures today and tomorrow, and the third day
12I finish my course.
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Nevertheless,
13I
14must go on my way today and tomorrow and the day following, for it cannot be that
15a prophet should perish away from Jerusalem. ’
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16O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that
17kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to it!
18How often would I have
19gathered
20your children together
21as a hen gathers her brood
22under her wings, and
23you were not willing!
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Behold,
24your house is forsaken. And I tell you, you will not see me until you say,
25‘Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord! ’”