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This is how it will be at the end of the age. The angels will come and separate the wicked from the righteous
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and throw them into the blazing furnace, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
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“Have you understood all these things?” Jesus asked. “Yes,” they replied.
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He said to them, “Therefore every teacher of the law who has become a disciple in the kingdom of heaven is like the owner of a house who brings out of his storeroom new treasures as well as old.”
A Prophet Without Honor
53 When Jesus had finished these parables, he moved on from there.
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Coming to his hometown, he began teaching the people in their synagogue, and they were amazed. “Where did this man get this wisdom and these miraculous powers?” they asked.
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“Isn’t this the carpenter’s son? Isn’t his mother’s name Mary, and aren’t his brothers James, Joseph, Simon and Judas?
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Aren’t all his sisters with us? Where then did this man get all these things?”
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And they took offense at him. But Jesus said to them, “A prophet is not without honor except in his own town and in his own home.”
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And he did not do many miracles there because of their lack of faith.