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You however have remained with me amid my trials;
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and I covenant to give you, as my Father has covenanted to give me, a Kingdom--
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so that you shall eat and drink at my table in my Kingdom, and sit on thrones as judges over the twelve tribes of Israel.
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"Simon, Simon, I tell you that Satan has obtained permission to have all of you to sift as wheat is sifted.
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But *I* have prayed for *you* that your faith may not fail, and you, when at last you have come back to your true self, must strengthen your brethren."
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"Master," replied Peter, "with you I am ready to go both to prison and to death."
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"I tell you, Peter," said Jesus, "that the cock will not crow to-day till you have three times denied that you know me."
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Then He asked them, "When I sent you out without purse or bag or shoes, was there anything you needed?" "No, nothing," they replied.
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"But now," said He, "let the one who has a purse take it, and he who has a bag must do the same. And let him who has no sword sell his outer garment and buy one.
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For I tell you that those words of Scripture must yet find their fulfilment in me: `And He was reckoned among the lawless'; for indeed that saying about me has its accomplishment."
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"Master, here are two swords," they exclaimed. "That is enough," He replied.