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and I appoint to you, as my Father did appoint to me, a kingdom,
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that ye may eat and may drink at my table, in my kingdom, and may sit on thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.'
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And the Lord said, `Simon, Simon, lo, the Adversary did ask you for himself to sift as the wheat,
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and I besought for thee, that thy faith may not fail; and thou, when thou didst turn, strengthen thy brethren.'
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And he said to him, `Sir, with thee I am ready both to prison and to death to go;'
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and he said, `I say to thee, Peter, a cock shall not crow to-day, before thrice thou mayest disown knowing me.'
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And he said to them, `When I sent you without bag, and scrip, and sandals, did ye lack anything?' and they said, `Nothing.'
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Then said he to them, `But, now, he who is having a bag, let him take [it] up, and in like manner also a scrip; and he who is not having, let him sell his garment, and buy a sword,
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for I say to you, that yet this that hath been written it behoveth to be fulfilled in me: And with lawless ones he was reckoned, for also the things concerning me have an end.'
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And they said, `Sir, lo, here [are] two swords;' and he said to them, `It is sufficient.'
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And having gone forth, he went on, according to custom, to the mount of the Olives, and his disciples also followed him,