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When the Seventy returned, they exclaimed joyfully, "Master, even the demons submit to us when we utter your name."
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"I saw Satan fall like a lightning-flash out of Heaven," He replied.
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"I have given you power to tread serpents and scorpions underfoot, and to trample on all the power of the Enemy; and in no case shall anything do you harm.
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Nevertheless rejoice not at this, that the spirits submit to you; but rejoice that your names are registered in Heaven."
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On that same occasion Jesus was filled by the Holy Spirit with rapturous joy. "I give Thee fervent thanks," He exclaimed, "O Father, Lord of Heaven and earth, that Thou hast hidden these things from sages and men of understanding, and hast revealed them to babes. Yes, Father, for such has been Thy gracious will.
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All things are delivered to me by my Father; and no one knows who the Son is but the Father, nor who the Father is but the Son, and he to whom the Son may choose to reveal Him."
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And He turned towards His disciples and said to them apart, "Blessed are the eyes which see what you see!
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For I tell you that many Prophets and kings have desired to see the things you see, and have not seen them, and to hear the things you hear, and have not heard them."
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Then an expounder of the Law stood up to test Him with a question. "Rabbi," he asked, "what shall I do to inherit the Life of the Ages?"
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"Go to the Law," said Jesus; "what is written there? how does it read?"
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"`Thou shalt love the Lord thy God,'" he replied, "`with thy whole heart, thy whole soul, thy whole strength, and thy whole mind; and thy fellow man as much as thyself.'"