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I tell you the truth, the master will choose that servant to take care of everything he owns.
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But suppose the servant thinks to himself, 'My master will not come back soon,' and he begins to beat the other servants, men and women, and to eat and drink and get drunk.
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The master will come when that servant is not ready and is not expecting him. Then the master will cut him in pieces and send him away to be with the others who don't obey.
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"The servant who knows what his master wants but is not ready, or who does not do what the master wants, will be beaten with many blows!
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But the servant who does not know what his master wants and does things that should be punished will be beaten with few blows. From everyone who has been given much, much will be demanded. And from the one trusted with much, much more will be expected.
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"I came to set fire to the world, and I wish it were already burning!
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I have a baptismn to suffer through, and I feel very troubled until it is over.
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Do you think I came to give peace to the earth? No, I tell you, I came to divide it.
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From now on, a family with five people will be divided, three against two, and two against three.
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They will be divided: father against son and son against father, mother against daughter and daughter against mother, mother-in-law against daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law against mother-in-law."
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Then Jesus said to the people, "When you see clouds coming up in the west, you say, 'It's going to rain,' and it happens.