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`And that servant, who having known his lord's will, and not having prepared, nor having gone according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes,
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and he who, not having known, and having done things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few; and to every one to whom much was given, much shall be required from him; and to whom they did commit much, more abundantly they will ask of him.
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`Fire I came to cast to the earth, and what will I if already it was kindled?
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but I have a baptism to be baptized with, and how am I pressed till it may be completed!
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`Think ye that peace I came to give in the earth? no, I say to you, but rather division;
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for there shall be henceforth five in one house divided -- three against two, and two against three;
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a father shall be divided against a son, and a son against a father, a mother against a daughter, and a daughter against a mother, a mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.'
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And he said also to the multitudes, `When ye may see the cloud rising from the west, immediately ye say, A shower doth come, and it is so;
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and when -- a south wind blowing, ye say, that there will be heat, and it is;
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hypocrites! the face of the earth and of the heaven ye have known to make proof of, but this time -- how do ye not make proof of [it]?
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`And why, also, of yourselves, judge ye not what is righteous?