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"Again the Kingdom of the Heavens is like a draw-net let down into the sea, which encloses fish of all sorts.
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When full, they haul it up on the beach, and sit down and collect the good fish in baskets, while the worthless they throw away.
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So will it be at the Close of the Age. The angels will go forth and separate the wicked from among the righteous,
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and will throw them into the fiery furnace. There will be the weeping aloud and the gnashing of teeth."
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"Have you understood all this?" He asked. "Yes," they said.
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"Therefore," He said, "remember that every Scribe well trained for the Kingdom of the Heavens is like a householder who brings out of his storehouse new things and old."
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Jesus concluded this series of parables and then departed.
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And He came into His own country and proceeded to teach in their synagogue, so that they were filled with astonishment and exclaimed, "Where did he obtain such wisdom, and these wondrous powers?
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Is not this the carpenter's son? Is not his mother called Mary? And are not his brothers, James, Joseph, Simon and Judah?
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And his sisters--are they not all living here among us? Where then did he get all this?"
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So they turned angrily away from Him. But Jesus said to them, "There is no prophet left without honour except in his own country and among his own family."