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And he said to them, `Because of this every scribe having been discipled in regard to the reign of the heavens, is like to a man, a householder, who doth bring forth out of his treasure things new and old.'
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And it came to pass, when Jesus finished these similes, he removed thence,
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and having come to his own country, he was teaching them in their synagogue, so that they were astonished, and were saying, `Whence to this one this wisdom and the mighty works?
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is not this the carpenter's son? is not his mother called Mary, and his brethren James, and Joses, and Simon, and Judas?
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and his sisters -- are they not all with us? whence, then, to this one all these?'
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and they were stumbled at him. And Jesus said to them, `A prophet is not without honor except in his own country, and in his own house:'
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and he did not there many mighty works, because of their unbelief.