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And he began to speak unto them by parables. A certain man planted a vineyard, and set an hedge about it, and digged a place for the winefat, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a far country.
Fear and dread shall fall upon them; by the greatness of thine arm they shall be as still as a stone; till thy people pass over, O LORD, till the people pass over, which thou hast purchased.
Wherefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel, Because ye despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and stay thereon:
Saying, The scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses' seat:
Why doth this man thus speak blasphemies? who can forgive sins but God only?
On this side Jordan, in the land of Moab, began Moses to declare this law, saying,
Nevertheless my brethren that went up with me made the heart of the people melt: but I wholly followed the LORD my God.
Either a bullock or a lamb that hath any thing superfluous or lacking in his parts, that mayest thou offer for a freewill offering; but for a vow it shall not be accepted.
Then said Eliakim and Shebna and Joah unto Rabshakeh, Speak, I pray thee, unto thy servants in the Syrian language; for we understand it: and speak not to us in the Jews' language, in the ears of the people that are on the wall.
Then the deputy, when he saw what was done, believed, being astonished at the doctrine of the Lord.
And needed not that any should testify of man: for he knew what was in man.
The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel;
Every one that is proud in heart is an abomination to the LORD: though hand join in hand, he shall not be unpunished.
Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall ye diminish ought from it, that ye may keep the commandments of the LORD your God which I command you.
Behold, my servants shall sing for joy of heart, but ye shall cry for sorrow of heart, and shall howl for vexation of spirit.
Knowest thou not this of old, since man was placed upon earth,
And Jacob their father said unto them, Me have ye bereaved of my children: Joseph is not, and Simeon is not, and ye will take Benjamin away: all these things are against me.
But when Jacob heard that there was corn in Egypt, he sent out our fathers first.
He hath made the earth by his power, he hath established the world by his wisdom, and hath stretched out the heavens by his discretion.
Then they cried out with a loud voice, and stopped their ears, and ran upon him with one accord,
For they prophesy falsely unto you in my name: I have not sent them, saith the LORD.
Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie; behold, I will make them to come and worship before thy feet, and to know that I have loved thee.
And his sisters, are they not all with us? Whence then hath this man all these things?
But so much the more went there a fame abroad of him: and great multitudes came together to hear, and to be healed by him of their infirmities.
