G1161–δέ–de

`And when they bring you before the synagogues, and the rulers, and the authorities, be not anxious how or what ye may reply, or what ye may say,

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And a certain one said to him, out of the multitude, `Teacher, say to my brother to divide with me the inheritance.'

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And he said to him, `Man, who set me a judge or a divider over you?'

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And he said unto them, `Observe, and beware of the covetousness, because not in the abundance of one's goods is his life.'

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And he spake a simile unto them, saying, `Of a certain rich man the field brought forth well;

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`And God said to him, Unthinking one! this night thy soul they shall require from thee, and what things thou didst prepare -- to whom shall they be?

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And he said unto his disciples, `Because of this, to you I say, Be not anxious for your life, what ye may eat; nor for the body, what ye may put on;

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and who of you, being anxious, is able to add to his age one cubit?

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`Consider the lilies, how do they grow? they labour not, nor do they spin, and I say to you, not even Solomon in all his glory was arrayed as one of these;

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and if the herbage in the field, that to-day is, and to-morrow into an oven is cast, God doth so clothe, how much more you -- ye of little faith?

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for all these things do the nations of the world seek after, and your Father hath known that ye have need of these things;

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`And this know, that if the master of the house had known what hour the thief doth come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken through;

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And Peter said to him, `Sir, unto us this simile dost thou speak, or also unto all?'

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And the Lord said, `Who, then, is the faithful and prudent steward whom the lord shall set over his household, to give in season the wheat measure?

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`And if that servant may say in his heart, My lord doth delay to come, and may begin to beat the men-servants and the maid-servants, to eat also, and to drink, and to be drunken;

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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.

δὲ de “however”δὲ de “however”δὲ de “now”

but I have a baptism to be baptized with, and how am I pressed till it may be completed!

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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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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?

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And there were present certain at that time, telling him about the Galileans, whose blood Pilate did mingle with their sacrifices;

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And he spake this simile: `A certain one had a fig-tree planted in his vineyard, and he came seeking fruit in it, and he did not find;

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and he said unto the vine-dresser, Lo, three years I come seeking fruit in this fig-tree, and do not find, cut it off, why also the ground doth it render useless?

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`And he answering saith to him, Sir, suffer it also this year, till that I may dig about it, and cast in dung;

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