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PARABLE OF THE TALENTS.

veredst unto me five talents: behold, I have gained beside them five talents more. His lord said unto him, Well 'done, thou good and faithful servant : "thou hast been faithful over a few "things, I will make thee ruler over many "things: enter thou into the joy of thy "lord. He also that had received two "talents came and said, Lord, thou de"liveredst unto me two talents: behold, "I have gained two other talents beside "them. His lord said unto him, Well done, good and faithful servant: thou "hast been faithful over a few things, I "will make thee ruler over many things:

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enter thou into the joy of thy lord. "Then he which had received the one "talent came and said, Lord, I knew "thee that thou art an hard man, reap

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ing where thou hast not sown, and

gathering where thou hast not strawed: "and I was afraid, and went and hid "thy talent in the earth: lo, there thou "hast that is thine. His lord answered "and said unto him, Thou wicked and 'slothful servant, thou knewest that I "reap where I sowed not, and gather "where I have not strawed: thou ought

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est therefore to have put my money to "the exchangers, and then at my coming "I should have received mine own with

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usury. Take therefore the talent from 'him, and give it unto him which hath 66 ten talents. For unto every one that hath shall be given, and he shall have abundance: but from him that hath not shall be taken away even that "which he hath. And cast ye the un"profitable servant into outer darkness: "there shall be weeping and gnashing 66 of teeth.

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"When the Son of man shall come "in his glory, and all the holy angels

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Iwith him, then shall he sit upon the "throne of his glory: and before him. "shall be gathered all nations: and he "shall separate them one from another, "as a shepherd divideth his sheep from "the goats: and he shall set the sheep "on his right hand, but the goats on "the left. Then shall the King say 'unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the "foundation of the world: for I was an "hungered, and ye gave me meat: I was

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'thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was

a stranger, and ye took me in: naked, " and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye "visited me: I was in prison, and ye 66 came unto me. Then shall the right

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JESUS PREDICTS THE LAST JUDGMENT.

saw we thee an hungered, and fed "thee? or thirsty, and gave thee drink? "When saw we thee a stranger, and "took thee in? or naked, and clothed "thee? Or when saw we thee sick, or "in prison, and came unto thee? And "the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch

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as ye have done it unto one of the "least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me. Then shall he say 'also unto them on the left hand, De"part from me, ye cursed, into everlast"ing fire, prepared for the devil and his angels: for I was an hungered, and ye gave me no meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink: I was a stranger, 66 and ye took me not in: naked, and ye "clothed me not: sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not. Then shall

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they also answer him, saying, Lord, "when saw we thee an hungered, or "athirst, or a stranger, or naked, or "sick, or in prison, and did not minister ' unto thee? Then shall he answer "them, saying, Verily I say unto you, "Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of "the least of these, ye did it not to me. "And these shall go away into everlast"ing punishment: but the righteous "into life eternal."

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And in the day time he was teaching in the temple; and at night he went out, and abode in the mount that is called the mount of Olives. And all the people came early in the morning to him in the temple, for to hear him.

Now the feast of unleavened bread drew nigh which is called the passover.

71Mt.xxvi.1-4. "And it came to pass, when Jesus had finished all these sayings, he said unto his disciples, "Ye know that after two

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days is the feast of the passover; and "the Son of man is betrayed to be "crucified."

Then assembled together the chief priests, and the scribes, and the elders of the people, unto the palace of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas, and consulted that they might take Jesus 72Lk. xxii.2. by subtilty; and "sought how they might kill him; for they feared the peo73But they said, Not on the feast day, lest there be an uproar among the people.

73 Mat. xxvi. 5. ple.

74Lk. xxii. 3,4.

74Then entered Satan into Judas surnamed Iscariot, being of the number of the twelve. And he went his way, and communed with the chief priests and captains, how he might betray him unto

75 Mt. xxvi. 15. them; and said unto them, What will ye give me, and I will deliver him unto

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you? And when they heard it, they 7Mk. xiv. 11. were glad, "and covenanted "with him "Luke xxii. 5. "to give him "thirty pieces of silver:

and he promised; "and from that time "Luke xxii. 6. he sought how he might conveniently 79Mt. xxvi. 16. betray him 78unto them in the absence

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