rather division:
(52)for henceforth five shall be in one house, divided, three against
two, and two against three. (53)The father shall take part against the
son, and the son against the father; the mother against the daughter,
and the daughter against the mother; the step-mother against her
daughter-in-law, and the son's wife against her mother-in-law.
(54)Then said he to the multitudes, When ye see a cloud rising from the
west, ye say immediately, There cometh a shower; and it is so. (55)And
when the south wind gently blows, ye say, It will be sultry hot; and so
it is. (56)Ye hypocrites! ye know how to discern by experience from the
appearance of the earth and of the sky; but how is it that ye do not
discern this particular time? (57)And why even of yourselves do ye not
decide what is just? (58)For as thou art going with thy prosecutor to
the magistrate, on the way endeavour to make up the matter with him;
lest he drag thee before the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the
officer, and the officer cast thee into prison. (59)I tell thee, thou
mayest in no wise come out from thence, until thou hast paid the very
last mite.
CHAP. XIII.
NOW there were some present at that time who informed him of the
Galileans, whose blood Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices. (2)And
Jesus in reply said to them, Think ye that these Galileans were sinners
above all the Galileans, because they suffered such things? (3)I tell
you, No: for except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish. (4)Or
those eighteen, on whom the tower in Siloam fell, and killed them,
think ye that they were debtors to divine justice above all the men who
dwell at Jerusalem? (5)I tell you, No: but except ye repent, ye shall
all likewise perish.
(6)Then he spake this parable: A certain man had a fig-tree planted in
his vineyard; and he came, expecting fruit on it, and found none.
(7)Then said he to the vine-dresser, Lo! for three years have I come,
expecting fruit on this fig-tree, and find none: cut it down; why doth
it render the ground thus useless? (8)He answering said to him, Sir,
let it e'en remain this year, until that I dig around it, and spread
some manure: (9)perhaps it may then produce fruit: but if it does not,
afterwards thou shalt cut it down.
(10)And he was teaching in one of the synagogues, on the sabbath.
(11)And, behold, there was a woman who had a spirit of infirmity
eighteen years, and was bowed together, and unable to raise herself
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