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1 And he spake a para­ble unto them ­to this end, that men ought al­ways to pray, and not to faint; 2 Say­ing, There was in a city a judge, which feared not God, nei­ther re­gard­ed man: 3 And there was a wid­ow in that city; and she came unto him, say­ing, Avenge me of mine ad­ver­sary. 4 And he would not for a while: but af­ter­ward he said with­in him­self, Though I fear not God, nor re­gard man; 5 Yet be­cause this wid­ow trou­bleth me, I will avenge her, lest by her con­tin­u­al com­ing she weary me. 6 And the Lord said, Hear what the un­just judge saith. 7 And shall not God avenge his own elect, which cry day and night unto him, though he bear long with them? 8 I tell you that he will avenge them speed­i­ly. Nev­er­the­less when the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth? 9 And he spake this para­ble unto cer­tain which trust­ed in them­selves that they were righ­teous, and de­spised oth­ers: 10 Two men went up into the tem­ple to pray; the one a Phar­isee, and the oth­er a pub­li­can. 11 The Phar­isee stood and prayed thus with him­self, God, I thank thee, that I am not as oth­er men are, ex­tor­tion­ers, un­just, adul­ter­ers, or even as this pub­li­can. 12 I fast twice in the week, I give tithes of all that I pos­sess. 13 And the pub­li­can, stand­ing afar off, would not lift up so much as his eyes unto heav­en, but smote upon his breast, say­ing, God be mer­ci­ful to me a sin­ner. 14 I tell you, this man went down to his house jus­ti­fied rather than the oth­er: for ev­ery one that ex­al­teth him­self shall be abased; and he that hum­bleth him­self shall be ex­alt­ed. 15 And they brought unto him also in­fants, that he would touch them: but when his dis­ci­ples saw it, they re­buked them. 16 But Je­sus called them un­to him, and said, Suf­fer lit­tle chil­dren to come unto me, and for­bid them not: for of such is the king­dom of God. 17 Ver­i­ly I say unto you, Whoso­ev­er shall not re­ceive the king­dom of God as a lit­tle child shall in no wise en­ter there­in. 18 And a cer­tain ruler asked him, say­ing, Good Mas­ter, what shall I do to in­her­it eter­nal life? 19 And Je­sus said unto him, Why callest thou me good? none is good, save one, that is, God. 20 Thou know­est the com­mand­ments, Do not com­mit adul­tery, Do not kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false wit­ness, Hon­our thy fa­ther and thy moth­er. 21 And he said, All these have I kept from my youth up. 22 Now when Je­sus heard these things, he said unto him, Yet lack­est thou one thing: sell all that thou hast, and dis­tribute unto the poor, and thou shalt have trea­sure in heav­en: and come, fol­low me. 23 And when he heard this, he was very sor­row­ful: for he was very rich. 24 And when Je­sus saw that he was very sor­row­ful, he said, How hard­ly shall they that have rich­es en­ter into the king­dom of God! 25 For it is eas­i­er for a camel to go through a needle's eye, than for a rich man to en­ter into the king­dom of God. 26 And they that heard it said, Who then can be saved? 27 And he said, The things which are im­pos­si­ble with men are pos­si­ble with God. 28 Then Pe­ter said, Lo, we have left all, and fol­lowed thee. 29 And he said unto them, Ver­i­ly I say unto you, There is no man that hath left house, or par­ents, or brethren, or wife, or chil­dren, for the king­dom of God's sake, 30 Who shall not re­ceive man­i­fold more in this pre­sent time, and in the world to come life ev­er­last­ing. 31 Then he took un­to him the twelve, and said unto them, Be­hold, we go up to Jerusalem, and all things that are writ­ten by the prophets con­cern­ing the Son of man shall be ac­com­plished. 32 For he shall be de­liv­ered unto the Gen­tiles, and shall be mocked, and spite­ful­ly en­treat­ed, and spit­ted on: 33 And they shall scourge him, and put him to death: and the third day he shall rise again. 34 And they un­der­stood none of these things: and this say­ing was hid from them, nei­ther knew they the things which were spo­ken. 35 And it came to pass, that as he was come nigh unto Jeri­cho, a cer­tain blind man sat by the way side beg­ging: 36 And hear­ing the mul­ti­tude pass by, he asked what it meant. 37 And they told him, that Je­sus of Nazareth pas­seth by. 38 And he cried, say­ing, Je­sus, thou Son of David, have mer­cy on me. 39 And they which went be­fore re­buked him, that he should hold his peace: but he cried so much the more, Thou Son of David, have mer­cy on me. 40 And Je­sus stood, and com­mand­ed him to be brought unto him: and when he was come near, he asked him, 41 Say­ing, What wilt thou that I shall do unto thee? And he said, Lord, that I may re­ceive my sight. 42 And Je­sus said unto him, Re­ceive thy sight: thy faith hath saved thee. 43 And im­me­di­ate­ly he re­ceived his sight, and fol­lowed him, glo­ri­fy­ing God: and all the peo­ple, when they saw it, gave praise unto God.